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"ref": "2006, Tim Jowers, The Business Guide to Free Information Technology, LuLu Press, page 59",
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"ref": "2008 April 26, Mitch Wagner, “Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life”, in InformationWeek, archived from the original on 2012-10-22",
"text": "MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's \"amazed and fascinated\" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.",
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"ref": "2009, Terry T. Kidd, Irene Chen, Wired for Learning: An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0, Information Age Publishing, Inc., page 187",
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"ref": "2011, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sams Publishing",
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"ref": "2012 October 8, Neil McAllister, “Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs”, in The Register, www.theregister.co.uk, retrieved 2012-10-28",
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