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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#13 | client, which he called World Wide Web (it was also a Web editor), and the first hypertext server (info.cern.ch). In 1991 he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, marking the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Early adopters of the World Wide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#14 | owser providing features such as embedded graphics, scripting, and animation. However, the turning point for the World Wide Web was the introduction of the Mosaic graphical browser in 1993, which gained wide popularity due to its strong support of integrated multimedia. In April 1993, CERN agreed that anyone could use ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#15 | Cunningham started developing the WikiWikiWeb in 1994 as a supplement to the Portland Pattern Repository, a website containing documentation about software design patterns, a particular approach to object-oriented programming.[1]
The WikiWikiWeb was intended as a collaborative database, in order to make the exchange of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#16 | t using the Perl programming language. He considered calling the software "quick-web", but instead named it using the Hawaiian word "wiki-wiki", which means "quick-quick" or "very quick",[1] based on his memory of the Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu International Airport.
Cunningham installed a prototype of the software ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#17 | a colleague:
Steve – I've put up a new database on my web server and I'd like you to take a look. It's a web of people, projects and patterns accessed through a cgi-bin script. It has a forms-based authoring capability that doesn't require familiarity with html. I'd be very pleased if you would get on and at least ente... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#18 | this a little more widely in a week or so. The URL is http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki. Thanks and best regards
— Ward Cunningham, [11]
Cunningham dates the official start of WikiWikiWeb as March 25, 1995.[1] On May 1, 1995, he sent an email about the website to a number of programmers, which caused an increase in participat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#19 | up" to develop Erich Gamma's use of object-oriented patterns. Cunningham had noticed that the older contents of the listserv tended to get buried under the more recent posts, and he proposed instead to collect ideas in a set of pages which would be collectively edited. Cunningham's post stated: "The plan is to have int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#20 | of it as a moderated list where anyone can be moderator and everything is archived. It's not quite a chat, still, conversation is possible."[12]
The site was immediately popular within the pattern community.[1]
CamelCase and internal links
[edit]Among Cunningham's innovations in creating WikiWikiWeb was the ability to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#21 | ms. Cunningham's solution to this was to automatically link any text expressed in CamelCase, including text for which a corresponding page did not yet exist.
This CamelCase convention was used by most wiki software for the first few years of wikis' existence. In 2001, the software UseModWiki, which at the time was in u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#22 | o improve Wikipedia's usability.[13] This square bracket syntax has since become more of a default convention for internal links within wiki software in general.
Release of the Wiki Base software
[edit]Ward Cunningham wrote a version of his wiki software meant for public usage, called "Wiki Base". In his announcement, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#23 | 834/http://c2.com/cgi/wikibase. I've translated almost all of the actual wiki script into HyperPerl, a wiki-literate programming system that I think you will like." Visitors were requested to register on the wiki before they took the Wiki Base code.[1] Cunningham expected users to fold changes back into his editable ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#24 | ications for wikis began to emerge, usually imitating the look-and-feel of WikiWikiWeb/Wiki Base; such applications were originally known as "WikiWikiClones." The first one was most likely created by IBM programmer Patrick Mueller, who wrote his in the REXX language, even before Wiki Base was released.[1]
Early wiki we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#25 | build knowledge bases about programming topics. Wikis became popular in the free and open-source software (FOSS) community, where they were used for collaboratively discussing and documenting software.[citation needed] However, being used only by specialists, these early software-focused wikis failed to attract widespr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#26 | led in size every year 1995 to 2000, with disk usage rising from around 2 megabytes in 1995 to around 60 megabytes at the end of 2000.[1] During that time, various innovations were put in place, many suggested by users, to help with navigation and editing. These included:[1]
- 1995 – RecentVisitors, PeopleIndex: pages ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#27 | ed to a file of "ChangesIn<Month>"
- 1996 – EditCopy: offers the possibility to edit the backup copy of a page (this was replaced in 2002 with Page History)
- 1996 – ThreadMode: the form of a page where community members hold a discussion, each signing their own contribution
- 1996 – WikiCategories: categories can be a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#28 | ithms RoadMap or the Leadership RoadMap
- 1999 – ChangeSummary: an aid to telling which changes added interesting new content and which were only minor
- 2000 – UserName: the Wiki will accept a cookie that specifies a User Name to be used in place of the host name (IP identity) in the RecentChanges log
"ThreadMode" was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#29 | the page in chronological order. Ward Cunningham generally frowned on ThreadMode, writing: "Chronological is only one of many possible organizations of technical writing and rarely the best one at that."[15]
Cunningham encouraged contributors to "refactor" (rewrite) the ThreadMode discussions into DocumentMode discours... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#30 | came incomprehensible the result was called "ThreadMess."[16] (In most modern wikis the conflict between these two modes has been resolved by putting all document text on the main page of an article, and all discussion text on a talk page.)
