Wookieepedia was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Fandom by Chad Barbry in 2005.[2] On February 6, 2005, Greenwood and Barbry discussed details on a Wikipedia talk page which led to the wiki's creation. Barbry also conceived the name Wookieepedia. On March 4, 2005, Wookieepedia was launched at Fandom (then called Wikicities).
In 2015, it drew 3.7million monthly visitors.[3] On November 28, 2005, Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Site of the Week."[4]
As of April 2026[update], the English-language version of the wiki contains over 217,000 articles,[5] By early December 2014, it was the seventh-largest[6] Fandom in terms of article count, ahead of other wikis such as Memory Alpha and WoWWiki. Fandom hosts Star Wars wikis in many other languages, and Wookieepedia also coordinates its efforts with the German language wiki called Jedipedia.net and the Polish language Biblioteka Ossus.[citation needed]
After the Star Wars Expanded Universe was rebranded as Star Wars Legends and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014, Wookieepedia implemented separate "Canon" and "Legends" tabs for subjects that appeared both before and after the continuity reboot. The "Legends" tab only includes information from sources released prior to the 2014 reboot, while the "Canon" tab contains information from works published from 2015 onwards, including the movies released under The Walt Disney Company. Wookieepedia admin Brandon Rhea explained, "that was something that tracked exactly with what Lucasfilm was doing anyway. They called it 'Legends' for a reason. They said these stories are still around and could still be pulled from. So Wookieepedia kind of adopted the same approach."[7] An exception to this rule was made for the content of the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG, which has seen several expansions after 2015 but is still considered "Legends".[8] Both tabs include information from Episodes I-VI and Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series.
In late March 2021, Wookieepedia held a vote to ban deadnaming, which triggered debate within Star Wars fan circles around the naming of the non-binary artist Robin Pronovost's article on the site. In response to the situation, Fandom, the wiki hosting service which hosts Wookieepedia, updated its terms of use policy to prohibit deadnaming across its websites.[9][10][11][12] On behalf of the Wookieepedia administration team, Fandom also permanently banned Darth Culator and Toprawa and Raltiir, two administrators respectively, citing a pattern of "bullying and intimidation". In addition, Wookieepedia's administration apologized to Pronovost for the duress that they endured as a result of the website's deadnaming vote.[13]
Manual of style
As part of its in-universe perspective, the manual of style of Wookieepedia states that "To maintain consistency, the prose of in-universe articles should be in past tense, per the opening titles of the Star Wars saga", specifically the opening title "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away". As such, Wookieepedia articles refer to their subjects in the past tense, except for "headings, image captions, and quote attributions", to which the present tense is allowed.[14]
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