Thread:Hackey5/@comment-4738639-20130505072014/@comment-4738639-20130507072514

The wiki was created in September 2011. I came around as an anonymous Wikia contributor around October and registered around January. The community was fairly small still when I became an admin around the end of January. It wasn't until around March 2012 that the game had a large amount of content added and an influx of community members came to the wiki.

Our founder has also been missing since almost the creation of the wiki; might have even left in the first week.

At first when we first had the influx of users one of our most loyal editors drafted up policies based on Wikia's terms of use and other wiki's policies. Since then they have been adjusted and new drafts have been proposed in a forum for discussion about whether the suggestions are supported or if anything would like to be seen altered or removed. Once the guidelines and policies are set up then the the staff usually enforces it or removes/edits comments or bad edits depending on the content.

The same idea of proposing new ideas for page redesign in a forum for discussion and if necessary a vote or two following. Initially when I first became admin I had worked with another member of the community in making similar pages consistent in design to lessen confusion. Most of those formats remain the same, but others have been slightly altered as more and more in game content is added and we implemented tabbers and switches to our wiki.

For policies I would suggest looking at Wikia's Terms of Use and other wiki's policies when drafting up proposals and see what is thought to apply best to this wiki. The forums work well for us and we have a lot of active contributors to the forums. This might be a good way to make your community aware of the forums while having archived discussions prior to any big changes which can be referenced in the future.