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| − | |caption = The main page in ''Simpsons'' skin.
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| − | |URL = http://simpsonswiki.com/
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| − | |status = Active
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| − | |launched = September 24, [[2005]]
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| − | |founder = Postbagboy
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| − | |type = Encyclopedic wiki
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| − | '''Wikisimpsons''' is an encyclopedic wiki that is centered around the animated television series ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and founded on September 24, [[2005]].
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| − | == History ==
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| − | === [[2005]] ===
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| − | ==== Creation ====
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| − | The wiki was created on September 24, 2005 by [[User:Postbagboy|PostBagBoy]] on Wikia. He never edited here, apart from one edit on his user page stating how amazed he felt that the wiki he had created had turned out to be successful (in 2007).
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | Later on, Wikia co-founder Angela appointed [[User:M Johnson|M Johnson]] with sysop rights.<ref name="User rights log">[http://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&hide_patrol_log=1 User rights log]</ref>
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| − | === [[2006]] ===
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | Staff member Sannse granted M Johnson with Bureaucratic rights and [[User:Thai420|Thai420]] with Admin rights.<ref name="User rights log"/>
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| − | ==== Criticism ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons received a lot of criticism on its quality. Unregistered contributors regularly claimed that Wikipedia had better articles on The Simpsons.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page/Archive_1 Archived talk page]</ref>
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| − | === [[2007]] ===
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | Angela changed rights for [[User:Basel17|Basel17]] from none to Administrator.<ref name="User rights log"/>
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| − | ==== Criticism ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons received more criticism on its usefulness.
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| − | === [[2008]] ===
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | [[User:Toughpigs|ToughPigs]] changed rights of [[User:Brian McClure|Brian McClure]] from normal user straight to Bureaucrat. Shortly later, Brian McClure changed rights for [[User:Dr. Ralph Wiggum|Dr. Ralph Wiggum]] to admin. Later on Brian McClure changed rights for [[User:Sgtcook|Sgtcook]] from none to Admin temporarily so he could delete images, Sgtcook later kept the powers and put them to good use. Brian changed [[User:Kingcjc|Kingcjc]]'s rights to admin.<ref name="User rights log"/>
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| − | ==== Projects ====
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| − | On March 10, Sgtcook founded [[Wikisimpsons:Project Images|Project Images]] to help sort out images on the wiki.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wikisimpsons:Project_Images&action=history Project Images]</ref> On March 16, Kingcjc created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Locations|Project Locations]] to help sort out location articles.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wikisimpsons:Project_Locations&action=history Project Locations]</ref>
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| − | === [[2009]] ===
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | In early February, Brian made [[User:Joeyaa|Joeyaa]] an admin.
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| − | ==== Projects ====
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| − | [[User:Smiley12|Smiley12]] started [[Wikisimpsons:Project Characters|Project Characters]], a project that helped improve character articles on Wikisimpsons.
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| − | === [[2010]] ===
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| − | ==== Milestones ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons passed 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 articles.
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| − | ==== Awards ====
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| − | In January, [[Wikisimpsons:The Golden Homer Award|The Golden Homer Award]] started as an award for project Characters members,<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wikisimpsons:Project_Characters&oldid=73071#Golden_Homer_Award Golden Homer Awards]</ref> it later became for the whole wiki.
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| − | ==== Rights ====
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| − | [[User:Solar Dragon|Solar Dragon]] passed requests for Adminship and Sgtcook passed requests for Bureaucratship and adopts the wiki. Smiley12 became a Rollback and then an Admin without having to pass any requests. [[User:JaffaCakeLover|JaffaCakeLover]], [[User:Jasonbres|Jasonbres]] and [[User:Ldude893|Ldude893]] all became Rollbacks. Effluvium and [[User:TheHomer|TheHomer]] become rollback then admin after passing requests. [[User:Dohayecarumbadoh|Dohayecarumbadoh]] passes Rollback Request. [[User:Gran2|Gran2]] and [[User:Mythigator|Mythigator]] were both granted Rollback rights without having to pass the request.<ref name="User rights log"/>
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| − | ==== Other websites ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons created its own IRC Channel as well as the [https://www.youtube.com/user/Wikisimpsons YouTube account] and [http://twitter.com/simpsonswiki Twitter account].
