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[[WikiIndex|WikiIndex.com]] was created by [[Raymond King|Ray King]] and [[John Stanton]] in June 2005 as a way to track the wiki sites they thought had value for them (which was approximately 60). | [[WikiIndex|WikiIndex.com]] was created by [[Raymond King|Ray King]] and [[John Stanton]] in June 2005 as a way to track the wiki sites they thought had value for them (which was approximately 60). | ||
At the [[WikiSym]] conference in San Diego in October 2005 Ray and John joined forces with [[MarkDilley]] who had a much more comprehensive alphabetical wiki list of over 1000 | At the [[WikiSym]] conference in San Diego in October 2005 Ray and John joined forces with [[MarkDilley]] who had a much more comprehensive alphabetical wiki list of over 1000 wikis, called [[SwitchWiki]]. [[MarkDilley|Mark]] had worked on [[SwitchWiki]] with others since 2003 and documented the ideas at [[MeatballWiki]] [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiIndex OneBigWiki] and [[WikiNodes]] [http://wikinodes.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/ProgressionOfWikiOrganization ProgressionofWikiOrganization] | ||
The three took the decision to join efforts together. The resulting wiki was to be more comprehensive and take full advantage of wiki technology. John converted and expanded the data from both sites and built out the original set of wikis in January of 2006. Throughout 2006 a community formed around [[WikiIndex]] and greatly expanded the number of wikis and improved the original format. By November 2006 the article count was at 3,195 and '''WikiIndex''' had become the authoritative source for information about Wiki sites. | The three took the decision to join efforts together. The resulting wiki was to be more comprehensive and take full advantage of wiki technology. John converted and expanded the data from both sites and built out the original set of wikis in January of 2006. Throughout 2006 a community formed around [[WikiIndex]] and greatly expanded the number of wikis and improved the original format. By November 2006 the article count was at 3,195 and '''WikiIndex''' had become the authoritative source for information about Wiki sites. | ||