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The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion [[pseudo top-level domain]] which can be accessed only by using | The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion [[pseudo top-level domain]] which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. Its main page provided a community-maintained link directory to other hidden services, including links claiming to offer [[money laundering]], [[contract killing]], [[cyber-attack]]s for hire, [[contraband]] chemicals, and [[bomb making]]. The rest of the wiki was essentially uncensored as well and also offered links to sites hosting child pornography and [[child abuse|abuse]] images.<ref name = "telegraph">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8851242/The-Hidden-Wiki-an-internet-underworld-of-child-abuse.html|title=The Hidden Wiki: an internet underworld of child abuse|last=Williams|first=Christopher|date=27 October 2011|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=25 January 2012|archive-date=4 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604163902/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8851242/The-Hidden-Wiki-an-internet-underworld-of-child-abuse.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
The earliest mention of the hidden wiki is from 2007 when it was located at 6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Karsten|title=Length of new onion addresses|url=https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2007-June/001442.html|access-date=10 March 2018|archive-date=1 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001222922/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2007-June/001442.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | The earliest mention of the hidden wiki is from 2007 when it was located at 6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Karsten|title=Length of new onion addresses|url=https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2007-June/001442.html|access-date=10 March 2018|archive-date=1 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001222922/https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2007-June/001442.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:26, 18 February 2023
The Hidden Wiki is specially created as a copy from old and outdated hidden wikis, and serves as a resource to provide real and original onion links. The Hidden Wiki is a dark web MediaWiki wiki operating as Tor hidden services that could be anonymously edited after registering on the site. The main page served as a directory of links to other .onion sites.
History
The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion pseudo top-level domain which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. Its main page provided a community-maintained link directory to other hidden services, including links claiming to offer money laundering, contract killing, cyber-attacks for hire, contraband chemicals, and bomb making. The rest of the wiki was essentially uncensored as well and also offered links to sites hosting child pornography and abuse images.<ref name = "telegraph">Template:Cite news</ref>
The earliest mention of the hidden wiki is from 2007 when it was located at 6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
A well known iteration of the Hidden Wiki was founded some time before October 2011, coming to prominence with its associations with illegal content.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
At some point prior to August 2013, the site was hosted on Freedom Hosting.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In March 2014 the site and its kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion domain was hacked and redirected to Doxbin.<ref name=hacked>Template:Cite news</ref> Following this event, the content began to be mirrored to more locations. During Operation Onymous in November 2014, after its Bulgarian hosting was compromised, the site served a message from law enforcement.<ref name=ddw_nov_2014>Template:Cite news</ref>
Successors
There are several .onion websites hosting successors based on mirrors of the Hidden Wiki; as such, there is no longer one single official Hidden Wiki.<ref name=ddw_nov_2014/> Many are hosted for accessibility reasons, due to frequent downtime and instability of the main wiki, while others were launched in order to filter links to child pornography.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>