User blog:Batran99/Happy Birthday Mapperdonia

Today marks the day of the 4th year of not mapping itself, but the Mapper Community (AKA Mapperdonia). The reason that this marks the day is that this wiki was the beginning of the first effort to effectively organize a community and put it into existance. While not it's original purpose, the wiki was shortly adapted to this purpose and ambitious project.

And after 4 years, it seems to have great success. Not only that I, and by extension we, had founded this community that is still in it's early years yet growing to over 1500 estimated mappers and tens of thousands of fans. We have even got our selves known quite a bit around the internet, even back in 2014 (or 2015), a mapper went to a German convention and asked if they know Mappers, only 3% said they are aware or heard of Mappers (though they are probably referring to the word rather than the community)

But from the Capital of the Community; the TFOE Wiki, it had spawned many connections that still remain apart of this.

From the wiki, Skype was spawned

From the wiki, the Minecraft Servers were spawned

From the wiki, Nationstates was (helped) spawned

and many other mapping websites and stuffs' influential mappers and members were also (once) apart of this wiki as well.

I think you get the picture. But we should be proud to take part in the early years of a community. Not many have made the 4 years, (Disturbed, Ethan, and I are the only ones left that started back in 2012), but we did help create one of the most organized and interconnected community on the internet.

But in any case, happy 4th birthday Mapperdonia (and 4th year of my leadership watching/observing over this community)

Maybe this community will also provide the majority of the next generation of politicians and world leaders....