Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2020: Week 29

The Fan History Wiki was a general fandom site was "dedicated to documenting the history of fandom." It set out to be "the largest fandom directory on the Internet." The site was active from roughly 2006 to 2011 and went offline in 2013.

Originally an outgrowth of Writers University and FanFiction.Net, the wiki was very much a "one-woman project." The wiki's founder, Laura Hale, was a controversial figure in fandom, and Fan History Wiki was similarly associated with a number of controversies, including inaccuracy of information, outing incidents, heavy-handed editing, data scraping, and attempts to run the wiki as a personal business which included seeking venture capital and offering paid articles.

Two tag lines from 2007 were: "Fan History Wiki: A project to continue for many years" and "A Wiki that anyone can edit."