The use of categories was proposed by user Stan Silver on August 27, 1996.[17] ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#31 | be used as automatic indexes into the pages."[18] Initially Silver had proposed both categories and topics: categories denoted the specific nature of the page's subject (a book, a person, a pattern), while topics denoted the theme of the page (Java, extreme programming, Smalltalk). However, people ignored this separati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#32 | interesting new content, and which were just minor adjustments of spelling, punctuation, or correction of web links. It started when some users began taking the RecentChanges page, annotating each line with a brief description of each change, and posting the result to the ChangeSummary page. This practice was highly ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#33 | s clutter.[1]
Tensions within WikiWikiWeb and the creation of sister sites
[edit]Between early 1998 and the end of 2000 participation in WikiWikiWeb snowballed, and the disk space consumed by wiki pages more than quadrupled. With increased participation tensions began to appear.
In 1998 proponents of Extreme Programmin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#34 | t. This annoyed a number of people who wanted to talk about patterns, leading to the tag "XpFreeZone", which was put onto pages as a request not to talk about ExtremeProgramming on that page. Eventually most of the DesignPatterns people left to discuss patterns on their own wikis, and WikiWikiWeb began to be referred t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#35 | posted the comment "I'm through here" on his user page, and began systematically removing his text from all pages on WikiWikiWeb that he had contributed to. Gentile worked at Microsoft and had been hurt by what he perceived as anti-Microsoft bias on WikiWikiWeb. His deletions led to controversy about whether he had the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#36 | his event became referred to as the "WikiMindWipe."[19][better source needed]
In April 2000, four WikiWikiWeb users independently tried to reduce the amount of text on the site via a large number of deletions. They mainly tried to delete material that was related to wikis and not software design patterns.[20] They cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#37 | tors who disagreed with these deletions began copying all of the deleted text back in again. A vote was taken on the issue, and it was proposed that any major reductions should be pre-announced, with an opportunity for response before action was taken.[21]
The longer-term result of the deletions was the formation of Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#38 | ion and discussions. A few months later, Richard Drake created the WhyClublet (or "Why?") wiki to host discussion of Christian issues, and Peter Merel created GreenCheeseWiki and The Reform Society to host, respectively, whimsical and political pages. Earle Martin subsequently created a catch-all for C2 off-topic pages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#39 | ikiWikiWeb, containing a link to the new page and the message "This page exists only on SisterSites."
In 2001, Cunningham and user Bo Leuf published a book, The Wiki Way, which distilled the lessons learned during the collective experience of the first wiki.[22]
Other wiki websites, 1999–2000
[edit]While many early wik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#40 | oxPro Wiki was founded in 1999 by Steven Black and evolved into a popular site with many pages.[23]
World66 was a Dutch company which tried to transform the open content idea into a profitable business. The website was founded in 1999 by Richard and Douwe Osinga, and contains travel-related articles covering destinatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#41 | larger software-related wikis. Sensei's Library, a wiki dedicated to discussion of the game of Go, was created by Morten G. Pahle and Arno Hollosi in October 2000. For its first few years of operation, it was one of the largest and most active wikis outside Wikipedia.
Other wiki applications, 1997–2000
[edit]Clones of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#42 | e early clones was CvWiki, developed in 1997 by Peter Merel, which was the first wiki application to have functioning transclusion, backlinks, and "WayBackMode."
