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{{Quote|Halopedia can tell you nearly anything you may need to know about Halo. Halopedia is also a wiki, which means it's constantly expanding. It knows everything about the Halo games, books, upcoming movie, and other appearances, and with your help, it can grow even larger. But how can one trust a wiki? Surely some crazy could come in and troll the entire place up. Well... they could, but they wouldn't get too far. Halopedia is guarded by rabid watchdog-like fans who are constantly watching the Recent Changes page to check for the slightest error, either grammar or factual. Okay, that's a bit exaggerated. The real deal is that Halopedia is under almost constant watch by someone who can set everything right. With 3 very responsible sysops and a mob of other users, Halopedia is in safe hands. Be sure to check out Halopedia and even you could find something to contribute.|[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]]'s description of the wiki. (2006){{Ref/Reuse|weknow}}}}


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'''Halopedia''' is a wiki about the [[Halo universe|''Halo'' fictional universe]]. It covers the ''Halo'' [[:category:Games|video games]], from ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' to ''[[Halo Infinite]]''; tie-in media and merchandise including [[:category:Books|published literature]], [[:category:Film|films]] and [[action figure]]s; as well as [[:category:People|notable people]] associated with the franchise. Much like [[starwars:Main Page|Wookieepedia]], Halopedia is a fan-driven encyclopedia and is not an official party of the Halo franchise; thus, it is not itself a primary source of ''Halo'' information but rather an aggregate of content based on official media.
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'''Halopedia''' is a wiki dedicated to providing accurate information on the fictional universe of the [[Halo]] video game series. Hosted by [[Wikia]], the wiki contains information on the games themselves as well as the novels, [[Action Figures|action figures]] and the probable upcoming [[Halo Movie|movie]]. As of 2010, Halopedia is the largest wiki project for the Halo fictional universe. Halopedia was awarded as the "[http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2010/01/21/2009-best-of-halo-awards-winners/ Best Resource Website of 2009]" by Hawty McBloggy.
Halopedia runs on [[wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] and is privately hosted. The site is also available in several other languages, including French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Korean and Russian. However, the English one is the most up-to-date version, with the others having very little content.


The contents of Halopedia are licensed under the [[Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]] and material from the site can be copied into projects that use the GFDL.  
==History and description==
{{Main|Project:History|l1=History of Halopedia}}
Halo Wiki, as it was known back then, was founded by [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]], with the help of [[User:Porplemontage|Steve]] who hosted the site, and launched on November 4, 2004. Initially created to supplement his clan, the site shifted its focus to cover the Halo universe in later periods. After the creation of halowiki.net, the site was renamed to "Halopedia" and moved its domain to www.halopedia.org. Halopedia and halowiki.net remained sister projects with very different goals; Halopedia concerned itself with the canon of the Halo universe, while halowiki.net was essentially a "multiplayer repository"; halowiki.net has since gone inactive. Since the renaming, Halopedia has actively documented the developments of the Halo franchise and the fictional universe, along with gameplay information and help.<ref name="weknow">[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=7690 '''Bungie.net''': ''Halopedia Knows'']</ref>


==History==
In 2006, the original host was unable to financially support the wiki, prompting Halopedia to merge with [[wikipedia:Wikia|Wikia]]'s Halo Wiki site.<ref name="migrate>[[Project talk:History/Archive2|'''Halopedia''', ''Migration History'']]</ref> From 2007 to 2010, Halopedia was one of Wikia's most active and popular wikis following the release of ''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' and ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. In 2009, the wiki was awarded as the "Best Resource Website of 2009" by [[Jessica Shea|Hawty McBloggy]], later a member of [[343 Industries]].<ref name="hawty">[http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2010/01/21/2009-best-of-halo-awards-winners/ '''HawtyMcBloggy:''' ''2009 Best of Halo Awards Winners''] [defunct] [https://web.archive.org/web/20141015052147/http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2010/01/21/2009-best-of-halo-awards-winners/ (backup)]</ref>
===Beginnings: 2004===


