Board Thread:New on Survivor Wiki/@comment-1294345-20150826124651

Nine years ago, a guy under the username Beatles20147 started the Survivor Wiki project. The site began with very little traffic, but it slightly grew with Quack-Wabbit, Cscin3d, Quiddity99 and Andytw710. In 2009, the Wiki's growth plateued as Beatles and the original admins of the site left one by one, leaving the site barren and vandalized, marred with Big Brother stuff and spoiler-y content. In the advent of "lame" production decisions such as the Medallion of Power and Redemption Island; bringing returnees and casting non-entertaining oddballs such as Phillip Sheppard and Russell Hantz]], a disgruntled Beatles stated his waning interest in the show, even going far as writing an "impassioned rant" on Survivor Sucks, post which Jeff Probst himself surprisingly repsonded to.

At this same point in time, a new Wikia user, yours truly contributed for a few months before making his own Survivor-related wiki, Torchpedia (torchpedia-survivor.wikia.com; the link now redirects to Survivor Wiki), after realizing the Survivor Wiki turned into a ghost town. A year into editing Torchpedia, I decided that Torchpedia will never suffice as its site name is more obscure than Survivor Wiki, hence making a petition to adopt the Survivor Wiki. By 2011, I began rebuilding the Survivor Wiki, from a desolate site, to the bustling Wiki that it is now.

In my years as the Survivor Wiki's senior bureaucrat, I have done several projects to reach out to Survivor fans worldwide, from opening the site to fan fiction writing (which gave birth to Survivor Fanon Wiki), to Online Reality Gaming (Survivor ORG Wiki; turned out to be a personal failure and biggest mistake), to joining the social media bandwagon (@SurvivorWiki on Twitter and Facebook). For those who stayed with me for the past years, my fellow admins (current and former), friends, Survivor geeks, PoS/Survivor Sucks bashers, thank you for helping me get the wiki closer to my vision, which is to make Survivor Wiki a leading Survivor resource.

As the Wiki nears its 10th anniversary, let's have with an open forum. In what areas does Survivor Wiki need to improve on? Any ideas on what we should do in our 10th year? Post them here. 