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+{{Infobox Website
-{{DISPLAYTITLE:About the Screamer Wiki}} <!-- Correct title -->
+|title = Screamer Wiki
+|image = Scrlogo.png
+|maker = [[User:HLDK|HLDK]] (FANDOM)</br> [[User:Angeleno|Angeleno]] (MediaWiki)
+|type = Repository/Database, encyclopedia
+|registered in = November 11, 2013 (FANDOM)</br> August 19, 2019 (MediaWiki)
+|written in = PHP, JavaScript, CSS
+|status = Active
+}}
+'''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:scrlogo.png|thumb|250px|The current Screamer Wiki logo]] The '''Screamer Wiki''', formerly known as ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', was founded on November 11th, 2013 by [https://youtube.com/user/AnimatorXP AnimatorXP], with the simple goal to index all [[screamers]] ever made. Screamer Wiki started out on Wikia, now known as {{Rotten|FANDOM|note=no}}, and we are now operating on our own website by using a new wiki hosting service called MediaWiki. 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 anyone check if a website was a screamer by searching its name 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 articles about games, videos, shock sites, and much more.
+== History ==
-== '''History''' ==
 Here is a timeline of all the milestones and major events in Screamer Wiki's history.
-[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|The original ScreamerChecker Wiki logo|250px]]
+[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|The original ScreamerChecker Wiki logo.|250px]]
-==='''2013'''===
+===2013===
-* '''November 11th, 2013''': The 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.
+* '''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.
-=== '''2015''' ===
+===2015===
 * '''July 16th, 2015''': HLDK, the founder, comes back to the wiki after a year and a half of hiatus.
-* '''July 28st, 2015''': '''[[User:Sumpy|Sumpy]]''', owner of the former ''Scary Pop-Up Wiki'', joins the ScreamerChecker Wiki. The two wikis later merged to form an even bigger community.
+* '''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.
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 * '''December 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes the biggest online library of screamers with an impressive record of over 250 pages.
-=== '''2016''' ===
+===2016===
 * '''May 31st, 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 300 pages.
 * '''October 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 400 pages.
-=== '''2017''' ===
+===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.
+* '''June 2017''': Screamer Wiki passes the 600-page milestone.
 [[File:5th Birthday.png|thumb|Screamer Wiki's 5th anniversary logo.|250px]]
-=== '''2018''' ===
+===2018===
 * '''January 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 700 pages.
 * '''October 2018''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 800 pages.
-* '''November 11th, 2018''': The Screamer Wiki, formerly known as ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', celebrates its fifth anniversary!
+* '''November 11th, 2018''': Screamer Wiki, formerly known as ''ScreamerChecker Wiki'', celebrates its fifth anniversary!
-=== '''2019''' ===
+===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!
-* '''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:Angeleno|Angeleno]] 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.
-=== '''2020''' ===
+===2020===
-* '''June 2020''': Screamer Wiki makes the move from ScreamerFanbase.com to its new domain, 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; with that update comes in-house video hosting and updated forums. The Screamer Wiki subreddit is also created this month.
+* '''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''': Shock site passes the milestone of 200 pages
+* '''September 2020''': Screamer Wiki Video was released in September 2020, where people could upload their own [[screamers]] and [[shock sites]] on the platform.
-* '''September 2020''': [[Screamer Wiki:Screamer Peer Tube|Screamer Wiki Videos]] released on September 2020, people can upload their own [[screamers]] 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 [https://video.screamer.wiki/ Screamer Wiki Video] was created.
-* '''November 11th 2020''': The Screamer Wiki celebrates its seventh anniversary! and a new banner added on the Home page!
+*'''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 [[Special:LongPages|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 [[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:Angeleno|Angeleno]] regarded the move to MyBB as a "costly mistake".
+===2023===
+[[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]].
-== '''Logo Evolution''' ==
+== Logo Evolution ==
-Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout the history of the Screamer Wiki.
+Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout Screamer Wiki's history.
 [[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|250px|First Logo]]
 === First logo - November 11th, 2013 to August 1st, 2015 ===
-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.
+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.
 [[File:ScreamerChecker Logo.png|thumb|250px|Second Logo]]
 === Second logo - August 1st to 4th, 2015 ===
-The second logo was introduced as part of the first 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.
+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]]
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 === Fourth logo - September 3rd, 2018 to October, 2019 ===
-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 channel].
+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|Current Logo]]
+[[File:scrlogowiki.png|250px|thumb|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 wiki.
+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]].
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