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CLG Wiki is a website owned by Worldwide Brotherhood Corporation, The Closing Logos Group, The DLC Organization and Miraheze (previously Wikifoundry and Wetpaint). CLG Wiki was created in 2007 as an alternative to "KRS logos" on closing logos descriptions.

History
"...It all started thirteen years ago when the original CLG Wiki was created in 2007 as an alternative to 'KRS logos' on closing logos descriptions. We're now a reference in the history of closing logos and a main power in the history of logo preservation..."

CLG Wiki was created in 2007 on Wetpaint, a wiki hosting service, by Silversword55. Its founding administrators are the aforementioned Silversword, DLChandell (DLC), Shadeed329 (Now PackMasterFlash), VofDoom, ASDFTheRevival, GreenLantern40, Willwill45 and Juniorfan88. Its original purpose is to expand on the work of Kris Starring, a member of the Closing Logos group on Yahoo! Groups, and a number of other contributors on his KRS logo descriptions site.

In New Year's Day 2008, CLG Wiki's Dream Logos is established to separate the growing trend of dream logos from real logo descriptions. in January 18, 2008, The closinglogos.com domain is registered. in 2008, CLG Wiki wins the Judges Choice award in the Wetpaint Golden Can awards. later as the wiki grows, the site undergoes structural changes. This results in the "Sectioned" structure we continue to use to this day.

In 2011, CLG Wiki Live, a live stream of logos and logo-themed content was launched.

In July 24, 2012, The CLG Wiki celebrates 5 years.

In November 26, 2012, Company Bumpers was created as a place for the warning screens, ratings bumpers, and similar content that had accumulated on the main wiki.

In June 2013, Wetpaint transitions to WikiFoundry as new management takes over the platform.

In 2014, The wiki goes briefly private as a drastic measure to deal with an influx of trolls. The abrupt unprivating of the wiki against the wishes of CLG administrators leads to the the first of several conflicts with the new staff of WikiFoundry ultimately culminating in the CLG's departure from the platform.

In 2015, The CLG Wiki attempts to migrate to Wikia (now known as FANDOM). Due to negative reactions in the community, the migration is quickly abandoned. Later, The Cokeburst drama leads to the ousting of the founding administrator and longtime "owner" of the wiki DLChandell. Matthew Mayfield, Stephen Cezar (now CezarWBC2020), and Coley Dixon (also known as ColeyD) assume leadership over the site. This drama would come back with a vengeance three years later.

In 2017, CLG Wiki is nominated for the Hobby Hounds award in WikiFoundry's Golden Anvil awards.

In July 9, 2017, The CLG Wiki Discord server is launched. In July 24, 2017, The CLG Wiki celebrates 10 years. It is to be our last anniversary on the original site.

In New Year's Day 2018, The TAT Communications logo is found in part after over a decade of searching. Although partial, this is considered perhaps the most significant find ever made on the wiki. In January 2018, CLG Wiki is forced to reconsider the validity of many rare finds, including the controversial Cokeburst after their discoverer is exposed as a fraud. This leads to a more skeptical approach to bigger finds and a greater understanding among the community of how to discern fakes.

In July 11, 2018, CLG Wiki Live is discontinued after 7 years following a period of neglect in which very little if any, new material was being added.

In September 2018, The CLG Wiki, along with other wikis on the same platform, are impacted by a month-long outage on WikiFoundry's servers, where virtually all of the user base was unable to log in. The duration of the outage and lack of communication from WikiFoundry's ownership leads to several major wikis leaving the platform and CLG Wiki beginning to strongly consider its options moving forward. In October 2018, it was can't login again.

In April 20, 2020, A thread is created raising concerns regarding the deprecation of Flash and WikiFoundry's reliance on it for several key features. The resulting discussion and the demeaning response from the owner of WikiFoundry leads to the decision to move the site to a new platform.

In May 4, 2020, The current incarnation of CLG Wiki is created and efforts begin to migrate content from the original wiki. Company Bumpers follows suit, while Dream Logos is unofficially retired due to inactivity, lack of administration, and apathy from the userbase - remaining on WikiFoundry as a result. Many changes to long-standing elements of the site are made as we adapt to the much wider capabilities of Mediawiki.

In September 18, 2020, The final remaining pages from the original wiki are migrated.

In May 2021, With the enabling of the translation extension, the CLG Wiki takes its first step towards becoming a multilingual wiki.

In June 1, 2021, WikiFoundry shuts down due to a lack of revenue to keep the increasingly aged platform running. As a result, the original CLG Wiki sites cease to exist. An automatically created MediaWiki conversion now exists on closinglogos.com; though this is separate from the official site (lagging behind in significant ways).

Links

 * Official website