Fandom Wank Wiki

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Name:	Fandom Wank Wiki (also, Wank Wiki and WankWiki)
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Dates:	2002-2011
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The Fandom Wank Wiki was a wiki associated with the Fandom Wank community. The front page was last modified on 22 February 2011, at 17:40. At that time it had been accessed 473,513 times. The last edit was made December 16, 2011.

The site had some long, interesting pages but was mostly a collection of in-jokes and obscure, scattered minutia.

Some Highlights, and Lowerlights

• What the Wiki Is and What the Wiki Isn't, ^{Archived version}
• Wanka Crushes, ^{Archived version}
• Famous Wanks, ^{Archived version}
• The Russet Doom Saga, ^{Archived version}
• Wanka Facts, ^{Archived version}
• Famous Implosions, ^{Archived version}
• Cassandra Claire, ^{Archived version}
• Anne Rice, ^{Archived version}
• Famous Wanks, ^{Archived version}
• Victoria Bitter, ^{Archived version}
• Lee Goldberg, ^{Archived version}
• Turimel, ^{Archived version}
• Laura Hale, ^{Archived version}
• CrystalWank, ^{Archived version}

Stats

Statistics, ^{Archived version}

• Content pages: 964
• Pages (All pages in the wiki, including talk pages, redirects, etc.): 1,977
• Uploaded files: 0
• Page edits since Fandom wank wiki was set up: 19,073
• Average edits per page: 9.65
• Job queue length: 0
• Registered users: 3,431
• Users who have performed an action in the last 91 days: 21
• Bots (list of members): 0
• Administrators (list of members:) 4
• Bureaucrats (list of members): 1
• Views total: 9,499,184
• Views per edit: 498.04

Most viewed pages:

• Main Page: 448,481
• Famous Wanks: 63,910
• Snapes on an Astral Plane: 56,894
• The Ms. Scribe Story: 54,770
• Wank: 52,402
• Usagi Kou: 49,458
• FPB: 41,851
• CrystalWank: 40,899
• Famous Wankers: 38,975
• BNF: 35,444

Some Members

• The ModSquad (hugsnkisses, sepiamagpie, phosfate, panthea, wankprophet, sorchar, snacky, apoplexia, eljuno, backfromspace)
• Official FW Males ("Just because Fandom Wank is a Hive Vagina doesn't mean all 4000+ members are of the female persuasion... ")

The Rules

• "All Your Base". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03.

Timeline

Timeline, ^{Archived version}:

The Land Before Wank Pre-2002

• And on the Eighth Day, God created Fandom and he looketh upon it and he smileth and say "yea, [this is good]". And there were message boards and fanlistings and 'zines. God said, "Behold, I have given you pretty boys with useful interlockingeth organs and the power to fashion flashing icons in your own image, so you will not be bored." And Fandom was content.
• On the Ninth Day, God cast Satan out of Paradise where he went to crawl upon his belly and create his own playground: Fandom Wank. And Fandom was no more at peace.

2002 October 16

• The birth of the illustrious community. Fandom Wank is created on journaling system LiveJournal.
• Fandom recoils.

2003 January 14

• Fandom Wank is TOSed from LiveJournal for no discernable reason. No valid response is ever given. See TOSsers for assorted reactions.
• Wanktastic is created and survives 16 hours before it is also TOSed. ideology wank and revenge of wank barely last a few hours.
• A Yahoo Group is created.

January 16

• LJ Abuse suspends Fandom Wank founder Dara for telling Brad (Fitzpatrick, creator of Livejournal) to "chug cock".
• Versaphile creates Fandom Wank on Blurty and codes the current rainbow layout along with Mortari.
• First "FW is starting to suck" growing pains result in her creating some preliminary rules, too.

March 9

• TOSed from Blurty.
• Followed by...
• Very brief existence on CrazyLife.

March 16

• Move to newly created JournalFen.
• Creation of the ModSquad under the nominal control of Dara.

Aprilish

• Mortari quits the ModSquad in a rain of wank.

Augustish

• Stormfreak banned from JournalFen for abuse of servers.

Some time

• Offshoot communities start forming with Fandom Lounge and Fandom Rant.

2004 Some time

• "FW getting suckier" discontent rises and eventually boils over in the creation of Noob and Old Timer/Cool
• Kid communities.

April 16

• CrystalWank—The post that launched thirteen thousand comments.

June 23

• Fandom Wank is deleted by the moderators.

June 24

• Fandom Wank is undeleted by the admins.

July 23

• Phoenix is banned from FW, then suspended from JF, due to "hilarious" asshattery.

October 19

• FW community is put on post moderation.

October 24

• Four new mods (Phosfate, Wankprophet, Sepiamagpie and Panthea) are added to the The ModSquad as a result of a general poll.

December 19

• Thorn star is banned from FW for the first time.

December 20

• Thorn_star is unbanned from FW.

2005 Around May 13

• Thorn_Star banned for trolling, by popular request. Sparked by his trollish comment-disabled "PSA" about anon comments being turned off.

June 23

• Fandom Love and its aftermath
• FW Cool Kid elfy suspended from JournalFen for insulting the owner, then reinstated.
• Wankicane Katrina
• BJR Teaches Us How To Outwalk A Hurricane

October 3

• Blackjackrocket banned from Fandom Wank.

November 18

• "Controversial" trollish community Cosplayfucks banned from JournalFen due to overwhelmingly underaged memberlist.

At some point

• Apoplexia and Snacky join The ModSquad.

2006 January

• World Wide Web War I causes F_W to go "Loll".

March

• HP Cornfield created to spare F_W from Harmonian wank.

June

• Eljuno joins the Modsquad.
• The Ms. Scribe Story is posted on Bad Penny. Journalfen population expands.

August

• The Bad Penny is NOT a Fandom Wank Community implosion, leading to the birth of LOL Meme.

October 22

• The first International Boobie Day is celebrated at Fandom Wank Icons.

2007 May/June

• Strikethrough2007—fandom banned from LiveJournal, migrates to GreatestJournal and JournalFen

July

• The Potterdämmerung

August

• MsScribe Speaks

November

• Lexicongate begins.

December

• Fandom migration claims a victim: GreatestJournal. Fandom decides InsaneJournal will be more robust.
• Lexicongate continues.

2008 January

• Anonymous declares war upon the Church of Scientology.

Lexicongate continues. February–April

• Lexicongate continues.

July–August

• The Sparkledämmerung

September

• Lexicongate ends. Oh wait, it's not quite dead yet.

December

• Lexicongate ends... maybe.

2009 February

• Scans daily gets TOSsed.

March–June

• The Russet Doom Saga

May

• Fandom Wank drives Lovecrafty to pseuicide.

December

• Victoria Bitter returns in the Harry Potter fandom.

2???

• Fandom Wank deletes world. People complain.
• World reinstated. People complain.