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Hello, world
It has been a long, hard road. But the Wikia version of DozerfleetWiki has finally been born. You may contact me, the administrator, at [mailto:bulldozerbegins@gmail.com bulldozerbegins@gmail.com]. You may be wondering why I am going by IvanRider rather than BulldozerBegins, my old account. There is a special reason for that. The old account has been hijacked, and its reputation destroyed by a vandal who kept creating dozens of usernames for himself that contained the word "Bulldozer" in them. Due to this, Wikia staff set out on a crusade to eliminate all of Other-Bulldozer's sockpuppets, and got me by mistake.

Ivan is the hero of Ride of the Three Bulldozers, the official ballad of the Dozerfleet brand. He is the one who hijacks a hanger and gets a team of revolutionaries to take back their town by using bulldozers as tanks. Ivan is therefore the angry, forest-dwelling, bazooka-toting, mustached secondary mascot of Dozerfleet (the first being the Fleet of Bulldozers.) He is to me and the Dozerfleet brand as a whole what Mickey Mouse is to Disney, if that helps make this make any sense.

Therefore, IvanRider is the Dozerfleet founder's official name on this version of DozerfleetWiki.

That gets us to the point of the Wikia version. With the powerful tools this site makes available, the entire history of Dozerfleet can be logged with much greater accuracy, and with better interaction with fan wikis of other projects that are not Dozerfleet-related. The original DozerfleetWiki was on Wikispaces, which was only an adequate-at-best home for it. The second home was on Wiki-Site, which is the current main home. However, Wiki-Site is owned by a firm in the Middle East, a very unstable part of the world. And the service can be unreliable quite often. In case it ever goes offline permanently, DozerfleetWiki as a project of the greater Dozerfleet Productions needs to still exist somewhere.

Therefore, there has always been a desire for a reliable-yet-powerful backup wiki to exist. That way, anyone who wishes to may still follow along with Dozerfleet Productions as it progresses from one man's hobby to a powerhouse think tank and entertainment firm in its own right.

As the Wikia version is busy adding content, you are welcome to check out the current Wiki-Site version here: http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com

With any luck, this site may end up in the future as the official wiki, with Wiki-Site becoming the backup.

Thank you for your time, readers. And I would like to hope that as time goes by, you will grow to love DozerfleetWiki, and even be willing to help make the project an even better one.

&mdash;IvanRider 12:56, April 13, 2011 (UTC)