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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

History of Wikipedia

 ... Website Website genre Collaborative writing platform Wiki List of Wikis Wikipedia
 1 By others on same topic  0 Discussions  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01  See my version
A 2022 clone of phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki.git gives first commits from 2003 by:
  • Lee Daniel Crocker: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker
    He is best known for rewriting the software upon which Wikipedia runs, to address scalability problems.
    so that gives a good notion of the last major rewrite.
  • Brion Vibber
TODO when was wikipedia open sourced from Nupedia? The early days of Wikipedia are quite obscure due to its transition from Nupedia.
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    • Nupedia History of Wikipedia

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History of Wikipedia

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  1. Wikipedia
  2. List of Wikis
  3. Wiki
  4. Collaborative writing platform
  5. Website genre
  6. Website
  7. Art
  8.  Home

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History of Wikipedia by Wikipedia Bot 0  1970-01-01
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