User:Johan (WMF)/Timeline
This is a timeline of Wikimedia technical development.
The point is to give an easy overview of history of how the technology of the Wikimedia wikis has developed.[1]
What and how[edit]
This list collects technical development on Wikimedia wikis. This can be extensions, skins, editors, but also includes e.g. native HTTPS.
Items are listed under the year when they were launched to Wikimedia production wikis. Be aware that they might have been in development long before that, and that development might have continued long since. MediaWiki is listed under 2002; the majority of all work on MediaWiki has happened after that.
2001[edit]
- Wikipedia is launched
- UseModWiki
- Phase II
2002[edit]
- MediaWiki (Phase III)
- MonoBook skin
2003[edit]
- Simple transclusions (but no parameters) (MW 1.2)
2004[edit]
- Categories (MW 1.3)
- Parameters for templates (MW 1.3)
2005[edit]
- RecentChanges patrolling (MW 1.4)
- Galleries (MW 1.4)
- Language script conversion (MW 1.4)
- Checkuser tool
2006[edit]
2009[edit]
2010[edit]
2011[edit]
2012[edit]
2013[edit]
2014[edit]
2015[edit]
2016[edit]
See also[edit]
- m:MediaWiki timeline (part of the larger m:Wikimedia history)
- mw:MediaWiki history (and all its see alsos)
Notes[edit]
- ↑ It might also help understanding the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation, at least in later years, by getting an overview of launched extensions and other developments. Readers who read the list for this purpose should remember that a lot of Wikimedia development is not done by the Wikimedia Foundation and far from everything included here has been developed by the WMF, nor is the WMF alone in developing things where they are involved.