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~~== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==~~

Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to dwindle as obsolete information accumulated.

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Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc.). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.

[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform.

[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform. With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.

~~With the migration of the old MediaWiki~~ to the ~~new MediaWiki the project went a full circle~~.

In January 2024, [https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113 a discussion] started to revive an official wiki instance, and after a brief discussion culminated in the wiki instance you're reading this on.

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-== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==
 Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to dwindle as obsolete information accumulated.
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 Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc.). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody  about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.
-[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform.
+[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform. With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.
-With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.
+In January 2024, [https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113 a discussion] started to revive an official wiki instance, and after a brief discussion culminated in the wiki instance you're reading this on.
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