Dinopedia History

Dinopedia's Official Historian, Deinocheirus. At least thats what he says...

Welcome to the Dinopedia History Wall! Few wikis do this, but because of Dinopedia's tightly knit and bustling community with plenty of stories to tell, this page was created to document all notable events since its inception. This page is both a labor of love for our dinky little wiki and also kind of a joke. For the most part, all drama remained online and never got too out of hand, so we thought it would be funny to make those arguments and stuff into a melodramatic historical record. Names like "The Dinopedia Civil War" are exaggerated as part of the joke, and remember that in the end this is about a wiki made about big dead lizards (please be aware that dinosaurs were not lizards, nor all of them big, and are not really extinct).

Before you read this humorous and insightful look into the websites great archives...

This history of Dinopedia started in early 2022. Prior to this great effort, much of its history was lost, or known only to a select few users. We, the users of the wiki, would like to thank every contributor to this page for their help in recording and preserving our community's history.

Ancient Period (2005 - 2015)

Genesis

Lemniwinks, aka the creator of Dinopedia, made their account on August 9th 2006, Dinopedia was most likely created by Lemniwinks sometime before September 23rd 2006, as that was when the first edit on dinopedia was made, by the user known as Forerunner. Until mid-2007, edits made to the wiki came from anonymous contributors, users and occasionally Wikia staff members. However, on June 1st 2007, former fandom staff member Angela gave Syugecin administrative rights upon request, and just over a month later he was given Bureaucrat rights as well by none other than Angela. The oldest known instance of a user deleting a page was when Syugecin deleted a file by the name of "File:Wikilogo.jpg" on June 4th 2007. The first actual articles deleted were also removed by Syugecin ("My opinion", "Brontovenator", and Megalodon), on June 29th (the first two pages) and July 3rd (the third page). "My opinion" was created by possibly the first spam vandal. The Megalodon page was later restored. Two years later on September 10th 2009, the Fandom Staff CatherineMundo promoted Mattkenn3 to administrator and bureaucrat as he requested to adopt the wiki, 7 days later Mattkenn3 promoted CoolJ7 to a rollback, as he thought the latter was a "Great contributor".

In 2009, Lemniwinks also owned a deviant art account, where he continued to be active on up until 2017.

Arrival from another wiki

In that same month, the user T-Rex 882 joined the wiki and subsequently plastered the wiki with links to another dinosaur-related wiki. His actions immediately resulted in warnings from the local administrators, not only for his edits on Dinopedia but also for the totalitarian policies that he and his friends created on his own wiki. 7 months later, T-rex 882 made a request to adopt dinopedia, He claimed that the wiki was "inactive" and was "falling victim to vandalism", although his true motive was to merge dinopedia with the Dinosaur Wiki once he had adopted the wiki, mostly because he and his friends aimed for the latter to be the one and only dinosaur wiki, On April 16th 2010, a fandom staff finally responded, and Sarah Manley gave T-rex 882 bureaucrat rights. After he also gave himself rollback, he started off by demoting CoolJ7, and saying "My wiki, my rules", T-rex 882 would then proceed to promote the administators of the Dinosaur Wiki (Giganotosaurus 001, Chasmosaurus, Raptor 225, and Troodon145), and they would become admins on dinopedia as well. They would soon edit the main page, make rollback offers, and in general tried to advertise the Dinosaur Wiki as much as possible and try to get more people off of Dinopedia and on their wiki. Funnily enough, Lemniwinks was threatened by T-rex 882 for being inactive and not making edits, even though by then Lemniwinks had been inactive for 3 years. For unknown reasons, the merge never happened.

Return to Activity

CoolJ7 would return and due to the vandalism, requested to adopt the wiki, On October 11th 2010, Merrystar would repromote CoolJ7, but now to a bureaucrat. On January 25th 2011, the first admin on the Dinosaur Wiki to get demoted would be Chasmosaurus, by none other than CoolJ7, who later gave himself rollback powers as well. On November 7th 2012, CoolJ7 would give JurassicJustice administrator rights(who back then was called Justisaurus). This was because he "helped to greatly improve and clean up the wiki". On April 3rd 2013, Mattken3 would further promote Justisaurus to a bureaucrat. On July 17th 2014, Justisaurus would grant Jacksonwarrier administrator rights, as back then he made the most edits on Dinopedia. On March 4th 2015 Justisaurus would promote The Dinosaur rules to an admin as well. 18 days later, Justisaurus would also give Lythronax sysop powers (he would also give himself thread mod a bit later).

