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In 2020, Kid Aces | In 2020, Kid Aces was the winner of "Fandom's Editor of the Year 2020" award for her contributions to [[Nukapedia]]. On July 26, 2021, she was voted in as bureaucrat of Nukapedia with overwhelming support. She spearheaded many beneficial changes to Nukapedia and its Discord server. This included removing misinformation, head-canon, poorly written articles and making the community LGBTQ+ friendly and welcoming to all. Some believed the changes to the wiki to be "stomping on creativity" and that the changes negatively impacted the wiki's SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which caused Fandom's archived wiki, The Vault, to trump the wiki in search results. | ||
On April 1, 2022, Aces was demoted and globally banned from [[FANDOM]] for a year. FANDOM, in the past and recently, have been criticized for banning wiki staff for invalid reasons and without warning. Herself and many other users felt the ban to be entirely unjust. Rather than appealing, Aces and Eckserah, Nukapedia's technical lead, began discussing the idea of an independent wiki. On April 7, 2022, the Discord, then called "Project Shmodex", was created, and on April 8, 2022, the '''Independent Fallout Wiki''' was officially founded. Eckserah handled all technical aspects of the wiki fork, while Kate handled the wiki editing spectrum. As an inside joke, the Discord was renamed to "Schmault-Tec". | On April 1, 2022, Aces was demoted and globally banned from [[FANDOM]] for a year. FANDOM, in the past and recently, have been criticized for banning wiki staff for invalid reasons and without warning. Herself and many other users felt the ban to be entirely unjust. Rather than appealing, Aces and Eckserah, Nukapedia's technical lead, began discussing the idea of an independent wiki. On April 7, 2022, the Discord, then called "Project Shmodex", was created, and on April 8, 2022, the '''Independent Fallout Wiki''' was officially founded. Eckserah handled all technical aspects of the wiki fork, while Kate handled the wiki editing spectrum. As an inside joke, the Discord was renamed to "Schmault-Tec". | ||
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The Independent Fallout Wiki is a wiki dedicated to documenting all aspects of the Fallout series of video games. In addition to regular content pages, the wiki offers community content pages, which are host to fanfiction, fanart, in-game screenshots, Fallout 76 C.A.M.P. pages and more, as well as mod content pages, which are host to documentation and pages for various Fallout game modifications. The wiki also welcomes technical articles, which can assist the modding community greatly.
History
In 2020, Kid Aces was the winner of "Fandom's Editor of the Year 2020" award for her contributions to Nukapedia. On July 26, 2021, she was voted in as bureaucrat of Nukapedia with overwhelming support. She spearheaded many beneficial changes to Nukapedia and its Discord server. This included removing misinformation, head-canon, poorly written articles and making the community LGBTQ+ friendly and welcoming to all. Some believed the changes to the wiki to be "stomping on creativity" and that the changes negatively impacted the wiki's SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which caused Fandom's archived wiki, The Vault, to trump the wiki in search results.
On April 1, 2022, Aces was demoted and globally banned from FANDOM for a year. FANDOM, in the past and recently, have been criticized for banning wiki staff for invalid reasons and without warning. Herself and many other users felt the ban to be entirely unjust. Rather than appealing, Aces and Eckserah, Nukapedia's technical lead, began discussing the idea of an independent wiki. On April 7, 2022, the Discord, then called "Project Shmodex", was created, and on April 8, 2022, the Independent Fallout Wiki was officially founded. Eckserah handled all technical aspects of the wiki fork, while Kate handled the wiki editing spectrum. As an inside joke, the Discord was renamed to "Schmault-Tec".
Many Nukapedia users, editors and staff resigned to join the new one out of solidarity. Findabair joined her as a bureaucrat for the newly founded wiki. In the following months, to attain guidance and help, the wiki began conversing with other independent wiki communities, such as the NIWA, Halopedia and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. On May 27, 2022, the Mod space was introduced, designed to cater to modders and to allow Fallout mods to have dedicated pages. In early June, all content from Nukapedia was successfully forked over. On October 27, 2022, the Community space was created, allowing fanon content such as fanfiction, fan art, screenshots, artwork, PnP documents and Fallout 76 C.A.M.P. pages.
On October 23, 2022, the wiki officially entered early access, opening registration to new users. On October 28, 2022, C0NN1E joined the team as a community ambassador and editor. She reached out to The Doom Wiki and Combine OverWiki to discuss wiki affiliations, which were officially completed that same month. StrategyWiki, Halopedia and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages later followed suit in early November. On November 28, 2022, the wiki hosted its first mod, Vault 120. On December 1, 2022, the wiki was voted in as a member of the Gaming Wiki Network, becoming the largest member of the network. On December 19, 2022, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia joined as an affiliate.
The wiki prides itself in being independent, and has introduced many new policies and changes designed stomp out misinformation, head-canon and flowery non-objective writing. The community is described as being extremely inclusive towards the LGBTQ+, GSRM, MOGAI, Plural and Otherkin communities, to which it welcomes with open arms. Many site staff and users identify within these communities.
The wiki runs on the MediaWiki wiki engine, and contains no advertising. It is not-for-profit and funded entirely by the site admin, Kid Aces.
External Links
Wiki Affiliates
The wiki participates in an independent wiki-affiliate network, placing a footer on various pages that link back to affiliate wikis to allows users to visit and experience the wider wiki network.
- Combine OverWiki
- The Doom Wiki
- Halopedia
- JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia
- StrategyWiki
- Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages
Gaming Wiki Network
The wiki participates in the Gaming Wiki Network, or GWN, a network of independently-hosted wikis about video game franchises. It is currently the largest wiki to join the network.
