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==Wikipedia, Wiki Media Foundation, MediaWiki== * 2000 - Jimmy Wales attempts to create a free online encyclopedia - Nupedia. * Nupedia fails. * 2001 - After hearing about wikis Wales and Larry Sanger decide to build Nupedia on it, calling it Wikipedia. * Wikipedia was first build using a software called UseModWiki (a sibling of Wiki Wiki Web). UseModWiki was slow and didn't support the scale Wikipedia was growing into. * A new wiki software for Wikipedia, starts is developed, based more efficient and scalable web technology: PHP programming language, MySQL database. The software got the name of MediaWiki. * 2002 - Wikipedia switches to using MediaWiki. * 2003 - Wiki Media Foundation is created. * MediaWiki currently power many wikis, including Wikipedia and subsidiary project, as well as other wiki such as this one.
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