Halopedia:History

Beginnings: 2004-2005

Halopedia began in late 2004 as a project of GamerFocus.net user AgentSeethroo. Under the domain of www.halopedia.org, it quickly attracted a small following of users. Develpoed as only one of a number of wikis, (Others including a Cheats wiki and a Super Mario wiki), Halopedia was the only one that became popular enough to keep. AgentSeethroo chose to make is a stand-alone site. To help the growing wiki, AgentSeethroo appointed several other Administrators to assist in the maitenance of the site, namely Porplemontage and Dragonclaws. Throughout 2005 the site continued to grow as the user list expanded to a little over 150.

Notability: Early 2006

The site began to be recognized in early 2006; it was mentioned in a section of the Tahlequah Daily Press newspaper of Tahlequah, Oklahoma on February 20, 2006 (article).

Perhaps Halopedia's best recognition to date was on the front page of the Bungie.net website on February 14, 2006. A fan submitted article about Halopedia appeared on the front page of the website, prompting Halopedia's membership to increase by 300 percent over several weeks.

Still, notability is not something Halopeida has acquired in a major sense; Halopedia's article was deleted from wikipedia because the site is not considered large or notable enough to pass the site's notability standard. The Halopedia page on wikipedia now simply redirects to the Halo game series page. Some day, if Halopedia becomes notable enough, it may be allowed its own article in Wikipedia (SeeWikipedia:Halopedia)

For a listing of Halopedia in the media, see Halopedia Media Mentions.

Server Problems: Mid 2006

Halopedia's growing community began to present a major problem for its creators; the site's growing size was producing a bill in excess of 150$ a month for server usage. Throughout May, June, and July, 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 panstaking process of having to copy every article from the original Halopedia, the site ultimantely benefitted with several new active users. You can actually read what lead to the migration here.

Current

Currently, Halopedia continues to grow in anticipation of many new projects planned for the Halo universe, such as the Halo Movie, Halo 3, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. Halopedia has become a central place for speculation and discussion of the upcoming productions.

Halopedia currently works closely with several related sites, such as Halowiki.net, a larger wiki project devoted to the multiplayer aspects of the Halo games.

Halopedia has come to be regarded as relatively accurate and reliable among Halo fans, a search of "Halopedia" will produce over six hundred results on Google, many of which are users on various forums and websites citing Halopedia articles as sources of information.