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== History ==
== History ==
BrickWiki was created by Venkatesh Srinivas, allegedly based on an idea by Jamie Bliss.<ref name="bw history"/><ref name="bw bliss"/> Srinivas posted his desire to start "LegoWiki" on [[LUGNET]] on June 8, 2005.<ref name="lug 51020"/> Following further discussion on what to name the website,<ref name="lug 51046"/> Srinivas decided on "BrickWiki" and launched the wiki on June 25, 2005.<ref name="lug 51109"/> The site was originally hosted by [[Wikipedia:Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University]], where Srinivas was an electrical engineering student at the time.<ref name="bw history "/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://endeavour.zapto .org/who/vsrinivas |title=Venkatesh Srinivas |date= 1 November 2008 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20081218012656/http://endeavour.zapto .org/who/vsrinivas |archive-date=18 December 2008}}</ref>
BrickWiki was created by Venkatesh Srinivas, building on an idea by Jamie "Astronouth7303" Bliss.<ref name="bw history"/><ref name="bw bliss"/> Srinivas posted his desire to start "LegoWiki" on [[LUGNET]] on June 8, 2005.<ref name="lug 51020"/> Following further discussion on what to name the website,<ref name="lug 51046"/> Srinivas decided on "BrickWiki" and launched the wiki on June 25, 2005.<ref name="lug 51109"/> The site was originally hosted by the [[Wikipedia:Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] Association for Computing Machinery, which Srinivas was a member of.<ref name="bw history "/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acm.jhu.edu/members.php |title=Members |website=JHU ACM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108214409/http://www.acm.jhu.edu/members.php |archive-date=2005-11-08}}</ref>


== References ==
Near the end of July 2009, BrickWiki went offline for several weeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/ |title=What's with Brickwiki? |website=[[Eurobricks]] |author=desultor |date=August 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717034837/https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/ |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ted "Tedward" Godwin, one of site's administrators, attempted to contact Srinivas about it, but received no reply.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-559102 |title=Holy mother of... somebody actually read the blog?!?! I guess I better start posting again. |type=comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?" |website=[[Eurobricks]] |first=Ted |last=Godwin |date=August 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717035654/https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-559102 |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> BrickWiki returned online on August 20.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-564631 |title=Looks like we are back online. |type=comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?" |website=[[Eurobricks]] |first=Ted |last=Godwin |date=August 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717035654/https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-564631 |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> The site went down again in May 2010,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-743922 |title=Please excuse me for reviving such an old thread, but Brickwiki hasn't been operational for the last week or so. |type=comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?" |website=[[Eurobricks]] |author=MetroiD |date=May 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717035654/https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-743922 |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-17 |url-status=live}}</ref> this time remaining offline for nearly two years. In a September 2010 [[Eurobricks]] post, Godwin expressed frustration that the site had "died thanks to the neglect of one person."<ref name="euro 806685">{{cite web |url=https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-806685 |title=And yet it still has no categorization and lacks articles on the most basic concepts. |type=comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?" |website=[[Eurobricks]] |first=Ted |last=Godwin |date=September 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717035654/https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/32243-whats-with-brickwiki/&tab=comments#comment-806685 |archive-date=2024-07-17 |access-date=2024-07-17 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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<ref name="bw history">{{cite web |url=http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Brickwiki:History_of_Brickwiki |title=Brickwiki:History of Brickwiki |website=BrickWiki |date=26 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108001211/http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Brickwiki:History_of_Brickwiki |archive-date=2017-01-08}}</ref>
Srinivas found a backup of BrickWiki in early 2012 and restored the site in read-only mode.
Godwin and Larry Pieniazek made a plan to move the site onto a new server with help from Brian Alano and Jeramy Spurgeon. BrickWiki was made operational again in May 2012, now hosted by Spurgeon's company Site Orchard.<ref name="bw history"/> On November 20, 2012, BrickWiki's URL was changed from ''BrickWiki.org'' to ''BrickWiki.info''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Main_Page |title=Main Page – News |date=November 20, 2012 |website=BrickWiki |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206041426/http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Main_Page |archive-date=2016-02-06 |quote=BrickWiki has a new URL: www.brickwiki.info.}}</ref>


<ref name="bw bliss">{{cite web |url=http://www.brickwiki.org/wiki/User:Astronouth7303 |title=User:Astronouth7303 |first=Jamie |last=Bliss |website=BrickWiki |date=31 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208061203/http://www.brickwiki.org/wiki/User:Astronouth7303 |archive-date=2008-12-08 |quote=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.}}</ref>
On February 7, 2017, Godwin announced that BrickWiki would shut down on March 25.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206041426/http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Main_Page |title=Main Page – News |date=November 20, 2012 |website=BrickWiki |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321185304/http://www.brickwiki.info/wiki/Main_Page |archive-date=2017-03-21 |quote=BW is shutting down. If you have material you wish to save please do so before March 25th. On that date www.brickwiki.info will be shut down.}}</ref> He cited the lack of progress made in the previous two years as part of the reason, stating that that "clearly facts and history are not what the people want".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brickwiki.info/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Shutting_down.2C_March_24.2C_2017 |title=Shutting down, March 24, 2017 |website=BrickWiki |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512072805/http://www.brickwiki.info/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Shutting_down.2C_March_24.2C_2017 |archive-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> (Godwin had previously complained about Brickipedia, a competing LEGO encyclopedia, lacking categorization and and articles on basic concepts, despite having a much larger community.)<ref name="euro 806685"/> Despite this, BrickWiki remained online through 2019 before finally going offline.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190000000000*/http://www.brickwiki.info/ |title=Wayback Machine saves for <nowiki>http://www.brickwiki.info/</nowiki> |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref> The site returned online in 2021, but in read-only mode and with many pages missing.


