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• Oct 2024 : In keeping with many other sites, //Wikenigma //has now cancelled and deleted its Twitter/X account.

• July 2024 : //Wikenigma// clarifies that the site's CC licence - which is used for all orignal content - expressly disallows any 'scraping' and re-use by AI systems. See : [[info:ai]]

• March 2024 : The main core software - //Dokuwiki// - has been updated. The site should now work faster, and some aspects have been substantially simplified. If you experience any oddities with the new system, let us know.

• October 2023 : //Wikenigma //is introducing 'hashtags' for some articles. For example //[[tag:unknowable]] //for subjects which, by their nature, can definitely never be accurately answered. Or [[tag:functionality_unexplained]] for man-made devices etc which clearly work, but no-one knows exactly how.

• September 2023 : It's quite a slow process, but every now and again a //Wikenigma// question gets answered. Such is the case with the [[content:other:resolved:antimatter_gravity|Antimatter and Gravity problem]] Resolved!

• September 2023 : Many thanks again to The British Library, which is now archiving the entire //Wikenigma// site several times a year (latest update July 2023 )..

• Aug. 2023 : In the light of recent developments and proliferation of online AI systems, this is to re-affirm that all of the content of //Wikenigma// is entirely human edited. It's perhaps inevitable that some AI generated content will eventually be featured - as even some 'peer-reviewed' scientific papers are now appearing with auto-generated content. The current editorial policy is to remove any content known to be AI generated.

• June 2023 : A milestone of 1,000 articles has been reached. Many thanks to all supporters and contributors.

• May 2023 : To complement the upcoming 1,000th article post, //Wikenigma// has a new logo. The achromatic interrogative cuboid (a black-box with question marks).

• March 2023 : //Wikenigma// has started a //Twitter// feed for curator's pick of the moment.

• Feb 2023 : Gearing up for the British Library's yearly site archiving.

• Aug 2022 : A milestone of 900 unknown articles has been reached.

• July 2022  The site was offline for a few days at the end of the month due to overstretched demand. Many apologies.

• Apr 2022 : Moved to new server. Faster page response times.

• Feb 2022 : To support {{:openacceslogosmallgreen.png?85}}, //Wikenigma// is introducing a new strategy to mark external links to 'Open Access' reference papers as such. The green icon {{:oa_padlock_grn.png?16&nolink|open access}} denotes that the entire reference is fully open for all readers, free of any charges.

• Oct 2021 : A milestone of 800 unknown articles has been reached.

• Sept. 2021 : Currently beta-testing an 'auto-translation' engine.

As always with auto-translation, it's a very long way from being perfect . . . but could be of help in attractiing a wider global audience . . .

• July 2021 : A milestone of 700 unknown articles has been reached.

• May 2021 : A milestone of 650 unknown articles has been reached.

• Mar. 2021 : Many thanks to the //The British Librar//y, which has now begun permanently archiving the contents of //Wikenigma//.

• Jan. 2021 : A milestone of 600 unknown articles has been reached.

• Oct. 2020 : A milestone of 500 unknown articles has been reached.

• Aug. 2020 : Currently (beta) testing the new 'WYSIWYG' (//What You See Is What You Get//) page editor. It greatly simplifies the editing process, avoiding the need to learn the Wiki syntax. (//Note:// it's currently //not// 100% stable)

• Aug 2020 : A milestone of 400 unknown articles has been reached.

• Aug 2020 : There are credible rumours of a 'WYSIWYG' (What You See Is What You Get) editing system to help make it easier to create and edit pages without having to use the (quite eccentric) 'Wiki' syntax code. The plugin isn't quite stable enough for general use yet. But when it is, it should make editing pages much more straightforward.

• July 2020 : the core software has been updated - hopefully faster and more stable.

• Apr 2019, there are now around 260 articles.

+ Many thanks to 'No Such Thing as a Fish' and 'QI' who recently tweeted about the site ! The response was so strong the site had to get a server upgrade !

• As of June 2017, there are now around 220 articles detailing real-world, fully documented observations and phenomena which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to explain. Thanks to our contributors and supporters.

• As of April 2017, there are now around 170 articles detailing items which are as yet unknown to humanity. Thanks to our contributors and supporters.

• March 2017 . . . now out of beta.

• 6th Sep 2016. Moved server to  **wikenigma.org.uk**  - and now in beta version.

• Alpha launch nearing