Halopedia, originally known simply as "Halo Wiki," began in late 2004 as a project to document the [[Halo Universe|Halo fictional universe]]. It quickly attracted a small following of users. After the creation of Halowiki.net, the wiki's name was changed to "Halopedia," and moved to www.halopedia.org. While Halo Wiki and Halopedia appear to be in direct competition against each other, they are actually sister projects that have very different goals. ''Halopedia is a wiki about the story of Halo, while halowiki.net is a "Halo 2 multiplayer repository."''<ref>[http://wikiriot.net/2006/07/31/halopedia/ Wikiriot News - Halopedia - 07/31/06]</ref>
Following a mandatory skin change and stricter Terms of Use in mid-2010 by Wikia, Halopedia moved back to an independent domain, hosted by the previous host.<ref>[http://halopedia.org/Forum:Domain_overhaul_-_And_what_do_you_think?/Outcome '''Halopedia''': ''Domain overhaul - And what do you think?/Outcome'']</ref><ref name="movingin">[http://www.halopedia.org/Forum:Moving_in '''Halopedia''': ''Moving In'']</ref>


Halopedia started to be recognized in early 2006, even getting mentions from [[Bungie Studios]]<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=7690 Bungie.net - Halopedia Knows - 2/14/06]</ref>, the company which created the Halo games. As word spread, the site gained a reputation as the location for accurate info on the Halo fictional universe.<ref>[http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/features/local_story_051130651.html Tahlequah Daily Press - Old Man Winter freezes out Halo tourney - 02/20/06]</ref>
Halopedia has come to be regarded as accurate and reliable among the Halo fanbase and media alike,<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=16876 '''Bungie.net''': ''Breaking In - Rob Adams'']</ref> and has been used as a source for several works of published literature.<ref name="effect">'''''[[Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time]]'''''</ref><ref name="dune">[http://www.amazon.com/Science-Dune-Unauthorized-Exploration-Psychology/dp/1933771283/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304746854&sr=1-1 '''Amazon''', ''The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe'']</ref><ref name="guide">[http://www.amazon.com/Mobilizing-Generation-2-0-Practical-Technologies/dp/0470227443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304746823&sr=1-1 '''Amazon''': ''Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0: Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth'']</ref><ref name="popculture">[http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Philosophy-Popular-Culture/dp/0812697189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1304746755&sr=8-1 '''Amazon''': ''Halo and Philosophy'']</ref><ref>[http://silence-without.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-did-mention-giant-angry-testicle.html '''Silence Without''': ''I did mention the...'']</ref><ref name="mention">[[Halopedia:Halopedia in the media|'''Halopedia''': ''Halopedia in the media'']]</ref>


===Rocky upbringing===
Wikia's Halo Nation left Fandom, and merged with Halopedia in 2019.


Halopedia soon became a victim of its own success as its growing community began to present a major problem for its creators; the site's growing size was producing a bill in excess of 150USD a month for every server usage and average ping. Throughout May, June and July of 2006, the site would be sporadically down, until it finally went offline for several weeks. Eventually, Halopedia was merged with halo.wikia.com, a formerly rival wiki that did not have the same issues. Despite the painstaking process of having to copy every article from the original Halopedia, the site ultimately benefited with several new active users and a severe drop in vandalization, going from at least 2 or three vandalisms a day to almost none.
==Sources==
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===Now===
==See also==
 
*[[Main Page|Halopedia's main page]]
Currently, Halopedia continues to grow in anticipation of many new projects planned for the Halo franchise, such as the [[Halo Movie]] and [[Halo: Reach]]. While Halopedia itself frowns upon speculation in its articles<ref>http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halopedia:What_Halopedia_is_not</ref>, its talk pages have become a central place for speculation and discussion of the upcoming productions.
*[[Halopedia:About|About Halopedia]]
 
Halopedia has come to be regarded as accurate and reliable among Halo fans and media alike<ref>[http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1921639.php Navy News - Halo3 - 07/03/06] </ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exh6w16gY0A</ref>; a search of "Halopedia" will produce over 792,000 results on Google, many of which are users on various forums and websites citing Halopedia articles as sources of information. Halopedia presents a wide arrangement of Halo related info. From [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] to [[Halo: Reach]], Halopedia will have almost all the information about Halo, edited by the members of Halopedia.
 
On August 12th, 2008, the 5,000th article was created by [[User:CommanderTony|CommanderTony]], and on July 19th, 2009, the six [[Groups|Usergroups of Halopedia]] were [[Blog:Disbanding the Usergroups|disbanded]] due to inactivity.
 
