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So, a Memento user named Bill Crews offered to the developers to develop a wiki for the application, if the developers would provide an installation of the wiki server software that had been previously developed for the Wikipedia.com Web site. Upon their agreement to do so, Bill set about developing a wiki initially covering all field types available as of release 3.7 and then extending to its user interface (UI) components &endash; basically its screens & cards that users use.

As time went on, the wiki gained more & more coverage of information that might be useful to users, and the application grew to support more field types and other features. Features were added to support the scripting of various aspects of the use of the application in JavaScript, starting with JavaScript fields and then extending to actions, triggers, custom data sources, and so on, now to include Button fields. In addition, the developers began to offer the application on other platforms, called The Desktop Edition, which referred to Java implementations of the application for computer platforms running operating systems (OSes), including Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, and open source Linux. At that time, the Android application became referred to as The Mobile Edition. Moving years ahead, the developers established offices in Calgary, Canada where they created an additional Mobile Edition platform &endash; that of iOS, the OS from Apple that runs on iPhones & iPads. Over this time until 2021, Bill did his best to keep the wiki update with these & all updates to the application. He reached out several times via the Memento Forum for volunteers to help, but he received only 2 volunteers, each of which lasted only a little while, with no pages edited or created.

Then, as Bill moved into his 70s, he reached out again to the forum and was pleased to find Beth Dixon, who had good experience supporting applications and was interested in helping to expand and support the wiki. Together with another experienced & knowledgeable user named Ernst Moser, thus began WikiTeam. Ernst acts mostly as an advisor, as he is not very familiar with the English language, but his advice has been very helpful in our understanding of how Memento works and how the wiki might document it. While Bill has always been primarily a user of the Mobile Edition, Beth is primarily a user of the Desktop Edition and has begun to provide documentation in that area that had been missing. Most recently, she is providing YouTube videos for Memento users.

Then, in 2023, Alan Wehmann has volunteered his assistance, which is greatly appreciated. His contributions are just about to be felt as this is written, and there will be more to come. Again, please consider volunteering yourself by contacting WikiTeam@MementoDatabase.com.