What is your wiki called?
It is called Backstroke of West Wiki or Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of West Wiki.
Where is it? (give a link!)
Here is the main page https://backstrokeofthewest.fandom.com/wiki/Backstroke_Of_The_West_Wiki
What is it about?
This Wiki covers the bootleg dub of Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West. It can be found here on this Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziLNeFm1ok
To be more into detail, it is a literal Chinese-to English and back again translation of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The background of it was that an American businessman named Jeremy Winterson, was in Shanghai in around July 2015 and after watching ROTS in a local cinema, bought a DVD of RoTS from a local DVD seller, The movie turned out alright but the English subtitles were "from a Galaxy far, far away." You can see his review of it here http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html
The characters were all renamed words were mangled so much that Anakin and Palpatine were implied as gay lovers, Palpatine’s words implied he was a ‘dirty old man’, Yoda’s talk showed he was more supportive of Anakin being a Jedi Master, Windu was made more arrogant, Grevious was more polite towards A and Obi-Wan and had a fetish in the latter, Clones were made stupider…
Some time later, folks who were small and big time voice actors (VA), congregated and using the ripped subtitles from Jeremy, created the bootleg movie with voices matching the actual actors, save Yoda who was voiced by a female VA. A Youtbe user uploaded it in HD and viewers praising all the VAs with many saying the voice actor was extremely better than Hayden C. It remains there well, I guess under Fairuse; was taken down once.
As of now, the whole Youtube dub has reached more than 12 million views 119K likes! The dub even has it’s own IMDB page https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18183916/reference/
Why are you making a wiki about this topic?
I did not make the Wiki; previous users did, left Fandom and I adopted it a few years ago. It is way better than what George Lucas wrote – this is the view of many on the YT dub as well. There is a corresponding TV Tropes article on it but not easy to comprehend. Wookiepedia or starwars.fandcom.com vehemently disallows it on their Wiki; they delete it saying they are for official SW stuff.
There’s a https://starwarsfans.fandom.com/wiki/Star_War_The_Third_Gathers:_The_Backstroke_of_the_West however that covers general non-humorous topics. So, I’ve adopted it. If you Google,
“Backstroke of the West”, “Do Not Want”, ““Backstroke of the West” “Space General”, “Section Ratio General” and most pages from the Wiki come out on the first link. Thus, it’s gathering much online traffic.
What have you written so far? What do you want to do with the wiki in the future?
After adopting, I have:
Improved the Top Navigation
Fixed and added new Categories
Added Wiki Rules and guidelines
Deleted unwanted/irrelevant pages as the Wiki is on about Backstroke of West not other fan sites
Unblocked some users
Added more pages, from around 30 to now 76 and more!
Added more Templates even reference Templates
Added more pictures from the dub only took a few from coprighted
Inserted video clips
Welcomed new editors, explained the site to some
Of course, promoted the Wiki
Why might people want to join your community?
Well, if you have watched the entire dub, you can come join and check if there’s any thing missing or inform me of small errors. You could help expand the humorous parts or create articles – I’ve yet to create pages for voice actors and minor characters.
If you haven’t watched the dub, you may to join to understand the humour before watching the dub, or the clips.
If you are more fixed of ROTS or other fan projects you need not join.
How could others help out?"
Others turn the Red Links into pages. These are VA and very minor unnamed characters from the dub. Others could come just come and as mentioned, fix any errors, improve the humorous parts, add more images and clips (mainly YT) from the dub. Help me improve the main page. Or just come for the laugh.