Wookieepedia Wookieepedia Wookieepedia: The "Star Wars" Wiki is an online encyclopedia for information on the "Star Wars" fictional universe—including information on all the films, as well as "Clone Wars", "" and its , "Rebels", the "Star Wars" expanded universe, and any upcoming "Star Wars" material. It is a specialized wiki created to be an extensive encyclopedia of the "Star Wars" universe with some articles reaching up to 60,000 words, and is written almost entirely from an in-universe perspective. The name Wookieepedia is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of "Wikipedia". The logo, too, is a visual
History of Wikipedia even Bomis's Nupedia, which was Wikipedia's direct predecessor. In 2001, the license for Nupedia was changed to GFDL, and Wales and Sanger launched Wikipedia using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered in 1995 by Ward Cunningham. Initially, Wikipedia was intended to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts, by providing additional draft articles and ideas for it. In practice, Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of other online reference projects. According to Alexa Internet, as of 16 September 2018, Wikipedia is the world's fifth-most-popular website