History of wikis, the Glossary
- ️Wed Oct 20 1937
The history of wikis began in 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it.[1]
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231 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, A Million Penguins, Alexa Internet, Amapedia, Amazon (company), Apple Inc., As We May Think, Atlassian, Backlink, Baidu Baike, Baike.com, Bill Atkinson, Billboard Hot 100, Blockchain, Blog, Bo Leuf, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Bug tracking system, Calgary Herald, California, Camel case, Carnegie Mellon University, Catalyst (software), Center for Media and Democracy, CERN, Changelog, China, Chinese Wikipedia, Chris Anderson (writer), Christianity, Citizendium, Collaborative software, Common Gateway Interface, Comparison of wiki software, Confluence (software), Content management system, Dan Bricklin, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, DBpedia, Die Zeit, Direct manipulation interface, DokuWiki, EHow, Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Erich Gamma, Evan Prodromou, Everipedia, EWeek, Exif, ... Expand index (181 more) »
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.
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A Million Penguins
A Million Penguins was an experimental collaborative fiction framed as a "wiki-novel".
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Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco.
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Amapedia
Amapedia was a wiki run by the retailer Amazon.com, that existed from January 2007 to June 2010, where users could edit articles about Amazon's products.
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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
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As We May Think
"As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society. History of wikis and as We May Think are history of the Internet.
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Atlassian
Atlassian Corporation is an Australian-American software company that develops products for software developers, and project managers among other groups.
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Backlink
A backlink is a link from some other website (the referrer) to that web resource (the referent). A web resource may be (for example) a website, web page, or web directory. A backlink is a reference comparable to a citation. The quantity, quality, and relevance of backlinks for a web page are among the factors that search engines like Google evaluate in order to estimate how important the page is.
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Baidu Baike
Baidu Baike (also known as Baidu Wiki) is a semi-regulated Chinese-language collaborative online encyclopedia owned by the Chinese technology company Baidu.
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Baike.com
Douyin Baike, formerly Hudong and Hoodong, is a for-profit social network and Chinese encyclopedia owned by ByteDance.
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Bill Atkinson
William "Bill" D. Atkinson (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Bo Leuf
Bo Arne Leuf (July 9, 1952 – April 24, 2009) was co-author of the book The Wiki Way (2001), written in collaboration with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham.
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary (abbr.; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian.
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Bug tracking system
A tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects.
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Calgary Herald
The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Camel case
Camel case (sometimes stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words.
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Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Catalyst (software)
Catalyst is an open-source web application framework written in Perl.
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The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a progressive nonprofit watchdog and advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin.
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CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
Changelog
A changelog (also spelled change log) is a log or record of all notable changes made to a project.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chinese Wikipedia
The Chinese Wikipedia is the written vernacular Chinese (a form of Mandarin Chinese) edition of Wikipedia.
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Chris Anderson (writer)
Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) is an English-American author and entrepreneur.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Citizendium
Citizendium ("the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English-language wiki-based free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia.
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Collaborative software
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals.
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Common Gateway Interface
The official CGI logo from the spec announcement In computing, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP or HTTPS user requests.
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Comparison of wiki software
The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.
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Confluence (software)
Confluence is a web-based corporate wiki developed by Australian software company Atlassian.
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Content management system
A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content (content management).
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Dan Bricklin
Daniel Singer Bricklin (born July 16, 1951) is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program.
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Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii.
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DBpedia
DBpedia (from "DB" for "database") is a project aiming to extract structured content from the information created in the Wikipedia project.
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Die Zeit
() is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany.
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Direct manipulation interface
In computer science, human–computer interaction, and interaction design, direct manipulation is an approach to interfaces which involves continuous representation of objects of interest together with rapid, reversible, and incremental actions and feedback.
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DokuWiki
DokuWiki is an open source wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language.
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EHow
eHow is an online how-to guide with many articles and 170,000 videos offering step-by-step instructions.
