On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:49:41 +0100 "Markus Seitz" <astra_gilde@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to extend the german and the english article of DokuWiki on > Wikipedia.org . Great! > I want to write a small chapter about the history of DokuWiki. > For this I need informations about following dates: Let's see... > - the start of the development June 2004 > - first release Probably 2004-07-04 (not sure about that) > - start of DokuWiki project on Freshmeat Sun, Jul 4th 2004 05:24 PDT > - first official article of DokuWiki in the Web (with link) First announcement was in my blog: http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2004-06/26-new_videodb_release_and_wiki > - packaging in Gentoo Linux/Debian (unstable) distribution http://packages.debian.org/dokuwiki http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=www-apps;name=dokuwiki > - first released plugin The info plugin - but this was only an example. I guess Chris Smith wrote the first real one, but I'm not sure which one it was. > - other important Milestones... Hmm release 2005-02-06 was pretty important because it changed from local character encodings to UTF-8. Another really important milestone was the switch to the new objectoriented parser-renderer mechanism intially written by Harry Fuecks. Initial ideas were posted in his blog at http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/11/oop-and-performance/ Maybe others can add their view on the history as well :-) Andi -- http://www.splitbrain.org -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist