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As of 2012, the site appeared to have been mostly inactive since May 2009, although the site owners were responding to emails. By 2014, there was considerable activity, but mostly from a single user, Etenne. Etenne commented in a 13 December 2013 BoyChat post that BoyWiki is better than Wikipedia because BoyWiki lacks a child protection policy. BoyChat has been on the English Wikipedia's blacklist since 2010, when Fox News [http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/06/25/exclusive-pedophiles-find-home-on-wikipedia/ reported] there were a grand total of 12 external links to BoyChat. This number [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?page=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=378472679#Possible_pedophilia_related_links.3F was confirmed] by the Wikipedians; they [[Wikipedia:Project:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive214#fox_news_brings_on_the_pedophile_dramahz|also confirmed]] "All of the links appear in old talk archives or from project page discussions." In light of the outcome of [[wikipedia:Project:Articles for deletion/BoyChat]], they felt there was no benefit to the encyclopedia of leaving the URL unblacklisted. | As of 2012, the site appeared to have been mostly inactive since May 2009, although the site owners were responding to emails. By 2014, there was considerable activity, but mostly from a single user, Etenne. Etenne commented in a 13 December 2013 BoyChat post that BoyWiki is better than Wikipedia because BoyWiki lacks a child protection policy. BoyChat has been on the English Wikipedia's blacklist since 2010, when Fox News [http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/06/25/exclusive-pedophiles-find-home-on-wikipedia/ reported] there were a grand total of 12 external links to BoyChat. This number [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?page=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&oldid=378472679#Possible_pedophilia_related_links.3F was confirmed] by the Wikipedians; they [[Wikipedia:Project:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive214#fox_news_brings_on_the_pedophile_dramahz|also confirmed]] "All of the links appear in old talk archives or from project page discussions." In light of the outcome of [[wikipedia:Project:Articles for deletion/BoyChat]], they felt there was no benefit to the encyclopedia of leaving the URL unblacklisted. | ||
The procedures for becoming a BoyWiki scribe have been greatly streamlined, inasmuch as now one need only email Etenne with a requested username and password and he will create an account. | The procedures for becoming a BoyWiki scribe have been greatly streamlined, inasmuch as now one need only email Etenne with a requested username and password and he will create an account. As of March 2014, the site was anticipating an imminent upgrade from MediaWiki 1.13 to a more recent version. | ||
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