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'''Tetris.wiki''' is a wiki focused on creating Tetris related content. It was started by [[User:Myndzi|Myndzi]] in 2015. Over the years, thousands of contributions have been made documenting official and fan games in the series, uncovering game mechanics, and creating guides to improve playing.
'''Tetris.wiki''' is a wiki focused on creating Tetris related content. It was started by [[User:Myndzi|Myndzi]] in 2015. Over the years, thousands of contributions have been made documenting official and fan games in the series, uncovering game mechanics, and creating guides to improve playing.


== History ==
== Statistics ==
=== Tetris Concept launch: 2005–2009 ===
In May 2005, a player named Caffeine started the website and forum at tetrisconcept.com. In 2006, user [[User:Colour thief|colour_thief]] suggested a wiki be created, and Tetris wiki on tetrisconcept.com was born.


=== Tetris Concept shutdown: 2009–2012 ===
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Four years later in 2009, Caffeine announced that tetrisconcept.com would be shutting down. The forum would close permanently, and the wiki would be transfered over to wikia.com, a large ad supported site that hosts a variety of wikis. The new url was tetrisconcept.wikia.com, which was soon redirected to tetris.wikia.com. It now lives at tetris.fandom.com.
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Around the same time, a user named Blink started a new Tetris community called Hard Drop. A link pointing to this new community replaced the now closed tetrisconcept.com forum. With permission from Caffeine, Blink created a new wiki based on the content of tetrisconcept.wikia.com.
== History ==
 
=== 2006 – 2008 ===
Lasty, many former members wished to see continuity of the existing community. [[user:Burbruee|Burbruee]] did a full forum rip of tetrisconcept.com and the community voted on a new name. The overwhelming winner was tetrisconcept.net a choice which created controversy and tension in the broader Tetris community as it directly went against Caffeine's wishes. [[User:Muf|Muf]] registered the domain name and set up new forum software, and [[User:DeHackEd|DeHackEd]] parsed the forum rip into a compatible format to integrate it into the new site. The new site, tetrisconcept.net, now hosted a continuation of the tetrisconcept.com forums and wiki.
The wiki was originally started in 2006 on the website and forum tetrisconcept.com, at the suggestion of user [[User:Colour thief|colour_thief]].  
 
Three wikis now existed based on the same content. Two controlled by community members, and one by an ad supported company.


=== Wiki merge movement: 2013–2015 ===
=== 2009 – 2012 ===
Around 2013, Myndzi launched a new wiki at tetriswiki.com based on an older fork of tetrisconcept's wiki. Some community members wanted to create a wiki not affiliated with tetrisconcept.net or Hard Drop in an attempt to create a neutral territory. A variety of problems were raised to promote the movement such as, the intrusive ads on tetris.wikia.com,  
Tetrisconcept.com's wiki and forum were closed in 2009, and the wiki was transferred over to Fandom (formerly known as Wikia). Fandom is a large ad-supported wikifarm. The new url was tetrisconcept.wikia.com, and was soon redirected to tetris.wikia.com. It now lives at tetris.fandom.com. Later in 2013 an attempt was made to undo this move, but Fandom declined saying that they wanted to keep it running.


Some Hard Drop community members were against the merge, including Caffeine.
In an attempt to archive tetrisconcept.com's content, some users created tetrisconcept.net which was based on scraped forum posts and a dump of the old wiki, thus creating a new fork.


Caffeine, who gave permission to Fandom to start an offshoot of the original Tetris Wiki, contacted Fandom in hopes of shutting it down. Fandom declined saying that they wanted to keep it running. Blink also declined stating that he did not see any strong benefits that would make it worth it.<ref>https://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4972&st=90&p=76531&#entry76531</ref>
Shortly after, a user named Blink created a new Tetris community called Hard Drop. Hard Drop also created it's own wiki, making it the second fork.


=== The three wikis: 2015–present ===
=== 2013 – 2014 ===
In 2013, Myndzi launched a new wiki at tetriswiki.com based on an older fork of tetrisconcept's wiki. Some community members wanted to create a wiki not affiliated with tetrisconcept.net or Hard Drop. A variety of problems were raised to promote the movement such as, the intrusive ads on tetris.wikia.com. On Hard Drop, a thread was started where members from different groups discussed the possibility of merging together three of the wikis. Blink declined stating that he did not see any strong benefits that would make it worth it. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230314223326/https://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4972&st=90&p=76531&#entry76531</ref>


In 2015 tetrisconcept.net's wiki was exported and shutdown to create Tetris.wiki, which tetriswiki.com now points to.
=== 2015 – present ===
 
In 2015 tetrisconcept.net's wiki was exported and shutdown to create Tetris.wiki. Along with Tetris.wiki, the other two wikis, Hard Drop Tetris Wiki, and Tetris Wiki Fandom, remain today.
Along with Tetris.wiki, the other two wikis, Hard Drop Tetris Wiki, and Tetris Wiki Fandom, remain today.


== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051104184731/http://www.tetrisconcept.com/ Archive of tetrisconcept.com]
* [https://harddrop.com/wiki/Tetris_Wiki Hard Drop Tetris Wiki]
* [https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Tetris_Wiki Tetris Wiki Fandom]

Latest revision as of 13:45, 25 October 2024

Tetris.wiki is a wiki focused on creating Tetris related content. It was started by Myndzi in 2015. Over the years, thousands of contributions have been made documenting official and fan games in the series, uncovering game mechanics, and creating guides to improve playing.

Statistics

Pages Edits Users MW version
4,915 24,799 415 1.42.3

History

2006 – 2008

The wiki was originally started in 2006 on the website and forum tetrisconcept.com, at the suggestion of user colour_thief.

2009 – 2012

Tetrisconcept.com's wiki and forum were closed in 2009, and the wiki was transferred over to Fandom (formerly known as Wikia). Fandom is a large ad-supported wikifarm. The new url was tetrisconcept.wikia.com, and was soon redirected to tetris.wikia.com. It now lives at tetris.fandom.com. Later in 2013 an attempt was made to undo this move, but Fandom declined saying that they wanted to keep it running.

In an attempt to archive tetrisconcept.com's content, some users created tetrisconcept.net which was based on scraped forum posts and a dump of the old wiki, thus creating a new fork.

Shortly after, a user named Blink created a new Tetris community called Hard Drop. Hard Drop also created it's own wiki, making it the second fork.

2013 – 2014

In 2013, Myndzi launched a new wiki at tetriswiki.com based on an older fork of tetrisconcept's wiki. Some community members wanted to create a wiki not affiliated with tetrisconcept.net or Hard Drop. A variety of problems were raised to promote the movement such as, the intrusive ads on tetris.wikia.com. On Hard Drop, a thread was started where members from different groups discussed the possibility of merging together three of the wikis. Blink declined stating that he did not see any strong benefits that would make it worth it. [1]

2015 – present

In 2015 tetrisconcept.net's wiki was exported and shutdown to create Tetris.wiki. Along with Tetris.wiki, the other two wikis, Hard Drop Tetris Wiki, and Tetris Wiki Fandom, remain today.

References