Greetings mortals,

If you've been keeping an eye on this page you may have seen the latest post announcing the demotion of bureaucrat Hackey5. This post is here to provide context for our new (and last) round of polls, as well as what's happened behind the scenes in the five months since our last post.

Wikia/Fandom has been the home of the Infinity Blade Wiki for well over a decade at this point and, in the interest of the community, we sought to keep it that way by taking over management of the site. Unfortunately, we ran into some issues with that. As I've previously explained, we - at the direction of Fandom support - posted a poll asking for community input on the potential removal of then-bureaucrat Hackey 5. The results came back resoundingly in favor of his removal and were forwarded to support for them to act on.

For reasons we still don't know, support did not do so and, later on, even admitted to ignoring the poll results. Months passed as support claimed to be reviewing the matter but made no comment on how or if the situation would be resolved. All the while, Hackey5's silence continued until we got a post announcing the promotion of a new bureaucrat: Nusdan.

Investigation by myself and others revealed that not only was Nusdan an acquaintance of Hackey but previously collaborated with him in the running other wikis. All of this this has led us to the conclusion that Nusdan's promotion was a front to get Hackey more support and influence. This and other information concerning Hackey's refusal to cooperate with us was presented to Fandom support. Unfortunately, still more months passed as support claimed the issue was the subject of internal discussion. In fact, up until recently, the last I had heard from support was early March.

Luckily for us, an unknown miracle was worked behind the scenes with the very-helpful ReverieCode making a post at the end of last month to announce that Hackey had been removed. We have been in contact with the same and are putting out one last series of polls to put into place the wiki's new leadership. At this time we'd like you to visit the other polls on the discussion page to vote on the removal of Nusdan as well as the promotion of three new bureaucrats so that we can avoid future issues like this: myself (Infinity Blade lore master and content creator), Hox (the technical genius behind the IBPatcher among other things), and PatheticBread68 (who kickstarted this revamp).

Thank you for your continued patience with us. We're looking forward to finally making more substantial and beneficial changes to the site.

Hi everyone,

After receiving and reviewing community concerns regarding the current state of wiki leadership at the Infinity Blade Wiki, we’ve removed Hackey5’s administrator rights. This decision was made to support a more collaborative environment for all contributors.

If you would like to discuss next steps, possibly including new administrator(s), that is something you are more than welcome to do. And if you need any extra support, you can always reach out to us via Fandom's contact form.

Thank you for your patience on this and for your continued involvement with the wiki.

It’s been a great many years since I last made an announcement on the Infinity Blade Wiki. It was certainly a different time back then, but old habits die hard, and our project continues.

Over the last 4 months, the wiki has experienced perhaps its biggest transformation since its inception back in 2010, a complete turnaround from years of stagnation, to an organised, accessible and visually appealing resource for Infinity Blade fans.

As part of giving a comprehensive update, this will be a fairly long post, but I’ll try keep it focussed on some main areas.

New bureaucrat

As suggested on the advice of Fandom, a new second bureaucrat has been selected. Core to a wiki being coordinated in its management, and productive in carrying out projects and achieving objectives, is its staff – those who are able to demonstrate enthusiasm, technical skill, cooperative ability, a focus on fulfilling aligned objectives, as well as who make extensive meaningful contributions. And critically, those who take pride in the quality of the wiki, and who understand the importance of positively supporting fellow staff in good faith, helping each other to become better editors so that together we can further improve the wiki with shared goals and passion.

Please congratulate Nusdan, who has made excellent contributions to the Infinity Blade Wiki as one of the most active editors in years, who has technical prowess that has already been of great help, and who understands the fundamentals of content management on wikis, in addition to his experience as a staff member on numerous other wikis. He will help to ensure that the wiki maintains essential quality control and that objectives are carried out to high standards, continuing the trajectory of the wiki’s rapid positive development. Speaking of which, it’s time for a look at the great progress that’s been made over the past few months.

Site styling and identity

It’s actually been over a year since the wiki quietly received a complete custom restyling, providing it with its current aesthetic with engaging light and dark themes, courtesy of my own ‘little’ project preparing a dynamic customisable skin for wikis to use. Additionally, the wiki also received a distinct new name, Q.I.Pedia, courtesy of TheArchivistIB, a new main font, and a new logo (recently adjusted to have its text turned white, addressing the previous contrast issue), although this logo is intended to be replaced in the future with something specifically designed for the wiki (message me if you’re interested to help produce a new design).

Main page

The wiki’s landing page has received a lot of focus, which might be just the beginning. I’ve given it a major visual overhaul, at long last bringing it out of early 2010s design stasis, and importantly, giving it light and dark mode compatibility. Apparent in dark mode, the design was inspired by the Worker’s stronghold, with light mode dimming out the characteristic blue light bars for a more rune/parchment look of sorts.

The slider has finally been updated, replacing ancient IB3 v1.4 update items stemming back to 2014, now with some video content, which will be rotated with other interesting media items periodically.

The intro and message boxes have been updated, the former having the two Infinity Blade books included with links to their respective articles, and the latter providing links to the staff article and the Community Portal (this soon to be updated to better inform potential editors of editing projects that they can participate in).

