MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software, written in the PHP programming language and originally developed for Wikipedia. The first version was introduced in January 2002, when Wikipedia moved away from the earlier wiki script it had used, with a rewrite by Magnus Manske, followed by a further rewrite later in the year by Lee Daniel Crocker. The name MediaWiki was coined in 2003 as a play on Wikimedia, the name of the foundation that runs Wikipedia. The software is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation and a community of volunteers. It stores text in a database, keeps a complete revision history and supports extensions. It is used by thousands of other websites, including corporate knowledge bases and community wikis.
Before and after
- January 2002Release of Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- 2002Release of Mozilla Firefox
- 20022002 becomes the warmest year on record
- 16 January 2002Release of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia
- 25 January 2002Release of MediaWiki
- 1 February 2002Discovery of 153P/Ikeya–Zhang
- 1 February 2002Release of Danish Wikipedia
- 21 February 2002Release of Finnish Wikipedia
- from 1 March 2002 to 18 March 2002Operation Anaconda
More in Science & technology
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.