Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org> writes: A lot of credit for the growth of Wikipedia has to go to the fantastic quality of the software that you guys have created. Hypermedia has been around since the late 60s, but because of the difficulty of creating and maintaining it, its use has always been restricted in many ways. Even World Wide Web, a form of hypermedia, is difficult to create and maintain except by "Geeks". The MediaWiki software is the best solution yet, to the problem of easily creating and maintaining hypermedia. In addition to the wiki markup and the ease of editing, creating links, and other formatting, the additional tools for looking at the work being done, such as the page history, recent changes, archived revision and comparison pages, solve the whole problem of creating a Hypermedia knowledge base. I think this has played a key roll in its rapid growth. Using MediaWiki, we have set up an internal wiki site here at Aperture Technologies, Inc. for gathering and disseminating knowledge about technical development and other issues. In the six weeks since it has been made available internally, it has already become an indispensable part of our development department's operation. We expect to expand its use into other departments of the company fairly soon. Again, I consider this "killer app" quality software. Nick Pisarro, Jr. Aperture Technologies, Inc.