Fallout Wiki

Fallout Wiki, also known as Nukapedia, is a wiki about the Fallout fictional universe. It covers all of the Fallout video games, as well as all Fallout related content. The Fallout Wiki runs on MediaWiki and is currently part of the Fandom network.[1] The site is also available in several other languages, including Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish and Ukrainian.

Fallout Wiki
Logo as of 2022
Type of site
Fan site/Wiki
OwnerFandom, Inc.
Created byPaweł "Ausir" Dembowski
URL (Nukapedia)
fallout-archive.fandom.com (The Vault, closed)
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched7 February 2005
Current statusActive

Originally named simply The Vault, the wiki was split into two independently-run sites: The Vault and Nukapedia, in 2011. The two wikis decided to merge in December 2019, "completing" the process of importing The Vault content to Nukapedia in January 2022.

History

The Vault was founded by Paweł Dembowski[2] and launched on February 7, 2005, initially hosted by Fallout fansite Duck and Cover,[2] as a general source of information about the Fallout universe, initially focusing mostly on information about the Fallout world, as depicted in Fallout and Fallout 2. Its purpose was to continue the work started by Fallout 2 developer Chris Avellone in his Fallout Bible, which was meant to be a reference guide to the Fallout fictional universe, but was abandoned after Avellone left Black Isle Studios.[3] Since the launch, the wiki has expanded to include the entire Fallout series, both in terms of the fictional universe and in terms of gameplay information and help.

In 2007, because the original host could no longer take the wiki constantly being targeted for various exploits by spammers as well as other attackers, the Vault moved to Wikia,[4] and became one of Wikia's most popular wikis after the release of Fallout 3 by Bethesda Softworks in October 2008.[2] It has broken previous popularity records for gaming wikis on the weekend after the release of Fallout: New Vegas in October 2010, with daily page views topping at 8.8 million[3] (the previous record, 5 million, belonged to WoWWiki).[5] Within the first week of the game's release, the site had 2.5 million unique visitors.[6] In an interview with Eurogamer, the wiki's founder has stated that it has even been used as a source by developers of recent Fallout games, citing one example of lore in Fallout 3 being influenced by The Vault.[2] The Vault has also released some previously unknown information on canceled Fallout projects like the Fallout Extreme 2000 console game[7] and the 1998 cancelled Fallout film project,[8] as well as using its YouTube channel and other social media to make available audio and video Fallout Media. Nukapedia has also worked to make available several Fallout music tracks and cutscenes on its YouTube Channel.

Split

In October 2011, The Vault was split by its founder and many of the administrators moved to FalloutWiki.com, and later fallout.gamepedia.com, both hosted by Curse.[4] The Wikia version remained, now under the name "Nukapedia". Dembowski was globally banned from Wikia for promoting this new wiki on Curse.[9]

Merge

In 2019, after the Curse network of wikis was purchased by Wikia and both The Vault and Nukapedia became hosted by the same company, administrators of both wikis announced a project to merge the two previously split sites into one again, under the name "Fallout Wiki" (subtitled "Nukapedia + The Vault").[10] In January 2022, it was announced that the merge was complete and the site will continue forward under Nukapedia branding.[11] The original version of The Vault prior to the merge announcement remains archived.[12]

  • Logo during the merge, 2019-2022
    Logo during the merge, 2019-2022

See also

References
  1. Rios, Nate (November 19, 2011). "Check Out The Vault, Your #1 Fallout Series Resource". Curse. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  2. Teti, John (September 9, 2010). "What the FAQ?". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on September 14, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  3. Ramadge, Andrew (December 22, 2010). "Dear Fallout fans, meet the man behind The Vault". News.com.au. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  4. "The Vault: History". The Vault. Archived from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
  5. Good, Owen (November 6, 2010). "Fallout Wiki Editors Have A Lot Of Time On Their Hands — And Use It". Kotaku. Archived from the original on November 10, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  6. Tolentino, Josh (November 3, 2010). "Fans spend 58 years updating the Fallout New Vegas wiki". Destructoid. Archived from the original on November 29, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  7. Sliwinski, Alexander (January 27, 2010). "'Fallout Extreme' revealed as another nuked project". Joystiq. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  8. Kollar, Phil (March 19, 2010). "This Fallout Movie Almost Got Made". Game Informer. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  9. "Fallout Wiki Founder Banned From Wikia for Promoting Curse". Kotaku. 15 January 2012. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  10. Jspoelstra (August 29, 2019). "Discussion merge Nukapedia / The Vault". Fallout Wiki. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  11. Nukapedia main page, archived November 10, 2021
  12. The Vault main page, archived November 1, 2021
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