Editing Drupal (section)

==History==
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Drupal was originally written by [[Dries Buytaert]] as a [[Internet forum|message board]] for his friends to communicate in their dorms while working on his Master's degree at the [[University of Antwerp]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Ron |date=22 January 2021 |title=Drupal's journey from dorm-room project to billion-dollar exit |url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/drupals-journey-from-dorm-room-project-to-billion-dollar-exit/ |access-date=20 September 2022 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ruthven |first=Hunter |date=17 April 2012 |title=Dorm room to boardroom - Dries Buytaert on growing Drupal |url=https://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/dorm-room-to-boardroom-2098958/ |access-date=20 September 2022 |website=Growth Business |language=en-GB}}</ref>  After graduation, Buytaert moved the site to the public internet and named it Drop.org.<ref name=":3" /> Between 2003 and 2008 Dries Buytaert worked towards a PhD degree at [[Ghent University]].<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Buytaert |first=Dries |date=24 January 2008 |title=Profiling techniques for performance analysis and optimization of Java applications  |url=https://lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:001253694}}</ref> 

The name ''Drupal'' represents an English rendering of the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word ''[[wikt:druppel|druppel]]'', which means "drop" (as in a water droplet).<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://translation.babylon.com/Dutch/to-English/druppel/ | title=Druppel: Dutch to English Translation | work=Babylon Translation | access-date=8 April 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413040840/http://translation.babylon.com/Dutch/to-English/druppel | archive-date=13 April 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The name came from the now-defunct Drop.org, whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Buytaert wanted to call the site "dorp" (Dutch for "village") for its community aspects, but mistyped it when checking the domain name and thought the error sounded better.<ref name="history">{{Cite web |title=History |url=http://drupal.org/node/769 |access-date=8 April 2009 |work=drupal.org}}</ref>

Drupal became an [[Open-source software|open source]] project in 2001.<ref name="history" /> Interest in Drupal got a significant boost in 2003 when it helped build "DeanSpace" for [[Howard Dean]], one of the candidates in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|U.S. Democratic Party]]'s primary campaign for the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 U.S. presidential election]]. DeanSpace used open-source sharing of Drupal to support a decentralized network of approximately 50 disparate, unofficial pro-Dean websites that allowed users to communicate directly with one another as well as with the campaign.<ref name="Melançon2012">{{Cite book | title=The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 |author=Benjamin Melançon|edition=2nd|publisher=Apress|year=2011 |isbn= 9781430231356|page=823 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oqi_eei2kq8C&pg=PA823|display-authors=etal}}</ref> After Dean ended his campaign, members of his Web team continued to pursue their interest in developing a Web platform that could aid political activism by launching CivicSpace Labs in July 2004, "...the first company with full-time employees that was developing and distributing Drupal technology."<ref name=Critchley>{{Cite web | url=http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/05/digital_politics_an_interview.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=17 May 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517024656/http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/05/digital_politics_an_interview.html | title=Digital Politics: An Interview With CivicSpace Founder Zack Rosen | last= Critchley | first=Spencer | work=O'Reilly Media | date=3 May 2006 | access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref> Other companies also began to specialize in Drupal development.<ref name=Kreiss>{{Cite web | url=http://culturedigitally.org/2012/03/dean-romney-and-drupal-values-and-technological-adoption | title=Dean, Romney, and Drupal: Values and Technological Adoption | last=Kreiss | first=Daniel | work=Culture Digitally | date=5 March 2012 | access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref><ref name=Shapiro>Samantha M. Shapiro, [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/magazine/the-dean-connection.html "The Dean Connection"], ''[[The New York Times]]'' 7 December 2003, accessed 27 May 2012.</ref>

By 2013, the Drupal website listed hundreds of vendors that offered Drupal-related services.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://drupal.org/drupal-services/all | title=Marketplace | work=drupal.org | access-date=18 April 2013}}</ref>

{{As of | 2014}}, Drupal is developed by a community.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://groups.drupal.org/node/1980 | title=Growth Graphs | last=Koenig | first=Josh | work=Groups.Drupal | access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref>{{Update needed|date=October 2022}} From July 2007 to June 2008, the Drupal.org site provided more than 1.4 million downloads of Drupal software, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Drupal Download Statistics | url=http://buytaert.net/drupal-download-statistics-2008 | last=Buytaert | first=Dries|year=2008 | access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=Drupal Download Statistics | url=http://buytaert.net/drupal-download-statistics-2007 | last=Buytaert | first=Dries | year=2007 | access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref>

