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| ==New Content==
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| == Announcements ==
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| ===Submit an Essay/Op-Ed!===
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| (30 December 2012) - Our submission form is live so what are you waiting for? [[Special:Form/Essay-oped-submission|Submit an essay/op-ed]] and get your "voice heard" by 250,000+ readers every month. Guideline are currently under construction, thus are not well defined, but have a look at our [[Featured_Essays/Op-Eds|Featured Essays/Op-Eds]] to get an idea of what we expect. Also make sure to save your work in a text file in case it doesn't make the cut.
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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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| ;May 6, 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. |
| *Custom edit toolbar buttons were created for Islamic templates (Quran and Hadith).
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| ;July 24, 2007 | | ;May 4, 2011 |
| *Video tags were enabled.
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| ;September 2, 2007:
| | *WikiIslam's page was forcibly removed from Facebook |
| *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:Join the Team|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 [[WikiIslam:Pending Changes Protection|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. 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 | |
| * Work on a Russian sub-domain (http://ru.wikiislam.net/) started and it is now open to the public.
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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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| [[Category:WikiIslam]] | | [[Category:WikiIslam]] |
| [[Category:News]]
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