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'''Wiki.Wiki''' was a [[wiki farm]], or a network of wikis, that hosted around 100+ projects in 13 [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]] (as of 2017). Wiki.Wiki projects ran on {{tag|MediaWiki}}, the free and open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. MediaWiki is used extensively by other [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF) projects, and remains the world's most popular wiki software.<ref>Daniel J. Barrett (October | '''Wiki.Wiki''' was a [[wiki farm]], or a network of wikis, that hosted around 100+ projects in 13 [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]] (as of 2017). Wiki.Wiki projects ran on {{tag|MediaWiki}}, the free and open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. MediaWiki is used extensively by other [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF) projects, and remains the world's most popular wiki software.<ref>Daniel J. Barrett (October 2008); ''[https://books.Google.com/books?id=2dhL5V3pLHkC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false MediaWiki: Wikipedia and Beyond]'' Chapter 1: ''What's MediaWiki?''; "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". Copyright.; Sebastapol, USA; ISBN 978-0-596-51979-7; Retrieved 12 January 2018.</ref> The farm was operated under the [https://CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International] license, and was started in {{tag|FoundedIn2014|2014}}. | ||
As of December 2016, the ability to directly create wikis was removed, and attempting to request a wiki returns an message saying: "We are evaluating our program right now and are not creating new wikis for a while".[https://web.Archive.org/web/20170127055700/https://Wiki.Wiki/] | As of December 2016, the ability to directly create wikis was removed, and attempting to request a wiki returns an message saying: "We are evaluating our program right now and are not creating new wikis for a while".<ref>[https://web.Archive.org/web/20170127055700/https://Wiki.Wiki/ Wiki.Wiki]; 27 January 2017.</ref> | ||
On September 28, 2017, an email was sent out saying that the service would be shutting down on December 1. The website currently shows a message which states: ''"wiki.wiki has closed. It was a great run, but unfortunately, we had to close down wiki.wiki. If you did not retrieve your wiki before it went offline, please send an email to [email protected]"''. The last wiki front page of the Wiki.Wiki was {{tag|archived}} by the InternetArchive WaybackMachine at [[Archive.org]] was [[Archive.org:20171003205940/https://Wiki.Wiki/|3 October 2017]]. | On September 28, 2017, an email was sent out saying that the service would be shutting down on December 1. The website currently shows a message which states: ''"wiki.wiki has closed. It was a great run, but unfortunately, we had to close down wiki.wiki. If you did not retrieve your wiki before it went offline, please send an email to [email protected]"''. The last wiki front page of the Wiki.Wiki was {{tag|archived}} by the InternetArchive WaybackMachine at [[Archive.org]] was [[Archive.org:20171003205940/https://Wiki.Wiki/|3 October 2017]]. | ||