Zeldapedia

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Zeldapedia
Zeldapedia as it appeared on August 20, 2008.
URL	http://zelda.wikia.com
Language	English/German/Spanish/French/Italian/Dutch/Norwegian/Irish
Owner(s)	Community
Webmaster(s)	Wikia
Launch Date	June 2005
Status	Active

Zeldapedia is a wiki about The Legend of Zelda series, which is hosted on Wikia, and is therefore a competing Wiki with Zelda Wiki.org. It was created June 15, 2005 by Champion Kai. In June 2007, a merger between Zeldapedia and Zelda Wiki.org was proposed by Angela Beesley,^[1] however this offer was rejected by the Masterminds. Since then other wikis have moved to Wikia which have remained independent rather than merging with a pre-existing wiki. One example is Lostpedia which exists alongside the Lost Wikia.

Contents 1 Characteristics and Policies 2 Spin off wikis 3 Other Languages 4 Reference list

Characteristics and Policies

Like other wikis at Wikia, Zeldapedia sets its own policies. This results in certain differences from Zelda Wiki.org, such as the fact that Zeldapedia currently allows anonymous (non-registered) users to edit. This is not true of all Wikia sites (Muppet Wiki being one of many examples). Many criticisms commonly raised against Wikia itself are potentially extended to their hosted wikis such as Zeldapedia, including criticisms of being primarily financially motivated, and perceptions of a more centralized and less community based or caring approach.

One notable policy difference between Zeldapedia and Zelda Wiki.org is the usage of citations and references which, while a core principle here at ZW.org, are less valued at Zeldapedia.^[2]

Spin off wikis

Zeldapedia has a number of spin-off wikis, including the Zelda Fanon Wiki which has 500 articles (as of June 2009).

Other Languages

Zeldapedia incorporates a number of sub-wikis for various languages. Most have remained small in size (the largest as of June 13th 2009 being the Spanish Zeldapedia), with fewer than 500 articles between them.

• German Zeldapedia
• Italian Zeldapedia
• Norwegian
• Spanish
  • Main Spanish Zeldapedia
  • Hylian-World
  • TodoZelda 2.0
  • Zelda Minish Cap
• French
  • French Zeldapedia
  • Second French Zeldapedia
  • Zelda and Peach

Reference list

1. ↑ "...Angela was quite interested in, well, seeing [Zelda Wiki.org] perhaps move to Wikia. But not just that - she was also interested in merging ZW.org with Wikia's already existing Zelda Wiki..." —Jason Rappaport (We're back!)
2. ↑ "We don't really do references here." —Triforce 14 (Talk:Hyrulean Civil War)