On March 22nd, 2015, the staff of Dinopedia removed the wiki's chat room (a since-abandoned feature of Fandom) and moved it to the forums. Within a day, Lythronax massively revamped the interface of Dinopedia as a whole; among other things, he added achievements to the wiki, revamped the main page, and added new templates. Shortly thereafter, on April 6th, Lythronax made a page for new palaeontological discoveries. The first news article was about Carnufex, a crocodylomorph which at the time had been recently described. On May 5th Dinopedia's first and probably only bot was made, Lythrobot.

The Growth Period (Mid 2015 - Early 2017)

On September 16th 2016, the user OverlordRocks (now known as MemoryAngel) was granted bureaucrat status by Merrystar after requesting to adopt Dinopedia. Because of this, Merrystar went on a mass-demotion and demoted all the of the moderators due to them being heavily inactive, except for CoolJ7 and Jacksonwarrier.

The Decline Period (Mid 2017 - 2019)

Almost a year later on July 13th, Logo8th would be granted admin by CoolJ7. During 2017, the newly-added Discussions feature was incorporated into Dinopedia's framework. The first post, on December 12th, was by Alwaysmore2hear. In these days the new Discussions board was relatively quiet, with the next post being made an entire week later. This information is known because of the efforts of former bureaucrat Savage Almond, who took the time to search for Dinopedia's oldest posts, linking to each in a post of his own. Jacksonwarrier, an Administrator, became completely inactive since May 27th of that year.

On March 17th, 2018, the user Countmustard wrote two 2017 News articles, on Borealopelta and Halszkaraptor. These would be the last ever written. On August 31st 2018, Ursuul would make the first weekly off-topic thread, although the mods would get slower and slower at posting the threads, and eventually it stopped at #13. On September 29th, 2018, MemoryAngel would give Odysseus Knight and ElizabethIV thread mod.

The Second Gap Period (2019 - Early 2021)

On August 3rd 2020, Logo8th would give Tytopastry, The Alizarr, Concaventor Wrangler, The dragnor, and Thebestgidorah thread mod. Since 2020, all that can be known of, due to lack of documentation, is that the Dragnor, 12 The Irritator, Concaventor Wrangler, Titanosaurus80, MemoryAngel, Logo8th, Ultravillers, Tytopastry, OdysseusKnight, Kelbeam, and other administrators/moderators inherited the Wiki, most becoming inactive. MemoryAngel was the only active Bureaucrat, but became mostly absent during the latter months of 2021. During this time, the Wiki became a member of a partnership with the Jurassic Park Wiki, which shared many of each other’s users.

During July 8, 2021, a new user by the name of "You-are-umsou2Return-ofUmsou" came to this wiki, however, his time here would be short. His first post (later deleted by 12 the Irritator) would contain him talking about obscure documentaries, in broken English. It wasn't much harm until he committed the infamous act of making a ridiculous amount of 15 posts in a single day. This massively exceeded the maximum allowed number of posts, which was 3 back then (now it has been changed to 4). Kelbeam, Shi468, and some others, urged him to stop. He persisted, and would not stop clogging the discussions board, as he would make 18 more posts the next day. The dragnor, Irritator, Concaventor Wrangler, and other moderators would delete the posts, trying to clean up the mess. Umsou would make extremely strange posts, such as off-topic posts regarding things like prisoner’s last meals, copying and pasting Wikipedia text for absolutely no reason, asking people to identify what dinosaurs were on an image, and even sending death threats for asking him to stop spamming. His final reply would be "Or bunny" (in a now deleted post which cannot be seen), right before he was finally banned by the Dragnor, and it was a permanent one. Shi468 was about to leave due to Umsou's spam, but would confirm he would stay due to Umsou's block.

The Golden Age Period (Late 2021 - Early 2022)

During 2021, around October, Dinopedia suddenly had one of moderators, Kelbeam, globally banned. This had to do with a conflict on the Jurassic Park Wiki, involving a Fandom Staff member, a spammer, angry users, and the Wiki staff. It ended in some of the users being banned who were also Dinopedia members.

Another thing of note was the user Dinosaurs20, made many pages for a time, but was criticized for their lackluster content and somewhat pointlessness.

