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<span style="font: bold 125% Tahoma;">A year as a Sims wiki editor!</span>
</center></div>It has been exactly a year ago since I joined the Sims wiki. Well actually I joined the Sims wiki on the 5th of December 2013, but didn't manage to create an account until the 6th, and didn't manage to join until the 8th. I'd been wanting to join the wiki and improve the content for ages, but I just hadn't gained the approval and trust from relatives that my joining would lead to good results.
Indeed when I first joined, I had literally no wiki editing experience. And because of it, people were unsure of my gameplay experience, especially before I got an account, people would often undo my edits, without so much as researching to check whether the information I added was correct. Fortunately because of my natural editing skills, and my past experience with Microsoft Office, I was able to transform from a newbie editor into a marginally okay one in less than a month - still I had a long way before I got really good, or at least good.
When I first joined, I soon learned that there was a lot more to editing the wiki, than just hitting "edit" and "publish". There were other tools such as "history" and "undo". When I saw my first edit being undone, my first assumption was that someone must have browsed the wiki content for the previous revision - my guess was sort of correct, but I didn't
Less than two months after joining, I made a request for rollback rights. I chose to apply at a time, when I didn't care whether or not my request was approved, but to my best of luck, my request was approved. It was a few more months before I had the courage to apply for admin rights. My calculation was that if I saw another user being nominated for the position for making positive contributions, the sort that I myself had done or could have done, then I would automatically select myself as a follow up candidate.
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