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This is a community wiki aimed at allowing the Bitcoin community as a whole to document freely what they feel needs documentation or representation.
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|foundation=April 14, 2010
|founder=[[Martti Malmi]] (dokuwiki)<br/>[[Mark Karpelès]] (MediaWiki)
|owner=
|parent=
|assets_btc={{increase}} 506
|assets_usd={{increase}} $460.46
|assets_year=2011
|website=[http://bitcoin.it/ bitcoin.it]
|subreddit=bitcoinwiki
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The '''Bitcoin.it Wiki''', usually just the '''Bitcoin Wiki''', is a MediaWiki repository of Bitcoin-related knowledge. It was founded by [[Martti Malmi]] in 2010 on dokuwiki, and then later reinstated by [[Mark Karpelès]] on MediaWiki. Malmi's and Karpelès's wikis both existed simultaneously for a short time while the contents of the old wiki were transferred to the new one. The dokuwiki revisions are visible on some old pages, highlighted green.


== Internationalization ==
[[File:BitcoinWiki2010.png|thumb|The Bitcoin Wiki in 2010]]In early 2011, the wiki offered a Contributor's Award which was to be shared by all members depending on work contributed. 500 bitcoins were collected, but were never distributed. They were presumed lost in the [[Mt. Gox]] hack.
This wiki uses a multi-lingual scheme similar to Wikipedia's, which means a translated article get links to its translation in the menu (in the left column from the [[Main Page]]).  
 
If you feel one language is missing and are ready to start translating a lot of pages, you can request the creation of the language of your choice by contacting me ([[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]]).
 
* [[Main Page|English]]
* [[https://fr.bitcoin.it Français]]
* [[http://zh-cn.bitcoin.it ‪中文(中国大陆)‬]]
 
== Backups ==
 
Backups are generated daily at 00:00 GMT, and can be downloaded from [https://dump.bitcoin.it/ the backup repository]. Setting up a mirror is easy enough, as many websites explain how to restore a MediaWiki xml dump into a fresh installation.
 
== Contact ==
 
While I can usually be contacted on [irc://irc.freenode.net/bitcoin-dev irc], you can also write me an [mailto:contact@bitcoin.it e-mail]. Please avoid contacting me to ask questions already answered on this wiki.
 
== License ==
 
When Bitcoin.it wiki was opened (on December 16th 2010), the initial license was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL WTFPL]. It has been brought up that CC-by would be more appropriate as content from the previous wiki is under CC-by.

Latest revision as of 03:24, 20 February 2022

Bitcoin Wiki
FoundedApril 14, 2010
Founder(s)Martti Malmi (dokuwiki)
Mark Karpelès (MediaWiki)
Websitebitcoin.it
 Reddit 

The Bitcoin.it Wiki, usually just the Bitcoin Wiki, is a MediaWiki repository of Bitcoin-related knowledge. It was founded by Martti Malmi in 2010 on dokuwiki, and then later reinstated by Mark Karpelès on MediaWiki. Malmi's and Karpelès's wikis both existed simultaneously for a short time while the contents of the old wiki were transferred to the new one. The dokuwiki revisions are visible on some old pages, highlighted green.

The Bitcoin Wiki in 2010

In early 2011, the wiki offered a Contributor's Award which was to be shared by all members depending on work contributed. 500 bitcoins were collected, but were never distributed. They were presumed lost in the Mt. Gox hack.

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