Star Wars Fanon:Current events

Star Wars Fanon was founded on August 30, 2005 by Neomessiah as a fan fiction version of Wookieepedia. Despite the date of creation, the Wiki did not become an active one until May 2006, a whole nine months after it was actually created. When it became active, numerous problems began to arise. There were various attempts to elect an active System Operator, also known as SysOps and Administrators, but all of the elections fell through and no one was elected. In June 2006, there was a major occurrence of vandalism throughout the entire Wiki which caused a Wiki-wide rollback effort, forcing many users to restart to the work they had been working on.

Despite the major string of vandalism, the community as a whole was able to come together in July 2006 to participate in the First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Darth Vacatour, a total of twenty awards were handed out to various users. During the same month, the Senate Hall, the Fanon Cantina and the Star Wars Fanon IRC channel were established by the members.

In August 2006, StarNeptune was appointed by Wikia Staff to be the first Star Wars Fanon Administrator in order to help around the Wiki. Check user rights were also appointed, but only due to the heavy amount of vandalism. In October 2006, Jedi Master 76, C3PO the Dragon Slayer and Bub were also appointed to be Administrators.

As the Wiki continued to grow in size and membership, the Alliance of Fanon was established. In February 2007, much to the joy of the entire community, Star Wars Fanon was the featured Wikia Wiki. In April 2007, the community came together once again and held the Second Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Jasca Ducato, a total of twenty-seven awards were handed out to various users. Later that month, Jack Phoenix and Victor Dorantes were elected as Administrators.

Throughout the months of 2007, numerous new policies were established. The Voting Policy, Video policy and the Userbox Policy were all created, as was the Clan Policy. There was some backlash from members regarding the banning of clans, but the policy remained intact. The Manual of Style, the Layout Guide and the Categorization Policy were also extensively rewritten in order to conform to and create a much higher standard of quality. Thousands of uncategorized articles were also deleted by the Administration. Two additional user groups were created to oversee the promotion of articles. The Decreton Lords, whose name was based off of a rank in the Sith Order of Decreto, were created to oversee and handle the promotion of articles to Featured article status. Later, the High Priests, based off of a rank in the Bendu Order, were created to oversee and handle the promotion of articles to Good article status.

Four additional Administrators were elected by the community as a whole in two Administrative elections during the summer months. In June 2007, Wayne Lipman III and Jasca Ducato were elected by the community as Administrators. In September 2007, Brandon Rhea and Christian Ashley were also elected by the community as Administrators. There have been no further Administrative elections since the last election ended on September 1, 2007. Once again, the community as a whole came together in January and February of 2008 for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Brandon Rhea and Victor Dorantes, a total of twenty-three awards were handed out to various users.

Star Wars Fanon is proud to currently have articles and  uploaded files, as well as a consistent number of active users who contribute daily to make Star Wars Fanon a premier Wiki for fans of the Star Wars Saga to delve into the universe and use and express their vast imaginations.

=Major Events=

August 30

 * Star Wars Fanon is founded by Neomessiah as a fan fiction version of Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Canon Wiki.

May 19

 * Star Wars Fanon began going through a massive reorganization. The users of the Wiki began an election to try to appoint the first Administrators to keep the Wiki in working order.

May 20

 * TempMan and Wikimaniac are accused of vandalism by Wikia Staff, resulting in major arguments throughout the community.

June 2

 * An impersonator of Wikimaniac appeared and began to cause havoc throughout the community.

June 8

 * The Miss Star Wars Fanon 2006 contest began, which then became cause for the creation of a Mister Star Wars Fanon 2006 contest.

June 9

 * Di'e Go Am'er'ez withdrew from the Administrative election.

June 14

 * A massive string of vandalism attacks were carried out by Crumb 9 and Crumb 10. It took days to revert the massive page moves that the vandals carried out.

June 15

 * Sansee announced that a massive database rollback due to the devastating moving of pages carried out by Crumb 9 and Crumb 10. Legitimate articles, along with the vandalism, were deleted or reverted. To recover the legitimate articles, the data was moved to a Jasontest Wiki.

June 21

 * Darth Vacatour proposed that the community hold the First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards.
 * MaulYoda withdrew from the Administrative election. His brother, Nihilusdude, took his place.

June 23

 * MaulYoda was re-nominated in the Administrative election.

June 26

 * Star Wars Fanon gained it’s 1000th article after nearly one year of existence.

June 30

 * The First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began under the leadership of the Wiki Awards Council, a group formed to help accelerate the progress of the awards.

July 1

 * The First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards ended. A total of twenty awards were handed out to various users.

July 4

 * The Senate Hall, modeled after the Wookieepedia Forum, was introduced and created by C3PO the Dragon Slayer.

July 6

 * The Fanon Council was created in an attempt to replace the elective duties of Administrators until Administrators could be elected.

July 9

 * A Star Wars Fanon IRC Channel was created at #swfanon on irc.freenode.net.

July 20

 * The Fanon Cantina was created by Aiddat.

