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{{ | {{Wiki | ||
|logo = [[Image:Wiki4all.JPG]] | |||
|URL | |URL = http://wiki4all.com | ||
|recentchanges URL = http://wiki4all.com/catalog/Special:Recentchanges | |recentchanges URL= No <!--http://wiki4all.com/catalog/Special:Recentchanges--> | ||
|wikinode URL | |wikinode URL = No | ||
|status | |about URL = No | ||
|language | |status = Dead | ||
|editmode | |language = English | ||
|engine | |editmode = YourWikiEditMode | ||
|maintopic | |engine = MediaWiki | ||
|maintopic = Spammed | |||
}} | }} | ||
Originally this was aiming to be an index of all wikis (just as WikiIndex.org has become). It was started in May {{tag|FoundedIn2005|2005}} by a person using the name [http://wiki4all.com/catalog/User:OlegPopov Oleg Popov], apparently based in Russia or Ukraine. But he or she didn't set it up properly (eg no "Search" function) and did not reply to approaches, even by email, after a few days. | |||
Originally this was aiming to be an index of all wikis (just as WikiIndex.org has become). It was started in May 2005 by a person using the name [http://wiki4all.com/catalog/User:OlegPopov Oleg Popov], apparently based in Russia or Ukraine. But he or she didn't set it up properly (eg no "Search" function) and did not reply to approaches, even by email, after a few days. | |||
It was later revealed that he or she had some link-spam purposes in mind, indeed the domain registrant also owned several pharmaceutical spamming domains. | It was later revealed that he or she had some link-spam purposes in mind, indeed the domain registrant also owned several pharmaceutical spamming domains. | ||
Wiki4all contributors mostly migrated to other similar projects, particularly this one! There is probably still more material there worth copying. The wiki4all wiki succumbed to spam bombardment itself<!-- (premature report of death - it still functions in March 2006) , and has now been shut down, perhaps by the hosting company (the domain now redirects to a 'blocked' URL) as of Feb 2006-->. | Wiki4all contributors mostly migrated to other similar projects, particularly this one! There is probably still more material there worth copying. The wiki4all wiki succumbed to spam bombardment itself<!-- (premature report of death - it still functions in March 2006) , and has now been shut down, perhaps by the hosting company (the domain now redirects to a 'blocked' URL) as of Feb 2006-->. | ||