User blog:TurquoiseEmber/the wiki's first birthday.

I'd like to open this up with a simple statement: I am absolutely in love with this place, and I cannot believe it's a year old. I guess time flies when you're doing something you love.

I remember when Stardust first pitched this concept to me, Starwings, and Spitter on a Midsummer Lovebirds thread back on the WoF wiki a year ago. She asked us: did we think it'd be cool? We said 'yes, go for it!' And she did. Thank goodness she did.

We were mildly intrigued, sure - but I, for one, did not expect this to take off and get as big as it did, or touch as many people as it did, or give as many people an outlet as it did. I was certainly not expecting that one spark of an idea to give birth to something that would grow into what this wiki is now.

And so Stardust, excited, linked us to the wiki from our roleplay thread. When I clicked on it, I was curious. There was barely any activity, and everyone was scrambling to get poweruser positions on this brand-new, clean wiki. I was actually on a vacation in Costa Rica, and admin applications had just opened. I was scared I wouldn't get there in time to submit my application (it was first come, first serve) because I was busy traveling. But I connected to rather crappy airport wifi and submitted a rather scrappy application.

Then, the poweruser team was determined. We could really start making this wiki shine.

We added a bunch of features - colored usernames, a favicon, the works. But we faced one problem - activity was scarce. The wiki had just been born, and it was already dying. So then, we advertised it. We advertised hard, too. A few loyal wikians reached out to everyone we could, and we were able to build the wiki we have today.

We wouldn't be here without our writers and readers, our friends, our uplifters. Wikians might leave, powerusers might change, but one thing is evident in all this - the very concept of this wiki, sharing your writing with the world.

I'm grateful to have been a poweruser for this community since it was created, but I'm more grateful to the contributors who helped blossom the wiki into what it is now. Thank you all. Thank you for writing, for advertising, for stalking people's message walls. Thank you for reading, for editing, for being here.

I know I'll remember this wiki forever.