User:Yatalu/about/history

This page is what I will link to anyone who asks me about what wiki I come from or when/why I joined Wikia. It's also for people who are extremely curious, have stalker tendencies or just too much time on their hands that they'd want to read this.

2009
I have been reading Wikipedia for many years, and possibly other wikis that I can't remember. However, I never realized I could or dared to edit until March 2009, when I made my first edit at the Dutch Wikipedia in order to correct a typo. See here to behold the edit.

2010
I corrected another typo at the Dutch Wikipedia in February and made my user profile in December. In the same year, my university required an assignment on my faculty's wiki for one of its courses, so there I created my first page. I wrote an article in Dutch and learnt basic wiki markup, but it was rather short and the research was not very well done. (Will not give link for my own privacy.)

2011
I learnt some basic HTML in January 2011 when I created a website about the Hvetshran, a demon species that I made up for the role-playing community I was active in. Because I found a website however quite plump and inconvenient, I decided to create a wiki instead. I joined Wikia on July 13, 2011 as Yatalu and instantly created Hvetshran Wiki. That month, I created 6 articles on Hvetshran Wiki (in English) before falling inactive again.

Slightly before that however, in June 2011, I also made my first edit at the English Wikipedia. Like on Dutch Wikipedia, this was only to correct a spelling mistake.

In December of 2011, I did not want anyone who knew "Yatalu" to find me, so I created another Wikia account under "Ethear" to found the Dutch Japanese For Dummies wiki. The intention of this wiki was to give Dutch speakers their own easy resource to learn Japanese. However, I fell inactive again before 2011 was even over.

2012
In the first half of 2012, I was again required to work on my uni's wiki, this time to do a group project. While Hvetshran Wiki got a full year break in 2012, I did edit a bit under the account Ethear on the Dutch wiki about Japanese. From December on, I also learnt more HTML and used CSS for the first time to actually build a full website.

2013
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