Community:Bulbapedia

"Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia"

- Bulbapedia

Bulbapedia is the largest English language wiki covering the Nintendo Pokémon series. Established on Valentine's Day of 2005, the site was named for the first Pokémon in the Pokédex,. Bulbapedia is a founding member of the larger Encyclopaediae Pokémonis, which interconnects Pokémon wikis of currently eight different languages. Bulbapedia is the largest sector of the website Bulbagarden, which also features wikis dedicated to Pokémon news in Bulbanews, and the media repository Bulbagarden Archives to link images for use on Bulbapedia, Bulbanews, and Bulbagarden RPGwiki.

When asked by Zelda Wiki to become an affiliate, it was instead suggested that rather than becoming simple affiliates, the two would seek out a partnership with Super Mario Wiki to build an alliance of independent wikis chronicling Nintendo series, being that their subjects, the Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokémon series are the largest three Nintendo series. The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance network was founded and launched from these talks on Bulbapedia's 5th anniversary, February 14th, 2010.

Staff
While Archaic, the owner of Bulbagarden, is not directly involved with the wiki, he retains the highest authority on the wiki, able to make decisions for the good of the site overall. Much of the daily management falls to Bulbapedia's Editorial Board, who set policy, issue statements, choose staffmembers, and appoint temporary powers to members to ensure continued function.

Relations with other wikis

 * Pokémon- Bulbapedia currently has seven wiki affiliates specifically for the Pokémon series in other languages. To date these are the German PokéWiki, Japanese Pokémon Wiki, Polish Wikinezka, French Poképédia, Portuguese LANDpedia, Spanish Pokéteca, and Italian Pokémon Central Wiki. Each operates independently, while linking to other members of the alliance, known as Encyclopaediae Pokémonis.
 * Nintendo- Along with Zelda Wiki and Super Mario Wiki, Bulbapedia was one of the founding members of the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. Working closely together, the NIWA wikis aim to encourage wikis to seek independent hosting and expand as a community.
 * Wikia- Like Zelda Wiki, Bulbapedia has had strained relationships with its Wikia counterpart and found the Wikia staff entirely ignorant to the claims presented to them. Bulbapedia is also glad to have rejected an offer from the Wikia Network to join their ranks.

Milestones
From the setup on December 21st, 2004, Bulbapedia has passed many milestones and humbly kept track of their growth. Bulbapedia has...
 * For the full stats list see here.
 * ...had its 1,500,000th edit on August 8, 2011!
 * ...created its 20,000th article on August 6, 2011!
 * ...celebrated the sixth anniversary of public editing on February 14, 2011!
 * ...reached its 150,000,000th page view on April 13, 2008!
 * ...attained 16 Featured Articles