The right sidebar has received a new module showing the five editors with the most edits in the past month, and the updated Partners of the Wiki module has received a link to provide attribution to the Infinity Blade Resources Discord server, from which titan stepback demonstrations have been sourced for the wiki’s titan articles. A huge thanks to Huells and Borealis for preparing these (as MP4s which we’ve converted to gifs for the wiki), which to me might be one of the most significant and helpful resources included on the wiki for how they can boost players’ combat knowledge.

Perhaps the most significant change to the main page, however, is the expansion of the site navigation, enabled by the integral design and consolidation of the wiki’s category structure, more on this below. The main page now lets viewers easily access every key article on the wiki with ease through six highlighted categories expanded into lists of article links, with additional links to other article categories, as well as the four file categories, Images, Videos, Audio and PDFs, opening up so much of the wiki that was previously long buried.

I found an image of what the main page used to look like back in 2013, when Fandom was called Wikia and we still used the Oasis skin. Until even recently, the main page still closely resembled what you see below.

More ideas will be explored for the main page in the future. Suggestions welcome.

Category structure and site navigation

The wiki’s content organisation stems from its category structure, which is among the most critical aspects of accessibly presenting a wiki for viewers. Consolidating the content organisation was an objective spanning back over a decade ago, which has finally been accomplished (seeing countless random categories that were being used like tags then removed, facilitating the simple logical system that exists now). With all relevant articles categorised, viewers are now able to reach almost every article on the wiki through both the main page navigation (essentially a site map) and the header navigation. The latter was also long overdue an update, with many dozens of articles being added, and it being redesigned in mind of a viewer’s thought process in terms of logically finding information, emphasising the natural distinction by game (rather than item types as previously), as well as accounting for screen width constraints on smaller devices.

Article clean-up

With the category structure established, all articles within the structure now receive greater exposure to viewers. As part of this, various stubs and scattered pages on associated subjects have been processed into singular categorised articles that then fit into the category structure. There are countless examples, so here are just a few.

• Various single gem pages -> Gems in Infinity Blade II, Gems in Infinity Blade III

• Inventory item pages -> Rings in Infinity Blade I, Weapons in Infinity Blade II (big thanks to Hox for preparing many of the tables on these articles)

• "Gold Bags" + "Chips" -> Currency

• "Light weapons" + "Heavy weapons" + "Dual weapons" -> Weapon Classes

• Various podcast pages -> Official Podcasts

As part of the consolidation, all relevant information is retained as content is shifted between articles. After the information is moved (which might simply be copy/pasted without further processing), further development is required to continue iterating their presentation. There is a lot more to elaborate on regarding articles in each category, and how to approach simplifying and standardising their design for consistency and conciseness, which will be discussed in detail in future posts.

Files

Managing and organising files on a wiki is among its most arduous of tasks, in terms of deciding what should belong, what these should be named, how they should be categorised, what their specifications should be, how they should be presented on articles, and even just obtaining the files to begin with. There is quite a lot to unpack in this area, so I’ll simply say that we’ve made extraordinary progress in this area, uploading in high quality to the wiki:

• Various game icons (Hox)

• Item sprites from all three games (Hox)

• Titan stepback gifs (myself, Bread)

• Various images of titans (Bread)

• Quote audio (Hox, just starting)

• Character renders (Huells, just starting)

Nusdan and myself have also been correctly naming and categorising these, allowing them to be easily discovered by editors attempting to add them to articles, and to be located through the navigation and category structure.

Templates

The clutter of random, redundant, unused and superseded templates dating back to 2010 have been cleared up and replaced on articles where necessary. Much like articles, templates are now organized into six categories, certain categories of templates have had their names standardised, and documentation has also been provided to inform editors on how to use them, with work on this to continue. As well as myself, Hox has been a key contributor designing and creating useful templates being used on articles, Template:Gem being a very cool one allowing us to bypass needing to upload images for every type of gem of every colour. Old infoboxes have also been updated to modern ‘portable’ infoboxes compatible with the mobile site view.

Maintenance

Earlier, maintenance work was in overdrive. The long process of removing hundreds of redundant redirects and repairing the associated links has been completed. Categorising all relevant articles, templates, and category pages themselves has been completed (categorising all files is another story). Template types have also been assigned for all templates. Work continues on resolving redlinks, one of the longer-term tasks that improves as articles continue to be developed.

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That should do for now. Having first started editing the Infinity Blade Wiki back in 2013, joined by a committed team of staff and editors, each of us racking up thousands of edits each, I’m glad to have returned to carry on finishing the work that we started all those years ago. Fast forward to today, a big thanks to those who have really put in the concerted efforts and stacked up the long hours working on projects to improve the wiki. The wiki is looking better than ever, and we ain't done yet.

Greetings mortals,

You may have noticed the lack of diversity among those making edits to the wiki and that's due to a series of events we'd like your input on.

For some brief background, the rise in activity surrounding the wiki brought the attention of a bureaucrat (the highest level of admin) from the old days by the name of Hackey5. By his own admission, Hackey hadn't been active in the management of the wiki for around 10 years but had held onto his admin rights. Early on, Hackey provided suggestions for work to be done on the wiki, but has gone on to take a more active role.

