Minecraft Wiki (website)
2023–present
2021–2023
2013–2021
Until 2013
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The Minecraft Wiki is an online encyclopedia which covers the Minecraft franchise and is maintained by the game's voluntary community.
Description[edit | edit source]
The Minecraft Wiki runs on the MediaWiki software, also used by Wikipedia and many other large wikis. Like other wikis, the content on the Minecraft Wiki is created by volunteers and almost all pages are open to be edited by anyone. There are also a number of admins with certain capabilities such as being able to delete pages, but otherwise behave like other editors.
Recent edits on the wiki are shown in the Recent Changes page, where they can be reviewed and corrected if necessary. Every edit to a page is also listed in its "page history" view (accessible under the dropdown next to the "Edit/"View source" button on Desktop view).
Content on the wiki is divided into different "namespaces", which are specified as prefixes in the page title. Articles about Minecraft are in the "default namespace" and do not have any prefix, while Minecraft Dungeons articles are in a separate namespace and have a "Minecraft Dungeons:" prefix, and Minecraft Legends similarly has its own namespace and prefix. There are many other namespaces that are "behind the scenes" and do not directly serve content to readers, including "File", containing all of the images, audio and other files uploaded to the wiki; "Template", containing code that allows complex content to be more added and modified on articles; and "Category", which allows pages to be organized into categories.
Every page also has an attached "Talk:" page for discussion on that particular page. This allows wiki editors to participate in discussions without having to use a different platform, and for past discussions to be searchable on the wiki itself. The majority of larger decisions are reached through community discussion rather than being decided by a single admin or editor.
History[edit | edit source]
The Minecraft Wiki was founded on June 17, 2009 by citricsquid (Samuel Ryan, a British student who got to know Minecraft during his last school year in May 2009), who also created the Minecraft Forum. It was originally named Minepedia and hosted at minecraftwiki.net. In August 2009, the wiki went offline for three weeks due to a lack of financial resources for hosting. With financial support provided by community member aera, the wiki came back online on August 28, 2009. After this, the wiki has been growing quickly along with the growth of Minecraft itself, doubling in visitors every month.[1]
On August 19, 2010, a backup failure caused edits since August 3, 2010 to be lost, resulting in discussions about a new hosting plan. Despite hardware update attempts and creation of a legal entity (Redstone Wire Ltd) to handle finances, the wiki continued to suffer from performance issues. Around the same time, a company called Curse Inc. approached Redstone Wire Ltd about acquiring the wiki and forums. On November 15, 2010, the offer was closed and since then both were owned by Curse.
In December 2010, Minepedia was forced to rename to the Minecraft Wiki due to legal issues.
In August 2013, Curse migrated the Minecraft Wiki over to its new wiki farm "Gamepedia", where other gaming-related wikis were hosted. Besides some technical changes, this also meant that the wiki URL changed from minecraftwiki.net to minecraft.gamepedia.com.
On August 26, 2016, Curse was acquired by Amazon through its subsidiary "Twitch Interactive", introducing new forms of advertisements. On November 24, 2017, Minecraft Wiki was moved to Amazon Web Services.
In June 2018, the wiki's Discord server was launched.
On December 12, 2018, it was announced that Fandom acquired Gamepedia, including the Minecraft Wiki. While Gamepedia initially stayed a separate part of Fandom, over time it was fully incorporated into Fandom. This included, among other changes, a new layout for the wiki, disabling of anonymous editing, as well as the new URL minecraft.fandom.com.
On September 24, 2023, after growing frustrations with the Fandom platform, the wiki completed its process of moving from Fandom and is now hosted independently at minecraft.wiki by Weird Gloop, with the old Fandom wiki now deprecated. The move also re-introduced a skin similar to the one used on Gamepedia, re-enabled anonymous editing, and introduced a new logo.
Wiki statistics[edit | edit source]
- 225,209 pages
- 13,782 articles
- 531,540 registered users
- 1,132 active users
- 127,527 files
- 2,610,035 edits
- 15 admins
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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Logo used for the week of the 15th anniversary.
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Minceraft Wiki easter egg with a 0.01 chance of happening.
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Ditto but Halloween.
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Ditto but winter.
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Ditto but in the Nether.
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Ditto without the cube.
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