BrickWiki
 The logo of BrickWiki, designed by Jamie Bliss and Tim Gould | |
Screenshot  BrickWiki Main Page on January 14, 2017 | |
Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Ted Godwin |
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| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 1,094 registered users |
| Launched | June 25, 2005 |
| Current status | Offline (partial read-only archive from 2021–2024) |
Content license | GNU FDL 1.2 |
BrickWiki was a wiki-based online encyclopedia for topics related to LEGO.
It was established in June 2005 by LUGNET users Venkatesh Srinivas and Jamie Bliss
Created by Venkatesh Srinivas and Jamie Bliss, it was launched in June 2005 and ran on MediaWiki software. It was initially used primarily by members of the website LUGNET.
History
Venkatesh Srinivas, an electrical engineering student at Johns Hopkins University,[1] proposed starting a LEGO wiki in a LUGNET message on June 8, 2005. Srinivas described his plan as an "electronic warehouse" of LEGO knowledge, containing information about the LEGO company, products, and community.[2]
The idea originally came from LUGNET user Jamie "Astronouth7303" Bliss.[B 1][B 2] Srinivas had experience running MediaWiki software and a server available to host the site from.[2]
He originally suggested naming the site "LegoWiki"; due to concerns about using the LEGO trademark, other names were discussed in the thread, including "LUWiki" (LEGO User's Wiki),[3] "LWiki", and "BrickWiki".[4][5]
Srinivas decided on BrickWiki and launched the wiki on June 25, 2005.[6]
The site was originally hosted by the Johns Hopkins Association for Computing Machinery,[B 1] which Srinivas was a member of.[7]
Srinivas planned for BrickWiki to be a multilingual wiki once he found translators, though no other language versions of the wiki besides English were ever opened.[4]
BrickWiki originally used a zapto.org URL before becoming available at brickwiki.org in October 2005.[8][9][10]
Articles
References
- ↑ The Johns Hopkins University Commencement 2010. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University. May 27, 2010. p. 92.
- ↑ a b Srinivas, Venkatesh (8 June 2005). "Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ Jamie, Bliss (11 June 2005). "Re: Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ a b Srinivas, Venkatesh (11 June 2005). "Re: Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (13 June 2005). "Re: Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (25 June 2005). "Brickwiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ "Members". JHU ACM. Archived from the original on 2005-11-08.
- ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (8 July 2005). "BrickWiki (formerly LegoWiki) has moved". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ↑ Pieniazek, Larry (13 October 2005). "Re: Scanning HOWTO". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.inst. Archived from the original on 7 November 2025. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
Perhaps a link in the as yet unwritten "scanning instructions" article on Brickwiki (now at a spiffy new URL: www.brickwiki.org) ??
- ↑ Gould, Tim (16 October 2005). "Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.inst. Archived from the original on 3 October 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
BrickWiki pages
- ↑ a b "Brickwiki:History of Brickwiki". BrickWiki. 26 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017.
- ↑ Bliss, Jamie (31 December 2005). "User:Astronouth7303". BrickWiki. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008.
Oh, yeah. And I originally thought of it, but Venkatesh got to post it. And he owns the server. I'm not complaining. He gives me free hosting for my site.
External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-10-25)
- BrickWiki dumps by WikiTeam from August 2014 and May 2018 (via the Internet Archive)
