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'''Screamer Wiki''', also called '''Screamerfanbase''' and formerly known as '''ScreamerChecker''', was founded on November 11th, 2013 by [https://youtube.com/user/AnimatorXP AnimatorXP], with the goal to index all [[Screamer|screamers]] ever made. Screamer Wiki started out on Wikia, now known as FANDOM, and we are now operating on our own website. Screamer Wiki has since then grown to {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles, {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} total edits, and {{NUMBEROFFILES}} hosted files.


[[File:scrlogowiki.png|thumb|250px|The '''Screamer Wiki''', formerly known as the ''ScreamerChecker Wiki''.]] The '''Screamer Wiki''', formerly known as the ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', was founded on November 11th, 2013 by HLDK, with the simple goal to index all [[Screamer|screamers]] ever made. Screamer Wiki started out on Wikia, now known as FANDOM, and we are now operating on our own website. The wiki has since then grown to {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles, {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} total edits, and over 50,000 weekly visits.
Screamer Wiki had the original purpose to let anyone easily check if a website or video was a screamer by looking up its name here, hence the former name ''ScreamerChecker''. Since then, Screamer Wiki has expanded to include more types of screamers; Screamer Wiki now has articles about games, videos, shock sites, and much more!


The '''Screamer Wiki''' had the original purpose to let users check if a website was a screamer or not by searching the name of the website on the wiki, hence the former name ''ScreamerChecker''. Since then, the wiki slowly started to open up and expand to more types of screamers. The wiki now has pages about shock sites, games, videos, and many more.
== History ==
Here is a timeline of all the milestones and major events in Screamer Wiki's history.


== '''History''' ==
[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|The original ScreamerChecker Wiki logo.|250px]]
Here is a timeline of all the milestones and major events the ''Screamer Wiki'' went through.
===2013===
* '''November 11th, 2013''': Screamer Wiki, then named ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', is founded by [[User:HLDK|HLDK]] (known as [https://youtube.com/AnimatorXP AnimatorXP] on YouTube). After creating only four pages, he goes on hiatus.


[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|The original '''ScreamerChecker Wiki''' logo.|208x208px]]
===2015===
==='''2013'''===
* '''July 16th, 2015''': HLDK, the founder, comes back to the wiki after a year and a half of hiatus.
* '''November 11th, 2013''': The ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'' is founded by AnimatorXP (HLDK <i>on FANDOM</i>). After creating only four pages, he leaves the wiki for a long time.
* '''July 28th, 2015''': '''[[User:Sumpy|Sump]]''', owner of the former ''Scary Pop-Up Wiki'', joins ScreamerChecker Wiki. The two wikis later merged to form an even bigger community.
* '''August 4th, 2015''': ScreamerChecker Wiki drops the ''Checker'' and gets renamed to simply ''Screamer Wiki''.
* '''August 24th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 100 pages.
* '''September 8th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in new languages: ''French'', ''Spanish'' and ''Portuguese.''
* '''December 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes the biggest online library of screamers with an impressive record of over 250 pages.


=== '''2015''' ===
===2016===
* '''January 21st, 2015''': FANDOM user '''Kianlolcat99''' joins the wiki and creates a new page, [[420yolo.com]], making the wiki grow a little more.
* '''May 31st, 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 300 pages.
* '''July 16th, 2015''': '''HLDK''' comes back to the wiki and works with '''Kianlolcat99''' to make the wiki grow even bigger. More people started to come in every day.
* '''October 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 400 pages.
* '''July 31st, 2015''': '''[[User:Sumpy|Sumpy]]''', owner of the ''Scary Pop-Up Wiki'', joins the ScreamerChecker Wiki. The two wikis were merged.
* '''August 1st, 2015''': ScreamerChecker Wiki gets its first and biggest redesign.
* '''August 4th, 2015''': ScreamerChecker Wiki drops the word ''Checker'' and rebrands itself to ''Screamer Wiki''.
* '''August 24th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki passes the 100 page milestone.
* '''September 8th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in new languages: ''French'', ''Spanish'' and ''Portuguese.''
* '''September 11, 2015''': A second big redesign was made to accommodate the name change of the wiki. The colours, the logo and the cursors were changed.
* '''December 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes the biggest home of screamers ever created, with an impressive record of over 250 pages.


