wiki history

After moving from Davis to Sacramento, Charles McLaughlin quickly realized Sacramento needed its own wiki. Oddly enough, the original motivating factor was to document wireless hotspots where Charles could use his laptop and enjoy a refreshing beverage. Charles purchased the SacWiki.org domain name on May 5, 2007. He met with PhilipNeustrom on May 22, 2006 regarding hosting the Sacramento Wiki on the same server as the Davis Wiki. Phillip had already began work on hacking Sycamore, our underlying wiki software, into WikiSpot, a service that to allows anyone to create their own wiki.

The Sacramento Wiki officially began February 17, 2007, when Charles, Phillip, Brian Gingold and others met in Davis to hack on WikiSpot. For the few weeks that followed, the site was password protected and few people knew about the it. Charles, Brian and a few others tried to add as much content as possible before going public. On March 19, 2007 Charles finally got the DNS situation worked out and http://sacwiki.org resolved properly. On April 2, 2007 WikiSpot went live, the password was removed and more people began to hear about the Sacramento Wiki. On April 28, 2007 the Sacramento News and Review published an article on the Sacramento Wiki and we began to see more people creating accounts and adding content. Similarly, The California Aggie published an article on the Sacramento Wiki on May 15, 2007 which again helped get the word out. Since then we've seen a steady increase in editing activity and the project continues to grow.

Thanks to Michael Phelps, as of July 20, 2007 SacWiki.com forwards to SacWiki.org.

The Sacramento Wiki reached a page count of 500 pages on July 23, 2007.