Jedipedia Jedipedia is a " Star Wars " online wiki - encyclopedia in based on . Within one year from its founding on October 16 th 2005 , it became the second largest Star Wars wiki project after Wookieepedia . In June 2011 , the site was divided by the decision of its original founder to move to Wikia while nearly the whole community decided to stay independent at the new domain Jedipedia . net . History . Jedipedia was founded on October 16 th , 2005 by Premia , the forum admin of Star Wars Chroniken , a German Star Wars fan portal . The project was launched with five initial articles including Naboo , George Lucas , Humans , Wookiees and Tusken . Originally just named " Deutsches Star Wars - Wiki " ( " German Star Wars Wiki " ) , it was first hosted on the server of starwars - chroniken . de and shared traffic and webspace with that site . Searching for a more representative and catchy name , suggestions were made including Wookieepedia , Naboopedia , Banthapedia , but in the end " Jedipedia " was chosen by the then still rather small community . On May 26 , 2006 , Jedipedia became an official partner of Wookieepedia , which includes the exchange of inter - language links and cross - promotion . A month later , Jedipedia celebrated the 500th article . Since then , the community grew rapidly and a small but diligent base of authors provided for a steady increase of articles . On account of this , Jedipedia was able to celebrate the 1000th article in August 2006 and the 1500th article just three month later . The increasing traffic and rapid growth forced Jedipedia to leave the starwars - chroniken . de server and to move to a new server . In addition , the necessity to include Google advertisements into Jedipedia arose to bear the costs caused by the larger webspace and increasing amount of traffic . In order to deal with the increasing work and massive vandalism attacks , especially the infamous " on wheels " vandalism , two more admins were promoted by the initial team . On December 1st , 2006 , the main page and Community portal underwent a major redesign introducing several new features , such as a graphical header , image buttons for all six Star Wars movies and " Quote of the Week " and " Article of the month " sections , starting with Jango Fett , as chosen by the community . In the following years , the Jedipedia grew rapidly in terms of articles , users and hits . To ensure a better cooperation and communication between the wiki ’ s users , an IRC channel was set up in the GameSurge IRC network . Starting with Jedipedia ’ s second anniversary on October 16th , 2007 a big milestone was reached with every following anniversary ( 2007 : 6 , 000 articles ; 2008 : 10 , 000 articles ; 2009 : 15 , 000 articles ; 2010 : 20 , 000 articles ) . In addition to Jedipedia ’ s further development in the World Wide Web , the admin team also decided to participate more actively in the German fan community by setting up booths at both Jedi - Cons in 2008 and 2010 , gaining official recognition by Lucasfilm fan ambassador Steve Sansweet and the friendship of some actors and artists such as Matthew Wood , Femi Taylor , Richard LeParmentier , Randy Martinez and Denise Vasquez . In June 2011 , webmaster Premia decided to move Jedipedia to Wikia , a step the admin team had not agreed to on their disclosed forum before . After learning about this decision , some users put a community vote into motion to stop this decision which was signed by more than 40 then active users . Their main concern was the possible exploitation of the wiki by a company like Wikia and the lack of independence for the community . One week later , the remaining administrators opened a new website at Jedipedia . net , copying the old articles by maintaining the GNU license and taking over the user database by the use of a MediaWiki extension . More than one hundred new articles were written on the first day after the restart at the new domain . In the following weeks , Jedipedia . net presented the new Vector skin and opened a new search portal . Promoting four new admins to establish a new structure of the administrative system , the new Jedipedia searched for new affiliates in the German fan community , companies selling Star Wars merchandise and Star Wars book publishers . One of the most important achievements of Jedipedia . net is the cooperation with the official German Star Wars Fan Club and an article in their club magazine , which is the German version of the Star Wars Insider for the most part . In September 2011 , Jedipedia . net counted more than 24 , 000 articles , surpassing de . jedipedia . wikia . com , the Wikia version with less activity and users , by more than 2 , 000 articles . In August 2011 a registered voluntary association with the name Jedipedia e . V . was founded by seven of the wiki ’ s users to provide financial and legal protection for the website and furthermore an authority to prevent efforts of single community members regarding Jedipedia ’ s fate such as the move to Wikia . In order to further the connection with the German fanbase and in line with the association ’ s goals , the team of Jedipedia . net was present at the Noris Force Con 2011 , a Star Wars charity convention for the German children cancer foundation . At its booth the team presented the wiki project and contributed to the collection of more than Euro 11 , 000 for the event ’ s purpose with the help of several sponsors .