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| − | ==== Projects ====
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| − | Sgtcook created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Episodes|Project Episodes]] to help with episode articles. Solar Dragon created Project Appearances, [[User:Mythigator|Mythigator]] created Project Self Voicers, [[User:Effluvium|Effluvium]] created Project Grammar and [[User:Doh5678|Doh5678]] created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Guest Stars|Project Guest Stars]]
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| − | ==== Awards ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons enabled achievements. The achievements system encouraged a lot of activity as well as a lot of spam. The Golden Bart Award was created for the achievements system. This was stopped upon the move to ShoutWiki.
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| − | ==== Spotlight ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons prepares to requests a Spotlight. The wiki requests a spotlight and later on the wiki passes the request. The spotlight becomes visible after a long wait. Wikisimpsons later requested a second spotlight with a premade spotlight image this time, created by Smiley12.
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| − | ==== Skin ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons requested a new skin. The skin was implemented and improved by JaffaCakeLover. After the New Wikia Look was implemented Wikisimpsons requested another new skin and wordmark to work with the New Look.
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| − | ==== Article Comments ====
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| − | A suggestion for articles comments to be enabled was brought up but quickly turned down.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Forum%3AArticle_Comments Article comments suggestion]</ref>
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| − | ==== Bot ====
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| − | A bot was created for Wikisimpsons although quickly became inactive due to problems. [[User:Manyman|Manyman]] used Manybot to help out on Wikisimpsons.
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| − | ==== Birthday ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons celebrated its fifth birthday. Smiley12 designed a new mainpage layout especially for the event.
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| − | ==== Simpsons Font ====
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| − | Smiley12 introduced 'easy to insert Simpsons Font'. Simpsons Font was used for important headers on the mainpage and sometimes sitenotice.
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| − | ==== ShoutWiki ====
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| − | Wikia Staff announced that a new skin was on its way. Admins of Wikisimpsons signed up for beta testing with high expectations. The skin turned out to be a huge disappointment and not fully compatible with Wikisimpsons' article layouts. Admins of Wikisimpsons argued with the staff and Smiley12 and Solar Dragon were blocked as a result. Wikisimpsons eventually moved to ShoutWiki and the old Wikisimpsons became Simpsons Wiki.
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| − | ==== Affiliates ====
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| − | [[infosphere:|The Infosphere]] and [[The Simpsons Forums Site]] became affiliates with Wikisimpsons. Later, [http://www.niwanetwork.org/ NIWA], [[Bart - The One and Only]] and [[IWatchTheSimpsonsOnline.com]] also became affiliates with Wikisimpsons.
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| − | ==== Simpsons Fanon ====
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| − | [[Simpsons Fanon]] was created.
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| − | ==== The Springfield Shopper ====
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| − | {{ap|The Springfield Shopper|wiki}} became the third member of the Simpsons Wiki Network.
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| − | === [[2011]] ===
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| − | ==== Smiley12's leaving ====
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| − | [[User:Smiley12|Smiley12]] announced that he would leave the wiki on January 1 after decreasing in activity.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Blog:Smiley12_is_leaving&t=20110101180329 Smiley12 is leaving]</ref> No one took his place as admin as Wikisimpsons already has enough. He will still make some graphics on request though.
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| − | ==== Platinum and Crystal Homer Awards ====
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| − | The Platinum and Crystal Homer Awards were awarded for 2010. [[User:Mr. Blackadder|Mr. Blackadder]], [[User:Josegiraffio|Josegiraffio]], [[User:Effluvium|Effluvium]] and [[User:TheHomer|TheHomer]] all picked up the Crystal awards while [[User:Mythigator|Mythigator]] gained the Platinum award.
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| − | ==== DeviantArt Group ====
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| − | Smiley12 made a [http://wikisimpsons.deviantart.com/ DeviantArt Group] before leaving Wikisimpsons for good.
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| − | ==== Another departure ====
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| − | [[User:Josegiraffio|Josegiraffio]] announced that he was leaving the wiki as well, very soon after Smiley12's departure.<ref>[http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/User_talk:Josegiraffio#Quitting Josegiraffio is leaving]</ref> He was a great user and rollback who won multiple Homer awards in his time here.
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| − | ==== UnSimpsons ====
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| − | [[User:Jeff|Jeff]] created UnSimpsons Wiki in early January. He later had his powers removed and Solar Dragon and [[User:Will k|Will k]] were promoted in his place.
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | In January, [[User:Will k|Will k]], [[User:AleWi|AleWi]], and [[User:FatHomer|FatHomer]] became [[Wikisimpsons:Rollback|rollbacks]]. [[User:Cook879|Sgtcook]] returned to the wiki and had his admin rights returned to him.
