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In 2020, Kid Aces | In 2020, Kid Aces was the winner of "Fandom's Editor of the Year 2020" award for her contributions to [[Nukapedia]]. On July 26, 2021, she was voted in as bureaucrat of Nukapedia with overwhelming support. She spearheaded many beneficial changes to Nukapedia and its Discord server. This included removing misinformation, head-canon, poorly written articles and making the community LGBTQ+ friendly and welcoming to all. Some believed the changes to the wiki to be "stomping on creativity" and that the changes negatively impacted the wiki's SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which caused Fandom's archived wiki, The Vault, to trump the wiki in search results. | ||
On April 1, 2022, Aces was demoted and globally banned from [[FANDOM]] for a year. FANDOM, in the past and recently, have been criticized for banning wiki staff for invalid reasons and without warning. Herself and many other users felt the ban to be entirely unjust. Rather than appealing, Aces and Eckserah, Nukapedia's technical lead, began discussing the idea of an independent wiki. On April 7, 2022, the Discord, then called "Project Shmodex", was created, and on April 8, 2022, the '''Independent Fallout Wiki''' was officially founded. Eckserah handled all technical aspects of the wiki fork, while Kate handled the wiki editing spectrum. As an inside joke, the Discord was renamed to "Schmault-Tec". | On April 1, 2022, Aces was demoted and globally banned from [[FANDOM]] for a year. FANDOM, in the past and recently, have been criticized for banning wiki staff for invalid reasons and without warning. Herself and many other users felt the ban to be entirely unjust. Rather than appealing, Aces and Eckserah, Nukapedia's technical lead, began discussing the idea of an independent wiki. On April 7, 2022, the Discord, then called "Project Shmodex", was created, and on April 8, 2022, the '''Independent Fallout Wiki''' was officially founded. Eckserah handled all technical aspects of the wiki fork, while Kate handled the wiki editing spectrum. As an inside joke, the Discord was renamed to "Schmault-Tec". | ||