Community:Zelda Wiki (Fandom)

Zelda Wiki is Fandom's current wiki for. Initially an independent site, the wiki migrated to the Fandom platform following a series of mergers and acquisitions. In 2022, the community forked Zelda Wiki to regain independence from Fandom.

History
Zelda Wiki started as an independent site which competed with Zeldapedia, Fandom's Zelda wiki at the time. The site was founded in 2005 by members of Zelda Universe. In 2017, Zelda Universe sold the wiki to and was moved to the company's wiki farm, Gamepedia. Gamepedia was in turn acquired by Fandom the following year. In 2019, Zeldapedia merged with its former competitor Zelda Wiki and was set to read-only mode. In 2021, Zelda Wiki was moved to zelda.fandom.com and Zeldapedia to zelda-archive.fandom.com.

On October 19, 2022, the wiki's community declared its independence from Fandom and forked the site, forming an independent wiki with the same name. The staff members who moved to the independent requested that a fork announcement be placed on the Fandom Zelda Wiki's Main Page for two weeks, as per Fandom's forking policy. The announcement was displayed for one week without the requested CSS that would have made it more noticeable. The staff members who left for the independent site were not given the wiki's honorary "Retired Staff" title on the Fandom site. On the independent site, the title was nonetheless granted to the staff members who did not join the fork.

October 20, 2022, the day after the fork, Fandom's Zelda Wiki began recruiting new staff members.

The content of the two wikis is gradually diverging. The release of is expected to have accelerated the divergence.