The Wiki Team

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The Blaseball Wiki Team are an instrumental force in keeping the Internet League of Blaseball afloat. They have been supporting the League since Season β2. It is comprised of several outstanding community members from different teams for the purpose of recording information related to the game. The Wiki Team was previously in the Fandom division of the Internet, but have since moved to its own domain.


Staff

Administrators

Moderators

Former Players

Incinerations

Feedback Swaps


Seasonal Fires

Season Number of Incidents Major Incidents Per Day Average Incident Notes
1* 0 0% Predates the wiki's existence
2 4 .286 Incidents included: The wiki's founding, the opening of the Forbidden Book of Blaseball, the Hellmouth's existence, Incinerations beginning
3 4 .571 The introduction of peanuts, the introduction of gods, the introduction of Birds, The Grand Unslam, renaming of the Peanut Players, Peanut Fraud
4 3 .429 Interviews passing, Feedback weather Introducted, the Wyatt Masoning v1.0
5 2 .286 Alternate Reality Decree passing, Reverb weather introduced
6 8 1.143 Division Shuffle from High Filter passing, Idol board introduction, Blooddrain Introduced, The Bloodbath, Necromancy v1.0, The Third Strike, Mexico City Wild Wings v. The Blaseball Gods, Forbidden Knowledge policy update
7 3 .429 Ruby Tuesday, The Snackrifice, The Hall
8 3 .429 Pitching Machine, Jaylen's Debt Refinancing, Receivers introduced
9 4 .571 Wild Card bracket introduction, Crowvertime, THE SHELLED ONES' PODS team formation and scramble, first occurrence of Day X
10 5 .714 Tillman/Jaylen feedback swap, Baltimore Crabs Ascension, Black Hole Early Activation, The Hall Stars formation, Day X-2
11 4 .571** Introduction of the Tokyo Lift, Sun 2 introduction, end of the Discipline Era/start of Peace and Prosperity Era, New York Millennials v. Parker MacMillan III Filing
12 8 1.143 Schedule Adjustment, Tarot Readings, Flooding Introducted, 3 new Expansion Teams, Crabs down, Stadiums, Snacks, Apple Forbidden Knowledge rules.
13 5 .714 Stadium renovations, New store Concessions, Ballpark stats and the Rise of Loge, Elsewhere Scattering players, MVP and Ego Introduction
14 5 .714 Missing Shadowed Players, Necromancy 2.No, The Wyatt Masoning 2.0, eDensity, Loan Shark Consumers.

* Season 1 predates the wiki's existence, and there are no records of any incidents. Blaseball nonsense has been lost.

**Season 11's Major Incident Per Day ratio is inaccurate due to interference from the Siesta and the Court Case continuing over several weeks.

In Season 10, the Wiki Team received the blessing Long Live The Wiki. This moved the wiki to a new space and reduced ads and malicious scripts to 0%, while increasing accessibility and article readability by 500%.

History Overview

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Wiki Founding

When Blaseball first began, there was nothing. No Feed, no Ticker, no #blasebot-events channel, nothing. And so, the Wiki Team burst forth from the immateria and built not only this, but the original wiki as well, for no benefit but that of those who would come after them. This is a tribute to their many, many acts of kindness, the vast majority of which will remain outside of the community's awareness.

The Blaseball Wiki was founded in Season 2, on the Fandom domain, following a need for a shared creative space. This was largely received positively, as with the growing community, a place was needed to share the varied histories and ideas that were already blossoming out of the game. In the beginning, it was a small space with little oversight, but served a vital purpose. While no overall large scale nonsense events occurred in Season 2, the choice to open the Forbidden Book marked a turning point not only for the game, but for what the Wiki would be forced to content with in the coming seasons. Incinerations spread throughout the league, and the Wiki became a both a graveyard and a reminder that these players lived and were cared for. The admin behind the wiki got to witness the sudden creation of nearly 800 wiki pages in the span of a week, and chose not to turn tail and run. Without the Wiki Team's efforts, this cultural event might never have occurred, or at least, wouldn't have lasted as long, For that, we have undying gratitude.

