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| ==New Content==
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| '''News'''
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| {{WikiIslam:Latest News}}
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| '''Articles'''
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| {{WikiIslam:New Articles}}
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| '''Translations'''
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| {{WikiIslam:Latest Translations}}
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| ==Website News/History== | | ==Website News/History== |
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| ;October 27, 2005 | | ;October 27, 2005 |
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| *WikiIslam was created. The URL was announced to a small group of potential editors who started work on the initial content. | | *WikiIslam was created. The URL was announced to a small group of potential editors who started work on the initial content. |
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| ;September 4, 2006 | | ;September 4, 2006 |
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| *After about one year, the site was opened to the public. | | *After about one year, the site was opened to the public. |
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| ;October 26, 2006 | | ;September 2, 2007 |
| *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.
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| ;November 20, 2006
| | *Anonymous IP address editing was enabled. |
| *The third and last unrestricted bot attack occurred. Fixes were made to the auto block system. | |
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| ;April 4, 2007 | | ;October 8, 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).
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| ;April 23, 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. |
| * Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden ([http://www.springerlink.com/content/p02g0g86387j4t62/ abstract])
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| ;May 6, 2007 | | ;May 4, 2011 |
| *Custom edit toolbar buttons were created for Islamic templates (Quran and Hadith).
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| ;July 24, 2007
| | *WikiIslam's page was forcibly removed from Facebook |
| *Video tags were enabled. | |
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| ;September 2, 2007: | | ;December 2011 |
| *Anonymous IP address editing was enabled.
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| ;October 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 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. | |
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| ;August 25, 2008 | | ;February 2013 |
| *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.
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| ;February 22, 2009:
| | *Work on the [[:ru:Заглавная страница|Russian]] sub-domain started and was then opened to the public. |
| * [[WikiIslam:Support_the_Site|Donation page]] created | |
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| ;March 18, 2009: | | ;April 12, 2015 |
| * A [[WikiIslam:Administrators|lockdown mode]] was created for the wiki which protected against persistent vandalism
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| ;May 4, 2011:
| | *The [[:bg:Начална_страница|Bulgarian]] sub-domain was created. |
| * WikiIslam page removed by Facebook. Apologies to our Facebook fans.
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| ;December 2011
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| *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.
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| ;August 2012
| | *WikiIslam came under the management of [https://exmuslims.org/ Ex-Muslims of North America] |
| *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. | |
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| ;October 2012
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| *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.
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| ;February 2013
| | *WikiIslam comprehensive cleanup begun |
| * 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 | |
| * [http://ru.wikiislam.net/ Russian sub-domain] started
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| ==See Also== | | ==See Also== |
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| *[[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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