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Spam bots took over as there was no adequate protection mechanisms for the Wiki, increasingly demotivating contributors while the admins seemed lethargic towards the problem. Out of frustration Eelco announced the "Lockdown" of the Wiki on the 29th of August 2016. On the 9th of February user copumpkin opened an issue with the [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 Request to unlock the wiki], another epic discussion started with almost a hundred responses but no outcome how to proceed with the official Wiki.

On May 9th the Wiki was permanently disabled ~~with~~ a [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations/pull/30 PR by Graham Christensen] which was merged ~~on the same day~~ by Eelco. People started referencing to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829180446/https://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page Archive.org mirror of the Wiki].

On May 9th the Wiki was permanently disabled when a [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations/pull/30 PR by Graham Christensen] which was merged by Eelco. People started referencing to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829180446/https://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page Archive.org mirror of the Wiki].

To fill the void in the community contributor Jörg Thalheim (Mic92) started the [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki nixos-users wiki] on April 24th. Since Nixpkgs is hosted on GitHub, he opted to use the GitHub native wiki, allowing everybody who needed access to directly edit the wiki. This instance is known as the "first unofficial" wiki. Only a very small number of selected wiki articles were transferred from the original wiki.

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 Spam bots took over as there was no adequate protection mechanisms for the Wiki, increasingly demotivating contributors while the admins seemed lethargic towards the problem. Out of frustration Eelco announced the "Lockdown" of the Wiki on the 29th of August 2016. On the 9th of February user copumpkin opened an issue with the [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 Request to unlock the wiki], another epic discussion started with almost a hundred responses but no outcome how to proceed with the official Wiki.
-On May 9th the Wiki was permanently disabled with a [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations/pull/30 PR by Graham Christensen] which was merged on the same day by Eelco. People started referencing to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829180446/https://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page Archive.org mirror of the Wiki].
+On May 9th the Wiki was permanently disabled when a [https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations/pull/30 PR by Graham Christensen] which was merged by Eelco. People started referencing to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829180446/https://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page Archive.org mirror of the Wiki].
 To fill the void in the community contributor Jörg Thalheim (Mic92) started the [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki nixos-users wiki] on April 24th. Since Nixpkgs is hosted on GitHub, he opted to use the GitHub native wiki, allowing everybody who needed access to directly edit the wiki. This instance is known as the "first unofficial" wiki. Only a very small number of selected wiki articles were transferred from the original wiki.