What follows will be a 'brief' history into some most defining points of the wiki's integrity, patience, and determination to help the community. Some may be skipped over, or unwritten, but not forgotten. The Wiki makes sure of that.

Season 3

The community kept on growing and with it, the needs of the wiki. In addition to being a place to record the events of the game itself, it was becoming a space for creative writing. Characters could rise and fall within a day if Incinerations were unkind, yet the pages were made anyway. Despite both the players and the servers being on fire, the wiki served as an anchor to keep everything straight.

The International Rumor Mill

The Grand Unslam is a well-known event in Blaseball history: Things wouldn't be the same without it, in a literal sense. With it came a boon for the wiki team: A justification for the Interdimensional Rumor Mill. We thank the Charleston Shoe Thieves and the Unlimited Los Angeles Tacos for the IRM's creation in-universe, but without the minds behind the system, it never would have worked. This one invention which is unseen on any other wiki is a genius bit of engineering, and potentially witchcraft, that solidifies what Blaseball is about. The IRM, as tangled as it may seem to people coming in to the wiki at first, creates a space where infinite stories can exist without anyone being trampled upon. Instead of making several pages which established a hierarchy of 'real' canon, interpretations exist side by side to allow everyone to partake in creation. They allowed for the creation of multiple stories in the same universe, or beautiful pieces of prose using tools in ways no one could have ever dreamed off, or microfiction from the perspective of one of the players , and anything in between. That this was even a consideration of the wiki team is incredible, and the lengths they went to to allow it work is outstanding.

In the words of a much more recent announcement: "SOME IS TRUE. SOME IS NOT. ALL IS BLASEBALL." We wouldn't be able to say and agree with that so confidently without the wiki's continued stance on it, and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

Season 4

Season 4 arrived with the addition of Interviews, as Decreed by fans. While we could now delight over new coffee preferences, more in depth stat viewing, and even blood types, a new problem reared its head.

Feedback is a weather that, in gameplay terms, causes enough havoc. For a team dedicated to preserving lore and team histories, it became a nightmare waiting to happen. Protocols for Feedbacking players needed to be established, and fast. Beloved characters could bounce between teams at a moment's notice, potentially leading to arguments and refusal to let go of a player's story if things went wrong. What happened next was only surprising in the moment, not in light of everything else that they've accomplished since.

Not only did the wiki team rise to the challenge, they proceed to work with each team individually even as the events and fires they had to put out on a smaller scale began to escalate. Players that were conceived as being wholly one team's idea, without need of approval of anyone else, suddenly became hot button topics. The wiki team handled this with more grace and patience than anyone could have, or should have, expected from an unpaid volunteer team, and created a system that we still use today. This was done with no warning that it was possible for to happen, with less people working on the wiki than there is now, and no framework to build off of. Yet even still, you wouldn't have known it by how cleanly the player transfer procedures worked within three days of its introduction.

More could be said of the discourse in the discord, the back and forth arguments that surrounded popular players and teams, and the many flames that were fanned by the events of season four, but that is best left in the dark days it came from. The wiki still stands, the team kept our stories together and untangled, and play continues.

Season 5

Season 5 began on an ominous note for the wiki team as alternate realities wreaked havoc on tens of wiki pages, players from every team replaced with alternate reality versions of themselves.

Season 5 was not without its challenges, the newly introduced reverb mechanic lead to plenty of bookkeeping as entire team lineups were tossed around in the reverb. Fortunately, the wiki team was granted a rare respite as incinerations continued to slow.

In terms of the postseason, the always diligent wiki team waited with ready fingers and bated breath for strange, descriptionless decrees to take the league by storm.

Season 6

Season 6 introduced yet another series of events for the Wiki Team to wrangle, with the introduction of the Idol Board. Individuals could select their favorite player to "Idolize", raising them in rank on the board. While at first, this seemed like a simple enough thing to keep track of, people eventually realized that they could idolize players that were formerly incinerated.

