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I have been an editor to Wikia since October 5th, 2009. SmashWiki A was my very first wiki I joined. I, recently getting SSBB and developing a new interest for Smash Bros., had discovered there was an entire wiki for it (I do not recall exactly how I found it). I was impressed by the vast amounts of info, very informative Brawl character articles, community, and general reliability. At that time I had been familiar with Wikia for a short amount of time, but it was only then that I made an account, I wanted to pitch in too. Typical story, yes.

So as I became more experienced, I began to notice some editors had "branched out", or were parts of other wiki projects. I myself, being an absolute DKC and Street Fighter 2 fan, having grown up with the two on the good ol' SNES, figured there was a wiki for them. And, there were. Street Fighter Wikia and Donkey Kong Wikia. I had come here first, and noticed there was a lack of info on various topics. At the time I was still adjusting and making a name for myself at SmashWiki A, so DKWikia was pretty much a minor side job (I would not be involved with SFWikia until later, and then Ace Combat Wikia but those are different stories). I would usually just come by, like, every other week or week and make many edits on one day.

After a while, I had slightly lowered in activity on SmashWikia slowly finding less to do. I came here looking for things to edit and make more often. It had eventually reached a point where I was making minor edits on SmashWikia a few times a week and visiting DKWikia daily. And such, I really noticed the massive amounts of red links, in addition to the fact that some of the articles there were had been copied of Super Mario Wiki. So, being the loyal DKC fan that I am, began making new articles and expanded old ones, even going to rewrite those copied off MarioWiki from the ground up. I had learned that at least two or three users on here (who shall remain anonymous unless they want to speak out now) had been copying off MarioWiki for some time.

Blue Ninjakoopa, the then recently quitting editor of this wiki and also a b'crat, promoted me for my work. I also familiarized myself with The Forgotten Beast, a longtime user of the DKWikia. He helped me as well. Though his activity seemed like "on and off", I did not mind. At that point some fellow editors from SmashWikia had also come by willing to help out. We made a small community, we had. Activity and general wiki progress was pretty short at first, slowly improving (even nowadays we're still low on coverage in some areas). I even helped the wiki get a Spotlight (Aug). I was the established top editor of the site. Things went smoothly.

Fast forward to the dreaded day that Wikia, specifically Sannse, proudly announced their new skin re-design. At first glance I wasn't exactly sure of how to think of it. Then the beta for it was released. Ugh. Horrid. Obviously aimed to be a social networking site and lowering the priority of articles, there was lukewarn reception to say the best. But they did not care one bit. They ignored every last comment about content size, and to the ones they did respond were overly corrupted and looked like they went through a pre-made, sugarcoated and poorly believable response system. And then no Monaco? They're REALLY pushing it. Heck, SmashWikia jumped the boat early, soon to be joined by many other wikis, including DKWikia. The move took longer than expected but it did happen.

Aside from some initial conflicts with galleries and some other mishaps, the wiki was better than ever before. The custom Monobook was awesome and directly inspired by DKWikia's former Monaco skin, which I liked a lot. Also, pages loaded a billion times faster, and us admins had more control (checkuser=ours), not to mention being a part of a well known network of wikis just like DKWiki that were fed up with Wikia and other companies.

Ah. Freedom. Ridding us from Tyrannikia (otherwise known as "Wikia") was probably the best thing done to the site ever. Things were great. Until one day, Sannse had to annoy us more than usual and complain that it was wrong for the new users to DKWikia to have a better experience and help where it was rightfully needed. According to Sannse, "I recommend you join NIWA" is violation #9,001 in Tyrannikia rules. So, I got demoted. Just for telling people Wikia is the wrong choice, which it is clearly. Even after I had reverted plenty of vandalism and banning vandals, which DKWikia has become infested with lately.

Tyranny if I ever saw it. Sannse clearly did that because she did not like that I spoke out against Wikia. Add that to the number of reasons why Wikia is biased. And then what? Sannse moves the very large notice on the main page clearly stating what happened to a very small sugarcoated and overly small in detailed version on a tiny section of the News template. Pfft. Government censorship, more like.

In conclusion, Wikia used to be cool.  --Havoc Reaper  '48  18:37, 22 November 2010 (EST)