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{{Short description|Free and open-source wiki software}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = UseModWiki

| logo = Usemod logo.svg

| screenshot = UseModWiki 1.2.1.png

| collapsible =

| caption = Default homepage of UseModWiki 1.2.1

| developer = Clifford Adams, Markus Lude

| released = {{Start date|1999|10|11|df=y}}

| latest release version = 1.2.23

| latest release date = {{Start date|20232025|1108|10|df=y16}}

| programming language = [[Perl]]<ref name="onlamp">{{Cite web |last=Fish |first=Shlomi |date=2004-11-04 |title=Which Open Source Wiki Works For You? |website=[[ONLamp.com]] |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]] |url=http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224709/http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html |archive-date=2017-12-03}}</ref>

| platform = =

| size = 62.65&nbsp;[[Byte#Multiple-byte units|KiB]] (compressed)<!-- .tar.gz -->

| genre = [[Wiki software]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]<ref name="aosa">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://aosabook.org/en/v2/mediawiki.html |first1=Sumana |last1=Harihareswara |first2=Guillaume |last2=Paumier |title=The Architecture of Open Source Applications |volume=2 |chapter=MediaWiki |editor1-first=Amy |editor1-last=Brown |editor2-first=Greg |editor2-last=Wilson |isbn=978-1105571817 |archive-date=2024-11-27 |access-date=2024-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127055154/https://aosabook.org/en/v2/mediawiki.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

| website = {{Official URL}}

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'''UseModWiki''' is a [[wiki software]] written in [[Perl]] and licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]]. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in [[Flat file database|ordinary files]], not in a [[relational database]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fieldhouse |first=Keith R. |date=2005-04-04 |title=Introducing UseModWiki |url=https://www.linux.com/news/introducing-usemodwiki/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=[[Linux.com]] |language=en-US |quote=[UseModWiki] keeps its data in simple flat files (no database back end required) [...] |archive-date=2022-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015020411/https://www.linux.com/news/introducing-usemodwiki/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Wikipedia]]s in English and many other languages were powered by UseModWiki until switching to [[MediaWiki]].

== History ==

After [[Ward Cunningham]] created the first wiki website [[WikiWikiWeb]], there were various "WikiWikiClones" that implemented the functions and design of WikiWikiWeb's engine ("WikiBase"), mainly written in [[Perl]]. Peter Merel developed [[WikiWikiWeb:CvWiki|CVWiki]] which was an early WikiWikiClone released partially under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]], and Markus Denker then developed [[WikiWikiWeb:AtisWiki|AtisWiki]] which was released under the [[GNU General Public License]] and based on CVWiki.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Markus Denker |title=AtisWiki |url=http://marcusdenker.de/old/AtisWiki.html |publisher=MarcusWiki |access-date=25 June 2021 |date=25 July 2002 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625202853/http://marcusdenker.de/old/AtisWiki.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 1990s, Clifford Adams initiated the '''Use'''net '''Mod'''eration project that would allow users to share rating, editing, and eventually summary/change information about [[Usenet]] postings.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Clifford Adams |title=WhyUseMod |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/WhyUseMod |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-date=4 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204013443/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/WhyUseMod |url-status=live }}</ref> It was replaced by the concept of [[wiki]]s in 1999, and the development of UseModWiki started on 11 October 11 as a simplified [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of AtisWiki. From version 0.4 ("WikiFour") in November 1999, more functions and improvements were introduced to UseModWiki.<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=UseModWiki/History |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/History |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-date=19 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619020311/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/History |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2000, the second UseModWiki website [[MeatballWiki]] was launched and hosted in ''usemod.com'', along with the official website of UseModWiki.

In 2001, as Adams was both of the UseModWiki developer and a [[Wikipedia community|Wikipedian]], he brought many improvements for the usages of an encyclopedia to v0.91 and v0.92, especially "[[Wikipedia:Glossary#Free link|free link]]s" that uses double square-brackets (e.g., <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia]]</nowiki></code>) as an option for linking to another page, supplementing the older functionality of using [[camel case]].<ref name="old_versions">{{cite web |title=UseModWiki/OldVersions |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/OldVersions |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108080057/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/OldVersions |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="aosa" /> In September 2003, after two years of development from the previous version, the release of version 1.0 introduced many new features including [[CSS]], [[RSS]], file uploads, [[UTF-8]].<ref>{{cite web |title=NewFeatures |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/NewFeatures |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-date=3 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203143100/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/NewFeatures |url-status=live }}</ref>

The development was then halted, and a [[cross-site scripting]] vulnerability (CVE-2004-1397) was discovered in December 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=CVE-2004-1397 |url=https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1397 |publisher=[[Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures|CVE]] |access-date=28 March 2023 |date=2005-02-12 |id={{CVE|2004-1397}} |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328065157/https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1397 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=office.bomis.com |title=Wikipedia: HomePage |url=https://www.editthisnft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?%3Cscript%3Ealert('This%5Cxa0pre-UseModWiki%5Cxa01.0.1%5Cxa0site%5Cxa0has%5Cxa0no%5Cxa0XSS%5Cxa0vulnerability!')%3C/script%3E |publisher=[[Jimmy Wales]] |access-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328065548/https://www.editthisnft.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27This%5Cxa0pre-UseModWiki%5Cxa01.0.1%5Cxa0site%5Cxa0has%5Cxa0no%5Cxa0XSS%5Cxa0vulnerability%21%27%29%3C/script%3E |archive-date=28 March 2023 |quote=This pre-UseModWiki 1.0.1 site has no XSS vulnerability!}}</ref> It was patched in July 2007 when Markus Lude took over the project of UseModWiki from Clifford Adams, with the release of version 1.0.1. Only bug fixing versions were released since that.<ref name="history"/> The official ___domain was moved to ''usemod.org'' in late September 2023, and a minor update for that change was released later in November.<ref>{{cite web |title=UseMod Wiki: UseModWiki |url=https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl |publisher=UseModWiki |access-date=8 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925224906/https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl |archive-date=25 September 2023}}</ref>

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The wiki software for the [[English Wikipedia]] was UseModWiki (phase I, retroactively) since the establishment on 15 January 15, 2001, and as of January 2002, Wikipedias in 22 languages were powered by UseModWiki.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia |url=http://www.wikipedia.com |publisher=[[Bomis]] |access-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020124190441/http://www.wikipedia.com/ |archive-date=24 January 2002 |date=24 January 2002}}</ref> The English edition switched to "[[Wikipedia:Phase II software|the PHP script]]" (phase II) on 25 January 25, 2002, a new wiki software based on UseModWiki but rewritten in [[PHP]]. On 20 July 20, "the "PHP script" was then replaced by its own rewritten wiki software (phase III), currently known as [[MediaWiki]], for better performance and functionality.

Other language editions gradually switched to MediaWiki afterwards, and as of late 2003, only a few active editions including [[Catalan Wikipedia]] were still powered by UseModWiki.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia: HomePage |url=http://ca.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi |publisher=Catalan Wikipedia |access-date=2 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031113202541/http://ca.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi |archive-date=13 November 2003 |language=Catalan |date=13 November 2003}}</ref> In 2004, the last-remaining UseModWiki editions switched to MediaWiki.<ref>[[meta:Wikipedia software upgrade status]]</ref>