Merger Year One: Thoughts, Anger, and Cats
Dear Editors, Readers, Comrades, and everyone in between,
2020 has been a hell of a year, filled with abysmal lows punctuated by the occasional dizzying high. It's a year that will leave in infamy, until 2021 decides to claim the spot. However, I'd rather not ruminate on the many failures of the year.
Instead, I'd like to focus on what was good. As of November, a full year has elapsed since we have collectively decided to rejoin The Vault and Nukapedia as one Fallout Wiki. With that action, eight years of separation have come to an end, with two tribes of editors reunited once more.
I will not deny that we were off to a rough start. We had to reconcile two different editing and policy cultures, which grew apart despite their shared roots. We ha…
Resignation
As of today, December 4th, 2012, I have removed my administrator rights.
If you are bright, you will try to find out who I am and why I might find this to be the right decision. Otherwise, feel free to accept the official staff story.
I will not apologize for bruising egos.
See you folks around (unless someone's going to find an excuse, so that they can ban me, now that I'm vulnerable).
Jesse Heinig hospitalized, ChipIn campaign started to help him
As No Mutants Allowed reports, Jesse Heinig, one of the developers of the original Fallout, has been hospitalized due to a misdiagnosis. As medical bills are mounting, a ChipIn campaign was started to help him cover these costs.
Your Wikia experience and CVs
It has occured to me lately, as I've been writing my job applications, that my experience in administrating Wikia wikis could be translated into an entry on my CV. Question is, how would it be done?
A curriculum vitae needs to contain all your job experience that might be relevant to the job you're applying for. If you've been contributing and administrating wikis for the past, say, four years, then you've surely accumulated a decent amount of experience and know-how. Now, it's a question of translating all that into an entry on your CV.
The basic question is: where to place the appropriate heading? Simple. Unless you are a paid Wikia employee (and I'm sure you'd know that you are), all Wikia-related experience should be placed under the Volunt…