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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.

History

The KHWiki logo

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki was founded 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, 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. This became the final straw, and led the wiki to seek private hosting. 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. 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. 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, 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, 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.

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:

2006 Birth of the wiki 2007 New staff: December 30: Hecko X, Bluerfn become sysop/b-crats December 31: Azul81677, NeloAngelo, Hexedmagica become admins/sysop 2008 January 12th: First featured article Sora January 24th: Wikia featured in “Wikia Spotlight” (image link) March 24: First moderator, XienZo May 21: New admins: BebopKate, and XienZo [first mod to be promoted to admin] 2009 February 9th: Wiki reaches 1,000 articles March 25th: Three new mods: Troisnyxetienne, Guardian Soul, and Ultima The High Seraph April 2nd: War against user images begins; all non-KH related images should be hosted off-Wiki and then linked back to Days of the Advanced Wiki-markup talkbubbles and talktexttest2 Users: JoeKeybladeAura, Andie, SSC, DTN, ENX (then, EO), Ghostboy3000 (now LotsoBearLover), Marxel, NumberXXI, MelodiousNature, Firaga44, NinjaSheik, KrytenKoro, Troisnyxetienne, Xiggie, BebopKate, Guardian Soul, ZACH (now known as Wolf), Rocker7898, LevL, Azul, YerMom, Xabryn, AnimeBolt, OathkeeperKH, maggosh, LapisScarab, IRC: “IRC Prom” 2010 Users: Auror Andrachome, JFHavoc, LegoAlchemist, Malevolence Crystalized, Dan_da_Man36, SquareEnixRocks (or, SER), DemonicSaint (or, Reedemer&Destroyer), Gr8champ, Randomnessity, April 1st: Sora Florida meets Hanna Montana! 2011 February 9th: khwiki.net is created. 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