The first version, by Steve Wainstead, was released in December 1999. It was the first Wiki written in PHP to be publicly released. This version required PHP 3.x and only supported
DBM files. It was a feature-for-feature reimplementation of the original WikiWikiWeb at c2.com. In early 2000 Arno Hollosi added a second
database library to allow running PhpWiki on
MySQL. From then on more features were added and contributions to the software increased, adding features such as a
templating system, color
diffs, rewrites of the
rendering engine and much more. Arno was interested in running a wiki for the game
Go.{{cite web Jeff Dairiki was the next major contributor, and soon headed the project for the next few years, followed up by Reini Urban up to 1.4, and then Marc-Etienne Vargenau since 1.5. == Releases ==