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Yodapedia - The Star Wars Wiki

Founded on January 7th 2007, the Yodapedia is one of the older wiki's available at Wikia.

History

In 1997, two users founded the TeeKay-421 fanclub, and they also created a site. Though they quickly found out that it wasn't easy to get information, and thus they founded a wiki in order to add information together easily. Currently it has grown to one of the largest Dutch wiki's.

Community

Even though the community isn't huge, it's still very fun there. Everybody knows eachother and editing is always big fun - with nice reactions and discussions on a new topic, such as "who is better, C-3PO or R2D2?". Everything is done with community concensus and of course discussions are held. The wiki uses many of Wikia's great features, such as the answers widget, that currently has quite some questions (why not help answering them :)). Being involved in the world of Star Wars, the wiki gets quite some attention on Dutch fansites, and is even mentioned in official Star Wars sources some times.

Content

Yodapedia gets new articles every day, created by the two most active users and of course with help of the rest of the community. For example, a nice article on a 1978 comic The Star Wars Holiday Special is even example for those die-hard Star Wars fans. Or perhaps you need some information on the Droid classes? Or perhaps some more information on the recent film, the Clone Wars? We also have some nice jokes hidden away :).

SEO

When searching for "Star Wars" on Google, Yodapedia will appear 6th in rankings, so that's great ;). It's a well-known wiki with a large reputation, and so does it's larger brother, Wookiepedia.

Skin

Even though the wiki uses the Jade skin, it's a perfect combination with the logo, header, favicon and far more. As Yoda is green, Jade is a perfect fit.

Other features

The wiki is even available through a yodapedia.net, by generous donations of the community. The wiki has a new "Did you know" every day, and for those interested, also an article of the day! News is quickly added, sometimes by means of the blog feature. The wiki also has a beautiful Logo, favicon and main page header, all designed by the die-hard wiki community. The wiki also has partnerships with several other sites, that brings more visitors and also makes sharing information easier.

So, it's a great wiki - certainly worth checking!