While the first of the Idol Board shenanigans was well underway, attempting to place beloved incinerated player Jaylen Hotdogfingers at the coveted 14th spot, the Wiki Team was far from idle themselves. The end of season 5 saw a new decree passed, that changed the previously Lawful vs Chaotic leagues into Wild vs Mild. As the Wiki Team updated every single team's new league affiliation by hand, the Wild Wings realized they had a problem: they were deemed "Mild". In a flurry of chaos, the Wild Wings became the Mild Wings, and the Wiki Team now had to change every instance of the team's name by hand, only for them to revert to the Wild Wings in a later season. Those around still remember the confusion about the W/Mexico City W/Mild Wings as the Team frantically attempted to locate and update every instance of the team throughout the wiki.

As though that wasn't enough, a new weather was introduced this season, with the advent of "blooddrains", which meant much work for the Wiki Team. With players now able to siphon stars from opponents, every player in the league now had the potential to lost or gain stars based on their willingness to "sippy", something that of course would need to be recorded for posterity.

Following the conclusion of the season, the Shelled One decided it would be an excellent time to introduce a new mechanic: Shelling players. The fans decided to attempt to shun the Shelled One by refusing to idolize the three requested players, and thus the deity Shelled beloved players, causing the team to create yet another unknown effect for players to have added to their pages.

When elections rolled around, the Wiki Team had yet another update to handle: Jaylen Hotdogfingers was back. The consequences of this decision were not seen yet, but would prove to be a huge thorn in the Wiki Team's side for the coming Seasons.

Season 7

The start of Season 7 was marked with an entirely new section of the site for the Wiki Team to try to document: The Hall. It appeared as though players that had previously been incinerated and considered "dead" were actually present in something called the Hall of Flame, and could not only still be idoled as before, but could also have peanuts offered to them "in tribute". What followed was a frantic push from the community to get the most beloved players to the top of the board, in an event that was ultimately made more difficult by the season's events.

The elections at the end of Season 6 resulted in the resurrection of star player Jaylen Hotdogfingers, a decision that would change the game of blaseball forever. Jaylen had a new modification "Debted" that the league learned the meaning of very quickly on day 5, when she pitched her first game and 'beaned' or struck a player with a pitch, giving the victim a new modification simply called "Unstable". The confusion around this was only compounded, as on day 32, the incincerations began. In what would become known as "Ruby Tuesday". Between the games of that day, 5 players were incinerated, resulting in the frantic addition of 5 new players not only needing wiki pages and lore, but the update of those 5 we had lost, including the incredibly short-lived and unlucky Kiki Familia. The incinerations would continue throughout the season, sowing discord not only through the league, but the wiki as well. For every incineration, two player pages would require updates, in addition to team pages, and any other references to the newly incinerated players. On top of this, multiple teams were clamoring for the Wiki Team's attentions, trying to create lore as fast as they could, before another incineration could strike. A total of 14 players were incinerated throughout the season, one of the most active seasons not only for incinerations, but for player base as well. The fandom had grown, and the work of the Wiki Team seemed to never be finished.

While all this chaos ensued, the Tacos hatched a brilliant scheme to spite the gods and, accidentally, the Wiki Team. They encouraged the League to idolize their pitchers, resulting in all of them being Shelled and unable to play. As the Wiki Team attempted to deal with this unprecedented show of unity, a new deity arrived, The Monitor. While fans were given peanuts as reward for idolizing what the Shelled one requested, the Wiki Team was hard at work behind the scenes, attempting to keep things under control.

The Umps updated the rules regarding Forbidden Knowledge, and suddenly, new information was available for all to discuss and record, and the Wiki Team worked tirelessly to ensure that nothing of value was lost. Every player, old and new, suddenly had so much more that needed to be catalogued or avoided, depending upon the "forbiddenness" of the information. Never does the Wiki Teams' job get any easier.

Season 8

The Snackrifice was a delicious success, but Play must continue. Pitching Machine joined the Unlimited Tacos as the only one in their pitching rotation capable of throwing a ball. And so, on Day 1 of Season 8, the wiki team already had a new player page to make.

