Featured articles were nominated by any user willing to voice their opinion, with the final decision resting on one of the sysops or responsible users. The premiere featured article was HRWiki:Featured article for 2005, week 21, about Homestar Runner itself. Since the Main Page reformat on, featured articles had been updated weekly. STUFF was officially decommissioned on 12 August 2008. After discussion, it was almost unanimously decided that STUFF wasn't needed anymore and that Open Discussions could fill in its role. HRWiki:Open Discussions, a bulletin board for any kind of dispute, had recently been created. STUFF was downgraded to a "last resort" status, in case consensus could not be reached. STUFF started to be ignored as debates over fun facts grew tamer, and discussion began to grow towards debate and consensus rather than a vote. The new format used a much more structured layout in order to eliminate the problems of the old format. After much discussion and refactoring, the page was relaunched in mid-June of 2005, officially shortening the name to HRWiki:STUFF. Users with potential Fun Facts posted them on the page, and other users voted on whether to accept them.Īs the page grew in size and scope, it became overrun with personal attacks and chatter. In order to make sure the fun facts on that and other pages were valid, the HRWiki:Select The Usable Fun Facts (STUFF) page was created. The Strong Bad Email virus was extremely popular, and fun facts started appearing left and right. You can help the Homestar Runner Wiki by expanding it. I about fell off my chair again when I opened it up a month later to discover that every email had been transcribed!" - Joey Day ( WikiChat/OldTimersClub). I about fell off my chair when I opened up StrongBadEmail one day to find that every email had been listed with a link to its own page. "I remember when there was nothing here but a transcript for the Strong Bad Email Mile, done by none other than yours truly. JamesGecko was the first user to contribute significant content. hawk and Maz were the first users to create UserSpaces, and when Stu heard that there were people on the wiki, he decided to set up his own UserSpace. It took nearly two months for anyone else to discover the wiki, but slowly and surely, people began shuffling in. In the first couple weeks, Joey transcribed a few emails, starting with mile, but then life crept in and he was unable to do much more. After Googling to make sure that no one had already set up such a thing, he promptly called his wiki the Homestar Runner Wiki. It didn't take him long to decide that it should be a Homestar Runner knowledge base.
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He hadn't given much thought to scalability at the time, preferring something light and snappy over the larger and more stable platforms like Twiki, Moin Moin, or MediaWiki.Īfter installing the software on October 7, 2003, Joey decided that he needed a topic. After researching the various wiki platforms available at the time, he settled on one called WikkiTikkiTavi because it used a MySQL database and produced valid XHTML markup. He immediately fell in love with the concept and decided to start a wiki of his own.
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Nearly a year later in September 2003, Joey stumbled across Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This was the first time that they had experienced Homestar Runner, and both of them were immediately hooked. In November 2002, a mutual friend emailed Joey Day and Stu Wilde a link to Strong Bad email #51, website, knowing that they would enjoy it since they are both web-design hobbyists. 3.4 Back to WikkiTikkiTavi for April Fool's Day.
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