User:Bobnekaro/Sandbox 3

I know SM already has a HHW history page, but I'm making a more detailed one with more information. On November 12, 2006, an anonymous Wikia user with the IP 203.124.2.17 created the Hypothetical Hurricanes Mini-Wiki At Scratchpad. Minutes after the mini-wiki was created, an account HurricaneTester edited on the mini-wiki, which is believed to be the same person as the IP that created the mini-wiki. The Scratchpad mini-wiki still exists to this day, although activity has been very limited since the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki was created. The mini-wiki featured a total of 79 total pages and templates.

On September 12, 2010, a user by the name of Sjmaven160 joined the mini-wiki and created the 2010 Pokemon hurricane season page. After only editing on this account for one day, on September 28, 2010, he created a new account named Sjmaven1993. Shortly after creating this new account, he created the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki at hypotheticalhurricanes.wikia.com that eventually developed into the modern wiki known today. Sjmaven1993 once stated in January 2016 that he created the wiki at his high school library, and never expected many users to join. After joining, Sjmaven1993 imported many templates from the Scratchpad mini-wiki onto the new Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki (HHW). For the next three weeks, Sjmaven1993 was the only user on the wiki. This changed on October 18, 2010, when a user named HurricaneMaker99, known previously as Dylan620 on the Scratchpad mini-wiki, created an account on HHW. For the next few months, Sjmaven uploaded many tropical cyclone images to the new wiki. After occasionally working on Atlantic and Pokemon seasons, Sjmaven edited his 2011 Atlantic hurricane season page on December 5, 2010. He was not seen on the wiki again for over five years.

After Sjmaven1993 went inactive, HurricaneMaker99 (who was active on the Scratchpad mini-wiki as early as October 2008 under the username Dylan620) remained occasionally active on HHW. He requested to adopt the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki, and was promoted to bureaucrat on August 18, 2011. On August 24, 2011, HurricaneMaker99 enabled chat on the wiki. HurricaneMaker99 also promoted Yellow Flash of the Leaf (then known as BlazeFireXXXX) to administrator around this time.

Growth was initially slow for Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki, but the wiki gained two of its earliest original users in October 2011, when Andrew444 and Isaac829 joined. Bureaucrat HurricaneMaker99 was mostly inactive after this time. During 2012, two future administrators joined the wiki: Raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala on March 10, and Steve820 on October 14. Steve820’s first season created was the now-iconic 2100 Atlantic hurricane season page. HHW continued to slowly grow into 2013. On February 23, 2013, a user named STO12 started the first Hurricane Idol, a competition in which users submit various hurricane names to be judged by a committee of judges. Hurricane Idol has developed into a popular HHW tradition that is held twice yearly to this day. On May 18, 2013, after briefly editing as an anonymous user, a user named HurricaneTeen6900 joined the wiki. Later known as HypercaneTeen and eventually Hypercane, he has become HHW’s longest-serving bureaucrat in history. On June 16, 2013, also after editing as an anonymous user, CycloneRyne94 joined the wiki, who later became a bureaucrat and held the record of most edits by a HHW user for several years.