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[edit] Ali Sina's book
Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh’s Prophet was released but Ali Sina removed the book from circulation. Read why
[edit] Secular Islam Summit - March 4-5, 2007
An International forum for secularists of Islamic societies was held at St. Petersburg Hilton, St. Petersburg, Florida on March 4-5, 2007. Speakers included Mona Abousenna, Wajeha Al-Huwaider, Magdi Allam, Shaker al-Nabulsi, Nonie Darwish, Afshin Ellian, Tawfik Hamid, Nibras Kazimi, Fatemolla, Shahriar Kabir, Irshad Manji, Salameh Nematt, Walid Phares, Amir Taheri, Ibn Warraq, Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, and Manda Zand-Irvin. For more information, please visit the ISIS website.
[edit] Site News
- 10/8/2007
- The FFI server was hacked on 9/11/2007 which explains our downtime for almost a month. We are back now. Editing is disabled until we work out some bugs.
- 9/2/2007
- Anonymous editing has been enabled as a test. Users who are not logged on will get a very visible warning and then its up to the user if they want to login. Block protections work for anonymous edits as well.
- 7/24/2007
- LiveVideo, Metacafe, DailyMotion and BlipTV video tags were enabled. See the help page on how to use these codes.
- 7/12/2007
- LiveLeak video tag was enabled to show videos from www.LiveLeak.com. See this page for more information.
- 7/11/2007
- An edit button for the {{Newslink}} template was added to the edit bar.
- 6/27/2007
- 3 new edit buttons were installed; 2 for references (
, 
) and 1 for making a link to a Wikipedia article (
). The Quran button was updated for clarity. The Edit tools which appear below the edit box were also updated to include these 3 new tools.
- 6/13/2007
- An extension was installed to enable linking of images, i.e. you can now insert an image in a page and link that image to an article such that when a user clicks on the image, they are taken to that article. Read how to use this feature.
- 5/21/2007
- Auto Block settings were adjusted to allow more editing activity
- 5/7/2007
- File uploads and thumbnailing have been enabled again.
- 5/6/2007
- Custom edit buttons are available for Islamic templates. These buttons appear alongside other buttons when an edit box is open. We can customize these buttons and add more if needed.
- 4/24/07
- Site root redirects have been improved for faster speed. WikiIslam.com redirects to the main page instantly now as compared to the 1 or 2 second delay that was experienced before. Temporary redirects were added so that most of the old links used in the published paper (see below) would work.
- 4/23/07
- Site email is enabled. This means users can email each other and they'll be emailed when their watched articles and Talk pages change.
- Göran Larsson presented a paper on WikiIslam at a conference in Sweden (abstract | PDF, full version)
- 4/17/07
- A new template is being made to help former Muslims create their own testimonies of leaving Islam
- 4/11/07
- We've been visited by spamming bots recently. Anti-spam captcha's have been installed in order to prevent account creation by bots. This just means that in order to create an account, a user will have to compute some simple math, e.g. give an answer to: Whats 22 + 3? A human can do this sum but a bot can't. These spam protections are an inconvenience to human users, but some way of distinguishing between humans and bots is necessary due to the abundance of malicious software bots on the web.
- 4/4/07
- WikiIslam was inaccessible from 3/20 to 4/4 (about 2 weeks) basically due to security problems in the server - Read more. We are back now
- When we came back, we upgraded to the latest Mediawiki software which will enable some extra features
- We will be moving to a faster server soon
- Uploads are currently disabled while we make security checks. Image thumbnailing is not working right now, we're troubleshooting this.