SpinozillaAegypticus was blocked for a year in October, but eventually unblocked a month after his ban due to the admins being merciful on him.

Toward the end of 2021, in December, Carnotaur arrived from the Jurassic Park Wiki (after being demoted from Bureaucrat), and was soon promoted to Moderator by the Dragnor. At this point, the community had seen an issue with too many moderators.

The Post-Golden Period (January 2022 - March 2022)

Starting in January, Carnotaur wished to fix the issue, as well as the Wiki’s theme, Top-navigation, and the guidelines, seeing as they were unkept and messy or old, and began working with the older staff to fix the problems. First came the issue with too many staff members. After demoting inactive staff, and contacting nearly-inactive moderators, the team worked on reforming the staff setup.

On January 1st 2022, Carnotaur made a poll for if the dragnor should be promoted to a bureaucrat. The old Bureaucrat, MemoryAngel, returned and promoted most of the staff to admins, and eventually Dragnor to Bureaucrat. 6 days later, Nightsilver allowed for the promotion of dragnor to a bureaucrat, as the overwhelming majority voted "yes"(Although he had already been promoted). This caused a new concern with still too many staff, now in the form of Admins.

This history wall was made on January 24th, 2022, and began to record Dinopedia’s history.

February 14th, 2022: The Day Of Ascension

On February 14th, 2022, all admins were promoted to bureaucratic status, and began to refer to themselves as “The Holy Six”.

Soon after, the staff worked on revising the guidelines to make them more up to date. This took several days, but soon it was done, and the Categories were aligned with the new guidelines revision. Finally, Carnotaur made a new dark theme and fixed the Top-navigation. The Dragnor also began working on cleaning up the pages of the Wiki.

The issue of the disorder of staff was fixed when Carnotaur and Palaeontologica asked to be demoted to Moderators, joining the others, putting it to an end. The final listing was two Bureaucrats, four Administrators, and five Moderators, eleven staff in total. At this point, the Wiki was rising from its former state. Finally, the user SomewhatInked was promoted to moderator some time later. This problem did not end, for later in February, MemoryAngel promoted several users to Bureaucrat and Administrator status. The Wiki went into a tizzy trying to demote the users, all while others were being appointed. The situation came to a head, and things finally calmed down, with another list of Staff being chosen upon.

On February 15th, Memory Angel suggested that the Galleries be deleted, as they were unnecessary. Dubbed the "Gallerian Purge", a mass deletion of the galleries occured.

During that year on February 16th, Savage Almond rediscovered an old relic.

It was thought that it would probably take a week to finish deleting them all, but the galleries were reduced to less than two hundred within just two days. It is estimated that the purge has caused a whopping amount of over a thousand pages deleted. With the combined efforts of Savage Almond, Somewhat Inked (Very Inked), 12 the Irritator, Titanosaurus80, Memory Angel, Palaeontologica, Kelbeam, The dragnor, and PowerLord23, all the Galleries were finally deleted.

On February 24, 2022, a post on the Community Central discussion board was made by Savage Almond, asking if there's a way to find the creator of a wiki. As soon as all hope was about to be lost once it was realized that there isn't any way to find the founder, a fandom council member by the username of Nekky-Chan confirmed that Lemniwinks was the founder of Dinopedia. It was also revealed that Lemniwinks was demoted by Merrystar in September 16th 2016 due to inactivity, and also from MemoryAngel adopting the wiki, as part of the adoption process. This also explained why he/she didn't show up in the User Rights log. It was also around this time that the mod Carnotaur, who was highly revered by the community, went inactive.

March 15th, 2022: The Dinopedia Civil War

On March 15th, 2022, a demotion vote was held on the Dinopedia discord for three staff members. They decided to go through with the demotions, but the bureaucrats received severe backlash for demoting said users, in addition to various users leaving the wiki after an argument over the demotions occurred. In retaliation, another demotion vote was held by the users of Dinopedia to demote the bureaucrat they blamed for the demotions. The Wiki Manager was contacted, and told the staff and users that they couldn’t build a community by warring with each other and trying to get each other demoted. And so, the three staff that had been demoted were reinstated to their previous positions, and the bureaucrats remained in there’s. This marks one of the greatest and largest wiki wide arguments in the history of the wiki, and caused some users to almost leave the wiki entirely. In fact, a long term member of the staff team, Powerlord23, ended up leaving Dinopedia indefinitely.