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
italic (English: Universal Free Encyclopedia in Spanish) is a Spanish-language wiki-based online encyclopedia, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0.
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Encyclopedia Dramatica
Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED or æ; stylized as Encyclopædia Dramatica) is an online community centered around a wiki that acts as a "troll archive".
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Erich Gamma
Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of the software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
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Evan Prodromou
Evan S. Prodromou (born 14 October 1968) is a software developer and open source advocate.
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Everipedia
Everipedia is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia.
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EWeek
eWeek (Enterprise Newsweekly, stylized as eWEEK), formerly PCWeek, is a technology and business magazine.
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Exif
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras.
Extreme programming
Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements.
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Fandom (website)
Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. History of wikis and Fandom (website) are wikis.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Foswiki
Foswiki is an enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system.
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FoxPro
FoxPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it was also an object-oriented programming language, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
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Free (Anderson book)
Free: The Future of a Radical Price is the second book written by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine.
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Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.
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Freebase (database)
Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Go (game)
# Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space.
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Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Google Knowledge Graph
The Google Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base from which Google serves relevant information in an infobox beside its search results.
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Google Sites
Google Sites is a structured wiki and web page creation tool included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
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Google Wave
Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative online editing. History of wikis and Google Wave are wikis.
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Google Wave Federation Protocol
The Wave Federation Protocol (formerly Google Wave Federation Protocol) is an open protocol, extension of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that is used in Apache Wave.
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Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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History of Wikipedia
Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. History of wikis and History of Wikipedia are history of the Internet.
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Hungarian Wikipedia
The Hungarian Wikipedia (Magyar Wikipédia) is the Hungarian/Magyar version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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HyperCard
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers.
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Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access.
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Internationalization and localization
In computing, internationalization and localization (American) or internationalisation and localisation (British), often abbreviated i18n and l10n respectively, are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional peculiarities and technical requirements of a target locale.
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Internet Brands
MH Sub I, LLC, doing business as Internet Brands, is a digital media, marketing services, and software company based in El Segundo, California, United States, that operates online media, community, e-commerce, and SaaS businesses in vertical markets.
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Internet culture
Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another online as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, specifically the Internet. History of wikis and Internet culture are history of the Internet.
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Intranet
An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders.
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Jakarta Server Pages
Jakarta Server Pages (JSP; formerly JavaServer Pages) is a collection of technologies that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, SOAP, or other document types.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Java.net
java.net was a Java technology related community website.
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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.
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Jive (software)
Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage) is a commercial Java EE-based Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management tool produced by Jive Software.
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Jive Software
Jive Software, an Aurea Software company, is a provider of communication and collaboration software for business.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.
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John Seigenthaler
John Lawrence Seigenthaler (July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure.
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July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike
On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq.
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Kent Beck
Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process.
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KMS (hypertext)
KMS, an abbreviation of Knowledge Management System, was a commercial second generation hypermedia system, originally created as a successor for the early hypermedia system ZOG.
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Knowledge management
Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization.
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Kristo Ivanov
Kristo Ivanov (born 1937-10-20) is a Swedish-Brazilian information scientist and systems scientist of ethnic Bulgarian origin.
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Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.
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La Frikipedia
La Frikipedia was a Spanish-language parody of Wikipedia.
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Larry Sanger
Lawrence Mark Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of Nupedia, an online encyclopedia, and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales.
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LaTeX
LaTeX (or, often stylized with vertically offset letters) is a software system for typesetting documents.
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Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker (born July 3, 1963) is an American computer programmer.
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Linked data
In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries.
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List of wiki software
This is a list of wiki software programs.
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List of Wikipedia controversies
Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the site has faced several controversies.
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List of wikis
This article contains a list of notable wikis, which are websites that use wiki software, allowing users to collaboratively edit content and view old versions of the content. History of wikis and list of wikis are wikis.
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LISTSERV
The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to a list, which then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.
