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'''WiKi4All.com - ''public wiki sites catalog'''''.  Our aim is to create a full {{tag|directory}} or catalogue of {{tag|wiki}} websites, each with a brief objective profile.  Similar to what [[WikiIndex]].org has become!  WiKi4All was started in May {{tag|FoundedIn2005|2005}} by [[Archive.org:20060317133234/http://WiKi4All.com/catalog/User:OlegPopov|Oleg Ivanovich Popov]], from {{tag|Kiev}}, {{tag|Russia}}.  Sadly, he did not set up the MediaWiki installation properly (eg, no 'Search' function) and did not reply to approaches, even by email, after a few days.
'''WiKi4All.com - ''public wiki sites catalog'''''.  Our aim is to create a full {{tag|directory}} or catalogue of {{tag|wiki}} websites, each with a brief objective profile.  Similar to what [[WikiIndex]].org has become!  WiKi4All was started in May {{tag|Founded in 2005|2005}} by [[Archive.org:20060317133234/http://WiKi4All.com/catalog/User:OlegPopov|Oleg Ivanovich Popov]], from {{tag|Kiev}}, {{tag|Ukraine}}.  Sadly, he did not set up the MediaWiki installation properly (eg, no 'Search' function) and did not reply to approaches, even by email, after a few days.


It was later revealed that they had some link-[[spam]] purposes in mind, indeed the domain registrant also owned several pharmaceutical spamming domains.
It was later revealed that they had some link-[[spam]] purposes in mind, indeed the domain registrant also owned several [[:Category:Pharmaceutical|pharmaceutical]] spamming domains.


WiKi4All contributors mostly migrated to other similar projects, particularly this [[WikiIndex]] wiki!  The WiKi4All wiki succumbed to {{tag|Spammed|spam}} bombardment, and was {{tag|Dead|shut down}} sometime late March 2006.
WiKi4All contributors mostly migrated to other similar projects, particularly this [[WikiIndex]] wiki!  The WiKi4All wiki succumbed to {{tag|Spammed|spam}} bombardment, and was {{tag|Dead|shut down}} sometime late March 2006.