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'''Zeldapedia''' was a {{Wp|wiki}} hosted on {{Wp|Fandom (website)|Fandom}} (formerly known as Wikia) that was focused on {{TLoZ|Series}}. The wiki was created on June 15, 2005 by [[w:c:zelda-archive:User:Champion_Kai|Champion Kai]]. In June 2007, a merger between Zeldapedia and Zelda Wiki was proposed by Wikia co-founder [[w:c:community:User:Angela|Angela Beesley]].<ref>{{Cite Person|quote=...Angela was quite interested in, well, seeing Zelda Wiki perhaps move to Wikia. But not just that - she was also interested in merging ZW.org with Wikia's already existing Zelda Wiki...|name= [[User:GoldenChaos|Jason Rappaport]]|url= [Zelda Wiki:News|title=2007]}}</ref> The proposal was rejected by staff members on both sites.<ref>{{Cite Person|quote=Our wiki and theirs, although compatible, would take a TON of work to merge together. On top of that, the promised increase in traffic did not justify this insane amount of work, nor did it justify actually having to move the wiki to Wikia, where we'd all lose control over the site, as well as ownership of the site. Wikia refers to their wikis AS "their" wikis - and that doesn't work well with what ZW.org really stands for, and that's not being TRULY owned by anybody. But, obviously, as the technical owner of the domain I had to make some sort of decision, and in the end, with the input of the other owners and some friends, it was unanimously decided not to move to Wikia or to merge with Wikia's Zelda Wiki.|name= [[User:GoldenChaos|Jason Rappaport]]|url= [Zelda Wiki:News|title=2007]}}</ref>

In June 2019, after Curse Media (and, by extension, Gamepedia and Zelda Wiki itself) was purchased by Fandom, another merger between Zeldapedia and Zelda Wiki was proposed. Unlike the previous proposal, both staff and the communities on both sites agreed to merge onto Zelda Wiki, with the majority of the community agreeing to the merger.<ref>{{Cite Web|url=https://zelda-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Announcement_to_all_Editors?t=20190612103623|title=Announcement to all Editors|site=Zeldapedia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Web|url=https://zelda-archive.fandom.com/f/p/3150258947228040639|title=Official Crossover Voting Thread|site=Zeldapedia}}</ref> On June 15, 2019, coincidentally marking Zeldapedia's fourteenth anniversary, the English wiki was shut down and its community merged with Zelda Wiki and [[Community:Zelda Universe|Zelda Universe]].<ref>{{Cite Web|url=https://zelda-archive.fandom.com/f/p/3150258947228040774|title=This wiki has been archived and moved to Gamepedia|site=Zeldapedia}}</ref> The other language counterparts currently remain active.

Fandom as a whole is run by its own staff, and each individual wiki has their own governing body. Zeldapedia's staff prior to the merger in 2019 was as follows:

*[[w:c:zelda-archive:User:Ceiling Master|Ceiling Master]]

*[[w:c:zelda-archive:User:Green Rupee|Green Rupee]]

*[[w:c:zelda-archive:User:Oni Dark Link|Oni Dark Link]]

Zeldapedia had a number of spin-off wikis, including the [[w:c:zeldafanon:Zelda Fanon Wiki|Zelda Fanon Wiki]].

* [[:fr:Accueil|French Wiki]]

* [[:de:Zeldapedia|German Wiki]]

* [[:it:Pagina_principale|Italian Wiki]]

* [[:es:Portada|Spanish Wiki]]

* [[:zh:Zelda 维基|Simplified Chinese Wiki]]

* [[:zh-tw:薩爾達傳說 Wiki|Traditional Chinese Wiki]]

File:Zeldapedia Wikia Skin.png|Zeldapedia's home page as it appears on October 24, 2012 in the default Wikia skin

File:Zeldapedia Monobook Skin.png|Zeldapedia's home page as it appears on October 24, 2012 in the optional Monobook skin