Editing Community:Animal Crossing Wiki

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{{Infobox Website
|name = Animal Crossing Wiki
|slogan = The Animal Crossing Wiki
|image = [[File:ACW Fandom Logo.png|200px]]
|caption = The current website logo
|image2 = [[File:FANDOM Animal Crossing Wiki (FandomDesktop).png|300px]]
|caption2 = The website as of August 3, 2021.
|language = English
|status = Active; Split
|dates = 2005 - present
|created = August 2005
|closed = Split in October 2010
|creator = [https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/User:Aeryka Aeryka]
|noarticles = 4,802<small>(as of December 25, 2022)</small>
|weblink = [https://animalcrossing.fandom.com animalcrossing.fandom.com]
}}
'''Animal Crossing Wiki''' (formerly known as '''Animal Crossing City''') is an online wiki encyclopedia for the {{SER}}, founded in August 2005 by Aeryka and hosted by the wiki-farm Fandom (formerly Wikia), with 4,802 articles as of December 25, 2022. {{Comm|Nookipedia}}, an independent ''Animal Crossing'' wiki, was created out of a split from the Animal Crossing Wiki in late 2010.

==History==
===As Animal Crossing City===
Animal Crossing City was founded in August 2005 by a user named [https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/User:Aeryka Aeryka]. While she served as the wiki's main creator, her contributions to the wiki were minimal despite the community around the wiki beginning to grow. The wiki experienced immense growth by 2009 thanks to {{CF}}.<ref name="Aeryka">{{Cite web|url=https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Aeryka_controversy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317033401/https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Aeryka_controversy|author=[https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/User:Dragonfree97 Dragonfree97]|archive-date=March 16, 2021|title=Forum:Aeryka controversy|date=January 1, 2013|site=Animal Crossing Wiki (FANDOM.com)|retrieved=March 16, 2021}}</ref>

In 2010, Fandom began a forceful implementation of their new skin "Oasis", which upset various wikis on the website's redesign, coupled with tensions between the staff of Fandom and the members of the wiki. Many opted to fork the content away from Fandom into newly independent wikis. Animal Crossing Wiki (then known as Animal Crossing City) was one of the wikis that had its content forked into a new wiki. Although the whole community did not move, the majority did, mainly due to conflicting interests with Fandom staff and the limitations of their service. The staff members urging to leave managed to complete the transfer of nearly the entire database of Animal Crossing City to the independent wiki "Animal Crossing Wiki", who would later be renamed {{Comm|Nookipedia}}.

===As Animal Crossing Wiki===
Fandom continued to manage the wiki after most of the staff had quit, including its founder Aeryka.<ref name="Aeryka"/> The remaining staff continued work to provide a source for all ''Animal Crossing'' content. By 2013, in anticipation of {{NL}}, the wiki changed its name to "Animal Crossing Wiki", which had formerly been abandoned on Nookipedia. At the same time, some users that had left to Nookipedia returned to Animal Crossing Wiki, including [[User:Dragonfree97|Dragonfree97]], a former director of Nookipedia who defected back to Animal Crossing Wiki.

In February 2021, the wiki underwent a severe trolling attack that led to the shutdown of the entire wiki for a couple of days. Editors were still permitted to use the forums during this time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Jacube/ACW_Revolution_Person:_A_Complete_List_of_Alternate_Accounts|date=February 2, 2021|author=[https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/User:Jacube Jacube]|title= ACW Revolution Person: A Complete List of Alternate Accounts|site=Animal Crossing Wiki (FANDOM.com)|retrieved=March 16, 2021}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
ACC Logo.png|Animal Crossing City's first logo, a modified version of the {{WW|short|nolink}} logo
ACC Second Logo.png|Animal Crossing City's second logo, prior to its renaming to Animal Crossing Wiki
ACW Logo.png|Animal Crossing Wiki's first logo under its current name
Animal Crossing City Monaco.png|A page from Animal Crossing City using the custom Monaco skin before the mandated Oasis skin
Animal Crossing City Oasis mainpage.png|The main page as of November 21, 2010 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
Animal Crossing City (1).png|The main page as of August 13, 2012 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
Animal Crossing City (2013).png|The main page as of June 18, 2013 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
FANDOM Animal Crossing Wiki (2021).png|The main page as of The website as of March 16, 2021 featuring Fandom's Oasis skin
FANDOM Animal Crossing Wiki (FandomDesktop).png|The main page as of The website as of July 24, 2021 featuring Fandom's FandomDesktop skin
</gallery>

== See also ==
*{{Comm|Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Wiki}}

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