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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 = 1.2.2

| latest release date = {{Start date|2023|11|10|df=y}}

| 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 = 62.6&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}}</ref>

| website = {{Official URL}}

}}

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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}}</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}}</ref> It was replaced by the concept of [[wiki]]s in 1999, and the development of UseModWiki started on October 11 October 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}}</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}}</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}}</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 July 20 July, "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>