Supernatural Wiki

The Supernatural Wiki (SuperWiki) is a wiki for the TV show Supernatural that invites fans of the show to document both canon material and information about the Supernatural Fandom. It runs on MediaWiki software.
Established in 2006, the Supernatural Wiki has a high volume of day-to-day traffic and over 450,000 hits to its home page (at time of writing, 2008/start of SPN season 4). 
The Supernatural Wiki is known for its obsessive and sometimes awe-inspiring documentation of the finite details of Supernatural canon (an oft-cited example is the Laundry List). 
It's also become known as one of the most reliable and topical sites to access fan-generated content, in particular its collection of pages on Conventions relating to Supernatural, which are largely driven by administrator Missyjack. The Convention pages on the Supernatural Wiki make an effort to collect and publish links to as much fan-generated material on conventions as possible - include con reports, amateur video, photographs, media articles and so on. It is not uncommon for a convention page on the Supernatural wiki to have thousands of hits per day around the time the convention is occurring; Super-wiki's convention pages take up many slots at the top of the wiki's "Popular pages" list. Popular Pages, accessed 2 October, 2008
The Supernatural Wiki continues to gain size and momentum; the start of season 4 saw an unprecedented number of editors contribute material moments after the first episode had aired. 
The Supernatural Wiki is listed in the acknowledgments of a pair of Supernatural tie-in novels by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
==Administration & Hosting==
The Supernatural Wiki is hosted by Hope, who heads its admin team of five: Leandra, MissyJack, Vanae and Newredshoes. It is a non-profit project, and runs no advertising. Hope foots the bill for hosting, though welcomes donations directly to hosting costs.
==History & Development==
Super-wiki was initially established in by Hope in June 2006 as "Super-canon". Super-canon was built as a simple single-author website model - initially, Hope had done the transcription and analysis work solo. As the resource expanded to include information collected by other fans as well, Hope teamed up with fellow SPN fan Leandra, and they decided together that the site would better function as a wiki. 
In August 2006 it was converted into wiki format, which not only allowed better organisation of the rapidly proliferating information, but opened up the field for any fan to contribute their knowledge.
Hope and Leandra drove the initial population to establish a solid base of pages in the wiki. At that time they also decided to expand the scope of the wiki to encompass the Supernatural fandom as well.
The wiki continued to grow at a rapid rate, attracting more attention, visitors and contributors. Mid-2007, Hope recruited some more of the key contributors to the wiki, Jules (Missyjack) and Vanae, to form an admin team to better ensure the wiki functioned as effectively as possible. In 2008, Newredshoes also joined the team.
Shortly after the team was formed, an overhaul of the wiki took place, resulting in a more unique URL- supernaturalwiki.com; a name to match – Supernatural Wiki (while maintaining the Super-wiki nickname); and behind the scenes, a more structured organisation of the information contained within. 
==Creator Comments==
From a January 1, 2007 interview with Hope: 
From a 2010 interview with Hope and fellow creators: 
From a 2015 interview with Jules, the maintainer: 
From a 2015 interview with Jules, the maintainer: 
From a 2015 interview with Jules, the maintainer: 
From a 2015 interview with Jules, the maintainer: 
==References==
Category:Supernatural Websites
Category:2006 Wikis
Category:2000s Wikis
Category:2010s Wikis
Category:2020s Wikis