Halopedia:About

Hello, and Welcome to Halopedia
Welcome to the best place to learn everything about the universe of Halo.

If you're not a big Halo fan, then this probably isn't the place for you. All information held within the confines of this wiki are related to Halo, either directly, or peripherally.

Ah, the timeless question: What the CRAP is a wiki??!! Well, a wiki is a site where anybody -- not just webmasters or members -- can edit any page. Wikis are best used for collaborative knowledge-base type documents. For instance, one of the most successful wikis is the Wikipedia.

What this means is that you could be an important author on Halopedia. Know about some hidden cache of weapons that could help you bust up the Flood? Do you know every tiny glitch in both games? Wanna help us catalogue EVERYTHING about Halo? Go ahead! If you ever need to find something, use the search bar. It should help you find what you're looking for. If you know the exact page title of the thing you are looking for, click "Go" instead of "Search" to go directly to that page.

If you decide to stick around, use the log in link at the top of this page to set up a username. To edit a page, click the "edit" link at the top of any page. Please be polite, and briefly describe any changes you make in the "Summary" text field on the edit page. Your "Summary" comments will appear on the recent changes page. This wiki does not support fan-fiction or any other Halo self-creations. The only page you can edit however you wish is your User Page, which you will receive when you log in.

If you ever have questions about the wiki, feel free to type them up in the help page. A knowledgeable person will most likely provide you with an answer within a few minutes. This wiki is absolutely free, no money is ever paid. Ever. Unless I change my mind.

We hope you'll feel welcome here amongst fellow fans of the greatest game of all time.

History
Main Article: Halopedia:History



Wiki Etiquette
If you're still unsure of how stuff works around here, you may want to check out the MediaWiki User's Guide. There you will learn how to make bold, italics, and other wiki stuff. Out of courtesy, you really shouldn't edit pages unless you are adding something meaningful (fixing grammar and spelling mistakes is okay). You also shouldn't delete pages unless you have an extremely good reason. If you want to play around and get a feel for editing pages, please do so in the Sandbox. If you want to get a good grasp of how the pages here are put together, be sure to read about our Standards for pages.

The Wikipedia has a great WikiCivics section. They cover a lot of information about what is accepted and what is not accepted on a wiki. There are really no rules, but there is a definite level of etiquette involved. Some of the suggestions they offer are only relevant to the Wikipedia, but many of them apply to any wiki. Anyone interested in being a valuable contributor to any wiki should read them.

A Warning
Above all, never use defamatory language or deface documents our community has worked hard to create. Note that the wiki gives everyone the ability to revert documents back to their original state. Therefore, no one can permanently harm the wiki by deleting pages. All an offender will accomplish is to slightly annoy our wiki community. After repeated defacings our administrators will permanently block the offender's IP address. If defamatory language is seen it will be changed or deleted.

Thank you for visiting the Halopedia. Let's get it on!

Sources?
Most times, information is taken from a source other than pure memory. Please try to cite all sources here in order for credit to be given where due.

What Halopedia is not
Before you create an article, please remember what Halopedia is not.

What is a Wikia?
Wikia hosts Halopedia and provides bandwidth to this project.

History of Wikia
Wikia (formerly known as Wikicities) is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. It is a collection of wikis running on MediaWiki software and operated by Wikia, Inc. that target different communities. It is free of charge for readers and editors, and gets its income from advertisements. As of mid-2006 its Alexa Internet traffic ranking was around 3000. AdSense advertisements are present in most of its wikis.

Wikia allows a broad range of requests to start a new community project. With the exception of ideas that might compete with the Wikimedia Project, which the Wikia founders are heavily involved in, most broadly scoped projects are acceptable. Wikia requires all content to be licensed under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) or multi-licensed under GFDL and another free content licence. Wikia also has some crossover with Wikipedia, with the communities of Wikia being linked on the relevant Wikipedia article in many cases.

Wikia runs on MediaWiki software on Linux servers. The project announced the creation of its one hundredth wiki on February 3, 2005. As of August 2006, it had over 1,500 wikis in 35 different languages. Wikia provides both technical and social support for all aspects of running a wiki community.

On March 27, 2006, WikiCities changed its name to Wikia to prevent confusion; some had mistakenly thought that WikiCities provided city guides. Following the change in name, Wikia announced that it had received US$4 million in venture capital from a group of investors.


 * Note:Wikiasari was a project run by Wales that attempted to create a copyleft search engine. The Wikiasari project used to be called Wikia.

Active Wikia sites
As of 1 September 2006, the most active Wikia-hosted sites by contributor countaccessdate=2006-09-01 were:

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 * Uncyclopedia, a satirical parody of Wikipedia
 * Wookieepedia, a Star Wars Wiki, along with a non-canon Star Wars fanon wiki and SW1ki, a Star Wars MUSH database
 * Memory Alpha, a reference to the Star Trek series, and its non-canon partner (home)
 * 香港網絡大典 (Hong Kong Network), an encyclopedia of virtual communities in Hong Kong
 * WikiFur, an encyclopedia of furry fandom
 * Dofus, a wiki dedicated to the MMORPG-like tactical game of the same name
 * Muppet Wiki, a database on the works of Jim Henson, particularly The Muppets
 * Cyber Nations Wiki, a wiki for players of the nation simulation game Cyber Nations
 * RuneScape Wiki, a encyclopedia for the MMORPG RuneScape
 * Teletraan-1, a fan-maintained database of Transformers knowledge
 * Halopedia is ranked 16th place for page requests per day.