Fortunately, at least, the Tacos (and all other associated wiki pages) remained in the league. Unfortunately, those incinerated by Jaylen Hotdogfingers' beaning balls did not. Somewhat more unfortunately for the wiki team, Jaylen's pitches were now more likely to swap players instead of incinerating them. Every time Jaylen pitched, the wiki team watched out for the next change.

Constant vigilance kept the wiki pages up to date with every team-switch and incineration. As if that wasn't enough, further Idol leaderboard shenanigans resulted in two players gaining the Receiver modification. Immediately upon becoming a Recevier, NaN and Sixpack Dogwalker had three successive changes to their pregame rituals, which all needed to be immortalized on the wiki.

Whatever changes were necessary, however; the blessed wiki team had some time to rest up, as Blaseball entered its very first siesta upon the close of Season 8.

Season 9

After a brief weeklong siesta, Season 9 started with yet another beautiful reason for the Wiki Team to have more work: Crowvertime. While just a one time occurance, the addition of 21 extra at bat occurances and the Lovers' eventual win, the Team had to figure out how exactly to represent this event. The new enhanced weather effects also caused havoc for the Team, between batters being ambushed by flocks of crows and the fielders dodging Big Peanuts, but of course that's not all Blaseball had in store.

The Friday's had a historic season, breaking a variety of records that all required updates throughout the week. In addition, the week's Idol Board events resulted in the Monitor unshelling the most-idolized player, PolkaDot Patterson, by attempting to eat them and leaving them Squiddish. The World Tour for Jaylen Hotdogfingers, Sixpack Dogwalker, and NaN began resulting in an incredible 8 swaps between those three players alone, as they shook up the league with their travels.

On top of all of this, just when the season appeared to be over, an alert appeared on the website, warning fans to seek shelter. The Shelled One descended, complete with his own team comprised of all the Shelled Players and the previously renamed Dan-to-Peanut players. Suddenly, the Wiki Team had to not only decide how to handle the recording of the Day X boss fight between the SHELLED ONE'S PODS and the Shoe Thieves, but also deal with nearly every team's players being stolen with no replacement, and placed on the new, unexpected team. While the fans went feral speculating what "Team Spirit" and shouting "OUR DORK', the Wiki Team was hard at work attempting to handle the pure chaos of 12 star players from throughout the league suddenly becoming the antagonists of the game.

Despite it all, the Shoe Thieves lost against the Pods, and now had even more modifications for the Wiki Team to handle While the elections were mostly calm, three different players on every team received new as of yet unknown modifications that the Wiki Team had to dole out. At least Jaylen's pitches had finally offered the Wiki Team a chance to relax, for now.

Season 10

Season 10 could be referred to as a lot of things. A finale to a story arc, an incredible display of community unity, a darn good round of blaseball, or "the most hype thing [we] have ever seen.". It alone has been the subject of songs, news articles, and constant discussion. It also could be described as a nightmare to record.

The events of Season 10 were all done before the feed, and the Ticker was next to useless for actually informing the playerbase of the details of events. In order to piece together what happened, it required trawling through Discord for screenshots, asking questions, or being lucky enough to witness it yourself. Despite this, the Wiki Team managed to assemble a fantastic recap of practically every event that took place, with screenshots, tweets from official accounts, and text of ephemeral plays that have never been seen again, down to the exact Team Spirit and number of innings for the second occurrence of Day X. The majority of the plot happened hour to hour, in the hands of the players making decisions about who to idol, what team to assemble from the fallen in the Hall of Flame, taking the little control they had over the game and coming up with new plans overnight. Still, the threads of the story are clear and concise on the wiki, and the wiki pages written in the days that followed Day X are still among the best resources there are that exists for it.

This also came in wake of the community challenges that arose. As detailed in Season 9, a large number of iconic players were taken from their teams and made into antagonists by The Shelled One. The Wiki Team had to make the call to become steward of these players, a job they never set out to do, and removed these players from the teams that had cared for them. They also had to make the call to take a stance on canon, with the Subjugated modifier as justification, and stated that the stolen players could not be interpreted as wanting to be working with The Shelled One willingly. This could not have been an easy call to make, as accounts of that week show. Yet because of this, it allowed the Pods' eventual falling to random teams easier to swallow. The events of that week didn't stain the players' page or record more than the next team to receive them felt like delving in to, and saved their pages from becoming battlegrounds in the meantime.

