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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 on April 1^st, 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, 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

• 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

• 30 December: New Staff - Hecko X and Bluerfn are chosen to become Bureaucrats.
• 31 December: New Staff - Azul81677, NeloAngelo, and Hexedmagica are chosen to become Administrators.

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
• 12 May: The Wiki receives its first affiliate, HeartStation.org
• 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

• 1 April: The Wiki publishes its first April Fool's Joke: Sora Florida meets Hanna Montana
• 14 April: New Staff - DoorToNothing and HeartOfOblivion become administrators
• 20 May: New Staff - User:Xion4ever and Neumannz become Moderators.
• 11 July: The Wiki's Mirage Arena Tournament launches.
• 30 July: New Staff - BebopKate becomes an Administrator.
• 23 August: New Staff - Troisnyxetienne and Neumannz become Administrators, and EternalNothingnessXIII, Maggosh, and ShardofTruth become Moderators.
• 25 September: Geo Impact becomes the Wiki's 2,000^th article and is created by DoorToNothing
• 10 October: The Wiki launches the 128-character Tournament, The Keyblade War, as part of its End-Of-Year Event.

2011

• 9 February: The Kingdom Hearts Wiki moves to khwiki.net
• 21 February: New Staff - As a result of the move, new staff were elected. Porplemontage, who helped move the site, became the site's developer, and Neumannz and KrytenKoro became the new Bureaucrats. NinjaSheik, DoorToNothing, ShardofTruth, Xion4ever, Maggosh, EternalNothingnessXIII, Urutapu, Ultima the High Seraph, and Troisnyxetiene became the first Administrators. Erry, LapisScarab, LevL, and SilverCrono became Moderators on the new, independent Wiki. BebopKate was added as an Administrator several days later.
• 5 September: New Staff - To help with the continuing migration onto the new site, Erry, The Inexistent, and Sepharus become Artists.

2012

• 14 January: New Staff - Soxra becomes an Administrator
• 29 January: New Staff - Chitalian8, LegendAqua, and UnknownChaser become Moderators. Maggosh becomes a Bureaucrat.
• 5 February: The Wiki's first bot account, KHWikiBot, is created.
• 12 February: New Staff - FinalRest becomes a Moderator.
• 1 April: The Wiki's April Fool's Joke, Kingdom Hats and the Horseless Headless Horsemann, is published.
• 9 August: KrytenKoro attended the Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance launch event in New York on behalf of the Wiki.

2014

• 1 April: The Wiki organizes and launches MegaProject: Arise
• 1 July: As part of MegaProject: Arise, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki and The Keyhole publish the first issue of the Wiki's new magazine, The Twilight Times, and the new podcast, The Round Room Podcast.
• 4 July: The Wiki's Twitter account is revived, which would lead to the launch or re-organization of the Wiki's social media accounts.
• 5 July: The Wiki's Main Page is revamped to its current appearance, and introduces the use of Game Portals.
• 8 November: New Staff - KeybladeSpyMaster becomes an Administrator
• 16 December: The Wiki publishes its first Let's Play episode, with help from GrandMasterArcturus

2015

• 2 January: The Wiki launches Operation: Keychain in co-operation with The Keyhole.
• 1 April: The Wiki publishes its annual April Fool's Joke, Kingdom Hearts -3D HD ReMIX-. Additionally, a prank issue of the Wiki's Magazine was published before the actual issue went live the following day.
• 26 August: New Staff - Chitalian8 becomes a Moderator.

2016

• 19 February: New Staff - TheSilentHero becomes an Administrator. Chainoffire and TheFifteenthMember become Moderators.
• 1 April: The Kingdom Hearts Wiki turns ten years old.
• 12 April: The Kingdom Hearts Wikiverse is formed by the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, The Keyhole, and Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ Wiki, with proposals to the Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki and Kingdom Hearts Answers Wiki made.

2017

• 27 March: Ignis, Churro, and Chainoffire organize a Photobook to give to series director Tetsuya Nomura in celebration of the Kingdom Hearts series's 15th Anniversary.