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Who founded Wikipedia?

Updated: 10/3/2023
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Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995. His "WikiWikiWeb" lets software developers create a library of "software patterns." The name "Wiki" was inspired by the Hawaiian word wiki or wiki-wiki, which means "quick" and is often used as a term for taxis and airport shuttles. The WikiWikiWeb still exists

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Wikipedia runs on "MediaWiki", a Free Software project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

Free Software means that MediaWiki is a collaborative software project, designed by many people, not just one. If you force me to name names, I guess three names would be appropriate: Lee Daniel Crocker, Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber. But again, these names have no meaning unless you educate yourself as to who contributed what and when.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki#History

You'll note that many sites look like Wikipedia. That's because they, like Wikipedia, chose to use Mediawiki as their CMS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

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14y ago

The idea of making an general Encyclopedia that was a Wiki is usually credited to Larry Sanger, who was working with Jimbo Wales on another encyclopedia, a non-wiki one, at the time. They both created Wikipedia, which came to eclipse the non-wiki encyclopedia and eventually pretty much every other encyclopedia on the internet too.

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11y ago

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger formally co-founded Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

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6y ago

the great explorer Christopher Columbus discovered wikipedia just off the coast of Italy in 1496

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12y ago

Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunnigham in 1995.

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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger created Wikipedia in January of 2001.

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Ward Cunningham invented the wiki.

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