User:Atvelonis/Sandbox

This is my sandbox. Feel free to play around with it.

''Not in any way complete. Too much listing especially—needs more detail on how people mentioned affected the wiki and such, especially from 2006-2011.''

Early years
The Elder Scrolls Wiki was created on the 14th of June, 2006 by Kcaz64, around three months after 's release. However, they made no effort to contribute to the wiki, and by 2008 they had been removed from their position due to their inactivity.

First adoption
On March 14th, 2008—almost two years after the founding of the wiki—KickAssJedi became the wiki's second administrator, and Game Lord followed him to become the third administrator on May 5th. The same day, Kcaz64 lost his administrative status due to not making a single edit since his founding of the wiki. On September 24th, KickAssJedi became bureaucrat, allowing him to edit user rights.

On April 21st, 2009, Michaeldsuarez became the wiki's fourth administrator, but was removed from administrator and bureaucrat "per community agreement" on July 4th of that year. Xell Khaar became the fifth on June 24th, and JonusAngelus became the sixth on July 2nd. Arandil was appointed bureaucrat by KickAssJedi on the 11th of July 2009, but was removed from the position four days later. InfernalWarrior became the seventh administrator on July 6th, 2010, a position which he held until July 13th, 2012.

Mismanagement
This period was rather tumultuous and unstable due to mismanagement from the staff, specifically KickAssJedi. On the 11th of July 2009, just before his resignation, he promoted Xell Khaar and JonusAngelus to bureaucrat, and then "resigned," although he had to be removed from power by a Wikia Staff member three days later.

Arandil—who had been appointed bureaucrat by KickAssJedi—claimed that Xell Khaar and KAJ had been "wrongfully removed," and re-promoted them on the 15th. These actions were undone again by Wikia Staff, as was Arandil's initial promotion. JonusAngelus also lost his status as bureaucrat, however he remained an administrator until July 13th, 2012.

On October 16th, Michaeldsuarez adopted the wiki, becoming a bureaucrat once again. He remained bureaucrat until July 13th, 2012, the same day InfernalWarrior and JonusAngelus were removed from their positions.

Revival
In March 2011, amiable Australian Timeoin took interest in the wiki "after seeing a lot of redlinks on the 'Featured Articles' page," and began to make expansions and improvements; he has been doing so ever since. He became the wiki's eighth administrator on April 10th.

Seven months later, was released, and the wiki quickly gathered a significant amount of attention. A plethora of readers and editors flocked to the wiki with the intention of gathering or contributing information.

2011
In May, the Achievements system was introduced to encourage editing, especially among newer members. Editors would receive "badges" worth a certain number of points by making edits, and their points would be tallied on their profile and a leaderboard. Today, badges can be earned by editing various types of articles from most games in the series, and some have even been named after former or current administrators to honor their work.

On May 2nd, 2011, Lordsunflash and Kacj321 (?) of SkyrimWiki became administrator, and twenty days later Mbjones90 of OblivioWiki also became administrator; he became bureaucrat on June 21st. Kacj321 was removed from his position on July 5th, 2012.

AustinAsDeidara and 'R BlaiddDdraig became administrators on June 6th and June 17th respectively (Blaidd's position would change several times until mid-2012). However, they both requested not to be left in the position on the 19th and 17th, respectively—the latter became a Patroller on August 5th. The same day, Annonnimus became administrator.

Around this time, the wiki's personal Chat was introduced, the first-ever chat moderator being Blood Reaper. Prior to this, members of the wiki had primarily used the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to talk in real time.

In September (?) 2011, Commander Faol (a.k.a. "Anonnnomoose") suggested a "Member of the Month" award system, in which one user per month would be elected by the community to receive an award which recognized their efforts in improving the wiki. This was completely separate from the achievements system until September 2015 when one of the current administrators—Emperor Jarjarkine—implemented a badge which linked the two systems together. The award can only be earned once by any user.

On October 15th, Elchzard became administrator, and had implemented a bot by the name of Veetor-Bot III a few days prior. The bot was given numerous monotonous tasks such as deleting unused files; moving, merging, and removing categories; and moving templates, as well as various other assignments. The use of the bot for otherwise large, time-consuming projects meant that editors could focus on expansion rather than repetitive maintenance work. Several more bots would be added by various editors as time went on.

Also on the 15th, Zluhcs became administrator, a position he would retain until September 20th, 2014, during the staff re-evaluations (see below).

2012
December 31st, 2011 marked an important date in wiki history. It was on this day that Deyvid Petteys became administrator after having been a patroller for a little over a month. Deyvid helped created a large number of the help pages and style sheets present on the wiki today, as well as contributing significant amounts of information to the mainspace. He became bureaucrat on March 4th, 2012.

Elchzard, an administrator, became bureaucrat on January 6th, 2012 as a result of "overwhelming community support." HaLo2FrEeEk became administrator on February 27th. Four days later, on the 2nd of March, Flightmare became administrator. Flightmare had and has extensive knowledge of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JS (JavaScript), which are used to create templates and edit MediaWiki pages.

On March 10th, TombRaiser was voted into the position of administrator after less than a month on the wiki. Despite this rather quick promotion, she proved to be an excellent editor; she added "an insane quantity of images and everything else" to the wiki and participated actively with the community. Because of the huge numbers of images she added, a badge called "As Insane as TombRaiser" was named after her, received for adding 500 images to articles, and every 500 after that. TombRaiser was also the first recipient of the "Akatosh" badge, which requires making one or more edits for 365 consecutive days. She became a bureaucrat on November 14th, 2013. She stayed with the wiki until her resignation on January 16th, 2015.

On May 16th, 2012, another extremely impactful editor, Jimeee, became an administrator. While Jimeee's temperament was by some perceived as rude or blunt, his editing skills far surpassed most other users'. Jimeee took on innumerable large-scale editing projects, such as greatly expanding and standardizing, , , and articles; working on large numbers of  articles; expanding huge amounts of lore articles; and creating many of the infobox templates which are used today. He also helped prevent and remove plagiarized material, and added character dialogue to articles. In mid 2014, a group of users began a consensus to remove Jimeee from his position, their reasoning involving his aforementioned temperament. While much of the evidence in it seemed to have been taken out of context or was simply irrelevant, Jimeee eventually resigned on August 11th of that year.

On August 23rd of 2012, GramsJ and Kennyannydenny both became administrators. GramsJ, however, was forced to leave the wiki only a couple of months later due to serious health concerns. Because of this, she is so far the only administrator to be exempt from removal from the position, and has simply been marked as "Inactive." While she was an active member of the community, however, GramsJ worked on many different editing projects, and was an operator of DwemerBot. As a beloved and productive editor, she was honored with a special award of sorts to signify this. She has not made a return to the wiki as of now. Kennyannydenny was known for his work on Skyrim character and creature articles, as well as on and Oblivion articles. He also did some work on various other games of the series such as, , and. He created over a thousand articles for the wiki.

2014
By late 2014, the wiki had a total of around 28,000 articles. This number was boosted greatly when several editors began mass-creating articles for. While the wiki had covered the game since well before its release in April of 2014, a lack of enthusiasm from editors and players slowed progress; however, as stated previously, this was eventually remedied.

Merges
The wiki as it is known today is actually the result of several merges such as those with OblivioWiki and Skyrim Wiki (more?).

Today
In the four-year period from 2011 to 2015, the wiki grew at an astounding rate, from ~1000 articles (?) to over 36,000. It now encompasses virtually all topics related to series, and has continued to grow at a rapid pace. The Staff is now comprised of sixteen individuals working in varying positions to ensure that the wiki remains both a friendly and accepting and factually accurate place.