UseModWiki

UseModWiki is a wiki software written in Perl and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Wikipedias in English and many other languages were powered by UseModWiki[1] until switching to MediaWiki.

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UseModWiki
Developer(s)Clifford Adams, Markus Lude
Initial releaseOctober 11, 1999 (1999-10-11)
Stable release
1.2.1 / December 1, 2017 (2017-12-01)
Repository
Written inPerl
Size62.54 KiB (compressed)
Available in20 languages
TypeWiki software
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

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 CVWiki which was an early WikiWikiClone released partially under the GNU Lesser General Public License, and Markus Denker then developed AtisWiki which was released under the GNU General Public License and based on CVWiki.[2]

In the 1990s, Clifford Adams initiated the Usenet Moderation project that would allow users to share rating, editing, and eventually summary/change information about Usenet postings.[3] It was replaced by the concept of wikis in 1999, and the development of UseModWiki started on October 11 as a simplified fork of AtisWiki. From version 0.4 ("WikiFour") in November 1999, more functions and improvements were introduced to UseModWiki.[4] 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 Wikipedian, he brought many improvements for the usages of an encyclopedia to v0.91 and v0.92, especially "free links" that uses double square-brackets (e.g., [[Wikipedia]]) as an option along with camel case for linking to another page.[5] 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, and more.[6]

The development was then halted, and a cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2004-1397) was discovered in December 2004.[7][8] 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, and the latest version was released in December 2017.[4]

Version history
Release history of UseModWiki
Version Release date[4] Release notes[9][5][10]
0.4 November 26, 1999 "WikiFour"
  • Simple installation
  • Speed enhancements
  • Subpages
  • Edit conflict detection
0.5 January 12, 2000 "WikiFive"
  • New RecentChanges
  • Optional HTML cache
  • InterWiki links
  • A page redirect command
0.6 January 15, 2000
  • Refactored PageLink subs
  • Cleaned up lock errors
  • Several minor code cleanups
  • Major reorganization of home page content
0.7 January 22, 2000
  • Corrected error with split
  • Cleaned up several undefined usage warnings
0.80 June 18, 2000
  • New text-formatting additions:
    • * for unordered lists, # for numbered lists, : for indented regions
    • <b> and <i> markup for bold and italics
    • <pre> preformatted sections
    • Raw HTML sections are allowed (controlled by an option)
  • URLs and InterWiki links now strip trailing punctuation
  • Post-editing reloading uses the Location: header to instruct the browser to reload the proper page
  • Redirection instructions also use the Location: code and a note is placed on the target page when redirected
  • Each page now has a "(diff)" link to the most recent difference
  • Several cleanups and refactorings
0.82 July 15, 2000
  • Tab-less formatting rules
  • Raw-HTML configuration option
  • New "" delimiter for links
  • <nowiki> tag
0.86 August 26, 2000
  • User preferences
  • Usernames
  • Enhanced differences
    • Minor, Major, and Author differences are kept separately
    • Users can choose their desired differences
    • Link database
0.88 October 12, 2000
  • Edit previews
  • Improved formatting:
    • URL and InterWiki links ignore trailing punctuation
    • New bracketed-URLs (and InterWiki links) like [1] and [2]
    • Some minor wiki-markup bugs were fixed (mostly interactions between markup rules)
  • Random-link option for the linkbar
0.90 December 24, 2000
  • Kept pages
  • Links with descriptive text like [A link to Yahoo!]
0.91 February 16, 2001
  • Fixed old-revision conflict bug (editing old revisions).
  • HTML characters like © and ∞ can be used on pages.
  • Optional headers like = big-header (h1) text = and === some h3 text ===.
  • New <code> tag for inline quoting of code in a fixed-width font. This tag also acts like the <pre> tag and suppresses wiki formatting.
  • Free links and free links with description text allow pages with spaces and some puctuation in their names.
  • Local bracket-links like [WikiName description] are now not special by default, although the old 0.90-version behavior is an option.
  • Optional disabling of automatic LinkPattern links (if you really want to get rid of the classic Wiki:CamelCase names.)
  • Older rclog (RecentChanges) entries can be moved to another file, and will only be loaded if required.
  • Admin page deletion (can be given to Editor-level): immediate and total, including RecentChanges.
  • Admin page renaming: also renames RecentChanges entries and links on all other pages linking to the page.
0.92 April 21, 2001
  • Optional x translation table for non-English wikis.
  • Better behavior in non-traditional CGI environments like mod_perl or FastCGI.
  • Bugfixes for free links, especially detection of illegal link names.
  • Free links are now converted to a canonical uppercase form by default (all words start with an uppercase letter). This new behavior can be turned off.
  • Faster index of all pages.
  • Optional stylesheet support.
  • Several new minor features.
1.0 September 12, 2003 UseModWiki/NewFeatures
  • Style sheets
  • RSS feeds
  • File uploads
  • Better compatibility with 8-bit characters
  • LocalWiki and local links
  • KeepSize
  • Custom HTML insertion
1.0.1 July 9, 2007 Bugfix release
1.0.2 August 26, 2007 Bugfix release
1.0.3 September 12, 2007 Bugfix release
1.0.4 December 1, 2007 Bugfix release
1.0.5 August 28, 2009 Bugfix release
1.0.6 November 5, 2016 Bugfix release
1.1.0 October 31, 2017 Bugfix release
1.2.0 November 5, 2017 Bugfix release
1.2.1 December 1, 2017 Bugfix release

Use by Wikipedia
English Wikipedia in 2001
February
December
UseModWiki supports both of camel case and "free links" for linking to another page.

The wiki software for the English Wikipedia was UseModWiki (phase I, retroactively) since the establishment on January 15, 2001, and as of January 2002, Wikipedias in 22 languages were powered by UseModWiki.[11] The English edition switched to "the PHP script" (phase II) on January 25, 2002, a new wiki software based on UseModWiki but rewritten in PHP. On 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.[12] On January 25, 2004, also the second anniversary of the "PHP script", the last-remaining UseModWiki editions switched to MediaWiki.

See also

References
  • Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. London: Aurum. pp. 62–63. ISBN 9781845134730. OCLC 280430641.
  1. "UseMod". UseModWiki. Archived from the original on 17 October 2000. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. Markus Denker (25 July 2002). "AtisWiki". MarcusWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  3. Clifford Adams. "WhyUseMod". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  4. "UseModWiki/History". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  5. "UseModWiki/OldVersions". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  6. "NewFeatures". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  7. "CVE-2004-1397". CVE. 2005-02-12. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  8. office.bomis.com. "Wikipedia: HomePage". Jimmy Wales. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023. This pre-UseModWiki 1.0.1 site has no XSS vulnerability!
  9. "UseModWiki/EarlyVersions". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  10. "Changelog". UseModWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  11. "Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia". Bomis. 24 January 2002. Archived from the original on 24 January 2002. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  12. "Wikipedia: HomePage" (in Catalan). Catalan Wikipedia. 13 November 2003. Archived from the original on 13 November 2003. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
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