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Line 16: ;"probably in 1978" :Author [[A. Bertram Chandler]] attends a match of the [[All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling]] league. If this hadn't happened, there would be no ''[[Dirty Pair]]''<ref>According to [[w:Dirty Pair\|Wikipedia]], Chandler's attendance at that match directly resulted in the creation of ''[[Dirty Pair]]''.</ref> Without ''Dirty Pair'' there would have been no ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', and thus no [[TV Tropes]] page for it maintained by [[User:Looney Toons\|Looney Toons]], and thus no notice of that page by [[User:Labster]], and thus no visit by Labster to Looney Toon's forums, and thus no discovery that other Tropers were also annoyed by the then-current state of affairs at TV Tropes, and finally no desire to [[Start My Own\|Start Our Own]]. It sounds like [[Insane Troll Logic]], but it's true. ~~:Author [[A. Bertram Chandler]] attends a match of the [[All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling]] league. If this hadn't happened, [[Connections\|there would be no All The Tropes]].{{context}}~~ ;10 March 1997 Line 25: ;July 2004 :[[User:Looney Toons\|Looney Toons]] reads [http://boingboing.net/2004/03/11/tv-cliches-catalogue.html a blog entry] about [[TV Tropes]] and decides it might be a fun way to spend a slow afternoon.<ref>Said afternoon has lasted ~~nearly~~ twenty years at this point.</ref> ;2004-2010 Line 40: ;2 to 9 July, 2012 :[[User:Labster\|Vorticity]] runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.<ref>[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=976&pid=23932#pid23932 I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)]</ref> This went completely unnoticed at the time as the crawler was designed to retrieve pages not much faster than a human user. When the existence of the wiki copy became publicly known, though, the administration of TV Tropes described the use of the crawler as a DDOS attack even though no one reported any problems connecting to wiki while it was running. ;Some point between 98 July and 17 July 2012 :TVT abruptly and without warning changes its licensing from the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.<ref>This is probably illegal as such a license change requires the approval of ''all'' contributors -- including those who are banned or otherwise ''persona non grata'' -- ahead of time, something the TVT staff did ''not'' get. At the very least it leaves TVT's copyright status in a legally dubious state.</ref> Line 91: ;26 March 2015 :The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the illegal rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for a year and a half, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20150326011500/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes Wayback Machine copy of "Welcome to TV Tropes" page, 26 March 2015].</ref> Despite having done something that would have gotten him fired in any professional context, Fighteer remains a member of the TVT staff. ;17 July 2015 Line 186: ;1 December 2022 : Due to [https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T10033 a newly-discovered] (and as-yet unaddressed<ref>As of early 2024.</ref>) security issue], Miraheze staff disable the WikiForum extension used to run our forums. ;16 June 2023 :Miraheze's [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors Board of Directors] announce [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Community_portal/Archive_40#Statement_from_the_Board their intention to cease operations and shut down Miraheze by the end of August 2023]. ;19 June 2023 :Miraheze's shutdown is stayed when [[User:Labster\|Labster]] and Zippx spearhead an effort to save the (wiki) farm. ;22 December 2023 :In response to confusion and misinformation, Labster launches an [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Requests_for_Comment/Reorganization_of_Miraheze RFC] on the reorganization of Miraheze and its ultimate fate. ;1 January 2024 :Voting on the RFC comes to a close with the start of the new year; a merger with/transfer of operations to the [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/WikiTide_Foundation WikiTide Foundation], a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity, receives the most votes. Within a days the process of the transfer begins. ;1 February 2024 :The transfer of Miraheze and All the Tropes to WikiTide is complete, or so nearly so as to make no difference. ~~----~~ {{reflist}} [[Category:Wiki Policy]]