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Wookieepedia
Wookieepedia's logo.
Type of site
Reference / Wiki
OwnerCommunal
Created byChad Barbry
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Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is a wiki for information on the Star Wars saga, including information on both the films and the Expanded Universe. The name Wookieepedia is a pronunciational portmanteau of Wookiee and Wikipedia, because of the pronunciation similarity of Wookiee and wiki.

History

Hosted by Wikia, Wookieepedia was conceived by Chad Barbry and was launched on Friday 2005-03-04. The site's first editors were mostly users of Wikipedia who were frustrated by the requirements of notability required for an article there, and the ensuing debates over deletion of content. Most of the first articles were copied directly from Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License, and any Star Wars articles deemed too minor for inclusion in Wikipedia (e.g. Order D6-66) are almost always transferred to Wookieepedia, assuming they do not have an article there already.

In addition, certain sections of articles which had to remain out-of-universe to identify them as Star Wars articles on Wikipedia were "wookified" to fit the in-universe perspective of the wiki (for example, the removal of text like "is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe", removing the "(Star Wars)" disambiguation from links and so on). However, other sections of the wiki cover actors, artists, real-life companies, and culture in an out-of-universe perspective. Since its foundation, many more changes to the wiki's Manual of Style have been made.

The old Wookieepedia main page.

Wookieepedia was the most visited wiki hosted by Wikia as of July 2005. On 2005-11-28 Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Site of the Week".[1] In January 2006, the site was Wikia's featured wiki of the month.

As of June 19, 2006, the English language version of the wiki contains over 33,500 articles, making it the largest Wikia-hosted wiki in terms of article count, ahead of sites such as Uncyclopedia and Memory Alpha. Wikia also hosts Star Wars wikis in French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Wookieepedia is also co-ordinating efforts with Jedipedia, a German language wiki not hosted by Wikia.

Wikia hosts other Star Wars-related wikis, including the Star Wars Fanon Wiki. This wiki covers articles on fanon or fan fiction characters, planets, and other subjects which were invented by the users themselves.

References

  1. ^ "Sci-Fi Site of the Week". Sci-Fi.com. 2005-11-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Further reading

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