WikiIslam:Site News

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.

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