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

Oversight

2009 edit

Vector skin

2010 edit

Article feedback

2011 edit

2012 edit

2013 edit

2014 edit

2015 edit

2016 edit

Cross-wiki notifications

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.

[1] 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.

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