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		lsb on Dec 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Download Entire Wikipedia for Offline Use With an ... Because Wikipedia started in January 2001, well before even Subversion was around. Levitation looks really cool, I wonder if using gitwiki will be easier and more sustainable than mediawiki. And hey, Dan Lucraft who wrote git.js is still at Songkick, YCS07!

jmilloy on Dec 31, 2011 [–]

For the record, (Wikipedia says) the initial release of subversion was Oct 20, 2000. It's still understandable that Wikipedia rolled it's own.

lsb on Dec 31, 2011 | [–]

Yup, but it became stable enough to host itself Aug 2001, whereas I think it was January or February 2001 that the few articles started trickling in.

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