User blog:Drew1200/My LMB Wikia History

I'm a buecrat, admin, and chatmod here (as you probably know), but I should probably start at the beginning. I first got here at the beginning of 2011, just after starting to edit on Brickipedia. I really liked wiki, but not so much Brickipedia. All's I wanted to write and edit about was the LEGO Message Boards, but only one article that I had created made it without being deleted. I wasn't angry, but I was kinda' upset. I realized then, that I could make my own wiki about the LEGO Message Boards, that is, if there wasn't already one. So, I searched for one, and this very site came up, though it was pretty far down the list. At first I was excited, but then, I realized that there were only nine articles. The very basic ones, along with some SPAM, and a couple ranks. It was kind of disappointing, but I didn't really get upset until I realized that it had been completely inactive for months. I was completely alone. I did realize that a couple weeks ago a user named Legobatmankid10 had left some messages around similar to mine. I kept trying to talk to him, but it took him awhile to answer, because he didn't check back often (IDK why he would have). Eventually, he did answer, though. He was having the same problem, so we kept talking about what we should do. Eventually, around the time 1999bug showed up, LBK found an answer. He found the page on Community Central for adopting a wiki. It required many things, and more people were getting rejected than accepted. But, we met the requirements, so I gave it a try. I left a message on the page explaining that the only admin was inactive, and we wanted to start to get the wiki running, again. It took a long time, but eventually, it we got a reply. It was a yes. Both LBK and I were admins. At this time, only the three of us, LBK, 1999bug, and I were on the wiki, so it wasn't huge, but we could at least clean it up a bit. Soon Pepsicola showed up, that's when we really started going. We made every article for ranks, and for every forum, as well as many others. We soon got 70 pages, right after Legocat appeared. The creating of article soon slowed down significantly. We stayed around 70 for a long time. The editing was still good, though. But, I soon started to slow down. About now, Eagleeyedan joined the wiki, but didn't edit much. I kept getting less, and less active, so LBK and I started talking about a new admin. Earlier a user named Legostudios34 had joined, but he was never really all that active. We didn't have many options; our only real ones were 1999bug, Legocat, and Pepsicola. But, LBK chose Legostudios. I agreed more because we needed him, rather than me really thinking it was best. So, I went completely inactive for awhile. During this time, Legostudios did a great job, and many users joined including BusyCityGuy, Legofanyoda, Bud, and FancyPantsGuy, as well as many more (I can't list you all, sorry). But soon, Legostudios had to leave the wiki. I came back at the same time as he left (without trying), and saw what happened. I was really excited for the wiki, but we did need a new admin. This time we had time to talk about it, so we talked about it forever... almost. Eventually we ruled out almost every user on the wiki... but then I remembered Eagleeyedan. I told LBK, and he agreed. So, we soon made Eagleeyedan the next admin. At this same time, Cheatcodes joined the wiki. He was pretty good, but one morning I woke up to see that someone had messed up the moderator articles with some very bad language. It was done under the name Cheatcodes! At first I assumed it was him, but then I realized that the real Cheatcodes had numbers on the end. I figured it was not really him (because it was even more likely it was someone else), but I couldn't be sure. So I sent a message to wiki asking if the users matched, later, I got an E-mail saying that they were not the same person. I had no idea who it could have been. But a couple days later, another user started acting suspicious, and the day after that on another wiki, language even worse than what was on our wiki appeared. But this time, it was under one of the user’s accounts on this wiki. Of course it wasn't that user; he had said things the day before that made it easy to guess his password. This made me think even more that the user we thought may have done these things, really did do it. So, we (the admins) talked about it more, and finally sent him a message. We're still trying to figure things out right now. But, when this whole thing started happening, I really started to enjoy the wiki, again, and started editing like crazy. I soon got ahead of BCG (he almost took the lead in edits :P),

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