AVID:15 Years of the Motion Graphics Museum

''This page is a rough draft created in anticipation of the wiki's anniversary. Please feel free to contribute further additions to the timeline or to suggest additional content.''

In 2022, the CLG Wiki celebrates its 15th anniversary. From its origins as an evolution of the original KRS logos, the wiki has maintained one core mission: the preservation, discovery and describing of production logos old and new. Over the years, we have grown from just a few dozen articles to thousands of articles documenting logos from around the world.

CLG Wiki: A Brief History
Here we take a look back at the events that shaped us as a community and brought us to where we are today:
 * July 24, 2007: CLG Wiki is created on Wetpaint, a wiki hosting service, by Silversword55. Its founding administrators are the aforementioned Silversword, DLChandell (DLC), Shadeed329 (Now PackMasterFlash), VofDoom, ASDFTheRevival, GreenLantern40, Willwill45 and Juniorfan 88. Its original purpose is to expand on the work of Kris Starring, a member of the Closing Logos group on Yahoo! Groups, on his KRS logo descriptions site.
 * January 1, 2008: CLG Wiki's Dream Logos is established to separate the growing trend of dream logos from real logo descriptions
 * January 18, 2008: The closinglogos.com domain is registered
 * 2009: CLG Wiki wins the Judges Choice award in the Wetpaint Golden Can awards
 * 2009: As the wiki grows, the site undergoes structural changes. This results in the "Sectioned" structure we continue to use to this day.
 * 2011: CLG Wiki live, a live stream of logos and logo-themed content, is launched.
 * July 24 2012: The CLG Wiki celebrates 5 years
 * November 26, 2012: Company Bumpers is created as a place for warning screens, ratings bumpers, and similar content that had accumulated on the main wiki
 * June 2013: Wetpaint transitions to WikiFoundry.
 * 2014: The wiki goes briefly private as a drastic measure to deal with an influx of trolls. The abrupt unprivating of the wiki against the wishes of CLG administrators leads to the their first of several conflicts with the new staff of WikiFoundry ultimately culminating in the CLG's departure from the platform.
 * 2015: The CLG Wiki attempts to migrate to Wikia (now known as FANDOM). Due to negative reactions in the community, the migration is quickly abandoned
 * 2015: The Cokeburst drama leads to the ousting of the founding administrator and longtime "owner" of the wiki DLChandell. Matthew Mayfield, Stephen Cezar (now CezarWBC2020), and Coley Dixon (also known as ColeyD) assume leadership over the site.
 * 2017: CLG Wiki is nominated for the Hobby Hounds award in WikiFoundry's Golden Anvil awards
 * July 9, 2017: The CLG Wiki Discord server is launched
 * July 24 2017: The CLG Wiki celebrates 10 years. It is to be our last anniversary on the original site.
 * January 1, 2018: The TAT Communications logo is found in part after over a decade of searching. This is considered perhaps the most significant find ever made on the wiki.
 * 2018: As part of a shift towards a more encyclopedic and mature CLG Wiki and the de-emphasis of "scary" logos, the long-running "Scare Factor" and "Cheesy Factor" sections are retired in favor of the editor's note. This proves a controversial decision with many long-term contributors leaving the site as a result.
 * 2018: The CLG Wiki is impacted by a two-week outage of WikiFoundry. The duration of the outage and lack of communication from WikiFoundry's ownership leads to several major wikis leaving the platform and CLG Wiki beginning to strongly consider its options moving forward.
 * 2018: CLG Wiki is forced to reconsider the validity of many rare finds, including the controversial Cokeburst after their discoverer is exposed as a fraud. This leads to a more skeptical approach to bigger finds and a greater understanding among the community of how to discern fakes.
 * 2018: CLG Wiki Live is discontinued after 7 years following a period of neglect in which very little if any, new material was being added
 * April 20, 2020: A thread is created raising concerns regarding the deprecation of Flash and WikiFoundry's reliance on it for several key features. The resulting discussion and the insulting response by the owner of WikiFoundry leads to the decision to move the site to a new platform.
 * May 4, 2020: The current incarnation of CLG Wiki is created and efforts begin to migrate content from the original wiki. Company Bumpers follows suit, while Dream Logos is unofficially retired due to inactivity, lack of administration, and apathy from the userbase - remaining on WikiFoundry as a result. Many changes to long-standing elements of the site are made as we adapt to the capabilities of Mediawiki:
 * The "Various..." pages, which had existed since the early days as a means of controlling the Wetpaint/WikiFoundry sidebar's length, are retired with each company finally receiving a standalone page
 * Sections recieve their biggest overhaul in over a decade- the On-Demand section is renamed to the Online Section to better reflect current terminology and an expanded focus, the movie section is renamed to the Film section and station IDs are spun off from the Television section to form their own separate section. Each section receives its own visual icon and the tired, text-heavy section pages become Portals, receiving a drastic visual and functional overhaul
 * The long-standing home page design also receives a drastic overhaul with more information and functionality added and tired "filler" sections finally retired
 * The Miscellaneous section is retired, with the YouTube-based content that largely comprised it at the time being moved to the newly expanded "Online" section. the remaining "Your...Logo" pages are either deleted or moved to project space.
 * September 18, 2020: The final remaining pages from the original wiki are migrated.
 * June 1, 2021: WikiFoundry shuts down due to a lack of revenue to keep the increasingly aged platform running. As a result, the original CLG Wiki sites cease to exist. An automatically created MediaWiki conversion now exists on closinglogos.com; though this is separate from the official site.
 * October 12, 2021: The CLG Wiki's 10,000th article is created.