User blog:Jens Ingels/Some History

It's been an while ago so I will try todo my best.

The Creation of the Wikia
On May 24th 2012 an user named SergioVL created this wikia. In the time this was the first dragon city wikia on the entire network.

When he arrived on this wikia his first priority was creating the "dragon city eggs". That we now known as one of the most popular pages from our wikia the Eggs page.

Their is less we known about on our actual founder. Based on this history we known he never had any intention to run an wikia based on his activity and edits he made. His last edit that was tracked down dates from 27 jun 2012 20:55 on the Eggs page. For some unknown reason he never came back again. Based on his profile we think he was in the army and probaly wasn't able to combine his work with the wikia anymore.

Based on deleted talk history whe discoverd that he did more than edits on this wikia and actualy communicate with his users. Based on that we can actualy say he was the first community manager that ever registrate on this wikia.

Duplicate Wikias
Yes even back then people tryed to duplicate the original wikia. This was done by an user named PotatoCanadian (back than named as Leapkit) on Jun 4th 2012 when he created the dragoncitysocialpoint wikia. Based on his language and actions is was an kid that thought he could do better. And during the periode from Jun 4th 2012 & Jun 12th 2012 the kid started to vandalise this wikia and promoting his wikia. Based on the chat history their was even an small fight between our actual founder and the first vandaliser.

The kid stopped active editing the duplication wikia on 17 jul 2012 04:27 but further history dated his last edit was on 11 feb 2013 04:01 what was the last edit on this duplication wikia. Lucky enouge after Jun 12th 2012 was never saw the kid again on this wikia.

No bureaucrat, No admin and vandals
Since 27 jun 2012 our original founder and bureacrat left the wikia. Since the wikia just start to become popular an lot of vandals start to track down the wikia and made abuse of it. The wikia suddenly became an dark place with no active users to support it anymore.

Discovery & War

 * On 5 juli 2012 user Dragon.queen found his way to the wikia.
 * On 14 jul 2012 user Zentau7 found his way to the wikia.
 * On 30 jul 2012 user Daland found his way to the wikia.

The users became active and became editing the wikia on an regular basis. Finaly the wikia had the users to grow. But their was still an hugh problem. Without the activity of the founder their was no way they could keep the vandals out. And their job slowly changed from building to reparing. The war against vandals was begon.

The way to generation 2 bureacrats
Now became the tricky part: the adoption. Because everyone registrate so late and everyone was new it was hard to tell who deserved the bureaucrat position. That's why wikia stall and stall to discover whe earned it. Making the wikia darker and dark.

My entry
On 15 aug 2012 I found my way to the wikia. With my template experienced is directly communicate with Zentau7 since on that moment everyone already saw him as the bureaucrat from this wikia. Even if he didn't had the power for it yet. On 15 aug 2012 15:25‎ I code the my first template for this wikia: Template:I. Soon after that more of these templates would follow.

New Leadership
On 21 aug 2012 01:02 finaly Zentau7 & Daland where promoted to bureacrat. Arround that time whe where already overflow by vandals. Finaly we could do something about it.

An solution
We noticed we start to lose the war. So I talked to Zentau7 I had an idea and on "4 sep 2012 17:48" I start to code the Template:Data/Dragons database as an security to make sure we don't lose any of our data during an reversion of an vandal edit.

My Promotion
On 24 okt 2012 04:51 Zentau7 promoted me to admin so I was able to get my coding to the next level.

Zentau7 left
On 26 okt 2012 decide to leave the wikia. Making Daland the only remaining bureaucrat.

The war continues
Pages got secured more and more after an vandal edit and vandals start to become smarter. They decide to start spam the page comments and it looked like we start to lose the war. Finaly Daland decide to turn it off on 27 dec 2012. Arround that time I already helped on the annoucements see.

On that moment the database was still not finished yet and vandals found different ways to vandalise like adding false information inside infoboxes and damaging templates. For that reason we decide to lock all templates on default. But the infobox problem was still their.

Daland left
On 6 feb 2013 14:02 Daland annouced to leave the wikia and made his last edit on his profile on 10 feb 2013 16:47.

Preparation
Soon after Daland left I requested an adoption to breng back the user to the wikia. During the month feb the wikia was empty, vandalist and dead and I start reparing and finding solution how I could manage an entire wikia from vandalisme with no community. This is when I decide to automated the infoboxes. On this moment I removed the vandals their last vandal option. They tryed categories but soon after I enter and security on it they start to cry and run away. They still continue with vandalisme but less active as before. Mostly because their action had less influence as before.

New active users that entered:
 * 7 feb 2013 Andibad
 * 18 feb 2013 Prajay

My adoption
Finaly after the long adoption process I was allowed to adopt the wikia on 27 feb 2013 06:18. The time to change was begon.

Starting an community & recruiting an team
I didn't had the grammar nor the experience to manage an community so I promoted Prajay to help me. So I promote him to admin on 28 feb 2013 12:45.

For content controle I promoted Andibad. One of the main reason why even back than we where the most up-to-date fansite on the network.

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''OK that's it for now. I'm tired :p''