March 17th, 2022: The Day Of Descension/The Great Reversion

On this date, a vote made Very Inked by was held for all staff on the wiki, deciding whether or not to revert the staff base to the way it was before the January promotions By doing this, they hoped to end the drama that had been more prevalent since the January promotions. All staff voted yes, and so the ranks of various staff were reverted to the way they were before the January promotions. This marked the end of the Days Of Ascension.

The Critical Period (March-June 2022)

The Moderator Elections (April)

On March 29th, the staff decided to start holding Moderator Elections. There would be certain requirements to run for the rank, and certain requirements to vote. The four contestants were Mimikyutube, Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis, Gojiraaaaaaaaa, and Deltadromeus445. Everyone would have 6 days to announce their candidacy and make a post about why they should be moderator, and the election would be held on April 4th. The staff agreed to this, and the first Dinopedia Moderator elections began. Another important event that happened around this time was the demotion of the bureaucrat MemoryAngel, who demoted themselves and left the wiki. On April 5th, after a tiebreaker poll, Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis was elected as the new moderator.

The Concaventor Wrangler drama

Around April 3rd, a poll was put up to find out whether or not to block and demote a member of staff, Concaventor Wrangler. The majority of the agreed to block him, and so it happened. Concaventor was blocked and demoted from his position as mod. An instant uproar came from some of the users and staff, such as the leading bureaucrat Dragnor, who eventually dragged the issue onto Concaventor's wiki. Some users attempted to get Wrangler blocked after a possible ban evasion, but there was not enough evidence. In the midst of all this, a moderator, Very Inked, requested administrator rights to fill in the gap left by Wrangler. His application was accepted. Dragnor then unblocked Wrangler, saying he had improved his behavior, but another admin, Palaeontologica, reblocked him. A few hours later an agreement was made to unblock Wrangler, but keep him demoted. He would also be on his last chance. So thus Wrangler was unblocked and swore he would do his very best not to get into trouble again.

The Blocking Spree

On April 8th, drama occurred on the Jurassic Park wiki involving a corrupt admin. Many users who were also members of Dinopedia along with JP wiki were globally blocked by Fandom staff for several days. This included a few Dinopedia staff as well.

The Fall of Dinopedia

On the 12th of April, as a result of the drama on the Jurassic Park Wiki, some of the users involved decided to leave Fandom altogether. Under the impression that he had caused them to leave, bureaucrat The Dragnor stepped down from his position. In his place, the new bureaucrat system was born: 12 the Irritator and Titanosaurus80 were now the sole bureaucrats. Returning from his departure, user Very Inked called for a total reform of the rules and administrative policies, which were implemented in the 14th. Another admin who has left, Palaeontologica, decided to rejoin. On April 20th, Firekong1, a long time wiki editor, was blocked temporarily as well.

Around this time, a moderator, Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis, was globally blocked for three months after an incident on Jurassic Park wiki.

Endgame

Following users not adhering to the new guidelines, Very Inked left the wiki. Soon after, Titanosaurus80 and 12 The Irritator left as well. This left the wiki with no bureaucrats and extremely few admins. MemoryAngel was repromoted, which prompted PowerLord to leave the wiki. And then MemoryAngel demoted themselves again after more backlash and left the wiki for good.

Dinopedia then entered a dead state, with many important users gone for good and nothing interesting happening. Very Inked would still pop in occasionally to edit or respond to messages, as did Palaeontologica, but nothing large happened until an argument started on one of the posts by the user Lamborlolator. Concaventor Wrangler was blocked after the argument, but after going to Fandom staff, his block was shortened. The users Beagliam, Ti58, and Lamborlolator were all blocked temporarily as well.
After that, some light drama would occur from time to time, but Dinopedia was still a dead, toxic, shell of what it used to be.

One notable event in mid May was the unblock of Firekong1, after the mod Man with no name or life convinced Very Inked that the initial block reason was unfair.

Dinopedia Death Party (May)

Near the end of May, two Bureaucrats, 12 the Irritator and Titanosaurus80, went rogue. They began to block tons of people, most of whom they had issues with in the past. A notable blocked person was Carnotaur, a mod, and Man with no name or life, another mod. The reason for these blockings seems to stem from the fact that Carnotaur had suddenly appeared after an absence, and tried to “undo” the staff team, even though the wiki was already recovering. Carnotaur intended to helped solidify the Wiki, but spite drove the two Staff to ban him. Nonetheless, most of the damage the rogue users had caused was undone, and the wiki settled down once more.

