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*In early 2010, {{SITENAME}} formed a partnership with Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki, starting the [[Community:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance|Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance]].
*In early 2010, {{SITENAME}} formed a partnership with Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki, starting the [[Community:Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance|Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance]].
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Zelda Wiki is an independent English-language wiki dedicated to The Legend of Zelda series. The site is a founding member of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA) and the oldest active wiki for the Zelda franchise.

The wiki was founded by members of Zelda Universe. In 2017, Linkorporated (Zelda Universe's company) sold Zelda Wiki to Curse, whose media assets were in turn acquired by Fandom the following year. On October 19, 2022, Zelda Wiki forked away from Fandom to reclaim independence.[2] The site's current domain is owned by members of the Zelda Wiki staff. The wiki's servers are operated by the owner of StrategyWiki, a longtime affiliate and fellow NIWA member.

History

The original Zelda Universe Wiki (ZUW) was created as an "act of boredom" in April 2005. Yami and Jess suggested the idea in the ZU chat room, where it was created and assembled. The ZUW was quickly filled with information, not only about The Legend of Zelda series, but also about Zelda Universe and its community. It was also to be used to host Zelda Universe's Zelda Encyclopedia. On an older version of ZU, the encyclopedia existed as a list of words from The Legend of Zelda series with short definitions; with the help of the ZUW, the Zelda Encyclopedia expanded and became much more detailed as well. The Zelda Universe Wiki served Zelda Universe for over a year, before it crashed during a server move.

In September 2006 the Wiki was moved to another new server, with a new philosophy and under a new name. The name initially chosen was The Zelda Effect (TZE),[3] however this was quickly changed to Zelda Wiki.org (ZW.org).[4] The site was run at the time by the wiki's admin team, as well as the masterminds, a group of webmasters from each accepted fansite.

Quality standards at Zelda Wiki are maintained through the Admin team, who ensure that every edit is checked (or "patrolled"). Patrolling began July 8, 2007 when revision 42608 was marked as patrolled.[5] The practice of patrolling has continued ever since then.

On January 17, 2011, members of the wiki voted on a name change where it was decided that Zelda Wiki.org (ZW.org) would simply become Zelda Wiki (ZW).

Zelda Wiki was soon transferred to Curse Inc.'s Gamepedia service on March 8, 2017, changing its domain to zelda.gamepedia.com and with many users having to migrate to Gamepedia accounts.[6] On December 12, 2018, Gamepedia was acquired by Fandom, Inc. and went under common ownership with Zeldapedia. The latter merged with Zelda Wiki on June 15, 2019; two years later the wiki migrated its domain once again to zelda.fandom.com; that same year also saw the wiki switch to FandomDesktop as a skin.[7][8][9]

On October 19, 2022, Zelda Wiki officially announced their departure from Fandom. Its staff created a fork to be hosted by ABXY, LLC.[2] The fork was briefly named Zeldapedia until January 17, 2023, when the site went back to using the name Zelda Wiki.

Achievements

  • Currently Zelda Wiki contains 15,176 articles. To date, 48 active users have contributed on Zelda Wiki. (See also: Special:Statistics)
  • The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am, published by 'Open Court' in November 2008, mentions Zelda Wiki and recommends it a visit.
“
Want to know anything about the Zelda franchise, anything at all? Just look it up on zeldawiki.org - an online Zelda encyclopedia.
”
— pg. xiii
  • On August 14 2009, Zelda Wiki received LegendOfZelda.com's Pinnacle award, given to the overall best site for the last year.[10]
“
... it is impossible to deny the quality of writing and maintenance that Zelda Wiki maintains ... Not all articles are perfect, but that is the nature of all wikis – the imperfect is perfected, the scrawny are bolstered, and the quest is never ending ... It is a testament to the robustness of this community, this Zelda Online Community, that a project like the Zelda Wiki, which started as Zelda Universe’s own wiki, has evolved into a website that is truly worthy of this award.
”
— Xizor of LegendOfZelda.com
  • In issue 53 of the Official Nintendo Magazine UK and issue 16 of the Official Nintendo Magazine Australia and New Zealand, Zelda Wiki and two of its mastermind sites—Zelda Universe and ZeldaInformer—were referred to readers.

If we've piqued your interest in further Zelda timeline discussion, there are loads of fansites out there expanding on some of the theories we've discussed here. Here are a few good starting points:
www.zeldauniverse.net, www.zeldawiki.org, www.zeldainformer.com

— Official Nintendo Magazine UK (page 099)
  • Pages 098 and 099 of ONM UK

    Pages 098 and 099 of ONM UK

  • Close up of the referral in ONM UK

    Close up of the referral in ONM UK

  • Page 51 of ONM AUS&NZ

    Page 51 of ONM AUS&NZ

Partnerships

  • Zelda Wiki currently has a collaborative link with Zeldapendium, a German-language Legend of Zelda wiki. The partnership allows Zelda Wiki to provide relevant interwiki language links in the sidebar, using the {{De}} and {{Zp}} template.
  • Zelda Wiki has a long-standing affiliation with StrategyWiki.org, a site offering strategy guide information in a wiki format. All of our game articles carry a link to the relevant guides at StrategyWiki.org, and individual strategy links within articles are facilitated using the StrategyWiki template.

