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Re: Forum moved to bitcointalk.org
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theymos
on 30/10/2023, 20:56:30 UTC
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Sorry for bumping an old thread. But I did not want to create a new topic just to ask this simple question. The URL is not valid anymore. So where the Bitcoin wiki was moved? Is it the Bitcoin Wiki subforum? Or https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki is the official wiki of Bitcoin? Who controls this website at this moment? As far as I know, Bitcoin.org is in control of Cobra, and bitcoincore.org was separated from Bitcoin.org as well. Who controls the bitcoincore.org website?

There was a dokuwiki wiki on bitcoin.org from very early on. At the same time bitcointalk.org was split off from bitcoin.org, this wiki was as well. But IIRC it was shut down shortly after, since bitcoin.it had become much more popular. bitcoin.it and the bitcoin.org wiki existed at the same time for several months, and they sort of competed with each other during this time.

I wrote most of the content on the bitcoin.org wiki, and I moved most of it to bitcoin.it at some point. For example, if you look at the edit history for the Privacy page, you'll see that I created it on Dec 19, 2010 with the edit-message "Copy from old wiki". There were several pages like this.

You'll have to do some more research if you want to figure out the exact timeline; I don't remember it off-hand.

The bitcoin.it domain is owned by the forum, but it's always had a totally independent admin team. I've never been an admin there, nor appointed any admin. However, nowadays it seems mostly abandoned, with only 5 edits in the last 30 days (about half of which look like spam); I've been thinking for a few years that I should appoint some new admins or something, or maybe just shut it down and set up a redirect to bitcoinwiki.org.

Bitcoincore.org is run by the Bitcoin Core developers. I don't know off-hand who controls it.

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Or https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki is the official wiki of Bitcoin?

There is no "official" anything.