A mod election also began on June 28th.

The Dark Age (July 2022 - Mid January 2023)

With the wiki calmer than usual, new users and some older ones began to return. The discussions board soon became friendlier, although it was a little less active. Art contests started popping up, as well as an occasional spin-wheel post or skeletal diagram posts. Flowers were beginning to sprout from the desert that was Dinopedia.

Minor Issue

Around the start of August, Kelbeam, one of the moderators, was blocked globally from Fandom because he posted an screenshot with the words "***** Man". As well, Savage Almond was banned.

On August 6th, Carnotaur was unbanned by Inked, who stated that he and others had given up, and gave Carnotaur his Moderator rights back. He wished to attempt to return the Wiki back to a more positive and functional state with the help of the rest of the Staff, even though everyone thought the wiki was completely fine. Carnotaur inquired of Admin rights, but Inked could not complete it due to his Admin status. A promotion was then made by Savage Almond, however. Almost immediately after getting his rights back, Carnotaur was turned back to Moderator by Tytopastry, with Concaventor stating that the other staff decide he should remain Mod for the time being. Carnotaur then asked Savage Almond to unblock FireKong1, and in turn he himself unblocked another user, believing them to have been unfairly banned in the previous months. Nonetheless, they were re-banned by Inked, who decided that what Carnotaur did was wrong, and he ended up having most of the community's support for those decisions. Carnotaur then went inactive again. For a time the Wiki was run a by an unseen group of Staff operating from one of the many dubious Dinopedia Discords, stating that one had to be a member to become Staff. This is eventually dissolved.

In early September, Staff Approval Polls were held, and it was decided that Carnotaur would be demoted due to his controversial decisions and inactivity.

In the 9th of October, some people decided to raid the Wings of Fire wiki, including Saurio the Spinowing, Palaeontologica, German Kaiserreich, and ThoradolosaurFan2779. They were all global blocked by the representative of the WoF wiki, Lady Lostris. While in itself not a massive event, this began a downward spiral of a loss of morale regarding the wiki; many regarded it the start of a new "dark age" with many leaving the wiki or taking long hiatuses.

On October 11th, the well known user and admin Generic Friendly SomewhatInked (Formerly Very Inked) had his account deactivated per his request. On October 12th, a user known as SpinozillaAegypticus left the fandom.

On November 10th Palaeontologica deactivated their account leaving the wiki with three admins and one moderator; however, Lamborlobator was promoted by Kelbeam on the 13th.

On November 17th SomewhatInked deactivated his alternate account, meaning he was off the wiki for good.

During late November, Carnotaur made a post called The Dinopedia Iceberg. At the end, he made an ominous entry titled THE OVERSEER. Users were puzzled by it, and he did not explain, going inactive for five days. Afterward, a user by the name of the Water Burger arrived. Burger made a page called Tyranosauris, and claimed to it was his first page. He used bad grammar and made multiple spelling mistakes. He caught the attention of many users, who thought he was either underage or acting. He caused a sensation, and began speaking strangly about Hell and where he was from. Soon, he was blocked, being sent off with praises. Toward the end, it became rumored that perhaps Burger was THE OVERSEER spoken of by Carnotaur.

After this, Carnotaur held a contest for the Cringiest Dinosaur depiction one could find. 11 candidates participated. [TO BE UPDATED]

Shortly after, he returned again, under the name Water Burg, to the praise of many. He continued the claim, and identified himself as said Overseer. Carnotaur then identified himself as the prophet of Burg, and the announcer of his coming. Water Burg commanded that Carnotaur be tried with three tasks, and would then be knighted upon completion. Carnotaur completed the tasks, and awaited Water Burg to respond.

