Wikitroid

Wikitroid Wikitroid's current home page

Created August 1, 2005 Founder Wikitroid Current Owner Wikia URL metroid.wikia.com Link Button

Wikitroid is an online encyclopedic wiki based on the Metroid series. It was created by a user known as Wikitroid. Upon Wikitroid's thirty second edit, he or she seems to have abandoned the wiki for the community to uphold. The wiki originated on Wikispaces, but on August 1, 2005 it moved to Wikia where it has remained there since. Wikitroid is a Metroid wiki, not unlike Metroid Wiki; however they are two, completely separate entities.

Wikitroid Staff

Wikitroid has gone through several staff members. All are listed below in chronological order. Those marked as "Retired" have been lengthily inactive, have been retired of their powers, or have themselves decided to retire. Those marked as "Inactive" still have sysop positions but have not edited Wikitroid in over two months. Only administrators and bureaucrats are listed; users in the patrollers, rollback, or other usergroups are not.

Username	Position(s)	Status
FastLizard4	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Active
Hellkaiserryo12	Administrator	Active
RAN1	Administrator	Active
The Exterminator	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Active
TheMG	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Active
AdmiralSakai	Administrator	Inactive
Armantula513	Administrator	Inactive
Fredrik	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Inactive
KFan II	Administrator	Inactive
Richard1990	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Inactive
Wikitroid	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Inactive
ChozoBoy	Administrator	Retired
Piratehunter	Administrator, Bureaucrat	Retired
RoyboyX	Administrator	Retired

A joke layout on April Fool's 2011

Metroid Wiki and Wikitroid

Because of the similar openly editable Metroid natures of Metroid Wiki and Wikitroid, the two websites were, early in Metroid Wiki's first year online, rivals. Around two weeks after Metroid Wiki's launch, a Wikitroid administrator suggested merging Metroid Wiki into Wikitroid. The idea, however, was immediately and firmly turned down as Metroid Wiki was created under the policy to remain an independent website, that is not installed into a wiki farm.

During Metroid Wiki's first month or so, Metroid Wiki articles were copied and pasted directly from Wikitroid by new and uninformed Metroid Wiki users. Because of these users' actions, it became specific Metroid Wiki policy to expel any copied content, Metroid Wiki's contemporary staff spelled out what is and is not allowed in terms to inter-wiki behavior, including copying content. Upon Metroid Wiki's June 2010 staff reorganization, the new team, along with other inherited responsibilities, made an effort to flesh out any remaining content from other sites such as Wikipedia or Wikitroid. Since then, any copied content has been speedily deleted or replaced.

Around October 2010, many gaming wikis on Wikia's began moving their content to other wikifarms or independent hosting. Many Nintendo-based franchise wikis became farm-independent inducted to NIWA, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance that Metroid Wiki is a part of. During this series of migrations, Wikitroid considered options such as changing wikifarms or becoming independent. Metroid Wiki's Nathanial Rumphol-Janc offered Wikitroid an opportunity to move off Wikia and merge with Metroid Wiki. Wikitroid, like Metroid Wiki earlier, firmly denied a merge of the two wikis and remained on Wikia where it continues to reside and grown accustomed to the small changes in Wikia's policy.

Most tensions surrounding both wikis have long since died out to the point where they have become healthy rivals. Since the release of Metroid: Other M, Wikitroid's article count's growth rate grew significantly.

Gallery

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  Wikitroid at November 2010

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  Wikitroid at February 2012

External Links

• Wikitroid's Home page
  • Wikitroid's About page