User blog comment:Chicken Bond/Wiki Anniversary!/@comment-1788742-20120918151352

That long, eh? Five years of CBW greatness. This wiki has done a lot for me, so it only feels right I should pay a tribute to it, even if I am one of the newer users by that reckoning, being only two and a half years old, wiki-wise. :P

I joined CBW as it neared the end of an era. The previous generation of users were still active, but beginning to decrease in activity. More startling, however, was the end of BIONICLE news that I thought might spell the end for the sight. But the burst of activity that followed January 2010 was startlingly large, and with storylines such as the GMS on the rise, the wiki couldn't have seemed stronger. In fact, it was growing in popularity. The Monaco skin, TEG and the fight to the death contests, the early days of Dark Realities, Slice's GMS...remember those days?

Now, two years later, as I look back on the wiki's earlier days, in the days before anyone knew who characters such as Shardak and Blast were, or knew about Dark Realities or the Xaterex Multiverse Storyline. This wiki has been a tremendous help to my writing skills, and without it I doubt I'd be considering the career path I am now. Thanks to your support of projects such as TEG and the rest of the Xaterex storyline, as well as collaborative projects such as DR. And, speaking of DR, I should definitely thank all of the users on this site, some of whom have become the best of friends.

My final words are to all of the new users who have joined CBW in recent days. Thank you as well, for only through the addition of new users as well as old can we keep this wiki alive. BIONICLE was a part of my childhood, a part that after the end of the toyline was announced began to die. The greatest part of wikis such as this are that they allow creativity- an integral part of life- to remain alive. In 2010, I could hardly imagine when I began The Eternal Game that the story it launched would eventually span more than 500,000 words. Nor could I imagine that the characters such as Shardak and Valkyria and the concepts such as the Eternal Game would ever become well-known across the wiki. In 2012, this became a reality.

BIONICLE is what you make of it, guys, and so is this wiki. I encourage all of CBW's users, old and new, to continue to work on their projects across this site. Admin or new user, MOCist, author, or both, everyone on this site has something to contribute, something unique that will continue to give life to this community in the future, after this time becomes a memory in wiki history. Thank you all.

Varkanax39

18 September 2012