=== '''2016''' ===
===2017===
* '''May 31st, 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the 300 page milestone.
* '''January 2017''': After three years and a half, Screamer Wiki passes the major milestone of 500 pages!
* '''October 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the 400 page milestone.
* '''June 2017''': Screamer Wiki passes the 600-page milestone.


=== '''2017''' ===
[[File:5th Birthday.png|thumb|Screamer Wiki's 5th anniversary logo.|250px]]
* '''January 2017''': After three years and a half, Screamer Wiki passes the major milestone of ''500 pages''!
===2018===
* '''June 2017''': Screamer Wiki passes the 600 page milestone.
* '''January 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 700 pages.
* '''October 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 800 pages.
* '''November 11th, 2018''': Screamer Wiki, formerly known as ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', celebrates its fifth anniversary!


[[File:5th Birthday.png|thumb|Screamer Wiki's 5th anniversary logo.|208x208px]]
===2019===
=== '''2018''' ===
* '''January 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the 700 page milestone.
* '''October 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the 800 page milestone.
* '''November 11th, 2018''': The ''Screamer Wiki'', formerly known as ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', celebrates its fifth anniversary!
=== '''2019''' ===
* '''January 2019''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in Indonesian.
* '''January 2019''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in Indonesian.
* '''February 2019''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in Norwegian.
* '''February 2019''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in Norwegian.
* '''April 2019''': Screamer Wiki passes 1,000 pages!
* '''April 2019''': Five years after its opening, Screamer Wiki passes the major milestone of 1,000 pages!
* '''August 2019''': FANDOM evicts the Screamer Wiki, which forked to ScreamerFanbase.com and is now independently hosted via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service shared hosting].
* '''June 2019''': [[User:Lawiki|Lawiki]] becomes a bureaucrat.
* '''August 2019''': FANDOM evicts Screamer Wiki, which forked to ScreamerFanbase.com and is now independently hosted via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service shared hosting].
* '''October 2019''': The original Screamer Wiki, which was hosted on FANDOM, officially closes after almost 6 years of operation.
* '''October 2019''': The original Screamer Wiki, which was hosted on FANDOM, officially closes after almost 6 years of operation.


== '''Logo Evolution''' ==
===2020===
Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout the history of the Screamer Wiki.
* '''June 2020''': Screamer Wiki makes the move from ScreamerFanbase.com to its new domain, '''screamer.wiki'''.
 
* '''September 2020''': Screamer Wiki updates its hosting platform (YunoHost); with that update comes in-house video hosting and updated forums. The Screamer Wiki subreddit is also created this month.
[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|220x220px|First logo]]
* '''September 2020''': Screamer Wiki Video was released in September 2020, where people could upload their own [[screamers]] and [[shock sites]] on the platform.
=== '''First logo''' • November 2013 to August 1st, 2015 ===
* '''October 2020''': Screamer Wiki hits 5 million views.
The initial logo for the Screamer Wiki was used from the beginning all the way to August 2015, although it did not appear everywhere on the wiki.
* '''October 2020''': [[Somebodylovesyou.biz]]'s showcase video hits 100 views, being the first video to do so since [https://video.screamer.wiki/ Screamer Wiki Video] was created.
 
*'''October 10th, 2020''': Articles about [[G-Major videos]] (except those that are well-known) were removed to prevent clogging the wiki.
[[File:ScreamerChecker Logo.png|thumb|250px|Second logo]]
* '''November 11th, 2020''': Screamer Wiki celebrates its seventh anniversary with a new banner on the homepage!
=== '''Second logo''' • August 1st, 2015 to August 4th, 2015 ===
The second logo was introduced during the first big redesign of the Screamer Wiki. It was the first logo to be widely used across the wiki, and it introduced a revamped design, dropping the solid background.
[[File:Screamer Wiki Logo.png|thumb|250px|Third logo]]


=== '''Third Logo''' • August 4th, 2015 to June 13, 2019 ===
===2021===
The third logo was introduced in August of 2015 when the ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'' was rebranded to ''Screamer Wiki''. This logo dropped the ''Checker'' while bringing in a cleaner design and a new color scheme. Multiple variations of this logo are used throughout the wiki.
*'''February 14th, 2021''': Screamer Wiki enables a skin called Cosmos, based on FANDOM's look. This skin is made the default skin for mobile (and an option for desktop).
[[File:Screamer_Wiki_AltLogo.png|250px|thumb|Fourth Logo]]
*'''April 28th, 2021''': Screamer Wiki passed the 9 million views milestone.
*'''April 29th, 2021''': The Cosmos skin is updated to the latest version, the vector skin is the made the default look again for desktop, and some experimental skins are removed.
*'''August 1st, 2021''': [[Lomando.com]] and [[Luna Game]] articles became the first and second [[Special:LongPages|largest pages]] on this wiki.


