User blog:Beijing1000/My Wikia Anniversary

So it's been an entire year since that fateful day when I made an account on this wiki. Back then, this site was only a ragtag collection of inadequate pages copied from the mod's old wiki. Infoboxes and navigation templates were "the new thing", and the main page was practically devoid of content. Obviously we have come a long way since then, the details of which are brilliantly described by Gen. Grievous in [http://lotrminecraftmod.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Gen._Grievous1138/Happy_One-Year_anniversary! his blog post].

I have oft wondered why I spend so much time and effort for this wiki. I don't get paid, earn community service hours, or achieve fame for it. And it probably isn't conducive to my academic pursuits either. The only compensation I get for my work is the satisfaction of beautifying one obscure wiki out of a million, along with the occasional gratitude of a few nameless LotR/Minecraft-savvy people in the world. And strangely, that is enough. Somehow, I've always felt an inexplicable passion for this wiki that still thrives in me today. I hope that passion never goes away, because despite spammers, political disputes, or the incessant FAQ violators that have challenged this wiki again and again, I plan on staying with this remarkable community for a long, long time.

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