Zelda Wiki

Zelda Wiki

Ownership Owner Jason Rappaport (wiki operator) Fandom (wiki owner) Leader Kasuto URL http://zelda.fandom.com/ Founded 2005

Coverage Main area of focus Side areas of focus

Page statistics Content articles 10,065* All pages 80,020* Uploaded files 34,602*

Edit statistics Page edits since set up 820,219* Average edits per page 10.25*

User statistics Registered users 7,345* Administrators 35* Executives 12* Fandom Staff 7* Wiki Manager 6* Soap Obliteration and Prevention 3*

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

Groups Zelda Wiki Executives Owners of Zelda Wiki Central Wiki NIWA Founding member (First Wave) Still has membership Representative focusing on The Legend of Zelda

Zelda Wiki, often abbreviated to ZW, is the definitive source for encyclopedic information on The Legend of Zelda series. It is one of the NIWA co-founders along with Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki.

History

In April 2005, the original Zelda Universe Wiki (ZUW) was created as an "act of boredom". Yami and Jason suggested the idea in the ZU chat room, and the wiki was created on April 23, 2005. The ZUW was quickly filled with information, not only about the 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 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), however this was quickly changed to Zelda Wiki.org (ZW). In early January of 2011, Zelda Wiki.org officially changed its name to simply "Zelda Wiki." This came after much deliberation among the staff and the community.

Quality standards at Zelda Wiki.org 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:

20:21, 8 July 2007 Adam (Talk | contribs | block) marked revision 42608 of Building Your Timeline patrolled

The practice of patrolling has continued ever since then.

Zelda Wiki.org is a collaborative project managed by the executive staff, whose role is to oversee administrator operations and consequently editor participation. Formerly, Zelda Wiki was managed by a number of contributing websites, collectively known as "The Masterminds". Since its revival and renaming in 2006, the Wiki had remained hosted on the same server as Zelda Universe under the control of Jason. However, in keeping with the collaborative nature of the project, the administration of Zelda Wiki.org was shared by the webmasters of each contributing site, as well as the other wiki staff members. There was no limit to the number of Masterminds, as all Zelda sites were encouraged to join the project.

Of the original Masterminds, only two sites currently remain (Zelda Universe and Zelda Dungeon), with the other sites having either closed or fallen inactive. Since then, the lineup of Masterminds changed a number of times, with each site contributing to the unique evolution and growth of the project. However, the Zelda Wiki staff decided to discontinue the Mastermind system in favor of closer interconnection with the sister site, Zelda Universe. Since then, Zelda Wiki has maintained a more centralized staff structure, consisting primarily of wiki-exclusive staff and a number of appointed executives.

On March 8, 2017, Zelda Wiki moved to Gamepedia. Ever since, its new url has been zelda.gamepedia.com. Serendipitously, Gamepedia's then-parent company Curse LLC sold its media properties, including Gamepedia and all hosted wikis, to Fandom in December 2018. As part of Project Crossover, FANDOM's Zeldapedia merged within Zelda Wiki on June 15, 2019; two years later the domain had changed once again to zelda.fandom.com.

Zelda Wiki's independence has been already a subject of dispute within NIWA's administration when it moved to Gamepedia, a wiki farm, in the first place, and as such development over whether or not Zelda Wiki should remain in NIWA has grown since the purchase from Fandom.

Affiliation

• Zelda Wiki.org 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 {{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.

• In early 2010, Zelda Wiki formed a partnership with Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki, starting the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance.