The same day, November 28th, an election was held by Kelbeam to decide a new Moderator. He made a limit of eight candidates, eventually being Gojiraaaaaaaaa, D1n0636, Carnotaur, Baragon301, ScaryLookinHobo, Deltadromeus445-2, A random player named blitz yt, Mimikyutube, and Nizaluddin. After this, Kelbeam announced the election would be held on Monday, December 5th. On the 4th Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis announced he would be having his account deactivated soon, and wished Gojiraaaaaaaaa to replace him, hence removing him from the candidates. Kelbeam then dropped 2 separate polls of candidates. One with Deltadromeus445-2, Carnotaur, Nizaluddin, and Mimikyutube. The other poll included A random player named blitz yt, ScaryLookinHobo, Baragon301, and D1n0636. After some time, Nizaluddin and ScaryLookinHobo moved on to the finals and in the end, ScaryLookinHobo became content moderator and thread moderator.

In January the 11th of 2023, 2 days after Saurio the Spinowing and the others ban expired, Saurio the Spinowing was globally banned unexpectedly. On the 16th, Lamborlobator was found to be guilty of using a variety of slurs and spouting anti-religious sentiment. In what is informally called Grand Ratio, a name suggested by Andromedus the dragon, he was promptly ratioed, and Palaeontologica proceeded to ban him from the Discord server. The event was of such significance that Palaeontologica returned, under the name Ganimes. Subsequently, Lamborlobator was banned from the wiki.

Rebuilding (Late January - Late May 2023)

Expansion

On the 30th, a secondary wiki, the Holocene Fauna Wiki, was erected to catalogue recently-extinct species. A plan was made to document all species made extinct in the Holocene was made, which included any animal from 12,000 years ago to now. Popular animals like the Wooly Mammoth, Dodo, and Thylacine were featured there.

After Palaeontologica returned under a new name, many other previously dormant users followed suit. Very Inked (now called Generic Friendly Ducc and now SomewhatInked) officially came back to become a regular visitor, The Dragnor has been making appearances more often (mostly to give news on papers), and Titanosaur80 came back in Early March (under the new name of TitanoReborn) after a long siesta.; all of which were previous elected officials of the wiki at one point and gave up their/lost their position.

Concav's Retirement/New Moderator

On May 19th, Concavenator Wrangler announced he would be retiring from his role as a moderator. 3 days later, a poll between users Mimikyutube and Rexyisdebest was put up. Mimikyutube ended up winning the election due to his popularity, although Rexy only lost by four votes.

Guideline changes

Throughout 2023, guidelines were altered and changed several times, including several additions.

• 'No swearing' was implemented at the same time as the 'No WWW's' Rule, however this rule resulted in near instant backlash from the community, and thus it was quickly removed.

• No WWW posts' was a guideline put into place for a very short amount of time. Due to multiple complaints regarding the unfairness of WWWs, but due to a massive amount of discussion on the original post proposal, the rule was reverted.

• 'No Spinosaurids in WWWs' was set into place after several arguments had occurred on various WWWs featuring Spinosaurids. This was to prevent further arguing, as spinosaurids are very debatable as to their capabilities.
• 'No more sexual jokes' was also installed at around late quarter 1 of 2023, to encourage a more professional wiki. While having been put into the guidelines in the past, it was only enforced and mentioned again later in time.
• After multiple repeated incidents of drama throughout March and April, Generic Friendly SomewhatInked enforced a 'no drama' policy, previously a major issue in Dinopedia. Once again, another attempt at keeping the wiki friendly and professional. Any posts or attempts to bring up drama inside and outside of the wiki will be deleted on sight by admins.

Modern Age (June 2023 - Present)

With the wiki becoming more and more popular and active, and with a newly stabilized staff team, Dinopedia was thriving again. Old users such as M and Shi returned at long last as well. A few incidents occured in this time period though, such incidents including M being globally banned for a year after an incident on another wiki.

The Nest's infamous meme OP was restarted by Inked in late June, as it was becoming increasingly hard to navigate the thread with all the memes at the top. Soon after, the Nest was locked and replaced by The Nest V2, due to the original being laggy and filled with deactivated accounts on July 2nd, 2023 after a poll. After this, a new age, "The Age of The Rain Frogs" was proposed and even made it to the history page for a short period of time. However, it ended up cancelled and thus the Goofy Ahh Age continued.

More drama (again!) (July 2023)

On July 7, The Nest V2 was deleted due to the constant arguments made by users there, causing Inked to delete it as a temporary fix for the behavior. With the old nest still locked as well, this temporarily stopped the off topic area of the wiki. After a brief period of time, the original nest reopened again.

Soon after, the guidelines were reinforced and a harsher punishment was put in place for users who violate the guidelines in the form of a short ban, this was put in place as a response to the arguments on various posts, since drama appeared to be more prevalent.

