Scratch Wiki

Scratch Wiki

A blue sphere made of large jigsaw pieces with the Scratch Cat shown on the pieces The logo of the Scratch Wiki, a globe featuring the Scratch Cat (mascot of Scratch)
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia
Available in	7 editions
Owner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
URL	wiki.scratch.mit.edu
Commercial	No
Registration	Yes
Users	1,172 (as of March 17, 2016)
Written in	L A M P platform

The Scratch Wiki is a medium-sized wiki for the Scratch educational programming language and its website, history, and phenomena surrounding it. The wiki is supported by the Scratch Team (developers of Scratch), but is primarily written by Scratchers (users of Scratch). The Scratch Wiki is a common source of information for scripts (code) and tutorials, and it continues to grow as Scratchers often use it for information. It currently has over 1,000 pages.

Scratch Wikis in other languages

The Scratch Team also encourages Scratch communities of other languages to build up their own Scratch Wikis. All Scratch Wikis can be accessed through the scratch-wiki.info domain.

German

The first of these international "sister-projects" was the DACH-Scratch Wiki in the German language, that started in February 2012, and has over 520 articles (as of February 2016) and a very active community from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

It is separately hosted, because the Scratch Team advised the founding Scratchers from Germany to start independently, but it got its layout and some MediaWiki extensions from the original English Scratch Wiki. Though it is not only a translation, many articles in the German wiki have a link to their corresponding articles in the other wikis via the so-called Interwiki feature.

Russian

The Russian Scratch Wiki (Скретч Вики) was created on March 16, 2014 and has 76 articles. The Russian Scratch Wiki is on the ru.scratch-wiki.info domain.

Indonesian

The Indonesian Scratch Wiki (Scratch Indo Wiki) is the third of the international wikis made. The idea for an Indonesian Scratch Wiki was already discussed in 2013, but it did not have enough contributors to be created until 2014. With help and assistance from the DACH Wiki team, the Indonesian Scratch Wiki was created on September 5, 2014. Indonesian Scratch Wiki is also known as Indo-Scratch-Wiki (short for Indonesian Scratch Wiki) and Scratch-Indo-Wiki (as related to Indonesian grammar rules whereas the adjectives are after the nouns). The wiki has only 77 articles and a handful of members, but is slowly growing.

The official Scratch account for Scratch-Indo-Wiki can be accessed here. The wiki is located at scratch-indo.info.

Japanese

The Japanese Scratch Wiki (Scratch Wiki Japan) just started in March 2015 after a user applied for it in the Scratch Wiki in Your Native Language topic. The DACH-Scratch-Wiki Team later answered and accepted the application.

It currently has eight articles and 18 contributors.

Hungarian

The Hungarian Scratch Wiki was started on September 10, 2015. It currently has 2 articles, and 9 contributors.

Dutch

The Dutch Scratch Wiki (not to be confused with the Deutsch, DACH, or German wiki) was started in September 2015. It currently has only 18 articles, and 24 contributors.

April Fools' Day

On April Fools' Day, the Scratch Wiki uses a set of satirical articles which replaces the normal ones. For example, a joke replacement for the "Kaj" article states that a banned user, "Kaj", is actually Shadow the Hedgehog.