Svg wiki:About
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In order to reduce spam, we've had to limit edit privileges to those with accounts. If you would like to help update or revise the wiki, please contact the admins. Please provide your real name, your email address, and your desired username. You will be given an account (if you aren't a spammer). Abuse of your editorial privileges will result in a blocking of the account.
License
The SVG-Wiki is a community effort, with contributions by many authors. Unless otherwise indicated, the content is available primarily under the terms of the Creative Commons: Attribution-Sharealike license v2.0 or any later version. Code samples are available under the terms of the MIT License.
If you wish to contribute to the SVG-Wiki, we ask that you make your documentation available under the Attribution-Sharealike license, and your code samples available under the MIT License. If you add to this Wiki without specifying the terms under which you have made your addition, by doing that, you are agreeing that your contributions will be available under these licenses. If you wish to contribute content or code samples under a different license, you must place your contributions in a separate page prefaced with a clear statement to that effect and provide a link to the license. Please note that content added to this wiki under a different license may be removed unless it is particularly important, however.
Copyright for contributed materials remains with the author unless the author assigns it to someone else.
If you have any questions or concerns about anything discussed here, please contact the admin.
History
This wiki was originally created in 2001 by Niklas Gustavsson of www.protocol7.com, and ran on PHP-Wiki. Many community members contributed to it, and it became a storehouse of much SVG wisdom. In 2003, it came under the attack of spammers, and often much of the content was auto-replaced by off-topic links. Steps were taken to secure the wiki using a password scheme, but this proved to be largely ineffective. The wiki fell into disuse, and was not maintained.
In 2004, Antoine Quint took over control of the wiki, moving it to www.svg.org. It was restored to its original content, but little new content was added. To be frank, 2003-2004 was a bit of a fallow period for SVG, with many of the most prominent community members drifting away.
In 2005, however, SVG had grown quite a bit, and new demand was realized for the wiki. One of the original contributors, Doug Schepers, undertook the task of restoring it, and converting it to the more secure format of MediaWiki. Because of many problems with the automatic transition between formats, much of the content was converted manually. This personal attention highlighted some major problems with the content. Many of the links were dead; much of the information was outdated; and the basic structure of the wiki was not conducive to finding information that you did not already know. During this period of flux, it was be hosted at Schepers' SVG site, www.SVG-Whiz.com. Even now, the wiki is undergoing restructuring and updating.
While the original wiki was focused only on content-developer resources (such as scripting and building WebApps), the new wiki is intended to be a resource for other SVG users, including artists and designers, viewer implementors, and anyone else interested in Scalable Vector Graphics. By bringing all these users together, the community will understand the each others' needs, strengthening SVG.
The current admins of the SVG-Wiki are Doug Schepers and Antoine Quint, and can be reached at wiki@svg.org. It is hosted by kevc.