Up to this time, PatheticBread - the user whose efforts revived the wiki to begin with - had focused some fair time on cleaning up articles about in-game items, as they make up a significant number of the pages on the wiki. Given how some articles include nothing more than the item's stats, Hackey suggested making tables for each item type by game so that this information could be concentrated there, and the individual articles could be deleted to de-clutter the wiki. Discussion ensued. While welcoming of the item tables, the majority of the other editors harbored concerns about the idea of deleting certain item pages, such that some items would have one and others wouldn't.

Regardless of which side you're on, what's important to note is that this was and technically still is an unresolved issue. Despite the overwhelming majority of other users wanting to keep the item pages around, at least, until the potential negatives could be addressed, Hackey ignored this and deleted over a dozen item pages without consulting anyone. To date, Hackey has deleted untold more pages as he tabulates items, maps, and more.

Again, this isn't about which side was right, but if by defying the other editors’ opinions and deleting the pages anyway, Hackey abused his power. Wikis are meant to belong to the community and by refusing the will of the majority, we believe Hackey has done just that.

Consider also the principles that Hackey wrote for the updated wiki staff page:

• “Those who lack the sense of responsibility and discipline will lose the respect of their community.

• Those who fail to thoroughly involve themselves and develop relationships with their community will find themselves overshadowed.

• Those who value the encyclopedic value of their wiki more than their community will grow harsh and unthoughtful towards them.

• Those who are so tied up in policy and compliance will alienate users with a potential interest in supporting their wiki.”

These principles are great articulations of how the wiki should managed, and yet, Hackey's actions don't seem in keeping with them. Hackey emphasized organizing the wiki as tidily as possible without seriously addressing points to the contrary or compromising. Rather, Hackey vetoed And the consequences speak for themselves. At a time when there was resurgent interest in the wiki, this fiasco has resulted in editors withdrawing from work out of principle and because of reduced morale. Hackey's actions have alienated not only existing editors, including PatheticBread, but likely, potentially interested parties as well.

Other points of concern that may inform your decision:

• Some years ago, myself, Infinity Blade Studios, and other concerned parties made a concerted effort to obtain admin rights so that we could work on the wiki. We went through a lot of trouble and ended up having to contact another inactive admin to obtain said rights, but succeeded. This went uncontested until recently when Hackey returned and revoked the rights of some of these users without warning. Users would go on to follow up with Hackey and become reinstated.

• One of the first things I did for the wiki was give it a facelift by adding a favicon, higher resolution logo and other theme settings. Other editors were made aware of these changes and provided input on the background and community images. Around a month later, however, and without consulting the group, Hackey made more major changes including removing the longstanding wordmark logo as well as changing the display name for the wiki from “Infinity Blade Wiki” to “IB Archives.” Discussions inevitably followed to rectify this with the group eventually agreeing on “Q.I.Pedia” as the new name.”

So, despite having a Discord channel to make discussing the wiki quick and easy, this lack of communication has been characteristic of many of Hackey's actions. Once again, this isn't necessarily about the merits of the decisions themselves - we value Hackey's skills and expertise - but that they were implemented without warning and/or regardless of feedback.

Once again, we’d like your input on these happenings and ask that you please follow this link to the poll so you can vote on the matter.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I've seen the wiki page for the redeemer, and it said the worker of secrets wiped out his memory, but I remembered that in Redemption or Awakening, TEL actually said (OR at least, hinted) that Ausar wiped out his own memory, as you can see in the screenshot:

Also, TEL said:"If we wipe away your memories each time, have you born as a child, it will keep them away. But now . . .” , the "we" here imo means "Ausar and it".

Moreover, Raidriar and Ausar worked together to put worker into the vault of tears. How could worker wipe out Ausar's memory when he was already in the vault!

So for me, I think Ausar wiped out his own memory by being defeated by Raidriar at the plains of Koroth because he tried to forget all the vile memories-such as the murder of the woman in the vault.

Out of all of Infinity Blade 1-3 who do you honestly think is the strongest or most interesting character through out all three games?

The Infinity Blade Wiki has long been known as the "#1 source of information about Infinity Blade". We here do not take that lightly. In the past 4 years, with the games being removed from the app store and general lack of interest in the community, the wiki had fallen into disrepair.

That changes today.

A new team of editors has been established, with many dedicated individuals working on removing useless articles and taking out misinformation. Just today, 37 articles-without anything more than titles-were removed.

It's not just articles without information that are the issue - take a look at this article.

Completely made-up and nonsensical information is plaguing this wiki.

This? Disproved.

Repetition and contradictions everywhere.

We hope that our efforts can make this wiki a more reliable source of information and represent the Infinity Blade canon in a truthful, legitimate way.

Never forget.

- IBStudios, The Archivist, Chlorondria, DarthNoscoper, Sauron462

Can anyone list all IB locations, or is there already an article for that?

Today is the tenth anniversary of the release of Infinity Blade 1! Congrats everyone for making it so far.