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| − | ==== Projects ====
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| − | [[User:TheUnderfaker|TheUnderfaker]] created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Comics|Project Comics]], Doh5678 created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Crew|Project Crew]] and [[User:Solar Dragon|Solar Dragon]] created [[Wikisimpsons:Project Re-Watch|Project Re-Watch.]]
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| − | ==== Milestones ====
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| − | Wikisimpsons reached and passed the 7,000 article mark in February.
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| − | ==== Three Returnees ====
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| − | In late February Smiley12, returned after leaving in early January. His user rights were returned as well as the [[Wikisimpsons:Project Characters|Project Characters]] leadership. Josegiraffo returned, although on a less active basis. [[User:Dohayecarumbadoh|Dohayecarumbadoh]] also returned after taking a break.
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| − | ==== Simptionary ====
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| − | When he returned, Smiley12 created [[Simptionary]], a Simpsons dictionary.
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| − | ==== Competition ====
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| − | On February 25, Solar Dragon stated that he would be doing a competition for the wiki. This would give prizes to users for improving the wiki. The competition started on 1 March but has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
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| − | ==== Shout Wiki outage ====
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| − | A database problem caused Shout Wiki to be down for over two months. This affected Wikisimpsons, causing it to lose data from 6 March to the first day of the outage.
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| − | ==== Independence ====
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| − | Thanks to [[User:Jake|Jake]], Wikisimpsons moved from ShoutWiki to a new server and got a new domain, simpsonswiki.net.
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| − | === [[2012]] ===
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| − | ==== April Fools! ====
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| − | On April Fools' Day (April 1), Wikisimpsons turned into ''Family Guy'' Wiki for the occasion. WikiHead Solar Dragon received many questions as to why it was a ''Family Guy'' Wiki.
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| − | === [[2013]] ===
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | On February 20, [[User:Frederick|Frederick]] and [[User:Nick97|Nick97]] became [[Wikisimpsons:Rollback|rollbacks]].
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| − | ==== Server move ====
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| − | In late July–early August, Wikisimpsons was moved to a newer server and was re-located at "simpsonswiki.com" as apposed to the previous ".net".
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| − | ==== 25,000 articles ====
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| − | On September 8, Wikisimpsons reached 25,000 articles.
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | In September 24, [[User:AleWi|AleWi]] became an [[Wikisimpsons:Administrators|admin]].
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| − | ==== Halloween 2013 ====
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| − | In October, Wikisimpsons' main page became [[Halloween]]-themed to celebrate the occasion.
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| − | === [[2014]] ===
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| − | ==== Answers ====
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| − | On February 17, the wiki's question-answer site, [[Wikisimpsons Answers]], was launched.
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | On May 26, [[User:Loco87|Loco87]] became an [[Wikisimpsons:Administrators|admin]].
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| − | ==== 30,000 articles ====
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| − | In early October, Wikisimpsons reached 30,000 articles.
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | On September 17, [[User:Randomno|Randomno]] became a [[Wikisimpsons:Rollback|rollback]].
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | On November 28, [[User:Frederick|Frederick]] became an [[Wikisimpsons:Administrators|admin]].
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| − | === [[2015]] ===
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| − | ==== The Springfield Shopper ====
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| − | On January 17, the wiki's news blog, ''{{ap|The Springfield Shopper|blog}}'', was launched.
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| − | ==== Simpsonpedia ====
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| − | In late January, [[Simpsonspedia]], a German language wiki, joined the Simpsons Wiki Network.
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| − | ==== User rights ====
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| − | On September 29, [[User:LetsPlayNintendoITA|LetsPlayNintendoITA]] became a [[Wikisimpsons:Rollback|rollback]].
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| − | === [[2021]] ===
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| − | ==== 40,000 articles ====
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| − | In late March, Wikisimpsons reached 40,000 articles.
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| − | === [[2024]] ===
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| − | ==== 45,000 articles ====
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| − | In July, Wikisimpsons reached 45,000 articles.
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| − | == Sister wikis ==
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| − | Wikisimpsons has had several sister wikis, with many going inactive:
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| − | {{TBT|[[Chinese Wikisimpsons]]}}
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| − | {{TB|Inactive|color=red}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[German Wikisimpsons]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[Simpsons Fanon]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[Simptionary]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[The Springfield Shopper (wiki)]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[Svenska Wikisimpsons]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[UnSimpsons Wiki]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[Wikisimpsons Answers]]}}
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| − | {{TBT|{{ap|The Springfield Shopper|blog}}}}
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| − | {{TBT|[[Simpsonspedia]]}}
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| − | == References ==
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| − | {{Reflist}}
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| − | {{Simpsons Wiki Network}}
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