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The **mwclient** framework was originally written by Bryan Tong Minh
([@btongminh](https://github.com/btongminh))
and released in 2008 [on Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/mwclient/).
Bryan maintained the project until version 0.6.5, released on 6 May 2011.
In 2013, Waldir Pimenta ([@waldyrious](https://github.com/waldyrious))
contacted Bryan and proposed helping out with a conversion from SVN to git
and moving the project to Github.
After getting the appropriate permissions,
he performed the repository conversion
using [sf2github](http://github.com/ttencate/sf2github)
([#1](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/1)),
converted the wiki previously hosted on sourceforge
([#12](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/12)),
updated the sourceforge project page
([#15](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/15)),
identified the users who had created bug reports
([#1, comment](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/1#issuecomment-13972022)),
contacted the authors of forks of the project
suggesting them to provide their changes as PRs
([#14](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/14)),
and handed the repository to Bryan
([#11](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/11)).
Dan Michael O. Heggø ([@danmichaelo](https://github.com/danmichaelo))
was the author of one of those forks,
and the most prolific submitter of PRs
in the early history of mwclient as a git repository.
Not long after the git transition, the repository was moved to an organization
([#12, comment](https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/issues/12#issuecomment-20447515)),
and Dan became the main force behind the 2014 release of version 0.7.0
(the first after a 3-year hiatus).
From then until the 0.10.1 release in 2020, he was the lead maintainer of the project,
which has attracted contributions from
[several other people](../../graphs/contributors).
From 2023, the project is maintained by
Marc Trölitzsch ([@marcfrederick](https://github.com/marcfrederick)),
Adam Williamson ([@adamwill](https://github.com/adamwill)),
and Megan Cutrofello ([@RheingoldRiver](https://github.com/RheingoldRiver)).
For more details on the technical history of the project,