Current staff

Wiki Link	N-Wiki Link	Forum Link	Other Position(s)
Executives
CodyDaviesTV	Cody	N/A	Chief Operating Officer NIWA Executive Board
GoldenChaos	N/A	N/A	Owner, Chief Executive Officer
Yumil1988	N/A	N/A	Designer, Zelda Universe Guides Team Leader
Shona	N/A	N/A	Chief Technology Officer
TriforceTony	Kasuto	N/A	Director, Senior Editor
Link Lab	Link Lab	N/A	Deputy Director
Pixel	N/A	N/A	Head of Graphics
Administrators
52katie	N/A	N/A	N/A
Astroninja1	N/A	N/A	N/A
AzelleAx	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bwar	N/A	N/A	N/A
Chuck	N/A	N/A	N/A
EzloSpirit	N/A	N/A	N/A
Greenrupee	N/A	N/A	Originally one of the bureaucrats on Zeldapedia
Htwretched	N/A	N/A	N/A
KokoroSenshi	N/A	N/A	N/A
Magicmason1000	N/A	N/A	N/A
MannedTooth	N/A	N/A	Fandom's Wiki Manager for other Fandom-owned wikis including Zelda Wiki
Molldust	N/A	N/A	N/A
Midoro	N/A	N/A	N/A
Paragonfishhead	N/A	N/A	N/A
PhantomCaleb	N/A	N/A	Former Lead Developer
Protokahl	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tirlby	N/A	N/A	N/A
Varsityghouls	N/A	N/A	N/A
Weirdguy42	N/A	N/A	N/A

External links

• Official Twitter account
• Official Facebook account
• Zelda Wiki on WikiIndex
• Zelda Wiki article on Bulbapedia
• Zelda Wiki Community Page

References

ARMS ARMS Institute Pokémon series Bulbapedia Chibi-Robo! series Chibi-Robo! Wiki Dragalia Lost Dragalia Lost Wiki Drawn to Life series Drawn to Life Wapopedia F-Zero series F-Zero Wiki
Fire Emblem series Fire Emblem Wiki Golden Sun series Golden Sun Universe Tetris series Hard Drop Tetris Wiki Kid Icarus series Icaruspedia Splatoon series Inkipedia Kingdom Hearts series Kingdom Hearts Wiki
Magical Vacation series Kovopedia Star Fox series Lylat Wiki Metroid series Metroid Wiki Mii series MiiWiki Mystery Dungeon series Mystery Dungeon Franchise Wiki No specific series NintendoWiki
Animal Crossing series Nookipedia Pikmin series Pikipedia Pikmin series Pikmin Fanon Rhythm Heaven series Rhythm Heaven Wiki Super Smash Bros. series SmashWiki Starfy series Starfy Wiki
No specific series StrategyWiki Super Mario series Super Mario Wiki Super Mario 64 Ukikipedia Wars series Wars Wiki EarthBound series WikiBound Kirby series WiKirby
Xeno series Xeno Series Wiki The Legend of Zelda series Zelda Wiki
Former Wikis: Donkey Kong series Donkey Kong Wiki Dragon Quest series Dragon Quest Wiki

Important Events in 2007

Diddy Kong Racing DS • DK: Jungle Climber • Donkey Kong Barrel Blast The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass • Tingle's Balloon Fight DS Metroid Prime 3: Corruption • Metroid Prime Pinball (JP) Pokémon Battle Revolution • Pokémon Battrio • Pokémon Dash • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team • Pokémon Ranger • Pokémon Trozei! Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games • Mario Hoops 3-on-3 • Mario Party 8 • Mario Party DS • New Super Mario Bros. • Super Mario 64 DS • Super Mario Galaxy • Super Paper Mario Star Fox Command Wario: Master of Disguise • WarioWare: Smooth Moves Battalion Wars 2 Standalone Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Koukeisha​ • Planet Puzzle League • Nintendo DS Browser (AUS, NA) 3rd Party Capcom: Resident Evil 4 (Wii) Sega: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Expansion Pak • Headset • Camera • Slide Controller • Digital TV Tuner Wii Balance Board • Wii Remote Jacket People Nintendo of America: Perrin Kaplan (left) The Pokemon Company International: Andrew Hartpence (joined) Issues of Nintendo Power Vol. 211 • Vol. 212 • Vol. 213 • Vol. 214 • Vol. 215 • Vol. 216 • Vol. 217 • Vol. 218 • Vol. 219 • Vol. 220 • Vol. 221 • Vol. 222 Achievements Develop 100 Wikis Zelda Wiki • Dragon Quest Wiki Outside References made or published in 2007 Television references • Online comic references Related Companies that worked with or for Nintendo in 2007 Genius Sonority • Square Enix