<ref name="lug 51020">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51020 |title=Legowiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=8 June 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716075252/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51020 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
== References ==
 
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="lug 51046">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51047 |title=Re: Legowiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=13 June 2005 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240716232201/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51047 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
  <ref name="bw bliss">{{cite web |url=http://www.brickwiki.org/wiki/User:Astronouth7303 |title=User:Astronouth7303 |first=Jamie |last=Bliss |website=BrickWiki |date=31 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208061203/http://www.brickwiki.org/wiki/User:Astronouth7303 |archive-date=2008-12-08 |quote=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.}}</ref>
  <ref name="bw history">{{cite web |url=http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Brickwiki:History_of_Brickwiki |title=Brickwiki:History of Brickwiki |website=BrickWiki |date=26 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108001211/http://brickwiki.info/wiki/Brickwiki:History_of_Brickwiki |archive-date=2017-01-08}}</ref>


<ref name="lug 51109">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51109 |title=Brickwiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=8 June 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716074151/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51109 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
  <ref name="lug 51020">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51020 |title=Legowiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=8 June 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716075252/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51020 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
  <ref name="lug 51046">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51047 |title=Re: Legowiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=13 June 2005 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240716232201/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51047 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
  <ref name="lug 51109">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51109 |title=Brickwiki |first=Venkatesh |last=Srinivas |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.general |date=8 June 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716074151/https://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=51109 |archive-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>


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Revision as of 06:03, 17 July 2024

BrickWiki
Screenshot
Main Page on January 14, 2017
Type of site
Encyclopedia, wiki
Available inEnglish
Created by
  • Venkatesh Srinivas
  • Jamie Bliss
URLbrickwiki.info
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Users1,094
LaunchedJune 25, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-06-25)
Current statusRead-only archive
Content license
GNU FDL 1.2

BrickWiki is a semi-defunct online encyclopedia dedicated to information about LEGO.

History

BrickWiki was created by Venkatesh Srinivas, building on an idea by Jamie "Astronouth7303" Bliss.[1][2] Srinivas posted his desire to start "LegoWiki" on LUGNET on June 8, 2005.[3] Following further discussion on what to name the website,[4] Srinivas decided on "BrickWiki" and launched the wiki on June 25, 2005.[5] The site was originally hosted by the Johns Hopkins Association for Computing Machinery, which Srinivas was a member of.[1][6]

Near the end of July 2009, BrickWiki went offline for several weeks.[7] Ted "Tedward" Godwin, one of site's administrators, attempted to contact Srinivas about it, but received no reply.[8] BrickWiki returned online on August 20.[9] The site went down again in May 2010,[10] this time remaining offline for nearly two years. In a September 2010 Eurobricks post, Godwin expressed frustration that the site had "died thanks to the neglect of one person."[11]

Srinivas found a backup of BrickWiki in early 2012 and restored the site in read-only mode. Godwin and Larry Pieniazek made a plan to move the site onto a new server with help from Brian Alano and Jeramy Spurgeon. BrickWiki was made operational again in May 2012, now hosted by Spurgeon's company Site Orchard.[1] On November 20, 2012, BrickWiki's URL was changed from BrickWiki.org to BrickWiki.info.[12]

On February 7, 2017, Godwin announced that BrickWiki would shut down on March 25.[13] He cited the lack of progress made in the previous two years as part of the reason, stating that that "clearly facts and history are not what the people want".[14] (Godwin had previously complained about Brickipedia, a competing LEGO encyclopedia, lacking categorization and and articles on basic concepts, despite having a much larger community.)[11] Despite this, BrickWiki remained online through 2019 before finally going offline.[15] The site returned online in 2021, but in read-only mode and with many pages missing.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Brickwiki:History of Brickwiki". BrickWiki. 26 May 2012. Archived from the original on 2017-01-08.
  2. ↑ Bliss, Jamie (31 December 2005). "User:Astronouth7303". BrickWiki. Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. 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.
  3. ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (8 June 2005). "Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (13 June 2005). "Re: Legowiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024.
  5. ↑ Srinivas, Venkatesh (8 June 2005). "Brickwiki". LUGNET. Newsgroup: lugnet.general. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Members". JHU ACM. Archived from the original on 2005-11-08.
  7. ↑ desultor (August 11, 2009). "What's with Brickwiki?". Eurobricks. Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  8. ↑ Godwin, Ted (August 12, 2009). "Holy mother of... somebody actually read the blog?!?! I guess I better start posting again". Eurobricks (comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?"). Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  9. ↑ Godwin, Ted (August 20, 2009). "Looks like we are back online". Eurobricks (comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?"). Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  10. ↑ MetroiD (May 26, 2010). "Please excuse me for reviving such an old thread, but Brickwiki hasn't been operational for the last week or so". Eurobricks (comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?"). Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Godwin, Ted (September 8, 2010). "And yet it still has no categorization and lacks articles on the most basic concepts". Eurobricks (comment on topic "What's with Brickwiki?"). Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  12. ↑ "Main Page – News". BrickWiki. November 20, 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-02-06. BrickWiki has a new URL: www.brickwiki.info.
  13. ↑ "Main Page – News". BrickWiki. November 20, 2012. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21. BW is shutting down. If you have material you wish to save please do so before March 25th. On that date www.brickwiki.info will be shut down.
  14. ↑ "Shutting down, March 24, 2017". BrickWiki. Archived from the original on 2017-05-12.
  15. ↑ "Wayback Machine saves for http://www.brickwiki.info/". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
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