JWiki[24] (short for JavaWiki), released in 1997, was the first implementation of WikiWikiWeb in the Java language, and the first to be back-ended by a databa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#43 | an international group of Java programmers who were trying to create a free and open "Java Operating System" (JOS).[25]
TWiki was created in Perl by Peter Thoeny in 1998, based on JosWiki. TWiki was aimed at large corporate intranets. It stored data in plain text files instead of in a database.
PikiPiki was created by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#44 | d doing away with versioning (Pool felt that a wiki is not meant to be a document-management system).[26]
PhpWiki, created by Steve Wainstead in 1999, was the first wiki software written in PHP.[citation needed] The initial version was a feature-for-feature reimplementation of the WikiWikiWeb software. Subsequent versi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#45 | wiki, written in Python in 1999, was based on the Zope web application server (it could also co-exist with the Plone content management system). It was initially developed by Simon Michael and Joyful Systems.[citation needed]
Traction TeamPage was released in December 1999; it was the first proprietary wiki application... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#46 | en in Perl. It was based on Markus Denker's AtisWiki, which was in turn based on CvWiki. It introduced the square bracket syntax for linking words that was later adopted by many other wiki engines, such as MediaWiki.
MoinMoin, created in Python by Jürgen Hermann and Thomas Waldmann in mid-2000, was initially based on P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#47 | sers (for parsing the wiki syntax) from the formatters (for outputting HTML code), with an interface between them, so that new parsers and output formatters can be written.
Wikipedia's early years: 2001–2003
[edit]The creation of Wikipedia
[edit]Until 2001, wikis were virtually unknown outside the restricted circles of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#48 | cyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.[4]
Wikipedia was originally conceived as a complement to Nupedia, a free on-line encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales, with articles written by highly qualified contributors and evaluated by an elaborate peer review process. The writing of content for Nupedia proved to be extreme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#49 | full-time editor-in-chief recruited by Wales, Larry Sanger.[4] Learning of the wiki concept, Wales and Sanger decided to try creating a collaborative website to provide an additional source of rapidly produced draft articles that could be polished for use on Nupedia.
Nupedia's editors and reviewers resisted the idea of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#50 | anuary 15, 2001.[4] It initially ran on UseModWiki software, with the original text stored in flat-files rather than in a database, and with articles named using the CamelCase convention. UseModWiki was replaced by a PHP wiki engine in January 2002 and by MediaWiki in July 2002.[citation needed]
Wikipedia attracted new... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#51 | overtook Nupedia. In the first year of its existence, over 20,000 encyclopedia entries were created.
Wikimedia Foundation and first Wikipedia sister projects
[edit]Wales, and other members of the Wikipedia user community, founded Wikipedia's first "sister site", "In Memoriam: September 11 Wiki",[28] in October 2002;[29... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#52 | n December 2002; the site was meant to be a collaboratively created dictionary.
In June 2003, Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, to manage Wikipedia and all its sister projects going forward. Two additional Wikimedia projects were added soon thereafter: Wikiquote, a reference for notable... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#53 | ovember 2003; it was originally named "Project Sourceberg" (a play on Project Gutenberg), then renamed "Wikisource" in December 2003.
Other wiki websites, 2001–2003
[edit]MeatballWiki rapidly became a popular wiki for discussions of wiki-related topics. The users of MeatballWiki came up with several ideas on the linkin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#54 | i that helps people find other wikis[33] (not to be confused with the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki)
- OneBigWiki (2002), the idea of having one wiki distributed across several servers[34]
- SwitchWiki (2003): the idea of having one site where one can switch between wikis[35]
- WikiNode, a way to link wikis via a standard "node"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#55 | sage and development [36]
Some of these ideas were later implemented. For example, WikiIndex, a wiki that lists other wikis, was created in 2006, in an attempt to implement the MetaWiki and SwitchWiki ideas. The site also includes a WikiNode of its own and catalogs sites which include their own WikiNodes.
