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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. In 2007, members of the Wiki entered the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Board_Wars Board Wars], a trivia contest for Transformers fan sites at the official Transformers convention BotCon. | 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. In 2007, members of the Wiki entered and won the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Board_Wars Board Wars], a trivia contest for Transformers fan sites at the official Transformers convention BotCon. A year later, they repeated their success at BotCon 2008. The year after ''that'', the trivia contest was mysteriously discontinued. | ||
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, [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_Release:_Teletraan-1_Wikia_moves_to_TFWiki.net 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 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, [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_Release:_Teletraan-1_Wikia_moves_to_TFWiki.net 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. | ||