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== '''About the Screamer Wiki''' ==
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[[File:Wiki-wordmark.png|thumb|250px|The current logo.]]
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The Screamer Wiki, formerly ''ScreamerChecker'', was founded on November 11th 2013 by [[User:HLDK|HLDK]] with a goal to index all [[Screamer|screamers]] ever made. It has since then grown to over 100 articles, more than 30 active contributors, and 3,000+ visitors every day.
[[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 [[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.


=='''History'''==
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''' ==
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]]
==='''2013'''===
==='''2013'''===
* On November 11th, 2013<span style="line-height:21px;">, HLDK founded the wiki under the name of ''ScreamerChecker''. Since he made it, only 4 pages were created in total. He then left the wiki for a long time.</span>
* '''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.
[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|The original logo of the wiki.]]
=== '''<span style="line-height:21px;">2014</span>'''===
*The wiki had almost no activity for all of 2014.


=== '''2015''' ===
=== '''2015''' ===
* <span style="line-height:21px;">January 21st, 2015: Kianlolcat99 joins the wiki and creates a new page, 420yolo.com, making the wiki grow a little more.</span>
* '''July 16th, 2015''': HLDK, the founder, comes back to the wiki after a year and a half of hiatus.
* <span style="line-height:21px;">July 16th, 2015: After one year and a half on inactivity, HLDK comes back and makes a post saying that "You are awesome!" After that, the wiki continues growing even bigger; more and more people came in everyday.</span>
* '''July 28th, 2015''': '''[[User:Sumpy|Sump]]''', owner of the former ''Scary Pop-Up Wiki'', joins the ScreamerChecker Wiki. The two wikis later merged to form an even bigger community.
* <span style="line-height:21px;">July 31st, 2015: A big change happened for the wiki. Sumpersun merged his wiki, the original Screamer Wiki, with the ScreamerChecker, and took us far.</span>
* '''August 4th, 2015''': ScreamerChecker Wiki drops the ''Checker'' and gets renamed to simply ''Screamer Wiki''.
* August 1st, 2015: ScreamerChecker Wiki gets its first and biggest redesign. The wiki changed logos, the wiki was made completely different.
* '''August 24th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 100 pages.
* August 3rd, 2015: ScreamerChecker Wiki drops the ''Checker'' and becomes Screamer Wiki after the wiki expands and new categories of websites.
* '''September 8th, 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes available in new languages: ''French'', ''Spanish'' and ''Portuguese.''
* August 4th, 2015: New logo, and officially now called "Screamer Wiki".
* '''December 2015''': Screamer Wiki becomes the biggest online library of screamers with an impressive record of over 250 pages.
* August 24th, 2015: Screamer Wiki passes the 100 pages milestone.
 
* August 29th, 2015: [[Agor.io]] page marks a record with 10,000 page views.
=== '''2016''' ===
* September 8th, 2015: Screamer Wiki becomes available in four new [[Languages|languages]]: ''French'', ''Spanish'', ''German'' and ''Russian''.
* '''May 31st, 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 300 pages.
* September 11, 2015: A second redesign was made. The mouse is different, new logo, and changed the color.
* '''October 2016''': Screamer Wiki passes the milestone of 400 pages.
== '''Evolution of the Logo'''==
 
=== '''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.
 
[[File:5th Birthday.png|thumb|Screamer Wiki's 5th anniversary logo.|250px]]
=== '''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!
 
=== '''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].
* '''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; with that update comes in-house video hosting and updated forums. The Screamer Wiki subreddit is also created this month.
* '''September 2020''': [[Screamer Wiki:Screamer Peer Tube|Screamer Wiki Videos]] released on September 2020, people can 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 [https://video.screamer.wiki/ Screamer Wiki Video] was created.
*'''October 10th, 2020''': Articles about [[G-Major videos]] (except those that were well-known) were removed to prevent clogging.
* '''November 11th, 2020''': The Screamer Wiki celebrates its seventh anniversary with a new banner on the homepage!


The Screamer Logo has evolved into three different logos. The first two logos have originally had the words ''ScreamerChecker Wiki''. After the wiki dropped ''Checker'' and went for ''Screamer Wiki'', the logo was changed as well.
===2021===
*'''February 14th, 2021''': The 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''': The 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-second [[Special:LongPages|largest pages]] on this wiki, having more bytes as the current revision.


[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|220x220px|First logo]]
===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 this wiki.
*'''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.