On August 7th, the wiki strangely had the theme had changed, along with the name changed to “Insane Asylum”. This later was reverted. Kelbeam, a bureaucrat for the wiki, also got unbanned that day, before promoting Nizal to admin for their hard work on the wiki. Sadly, Kelbeam was globally blocked again on the same day for 6 months for a publicly unstated reason. Inked was also globally blocked, though not for as long as Kelbeam.

2023 Moderator Elections (August 7th-August 16th 2023)

On August 7th, the 2023 moderator election was announced. Many users ran for mod during this event, a few of being being Ganimes (Palae), Ankysareawesome, DankTorvo, Cooner21, Andromedus the Dragon, Shieldon.BAH, and Mediterranean Mapper. Users in this election utilized propaganda to help them. This was also the first election to have a Dinopedian political party, called the "Dinopedian Stability Party." The Stability Party was built around making the wiki more stable, and all members of this party had to vote for each other.

The first polls went by smoothly, without much drama. The trouble started in the poll between Ganimes and SuperiorTonkAlt2. This was not the only drama that would happen during this time, however. The user Ankysareawesome had voted for Tonk during this poll, who wasn't in the Dinopedian Stability Party, breaking one of the rules of the Stability Party, which they were in. As a result, the users in the party decided to vote for Mediterranean Mapper. This resulted in one of the most intense 24 hour periods in Dinopedian History. Many users supported Ankysareawesome, but there were also many who supported Mediterranean Mapper. At the end of the 24 hours, it was a draw, so it was put up to a 50/50 on the Random number generator. As a result of this, Mediterranean Mapper won, and the finals began.

The final polls were Andromedus VS Ganimes as well as Mediterranean Mapper VS DankTorvo. These two polls were also very intense, with DankTorvo narrowly beating out Mediterranean Mapper due to distrust in the Stability Party, and Ganimes beating Andromedus in the other poll. As a result of all of these polls, DankTorvo, and Ganimes became moderators.

Normal hours (Late August 2023-Early December 2023)

On the first day of October, most of the staff team (excluding the bureaucrats for being banned or busy) decided to start celebrating Spooky Season the entire month as a joint effort; Nizaluddin created an analog horror series, ScaryLookinHobo hosted a Halloween themed art contest, Ganimes began a sci-fi story series, Mimikyutube released a spooky Spinwheel Battle, and DankTorvosaurus had a Halloween themed Evosaur contest. Many other Dinopedia users followed suit, hosting events and some reintroducing old series. The winner of the Halloween Art contest was the user "Just shi over here..."; her art was put on the main page for her achievements and her received the rewards of the challenge.

On November 8th, 2023, a user named D1n0635 was promoted to content moderator by Kelbeam, as he has proven useful in helping locate plagiarized pages.

In late November, a secondary project as an offshoot of the creation of Dinopedia: The Game's fan wiki was created, where bureaucrat Kelbeam decided to make a real life counterpart of the fan creation. This was promptly named Dinopedia: The Game RPG, as it was created using popular creation software RPG Maker 5, and acted as a passion project for the community. At this point, the game is still in its early workings, so it will be a long time before it will become public and playable. View the initial post and progress of the game here.

Real Dinopedia Hours (Late December 2023-Late 2024)

The wiki had largely recovered from all the drama and new user-created series started popping up, such as Inked's Summit Logs, D1n0's DinoLabs, and more. Andromeda's Creatures of a Bigone Era also restarted at long last.

As the holidays approached, Inked made a tribute to the Dinopedia discords, and other holiday related projects and games were started. 2023 has been a wild year for the wiki, but it's ending on a good note.

On December 29 Savage Almond stepped down as bureaucrat and promoted Hobo to fill in the position.

January 2024 Mod Elections

Gojiraaa, an old mod, retired on January 2nd. A mod election was started to fill in the slot. Also around this time, Ganimes was promoted to admin, leaving 2 mod slots open! Scarylookinhobo reformatted the election so that it would have 2 winners, the one with the most votes and the runner up. The first polls were set to open on January 10th. On January 3rd, SomewhatInked managed to reactivate his old account, SomewhatInked. He made the account his new main and demoted himself to content mod after a brief couple month stint as admin. Mimikyutube also switched to a new account, MimikBoogTube, around this time.

