JuggleWiki
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Our goal at JuggleWiki is to build a collection of juggling information useful to jugglers of any ability level.
This website uses the open-source MediaWiki software, the same platform that powers Wikipedia. We have extended MediaWiki to allow juggling animations to be embedded within wiki pages.
Before you try to contribute, please make sure know what is already here, using the Main Page categories and the Search window at the left on every page; then please study the Contributor Guide.
[edit] JuggleWiki History
JuggleWiki was originally developed by Scott Dossey and launched on July 13, 2001. Scott based the site on phpWiki 1.2.0, which he extended to allow JuggleAnim animations to be embedded in wiki pages. JuggleWiki at that time was part of the popular IJDb site developed by Colin Eberhardt and others.
In April 2004, JuggleWiki's juggling animator and other phpWiki software were upgraded by Jack Boyce. The JuggleAnim software was replaced by Juggling Lab, which is more flexible. For example, Juggling Lab can animate arbitrary hand movements, as well as multiple jugglers for passing patterns. An earlier version of Juggling Lab remains in use at JuggleWiki. The version you can download for use offline is more advanced, and the version used online at sourceforge is far more advanced in what code it will animate.
In early 2008, the original website was closed by IJDb due to security vulnerabilities, as well as spam, lack of use, and general disrepair. A movement started to resurrect the site, and at the same time update and improve it.
JuggleWiki was migrated to the MediaWiki platform in May, 2008, and relaunched here in June 2008, with other redesigning by Jack Boyce.
[edit] Site Growth
- At its launch, JuggleWiki contained 44 pages, with most of that content written by Scott Dossey.
- The first user contribution came three days later, by Luke Burrage.
- By 2002, in its first year that JuggleWiki had grown to 225 pages.
- At its beginning in 2008, this JuggleWiki contained about 750 content pages.
- JuggleWiki now contains 1,291 content pages, most of which have one or more animations of juggling patterns.
- There have now been 1,481,664 views counted at JuggleWiki, with 3-ball Mills Mess slightly leading Box for most views.