Disinfopedia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#56 | izations that attempt to influence public opinion and public policy. It was later renamed SourceWatch, and is currently run by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
Javapedia was a wiki inspired by Wikipedia. The project was launched in June 2003 during the JavaOne developer conference, and was intended to cover al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#57 | iki devoted to the Star Trek fictional universe. It was launched by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in December 2003. For its first several years, it was one of the largest wiki projects.
This period also saw the creation of several other general wiki encyclopedias, created either independently of Wikipedia or meant to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#58 | ed in October 2001, meant to serve as an encyclopedia, dictionary, and discussion forum.
- Enciclopedia Libre was created in February 2002 as a fork of the Spanish-language Wikipedia, by a group of contributors to the Spanish Wikipedia, who left because of fears of censorship and the possibility of the placement of adv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#59 | edia, meant to hold original research and multiple articles on subjects from different points of view, instead of Wikipedia's policy of a single neutral-point-of-view article.[37] In 2013, after a period of downtime, the content was removed and a new version of Wikinfo was started at Wikia; however, as of June 2017, Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#60 | 2021).
- WikiZnanie is a Russian-language wiki encyclopedia created in 2003; it took most of its content from the Russian Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary of 1906.
Development of wiki software, 2001–2003
[edit]JSPWiki, created by Janne Jalkanen in 2001, is flat-file wiki software built around JavaServer Page... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#61 | wiki or a knowledge management application. It has also been used as a personal information manager (PIM).
MediaWiki was written for Wikipedia in 2002 by Lee Daniel Crocker, based on the user interface design of an earlier PHP wiki engine developed by Magnus Manske. Manske's PHP-based software suffered load problems du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#62 | lability through multiple layers of caching and database replication became a major concern for the developers. Internationalization was also a major concern[citation needed] (the user interface has been translated into more than 70 languages). One of the earliest differences between MediaWiki and other wiki engines wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#63 | such as rendering mathematical formulas using LaTeX, graphical plotting, image galleries and thumbnails, and Exif metadata. MediaWiki lacks native WYSIWYG support, but comes with a graphical toolbar to simplify editing. One MediaWiki innovation for structuring content is "namespaces." Namespaces allow each article to c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#64 | s surrounding it, and so on.
PmWiki was created in PHP by Patrick Michaud in 2002. It is a flat-file wiki engine that was designed to be easy to install and customize. PmWiki offers a template scheme that makes it possible to change the look and feel of the wiki. Customization is made easy through a wide selection of c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#65 | was later renamed "Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware", or simply "Tiki", as it gained additional CMS and groupware features. TikiWiki is modular with components that can be individually enabled and customized by the administrator, and extends customization to the user with selectable skins and themes.
Socialtext launched in 2002... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#66 | d many of the features used on other websites and blogs, including:
- support for various wiki markup styles
- editing of pages with a GUI editor, WYSIWYG, and specific applications such as LaTeX
- optional use of external editors
- support for plugins and custom extensions
- use of RSS feeds
- integrated email discuss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#67 | n in interest in both wikis generally and Wikipedia in particular, and both started to become household terms. Corporations, organizations and other communities began to make increasing use of wikis. Many of the wiki-based sites, technologies and events that dominate today were started during that period.
XWiki is an o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#68 | n the domain xwiki.com in January 2004—xwiki.com thus became an early (and possibly the first) wiki hosting service, or "wiki farm."
In October 2004, the wiki hosting service Wikicities launched, co-founded by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Wikimedia Foundation board member Angela Beesley. In March 2006, it changed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#69 | eleased soon afterward, including Wikispaces (launched March 2005), PBwiki (launched June 2005, later renamed PBworks), and Wetpaint (launched October 2005). Wikidot was launched in August 2006.
2005 marked the beginning of large-scale wiki-related meetings and conferences. August 2005 saw the first-ever Wikimania, an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#70 | about wikis in general, was first held a few months later, in October 2005, in San Diego, California; in 2014 it was renamed to OpenSym. RecentChangesCamp, an unconference dedicated to wikis, was first held in February 2006 in Portland, Oregon. Wikimania and OpenSym remain the two largest wiki-related gatherings.
