User:Amelia Lonelyheart/draft

Hey there. It's me, Darkanine, or just Jordan if you'd prefer. This is my first time writing blog on CC, but needless to say, I'm quite proficient at the craft, lol. I'm normally against self-promotion, but given that I've poured over three months of hard work with lots o' trial, error and do-overs, I figured I'd give this a shot.

Anywho, to the point. I'd like to talk about my fairly new wikia, Equestripedia.

History
In short, Equestripedia was originally a wiki dedicated simply to the comics for Hasbro's highly acclaimed My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic franchise that was launched in 2010. The comics came two years later in 2012 and were originally set in between Season 2 and Season 3, though have since continued as the show developed. The comics have somewhat of a bad reputation among the fandom for a variety of reasons and although I feel as if some of the hatred put against the comics are misplaced or exaggerated, I to have to admit they're not as good as they could be most of the time. Regardless, I highly enjoy them and find them to be really creative, and the artwork is consistently fantastic.

Since it's initial creation, the wiki has grown to cover novels, manga, short books and even episodes of the cartoons for both G1 and G4 MLP. So basically, we've become the secondary-canon wiki, similar to Memory-Beta to Memory-Alpha. Only we're not officially linked to the main wiki as of now.

Why was the wiki founded?
The wiki was founded on August 22nd, 2017 when I realized their was no wiki dedicated to the comics in particular. The main MLP wiki of course has articles for the comics, but only for story arcs, not individual issues (with the exception of side-series which had no arcs), and characters individual histories within the comics were not reflected on their personal articles outside of very brief descriptions. Since the main MLP wiki is understandably more cartoon focused, an abundance of comic-related info may make articles bloated and hard to navigate.

Inspirations
Many wikis have shaped by overall style and reasoning for doing what I'm doing. By far the two biggest inspirations have been Picsou and Komix, the French and Greek Duck comic sites respectively. They've helped inspire the general look o the wiki, how I structure content and more.