==='''Fourth Logo''' • September 3rd, 2018 to October, 2019 ===
===2022===
The fourth logo was introduced as a concept on September 3rd, 2018 to fit the new iOS emojis. Although the logo was introduced in September, this logo was not used until May 2019 on the Screamer Wiki [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHaaKMwC8vingZQtOZDU_LA YouTube page]. Currently, both this and the third variation are used throughout the wiki.
*'''February 2022''': An archived collection of screamer-related files, host.screamer.wiki, makes its move into files.screamer.wiki.
[[File:scrlogofull.png|250px|thumb|Current Logo]]
*'''March 16, 2022''': [[Usagi Puzzle]] became the third [[Special:LongPages|longest game-related page]] on the site.
*'''March 22, 2022''': Screamer Wiki completely redoes its backend. Before moving from a managed YunoHost instance to a LAMP stack.
*'''April 1, 2022''': For April Fools, Screamer Wiki releases a subscription service called Screamer Wiki Gold. Those that were gullible enough to navigate to gold.screamer.wiki were redirected to a Duckroll, a prank that predates the Rickroll.
*'''April 2022''': The Screamer Wiki forum was changed from Flarum back to MyBB, a forum software similar to PHPBB (what screamer forums used to use before mid-2020). Screamer Wiki Video was also killed at the same time due to rampant bot accounts and different database schemes.
*'''September 2022''': The Main Page reached the milestone of 1 million visits. Screamer.wiki also surpassed 100,000 edits.
*'''October 2022''': The default skin on mobile was changed to Monobook.
*'''November 2022''': The Screamer Gallery gets released.
*'''December 15, 2022''': Screamer Forums moves back to Flarum. [[User:Lawiki|Lawiki]] regarded the move to MyBB as a "costly mistake".


==='''Current Logo''' • October 19th, 2019 to present ===
===2023===
The current logo, unveiled in October 2019, went through a revamp to honor the opening of the new wiki.
[[File:ScreamerCheckerMascotNew.jpeg|thumb|Our mascot's redesign, as drawn by [[User:TheEpikShyGuy|TheEpikShyGuy]]]]
*'''January 29, 2023''': The Screamer Network moves from a LAMP stack to a LEMP stack, which made pages that used to take 1-2 seconds to load now take less than a second.
*'''February 27, 2023''': [[User:Tankman fan 44|Tankman fan 44]] becomes a bureaucrat.
*'''April 1, 2023''': Screamer Wiki becomes about the species of bird of the same name.
*'''April 22, 2023''': All broken and empty files (showing as 0 bytes) have been removed from the wiki.
*'''April 26, 2023''': [[User:TheEpikShyGuy|TheEpikShyGuy]] redraws the original mascot of Screamer Wiki, as that mascot is slated to come back for certain branding.
*'''April - June 2023''': All notice templates have been redesigned, such as [[Template:Stub]].
*'''July 9, 2023''': Screamer Wiki gets upgraded to MediaWiki 1.40 and the default skin for mobile gets changed to Pivot.
*'''November 11, 2023''': Screamer Wiki turns 10 years old!
*'''December 23, 2023''': [[User:Nemesis6051|Nemesis6051]] rewrites the [[Last Measure]] article, making it the [[Special:LongPages|longest shock site-related page]].
===2024===
*'''February 22nd, 2024''': A [[wikipedia:Minecraft|Minecraft]] server is created, located at '''mc.screamer.wiki'''.
*'''April 1st, 2024''': Screamer Wiki's Discord gets raided and overthrown by soyjak.party, becoming '''Soyjakkia'''. Screamer Wiki itself becomes about the game [[Archive:Screamer_(video_game)|screamer]].
*'''May 14th, 2024''': Wiki mascot Buster makes more of an appearance on the wiki, such as templates and categories.
*'''August 2024''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 2,000 pages!


== '''Top Contributors''' ==
== Logo Evolution ==
Members which played an important role on the Screamer Wiki will get their name on this page to list their accomplishments.
Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout Screamer Wiki's history.


