Wookieepedia

URL	http://starwars.wikia.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Fan site / Wiki
Registration	Optional
Owner	Wikia, Inc.
Created by	Chad Barbry and Steven Greenwood
Launched	03/04/2005
Current status	Active with over 72,000 articles

Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe^[1]—including information on all six films, as well as The Clone Wars and the Expanded Universe. It is a more specialized and useful wiki created to be an extensive encyclopedia of the Star Wars universe,^[2] and is almost entirely in-universe. The name Wookieepedia is a portmanteau of Wookiee and Encyclopedia, being a pun on the name of Wikipedia. The logo, too, is a visual pun showing the incomplete second Death Star as opposed to Wikipedia's incomplete 'jigsaw logo'.

[edit] History

A section of Wookieepedia's main page, as seen on August 14, 2008

Wookieepedia was conceived by Chad Barbry^[2][3] and Steven Greenwood^[4] and was launched on March 4, 2005, under the hosting site Wikia.

Wookieepedia was the most visited wiki hosted by Wikia as of April 2005^[update]. On November 28, 2005, Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Site of the Week."^[5] In January 2006, the site was Wikia's featured Wiki of the month.

As of November 18, 2009, the English language version of the wiki contains over 72,000 articles, making it the fourth-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 Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. Wookieepedia also coordinates its efforts with the German language Jedipedia and the Polish language Biblioteka Ossus.

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Cooper, Mike (2005-12-02). "Enter the Wookieepedia". TheForce.net. http://www.theforce.net/books/story/Enter_the_Wookieepedia_96100.asp. 
• Cooper, Mike (2006-03-05). "Wookieepedia's First Anniversary!". TheForce.net. http://www.theforce.net/jedicouncil/story/Wookieepedias_First_Anniversary_97435.asp. 

[edit] External links

• Wookieepedia: a Star Wars Wiki
• List of Star Wars wikis on Wikia
• "Wookieepedia: A Staggering Enterprise" – (from Abel G. Peña's blog "Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!")