Season 10 is documented in fine detail, from the start of the plot that began back in Season 3 to here, when the wiki began with no plot in mind to have to record. Writing more on it would be retreading the incredible work they have already done. What would be worth saying on the matter is: Thank you. For your wise decisions in the most hectic and hype week of Blaseball history, for caring for the characters and story to step up where you didn't have to, for having the forethought to find and record the evidence before it disappeared, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

Season 11

Season 11 was a more peaceful time for the Wiki team, with the Discipline Era at an end and the Peace and Prosperity era being declared by the new Boss, The Coin. The upcoming election promised fairness and one blessing for all, so the wonderful wiki team knew to prepare to update every single teams entry.

Speaking of teams we were introduced to the Tokyo Lift and their stunning entrance to the stage of blaseball meaning a new Entry for the team, as well as one for all of the new players. An admirable job and one well executed by the now highly proficient crew.

And finally the weather. With the destruction of the sun into a black hole, and the moon into a second sun the League was beset with both losses of wins, and gifts of wins on top of wins. And wins gifted on top of losses. But luckily this wasn't nearly as confusing as it seemed thanks to the wonderful job of the wiki weather watchers.

The Grand Siesta

After the sleepiest feeling season since the Shelled One darkened the skies, Baseball was allowed, indeed mandated, to sleep. The Wiki Team, however, was not. Despite the announcement that the ILB was going on a multi-month hiatus, there was still work to be done. The community devised a court case over various grievances, both joking and not. The Wiki Team became involved, and had a case of their own. The continued blurring of what counts as canon, and what the team was expected to handle seemed like a footnote, but resulted in the tragic incineration of Hallstar Steven. This set off a chain of events that resulted in us having gone through not just one, but two Commissioners (who were doing a great job), proving the team's point in a different way. The results of these events were still well-documented despite this, however.

In addition to the sudden loss and revolving door of head admins (Steven, then Ump_Admin_Pope_Sunman, then back to a newly reconstituted Steven), the sudden creation of four new teams, and multiple weather types for the Coffee Cup, a bigger problem reared its head. The decision was made that the Fandom Wiki was to be abandoned, and talent was required to bring up a new wiki over the course of the Siesta. This was to occur during a time that was meant to be a break for all, but it was something that needed to be done. After a beta period where the community got to run wild (Including the creation of pages such as Destiel Canon), and weeks of hard work, the wiki was up and running. Their long rest which was not restful was soon to be complete, for the signs soon aligned for Blaseball's timely return. Or at least, the announcement of it. Blaseball had a return date, and it was somewhere in February. Probably.

Season 12

The Expansion Era began with a bang, a crash, and an awful splash. New UI elements, new terms for old functions, new weathers, and a whopping three new teams alongside the formerly ascended Baltimore Crabs. A new God had arisen, and her reign was anything to be but peaceful. The Wiki Team had to contend with three full new teams, before the week was through when even the Lift had required a monumental effort to get them off the ground during the much quieter Season 11. The community was in chaos, with captains and long time fans switching teams and leaving communications difficult. Still, with the experience of the past several seasons and likely several stress-filled days, the Wiki Team found itself in the position of being able to set up the team pages and infrastructure quickly and efficiently. The Expansion teams were welcomed by fans both old and new, and found themselves ready to face the next season's challenges with new ideas and pages fresh in mind.

Season 13

Season 13 saw a continuation of The Expansion Era, and, fittingly, even more things for the wiki team to keep track of! Concession snacks were changed and new snacks were introduced, harshly welcoming the wiki team to a Blaseball reality: things this Season are going to change Big and change Fast.

Long-since headcanoned team stadiums suddenly became canon, and did so with lots of stats! Stats and lore and names for all teams (including brand new ones) that now needed to be charted down in detail while also being funded and renovated, resulting in frequent updates throughout the Season. It wasn’t only the stadiums blaseballers were playing in that needed constant maintenance, either! Blaseballers themselves swept Elsewhere for 20 or more days began mysteriously showing up with parts of their names missing. All those changes needed to be recorded in real-time, too! So the wiki team updated them. Then, names slowly came back.. And the team had to do it all again, all the time, every day, and still do.

