Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20160101033120

As I write this, the new year has not yet come, but I have time and want to start this now. We have had a busy year, A year I feel was more good then bad. I wont recap everything, but I do want to talk a little about this year.

At the start of this year, I was not really active here, I focused most of my time on other wikis I had adopted. It was pure timing when I came here to find long time admins had grown tired and all left. I stayed to help, and as such, I saw the good and bad that resulted from there time here. I was nominated to Admin in there place, and in order to help fill the void, I nominated Atvelonis to become admin as well. We now have five Admins, and I want to thank the others for their help,


 * Tim has been a long time asset to this wiki, and while he is not always here (or very mature) his experience are always needed and welcome.
 * Flightmare remains busy with his other obligations, but I am still thankful for his help. He has knowledge and skills none of the other admins have, and our Bot is maintained by him.
 * Atvelonis I feel was unsure about the idea of becoming admin, he was newer then some of the others I could have asked, and I assume that others where assumed for the nomination. But Atve has continued to not only prove to be a good choice, but a better choice then I thought.  As I have become less active, Atve has stepped up and continued to help this wiki grow and thrive.  I feel a lot of our good this year is because of him, and his contributions should not be ignored.
 * Jarjarkine is the newest Admin, but his history on other wikis has been a good way to find possible improvements to add to our community. When I first became Admin here, I was overwhelmed, not only did I have a community that was larger then any other I worked with, but they are angry and nervous. Jarjarkine was a soundboard for a lot of what I did, and gave me advice often,  when I was overwhelmed he helped keep me balanced.

We have a lot of staff on this wiki I want to thank, G0LD, Renz, Kora, and Lilith for being chat mods here, making sure that the peace is kept in what is in many ways our face. Fun fact, G0LD was a pain talking him into taking the job, I am glad he did. I also want to thank G0LD for a lot of his advice, and for giving the admins here access to our Facebook page so we could reach out threw that.

I do not want to know what our Forums would be like without Azura and Dovah. Azura may not like getting notice for what he does, but Im doing it anyway right now. Without the two of them, we would have a lot of chaos in those threads, and with them we maintain a great place for people to talk about the Elder scroll games.

Rim, Starkiller, and The Cat Master have all done great handing the patrol of the wiki, I hope that they continue to work with us, and one day replace the current admins (besides Tim, he refuses to leave, so you need to work with him)

Besides our losses, of several staff members, to editors tired of the drama, to other things we will never return, we have also grown. We have over 40,000 articles, we started Weekly Updates, The Moot, and Guilds. We brought back Featured Articles, Featured Polls, and added featured Images and Quotes to the mix.

I want to thank you all for trusting me to be Admin here, I know I have not been perfect, but being here is something I enjoy a great deal. Even when I am not editing in large strings of edits like Atve or Shockstorm, or uploading countless images like Rim, Draevan or Gamin, I feel that this is my home community, and it is an honor to work here with you guys (and girls)

I hope you all enjoyed this year, and have a great one ahead. I hope we are all here this time next year, to read what I hope will be a bigger list of things we have done to make this wiki the go to place for all things Elder Scrolls. We have a long way to go, but if we all chip in, we can make it to the top together.

Thank you, a happy new year, and happy editing.-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 03:31, January 1, 2016 (UTC) 