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The Transformers Wiki was originally created by user Nova81426 in May 2005, as a part of the Wikicities (now [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]]) domain. Very little progress was made until March 2006, when it was found by comic artist [[Wikipedia:David Willis (cartoonist)|David Willis]]. He brought it to the attention of the wider Transformers fan community, boosting membership and activity. An opportunity was seen to cover Transformers to a depth and breadth that Wikipedia never would. Transformers Wiki would also be distinctive in its use of humor in captions and, to a lesser extent, within article text. | The Transformers Wiki was originally created by user Nova81426 in May 2005, as a part of the Wikicities (now [[:Category:Wikia|Wikia]]) domain. Very little progress was made until March 2006, when it was found by comic artist [[Wikipedia:David Willis (cartoonist)|David Willis]]. He brought it to the attention of the wider Transformers fan community, boosting membership and activity. An opportunity was seen to cover Transformers to a depth and breadth that Wikipedia never would. Transformers Wiki would also be distinctive in its use of humor in captions and, to a lesser extent, within article text. | ||
The community experienced growing discontent with Wikia as changes in advertising and the new Monaco skin were imposed on them in mid-2008. The complaints, [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Community_Portal/Complaints archived here], | The community experienced growing discontent with Wikia as changes in advertising and the new Monaco skin were imposed on them in mid-2008. The complaints, [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Community_Portal/Complaints archived here], led to the administrators and community discussing taking the current database and setting up on a new server. On September 15th, they did just that. The new site was located on the same servers as [http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/ Blank Label Comics] which Willis had helped found, and used the TFWiki.net domain which had been pointing to the Wiki for some time prior. At this point, the wiki had just under 7000 articles. | ||
The Transformers Wiki continued to grow on its new server, reaching 8000 articles on January 24, 2009. One coup for the Wiki was getting the opportunity to take part in Hasbro's bimonthly website Transformers Q&A sessions. Disaster struck, however, on March 15th, when an attempt to upgrade the software caused the corruption of the database and it came out that the regular backups had been failing. The most recent backup — dating from July 2008 — was restored to the site, along with a message linking to Wikia at the bottom of every article (Wikia had begun inserting this message into their database dumps during the discussion of the original move). This event became known as the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Bookworm_Crash Bookworm Crash]. In an unfortunate piece of timing, this coincided with the premiere of a new season of the then-current cartoon "Transformers Animated". | The Transformers Wiki continued to grow on its new server, reaching 8000 articles on January 24, 2009. One coup for the Wiki was getting the opportunity to take part in Hasbro's bimonthly website Transformers Q&A sessions. Disaster struck, however, on March 15th, when an attempt to upgrade the software caused the corruption of the database and it came out that the regular backups had been failing. The most recent backup — dating from July 2008 — was restored to the site, along with a message linking to Wikia at the bottom of every article (Wikia had begun inserting this message into their database dumps during the discussion of the original move). This event became known as the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Bookworm_Crash Bookworm Crash]. In an unfortunate piece of timing, this coincided with the premiere of a new season of the then-current cartoon "Transformers Animated". | ||