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==History== | ==History== | ||
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. 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. They won, and a year later repeated their success at BotCon 2008. 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. | ||
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What followed was a long process of recovering article text from Google, Yahoo and MSN caches, reuploading and reformatting them, all of this amid ongoing server problems manifesting as intermittent downtime. After several long months, the restoration was more or less complete. In late May of 2009, the Transformers Wiki was moved to another new server on Slicehost. Lingering teething problems were soon fixed, and the Wiki began preparing for the release of ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' in cinemas. Despite downtime from the flood of traffic created by the movie, the wiki reached a total of 9000 articles just four days after the movie's opening. | What followed was a long process of recovering article text from Google, Yahoo and MSN caches, reuploading and reformatting them, all of this amid ongoing server problems manifesting as intermittent downtime. After several long months, the restoration was more or less complete. In late May of 2009, the Transformers Wiki was moved to another new server on Slicehost. Lingering teething problems were soon fixed, and the Wiki began preparing for the release of ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' in cinemas. Despite downtime from the flood of traffic created by the movie, the wiki reached a total of 9000 articles just four days after the movie's opening. | ||
On December 14, 2009, the Transformers Wiki celebrated [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_release:_TFwiki.net_reaches_10,000_articles reaching 10,000 articles]. | On December 14, 2009, the Transformers Wiki celebrated [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_release:_TFwiki.net_reaches_10,000_articles reaching 10,000 articles]. In February of 2010, members of the Wiki were invited to Hasbro's fan day at the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Toy_Fair_2010 2010 Toy Fair]. Not long after, an auction for a rare toy catalog from the 80s led the Wiki and fan site the AllSpark to [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67034 cooperate in a fundraising drive] to, not only raise the money to purchase the catalog, but to go on and donate money to Hasbro Children's Hospital. The pages of the toy catalog were subsequently placed online for all to enjoy. A similar feat was achieved in November when a number of [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74385 behind-the-scenes documents] from the 80s Transformers cartoon were similarly auctioned, and many of the documents were successfully secured, scanned and made available to all. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||