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Magnus Manske
Heinrich Magnus Manske (born 24 May 1974) is a German biochemist who is a leading researcher on malaria.
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Mark Guzdial
Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
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MeatballWiki
MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.
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MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker,Magnus Manske's announcement of "PHP Wikipedia", wikipedia-l, August 24, 2001 after which it has been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Memex
Memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". History of wikis and Memex are history of the Internet.
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Memory Alpha
Memory Alpha is a wiki encyclopedia for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe.
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Franciscobased company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge".
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Microform
A microform is a scaled-down reproduction of a document, typically either photographic film or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.
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Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server (Structured Query Language) is a proprietary relational database management system developed by Microsoft.
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MindTouch
MindTouch was an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Diego, California that designed, developed, and sold SaaS computer software and online services.
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MoinMoin
MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine.
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MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
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Namespace
In computing, a namespace is a set of signs (names) that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds.
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National Technical Information Service
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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NCSA Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic was among the first widely available web browsers, instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics. History of wikis and NCSA Mosaic are history of the Internet.
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NLS (computer system)
NLS, or the "oN-Line System", was a revolutionary computer collaboration system developed in the 1960s.
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NoteCards
NoteCards was a hypertext-based personal knowledge base system developed at Xerox PARC by Randall Trigg, Frank Halasz and Thomas Moran in 1984.
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Notion (productivity software)
Notion is a productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs, Inc.
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Nupedia
Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with relevant subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content.
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Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
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PBworks
PBworks (formerly PBwiki) is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethi and Nathan Schmidt, who joined shortly thereafter as co-founders.
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PC Pro
PC Pro is one of several computer magazines published monthly in the United Kingdom by Future plc.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
Personal information manager
A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer.
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Phabricator
Phabricator is a suite of web-based development collaboration tools, which includes a code review tool called Differential, a repository browser called Diffusion, a change monitoring tool called Herald, a bug tracker called Maniphest, and a wiki called Phriction.
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PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
PhpWiki
PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.
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PmWiki
PmWiki is a wiki-based, WikiMatrix.
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Portland Pattern Repository
The Portland Pattern Repository (PPR) is an online repository for computer programming software design patterns.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Powerset (company)
Powerset was an American company based in San Francisco, California, that, in 2006, was developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Project management software
Project management software are computer programs that help plan, organize, and manage resources.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
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Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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RecentChangesCamp
RecentChangesCamp was an unconference focused on wikis, held from 2006 to 2012.
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Redmine
Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool.
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Rexx
Rexx (Restructured Extended Executor) is a programming language that can be interpreted or compiled.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.
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SamePage
SamePage is an enterprise wiki application written in Java with a WYSIWYG user interface.
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San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
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SAP NetWeaver Portal
SAP NetWeaver Portal is one of the building blocks in the SAP NetWeaver architecture.
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Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki.
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Semantic wiki
A semantic wiki is a wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages.
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Sensei's Library
Sensei's Library (commonly referred to as SL among Go-players) is an Internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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SharePoint is a collection of enterprise content management and knowledge management tools developed by Microsoft.
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Slashdot
Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.
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Smalltalk
Smalltalk is a purely object oriented programming language (OOP) that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business.
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Socialtext Incorporated was a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produced enterprise social software for companies.
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Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
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Software design pattern
In software engineering, a design pattern describes a relatively small, well-defined aspect (i.e. functionality) of a computer program in terms of how to write the code.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish Wikipedia
The Spanish Wikipedia (Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia.
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Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
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Squeak
Squeak is an object-oriented, class-based, and reflective programming language.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.
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Stupidedia
Stupidedia (from Stupid and encyclopedia) is a German-language wiki featuring satirically themed and humorous articles.
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Susning.nu
Susning.nu (in English literally meaning "") was a Swedish language wiki website created by Lars Aronsson (also the founder of Project Runeberg) in 2001 and active until 2009.
