Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20170327182129

As anybody who knows me personally can attest, I'm a huge sucker for history. I like reading up on just how we got to where we are today, and I'd genuinely consider being a History teacher (as my sister, who does not have a wikia, can both confirm and relate).

Yet, we have no extensive location that really explains exactly what the history of our wiki is. While an obscure thing to lack, yes, this has two big problems, outside of minor, more nit-picky ones like how we don't have a dedicated place where we keep tabs on important events in this place's history:


 * 1) New (or sometimes even older) editors who are curious about this stuff don't exactly know what's going on. They don't really understand why we have a Nike template, but no reverse-Nike, they don't understand why we class our founders the way we do, they don't understand when and why we set things up.
 * 2) Returning editors who left for hiatus would have to play huge catch-up, just to make sure they didn't miss anything and don't get into accidental trouble doing something that used to be fine, but is now not acceptable.

I'd like to add extra emphasis to the latter one, as that's the main utility purpose of making a History of the Wiki page. However, most of this would just be to honor our Wiki's past, present, and even a little bit of the future, and keep documents as to important things like when users got promoted/demoted, noteworthy events that happened and are referred to to this very day long after they had ended and left most people's memories, and if nothing else, just be a nice read.

Since this is not really something worth voting on (after all, it's basically just a page that's a compendium of just the wiki's history, which really doesn't seem like the biggest thing in the world to vote on compared to a policy change or promotion), I'd rather we don't do that.

However, I'd say we just make it a discussion as to if we think it's a worthy thing to have as utility, a good thing to have just in case if someone wants it, and what events should we class as "notable" enough to consider being featured on the history page. Again, this is not a vote, so please don't do that, and don't derail the thread. 