User:Azeem4Hadzrie/AVID

The Audiovisual Identity Database is a online database consisting of logos, testcards, bootscreens, splash screens, commercial tags and company bumpers.

The website was formerly hosted on Yahoo! TV group site, until it was moved to Wikiproject, which in turn got closed down in 2020 and is currently hosted on Miraheze.

Currently, the Closing Logos Wiki name was still used for its archived website, closinglogos.com.

Origins, KRS and its earlier known version
Originally, its closing logos were described and were put on the archive on the Entertainment Logo Page, which was owned by Eric "McFly" Hartman, which was launched in 2000.

KRS Logos was originally put to public in the early-2000s, and was owned by Kris Starring. The wiki was known for the investigation of their very own The Incredible World of DIC "Globe in Space" variant from 2003, which was later found in April 2023, twenty years later as the "Speed-a-Thon" event on Speed Network (which the marathon aired Speed Racer) being resurfaced at the time. The KRS Wiki project was stopped around 2006, which received no updates at the time. The final page that the wiki have was the logo for CBS Paramount Television.

Closing Logos Wiki, aiming at popularity


On 24 July 2007, the CLG Wiki site was created on the Wetpaint system (now Wikifoundry). It was founded by a user named Silversword55. Its original position was to continue expanding stuff from KRS Logos. On 1 January 2008, CLG Wiki Dream Logos was launched, and was a spin-off from the main CLG Wiki (which almost made it to Miraheze in 2020 but in a very small process).

On 18 January 2008, the closinglogos.com was registered. Currently, it was used for the troubled CLG Wiki archive site. In 2009, CLG Wiki won the Judges Choice award at the Wetpaint Golden Can.

During the same year, the wiki will go under its structure changes. The results in the "Sectioned" structure will continue till the day. In 2011, CLG Wiki Live, a YouTube channel that uploads live-streams of logos and several logo-themed content was launched.

Birthdays, website changes and Cokeburst
On 24 July 2012, the CLG Wiki celebrated its 5 years. On 26 November 2012, the Company Bumpers Wiki was launched. The wiki's focus was aimed at warning screens, rating bumpers and similar content that it was accumulated from the CLG Wiki. In June 2013, Wetpaint renames itself as Wikifoundry and other management continue to take over the platform.

In 2014, the wiki was shutdown temporary to prevent trolls from heading over to the site. It was reverted later due to the criticism by the wiki's administrators. The revival went to the first disputes with the staff of Wikifoundry. In 2015, CLG Wiki attempted to move onto Wikia (now Fandom). It was cancelled to prevent loss of the majority.

During the same year, the Cokeburst drama happened, and it led to the departure of DLChandell. Other administrators joined the wiki will feature Matthew Mayfield, Stephen Cesar and Coley Dixon. The drama came back in 2018 with a vengeance. In 2017, the wiki was nominated for the Hobby Hounds award on the Wikifoundry's Golden Anvil awards.

Other events, move to Miraheze and the change of the Board of Directors
On 9 July 2017, CLG Wiki's Discord server was launched. On the 24 of the same month, the wiki reached its 10th anniversary. On 1 January 2018, the T.A.T. Communications Company logo was partially found, and was made the significant find in the wiki.

During the same month. CLG Wiki had to reconsider the vaildity of many rare finds, including the heavily controversial Cokeburst after a discoverer was exposed for a fraud. This led to a approach of many finds and a way to prevent fake finds to being added. On 11 July 2018, the CLG Wiki Live account was discontinued.

From September to October 2018, CLG Wiki, along with many wikis on Wikifoundry suffered a month of the website outage by Wikifoundry's servers, where everyone can't login. This led to several major wikis leaving the platform and CLG Wiki beginning to move forward. On 5 November 2018, the long-running "Cheesy Factor" and "Scary Factor" variants were removed to make way for the "Editor's Note". This led to an decision making long-term editors leave the site.

On 20 April 2020, a decision was made about its concerns about Flash and Wikifoundry's reliances on several key features. This and the owner's response led to the start of the move. On 4 May 2020, CLG Wiki and the Company Bumpers Wiki were moved to Miraheze, following the closure of Wikifoundry, plus the overreliance of Wikifoundry's animation software Adobe Flash, and its then-ongoing disputes of Travis, the Wikifoundry owner of the time. The Dream Logos wiki was unofficially retired due to inactivity, lack of adminship and apathy from its userbase remaining from Wikifoundry.

On 18 September 2020, the last remaining pages from the old wiki were converted. On May 2021, the CLG Wiki made its very first plan on being an multilanguage wiki, with the launch of the translation extension. On 1 June 2021, Wikifoundry was closed down. As of the result, original copies of CLG Wiki will shutdown outside its archived. It's old elements were preserved on closinglogos.com, which had most of their pages ready for export, while some of them were not in action.

On 11 October 2021, the wiki's 10,000th article was created. On 13 February 2022, the early version of the THX "Cimarron" trailer was officially found were a video was posted on the Discord server. The variant was known as it breaks speakers and the search of it reached intensity and notoriety similar to the T.A.T. logo.

On 9 September 2022, a incident was happened following the Board of Directors, which was caused by an surprise demotion and the discontinuation of the Discord server. After the incident, several admins left to form a CLG Wiki. It was happened again but it was very small, with CuriousGeorge60 blocking HibiscusCrown20 and its alt Hb1290, and unblocking MathewLMayfield. It was reverted later by Agent Isai.

AVID


On 27 September 2022, CLG Wiki was rebranded as AVID, during its overwhelming consensus. During the same month, Company Bumpers Wiki merged back into this wiki.

On 2 April 2023, the logo was once again changed, adding a purple gradient onto the AVID wordmark.