Bulbapedia

Bulbapedia

Ownership Owner Liam Pomfret (Archaic) URL http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net Founded 2005

Coverage Main area of focus Side areas of focus

Page statistics Content articles -* All pages -* Uploaded files 0*

Edit statistics Page edits since set up -* Average edits per page -*

User statistics Registered users -* Active users 656* Bots 3* Administrators -* Bureaucrats 9* Abuse 27* Junior Administrators 10* Senior Administrators 4* Editorial Board 10* Check users 0* steward 0* Technical staff 3*

View statistics Page views since the Bulbapedia was set up N/A* Average views per edit N/A*

Groups Bulbagarden Networks Highest-trafficked portion of website Shares Bulbagarden Archives with Bulbanews and RPGwiki Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis Founding member Still has membership English-language member NIWA Founding member (First Wave) Still has membership Representative focusing on Pokémon

Bulbapedia is a community-driven indepedent English wiki about the Pokémon series. Founded in 2004, and opened to the public in 2005, Bulbapedia is a sector of Bulbagarden, a Pokémon fan community. Its name is a portmanteau of "Bulbagarden", the Pokémon website that runs Bulbapedia, and "encyclopedia". Both Bulbapedia and Bulbagarden get their names from Bulbasaur, the first Pokémon listed in the National Pokédex order. Bulbasaur also acts as the mascot for Bulbapedia under Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis.

Bulbapedia is one of the founding members of NIWA, along with Super Mario Wiki and Zelda Wiki.

History

Bulbapedia began as an idea for a Pokémon wiki, in the style of Wikipedia, to be set up by the Pokémon community. Eventually, Bulbagarden took the initiative, with Zhen Lin establishing the wiki in private on December 21, 2004 and Bulbagarden second-in-command evkl assuming authority as its first Editor-in-Chief. The original period of development looked for members of the Bulbagarden community to write for "a collaborative and open work environment which makes interacting with other staff and looking up information very simple." This proved unsuccessful, but Bulbapedia proceeded with around a dozen contributors, and reached 100 articles within three weeks.

It later opened to the public on February 14, 2005, and was marketed as "Bulbagarden's Valentine's Gift to the Fandom". Under evkl, the wiki grew from Bulbagarden's pet project to a large database of information. Over 21 new articles were created within the first 24 hours of operation, and within the first three months 1,000 articles had been written. evkl handed handed off control of the wiki to Zhen Lin in early 2006. The 10,000th article was created three years later, on June 29, 2008.

In April 2006, Bulbapedia and the German PokéWiki would come together to create Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis, a multilingual network of Pokémon Wikis. The project currently includes seven member wikis of various languages, being: Bulbapedia (English), PokéWiki (German), Pokémon Wiki (Japanese), Poképédia (French), Pokémon Central (Italian), WikiDex (Spanish), and 52Poké Wiki (Chinese). Under Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis, Bulbapedia is labeled under the color green.

At one point, the administrator of Zelda Wiki contacted Archaic, the webmaster of Bulbapedia, about a possible affiliation. From these talks, it was decided that, rather than a simple affiliation, that the two would start a network of Nintendo wikis (originally called "Independent Nintendo Wikis"), expanding upon the concept of the Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis project. Zelda Wiki would later convince Super Mario Wiki to join, and on February 14, 2010 (the fifth anniversary of the public launch of Bulbapedia), the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance was launched.

In April 2017, an app version of Bulbapedia was launched for Android devices.

Current staff

Main article: Bulbapedia:Staff

Wiki Link	N-Wiki Link	Forum Link	Other Position(s)
Executive Staff
Archaic	Archaic	NIWA profile	Webmaster, Owner of Bulbagarden Network
digBMGF	N/A	N/A	Chief of Staff
Enzap	N/A	N/A	Deputy Chief of Staff
evkl	N/A	NIWA profile	Vice-Webmaster, Founding Editor-in-Chief
Kogoro	N/A	N/A	Interim Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Archives Liaison, Chief of Staff
MAGNEDETH	N/A	NIWA profile	Vice-Webmaster
Editorial Board
abcboy	N/A	N/A	Head of Games
Adil	N/A	NIWA profile	Head of Anime
Ataro	N/A	N/A	Head of Manga
Darkeiya	N/A	N/A	Head of Art
glik	N/A	NIWA profile	Head of TCG
Pokemaster97	Pokemaster97	NIWA profile	Editor-in-Chief
SnorlaxMonster	SnorlaxMonster	NIWA profile	NIWA Executive Board Special Assistant, Bulbagarden Archives Advisory Council, Bulbanews Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Spriteit	N/A	N/A	Special Assistant, Bulbagarden Archives Administrator
Bureaucrats
ArcToraphim	N/A	N/A	Head of Shipping
Force Fire	N/A	N/A	N/A
G50	N/A	N/A	N/A
Maverick Nate	N/A	N/A	N/A
Zesty Cactus	N/A	NIWA profile	N/A
Senior Administrators
神奇超龍	N/A	N/A	Bulbanews Writer
Blazingfist	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chosen	N/A	N/A	N/A
Crystal Talian	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dennou Zenshi	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nuva-kal	N/A	N/A	Bulbagarden Archives Senior Administrator
Tiddlywinks	N/A	NIWA profile	N/A
Umeko	N/A	N/A	N/A
Administrators
Carmenstar97	N/A	N/A	N/A
Celadonkey	N/A	N/A	N/A
CycloneGU	N/A	N/A	N/A
Daniel Carrero	N/A	N/A	N/A
Frozen Fennec	N/A	N/A	N/A
ht14	N/A	N/A	N/A
MisterE13	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ruixiang95	N/A	N/A	N/A
Wowy	N/A	N/A	N/A
Junior Administrators
Awesomelink234	N/A	N/A	N/A
BthrussellUK	N/A	N/A	N/A
BigDocFan	N/A	N/A	N/A
Eridanus	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nescientist	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rockapheller	N/A	N/A	N/A
TehPerson	N/A	N/A	N/A

External links

• Bulbapedia on WikiIndex
• Bulbapedia on Bulbapedia
• Bulbapedia Community page on Zelda Wiki

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