User blog:Jeserator/Wiki Anniversary

Hello everyone,  ''Well today is the the 8th Anniversary of Club Penguin! Man oh man does time fly by. As well as Club Penguin's anniversary being on this awesome date, so is the day I joined Wikia. So, if you feel like reading, I've written up a little story of my background and history on the wiki. Hope you enjoy. ;)''

O ne full year ago, I was messing around on CP during the Halloween Party 2012 when I saw this very strange penguin come out of the Ghostamatron machine with two arms sticking up and two sticking sideways. What a funny glitch I thought, so I looked up how to do it on Google. A site called the Club Penguin Wiki appeared at the top of the search results, so I clicked it and scrolled down ton the Glitches section. Sure enough, it helped me out. Next thing you know, I was flying without a propeller cap and had 6 arms. Returning to the site I got the glitch info from, I saw that it was an entire encyclopedia about Club Penguin. Well, I figured, if this is similar to Wikipedia, maybe it would be helpful to add the glitch photo I took to the page. And since I didn't have anything else to do, and I didn't want to make my IP public by editing anonymously, I decided to make an account.

So, on October 24th 2012, I created my Wikia account all because I wanted to upload to the Ghostamatron page. At first I didn't understand why I kept getting a permission error when I went to upload my image. Four days later, I was finally able to upload it. I clicked the edit button on the Ghostamatron page and was sent to screen with a bunch of words. Now, up to this point I had no experience at all with really any sort of coding, so I just decided to wing it. As you can see here, I didn't know much about how this whole editing thing worked :P. I soon began exploring more of the wiki and learned how more worked here.

On October 26th, I accidentally clicked the "Join the Chat" button. A window opened with words flying up the page. This was the first time I've ever entered an online chat room. For about an hour I just watched everyone talk and made no comments myself, then I left. What I just stumbled upon eventually turned out to be part of my life for the next 365 days (and counting).

Over the next couple days, I began observing more of the proper way to edit, and I began to catch on. On October 28th, I entered chat again. For the first time, I was actively talking in chat. Me and other users were discussing Hurricane Sandy. At one point, someone made a silly/creepy comment, and I replied with -______________________-. Not knowing the rules of chat, I wasn't aware of spamming being an offence. As result, Ozann2 gave me my first boot from chat. After reading the "You have been kicked from chat" message, I decided to take a look at the ol' policy. Returning to chat, I apologized for spamming and we returned to our conversation.

Like I said, after watching other more experienced users edit, I began to learn how to be useful to the wiki. Over the course of the future months, I contributed to the wiki almost daily. Normally, I would come home from school, edit some, and go on chat for a while. I also began to upload a lot of files. Replacing not so good ones with better ones. Slowly but surely, my edit count rose.

My productivity would really increase when new catalogs were released. I either helped create the new item page or helped upload images for the page. Either way, I finally felt like I understood what it takes to be a good editor (far from great though :P). I began to make more friends and pals on the wiki as well.

Summer began, and I was less active due to vacation. http://images.wikia.com/clubpenguin/images/thumb/b/b5/Day_Emoticon.png/20px-Day_Emoticon.png On July 23rd, I was promoted by P-P to Rollback, with the help/support of a friend or two ;). Anyways, with my summer vacation ending in August and me returning home from vacation, I resumed contributing.

I got off to a ruff start with the new school year. Having to deal with loooooads of homework after school, I still tried to make time for the wiki. But eventually, I got a grip of handling all my school work, and returned to normal activity.

And well, here I am. It's so hard to believe that one whole year has passed since joining this amazing community! I've had so many great times here and I'm looking forward to many more to come! Thank you all for reading :).

Jeserator HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!!    18:48, October 24, 2013 (UTC)