User:Trig Jegman/Science Friction
NIWA News
This little installment is generally unplanned. That said, I have enough interesting things to cover to write about it.
New Member
Wiki Kirby, the French Kirby Wiki, joins NIWA as the fourth French-speaking site and 42nd site in the organization. Check out the sites today!
- Website: https://wiki-kirby.fr/wiki/Accueil
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/DcvbCBZP
- Social Media: Twitter
Major developments
Our winners for the 2025 NIWA Cross-Wiki Week are ShadowKirby and Storm Aurora. Congratulations! We look forward to seeing everyone again for the 2026 Cross-Wiki Week.
Major new game releases:
- Kirby Air Riders
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond / Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Wario World has also seen re-release on Nintendo Switch Online. This is a great opportunity to get some new images for it!
A word on retirement
Those with an eye on what I've been up to have probably noticed that I've been slowing resigning from a lot of different NIWA sites. Starting in January 2026, another two will be entering the fold, with me departing from Inkipedia and MiiWiki. The era of "Trig Jegman is everywhere" has unfortunately begun to end. Difficulties across splitting time and some existing health issues worsening have made it so that I am no longer able to serve wikis in the same way that I have done in the past. Ultimately, I intend to leave most NIWA platforms from editing entirely, except the two sites that I am directly responsible for running (WikiBound, F-Zero Wiki) and StrategyWiki.
I've been editing wikis for just under eleven years at this point, circa February. That's almost enough time for someone to be old enough to edit wikis themselves which is terrifying, and for the last six years I've been staff of multiple different wikis. It's been a time of firing on all cylinders, constantly, 24/7. Bringing things up to date, making certain elements consistent, and doing a better job at internal documentation...just a small sample of my hopes and goals. I've done my best to attract editors to sites, particularly smaller, more niche franchises, and give them a form of editing community that otherwise didn't exist in the past. Ultimately, any success I have found in taking charge of these sites is because of the communities surrounding them, and for that I could not be more grateful to every editor that I've worked with, be them frequent or sporadic. Any change helps, after all!
Some activities are bigger than others. Being able to directly call out companies like FANDOM or Wikidot and actually instill changes to those platforms has been a once in a lifetime opportunity. Not everyone gets to stare the entire FANDOM community board of directors in the face and tell them to get their shit together. In a similar vein, not everyone gets to shut down serial plagiarists that steal the hard work of others for themselves. These sorts of things would not have happened to just any editor or staff member—I'm quite thankful that NIWA editors have trusted me to do these large-scale projects over the years.
But alas, time has not been kind to me or my efforts. I'm leaving behind a lot of loose projects and ideas for someone more capable to pick up and implement—including here. I'm hoping to also leave behind a large swarth of helpful resources and materials, some of which are yet to be fully and formally published. Working on these wikis over the years has unequivocally changed my life for the better. I can only dream that just maybe, it made some of yours better too. This isn't a permanent goodbye by any means, but I'll probably be a bit less present overall than I have in years past.
Still going to write these newsletters though, so you're not fully rid of me yet!
Thank you for the memories.
—Trig Jegman
This concludes this installment of NIWA News. For questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions, contact NIWA's Vice Coordinator Trig Jegman.