Aroun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#71 | der to improve the ranking of the displayed websites by search engines. Various strategies have been developed to counter wiki spam.[39]
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
[edit]Wikipedia experienced exponential growth in usage and readership during the period from 2004 to 2006, rising in Alexa rankings from the to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#72 | s.[41]
In 2004, the Wikimedia Foundation launched three new sites: Wikispecies, for cataloging species, in August 2004, Wikimedia Commons, to hold images and other media used by the Wikimedia projects, in September 2004, and Wikinews, for publishing collaborative news articles, in December 2004. Wikiversity, intended f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#73 | publicized article in USA Today about Wikipedia's article about him, which for over four months had contained a false statement about him, inserted as a joke, stating that he had been a suspect in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The USA Today article generated a subsequent controversy that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#74 | growing importance of Wikipedia as a source of information.
During this period, Wikipedia also began to enter the popular culture. A prominent example was the Weird Al Yankovic parody song "White & Nerdy", which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 2006, and contained the lyric "I edit Wikipedia." In December ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#75 | user-contributed content, and cited Wikipedia as one of the key websites that allow for "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before."[42]
Other wiki websites, 2004–2006
[edit]In July 2004, OpenStreetMap, a website to create an open-source street map of the world using wiki functionality, was launched.
Mos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#76 | d in December 2004 (it was shut down in April 2011). Stupidedia, a German-language wiki intended as a direct spoof of Wikipedia, was also founded in December 2004, a week later. Uncyclopedia, an English-language wiki also intended to parody Wikipedia, was founded the next month, in January 2005; it was later extended t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#77 | a, was founded in October 2005.
In January 2005, the wiki wikiHow was created as a component of the how-to website eHow. In April 2006, its creators sold off eHow and focused full-time on wikiHow, which was launched at its own domain.[43] Both sites receive tens of millions of hits a month.
In April 2006, the company I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#78 | of the non-commercial travel wiki Wikivoyage by some former WikiTravel authors and administrators in December 2006. Wikivoyage originally held content in German and Italian, and started as a fork of WikiTravel content; in 2013 it would become a WMF site.
Two major Chinese wiki encyclopedias began in 2006: Baidu Baike i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#79 | articles, and exceed the popularity of the Chinese Wikipedia within China. Both are for-profit wikis, that, unlike Wikipedia, hold the copyright to their own content.
Development of wiki software, 2004–2006
[edit]This period saw the launch of many wiki applications geared toward corporate/enterprise users. Such softwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#80 | wiki software launched during this time includes:
- Trac (February 2004), created by Edgewall Software. Trac is an open source bug tracking and project management application, with wiki functionality.
- Confluence (March 2004), created by Atlassian.
- DokuWiki (July 2004), an open-source application intended for small ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#81 | y by David Ornstein, FlexWiki used .NET technology and had an integrated scripting language called WikiTalk (based on Smalltalk). It stored content in either text files or a SQL Server database.[46]
- JotSpot (October 2004), created by JotSpot, Inc. JotSpot was bought by Google in 2006 for an undisclosed amount; Google... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#82 | .
- Redmine (June 2006), an open source application similar to Trac.
- DekiWiki (July 2006), an open source application created by MindTouch, Inc.[47] It had started as a fork of MediaWiki, but was then significantly rewritten before its release. DekiWiki was later renamed to "Deki", then "MindTouch Core".
- Clearspace... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#83 | wiki-based spreadsheet application, was launched in November 2005 by spreadsheet pioneer Dan Bricklin.
In November 2006 Microsoft released Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007,[48] which included wiki and blog functionality for the first time.
In this period a number of semantic wiki applications were launched, incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#84 | m: 2007–2013
[edit]A milestone in public acceptance of wikis was reached in March 2007 when the word "wiki" entered the Oxford English Dictionary.[49]
In January 2007, Amazon.com released Amapedia, a product-review wiki on its own website; it was shut down in June 2010.
In 2007, ShoutWiki, a wiki farm, was founded as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#85 | iki-based wiki farm, MyWikis, was launched in 2012.