'''NOTE''': These stats came from the old FANDOM site, and are no longer accurate as the new Screamer Wiki doesn't yet have a ranking system. The stats will remain accessible here just for memories.
[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|250px|First Logo]]
=== First logo - November 11th, 2013 to August 1st, 2015 ===
The initial logo for Screamer Wiki was used from the beginning all the way to August 2015, although it did not appear everywhere on the wiki.


=== <font color="orange">'''HLDK'''</font> ===
[[File:ScreamerChecker Logo.png|thumb|250px|Second Logo]]
<span>HLDK is the founder of the original Screamer Wiki. Making his first edit on November 11th, 2013, HLDK</span> is mostly known by his YouTube channel, ''AnimatorXP'', which currently has over 10,000 subscribers. He is also Danish.
=== Second logo - August 1st to 4th, 2015 ===
The second logo was introduced as part of the first redesign of Screamer Wiki. It was the first logo to be widely used across the wiki, and it introduced a revamped design, dropping the solid background.
[[File:Screamer Wiki Logo.png|thumb|250px|Third Logo]]


=== [[User:Sumpy|<font color="cyan">'''Sumpy'''</font>]] ===
=== Third logo - August 4th, 2015 to June 13th, 2019 ===
Joining FANDOM on July 28th, 2015, Sumpy has made over 7,000 contributions. Before joining this wiki, he was the owner of the ''Scary Pop-Up Wiki''. He then found the ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', as it was called at the time, and proposed to merge the two wikis. This made the Screamer Wiki completely different in a very positive way.
The third logo was introduced in August of 2015 when the ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'' was rebranded to ''Screamer Wiki''. This logo dropped the ''Checker'' while bringing in a cleaner design and a new color scheme. Multiple variations of this logo are used throughout the wiki.
 
[[File:Screamer_Wiki_AltLogo.png|250px|thumb|Fourth Logo]]
=== [[User:Benderban01|<font color="#7bbee5">'''Benderban01'''</font>]] ===
Joining the wiki on January 20th, 2019, Benderban01 has made over 8,500 edits. He has also created over 195 pages. He also has a YouTube channel, where he's part of a Logo editing, he moved into MediaWiki version.
 
=== <font color="deeppink">'''Kianlolcat99'''</font> ===
Joining the wiki on January 21st, 2015, Kianlolcat99 made the wiki community grow bigger, helped enforce the rules when HLDK was gone, and has made almost 500 contributions.
 
=== <font color="lawngreen">'''Zeroxeon'''</font> ===
Joining for the first time on August 31st, 2015, Zeroxeon has made over 1,000 total contributions. He lives in Germany, and has also created multiple screamers.
 
=== <font color="palegreen">'''Abinadabi'''</font> ===
Joining the wiki on July 12th, 2015, Abinadabi made over 600 contributions. He is most known for knowing multiple languages and liking anime. Abinadabi was ranked 10th place on the leaderboard, and lives in Brazil.
 
=== <font color="bisque">'''SCL'''</font> ===
Joining the wiki on August 29th, 2015, SCL made over 400 contributions. He is known for being a logo enthusiast, and he lives in Quebec, Canada.
 
=== <font color="brown">'''NodogonToontown'''</font> ===
Joining the wiki on August 2nd, 2015, NodogonToontown has made over 300 contributions and is ranked 11th place on the leaderboard.
 
=== [[User:Lawiki1534|<font color="#72A2FA">'''Lawiki1534'''</font>]] ===
Joining FANDOM as Lawiki1534virus on August 28th, 2015, Lawiki1534 has made over 6,000 contributions on both wikis combined. He is an active contributor on the Screamer Wiki and lives in Los Angeles.
 
=== <font color="#9650F0">'''MoekaChiina'''</font> ===
Joining the wiki on November 4th, 2015, MoekaChiina has made almost 2,500 contributions. MoekaChiina lives in Brazil.


