Hello all. I made a post about this 3 years ago but there are some updates that are needed to the end since things have changed.
1: The Beginning Times
The beginning times were the very beginning of our Wiki and the person who started all of it was a person named TheRealMU5T4N6. In time of the creation of the wiki on the 10th of February, 2016 to two and half years later in October of 2018 marked the time period of this era, 2 pages and 6 edits were made. The two pages were the main page and the Spintires vehicle page. The main page has been heavily altered due to the other two games in the franchise releasing and all the DLC work done. The vehicle page created has sadly been deleted as with the third game coming out along with 2 DLCs for the first game, we needed to separate our pages so we had room and helped mobile users. There would be 25 more edits made by a user named Reaper11186 at the end of this era around July that kicked off the next era.
2: The Resurgence
In October of 2018, three users named Creamygravy44, Harrison35, and Pinkachu who might I add was a Fandom staff member, made around 120 edits combined but all three dropped off around December, just 2 months after they arrived. This time saw most of our vehicle pages created for MudRunner and SpinTires as well as MudRunner's page be created. February of 2019 marked the end of The Resurgence.
3: The Golden age
The Golden Age marked when the most users had come on to edit with about 6 users logged to edit. This would be very short though as most of those users would leave at the middle of the age and this age leads to a very dark one. A lot of old pages were made doing this time however.
4: The Great Decay
Starting in October of 2018, (Which is when Nextej joined and I joined a month later) the wiki was down to 2 members from The Golden Age but the wiki gained some new members and added a good bit of info. This isn't too much else to say about this one other than it ended in February of 2020.
5: The Second Coming
This age marks when I had gained leadership rights over the wiki and Nextej had also gained rights. This age would bring about most of our modern information and mark when a new leadership was present since there hadn't been proper leadership since The Resurgence. This age would end on April 12th 2020.
6: The Triumvirate
Another admin called BarneyKB would be added to the leadership and form the triumvirate which was the first of its kind as the members of the resurgence fell under rule of Pinkachu more than having a three ruler wiki. Quite a few modern pages were made during this time.
7: Age of Progress
In November of 2020, Churnovisk and The Cherrybomber were officially made staff by myself and this kicks off the age of progress. This era has seen most of our pages reworked and a lot of new ones made. I extend my thanks to Churnovisk and The Cherrybomber as they singlehandedly brought this wiki into an age of great information. This is the age we currently reside in a probably will for a long time unless something drastic changes.
8: Age of Singularity
I'll say this started around Fall of 2022. By then, Barney hadn't really done much for a year by this point, and Cherry and Churno hadn't edited for a few months now. I made a few edits around this time to clean up older MudRunner and SpinTires pages since they really got no love during that time but since then, I have done nothing. During this time, only Nextej kept on editing. This brings us into today. By now, only really Nextej keeps the place going. He has 3000 edits under his belt which is 1/4 of the total edits made in this place and he just keeps on going without stopping. With all of my inactivity, I've decided to give up my rights as a moderator and admin. Call this my "retirement" if you will. With this, I think it is fair to say that Nextej is head admin of this place.
This part is separate from the timeline stuff so don't include this into that. I just want to say farewell to you all. It's been a great 5 years with this place. I remember when I joined. First thing I did was work on some American Wilds DLC vehicles and created pages for the Kenworth as well as the C260. I also remember when I wrote the page for the Western Star and pissed off most of the community because of how biased it was. I then remember applying for and getting admin rights to this place and then giving Nextej full rights. I'm happy to see what this place has become. I remember when I first got rights, the analytics showed that we got less then 1000 people a day viewing the wiki. 1000 views was a really good day. Now we get over 4000 as a standard. Sometimes we are breaking over 7000. I loved this place and while I kind of do now, I don't have the time anymore like I did back then. Nextej, if you read this, I personally thank you for all your dedication to keeping this place alive. I think you are a more than worthy admin to keep running this place, espcially since that is what you've been doing for the past year and a half. Take care all. I won't delete this account just so this discussion stays up but I am taking away all my rights. I'll do what our first admin did not do and make sure someone takes care of this wiki.
Hopefully this post shines light on this wiki's past and may the future shine brighter.