Translations:MediaWiki history/14/en

Wikipedia was launched in January 2001. At the time, it was mostly an experiment, to try to boost the production of content for Nupedia, a free-content, but peer-reviewed, encyclopedia created by Jimmy Wales. Because it was an experiment, Wikipedia was originally powered by [$url UseModWiki], an existing GPL wiki engine written in Perl, using CamelCase and storing all pages in individual text files with no history of changes made.