=== <font color="red">'''RogueHarrier'''</font> ===
=== Fourth logo - September 3rd, 2018 to October, 2019 ===
Joining the wiki on March 21st, 2017, RogueHarrier has made over 600 contributions. RogueHarrier is ranked 5th place on the leaderboard.
The fourth logo was introduced as a concept on September 3rd, 2018 to fit Apple's new iOS emojis. Although the logo was introduced in September, this logo was not used until May 2019 on the Screamer Wiki [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHaaKMwC8vingZQtOZDU_LA YouTube channel]. The font used for the logo is DIN Condensed.
[[File:scrlogowiki.png|250px|thumb|Fifth And Current Logo]]


=== [[User:TheMan5|<font color="#E6E6E6">'''TheMan5'''</font>]] ===
=== Current logo - October 19th, 2019 to present ===
Joining the wiki on June 14th, 2017, TheMan5 has made over 750 contributions. He is ranked 6th on the leaderboards.
The current logo, unveiled in October 2019, went through a revamp to honor the opening of the new Screamer.wiki.


To see special logos that Screamer Wiki has used over the years, [[Screamer_Wiki:Special_Logos|click here]].
[[Category:Community]]
[[Category:Community]]

Latest revision as of 07:06, 16 September 2024

Screamer Wiki, also called Screamerfanbase and formerly known as ScreamerChecker, was founded on November 11th, 2013 by AnimatorXP, with the goal to index all screamers ever made. Screamer Wiki started out on Wikia, now known as FANDOM, and we are now operating on our own website. Screamer Wiki has since then grown to 2,079 articles, 152,430 total edits, and 5,463 hosted files.

Screamer Wiki had the original purpose to let anyone easily check if a website or video was a screamer by looking up its name here, hence the former name ScreamerChecker. Since then, Screamer Wiki has expanded to include more types of screamers; Screamer Wiki now has articles about games, videos, shock sites, and much more!

History

Here is a timeline of all the milestones and major events in Screamer Wiki's history.

The original ScreamerChecker Wiki logo.

2013

  • November 11th, 2013: Screamer Wiki, then named ScreamerChecker Wiki, is founded by HLDK (known as AnimatorXP on YouTube). After creating only four pages, he goes on hiatus.

2015

  • July 16th, 2015: HLDK, the founder, comes back to the wiki after a year and a half of hiatus.
  • July 28th, 2015: Sump, owner of the former Scary Pop-Up Wiki, joins ScreamerChecker Wiki. The two wikis later merged to form an even bigger community.
  • August 4th, 2015: ScreamerChecker Wiki drops the Checker and gets renamed to simply Screamer Wiki.
  • August 24th, 2015: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 100 pages.
  • September 8th, 2015: Screamer Wiki becomes available in new languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese.
  • December 2015: Screamer Wiki becomes the biggest online library of screamers with an impressive record of over 250 pages.

2016

  • May 31st, 2016: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 300 pages.
  • October 2016: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 400 pages.

2017

  • January 2017: After three years and a half, Screamer Wiki passes the major milestone of 500 pages!
  • June 2017: Screamer Wiki passes the 600-page milestone.
Screamer Wiki's 5th anniversary logo.

2018

  • January 2018: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 700 pages.
  • October 2018: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 800 pages.
  • November 11th, 2018: Screamer Wiki, formerly known as ScreamerChecker Wiki, celebrates its fifth anniversary!

2019

  • January 2019: Screamer Wiki becomes available in Indonesian.
  • February 2019: Screamer Wiki becomes available in Norwegian.
  • April 2019: Five years after its opening, Screamer Wiki passes the major milestone of 1,000 pages!
  • June 2019: Lawiki becomes a bureaucrat.
  • August 2019: FANDOM evicts Screamer Wiki, which forked to ScreamerFanbase.com and is now independently hosted via shared hosting.
  • October 2019: The original Screamer Wiki, which was hosted on FANDOM, officially closes after almost 6 years of operation.

2020

  • June 2020: Screamer Wiki makes the move from ScreamerFanbase.com to its new domain, screamer.wiki.
  • September 2020: Screamer Wiki updates its hosting platform (YunoHost); with that update comes in-house video hosting and updated forums. The Screamer Wiki subreddit is also created this month.
  • September 2020: Screamer Wiki Video was released in September 2020, where people could upload their own screamers and shock sites on the platform.
  • October 2020: Screamer Wiki hits 5 million views.
  • October 2020: Somebodylovesyou.biz's showcase video hits 100 views, being the first video to do so since Screamer Wiki Video was created.
  • October 10th, 2020: Articles about G-Major videos (except those that are well-known) were removed to prevent clogging the wiki.
  • November 11th, 2020: Screamer Wiki celebrates its seventh anniversary with a new banner on the homepage!

