Halopedia
From Halopedia, the Halo wiki
Template:Ratings Template:Website Infobox Halopedia is a wiki dedicated to providing accurate information on the fictional universe of the Halo video game series. The wiki contains information on the games themselves as well as the novels, action figures and the probable upcoming movie.
Description
Halopedia has come to be regarded as accurate and reliable among Halo fans and media alike; a search of "Halopedia" will produce over 134,000 results on Google, many of which are users on various forums and websites citing Halopedia articles as sources of information.[1][2][3] Halopedia presented a wide arrangement of Halo related info. Halopedia was awarded as the "Best Resource Website of 2009" by Hawty McBloggy.[4]
The contents of Halopedia are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA) and material from the site can be copied into projects that use the CC-BY-SA license, such as Wikipedia.
History
- Main article: History of Halopedia
Halopedia, originally known simply as "Halo Wiki", began in late 2004 as a project to document the Halo fictional universe. After the creation of halowiki.net, the wiki changed its name to "Halopedia" along with domain to www.halopedia.org. While halowiki.net and Halopedia appear to be in direct competition against each other, they are actually sister projects that have very different goals; Halopedia is a wiki that concerns the canon Halo universe, while halowiki.net is a essentially a "multiplayer repository". The wiki gained mainstream media attention in early 2006, one in particular from Bungie.[5] This attention improved the wiki's reputation as the online Halo encyclopedia.[6] This success however was detrimental to Halopedia; the wiki's growing size was producing a bill in excess of 150 US$ a month. Throughout May, June and July of 2006, the site's accessiblity went down sporadically, until it finally went offline for several weeks. Halopedia was eventually merged with halo.wikia.com, a wiki hosted on Wikia.[7]
The wiki continued to grow in anticipation of many new projects planned for the Halo franchise, such as the Halo movie. On August 12th, 2008, the 5,000th article was created by Template:Name, and on July 19th, 2009, the six Usergroups of Halopedia were disbanded due to inactivity.
In October 17, 2010, the wiki moved to a private domain, halopedian.com, along with its then-current administration team and community members.