July 21

 * The Picture Drive was created.

August 10

 * StarNeptune was appointed as the first Star Wars Fanon Administrator. She was granted Checkuser rights to allow her to distinguish Sockpuppets from legitimate users.

October 12

 * Star Wars Fanon Jeopardy, a game show to test user’s knowledge of everyone’s fanon works and other relevant site topics, began. The game show was a self-test collaboration to keep the community aware of its creations.

October 14

 * Jedi Master 76, C3PO the Dragon Slayer and Bub were appointed as Star Wars Fanon Administrators.

December 22

 * A very active community celebration took place with a Mandalorian theme.
 * The Alliance of Fanon was created by C3PO the Dragon Slayer.

February 4

 * Star Wars Fanon becomes a featured Wikia Wiki.

February 5

 * The first portal page was created for Star Wars: Mandalorians - Path to Glory, making Star Wars Fanon one of the few Wikia Wikis to use alternative main pages to emphasize a sub-project.

March 1

 * Star Wars Fanon gained a German sister Wiki.

April 14

 * A second Mandalorian-themed community celebration took place.

April 16

 * The Second Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards, hosted by User:Jasca Ducato, began.

April 30

 * Victor Dorantes and Jack Phoenix were elected as Administrators.

May 13

 * A new logo was approved by the community, thus rendering the need for a new Wiki design.
 * The clans of Star Wars Fanon were deleted after a long period of voting that saw the creation of the Clan Policy. There was some backlash to the new proposal, though the policy remained and the criticism subsided.

May 28

 * The High Priests, a board of members that were appointed to oversee the nominations of Good Articles and provide constructive criticism or praise, were officially created. Brandon Rhea, Wayne Lipman III, Gnosis is knowledge, Jedi Master 76 and Darth tader were appointed as the five High Priests.

June 3

 * Per community consensus, the Decreton Lords would be the sole members to vote on the nominations for Featured Articles. Community voting would be involved in the selection of Good Articles instead.
 * For the first time, rollback rights were given to users. The recipients of the newfound responsibility were Jasca Ducato and Gnosis is knowledge.

June 27

 * Jasca Ducato and Wayne Lipman III were elected as Administrators.

July 1

 * The Manual of Style and Layout Guide underwent an extensive rewrite by Brandon Rhea in order to create and conform to a higher standard of quality.

July 7

 * The consensus of the community warranted the removal of Good Article showcasing on the main page. Because of major disagreements, a compromise was created to include a link to the Good Article of the Week under the showcasing of Featured Articles.

July 8

 * The Halo Fanon Wiki became the first official friend of Star Wars Fanon. A link to Halo Fanon was added to the Star Wars Fanon main page, and the same was done on the Halo Fanon main page.

July 12

 * TheStarWarsRP.Com, an active role-playing site that had placed many articles on Star Wars Fanon, became the second official friend of Star Wars Fanon.

July 15

 * High Priests Brandon Rhea and Wayne Lipman III were promoted to Decreton Lords by the community and users Pinky49 and Solus were elected to take their place as High Priests.

July 16

 * In a vote of thirteen to one, links were no longer allowed in section titles of articles.

July 18

 * Thousands of uncategorized pages were deleted by the Administration.

September 1

 * Brandon Rhea and Christian Ashley were elected as Administrators.
 * Dexington was elected as a High Priest.

September 30

 * The Featured Article requirements were significantly increased.

October 6

 * The second Decreton Lord Featured Article Review began.

October 24

 * The Critic's Lounge, a place for users to civilly critique articles, was established.

November 23

 * A new set of Good article requirements was established through consensus.

November 24

 * The partnership with the Halo Fanon Wiki was removed through consensus.
 * A community-wide Random Page clean up began.

November 27

 * A Video Policy was established through consensus.

December 13

 * A Userbox Policy was established through consensus.

December 23

 * Darth tader and Dexington were re-elected as High Priests. MPK and Xepeyon were also elected.
 * Brandon Rhea and Victor Dorantes were chosen to be the hosts of the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards.

December 29

 * The Improvement Drive returned, though the High Priests will be the ones to nominate and vote on articles for the improvement collaboration.

January 1

 * Nominations for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began.

January 2

 * Darth tader resigned from his position as a High Priest.

January 5

 * The first Good Article Review was held by the High Priests.

January 8

 * The Picture Drive was voted to be removed as a feature of Star Wars Fanon.
 * Brandon Rhea and Gnosis is knowledge were re-elected as High Priests.

January 16

 * Voting for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began.

January 21

 * A proposal was made to change the name of Star Wars Fanon to Star Wars Fan Fiction.

January 27

 * Wayne Lipman III resigned from his position as a Decreton Lord.

February 5

 * The proposal to change the name of Star Wars Fanon to Star Wars Fan Fiction was rejected.

February 16

 * Voting for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Award ended and the winners were announced.

February 17

 * The requests for adminship archives underwent a drastic rewrite, detailing the events of every election thus far.

February 18

 * The current events page went through a drastic rewrite.