Finally, January 10th came along, and the first two polls went up. Acryallofan came from behind and beat Powerlord, mostly due to some election controversy, and Nonotbeast easily cleared Eren Freeman. The next set of polls started on the 11th, where Bajadasaurus234 - in an event known by some as the Baja Sweep - beat German Kaiserreich with a nearly 90-10% ratio. During that exact same poll, German did not heed the warning of arguments getting banned, and was banned to miss out on the entire election to prevent any further hijinx. The rest of the election posts went relatively smoothly afterward.

On January 16th the mod elections ended with Ankysareawesome and Nonotbeast becoming the new mods. Nonotbeast would go onto make a post regarding a user-run council to suggest changes to the guidelines. The 'No Spinosaurids in WWW's' rule that had been around since mid-2023 had been reverted with the exception of Spinosaurus itself.

Finally, inner peace

February 20th of 2024 marked the 200th birthday of the first described dinosaur genus, Megalosaurus. The day was spent celebrating how far paleontology has come in that time, and the official discord server started their first watch party to bring the community together, watching Dino King to commemorate the terrible lizard.

The wiki itself remained drama-free for the most part for the rest of February and into March. There were some rather petty incidents on the Discord (which by this point had been made completely public and put on the wiki sidebar), but those were ironed out relatively quickly.

On March 31st, the wiki's theme and main was changed for April fools day and to celebrate the release of Godzilla X Kong, the New Empire. Many users would create joke pages for memes based around the film. On April 2nd, all the pages were deleted and the theme returned to normal.

On April 29th, Nonotbeast stepped down as moderator due to the amount of drama on the wiki significantly dropping.

In the beginning of June, ScaryLookinHobo hosted the wiki's first Editors Challenge in hopes of promoting more wiki content interaction and fixing aspects of the wiki. Many users participated and dozens of pages were added and/or fixed. The winner for the first ever editor's challenge was moderator Ankysareawesome. One of his rewards was his inclusion on a planned Hall of Fame page for the community.

On July 1st, construction of the Dinopedia Hall of Fame began, documenting "world" records on the wiki and winners of Dinopedia challenges in the history of the wiki. Not much has been added as of late, but updates and new awards do happen occasionally.

Changing of the Guard (Early 2025)

The wiki remained rather stagnant with new and old faces showing up in the new year, but no proper developments in Dinopedia's history at this point. That was until Mid-March, when hints of something nefarious was brewing among the staff. Little was known until April 1st, where footage of a court case regarding the conviction of bureaucrat Kelbeam and his several crimes against Dinopedia. He was found guilty of tax evasion, distribution of illegal substances, ownership of a disco ball without a permit, assaulting a police officer, trespassing on government property, 17 counts of attempted assassination, grand theft auto, 54 counts of vehicular manslaughter, public indecency including during the hearing, kidnapping of THE one and only Santa Claus, resisting arrest, and jaywalking. This led to his resignation as bureaucrat, leaving his status only as a moderator and Hobo as the sole bureaucrat. Plans are in place to hold an election to replace him with a lower staff member, but no designated time frame.

During mid-2025, it was brought to the notice of Dinopedia's staff that the Jurassic Park wiki was looking for an alliance between the two websites, given their size and similar subject matter. This didn't go anywhere as of October, and it appears that both sides completely forgot such a partnership was even suggested.

Notes

• Lemniwinks did not create the main page; they created the wiki itself and left shortly after for unknown reasons.
• Syugecin is likely the first user to be promoted to admin on the wiki, as well as the first user to be promoted to bureaucrat who was not the founder of the wiki.
• The "Gallerian Purge" is but a small part of a much larger effort to delete all inaccurate and unnecessary pages and media from the wiki, which is aptly referred to as the “Inaccuracy Purge”.
• Many users would consider June-September of 2021 as the Golden Age of Dinopedia, with the return of MemoryAngel in late December as the beginning of the end. A period in mid-late January is also considered a Golden Age, with many spinwheels, art, etc.
• On August 7th, 2023, the light and dark theme were switched around, and the wiki's title was renamed to "Insane Asylum." (Nothing happened on August 7th, 2023. We are living in a simulation. Nothing happened on August 7th, 2023.)
• For anyone interested in the history of the terminology and inside jokes on this community, visit Dinopedia's Dictionary for assistance.

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