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DRAFT IDEA FOR KHWIKI:HISTORY (OR RE-WRITE FOR KHWIKI:ABOUT)

This page details the history of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki.[1]

History

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The Kingdom Hearts Wiki was founded on April 1st, 2006 by Riku5464 as part of the Wikia community. Although he was not active for too long, his beginning edits and ideas laid the framework for the newborn database. There weren't many editors or articles in the beginning months of the Wiki’s existence, but eventually a group of users from the Final Fantasy Wiki hopped over and began actively editing the site. The website started off very slowly with only a small group of editors actively working on the site, establishing rules, writing articles, and doing all kinds of things. These editors worked hard and the site’s popularity grew, increasing both the encyclopedia’s content and userbase. These users started editing, each contributing to the Wikia in their own way. And so the Wiki grew, with each year bringing more users and information. The encyclopedia thrived. Like most wikis, it constantly faced issues and disagreements[2][3][4], but the encyclopedia continued to expand on all accounts.

The wiki grew uninhibited for many years, until Wikia began imposing features upon its communities. Although the community on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki repeatedly disabled these features, Wikia continued to implement changes that impacted the quality of the wiki's content. The greatest of these changes came in late 2010, when Wikia introduced a skin that shifted focus from information to advertisements[5]. This became the final straw, and led the wiki to seek private hosting.[6][7] This resulted in the beginning of The Split. On February 9th, 2011, the wiki moved to the site khwiki.net, sparking the creation of the Square Enix Independent Wiki Alliance.[8] Starting late 2011, discussions began to reorganize both the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and the now-rebranded Wikia site, The Keyhole. The Merge, as it was later referred to, began in early 2012.[9][10] In February 28, 2014, the wiki moved to site domain was changed to khwiki.com

Both The Split and The Merge tended to divide users on both sites, but eventually, a handful of fresh users began to populate both wikis. These users sought to revive the place and reunite the two communities. In 2014, the Wiki launched MegaProject: Arise[11][12], a project aimed at helping organize efforts to increase more users at both the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and The Keyhole. The implementation of MegaProject: Arise saw the launch of the Wiki's magazine, The Twilight Times; the Wiki's podcast, The Round Room Podcast; and the Wiki's Let's Play. The following year, Operation: Keychain was launched[13][14], an even more ambitious scheme that aimed at increasing unity between the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and The Keyhole and boost the internet's interest in the franchise in general. As a result, in early 2016, the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse was created as a community of Kingdom Hearts-related websites.[15][16][17]

Since its creation, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki strives to be the most professional and comprehensive Kingdom Hearts resource in the world.

Timeline

A timeline of events on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki[18]:

2006

  • 1 April: The Kingdom Hearts Wiki is created.
  • 30 November: Scottch launches the Wiki's Community Portal as a place to organize the Wiki's expansion, which he takes lead in. The page is the fore-runner to Traverse Town, the Wiki's current Community Portal.

2007

2008

  • 12 January: The Wiki's Featured Articles project begins and Sora becomes our first Featured Article
  • 24 January: The Kingdom Hearts Wiki receives a spotlight on Wikia
  • 24 March: New Staff - XienZo becomes the Wiki's first Moderator.
  • 21 May: New Staff - BebopKate and XienZo become Administrators. Xienzo becomes the first Moderator to be promoted to Administrator
  • July 2008: The Wiki's Featured Media project begins, and File:Kingdom Key KH.png becomes the first Featured Media file.
  • 3 October: The Wiki's Featured Media project becomes open to voting by all editors of the Wiki. The first editor-voted Featured Media file is File:Star Seeker KHII.png

2009

  • 9 February: The Wiki reaches 1,000 articles.
  • 25 March: New Staff - Troisnyxetienne, Guardian Soul, and Ultima The High Seraph become Moderators
  • 5 June: The 100,000 edit on the Wiki is made by Ultima the High Seraph on the Roxas page
  • 7 July: New Staff - Ultima the High Seraph and Guardian Soul become Administrators.
  • 10 July: The Wiki launches its Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channel on #Wikia-kingdomhearts
  • 29 August: New Staff - KrytenKoro and Urutapu become Administrators.
  • 23 September: Several members release a tribute video to Wayne Alwine, voice actor for Mickey Mouse, who had passed away the September prior.
  • 28 October: After being used for over a year as a central wiki organizing page, the Wiki's Community Portal Traverse Town is remodeled into Districts and organized into the role it serves today as a directory to important pages on the Wiki.
  • 19 November: Naminé's Drawoff, the Wiki's first End-of-Year Event, is launched.

2010

2011

  • 9 February: The Kingdom Hearts Wiki moves to khwiki.net

2012

April 1st: Kingdom Hats is announced. End of Year Event 2012

2013

Start of MegaProject: Arise. July 1st: First magazine issue and podcast episode.

2014

December 16th: First Let's Play episode. End of Year Event 2014

2015

April 1st: Kingdom Hearts 3D HD ReMIX announced! Start of Operation: Keychain. End of Year Event 2015

2016

Formation of the Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse

References

  1. ^ The Twilight Times - Issue 8 (April 2016), pg. 7
  2. ^ Forum:A dedication to everyone
  3. ^ Forum:Huge problems on the IRC
  4. ^ Forum:Criticism
  5. ^ Your First Look at the New Wikia - Wikia Community Central
  6. ^ Forum:@&%&*@%&$@&*$%
  7. ^ Forum:Where will we go?
  8. ^ Forum:Square Enix Portal
  9. ^ Forum:The Merge
  10. ^ KHWiki:Project Merge
  11. ^ Roundtable Summary - Meeting 24 - Part 2: April 11, 2014
  12. ^ Forum:MegaProject: Arise
  13. ^ Roundtable Notes - Meeting 33: January 2, 2015
  14. ^ Operation: Keychain - Original Documentation - User:KeybladeSpyMaster/Gadget Shelf 4
  15. ^ Forum:Operation: Keychain - A Name for The Greater Wiki
  16. ^ Operation: Keychain - Original Documentation - User:KeybladeSpyMaster/Gadget Shelf 4
  17. ^ Forum:The Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse
  18. ^ The Twilight Times - Issue 8 (April 2016), page 7


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