Through their remarkable adaptability and dedication the wiki writers managed to keep up with the wheelhouse of changes. All while still documenting normal blaseball happenings like stat changes, standings, and win-loss records; along with unusual blaseball occurrences like MVP introductions, necromancy attempts, and the mysterious disappearance of blaseball players (other than those players and teams wiki members dutifully chart as they vanish to the Black Hole, or to The Hall, or to Elsewhere, or in the Feedback, or…)

Season 14

With Season 14, we come to the most current of events. Players are getting washed away into the Immateria, lost for days to weeks at a time. Unknowns fly left and right, with the ominous Static condition and the brain-freezing addition of literal loan sharks sweeping through the Post-Season crowd.The Coin has left us, the Monitor is unhelpful, and our Wyatts and Masons (all XIII and one of them) are vanishing before our eyes. Regardless, the Wiki Team has looked every challenge in the eye and met it square on. The Wyatt Mason (Disambiguation) is a thing of beauty, and there are even now adjustments being made to help weather the oncoming storm.

No matter what happens, the wiki has been a constant, and thanks to them we can say with confidence: Play Will Continue.

Fan Culture and Impact

Specific Team Thank Yous

Atlantis Georgias: "Hey wiki team, the Georgias just wanted to thank you again for helping us and the other new teams get set with everything. It's a new experience for everyone here, and knowing we've got you to support us means that the wind never leaves our sails. Love ya 💗:"

Chicago Firefighters: "We’d like to thank the wiki team for their continued patience and care with both the Firefighters, but also the entire league as well! We hope we’ve been (mostly) headache free and will continue to be so, and are so appreciative of the understanding shown when a team is going through a rough time."

Hawai'i Fridays: "The Fridays community wants to thank the Wiki team for their unceasing devotion to making voices heard, and organizing the impossible. Your generous listening ears and dedication to honoring the core of characters our community has built have been wonderful parts of our blaseball journey."

LA Unlimited Tacos: "The wiki team has been nothing but patient and totally awesome with all of the tacos shenanigans, and we're really glad we were able to help indirectly inspire the IRM. You've made the blaseball fandom unique and given us a really useful tool to let us reflect the many versions of Los Angeles that exist in everyone's minds. Thanks so much for wrangling us, and you're welcome in the Taco Stand any time."

A poetic LA Unlimited Tacos fan:

"There once was a team for the wiki
Their work was immense and quite sticky
But through knowledge of lore
Putting smarts to the fore
They made blaseball a whole lot less tricky"

Mexico City Wild Wings: "Hi wiki team! The Wild Wings would like to thank you for all of the hard work you do. During the olden days of the Fandom Wiki it was super impressive how you used their system to moderate the very active Blaseball lore-writing community, and the new website is such an insane improvement; it looks and works gorgeously. Thank you for all the work you do and you all deserve love, praise, and a long nap.

Also huge shout-out to Nesbitt in particular for the Wild/Mild shenanigans - we know you changed all those manually only to have to change them again immediately; we're eternally grateful for your commitment to the bit!"

San Francisco Lovers: "Hey, we try to keep our heads down and off your radar and hope we've done a great job of it despite having NaN and Jaylen Hotdogfingers on our roster at the same time. We solemnly swear to you, Wiki Admins, if Jessica Telephone is ever a Lover that she will only own and operate a small Etsy crafts store.

Thanks for everything you do for the community! 💗💗💗 "

The Groundskeepers: "Endless thanks to the Wiki team for all their work over the last fourteen seasons— everything from player swaps to style guides to IRMs and even building a new website from the ground up has been incredible, and extra special thanks for working with us to run the wiki channels on the discord. You all put so much time and energy into organizing this endless tangled game, and we love you for it! Hopefully there will be no more bancels to come, but if there are, we’ll see you there."


Fan Art

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