West Wing Wiki/Meta

Introduction
West Wing Wiki is a time travel story and also a type of alternate history story. The basic assumption in this story is that when a time travel technology is invented in 2076, a decision is made to try to accelerate the shift from the industrial age to the information age. Part of the plan for altering the past was that an attempt be made to start an open government wiki project before 1990.

The man we know as Ross Perot was, in fact, a time traveler. He was sent back in time (to 1965) in order to speed up the use of computer technology by the U.S. government. His initial efforts had limited success and created the timeline familiar to us. Some documents with advice were sent back to Perot in 1975 as a kind of "mid-course correction". This creates an alternative history that differs from out timeline.

In our timeline, by 1985 computer networks suitable for exchanging email and newsgroup posts were growing. The World Wide Web launched in 1992 and by 1995 the wiki age had begun, but fiction wikia did not start until 2005. In the new timeline (as described in West Wing Wiki), Jimmy Carter becomes a two-term president and starts using wiki technology in 1984.