Community:Zelda Wiki

 is an independent English-language wiki dedicated to. The site is a founding member of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA) and the oldest active wiki for the Zelda franchise.

The wiki was founded by members of Zelda Universe. In 2017, Zelda Universe's parent company Linkorporated sold to, whose media assets were in turn acquired by  the following year. On October 19, 2022, forked away from Fandom to reclaim independence. The site's current domain is owned by members of the staff. The wiki's servers are operated by the owner of, a longtime affiliate and fellow NIWA member.

2005–2006: Foundation
The original Zelda Universe Wiki (ZUW) was created as an "act of boredom" in April 2005. Yami and Jess suggested the idea in the ZU chat room, where it was created and assembled. The ZUW was quickly filled with information, not only about The Legend of Zelda series, but also about Zelda Universe and its community. It was also to be used to host Zelda Universe's Zelda Encyclopedia. On an older version of ZU, the encyclopedia existed as a list of words from The Legend of Zelda series with short definitions; with the help of the ZUW, the Zelda Encyclopedia expanded and became much more detailed as well. The Zelda Universe Wiki served Zelda Universe for over a year, before it crashed during a server move.

In September 2006 the Wiki was moved to another new server, with a new philosophy and under a new name. The name initially chosen was The Zelda Effect (TZE), however this was quickly changed to Zelda Wiki.org (ZW.org). The site was run at the time by the wiki's admin team, as well as the masterminds, a group of webmasters from each accepted fansite.

2006–2013: Masterminds
From 2006 to 2013, was collectively governed by a federation of The Legend of Zelda fansites named Masterminds. Key staff members of Mastermind sites were granted bureaucrat privileges on the wiki.

On July 8, 2007, staff began  edits to maintain its quality standards.

In November 2008, published The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am. In its front matter, the book referred readers to.

On August 14 2009, received LegendOfZelda.com's Pinnacle award, given to the overall best site for the last year. LegendOfZelda.com had become one of 's Masterminds earlier that year.

On February 14, 2010, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance launched with Zelda Wiki, Bulbapedia, and Super Mario Wiki as its founding members. The three wikis shared "a mutual disdain for the recent corporatization of wikis" and stated its mission "to aid independent Nintendo wikis, to nurture them and help them grow so that never will they have to sell out."

In the March 2010 issue of the British Official Nintendo Magazine, a feature article on the Zelda Timeline referred readers to for further reading, alongside Masterminds Zelda Universe and Zelda Informer. The mention re-appeared in the April 2010 issue of the virtually identical Australia and New Zealand publication of the magazine.

On January 17, 2011, members of the wiki voted on a name change where it was decided that Zelda Wiki.org (ZW.org) would simply become Zelda Wiki (ZW).

2014-2016: Post-Masterminds
On April 24, 2015, to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary, the site's logo was changed and the Main Page was redesigned. The logo was changed to a [[Media:Site-logo.png|flat monochrome (white) circled Triforce]].

2017–2022: Gamepedia and Fandom Ownership
On March 8, 2017, was migrated to the Gamepedia wiki farm as a result of 's purchase of the site from Linkorporated.

On December 12, 2018, Gamepedia was acquired by Fandom and went under common ownership with Zeldapedia. The latter merged with on June 15, 2019; two years later the wiki migrated its domain once again to zelda.fandom.com; that same year also saw the wiki switch to FandomDesktop as a skin.

2022–Present: Independence
On October 19, 2022, officially announced its departure from Fandom. Its staff created a fork to be hosted by the owner of StrategyWiki. The move was covered by several gaming news sites including Kotaku and GamesRadar+.

The fork was briefly named Zeldapedia until January 17, 2023, when the site went back to using the name Zelda Wiki.

Fansites
retains a partnership with its founder Zelda Universe. 's game articles refer readers to Zelda Universe guides. A link to is featured prominently in Zelda Universe's global site navigation. Zelda Universe staff members are largely responsible for the current design of the wiki's Main Page.

Wikis
is a member of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA), a network which it co-founded with Bulbapedia and Super Mario Wiki. As such, has a  affiliation with all NIWA member wikis.

has a special affiliation with fellow NIWA member StrategyWiki. The two wikis link to each other in their articles pertaining to The Legend of Zelda games, bosses, and dungeons. Since October 22, is hosted on ABXY, StrategyWiki's own hosting platform.

has agreements with the following wikis:

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