Community:Animal Crossing Wiki
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| "The Animal Crossing Wiki" | ||||||
 The current website logo .png) The website as of August 3, 2021. | ||||||
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| Active; Split | ||||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Dates of operation | 2005 - present | |||||
| Date opened | August 2005 | |||||
| Date closed | Split in October 2010 | |||||
| Creator | Aeryka | |||||
| No. of articles | 4,802 (as of December 25, 2022) | |||||
| Web address | animalcrossing.fandom.com | |||||
Animal Crossing Wiki (formerly known as Animal Crossing City) is an online wiki encyclopedia for the Animal Crossing series, founded in August 2005 by Aeryka and hosted by the wiki-farm Fandom (formerly Wikia), with 4,802 articles as of December 25, 2022. In November 2010, the wiki forked and merged its content with Nookipedia, an independent Animal Crossing wiki that had recently been formed.
History[edit]
As Animal Crossing City[edit]
Animal Crossing City was founded in August 2005 by a user named Aeryka. While she served as the wiki's main creator, her contributions to the wiki were minimal despite the community around the wiki beginning to grow. The wiki experienced immense growth by 2009 thanks to Animal Crossing: City Folk.[1]
In 2010, Fandom began a forceful implementation of their new skin "Oasis", which upset various wikis on the website's redesign, coupled with tensions between the staff of Fandom and the members of the wiki. Many opted to fork the content away from Fandom into newly independent wikis. In November 2010, Animal Crossing City merged its content with the newly formed independent Animal Crossing Wiki (later named Nookipedia), and many editors and staff members moved alongside the merge.
As Animal Crossing Wiki[edit]
Fandom continued to manage the wiki after most of the staff had quit, including its founder Aeryka.[1] The remaining staff continued work to provide a source for all Animal Crossing content. By 2013, in anticipation of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the wiki changed its name to "Animal Crossing Wiki", which had formerly been abandoned on Nookipedia. At the same time, some users that had left to Nookipedia returned to Animal Crossing Wiki, including Dragonfree97, a former director of Nookipedia who defected back to Animal Crossing Wiki.
In February 2021, the wiki underwent a severe trolling attack that led to the shutdown of the entire wiki for a couple of days. Editors were still permitted to use the forums during this time.[2]
Gallery[edit]
Animal Crossing City's first logo, a modified version of the Wild World logo
Animal Crossing City's second logo, prior to its renaming to Animal Crossing Wiki
Animal Crossing Wiki's first logo under its current name
A page from Animal Crossing City using the custom Monaco skin before the mandated Oasis skin
The main page as of November 21, 2010 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
The main page as of August 13, 2012 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
The main page as of June 18, 2013 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
The main page as of The website as of March 16, 2021 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
The main page as of The website as of July 24, 2021 featuring Fandom's FandomDesktop skin
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dragonfree97 (January 1, 2013). "Forum:Aeryka controversy". Animal Crossing Wiki (FANDOM.com). Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
- ↑ Jacube (February 2, 2021). "ACW Revolution Person: A Complete List of Alternate Accounts". Animal Crossing Wiki (FANDOM.com). Retrieved March 16, 2021.
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