Who Is Behind the Place Atlas Initiative?

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The Place Atlas Initiative is led by TCOOfficiall (Stefano Haagmans), who is listed as Project Leader. The work is distributed across three teams — Archival, Development, and Wiki — that together maintain the r/place Atlas projects and the r/place Wiki. If you want to know who to credit, contact, or follow for a specific part of the Atlas, the team breakdown below is the place to start.

Project leadership

Role Person
Project Leader TCOOfficiall (Stefano Haagmans)

The Initiative describes itself as a group that hosts the r/place Atlas projects and others, with the stated approach of "Documenting as it is, not as we want."

The three teams

Archival Team

  • AnonymousRandPerson
  • tycho (electric-blue)
  • Nick12 (Nico Abram)
  • m654zy

This team handles the archival side of the projects — the work of preserving and organizing what gets documented.

Development Team

  • Hans5958 (Hans5958_)
  • prosto_sanja (Alex Tsernoh)
  • mxdanger

This team covers the technical build of the Atlas sites and related tooling.

Wiki Team

  • Aeywoo (xXLInkster17Xx)
  • Nick12
  • pax
  • Artillect
  • axollyon
  • Crzka (Cappy Ishihara)
  • CodeDev
  • dntk (treeway7)
  • Eurobat
  • FuriousChocolate
  • geekahedron
  • samurai_crusader (Jim Milton)
  • Noah (NoahS04)
  • Saya (sayaduck)
  • Sodapone
  • dreamingkills (tea)
  • Zurke

The Wiki Team is the largest of the three, which fits the scale of writing and maintaining wiki content across multiple r/place years.

What the teams maintain

The Initiative's projects and affiliated projects give the teams their scope:

Projects

  • The 2017 r/place Atlas (continued)
  • The 2022 r/place Atlas
  • The 2023 r/place Atlas
  • The r/place Wiki

Affiliated Projects

  • The 2017 r/place Atlas (legacy)
  • The Final Clean
  • The 2022 r/place Catalog

Note that Nick12 (Nico Abram) appears on both the Archival Team and the Wiki Team, so the team lists are not strictly exclusive.

Practical takeaways

  • For attribution or credit: start with TCOOfficiall as Project Leader, then route to the specific team that owns the work.
  • For archival questions: the Archival Team is the relevant group.
  • For site bugs or technical issues: the Development Team.
  • For wiki content, corrections, or additions: the Wiki Team.

The site footer carries a © 2023 notice and notes a site repository, so the codebase itself is a separate track from the team rosters above.