Wikisimpsons

Wikisimpsons is an encyclopedic wiki that is centered around the animated television series The Simpsons and founded on September 24, 2005.

Creation
The wiki was created on September 24, 2005 by PostBagBoy on Wikia. He never edited here, apart from one edit on his user page stating how amazed he felt that the wiki he had created had turned out to be successful (in 2007).

Rights
Later on, Wikia co-founder Angela appointed M Johnson with sysop rights.

Rights
Staff member Sannse granted M Johnson with Bureaucratic rights and Thai420 with Admin rights.

Criticism
Wikisimpsons received a lot of criticism on its quality. Unregistered contributors regularly claimed that Wikipedia had better articles on The Simpsons.

Rights
Angela changed rights for Basel17 from none to Administrator.

Criticism
Wikisimpsons received more criticism on its usefulness.

Rights
ToughPigs changed rights of Brian McClure from normal user straight to Bureaucrat. Shortly later, Brian McClure changed rights for Dr. Ralph Wiggum to admin. Later on Brian McClure changed rights for Sgtcook from none to Admin temporarily so he could delete images, Sgtcook later kept the powers and put them to good use. Brian changed Kingcjc's rights to admin.

Projects
On March 10, Sgtcook founded Project Images to help sort out images on the wiki. On March 16, Kingcjc created Project Locations to help sort out location articles.

Rights
In early February, Brian made Joeyaa an admin.

Projects
Smiley12 started Project Characters, a project that helped improve character articles on Wikisimpsons.

Milestones
Wikisimpsons passed 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 articles.

Awards
In January, The Golden Homer Award started as an award for project Characters members, it later became for the whole wiki.

Rights
Solar Dragon passed requests for Adminship and Sgtcook passed requests for Bureaucratship and adopts the wiki. Smiley12 became a Rollback and then an Admin without having to pass any requests. JaffaCakeLover, Jasonbres and Ldude893 all became Rollbacks. Effluvium and TheHomer become rollback then admin after passing requests. Dohayecarumbadoh passes Rollback Request. Gran2 and Mythigator were both granted Rollback rights without having to pass the request.

Other websites
Wikisimpsons created its own IRC Channel as well as the YouTube account and Twitter account.

Projects
Sgtcook created Project Episodes to help with episode articles. Solar Dragon created Project Appearances, Mythigator created Project Self Voicers, Effluvium created Project Grammar and Doh5678 created Project Guest Stars

Awards
Wikisimpsons enabled achievements. The achievements system encouraged a lot of activity as well as a lot of spam. The Golden Bart Award was created for the achievements system. This was stopped upon the move to ShoutWiki.

Spotlight
Wikisimpsons prepares to requests a Spotlight. The wiki requests a spotlight and later on the wiki passes the request. The spotlight becomes visible after a long wait. Wikisimpsons later requested a second spotlight with a premade spotlight image this time, created by Smiley12.

Skin
Wikisimpsons requested a new skin. The skin was implemented and improved by JaffaCakeLover. After the New Wikia Look was implemented Wikisimpsons requested another new skin and wordmark to work with the New Look.

Article Comments
A suggestion for articles comments to be enabled was brought up but quickly turned down.

Bot
A bot was created for Wikisimpsons although quickly became inactive due to problems. Manyman used Manybot to help out on Wikisimpsons.

Birthday
Wikisimpsons celebrated its fifth birthday. Smiley12 designed a new mainpage layout especially for the event.

Simpsons Font
Smiley12 introduced 'easy to insert Simpsons Font'. Simpsons Font was used for important headers on the mainpage and sometimes sitenotice.

ShoutWiki
Wikia Staff announced that a new skin was on its way. Admins of Wikisimpsons signed up for beta testing with high expectations. The skin turned out to be a huge disappointment and not fully compatible with Wikisimpsons' article layouts. Admins of Wikisimpsons argued with the staff and Smiley12 and Solar Dragon were blocked as a result. Wikisimpsons eventually moved to ShoutWiki and the old Wikisimpsons became Simpsons Wiki.

Affiliates
The Infosphere and The Simpsons Forums Site became affiliates with Wikisimpsons. Later, NIWA, Bart - The One and Only and IWatchTheSimpsonsOnline.com also became affiliates with Wikisimpsons.

Simpsons Fanon
Simpsons Fanon was created.

The Springfield Shopper
became the third member of the Simpsons Wiki Network.

Smiley12's leaving
Smiley12 announced that he would leave the wiki on January 1 after decreasing in activity. No one took his place as admin as Wikisimpsons already has enough. He will still make some graphics on request though.

Platinum and Crystal Homer Awards
The Platinum and Crystal Homer Awards were awarded for 2010. Mr. Blackadder, Josegiraffio, Effluvium and TheHomer all picked up the Crystal awards while Mythigator gained the Platinum award.

DeviantArt Group
Smiley12 made a DeviantArt Group before leaving Wikisimpsons for good.

Another departure
Josegiraffio announced that he was leaving the wiki as well, very soon after Smiley12's departure. He was a great user and rollback who won multiple Homer awards in his time here.

UnSimpsons
Jeff created UnSimpsons Wiki in early January. He later had his powers removed and Solar Dragon and Will k were promoted in his place.

User rights
In January, Will k, AleWi, and FatHomer became rollbacks. Sgtcook returned to the wiki and had his admin rights returned to him.

Projects
TheUnderfaker created Project Comics, Doh5678 created Project Crew and Solar Dragon created Project Re-Watch.

Milestones
Wikisimpsons reached and passed the 7,000 article mark in February.

Three Returnees
In late February Smiley12, returned after leaving in early January. His user rights were returned as well as the Project Characters leadership. Josegiraffo returned, although on a less active basis. Dohayecarumbadoh also returned after taking a break.

Simptionary
When he returned, Smiley12 created Simptionary, a Simpsons dictionary.

Competition
On February 25, Solar Dragon stated that he would be doing a competition for the wiki. This would give prizes to users for improving the wiki. The competition started on 1 March but has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Shout Wiki outage
A database problem caused Shout Wiki to be down for over two months. This affected Wikisimpsons, causing it to lose data from 6 March to the first day of the outage.

Independence
Thanks to Jake, Wikisimpsons moved from ShoutWiki to a new server and got a new domain, simpsonswiki.net.

April Fools!
On April Fools' Day (April 1), Wikisimpsons turned into Family Guy Wiki for the occasion. WikiHead Solar Dragon received many questions as to why it was a Family Guy Wiki.

User rights
On February 20, Frederick and Nick97 became rollbacks.

Server move
In late July–early August, Wikisimpsons was moved to a newer server and was re-located at "simpsonswiki.com" as apposed to the previous ".net".

25,000 articles
On September 8, Wikisimpsons reached 25,000 articles.

User rights
In September 24, AleWi became an admin.

Halloween 2013
In October, Wikisimpsons' main page became Halloween-themed to celebrate the occasion.

Answers
On February 17, the wiki's question-answer site, Wikisimpsons Answers, was launched.

User rights
On May 26, Loco87 became an admin.

30,000 articles
In early October, Wikisimpsons reached 30,000 articles.

User rights
On September 17, Randomno became a rollback.

User rights
On November 28, Frederick became an admin.

The Springfield Shopper
On January 17, the wiki's news blog, , was launched.

Simpsonpedia
In late January, Simpsonspedia, a German language wiki, joined the Simpsons Wiki Network.

User rights
On September 29, LetsPlayNintendoITA became a rollback.

Sister wikis
Wikisimpsons has had several sister wikis, with many going inactive: