Jedipedia

Jedipedia is a German language Star Wars online wiki-encyclopedia based on MediaWiki. Within one year, it has become the second largest Star Wars wiki project after Wookieepedia.

On October 16th, 2006 Jedipedia celebrated its 1st anniversary. On May 23rd, 2007 - right before the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars - the 4000th article was published. About a month later, on June 24th, the 4500th article was published. After reaching 5,000 articles on July 19th, 2007, Jedipedia celebrated its 2nd anniversary on October 16th by reaching 6,000 articles on the same day. The 3rd anniversary on October 16th, 2008, marked another milestone: the 10,000th article was written.

History
Jedipedia was founded on October 16th, 2005 by Premia, the forum admin of Star Wars Chroniken, a German Star Wars fan portal. The project was launched with 5 initial articles (Naboo, George Lucas, Humans, Wookiees, Tusken) under the name "Deutsches Star Wars Wiki" ("German Star Wars Wiki"). It was first hosted by the starwars-chroniken server and shared traffic and webspace with the portal.

Premia suggested a more representative name (for example Wookieepedia.de, Naboopedia, Banthapedia), but "Jedipedia" made it.

On May 26th, 2006, Jedipedia became an official partner of Wookieepedia. This partnership includes the exchange of inter-language links and cross-promotion.

In June 2006, Jedipedia celebrated the 500th article. Since then, the community grew rapidly and a small but diligent base of authors provided for a steady increase of articles. On account of this, Jedipedia was able to celebrate the 1000th article in August 2006. On October 11th, just five days before the 1st anniversary, the 1500th article was published.

The increasing traffic and rapid growth forced Jedipedia to leave the starwars-chroniken.de server and move to a new server. In addition, it became necessary to include Google ads into Jedipedia to bear the costs caused by the larger webspace and increasing amount of traffic.

In July and September 2006 the initial team appointed two more admins in order to deal with the increasing work. Massive vandalism attacks, especially "on wheels" vandalism lead to a more rigid membership politics, allowing only approved members to move articles.

On December 1st, 2006, the main page and Community portal underwent a major redesign with several new features, introducing a header, image buttons for all six episodes, a "Quote of the Week" and an "Article of the Month" (starting with Jango Fett, as chosen by the community).

In 2007, the Jedipedia grew rapidly. The 800th user joined the project in August. On September 4th, Jedipedia registered the 10,000,000th unique hit. The 5,000th article was celebrated on July 19th. The 2nd anniversary was celebrated on October 16th together with the 6,000th article. Until the next software-upgrade one week later the mainpage header was changed from Anakin Skywalker into a partying Max Rebo Band. The Band celebrated its revival with the 10,000th written article in the time around the 3rd anniversary on October 16th, 2008.