I liked @fourtonfish's Botwiki, a set of resources for learning about & building bots for Slack, Twitter, etc. https://t.co/uFTB6Zrr6a

— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 10, 2015

Botwiki was created in July 2015 by Stefan Bohacek with the goal of preserving interesting and creative examples of online bots, and providing tutorials and other resources to folks interested in making fun, whimsical, or useful bots.

Later in August, the Botmakers online group was set up as a safe and friendly online space for artists, tinkerers, bot enthusiasts and seasoned developers to share ideas, resources, and their bot creations, regardless of their technical knowledge.

In March 2016, Veronica Belmont joined Stefan as a Botmakers administrator and took over the Bot! zine newsletter Stefan has started as a way to keep the community of bot enthusiasts updated on the latest news.

For more of Botwiki Foundation's projects and initiatives, check out the Projects page.

Find any bot ever with this awesome online encyclopedia: https://t.co/Jsff2ApJWl | @Woods_TylerWL @TechnicallyBK #BotWiki

— Microsoft New York (@MicrosoftNY) March 4, 2016

All of our work is open, and everyone is invited to contribute. Feel free to connect on Twitter -- or you can just say hi via email!

A full list of open source bots - http://t.co/48JFQsOXLR

— Hongkiat (@hongkiat) September 17, 2015

Timeline ¶

Below is a timeline of major events in the history of the Botwiki project.

2017 ¶

• July 12: Botwiki celebrated its two years.
• June 16: Botwiki got an official page on Glitch.
• March: Botwiki had more than 20,000 unique visitors.

2016 ¶

• October 1: Hosted the first online Bot Workshop.
• July: First time Botwiki was visited by over 10,000 people in one month. Also, Botwiki celebrated its first year.
• March 31: Veronica joined the Botwiki team.
• March 21: Hosted the first Botmakers in-person event.
• February 18: Created the Botmakers Meetup group.
• January 1: The first Monthly Bot Challenge was announced.

2015 ¶

• November 16: Announced the Botmaker Badges in Bot! zine #4.
• October 26: The first issue of the the Bot! zine newsletter was sent out.
• October 20: The botzine.org domain was bought.
• September 17: Publicly announced the Botmakers Slack group.
• September 3: First tweet by @botwikidotorg.
• August 19: The botmakers.org domain was bought.
• July 15: First commit to the public Botwiki repository.
• July 12: The botwiki.org domain was bought and the @botwikidotorg Twitter account was set up.

Want to learn how to make fun/weird/artsy bots? Join https://t.co/4FH6Ohd5ue and check out our tutorials https://t.co/52klQ1dEml

— Botwiki (@botwikidotorg) November 18, 2016