{{As of|2017|01}} more than 1,180,000 sites use Drupal.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal | title=Usage statistics for Drupal core}}</ref> These include hundreds of well-known organizations,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites?page=27 | title=Drupal Sites | work=Dries Buytaert | access-date=20 July 2010}}</ref> including corporations, media and publishing companies, governments, non-profits,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://engineindustries.com/blog/jason/list-nonprofit-npo-ngo-websites-using-drupal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224162949/http://engineindustries.com/blog/jason/list-nonprofit-npo-ngo-websites-using-drupal | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 December 2009 | title=List of Nonprofit, NPO, NGO Websites Using Drupal | work=ENGINE Industries | access-date=20 July 2010 }}</ref> schools,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Critic |first=C. M. S. |date=27 February 2024 |title=Empowering Higher Ed: 4 Strategies to Transform your Drupal CMS into an Open Source DXP at Scale |url=https://cmscritic.com/empowering-higher-ed-4-strategies-to-transform-your-drupal-cms-into-an-open-source-dxp-at-scale |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=CMS Critic |language=en}}</ref> and individuals. Drupal has won several [[Packt]] Open Source CMS Awards<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners | title=OSS CMS Award Previous Winners | work=Packt Publishing | access-date=8 April 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707094004/http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners | archive-date=7 July 2009 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and won the [[Webware 100]] {{clarify|date=October 2017}} three times in a row.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://drupal.org/Drupal-2009-webware-100-winner | title=Drupal is a Webware 100 winner for the third year in a row | date=19 May 2009 |publisher=Drupal.org | access-date=31 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13546_109-10237630-29.html?tag=mncol | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710215055/http://news.cnet.com/8301-13546_109-10237630-29.html?tag=mncol | url-status=dead | archive-date=10 July 2012 | title=Cnet.com | publisher=News.cnet.com | date=19 May 2009 | access-date=31 August 2011 }}</ref>

Drupal 6 was released on 13 February 2008,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2008-02-13/drupal-60-released|title=Drupal 6.0 released &#124; Drupal.org|date=13 February 2008 }}</ref> on 5 March 2009, Buytaert announced a [[code freeze]] for Drupal 7 for 1 September 2009.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://buytaert.net/drupal-7-code-freeze-september-1st | title=Buytaert.net| date=4 March 2009|publisher=Buytaert.net | access-date=31 August 2011}}</ref> Drupal 7 was released on 5 January 2011, with release parties in several countries.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://buytaert.net/drupal-7-to-be-released-on-january-5th-with-one-ginormous-party | title=Drupal 7 to be released on January 5 (with one ginormous party) | date=21 December 2010 |publisher=Buytaert.net | access-date=31 August 2011}}</ref> After that, maintenance on Drupal 5 stopped, with only Drupal 7 and Drupal 6 maintained.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1012/S00048/xplain-hosting-drupal-7-quickstart-training-seminar.htm | title=Xplain Hosting Drupal 7 Quickstart training seminar|publisher=[[Scoop (website)|Scoop]] | date=16 December 2010}}</ref>

Drupal 7's end-of-life was scheduled for November 2021, but given the impact of COVID-19, and the continuing wide usage, the end of life was pushed back until 1 November 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.drupal.org/psa-2022-02-23|title=Drupal 7's End-of-Life extended to November 1, 2023 - PSA-2022-02-23|date=23 February 2022 |access-date=29 March 2022}}</ref> This was extended once more as of June 2023 and was finally set for 5 January 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2023 |title=End of life announcement and changes to Drupal 7 support - PSA-2023-06-07 |url=https://www.drupal.org/psa-2023-06-07 |access-date=10 January 2024 |website=Drupal.org |language=en}}</ref>

In October 2022, Drupal released an open source [[Headless content management system|headless CMS]] accelerator, allowing the front end to be managed outside of the core system.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fluckinger |first=Don |date=26 October 2022 |title=Acquia releases open source headless CMS accelerator |url=https://www.techtarget.com/searchcontentmanagement/news/252526460/Acquia-releases-open-source-headless-CMS-accelerator |access-date=10 November 2022 |website=TechTarget |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MacManus |first=Richard |date=26 October 2022 |title=How Drupal Fits Into an Increasingly Headless CMS World |url=https://thenewstack.io/how-drupal-fits-into-an-increasingly-headless-cms-world/ |access-date=10 November 2022 |website=The New Stack |language=en-US}}</ref>