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==New Content==
==Website News/History==


'''News'''
;October 27, 2005


{{WikiIslam:Latest News}}
*WikiIslam was created. The URL was announced to a small group of potential editors who started work on the initial content.


'''Articles'''
;September 4, 2006
{{WikiIslam:New Articles}}


'''Translations'''
*After about one year, the site was opened to the public.
{{WikiIslam:Latest Translations}}


'''Testimonies'''
;September 2, 2007
{{WikiIslam:Recent Testimonies}}


==Website News==
*Anonymous IP address editing was enabled.


This section is not updated regularly and is more historical in nature than current. General maintenance and software updates are done periodically.
;October 8, 2007


;5/4/2011:
*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.
* WikiIslam page removed by Facebook. Apologies to our Facebook fans.
 
;3/18/2009:
;May 4, 2011
* A [[Auto_Block#Lock_down.2Fprotected_Mode|lockdown mode]] has been created for the wiki which protects against persistent vandalism
 
;2/22/2009:
*WikiIslam's page was forcibly removed from Facebook
* [[WikiIslam:Support the Site|Donation page]] created
 
;8/25/2008
;December 2011
*Website was back after almost a year of editing being disabled due to server problems.
 
;10/8/2007:
*To maintain site integrity, the flagged revisions extension was installed so edits by new and IP users have to be approved by existing users.
*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.
 
;9/2/2007:
;February 2013
*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:
*Work on the [[:ru:Заглавная страница|Russian]] sub-domain started and was then opened to the public.
*LiveVideo, Metacafe, DailyMotion and BlipTV video tags were enabled. See the [[WikiIslam:Embedding Multimedia|help page]] on how to use these codes.
 
;7/12/2007:
;April 12, 2015
*LiveLeak video tag was enabled to show videos from www.LiveLeak.com. See [[WikiIslam:Embedding Multimedia|this page]] for more information.
 
;7/11/2007:
*The [[:bg:Начална_страница|Bulgarian]] sub-domain was created.
*An edit button for the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Newslink|Newslink]]}} template was added to the edit bar.
 
;6/27/2007:
'''December 2015'''
*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:
*WikiIslam came under the management of [https://exmuslims.org/ Ex-Muslims of North America]
*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:
'''December 2018'''
*[[Auto Block]] settings were adjusted to allow more editing activity
 
;5/7/2007
*WikiIslam comprehensive cleanup begun 
*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.


==See Also==
==See Also==


*[[WikiIslam:Site Map|Site Map]] ''- Use to navigate WikiIslam and find the information you need''
*[[WikiIslam:Site Map|Site Map]] ''- Use to navigate WikiIslam and find the information you need''
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Latest revision as of 21:23, 19 January 2021

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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.
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.
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.
February 2013
  • Work on the Russian sub-domain started and was then opened to the public.
April 12, 2015

December 2015

December 2018

  • WikiIslam comprehensive cleanup begun

See Also

  • Site Map - Use to navigate WikiIslam and find the information you need
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