2021

  • February 14th, 2021: Screamer Wiki enables a skin called Cosmos, based on FANDOM's look. This skin is made the default skin for mobile (and an option for desktop).
  • April 28th, 2021: Screamer Wiki passed the 9 million views milestone.
  • April 29th, 2021: The Cosmos skin is updated to the latest version, the vector skin is the made the default look again for desktop, and some experimental skins are removed.
  • August 1st, 2021: Lomando.com and Luna Game articles became the first and second largest pages on this wiki.

2022

  • February 2022: An archived collection of screamer-related files, host.screamer.wiki, makes its move into files.screamer.wiki.
  • March 16, 2022: Usagi Puzzle became the third longest game-related page on the site.
  • March 22, 2022: Screamer Wiki completely redoes its backend. Before moving from a managed YunoHost instance to a LAMP stack.
  • April 1, 2022: For April Fools, Screamer Wiki releases a subscription service called Screamer Wiki Gold. Those that were gullible enough to navigate to gold.screamer.wiki were redirected to a Duckroll, a prank that predates the Rickroll.
  • April 2022: The Screamer Wiki forum was changed from Flarum back to MyBB, a forum software similar to PHPBB (what screamer forums used to use before mid-2020). Screamer Wiki Video was also killed at the same time due to rampant bot accounts and different database schemes.
  • September 2022: The Main Page reached the milestone of 1 million visits. Screamer.wiki also surpassed 100,000 edits.
  • October 2022: The default skin on mobile was changed to Monobook.
  • November 2022: The Screamer Gallery gets released.
  • December 15, 2022: Screamer Forums moves back to Flarum. Lawiki regarded the move to MyBB as a "costly mistake".

2023

Our mascot's redesign, as drawn by TheEpikShyGuy
  • January 29, 2023: The Screamer Network moves from a LAMP stack to a LEMP stack, which made pages that used to take 1-2 seconds to load now take less than a second.
  • February 27, 2023: Tankman fan 44 becomes a bureaucrat.
  • April 1, 2023: Screamer Wiki becomes about the species of bird of the same name.
  • April 22, 2023: All broken and empty files (showing as 0 bytes) have been removed from the wiki.
  • April 26, 2023: TheEpikShyGuy redraws the original mascot of Screamer Wiki, as that mascot is slated to come back for certain branding.
  • April - June 2023: All notice templates have been redesigned, such as Template:Stub.
  • July 9, 2023: Screamer Wiki gets upgraded to MediaWiki 1.40 and the default skin for mobile gets changed to Pivot.
  • November 11, 2023: Screamer Wiki turns 10 years old!
  • December 23, 2023: Nemesis6051 rewrites the Last Measure article, making it the longest shock site-related page.

2024

  • February 22nd, 2024: A Minecraft server is created, located at mc.screamer.wiki.
  • April 1st, 2024: Screamer Wiki's Discord gets raided and overthrown by soyjak.party, becoming Soyjakkia. Screamer Wiki itself becomes about the game screamer.
  • May 14th, 2024: Wiki mascot Buster makes more of an appearance on the wiki, such as templates and categories.
  • August 2024: Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 2,000 pages!

Logo Evolution

Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout Screamer Wiki's history.

First Logo

First logo - November 11th, 2013 to August 1st, 2015

The initial logo for Screamer Wiki was used from the beginning all the way to August 2015, although it did not appear everywhere on the wiki.

Second Logo

Second logo - August 1st to 4th, 2015

The second logo was introduced as part of the first redesign of Screamer Wiki. It was the first logo to be widely used across the wiki, and it introduced a revamped design, dropping the solid background.

Third Logo

Third logo - August 4th, 2015 to June 13th, 2019

The third logo was introduced in August of 2015 when the ScreamerChecker Wiki was rebranded to Screamer Wiki. This logo dropped the Checker while bringing in a cleaner design and a new color scheme. Multiple variations of this logo are used throughout the wiki.

Fourth Logo

Fourth logo - September 3rd, 2018 to October, 2019

The fourth logo was introduced as a concept on September 3rd, 2018 to fit Apple's new iOS emojis. Although the logo was introduced in September, this logo was not used until May 2019 on the Screamer Wiki YouTube channel. The font used for the logo is DIN Condensed.

Fifth And Current Logo

Current logo - October 19th, 2019 to present

The current logo, unveiled in October 2019, went through a revamp to honor the opening of the new Screamer.wiki.

To see special logos that Screamer Wiki has used over the years, click here.

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