Minecraft Wiki (website)

Born of the wiki (2009)
The wiki was founded by citricsquid on July 16, 2009. That time, it was called Minepedia, but was hosted as "minecraftwiki.net". Wiki was created in a time, when there were many Minecraft wikis on internet and few big ones were still weeks from creation.

This wiki was created alongside Minecraft Forums, that had really big popularity since its start.

The deal with Curse (2010)
Since November 15, 2010, it has been hosted by Curse.com. Few weeks later in December, 2010, "Minepedia" was renamed to "Minecraft Wiki", since the domain was "minecraftwiki.net" and "minepedia.net" was already claimed, legal issues have come up and wiki could no longer use the Minepedia. However, the transition was really slow, and the wiki finally changed all references to Minecraft Wiki in 2011.

On January 18, 2011, the Admin Dashboard was created. This is one of the most useful pages added to the wiki.

Acquicision by Fandom
On December x, 2018, it was annouced that Fandom bought Curse Media (this was part of the Curse, that included Gamepedia, D&D Beyond and few other services. The users were discussing this thing on Discord and many were hating this decision.

Change of wiki direction (2019 - present)
While the wiki was build primary on Java Edition of the game for 10 years, 2019 marked a huge change in this area.

Pages started to focus more on all editions of the game. All Java Edition articles have gotten "Java Edition" prefix (ex. 1.12.2 became Java Edition 1.12.2) and pages without prefix became disambiguations. There were even discussions to make Bedrock Edition our primary one we focus more, but this was not changed.

Since June 2019, there was a discussion to document Minecraft spin offs and other games (Minecraft Earth, Minecraft Dungeons, Minecraft: Story Mode). While discussing, Minecraft Earth was released and articles started to be made. Later in early 2020, articles were moved to a Minecraft Earth Wiki and Minecraft Dungeons Wiki projects. The discussion was lasting really long and the discussion had to be schehudled to be closed.

However, the wiki had reached an agreenment and Minecraft Dungeons started to be documented in a seperate namespace, while Minecraft Earth was in main space. Unfortunatly, there were still problems with Minecraft Earth Wiki, resulting into split of Minecraft Earth article back to MCE Wiki project and new discussion. The result was Minecraft Earth namespace.

In late 2019, first guides were added to the wiki about recent updates of the game (1.13 and 1.14). Thanks to many inovations to guides like Simple Guide table, guides were created really fast and became normal part of updates.

In September 2020, wiki decided to finally remake the Legacy Console Edition version history by seperating it's versions into own articles, rather then having all of them on one page.