Gundam Wiki:Frequently Asked Questions


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What is Gundam Wiki?
Gundam Wiki is a free content, freely editable online resource center for anything Gundam-related. This includes the anime, manga, gunpla, games and fan sites.

Who owns Gundam Wiki?
Gundam Wiki is hosted by Wikia, a free wiki hosting service operated by Wikia, Inc., a for-profit organization founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. However, the Gundam Wiki content, licensed under the GFDL, is not "owned" by anyone in the traditional sense. Anyone can reuse it elsewhere.

When and why was Gundam Wiki created?
Gundam Wiki was started on 09 January 2005 by SOCL and TomStar81 as a project that would provide a more complete coverage of Gundam than on Wikipedia. For example, almost every character on Gundam Wiki has a separate article, while on Wikipedia, minor characters are grouped into long "List of characters" articles. Trivial information regarding the Gundam metaseries were also frowned upon on Wikipedia.

When Wikipedia started to clean up its content, it is inevitable that fictional articles about the Gundam metaseries would end up being flagged as articles for deletion. This gave Gundam enthusiasts a greater purpose to save the valuable information from Wikipedia and place them here on Gundam Wiki.

Who is responsible for the Gundam Wiki content?
You are! In fact, you can edit this very FAQ! Since Gundam Wiki is an unofficial, community-driven project, edited by hundreds of people unfamiliar with each other, we cannot possibly guarantee (and explicitly disclaim) any degree of accuracy and validity, although we do strive for both accuracy and verifiability — this means that everyone should be able to verify the facts mentioned in every article.

You can view an article's edit history to find out who contributed it.

What keeps Gundam Wiki from being destroyed?
Every Gundam Wiki article contains an edit history (accessible from the "history" tab by default), which records all edits to the article since it was created. In case of a bad edit, anyone can revert the article to an earlier revision.

How can I contact the project?
The Community Portal talk page is the general place to ask questions about Gundam Wiki or give feedback, although if it by its very nature only concerns the administrators, use the administrator's talk page instead. A better discussion area will be available once the forum is set up. You can also try the Gundam IRC chat channel; for instructions on joining it, see Gundam Wiki:IRC.