Wookieepedia

Infobox Website
name = Wookieepedia



caption = The Wookieepedia main page as seen on August 19, 2007
url = http://starwars.wikia.com/
commercial = No
type = Fan site / Wiki
registration = Optional
owner = Wikia, Inc.
author = Chad Barbry and Steven Greenwood
launch date = 03/04/2005
current status = Active with over 59,000 articles
revenue =

Wookieepedia, the "Star Wars" Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the "Star Wars" fictional universe [cite web
url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/whats_on/article2258521.ece
title=The arts online
publisher=The Times
accessdate=2008-05-22
last=
first=] —including information on all six films, as well as the Expanded Universe. It is a more specialized and useful wiki created to be an extensive encyclopedia of the "Star Wars" universe, and is almost entirely in-universe. The name Wookieepedia is a portmanteau of "Wookiee" and "Encyclopedia", being a pun on the name of "Wikipedia".

History

Wookieepedia was conceived by Chad Barbry [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964316.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1 Wookieepedia tracks 'Star Wars' - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety] ] [ [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chad_Barbry Chad Barbry - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki] ] and Steven Greenwood [ [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Steven_Greenwood Steven Greenwood - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki ] ] and was launched on Friday March 4, 2005 under the hosting site Wikia. 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. ) 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.

Wookieepedia was the most visited wiki hosted by Wikia as of April 2005. On 2005-11-28 Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Site of the Week." [cite web|url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue449/site.html|title=Sci-Fi Site of the Week|publisher=Sci-Fi.com|date=2005-11-28] In January 2006, the site was Wikia's featured wiki of the month.

As of August 31, 2008, the English language version of the wiki contains over 59,000 articles, making it the largest Wikia-hosted wiki in terms of article count, ahead of sites such as Uncyclopedia—a parody wiki, and Memory Alpha—a "Star Trek" wiki. Wikia also hosts "Star Wars" wikis in Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. Wookieepedia also coordinates its efforts with the German language [http://www.jedipedia.de Jedipedia] and the Polish language [http://www.ossus.pl/biblioteka/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna Biblioteka Ossus] .

ee also

*List of online encyclopedias

References

Further reading

*cite news|url=http://www.theforce.net/books/story/Enter_the_Wookieepedia_96100.asp|title=Enter the Wookieepedia|first=Mike|last=Cooper|date=2005-12-02|publisher=TheForce.net
*cite news|url=http://www.theforce.net/jedicouncil/story/Wookieepedias_First_Anniversary_97435.asp|title=Wookieepedia's First Anniversary!|first=Mike|last=Cooper|date=2006-03-05|publisher=TheForce.net

External links

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*" [http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena/24 Wookieepedia: A Staggering Enterprise] " – (from Abel G. Peña's blog "Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!")