Wookieepedia
online Star Wars encyclopedia on Fandom
Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki, or simply Wookieepedia, is an online encyclopedia about the Star Wars universe, including information on all films, books, television series, the Star Wars Expanded Universe, any upcoming Star Wars material, and more. It is a wiki, with some articles reaching up to 60,000 words, and is written almost entirely from an in-universe perspective. The name is a portmanteau of Wookiee and encyclopedia, a pun on the name of Wikipedia, and its logo portrays the incomplete second Death Star, as a visual pun on Wikipedia's incomplete "jigsaw logo".
History
Wookieepedia was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Wikicities by Chad Barbry in 2005. 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 Wikicities (now Fandom).
In 2015, it drew 3.7 million monthly visitors. On November 28, 2005, Wookieepedia was selected as the Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Site of the Week."
As of April 2026, the English-language version of the wiki contains over 220,000 articles, By early December 2014, it was the seventh-largest Wikia site in terms of article count, ahead of other wikis such as Memory Alpha and WoWWiki. Fandom now 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.
The public source identifies “Wookieepedia” as online Star Wars encyclopedia on Fandom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wookieepedia, online and Star.
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