Community:Nookipedia

Nookipedia (formerly known as Animal Crossing Wiki) is an online wiki encyclopedia for the, founded on October 23, 2010 and hosted by Jake. Featuring articles, Nookipedia is the largest independent Animal Crossing wiki on the internet. It is a member of the, a collaboration of independent Nintendo-oriented wikis.

Animal Crossing Wiki (2010)
On July 12, 2010, Animal Crossing Wiki was set up. It was originally run by Leem01, a moderator on the (now defunct) animalcrossingforums.net. Although the wiki received an affiliation with NIWA and obtained a few edits, a database problem caused the wiki to shut down without any backups created.

Nookipedia (2010–present)
Nookipedia owes its history to Animal Crossing City, originally hosted on Wikia (now Fandom). Founded in August 2005, Animal Crossing City was created on Fandom by user Aeryka. Shortly after its fifth anniversary, Wikia opted for a mandatory implementation of a new skin, 'Oasis'. The change was controversial and caused many wikis to move off the site, including Animal Crossing City.

Around the same time, Animal Crossing Wiki (animalcrossingwiki.me) was relaunched by Jake on October 23, 2010 and separate from the original wiki created in July 2010. Their intention was to gradually obtain an membership in the. By November, staff members from Animal Crossing City, who had previously tried ShoutWiki for their move away from Wikia, opted to ask Jake to help merge their wiki databases from Animal Crossing City with that of Animal Crossing Wiki. Later that year, the merger with Animal Crossing City completed, and on November 19, 2010, Animal Crossing Wiki joined NIWA.

At the end of 2010, the staff agreed on a name change to Nookipedia (from Animal Crossing Wiki), to give the wiki a distinct and memorable name, as well as a new site skin. This update was completed in time for new year and launched to the public on January 1, 2011.

From 2010 to 2016, off-wiki discussion was held mostly on The Bulletin Board forum, which was created alongside the wiki. A Nookipedia Discord server was created in late 2016, and following its launch, most off-wiki discussion moved from there from the forums. The Bulletin Board was shut down on May 31, 2018.

The wiki has since overseen the rise in popularity of the from the likes of  and, the latter of which resulted in Nookipedia taking on a prominent role in the. In mid-2020, the wiki initiated the implementation of the MediaWiki extension Cargo, allowing for databases of various aspects of the, such as items and villagers. On October 7, 2020, Nookipedia created ACNH.Directory, an open-source directory of fan sites, communities, and resources for.

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 * For documentation of Nookipedia's current logos, see Nookipedia:Assets.