Wookieepedia pun showing the incomplete second Death Star as opposed to Wikipedia's incomplete "jigsaw logo". It is a fan-built version of the Holocron, a database maintained by Lucasfilm to track everything in the "Star Wars" universe and ensure continuity within it. Wookieepedia was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Wikia by Chad Barbry. Barbry also conceived the name "Wookiepedia", which was later respelled with an extra 'e'. On March 4, 2005, Wookieepedia was launched at Wikia. Wookieepedia was the most-visited wiki hosted by Wikia by April 2005. In 2015, it drew 3.7 million monthly visitors.
The Escapist (website) hundreds of approving emails arriving from all across the world, many of which were reprinted in the following installment of "Random Encounter". Numerous websites linked to the column, including the Steve Jackson Games' Daily Illuminator and Harry Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron. Forums and newsgroups devoted to role-playing games, Christianity, Wicca, and Paganism also helped to spread the word, and at least one half-hearted attempt at plagiarism appeared on the internet for a short while. The column is still the most-viewed page of the entire website, several years since its first appearance in 2002. The Escapist is Bill Walton's RPG