==Internal and External links==
 
*[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Halopedia]
*[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halopedia:History The Complete History Of Halopedia]
*[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halopedia:About About Halopedia]
*[[Talk:The Forerunner|Discussion and Speculation about: What are and where are the Forerunners?]]
*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1657825-2,00.html TIME Magazine article on Halo]
 
==References==
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[[Category:Project Pages]]

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MyHalopedia.png

URL:

halopedia.org

Type of site:

Fan site / Wiki

Registration:

Optional

Domain host:

Private host

Created by:

AgentSeethroo

Launched:

November 4, 2004

Status:

Active with 16,213 articles.

 

"Halopedia can tell you nearly anything you may need to know about Halo. Halopedia is also a wiki, which means it's constantly expanding. It knows everything about the Halo games, books, upcoming movie, and other appearances, and with your help, it can grow even larger. But how can one trust a wiki? Surely some crazy could come in and troll the entire place up. Well... they could, but they wouldn't get too far. Halopedia is guarded by rabid watchdog-like fans who are constantly watching the Recent Changes page to check for the slightest error, either grammar or factual. Okay, that's a bit exaggerated. The real deal is that Halopedia is under almost constant watch by someone who can set everything right. With 3 very responsible sysops and a mob of other users, Halopedia is in safe hands. Be sure to check out Halopedia and even you could find something to contribute."
— Dragonclaws's description of the wiki. (2006)[1]

Halopedia is a wiki about the Halo fictional universe. It covers the Halo video games, from Halo: Combat Evolved to Halo Infinite; tie-in media and merchandise including published literature, films and action figures; as well as notable people associated with the franchise. Much like Wookieepedia, Halopedia is a fan-driven encyclopedia and is not an official party of the Halo franchise; thus, it is not itself a primary source of Halo information but rather an aggregate of content based on official media.

Halopedia runs on MediaWiki and is privately hosted. The site is also available in several other languages, including French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Korean and Russian. However, the English one is the most up-to-date version, with the others having very little content.

History and description[edit]

Main article: History of Halopedia

Halo Wiki, as it was known back then, was founded by AgentSeethroo, with the help of Steve who hosted the site, and launched on November 4, 2004. Initially created to supplement his clan, the site shifted its focus to cover the Halo universe in later periods. After the creation of halowiki.net, the site was renamed to "Halopedia" and moved its domain to www.halopedia.org. Halopedia and halowiki.net remained sister projects with very different goals; Halopedia concerned itself with the canon of the Halo universe, while halowiki.net was essentially a "multiplayer repository"; halowiki.net has since gone inactive. Since the renaming, Halopedia has actively documented the developments of the Halo franchise and the fictional universe, along with gameplay information and help.[1]

In 2006, the original host was unable to financially support the wiki, prompting Halopedia to merge with Wikia's Halo Wiki site.[2] From 2007 to 2010, Halopedia was one of Wikia's most active and popular wikis following the release of Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. In 2009, the wiki was awarded as the "Best Resource Website of 2009" by Hawty McBloggy, later a member of 343 Industries.[3]

Following a mandatory skin change and stricter Terms of Use in mid-2010 by Wikia, Halopedia moved back to an independent domain, hosted by the previous host.[4][5]

Halopedia has come to be regarded as accurate and reliable among the Halo fanbase and media alike,[6] and has been used as a source for several works of published literature.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Wikia's Halo Nation left Fandom, and merged with Halopedia in 2019.

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b Bungie.net: Halopedia Knows
  2. ^ Halopedia, Migration History
  3. ^ HawtyMcBloggy: 2009 Best of Halo Awards Winners [defunct] (backup)
  4. ^ Halopedia: Domain overhaul - And what do you think?/Outcome
  5. ^ Halopedia: Moving In
  6. ^ Bungie.net: Breaking In - Rob Adams
  7. ^ Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time
  8. ^ Amazon, The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe
  9. ^ Amazon: Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0: Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth
  10. ^ Amazon: Halo and Philosophy
  11. ^ Silence Without: I did mention the...
  12. ^ Halopedia: Halopedia in the media

See also[edit]

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