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*The [[:bg:Начална_страница|Bulgarian]] sub-domain was created. | *The [[:bg:Начална_страница|Bulgarian]] sub-domain was created. | ||
'''December | '''December 2015''' | ||
* WikiIslam came under the management of [https://exmuslims.org/ Ex-Muslims of North America] and steady clean up of the site begun. | *WikiIslam came under the management of [https://exmuslims.org/ Ex-Muslims of North America] and steady clean up of the site begun. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 22 October 2020
Website News/History
- October 27, 2005
- WikiIslam was created. The URL was announced to a small group of potential editors who started work on the initial content.
- September 4, 2006
- After about one year, the site was opened to the public.
- April 4, 2007
- WikiIslam was inaccessible from 3/20 to 4/4 (about 2 weeks) basically due to security problems in the server (no data was lost).
- May 6, 2007
- Custom edit toolbar buttons were created for Islamic templates (Quran and Hadith).
- July 24, 2007
- Video tags were enabled.
- September 2, 2007
- Anonymous IP address editing was enabled.
- October 8, 2007
- The server hosting WikiIslam was hacked on September 11, 2007 due to which the site was down for almost a month. Editing was disabled for about one year due to server issues.
- August 25, 2008
- The site was moved to shared hosting and editing was enabled again. Database compaction was done for the first time to reduce the size of the database.
- February 22, 2009
- Donations were collected on the website for the first time.
- March 18, 2009
- A lockdown mode was created for the wiki which protected against persistent vandalism
- May 4, 2011
- WikiIslam's page was forcibly removed from Facebook
- December 2011
- To maintain site integrity, the flagged revisions extension was installed so edits by new and IP users have to be approved by existing users.
- August 2012
- Occasional traffic spikes caused high CPU usage. Shared hosting was used from August 2008-2012 (4 years) but it could no longer support the site's traffic.
- October 2012
- WikiIslam upgraded from shared hosting to VPS in October 2012. Database compaction was done before the move for the second time to reduce the size of the database.
- February 2013
- WikiIslam was on a VPS hosting plan but was still using a lot of CPU (on average, 70% of the allotted CPU). WikiIslam then moved to a new VPS server setup for improved speed and growth opportunities.
- Work on the Russian sub-domain started and was then opened to the public.
- April 12, 2015
- The Bulgarian sub-domain was created.
December 2015
- WikiIslam came under the management of Ex-Muslims of North America and steady clean up of the site begun.
See Also
- Site Map - Use to navigate WikiIslam and find the information you need