Former Masterminds

From 2006 to its removal in 2013, the following were at one point Masterminds for Zelda Wiki.

Masterminds of Zelda Wiki
Mastermind Dates Webmaster(s)
Zelda Universe April 23, 2005 – 2013 Jess Rappaport
HTLOZ September 26, 2006 – January 18, 2009 Fury Three, Tempest, and Captain Cornflake
Hylian Help Desk September 26, 2006 – January 15, 2008 Dave
Just Zelda September 26, 2006 – April 9, 2008
The Forbidden One September 26, 2006 – March 24, 2007
The Temple Ruins September 26, 2006 – January 18, 2009
The Zelda Chronicles September 26, 2006 – March 24, 2007
Zelda Central September 26, 2006 – January 15, 2008 Victor Williams
Zelda Dungeon September 26, 2006 – December 14, 2007
April 20, 2008 – March 30, 2009
April 1, 2009 – October 31, 2011 		Mases Hagopian
Zelda Insider September 26, 2006 – January 15, 2008
Zelda Oracles September 26, 2006 – January 15, 2008
January 18, 2008 – January 21, 2009 		Henhouse and The Burning Link
Zelda World September 26, 2006 – January 10, 2007 Skermefaten and AppHunter
Zelda Cavern September 28, 2006 – January 18, 2008
April 27, 2008 – July 9, 2008 		Link and Kaynil
5 Rupees January 10, 2007 – March 23, 2007
Twilight Plains January 15, 2007 – January 15, 2008
Absolute Zelda February 13, 2007 – January 18, 2009 Nathanial Rumphol-Janc and EA
Forsaken Legend February 15, 2007 – January 18, 2008
July 9, 2008 – January 18, 2009 		Sam Brereton
ZeldaInformer July 28, 2007 – August 24, 2011 Dennis Wyman, Ilmari Arnkil, and Phil Stetson
Zelda Legends September 20, 2008 – July 2, 2010 davogones, Khuffie, and lord-of-shadow
Hyrule.net December 27, 2008 – 2013 Dustin and Tappy
Zelda Temple April 15, 2009 – August 11, 2009
September 5, 2010 – October 31, 2011 		Amy Bolduc, Jake Johnson, and Tin_Man
Xero Gaming (formerly Legend of Zelda.com) April 29, 2009 – March 4, 2012 Link of Hyrule, Last Chance, and Xizor
The Sacred Realm May 4, 2009 – August 7, 2011 Lysia
Portal to Hyrule June 8, 2009 – 2013 DekuLink
Ordon Village June 23, 2009 – July 3, 2009 Vincent
LegendZelda.net March 10, 2010 – 2013 Noah Glaser
Link's Hideaway September 6, 2010 – 2013 Autydi
Zelda Eternity January 16, 2011 – 2013 Mike and Skermefaten

Contributor Banners

As a way to increase activity, some of the Mastermind sites offer 'Zelda Wiki Contributor' banners to members dedicated to both the forum and Zelda Wiki. The banner is not permanent, as users can be stripped of it if they are suspected of having edited Zelda Wiki articles for the sole purpose of obtaining a banner.

ZU's Zelda Wiki Contributor banner.
Main article: Community:Zelda Universe Forums

Zelda Universe began offering its banner on November 11, 2008. It has since been awarded to 11 people.

Gallery

  • Zelda Wiki's main page in 2008

    Zelda Wiki's main page in 2008

  • Zelda Wiki's main page in 2016

    Zelda Wiki's main page in 2016

  • Zelda Wiki's main page in 2021

    Zelda Wiki's main page in 2021

  • Groose Wiki, as seen on April 1st, 2012

    Groose Wiki, as seen on April 1st, 2012

Holiday Logos

  • Easter

    Easter

  • Halloween

    Halloween

  • Christmas and New Year

    Christmas and New Year

  • Groose Wiki

    Groose Wiki

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Zelda Wiki's inaugural edit , .
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Our time has come to reclaim independence. , Twitter.
  3. ↑ Revision 17296 of Zelda Wiki:About
  4. ↑ Revision 17468 of Zelda Wiki:About
  5. ↑ Patrol log of the "Building Your Timeline" article
  6. ↑ Zelda Wiki is joining Gamepedia , Gamepedia Help Wiki.
  7. ↑ Announcement to all Editors , Zeldapedia.
  8. ↑ Official Crossover Voting Thread , Zeldapedia.
  9. ↑ The Future of Gamepedia , Community Central.
  10. ↑ The Pinnacle , LegendOfZelda.com.
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