Pokémon Wiki (Fandom)

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The Pokémon Wiki
The Pokémon Wiki's logo.
Language	English
Status	Active
Run	2005 - Present
Date opened	January 27, 2005
Creator	Jellochuu
Current owner	{{{owner}}}
Number of Articles	4,250+
Mascot	none
Website	Main page

The Pokémon Wiki, formerly known as The Pokémon Encyclopedia is a Pokémon-centered wiki hosted on the for-profit website Wikia.

History

The Pokémon Wiki was created during January 2005. It has since then gone through three different logo changes, a name change, and currently has over 4,250 articles about the Pokémon Franchise.

Conflicts

Due to misunderstandings in licensing, users from The Pokémon Wiki have been known to plagiarize Bulbapedia's content, and subsequently refused to provide attribution to the original writers of some articles in December 2008 and March 2009. This has largely been resolved.

History

2005

In 2005, the wiki was created by Jellochuu. Sooner enough to the start of the wiki, unregistered users started to vandalize the Main Page and Jellochuu temporarily protected it. User142, one of the old sysops got promoted this year on June 29, 2005. After a while, Jellochuu started to become not very active on the Pokémon Wiki.

2006

On July 29, 2006, a major vandal called Jimbo Waeles vandalized 99% of the pages on Pokémon Wiki by implenting his own template called Template:Mine. He impersonated Jimbo Wales, the creator of Wikipedia. Two days later, Mindspillage and some unregistered contributors reverted his edits and Mindspillage blocked him infinitely. On April 12-13 2006, a vandal called The Black Emperor vandalized many Pokémon Wiki pages by saying stuff like "who cares?". On April 17, 2006, Jellochuu and some unregistered contributors reverted his edits and Jellochuu blocked him/her infinitely. Jellochuu also left Pokémon Wiki this year and didn't make major edits or reverts again. Acfan1983 also got promoted this year on June 24, 2006 by Jellochuu. On July 9, 2006, sysop Ciencia Al Poder made his first edit.

2007

After Jellochuu, User142, and Acfan1983 left, the wiki was becoming sustained with inactivity with mainly unregistered contributors contributing. No major events really happened this year.

Administrators

The Pokémon Wiki has four administrators.

• Bullet Francisco
• Ciencia Al Poder
• Crimsonnavy
• Hstar

Bureaucrats

• Crimsonnavy
• Jellochuu

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