Editing DanTDM Wiki/One year independent

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<h1>Celebrating 1 Year Independent!</h1>

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On June 4th, 2025, the DanTDM Wiki officially left Fandom and migrated to our independent home at '''dantdm.wiki'''. Today, we look back at what we've built together.</div>
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One year ago, the future of the wiki was uncertain. Moving away from Fandom meant rebuilding templates, fixing broken pages, restoring files, improving search visibility, and learning how to independently host and maintain a community platform.

While the community may be smaller today than during the peak Minecraft YouTube era, this wiki continues to exist because fans still care enough to archive videos, preserve history, improve pages, and keep the community alive.
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♦ One Year By The Numbers
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Every typo fix, template update, image upload, and article expansion made entirely on our independent platform.
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New editors and returning fans who joined after the move to help keep the wiki active.
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Screenshots, thumbnails, artwork, old channel assets, and historical media archived locally.
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Still one of the best parts of independence.
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♦ Highlights From The First Year
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JUNE 2025
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'''The Migration Begins'''<br>
The DanTDM Wiki officially leaves Fandom and launches independently at dantdm.wiki. Core pages, templates, categories, and media begin restoration on the new platform.
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2025–26
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'''Rebuilding The Wiki'''<br>
Templates are cleaned up, SEO improvements are added, pages are restored, categories are reorganized, and the site receives major visual upgrades compared to the original fork.
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JAN 2026
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'''Formation of YIWA'''<br>
{{SITENAME}} becomes a founding member of the YouTube Independent Wiki Alliance — a network focused on supporting independent YouTuber and creator communities.
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MAY 2026
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'''New homepage design'''<br>
The wiki receives its first major homepage redesign since becoming independent.
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JUNE 2026
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'''One Year Later'''<br>
The wiki continues to operate independently and created and maintained by YOU. We recently made it even easier to edit by not even needing an account nor verified email address.
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♦ Why Independence Matters
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Independent wikis allow communities to control their own design, policies, preservation efforts, and future direction without relying on corporate platform decisions.

The DanTDM Wiki exists entirely because fans continue contributing their time, knowledge, screenshots, archival work, and technical support to preserve an important part of Minecraft and YouTube history.
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Thank You
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Whether you’ve been here since [[User:Treepig_slayer|Treepig slayer]] founded the wiki in 2014, helped [[User:LostSnowDust|LostSnowDust]] during the 2023 adoption, contributed after the migration, or just made your first edit recently — thank you for helping keep the DanTDM Wiki alive.

This project continues because people still care enough to preserve it.
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