=== <u>'''First logo''' (Late 2013 to August 1st 2015)</u> ===
===TBA <!-- To be announced -->===
The first logo was used before the Screamer Wiki redesign. It was used when the wiki was made all the way to the redesign on August 1st, 2015.[[File:Wiki-wordmark-1.png|thumb|250px|Second logo]]
These are the features, changes, and news that will be predicted and expected to happen in the future of Screamer Wiki.
=== <u>'''Second logo''' (August 1st 2015 to August 4th 2015)</u> ===
*'''???''': Screamer Wiki will soon expand into other languages. The French version is currently in progress.
The second logo was introduced on August 1st, 2015 during the redesign. It looked like the latest one, except the name has ''Checker'', and it had only one skull on each side instead of three different emojis.
*'''???''': The Screamer Wiki forum's style [https://legacy-forum.screamer.wiki/d/147-future-of-screamerwiki will be expected] to be changed back to MyBB, a forum software similar to PHPBB (what screamer forums used to use before mid-2020).
[[File:Screamer_Wiki.png|frame|Third logo]]
=== <u>'''Third logo''' (August 4th 2015 to September 11th 2015)</u> ===
The third and newest logo was introduced when the ScreamerChecker Wiki was renamed to Screamer Wiki. This logo dropped the word ''Checker'' to have only ''Screamer Wiki''. The words are green There are three emojis: a skull, ghost, and a purple devil, on the right of the words by order. This logo is still used today.[[File:Wiki-wordmark.png|thumb|250px|Fourth logo]]


=== <u>'''Fourth logo '''(September 11th 2015 to present)</u> ===
== '''Logo Evolution''' ==
The fourth logo was introduced on September 11th, 2015 when the theme color of the wiki was changed to red. The color of the text on the logo was changed as well.
Here is a timeline of all the different logos used throughout the history of the Screamer Wiki.


=='''Purpose'''==
[[File:ScreamerChecker.png|thumb|250px|First Logo]]
The Screamer Wiki, formerly ScreamerChecker, had the original purpose to let people check if a website was a screamer or not by searching the name of the website on the wiki. 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, and many more.
=== 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.


== '''Members''' ==
[[File:ScreamerChecker Logo.png|thumb|250px|Second Logo]]
''The following list shows notable people who made big contributions to the wiki, and a little info about them.''
=== 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.
[[File:Screamer Wiki Logo.png|thumb|250px|Third Logo]]


=== '''[[User:HLDK|HLDK]]''' ===
=== Third logo - August 4th, 2015 to June 13th, 2019 ===
<span>Making his first edit in November 11th, 2013, </span>HLDK is the founder of the Screamer Wiki. He has made almost 300 contributions. HLDK is known by his YouTube channel, AnimatorXP, which currently has over 2,500 subscribers. He is also Danish.
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]]


=== '''[[Sumpersun]]''' ===
=== Fourth logo - September 3rd, 2018 to October, 2019 ===
Joined July 28, 2015, Sumpersun has made over 2,500 edits on the wiki. Before joining this wiki, he was the owner of the original Screamer Wiki. He then found the ScreamerChecker, and merged his wiki with us, making this wiki become completely different in a good way. Sumpersun is also French, and he now lives in Canada.
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]]


=== '''[[User:Kianlolcat99|Kianlolcat99]]''' ===
=== Current logo - October 19th, 2019 to present ===
Joining January 21, 2015, Kianlolcat99 is the 2nd notable person to join on the wiki. He made the wiki community grow bigger, enforced the rules when HLDK was gone, and made over 250 edits.
The current logo, unveiled in October 2019, went through a revamp to honor the opening of the new wiki.


=== '''[[User:Abinadabi|Abinadabi]]''' ===
To see special logos that Screamer Wiki has used over the years, [[Screamer_Wiki:Special_Logos|click here]].
Joining July 12, 2015, he is the 4th notable person to join this wiki. Abinadabi made countless edits. He is most known for knowing multiple languages. Abinadabi is ranked 4th on the wiki for the most points on badges.
[[Category:Community]]

Revision as of 15:00, 7 May 2022


The current Screamer Wiki logo

The Screamer Wiki, formerly known as ScreamerChecker Wiki, was founded on November 11th, 2013 by AnimatorXP, with the simple 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. The wiki has since then grown to 1,920 articles, 143,552 total edits, and over 50,000 weekly visits.

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

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: The 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 the 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: The 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!
  • August 2019: FANDOM evicts the 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; with that update comes in-house video hosting and updated forums. The Screamer Wiki subreddit is also created this month.
  • September 2020: Screamer Wiki Videos released on September 2020, people can 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 were well-known) were removed to prevent clogging.
  • November 11th, 2020: The Screamer Wiki celebrates its seventh anniversary with a new banner on the homepage!

2021

  • February 14th, 2021: The 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: The 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-second largest pages on this wiki, having more bytes as the current revision.

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 this wiki.
  • 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.

TBA

These are the features, changes, and news that will be predicted and expected to happen in the future of Screamer Wiki.

  • ???: Screamer Wiki will soon expand into other languages. The French version is currently in progress.
  • ???: The Screamer Wiki forum's style will be expected to be changed back to MyBB, a forum software similar to PHPBB (what screamer forums used to use before mid-2020).

Logo Evolution

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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