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Our community, along with DICE Wiki and Parasyte Wiki, was chosen by Animanga to spotlight for the month of October. Now that October has ended, we are left to dissect the effects of the spotlight on our community. Was it beneficial? If so, would we do it again? To answer these questions, we must evaluate our objectives that we set out when we applied for a spotlight position. Our goal was not only to attract current fans of the series but also to encourage new ones. Although we cannot quantify the latter, we can with the former, for we have available data. We will use these data to answer our questions.

Methodology
We define view count as the number of times our wiki and all its content was viewed by a user. The number of times a user edited a page or added new media constitutes what we meant by edits. In both instances, we used data available to admins through the “Quick Stats” feature on the admin dashboard.

As for vandalisms, we used our definition found on our wiki’s policy pages. We defined an instance of vandalism whenever a user edited a page with information contrary to our policy; the severity of the vandalism did not matter. The number of banned users and the type of warnings that they received were acquired either using the “Wiki Activity” feature or from a specialized page.

Finally, we restricted our date range from October 1st to November 2nd so that we can properly gauge the effects of the spotlight.

Results
On October 1, our wiki received 10300 views and 15 edits. A month later on November 2, we got 24100 views and 37 edits. Within the period, the lowest views and edits occurred on October 1 while the most occurred on October 4. Our view count increased as the premiere of a new episode got closer. The numbers of edits was evenly spread out across the weak, with a spike on weekends.

On a month-to-month basis, there was a 234% and 247% growth in our view count and edits, respectively. On a lowest-to-highest basis, we saw a 388% growth in view count while an impressive 1233% increase in the number of edits. On average, we recorded 22000 views and 33 edits.

We sent out 29 vandalism warnings for first and second offenses. Ten users were given a final warning, with nine users who were actually banned. Only two were banned for line; the rest were given a six-month ban. Four of the banned users were registered in the site.

Twenty-three pages were vandalized. The most was Oikawa’s with 9 instances of vandalism. The breakdown is as follow: