So, let's start building a WikiHistory similar to the WebLog history. No hurry, but I'll ask around for people to contribute. -- SunirShah

1995

• WikiWikiWeb created
• year ??? FoxWiki created

1996

• CategoriesAndTopics developed (see Wiki:HistoryOfWikiCategories)

1998

• year ??? CoWeb clone created, first science papers about wikis in education

1999

• PikiPiki wiki engine (Python) created
• year ??? TWiki clone created targeting the enterprise market

2000

• UseMod created https://www.usemod.org/wikicode/very_old/
• WhyClublet created
• MeatballWiki created
• MoinMoin wiki engine (Python) forked from PikiPiki
• year ??? SisterSites developed in C2

2001

• WikiPedia formally launched January 15, 2001 (started as wiki.nupedia.com on January 10, 2001)
• SocialText founded
• WikiService founded
• TheWikiWay written
• year ??? JotSpot founded
• year ??? AtlassianConfluence released (according to WikiPedia, the first public release date was May 5, 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software)
• CoForum founded
• DseWiki founded

2002

• year ??? wikis start supporting RSS
• NameSpaces developed
• FermentWiki founded (April 28, 2002)
  • not sure about the value of mentioning this
  • because its unimportant, or a LandMine, or other?
  • As far as I can tell, the only importance it may have is that it was a fork off of Meatball, but as far as I know it didn't really go anywhere.
  • I'd say unimportant. It was primarily a Meatball-centered issue. FermentWiki never attracted an active community, and it doesn't seem like Joe is going to ressurrect it any time soon. -- StephenGilbert

2003

• CommunityWiki founded http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/2003-10-24
• CraoWiki founded
• EmacsWiki founded http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsWiki
• FractalWiki founded
• GründerWiki founded
• NearLinks developed http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/oddmuse/oddmuse/ChangeLog?view=markup
• OddMuse forked from UseMod 0.92 http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/History

2004

• WikiPedia becomes mainstream on the web
• LocalNames developed http://ln.taoriver.net/about.html
• OpenMeatballWiki opens (April 19, 2004)

2005

• WikiMania conference started
• WikiSym symposium started
• LesWikis book written in France
• WikiTools book written in German
• OpenMeatballWiki shut down due to spam (August 16, 2005)

2006

• WikiIndex founded from SwitchWiki
• ProWiki turns OpenSource
• MultiLinking developed
• WikiNet developed
• DigitalUniverse launched (January)
  • Does the Digital Universe actually have a wiki up and running yet? (see http://www.dufoundation.org/blog/
• SocialText turns OpenSource (2006-07-23)
• MoinMoin celebrates being OpenSource and FreeSoftware (GPL) since 6 years :)

Discussion

I'm not sure what the 2004 entry "Wikipedia becomes successful" means. Became mainstream on the web, perhaps? -- StephenGilbert

In LangueFrançaise, CharlesNepote initiated CraoWiki:PetiteHistoireDeLaTerreWikiFrancophone. Some resources could be extracted and translated here in English. Awaiting your guidelines. -- ChristopheDucamp

Christophe, that would be very helpful. -- StephenGilbert

See also [WikiIndex:WikiEngineTree]

CategoryWikiConventions