I started out learning the basics of wiki code on the Wheel of Time wiki, but soon after starting there I completed reading all of the then published books Malazan books so I looked up this wiki and, um, it was a bit of a mess. It had been abandoned with about 140 content pages, quite a bit of which had incorrect information and it had a poor reputation at the Malazan Empire forums too (ask D'rek). Anyway I spent quite a bit of time redesigning the look and organising the pages. Some of the things I did was create most of the giganto category index that is still in use today, added almost all the rules, guides and templates including the quotation templates and quote of the day thing. Did you know that helm icon is scanned from my copy of Reaper's Gale? I didn't know how to photoshop before I made that with GIMP, it took me a while! I borrowed a lot of inspiration (and code) from Wookieepedia over the years so they get my first thanks, I still think it is one of the best designed wikis on Wikia. Eventually I burned out and abandoned with wiki to it's fate once more (not a proud moment). I had been toiling for months and not a single other contributor had turned up, it's hard to keep going under those conditions. That's why I think it is so great to see a good number of regular editors now and Egwene deserves a large amount of praise for encouraging interest in this wiki, both here and at the ME forums. Another person, sadly no longer contributing, is Game widow. She was a staff member at Wikia and, while her main focus was The Witcher, she picked up this wiki from where I had left it and contributed 8613 edits, a truly astonishing amount that was only recently exceeded by Egwene. Between them they have 57% of this wikis edits, amazing dedication! Anyway, after about a two year hiatus I started contributing again. I designed the chapters project and polished up the Gardens of the Moon page to get it good enough to feature on the main page (maybe Rake could be featured now). Thanks a lot to everyone who has helped with filling out the chapter pages, I knew I was biting off far more than I could chew by myself when I started that and it's great to see it moving along. I've done a lot for this wiki, I have over 2000 edits, but my dark secret is that I've hardly contributed anything to the content pages. I've wanted to do a lot more, but unfortunately it's always been really difficult to motivate myself to do it. So I really take my hat off to everyone out there that is putting fingers to keyboards and describing the Malazan universe, it is a giant task, but it is an effort that is appreciated by many. I expect this wiki will be around for a long time to come, constantly improving until it is truly worthy of the name "Encyclopaedia Malazica". I should point out that there have been two other Malazan wikis and that this one has faired the best. Hood's Balls, perhaps unsurprisingly, died a quick death (not even the Internet Archive has a copy of it) while the original Encyclodpeda Malazica (primarily it consists of quotes from the books and can be a good resource for earlier works) that I stole the name from is dormant, perhaps to never awaken again. For the last year I have been fairly inactive myself and unfortunately that seems unlikely to change, but I don't want to repeat my earlier mistake, of completely leaving, again. I will be in the background available to help anyone with problems they might have, especially technical problems. If someone wants a new template for example, I might be able to make one. I have been subscribed to the recent edits RSS feed for a while and I check it nearly every day and nearly every day there are at least 25 new edits (my readers display maximum is 25). It's great to know that this wiki is so active and I'd like to give a big thanks to everyone that has contributed, no single person could have done this. To everyone who is reading this who hasn't contributed before I would say don't be afraid to break things, it is simplicity itself to revert any damage that you might do, but everyone else will be richer for any well-intentioned edit that you do make. --Jade Raven (talk to me) 08:22, September 7, 2015 (UTC)