World of Asdar
| http://wiki.worldofasdar.com/images/5/54/AsdarGuide.png | World of Asdar Recent changes [No WikiNode] About [No Mobile URL] |
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| Founded by: | Kraig Hausmann |
| Status: | Active |
| Language: | English |
| Edit mode: | Read-only |
| Wiki engine: | MediaWiki |
| Wiki license: | No license |
| Main topic: | Fantasy |
| Wiki size: | 2,290 article pages see stats |
World of Asdar is a fantasy world wiki created by conworlder (constructed world builder) Kraig Hausmann, wiki username Trismegistus, in October 2013. Unlike most wikis about fantasy worlds, the World of Asdar wiki was created by the creator of World of Asdar, and to read the World of Asdar wiki is to read World of Asdar, so it has a lot in common with other fantasy worlds that are stored on public wikis by their creators, like Ardrana. However, World of Asdar is created by one writer, while Ardrana is created by Dungeons & Dragons gaming sessions. Therefore, World of Asdar does not count as a Dungeons & Dragons wiki, though the world, maps, etc. can be used for such a game.
Before the wiki, World of Asdar was stored on a WordPress blog in the early 2010s, and another blog was created as part of the WorldofAsdar.com domain name in the mid 2010s, possibly after the creation of the wiki. The blogs are used mostly for Asdar stories, while the wiki is used for asdarography (which has a similar definition to geography, except asdarography is about the world of Asdar while geography is about Earth), history,, languages spoken on the planet, and much more. The World of Asdar wiki has attempted to popularize the word "wikipedia" in all lowercase, simply meaning a wiki encyclopedia, and the World of Asdar site describes itself as the wikipedia of the world of Asdar. In other words, the word "wikipedia" is used where most wiki enthusiasts would call it a "wiki encyclopedia". While the wiki was mostly designed for the creator to keep track of his own fantasy world in a convenient way, still there are people who happened to find it online, whether it just came up on Google, or someone found the Facebook group, or found a link to it in the Conworlding Facebook group, a group for all fantasy world creators.