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==Website News==
==Website History==


This section is not updated regularly and is more historical in nature than current. General maintenance and software updates are done periodically.
;October 27, 2005
*WikiIslam was created. The URL was announced to a small group of potential editors who started work on the initial content.


;5/4/2011:
;September 4, 2006
*After about one year, the site was opened to the public.
 
;October 26, 2006
*After being open to the public for less than two months, WikiIslam came under its first bot-based vandalism attack. This resulted in a large number of pages being edited and moved by a vandalism bot. It took a few hours for editors to revert to their original states. Editing was restricted temporarily and the [[MediaWiki:Auto Block|auto block]] system was created to protect the website against such attacks.
 
;November 20, 2006
*The third and last unrestricted bot attack occurred. Fixes were made to the auto block system.
 
;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).
 
;April 23, 2007
* Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden ([http://www.springerlink.com/content/p02g0g86387j4t62/ abstract])
 
;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 FFI server was hacked on September 11, 2007 due to which our site was down for almost a month. Editing was disabled for about one year due to server issues.
 
;August 25, 2008
*We moved the site to shared hosting and editing was enabled again. [[WikiIslam:Database Compaction|Database Compaction]] was done for the first time to reduce the size of the database.
 
;February 22, 2009:
* [[WikiIslam:Support_the_Site|Donation page]] created
 
;March 18, 2009:
* A [[WikiIslam:Administrators|lockdown mode]] was created for the wiki which protected against persistent vandalism
 
;May 4, 2011:
* WikiIslam page removed by Facebook. Apologies to our Facebook fans.
* WikiIslam page removed by Facebook. Apologies to our Facebook fans.
;3/18/2009:
 
* A [[Auto_Block#Lock_down.2Fprotected_Mode|lockdown mode]] has been created for the wiki which protects against persistent vandalism
;December 2011
;2/22/2009:
*To maintain site integrity, the [[Help:Page validation|flagged revisions]] extension was installed so edits by new and IP users have to be approved by existing users.
* [[WikiIslam:Support the Site|Donation page]] created
 
;8/25/2008
;August 2012
*Website was back after almost a year of editing being disabled due to server problems.
*Occasional traffic spikes caused high CPU usage. We had used Shared hosting from August 2008-2012 (4 years) but it could no longer support our traffic.  
;10/8/2007:
 
*The FFI server was hacked on 9/11/2007 which explains our downtime for almost a month. We are back now. Editing is disabled until we work out some bugs.
;October 2012
;9/2/2007:
*We upgraded from Shared hosting to VPS in October 2012. [[WikiIslam:Database Compaction|Database Compaction]] was done before the move for the second time to reduce the size of the database.
*Anonymous editing has been enabled as a test. Users who are not logged on will get a very visible [http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning warning] and then its up to the user if they want to login. Block protections work for anonymous edits as well.
 
;7/24/2007:
;February 2013
*LiveVideo, Metacafe, DailyMotion and BlipTV video tags were enabled. See the [[WikiIslam:Embedding Multimedia|help page]] on how to use these codes.
* We were on a VPS hosting plan but were still using a lot of CPU (on average, 70% of our allotted CPU). We moved to a new VPS server setup for improved speed and growth opportunities
;7/12/2007:
* [http://ru.wikiislam.net/ Russian sub-domain] started
*LiveLeak video tag was enabled to show videos from www.LiveLeak.com. See [[WikiIslam:Embedding Multimedia|this page]] for more information.
;7/11/2007:
*An edit button for the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Newslink|Newslink]]}} template was added to the edit bar.
;6/27/2007:
*3 new edit buttons were installed; 2 for references ([[Image:Button RefList.png]], [[Image:Button reflink.png]] ) and 1 for making a link to a Wikipedia article ([[Image:Button Wikipedia link.png]]). The Quran button was updated for clarity. The Edit tools which appear below the edit box were also updated to include these 3 new tools.
;6/13/2007:
*An extension was installed to enable linking of images, i.e. you can now insert an image in a page and link that image to an article such that when a user clicks on the image, they are taken to that article. [[Help:Contents#Making_links_on_images|Read how to use this feature]].
;5/21/2007:
*[[Auto Block]] settings were adjusted to allow more editing activity
;5/7/2007
*File uploads and thumbnailing have been enabled again.
;5/6/2007:
*Custom edit buttons are available for Islamic templates. These buttons appear alongside other buttons when an edit box is open. We can customize these buttons and add more if needed.
;4/24/07:
*Site root redirects have been improved for faster speed. WikiIslam.com redirects to the main page instantly now as compared to the 1 or 2 second delay that was experienced before. Temporary redirects were added so that most of the old links used in the published paper (see below) would work.
;4/23/07:
* Site email is enabled. This means users can email each other and they'll be emailed when their watched articles and Talk pages change.
* Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden ([http://www.springerlink.com/content/p02g0g86387j4t62/ abstract] | [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p02g0g86387j4t62/fulltext.pdf PDF, full version])
;4/17/07:
* A new template is being made to help former Muslims create their own testimonies of leaving Islam
;4/11/07:
* We've been visited by spamming bots recently. Anti-spam captcha's have been installed in order to prevent account creation by bots. This just means that in order to create an account, a user will have to compute some simple math, e.g. give an answer to: Whats 22 + 3? A human can do this sum but a bot can't. These spam protections are an inconvenience to human users, but some way of distinguishing between humans and bots is necessary due to the abundance of malicious software bots on the web.
;4/4/07:
* WikiIslam was inaccessible from 3/20 to 4/4 (about 2 weeks) basically due to security problems in the server (no data was lost). We are back now.
* When we came back, we upgraded to the latest Mediawiki software which will enable some extra features
* We will be moving to a faster server soon
* Uploads are currently disabled while we make security checks. Image thumbnailing is not working right now, we're troubleshooting this.


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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.
October 26, 2006
  • After being open to the public for less than two months, WikiIslam came under its first bot-based vandalism attack. This resulted in a large number of pages being edited and moved by a vandalism bot. It took a few hours for editors to revert to their original states. Editing was restricted temporarily and the auto block system was created to protect the website against such attacks.
November 20, 2006
  • The third and last unrestricted bot attack occurred. Fixes were made to the auto block system.
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).
April 23, 2007
  • Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden (abstract)
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 FFI server was hacked on September 11, 2007 due to which our site was down for almost a month. Editing was disabled for about one year due to server issues.
August 25, 2008
  • We moved the site 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
March 18, 2009
  • A lockdown mode was created for the wiki which protected against persistent vandalism
May 4, 2011
  • WikiIslam page removed by Facebook. Apologies to our Facebook fans.
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. We had used Shared hosting from August 2008-2012 (4 years) but it could no longer support our traffic.
October 2012
  • We 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
  • We were on a VPS hosting plan but were still using a lot of CPU (on average, 70% of our allotted CPU). We moved to a new VPS server setup for improved speed and growth opportunities
  • Russian sub-domain started

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