User talk:Hoof Hearted: Difference between revisions

Touhou Wiki itself originated as a subsection of the Touhou imageboard [http://pooshlmer.com/ Pooshlmer] around 2005 or so, and subsequently had been moved to Wikia by the owner of Pooshlmer (who on the wiki also had the username 'Pooshlmer') after a year or so.  The wiki lived for awhile as 'touhou.wikia.com', and several other Touhou wikis in various language grew up around that (as subdomains of 'touhou.wikia.com').  At the point where Wikia began their changes, we decided to move everything to our own hosting, and did so with the blessing of 'Pooshlmer', who was still the head admin of the wiki.  After the site move was completed around Nov-Dec 2010, Wikia staff (namely Sannse) refused to close the previous wikis down, and in the spring of 2011 a couple people were granted admin rights of the then-abandoned 'touhou.wikia.com'.  One of said admins also proceeded to go around the rest of Wikia and remove legitimate links to the new Touhou Wiki and generally causing problems.  So there's historically been a lot of bad blood between Touhou Wiki and the administration of Wikia and those they 'promote' to admins of the dead wikis.  Since that point one of the other admins has tried to rework the aim of the previous wiki on Wikia as to not compete with Touhou Wiki after a good couple years of infighting, although I'm not exactly familiar with their success.