Help:Gamepedia

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Gamepedia was the largest standalone video game wiki platform on the planet. Its legacy lives on with its former mascot, Hydra Guy, as well as the lion's share of Fandom's video game wikis, from the The Vault (Fallout) to Escape from Tarkov Wiki to the No Man's Sky wiki to the Terraria Wiki and hundreds in between.

Gamepedia had a curated approach to wiki creation, requiring that players or developers request for a wiki to be opened for a particular game. Staff reviewed each request and opened wikis which made sense for the community with a custom design and some initial content seeding from a team of Wiki Managers. The Wiki Manager program led to Fandom's Wiki Specialist program.

Other Gamepedia hallmarks have inspired Fandom's approach to community today, including editor recognition programs like Editor of the Month, live chat support and camaraderie through the Fandom Verified Editor Discord server (modeled after Gamepedia's legendary old editors and admins Slack), and Fandom Game Time (inspired by Gamepedia's streaming program).

Differences between Gamepedia and Fandom wikis[]

The following is a non-exhaustive list of ways historically-Gamepedia wikis differ from Fandom wikis. This list may change as features are deprecated.

Content on Gamepedia wikis is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA, while Fandom uses CC BY-NC, unless otherwise specified.
All Gamepedia wikis display an orange badge next to the wiki name and above the navigation section of every page.
Almost all Gamepedia wikis will redirect to wiki.fandom.com from their original wiki.gamepedia.com URL.
Uses CurseProfile, a custom profile page for users. The avatars for Gamepedia profiles use Gravatar, rather than the avatar uploaded on Fandom.
Uses Cheevos, an achievement system where user edits and actions are tallied into WikiPoints. Fandom uses its own Achievements system.
Uses Gamepedia PRO, a program which rewarded prolific editors with a badge next to their username. Historically, PRO users were also rewarded with an ad-free experience.
Uses MediaWiki-style Category pages. Fandom wikis use "Dynamic Categories" which can be toggled back to "Classic" style categories in the Appearance section of the user profile tab in Special:Preferences.
Uses MediaWiki-style Galleries. The syntax is the same, but the available layouts and appearance of layouts differ.
Uses MediaWiki:Sidebar by default for navigation, as opposed to MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation which is parsed and behaves differently.
The web and email notifications system differ between Gamepedia and Fandom wikis, and each have their own section in the notifications panel.
Supports inline styles on HTML elements in the mobile skin. On Fandom, these styles are removed.
Does not have the standard Fandom interwiki link prefixes set by default, notably w.
Does not have Discussions installed by default. It can be requested by contacting staff.
Does not have Comments enabled by default. It can be enabled via the Admin Dashboard.
Does not have Thanks enabled by default. It can be enabled via the Admin Dashboard.
Does not have Message Walls.
Does not have Blogs.
Does not have template types.
Does not have mobile main page.
Does not forward Help namespace pages and links to the Community wiki.
Does not redirect Special:CSS to MediaWiki:Common.css.
Extension:DynamicPageList3 is installed by default.
Extension:Gadgets is installed by default.
Extension:TextExtracts is installed by default.
Extension:SlideBoxLightShow is installed by default.
Extension:Page Forms is installed by default.
Extension:Interwiki is installed by default, which allows admins to add/remove interwiki prefixes via a special page.
Extension:Cargo and/or Extension:Semantic MediaWiki are installed on many Gamepedia wikis. These extensions can no longer be requested.
Special:Preferences has a number of different options:
- "User profile > Public Profile / Location / Other Profiles": Fields for the CurseProfile.
- "User profile > Email options" is moved to the Notifications tab.
- "User profile > Appearance > Category page layout" is removed, as Gamepedia wikis only use MediaWiki-style categories.
- "User profile > Appearance > Landing page" is removed, and cannot be set via Gamepedia wikis (the feature still functions when set via a Fandom wiki).
- "Notifications" is entirely different between Gamepedia and Fandom wikis.
- "Appearance > Advanced options > Show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link" is present on Gamepedia wikis.
- "Recent changes > Changes shown" has additional options to hide categorization of pages, patrolled edits from recent changes, and patrolled pages from new page list.
- "Watchlist > Changes shown" has additional options to hide categorization of pages and patrolled edits from the watchlist.
- "Watchlist > Watched pages" has an additional option to "add pages where I have performed a rollback to my watchlist".