User:Technobliterator/New Wiki Order

The (facetiously named) New Wiki Order is an unofficial, closely knit team of Fandom users who help improve and clean up wikis about topics they are interested in. The team originates from the Jak and Daxter and Ratchet &amp; Clank Wikis, though is currently based out of their Discord server, and reaches out to other wikis to propose and make improvements, including:
 * Improving and redesigning the wiki's home pages to the best possible standard.
 * Porting over standardized, high-performance templates and associated CSS (including to and from the Fandom Open Source Library).
 * Writing and guiding policy discussions to ones that lead to the best possible coverage of the subject.
 * Cleaning up unused templates, images, and categories, and improving MediaWiki pages.
 * Cleaning up maintenance reports.
 * Organizing consistent and intuitive category systems.

As they are not an official Fandom team, they act purely on a volunteer basis and not by directive, and do not have special user rights; if the local community approves their support, they will be granted temporary sysop rights until they are finished and until the local community is satisfied.

Previous work

 * Jak and Daxter Wiki
 * Ratchet &amp; Clank Wiki
 * Marvel's Spider-Man Wiki
 * Bandipedia, the Crash Bandicoot Wiki
 * Uncharted Wiki
 * Dark Cloud Wiki
 * Oggy and the Cockroaches Wiki
 * Ōkami Wiki
 * Metal Gear Wiki
 * Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Origins
The seeds for New Wiki Order began with Technobliterator and Tim around 2010 on the Jak and Daxter Wiki. During this time, Tim was the main bureaucrat of the wiki, and ran the wiki largely inspired by The Vault Wiki. and Technobliterator made relatively minor contributions, but mostly learned editing chops, such as maintenance skills and basic template skills, through Tim.

Jak Himself joined the Jak and Daxter Wiki later on his own accord. Tim, realizing that he had become complacent on the wiki, made Jak Himself an admin. The two began work on the "revamp project", in which Jak Himself rewrote all lore content on the wiki and introduced new policies, site designs, and images, while Tim rewrote gameplay guides and mechanics, as well as performing maintenance and bot work. Technobliterator, who had recently begun editing on the Final Fantasy Wiki, rejoined to help with technical support in terms of Lua and templates, picking up skills learned from Final Fantasy to Jak and Daxter.

Throughout the revamp, through hours of debate, discussion, trial, and error, the team fine-tuned the content on the wiki to what they believed were strong quality standards. Nearing the end of the revamp, the team pondered what to do after running out of content on the Jak and Daxter Wiki, and the instant thought was the Ratchet & Clank Wiki, which seemed the closest in terms of content. Beyond this, Technobliterator had also been applying things to the Final Fantasy Wiki.

After a series of circumstances led to Technobliterator and Tim H forming the new administrative team for the Ratchet & Clank Wiki, the team had further ambitions to take this content to other wikis they had interest in. This sparked the idea of New Wiki Order.

Expansion
While working on the Ratchet & Clank Wiki, Thatawesomecat joined the ranks, helping with both Ratchet & Clank and Jak and Daxter in regards to image work and script pages, as well as providing several sources for behind-the-scenes information. The script pages formed an essential foundation for rewriting the lore content of Ratchet & Clank to be on-par with that of Jak and Daxter. This job that was taken up by Technobliterator, who rewrote the written lore and gameplay content, with Tim H providing additional writing as well as significant maintenance work. The cleanup was extremely well-received by the broader audience for the series, leading the group to consider their work a success.

Further to this, the team founded the Marvel's Spider-Man Wiki, a new wiki for a closely-related franchise. While Jak Himself and Technobliterator planted the seeds for the wiki, setting structures in place and providing a site design, Reg Boy joined the ranks and filled most of the lore content for the wiki. This granted New Wiki Order much more exposure than before, and was another successful project.

RB1196, meanwhile, joined the team after working on Ratchet & Clank. After several positive collaborations with the team, RB1196 joined the ranks to help with several related wikis, but most crucially the Uncharted Wiki, for which Technobliterator and Jak Himself redesigned the skin front page. Working with Tim H on organizational structure and content writing, and with Thatawesomecat providing behind-the-scenes work, Uncharted became one of New Wiki Order's biggest projects.

Ongoing projects
As of July 2020, ongoing projects include further rewriting of the Ratchet & Clank Wiki, more rewriting of the Final Fantasy Wiki (carried out by Technobliterator, with support from New Wiki Order behind-the-scenes), ongoing work on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and expansion of existing wikis.