~ 3. The Board 8 Wiki ~
Created by: Zachnorn
List Appearances: 15
Total Points: 75
Quick side note. Board 8 Wiki, although coming 3rd by a considerable margin to the top 2, actually had the most list appearances.
Write up by Zachnorn
The Board 8 Wiki is a unique project on Board 8, in that it is an offsite project, and hundreds of people have contributed to it. It is a website all about Board 8, GameFAQs contests, and related information, and it has 230+ registered accounts on it with many unregistered users also contributing. Information about almost anything related to the board can be contributed to it: users, fads, history, projects, anything related to GameFAQs contests, etc. It’s basically Wikipedia, but for Board 8. As such, there are a large variety of articles, with categories and links galore. In that sense, it is arguably the largest Board 8 project in terms of contributors, with almost 4,000 articles created since the Board 8 Wiki’s creation in January 2006.
Zachnorn created the Board 8 Wiki when he saw a topic from SA2Tails discussing the possibility of having a wiki for the board, to post stuff like high scores in games, AIM usernames, etc. SA2Tails was thinking of it being a resource for Board 8 to share just small things like that, and few people expected it to be anything more than a few pages of interesting information. The Board 8 Wiki was originally created through EditThis.Info and Zachnorn didn’t change the defaults much when he posted it on the board. It took off from there. People initially made articles on fads and such, and then started to make pages about themselves. It would soon move to ElWiki.com (which no longer exists) a few weeks after its initial creation, and it even had a .com name at one point. The Board 8 Wiki was the first of the social board wikis, with PotD, RI, and CE having wikis similar to the Board 8 Wiki. However, the Board 8 Wiki has been the most successful, especially after the collapse of ElWiki. The Board 8 Wiki would move to Wikia, its current home.
Today, the Board 8 Wiki is a place hosting all types of information, and information scattered among many websites for Board 8ers to view is now a lot more centralized. People on Board 8 have a place to easily write about themselves for others to see, including top lists. Many projects use the Board 8 Wiki, usually to store results, writings, or whatever, and so it is an important part of many projects on Board 8. The main parts of the Board 8 Wiki still exist, however: information about the contests, and information about the Board 8 community. The Board 8 Wiki continues to evolve in ways that nobody would have expected, and it continues to grow. It’s one of the longer-running projects on the board, lasting 5 years so far. As long as there are contributors, the Board 8 Wiki will continue to run.
There have been several administrators with the Board 8 Wiki. The current administrators, in the order of them earning admin rights, are Zachnorn, SA2Tails, Ngamer64, UltimaterializerX, Xcarvengerx, Th3l3fty. Former administrators are Repus_Yortsed and X_Dante_X. This does not count the Wikia admins. If you want to see a list of everyone who has an account at the Board 8 Wiki, you can find that information here: http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ListUsers .
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