Thread:Dragonboy6491/@comment-26102520-20150729125859/@comment-24199126-20150729145252

Well, we don't really have a long history, but I'll tell you what I know. Note that I am most certainly not the oldest user, so I may be missing a thing or two. Mojo or Bella probably know more than I.

Back in 2013, before Frozen was released, Bella8991 had the foresight to create the Frozen Disney Wiki. Again, I'm not too sure of the full details seeing as I joined in April of 2014, but  after the film's release, the articles pertaining to Frozen on Disney Wiki were brought over to fill content.

In December of 2013, Littlerat1 founded the Frozen Wiki; I'm not sure whether she wanted an independent project or was simply unaware of the Frozen Disney Wiki, but the fact is, there were two wikis now relating to Frozen. I joined the Frozen Disney Wiki first, so I don't have a great idea of the state of things at the Frozen Wiki, but I think they similarly copied articles from Disney Wiki to fill content. As mentioned previously, I joined the Frozen Disney Wiki in April 2014, and in terms of articles, we all did out best to expand on what was there but nothing more.

Now around the same time I joined the Frozen Disney Wiki, a user with a good handle on the coding aspects of Wikia joined as well, NinjaFatGuy. He also joined the Frozen Wiki and realized that the two communities would probably be better off as one. He recognized that the Frozen Disney Wiki had a better amount of content and a better interface but saw that the Frozen Wiki had the more desirable URL (frozen.wikia.com is easier to type than frozendisney.wikia.com). After some discussion, the two wikis decided to merge, and NinjaFatGuy was given the administrator tools to helm the process.

After the merge, things were a mess, and we focused on deleting redundant pages and importing the images we had over at the Frozen Disney Wiki (no image policy at the time :P). The admins were a mix of the Frozen and Frozen Disney Wiki admins; Bella and Dani were from the Frozen Disney Wiki, while Mojo was from the Frozen Wiki. Littlerat, AwesomeOrange89, and Evanf were admins on the Frozen Wiki whose rights were removed in a discussion that I was not a part of, so I don't know the full details of that.

NinjaFatGuy decided to leave after we settled in from the merge and trusted me with administrator rights due to my work at the Frozen Disney Wiki and help during the merge. I continued to edit actively, mainly just trying to change up articles from Disney Wiki's, until May, where I went on hiatus until September due to personal reasons. I don't know of what transpired in those months aside from the disabling of anonymous editing due to heavy vandalism, so you'd have to check with Mojo.

After returning in September, I had done some thinking about what needed to be done on the site, and I realized that there were some problems with the site: 1) The articles weren't at all original. 2) Though the first problem isn't an issue in of itself due to the Creative Commons License allowing for the use of information from other wikis, the articles on Disney Wiki, while not terrible, were not of the best standard (they were speculative, lacked sources, and did not always have an encyclopedic tone). 3) Without proper editing guidelines/policy in general, it was difficult for editors to know what was right and wrong.

So with that in mind, a manual of style was written and brought up for a discussion. Its content, though not finalized, was approved, and it set the stage to begin the mass rewrites of articles. While previously we worked to simply make the content different by rewording here or there, these rewrites were different; pages would be emptied and started from scratch. There's not much else to say from there; a task that I thought would take a long time is now more or less finished due to the team effort we put in :). Granted, work on a wiki is never finished, but I can confidently say we have come a long way since then, what with the addition of more concrete policies and the decision to stick with the canon of the Frozen franchise.

Looking back on this, it's actually longer than I expected. Hope I didn't bore you with this xD