Minecraft Wiki (website)

The Minecraft Wiki is an online encyclopedia maintained by the community, which covers the Minecraft franchise.

History
Minecraft Wiki (at that time called as Minepedia - The Minecraft Wiki! or simply Minepedia; hosted on ) was founded on June 17, 2009 by citricsquid, after being suggested by Quatroking. In August 2009, the wiki went offline for three weeks due to lack of financial resources to host the server. With financial support provided by aera, the wiki came back online on August 28, 2009. Since then, the wiki has been growing quickly, doubling in size every month.

On August 19, 2010, a backup failure caused the edits since August 3, 2010 to be lost. Therefore, a new plan was being discussed. Despite WedTM giving some hardware, the site has been growing too quickly, raising issues again, which ended up with a wiki staff asking for donations, implementing ads and forming Redstone Wire Ltd to manage both wiki and forums. While it helped, the wiki still suffered performance issues.

Around the same time, a company called Curse Inc. had been trying to step into the wiki hosting business. They approached Redstone Wire Ltd about acquiring the wiki and forums, which was accepted and since November 15, 2010, the wiki had been owned by Curse. Soon in December 2010, Minepedia is officially being renamed to Minecraft Wiki, due to legal issues.

In August 2012, Minecraft Wiki would introduce its new header, which was followed by a new logo on September 24, 2013.

In December 2012, the wiki farm Gamepedia officially launched, with a goal of unifying all wikis under single domain to better compete with other wiki farms, along with a single engine to power all of the wikis. Minecraft Wiki officially moved to Gamepedia in August 2013, with an added bonus of the controversial "right sidebar" being removed.

Until late 2013, all versions of an edition were hosted on a single page. Since the development of The Update that Changed the World, all Java Edition versions are being documented on separate pages. This continued in 2015 with Pocket Edition.

In January 2016, Minecraft Wiki launched a short-lived mobile application. On July 18, 2016 at around 15:00 UTC, Minecraft Wiki surpassed 1 million edits, with the 1,000,000 millionth edit being done by Meeples10.

On August 26, 2016, Curse has been acquired by Amazon through its subsidiary "Twitch Interactive", introducing new forms of advertisements. On November 24, 2017, Minecraft Wiki has been moved to Amazon Web Services.

In June 2018, the Minecraft Wiki Discord was launched, followed by a creation of custom role, "Patrollers".

On December 12, 2018, it was announced that Fandom has bought the Gamepedia, including this wiki.

Starting March 9, 2019, all Java Edition versions are prefixed with Java Edition, Bedrock Edition are prefixed by then unofficial term "Bedrock Edition" and Console Edition is being renamed to Legacy Console Edition. In the months following, a wiki project dedicated to creating videos for wiki articles was created, it was decided anonymous users shouldn't be able to create new pages (effective September 11, 2019), simplified guides are officially adopted and wiki expands beyond base game, with additions of Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth namespaces.

In 2020, Legacy Console Edition versions are split to separate pages and discussion about "Minecraft Wikis Crossover" (merger) with Original Fandom Minecraft Wiki had started, ultimately leading to both of wikis merging on March 9, 2021. After that, few more Minecraft wikis merged. After disputes about Minecraft: Story Mode Wiki, a Minecraft Story Mode namespace is created in August 2021.

On August 2021, Minecraft Wiki switched from Hydra to FandomDesktop skin.

In October 2021, Minecraft Wiki was no longer official, resulting in several changes made to the logo, main page and official logo renders, together with the wiki declining in activity.

In 2022, most of the discussions were about switching wiki platform, which died down due to migrations being too risky.

Since January 24, 2023, anonymous users can no longer edit the wiki, due to COPPA. A namespace for Minecraft Legends was set up on January 30, 2023.

In March 2023, the wiki's Twitter has become active again after some time of inactivity.

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