In February 2007, Penguin Books launched a wiki to create the planned novel A Million Penguins, in a well-publicized experiment at creating a crowd-generated novel. The wiki was shut down a month later, not having created a coherent work.[50]
In March 2007, Larry Sang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#86 | ames.
In 2010, the site WikiLeaks (which had been founded in 2006) gained a great deal of both fame and notoriety as a result of a set of leaked documents the site published of classified materials from the United States government, notably footage of the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, the Afghan War documents leak ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#87 | ication, though in 2010 had its permissions changed so that only its administrators could edit pages,[51] and later it moved off of MediaWiki and was no longer a wiki.
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, 2007–2013
[edit]In 2007, Wikipedia entered the top 10 most popular websites in the world.[5] Wikipedia began to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#88 | candidate John McCain was accused of plagiarizing Wikipedia in a speech about Georgia.[52] In June 2009, journalist Chris Anderson admitted to plagiarizing a series of Wikipedia articles in his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Anderson called it a "screwup", based on lack of clarity on how to cite a specific v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#89 | age in the international media, most of it positive, including a cover story in German newspaper Die Zeit with the headline, "The greatest work of mankind."[54]
In March 2012, a proposal was made to have the Wikimedia Foundation host a wiki containing travel advice,[55] which led to a discussion and vote lasting severa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#90 | ut in favor of the proposal.[56] That lawsuit in turn led the Wikimedia Foundation to sue Internet Brands in September 2012 to not "impede, disrupt or block the creation of" such a site.[57] The community proposal to host a travel guide wiki was successful, and the decision was made to incorporate Wikivoyage, a Wikitra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#91 | nched on October 30, 2012.[58] Wikidata is a collaborative data repository meant to provide data that can be used by Wikipedia across all its languages.
January 14, 2013, saw the first official use of Wikidata: to enable the automatic display of "interlanguage links" within articles on the Hungarian Wikipedia.[59]
Janu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#92 | ts regarding Wikivoyage between Wikimedia and Internet Brands were settled out of court the next month.[61]
Reuse of Wikipedia data
[edit]Several applications were developed during this time to make use of Wikipedia's data in order to improve both structured querying and natural-language searching. These included:
- DB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#93 | it became a major component of the Linked Data initiative.[62]
- Freebase, launched by the company Metaweb in May 2007. Freebase stores information from Wikipedia and other sources in a structured, queriable format. Metaweb and Freebase were bought by Google in July 2010. The software later provided part of the technol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#94 | engine that used data from the English Wikipedia to answer natural-language queries. It was bought by Microsoft in July 2008, with the goal of improving results for the Bing search engine.
The Wikimedia Foundation project Wikidata is meant to provide a collaborative set of data that can make such querying easier, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#95 | d. A large number of wiki engines ended development during this time, including FlexWiki, MojoMojo, UseModWiki and Zwiki.
In October 2008, most developers of TWiki left the project to work on a fork of the code, Foswiki, after creator Peter Thoeny took control of the TWiki code and trademark via his company, TWiki.net.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#96 | tionality of wikis with e-mail, instant messaging and social networking in order to provide a collaborative, real-time, server-hosted communication platform. Google Wave was released to the general public in May 2010, but development on it was ended several months later, in August 2010. In December 2010, Google transfe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#97 | tionality was added to the SAP NetWeaver Portal application.[64]
In 2011, a wiki application, named Phriction, was added to the open-source collaboration suite Phabricator.
In April 2013, MindTouch Inc. abandoned its open-source product and moved to MindTouch being only a proprietary, hosted service.[47]
In July 2013, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#98 | ntent.
Further consolidation and innovation: 2014–present
[edit]The period starting in 2014 saw a further decrease in wiki software offerings, as applications and hosted solutions including Apache Wave, MindTouch, SamePage, TWiki and Wikispaces stopped development. Conversely, a number of new proprietary hosted knowled... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis#99 | Miraheze launched in 2015.
The site Everipedia, a competitor to Wikipedia that stores its information on a blockchain, launched in 2015.
Wikia was gradually renamed to Fandom between 2016 and 2021.
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