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Swiki
Swiki (Squeak wiki) is wiki software written in Squeak.
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Symbolics
Symbolics, Inc., was a privately held American computer manufacturer that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
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Symbolics Document Examiner
Symbolics Document Examiner is a powerful and early hypertext system developed at Symbolics (a manufacturer of high-end workstations) by Janet Walker in 1985.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
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The Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Hillside Group
The Hillside Group is an educational nonprofit organization founded in August 1993 to help software developers analyze and document common development and design problems as software design patterns.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Wiki Way
The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web is a 2001 book about wikis by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham. History of wikis and the Wiki Way are wikis.
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Thumbnail
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
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Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware or simply Tiki, originally known as TikiWiki, is a free and open source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written primarily in PHP and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-2.1-only) license.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time Person of the Year
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse...
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Trac
Trac is an open-source, web-based project management and bug tracking system.
Traction TeamPage
Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc.
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Transclusion
In computer science, transclusion is the inclusion of part or all of an electronic document into one or more other documents by reference via hypertext.
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TWiki
TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal.
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TwitPic
TwitPic was a website and app that allowed users to post pictures to the Twitter microblogging service, which at the time of TwitPic's creation could not be posted to Twitter directly.
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Unconference
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.
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Uncyclopedia
Uncyclopedia is the name of several forks of satirical online encyclopedias that parody Wikipedia. History of wikis and Uncyclopedia are wikis.
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United States diplomatic cables leak
The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely known as Cablegate, began on Sunday, 28 November 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world.
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United States documents leak of the War in Afghanistan
The Afghan War documents leak, also called the Afghan War Diary, is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, which was published by WikiLeaks on 2010.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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UseModWiki
UseModWiki is a wiki software written in Perl and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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Usenet newsgroup
A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet.
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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.
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Version control
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling computer files and versions of files; primarily source code text files, but generally any type of file.
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ViolaWWW
ViolaWWW is a discontinued web browser, the first to support scripting and stylesheets for the World Wide Web (WWW).
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Ward Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
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Web 2.0
Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
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Wetpaint
Wetpaint was an Internet company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Function(X).
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White & Nerdy
"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. History of wikis and wiki are wikis.
Wiki hosting service
A wiki hosting service, or wiki farm, is a server or an array of servers that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.
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Wiki software
Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or a wiki application) is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows the users to create and collaboratively edit pages or entries via a web browser. History of wikis and wiki software are wikis.
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Wiki Wiki Shuttle
The Wiki Wiki Shuttle is a free shuttle bus service at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Wikibooks
Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
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WikiCalc
wikiCalc is a web application, created by Dan Bricklin, that allows for the creation and editing of spreadsheets through a wiki-style user-editable interface.
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Wikidata
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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WikiHow
wikiHow is an online wiki-style publication featuring how-to articles and quizzes on a variety of topics.
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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.
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Wikimania
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikimedia Commons, or simply Commons, is a wiki-based media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media.
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation.
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Wikinews
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.
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Wikipedia in culture
References to Wikipedia in popular culture have been widespread.
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Wikiquote
Wikiquote is part of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation using MediaWiki software.
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Wikisource
Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikispaces
Wikispaces was a wiki hosting service based in San Francisco, California.
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Wikispecies
Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Wikitravel
Wikitravel is a web-based collaborative travel guide based on the wiki format and owned by Internet Brands.
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Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities.
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Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors.
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WikiWikiWeb
The WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki, or user-editable website.
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Wiktionary
Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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Xerox
Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries.
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XWiki
XWiki is a free and Open source wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility.
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You (Time Person of the Year)
"You" was the official choice for Times Person of the Year in 2006.
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ZOG (hypertext)
ZOG was an early hypertext system developed at Carnegie Mellon University during the 1970s by Donald McCracken and Robert Akscyn.
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Zope
Zope is a family of free and open-source web application servers written in Python, and their associated online community.
.NET Framework
The.NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis
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