Wiki History

A History of the Wiki

1992

• Icehouse Discussion List started: topics included game strategies, tournament planning, ways of making pieces, and pretty much anything else relating to the game

2005

• April Mike Sugarbaker founds the IcehouseGames.org domain and establishes the first fan Wiki using MediaWiki.

2007

• A big MediaWiki update fixes many longstanding errors with the site. Image uploads resume, and the icehousegames.org logo returns.
• Looney Lab's SLICK (Searchable List of Icehouse's Cool Kindred) list began pointing to IceHouseGames.org as the best place to look for pyramid games
• August: The wiki is used to organize and conduct the Summer 2007 IGDC.
• September: The 200th Icehouse game is added to the wiki.

2008

• The Winter 2008 IGDC is organized through the wiki, and the Summer 2008 IGDC is planned here as well.
• Brian Campbell succeeds Mike Sugarbaker as the Supreme Curator.

2009

• January: The 250th Icehouse game is added to the wiki.
• December: The 300th Icehouse game is added to the wiki, thanks to student use of the wiki to coordinate their classroom game designs.

2011

• March: The 350th Icehouse game is added to the wiki. Special thanks to Nihilvor for adding heretofore neglected games from SLICK.

2012

• April: The 400th Icehouse game is added to the wiki.

2016

• Change happens, and user accounts and related content is lost, but the wiki lives on.

2022

• icehousewiki.org suffers issues regarding formatting, causing usability issues.

2023

• PyramidGames.wiki is born, a migration of icehousewiki.org at a state when it was still working. New admins are user:Kataclysm and user:Dazeysan. The wiki name is soon changed to Looney Pyramid Games Wiki at the domain LooneyPyramids.wiki.

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External Links

• email list archive from 2005-2012
• Ning forums 2010-17 (includes a Pyramid forum (but some others have some pyramidial posts)