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==Website | ==Website 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. | |||
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*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. | ||
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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. | |||
;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. | |||
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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 | |||
* 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== |