Wowpedia Wowpedia is a Warcraft wiki , officially from WoWWiki as of 20 October 2010 . It is not hosted by or in any way affiliated with Wikia , the company which hosts WoWWiki . Wowpedia is hosted by Curse , Inc . . Background . WoWWiki originally started as an independent site , but moved to Wikia in 2007 . Due to irreconcilable differences with Wikia , most of the administration and members of the WoWWiki community in October 2010 that they would leave Wikia . Their preference at the time was to remove WoWWiki itself from the Wikia network , taking the domain and WoWWiki name with them , but Wikia policy is to not remove wikis from use when they leave . As Wikia refused to sell the domain name , a new site was set up , and Curse offered to host it . Wowpedia ' s initial database contained a complete copy of articles from WoWWiki as of 18 October 2010 . Edits made to WoWWiki after that date will not automatically appear on Wowpedia and vice versa . Due to this , articles should vary over time between the two sites , further differentiating them from one another . Content deleted from WoWWiki before the fork can be undeleted at WoWWiki , but was not imported to Wowpedia , so doesn ' t exist there and can ' t be recovered unless it is undeleted at WoWWiki and then copied . Copying content between the sites . Due to the shared license used by both sites ( as of Jan 2011 , at least ) , copying content from one site to another is allowed if proper attribution is given . WoWWiki to use the codice _ 1 template when copying content from Wowpedia . Wowpedia did not have a process to attribute content copied from WoWWiki from January 2011 to June 2011 , but now has a similar template to codice _ 1 called Template : WoWWiki credit . Wowpedia however has so far not had the same need to copy content at the same extent as WoWWiki , but it may be that the admins there are just less careful about ensuring attribution , since the WoWWiki credit template was deleted at least once . Differences . There are a number of differences between WoWWiki and Wowpedia , some imperceptible to the lay user . The most obvious are that the sidebar is in its original place and there is no fixed width on Wowpedia . Many of the new ' social ' features introduced by Wikia , such as , avatars and user blogs , do not exist on the new site . There are no plans to implement these social features in the future . Additionally , watchlists will remain private , which is contrary to Wikia ' s new implementation defaults of publicly followed lists ( although there is a preference that allows Followed lists to be made private ) . Many that were previously running on WoWWiki are now instead running on Wowpedia . Reception . The decision to move was unanimous among WoWWiki ' s administrators , minus , who is a Wikia staff member . Virtually all of the site ' s active users have transferred to Wowpedia , but you are free to stay with WoWWiki or even contribute to both sites . Among other Warcraft fan sites , reception was universally positive , with Wowpedia described as " a better user experience with accurate up to date information " . On December 4 , 2010 , Blizzard Entertainment began to incorporate links to Wowpedia , as well as the database site Wowhead , into the new version of its World of Warcraft Community Site . Though there was no mention of WoWWiki and Blizzard has no official position on the matter or desire to become involved , this has been viewed as a tacit endorsement of the switchover . During the transition phase , there was a over WoWWiki administrators leaving messages to people informing them about the new site , but Wikia ' s initially heavy - handed response has since softened . However , Wikia policy remains that new users are not to be encouraged to migrate to Wowpedia , and messages to this effect are considered spam . Future of WoWWiki and reaction among other Wikia sites . Wikia officially has no plans to close WoWWiki but has struggled to find people to administer the site , although one user , , offered to step in due to past conflicts with Wowpedia ' s administrators . Wikia started a in an attempt to attract people and hired to perform some updates . Some data has been imported from the new encyclopedia and vice versa ( although Wowpedia has no specific mechanism for attributing content copied from WoWWiki ) ; the licensing of the content allows this in both directions . There have been some improvements such as restoring tooltip functionality ( the iconic WoW descriptions of items , NPCs , etc . that appear when your mouse hovers over something - these were initially broken with the new Wikia skin ) and a poll asking whether some of the more obnoxious Wikia features should be turned off . Wowpedia was not the only Wikia site to decide to leave , and some of the smaller wikis banded together in the " Anti - Wikia Alliance " - a group of former Wikia members who are upset with the policy of keeping sites open when the communities decide to leave . Wowpedia is not part of this alliance and its administrators have discouraged the vandalism that accompanied the Wikia revolt , although a Wowpedia administrator did try to mass recruit users to Wowpedia soon after the split . It remains to be seen if the other breakaway wikis will enjoy the kind of success expected of Wowpedia . Reclaiming your user name . In addition to WoWWiki ' s content , Wowpedia contains a copy of the user database and has a tool to ' reclaim ' your user name . All you have to do is click on the ' Log in / create account ' button and it should say ' Have a WoWWiki account ? ' Once you click on the reclaim link and put in your information , the site will generate a code ; you can enter this code in an edit summary on to confirm your identity . Remember that the code must be placed in the and not the actual page . You must make some sort of change to the page for it to show up . If desired , you may add codice _ 1 which will flag the old page for deletion . No edits made to WoWWiki ( minus edits on deleted pages ) prior to 18 October 2010 are lost . The entire history up to that point , including your user page and any subpages , will be intact .