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Fan Wikis
A fan wiki is a wiki created by fans of a popular culture topic. Fan wikis, which are a part of fandoms, cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comics, sports, and other topics. The primary purpose of a fan wiki is to document its topic area through collaborative editing. Fan wikis document their subjects at varying levels of detail. They also serve narrative and creative functions. Some present analysis, fan theories and fiction, and video game strategy guides and walkthroughs, while others only document official canon. Media and cultural studies scholars have studied fan wikis as forms of participatory culture that enable fans to build community. Fan wikis were first published in the early-to-mid-2000s, some as a result of fans collaborating on Wikipedia and then forming their own separate wikis. Many fan wikis are hosted on Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. Since the mid-2010s, some fan wiki communities have left Fandom over disagreements about adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wookiepedia
Wookieepedia: The ''Star Wars'' Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information about the ''Star Wars'' Universe of Star Wars, universe—including information on all the films, books, television series, the Star Wars Expanded Universe, ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe, any upcoming ''Star Wars'' material, and more. It is a wiki with some articles reaching up to 60,000 words, and is written almost entirely from an in-universe perspective. The name is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, 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 "Wikipedia logo, jigsaw logo". History Wookieepedia was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Fandom (website), Fandom by Chad Barbry in 2005. On February 6, 2005, Greenwood and Barbry discussed details on a Wikipedia talk page which led to the wiki's creation. Barbry also conceived the name Wookieepedia. On March 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
