It’s the 31st of October. So, on this day, 4 years ago - I made signed up at Wikidot as the 47,197th user - not knowing how much it will influence me as a person.
It’s hard imagining my life without Wikidot. It’s such an easy-to-use platform, yet sophisticated and complex at the same time. Ironic, isn’t it? I’m using Tumblr to post a this blog post about my 4th year having a Wikidot account - where as I should really be posting a blog post on Wikidot itself.
Anyway, this is a post of how thankful I am of Wikidot, the very supportive Wikidot Community and of course, the Wikidot team itself.
I first signed up for Wikidot when I came across the Game Maker Wiki - run by Shawn Hartnell. Four years ago, I knew little about Game Maker and it’s GML - so I decided to sign up to the GM Wiki community and mainly asked questions rather than contribute. I soon forgot about the website as I moved away from Game Maker into PHP.
At the time, I also created “kenandtom.wikidot.com” - a shared site between me and my brother. There, I maintained a personal website with “diaries” and pictures.
I think my first contribution was a Greasemonkey script to remove the then newly introduced Wikidot Toolbar. Soon after, I released a PHP “no-toolbar browser”. Soon, I became more and more active in the community. Not only was the community extremely helpful, they were supportive and kept me engaged in Wikidot. Here, I would like the thank all of the Wikidot Community (especially James Kanjo and Shane Smith) for their continued support and encouragement. Thanks.
Soon, I became a Wikidot Guru.
Another person I would really like to thank was the then CEO of Wikidot - Pieter Hintjens. He, again, was really encouraging and ultimately - was the person who kept me at Wikidot for the past 2 years. While he was CEO, he kept the entire Wikidot community informed of the internal workings of Wikidot. He communicated with us - as community members - making sure that they are doing what benefited the users the most. I miss the frequent blog posts and community interaction at Wikidot. But, I still love Wikidot all the same.
I was featured by Pieter in several blog posts - along with this post - which is just about me and my achievements at Wikidot. Names “Kenneth’s Dozen” - I was twelve then. Now, I’m fourteen! On the same day, I (along with a dozen community members) were given Superguru powers allowing us to create 1,000+ sites. I was really surprised, yet humbly pleased of myself ;)
But that was two years ago. Now, I’m still there in the community - helping out the best I can with the available time I have. But as time goes on (for the next three years at least), my involvement with Wikidot’s community (and perhaps the wider Wikidot itself) will diminish. The final three years of my compulsory schooling and HSC will be critical to me. So - expect less of me in the coming years.
Phil - I’m still waiting for my invitation to the “Tribal Council” on my 18th birthday!
