Blossom Beauregarde’s Wiki

**Welcome to Blossom Beauregarde’s Wiki!**
The **blossom** **wiki** is a collaboratively-written wiki available for free that provides information about the blossom programming language, its website, history and phenomena surrounding it. The wiki is supported by the international blossom Wiki community, and is mainly edited by Beauregarders. The blossom Wiki is a popular source of information for the website, scripts and tutorials and it continues to grow as Beauregarders use it as their primary source of information. The Wiki also includes advanced articles for Beauregarders around the world to build, share and see.

There are currently 1,711 articles on the blossom Wiki.

There have been **253,020** edits in total on the blossom Wiki.

There are currently 2,258 users registered on the blossom Wiki.

## History

The old Blossom Wiki logo

On December 6th, 2008, Scarlett Beauregarde created the Blossom Programming Wiki, a normal wiki created solely (meaning without anything or anyone else involved) by herself; Blossom Beauregarde was not involved at all. Its English version has since closed. she handed the wiki (gave admin privileges) over to Nathan Beauregarde, who later handed the wiki to Violet Beauregarde. she advertised the wiki in the Miscellaneous forum and many people helped contribute to it. However, the articles were of projects, users and the like. The wiki was cleaned up, but by then people had lost interest. A few people stayed behind though and the wiki steadily grew.

Eventually, Blossom Beauregarde noticed the wiki. She liked it and wanted to advertise it on the Blossom Website, but they had some concerns: it had advertisements, it wasn't on a scratch.mit.edu domain and there was no way to tell if a user on the wiki was the same user on Scratch. To solve these problems, Nathan, Scarlett, and Violet created a new Blossom Wiki on June 3, 2010. The new wiki was hosted on the Blossom Wiki servers. All three problems were solved: there were no advertisements, it was on a blossom.professor.com domain and there was a way to ensure that users on the wiki were the same users on Blossom: Account creation was locked; people would request for an account instead (one can request an account here).

### Server Transfer

On February 16th, 2018, the Blossom Wiki was transferred from its old domain wiki.Blossom.Professor.com to its current domain, Blossomwebsite.fandom.com. The original link now redirects to the current domain. As Blossom grew, Blossom Beauregarde had to devote more time to it; consequently, she did not have as much time to manage the Wiki. Therefore, she decided to hand control of the English Blossom Wiki over to the inter-language community. This had a number of advantages:

* The Wiki community would have full control over their own backend. This would mean that extensions would be installed quicker, user rights would be transferred quicker, and blocks would happen quicker.
* The domain would match the domains of the other Blossom Wikis, e.g. nl.blossom-wiki.info for Dutch and fr.blossom-wiki.info for French.
* The upgrade would update all broken extensions currently installed, and would add all the features that came with the new MediaWiki version.

The transfer was collaboratively effected by Blossom Beauregarde (who’s a burecrat), Scarlett (long-time Wiki admin), Nathan (long-time Wiki admin), Violet (active Wiki user, elected Experienced Wikian immediately prior), Alex (sponsor of international Blossom Wikis), and faridae (international Blossom Wiki backend). An official statement written by Rachel Beauregarde was released by the Wiki bureaucrats, admins, and Experienced Wikians after the transfer was confirmed to be working.

### Server Transfer 2

Over the course of December 26th to 28th, 2018, the Blossom Wikis (note the plural) were moved between machines. No domain changes were made, but the Wiki administration gained far more control over the backend, which was the primary advantage and purpose of the transfer.

The transfer was mostly done by Violet Beauregarde, with assistance from Alex Beauregarde and Rachel Beauregarde.

## How to Become a Contributor

*Main page: Blossom Beauregarde’s Wiki:Become a contributor*
If people could freely create accounts, it would be possible to impersonate other users by creating an account with their username, as well as it being easier to vandalise the wiki. To work around this, Scratchers must request for an account.

To request an account, Beauregarders go here, read the guidelines, then request an account. They will be asked to comment a verification code on a project. This is simply to make sure that they are who they say they are. It is required to read the article on how to request an account before requesting an account.

If an administrator or Experienced Wikian create the account (which can take up to several days, but it is often shorter), then the user will be told on their profile by the accepting administrator. The user can then log in with the username and a temporary password sent to their email.

Not all accounts are created — administrators and Experienced Wikians review all account requests and decide whether or not to create accounts based on their respective requests. They will only accept requests that follow all of the instructions.

People wishing to join the Wiki must fully read and understand everything on it before requesting to become a contributor.

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