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| Developed by | Clifford Adams, Markus Lude |
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| Initial release | 1999 |
| Written in | Perl |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Type | Wiki |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://usemod.com |
UseModWiki is a wiki engine in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.
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History
Clifford Adams started developing UseModWiki in 1999 for his 1991-to-1999 Usenet Moderation Project (Usemod) from the code of AtisWiki 0.3 by Marcus Denker. AtisWiki was based on CvWiki by Peter Merel. CvWiki was based on Wiki Base, the wiki engine of the WikiWikiWeb by Ward Cunningham. Markus Lude took over the UseModWiki project in July 2007.
Websites using UseModWiki
The first wiki to use UseModWiki's test versions was Clifford Adams's own usemod.com wiki, which had been running on AtisWiki since October 11, 1999. The second wiki to use UseModWiki, the MeatballWiki created by Adams and Sunir Shah and dedicated to online communities, was also installed on that same usemod.com Web site on April 24, 2000.
From January 15, 2001 until early 2002, UseModWiki was used to run all versions of Wikipedia. All language versions have since been moved over to MediaWiki.
WikiWikiWeb's sister wiki the Adjunct, started in July 2005, also runs on UseModWiki.
UseModWiki is probably the most popular wiki software (in terms of number of wikis rather than total number of edits) despite the fact that it has few featurescitation needed. This is due to the relatively little computing power required (as compared to other wiki implementations such as TWiki or MediaWiki) and its ease of installation.
UseModWiki versions
| Date | Version |
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| January 22, 2000 | 0.70 |
| June 18, 2000 | 0.80 |
| July 15, 2000 | 0.82 |
| August 26, 2000 | 0.86 |
| October 12, 2000 | 0.88 |
| December 24, 2000 | 0.90 |
| February 16, 2001 | 0.91 |
| April 21, 2001 | 0.92 |
| September 12, 2003 | 1.00 |
| June 9, 2007 | 1.01 |
| August 26, 2007 | 1.02 |
| September 12, 2007 | 1.03 |
| December 1, 2007 | 1.04 |
Wiki engines derived from UseModWiki
Among the wiki engines derived from UseModWiki are:
- Oddmuse: derived from UseModWiki 0.92
External links
- UseModWiki official site
- List of sites running UseModWiki
- "Introducing UseModWiki" (linux.com)
- "Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?" (ONLamp.com)
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