Nookipedia
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| Name: | Nookipedia |
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| Dates: | 2010[1]-ongoing |
| Topic: | Animal Crossing |
| URL: | https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Main_Page |
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Nookipedia is a wiki providing comprehensive information about the Animal Crossing video game series.
History
Animal Crossing Wiki (2010)
On July 12, 2010, Animal Crossing Wiki was set up as part of the now-defunct Animal Crossing Forums (animalcrossingforums.net).[1] It was originally run by Leem01, one of the forum's moderators. Although the wiki received an affiliation with NIWA and obtained a few edits, a database problem caused the wiki to shut down without any backups created. The wiki had 51 articles as of its last archived capture on the Wayback Machine on August 28, 2010.[3]
Animal Crossing Forums continued for a few months after the wiki's shutdown and Nookipedia's formation, before being shut down in favor of Nookipedia's The Bulletin Board forum on January 20, 2011.[4] The animalcrossingforums.net URL currently redirects to nookipedia.com.
Nookipedia (2010–present)
After the original wiki went defunct, Animal Crossing Wiki (animalcrossingwiki.me) was relaunched by Jake on October 23, 2010 and separate from the original wiki created in July 2010. Their intention was to gradually obtain a membership in the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. In November, staff members from Animal Crossing City, who had previously tried ShoutWiki for their move away from Wikia due to a controversial implementation of a new skin, approached Jake and his wiki to help merge their contents from Animal Crossing City to Jake's Animal Crossing Wiki. Later that month, the merger with Animal Crossing City completed, and on November 19, 2010, Animal Crossing Wiki joined NIWA.
At the end of 2010, the staff agreed on a name change to Nookipedia (from Animal Crossing Wiki), to give the wiki a distinct and memorable name, as well as a new site skin. This update was completed in time for new year and launched to the public on January 1, 2011.
From 2010 to 2016, off-wiki discussion was held mostly on The Bulletin Board forum, which was created alongside the wiki. A Nookipedia Discord server was created in late 2016, and following its launch, most off-wiki discussion moved from there from the forums. The Bulletin Board was shut down on May 31, 2018.
The wiki has since overseen the rise in popularity of the Animal Crossing series from the likes of Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the latter of which resulted in Nookipedia taking on a prominent role in the ACNH Spreadsheet Community. In mid-2020, the wiki initiated the implementation of the MediaWiki extension Cargo, allowing for databases of various aspects of the Animal Crossing series, such as items and villagers. On October 7, 2020, Nookipedia created ACNH.Directory, an open-source directory of fan sites, communities, and resources for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.[1]
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Attribution
This article quotes material from the "Community:Nookipedia" article on Nookipedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.