The Alternate History Wikia

A Timeline oriented Wikia from Wikia
The wiki about Alternate History Timelines that anyone can edit

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**The Alternate History Wikipedia** is a community that aims to create the best timelines, stories, AH games, and media that take place in their respective universes. This community also aims to connect the Alternate History community into one hub, sharing content along the way.
We are currently editing over **40** articles.
All pages can be edited and you are welcome to join us and contribute to this wiki. Everyone is free to create a new page or edit an existing one. If you have any questions about the wiki or helping out, you can ask a member of the Moderation, or you could simply go on chat, where most users would probably gladly help you. We'll be happy to help! Before you go on however, we strongly recommend you read the Guide to Alternate History. Here are some very important pages of the Wiki that could be useful to you.
* Map Archive
* Useful Templates
* Moderation

If you want to experiment with creating, please do it in the Sandbox, not in articles. Please do not do it in the articles because we love our articles!

 **What is Alternate History**

Alternate history or alternative history, sometimes abbreviated AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which one or more historical events unfold differently from how they did in reality. It can be variously seen as a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, or historical fiction; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres. Another occasionally used term for the genre is "allohistory" (literally "other history").

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fiction tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of "our" universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging into the past or into the future that results in history splitting into two or more timelines. Cross-time, time-splitting, and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another. "Alternate History" looks at "what if" scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture. The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

**How You Can Contribute**

You are welcome to contribute any and all original Alternate history content here. You can contribute any pages you wish, whether its a small stretch of alternate history or a large all encompassing timeline. If you have seen another timeline you wish to contribute to, please make sure you go through the appropriate channels to look for inclusion of your ideas or advisement on the timeline. While interesting, Future history is generally not allowed on the wiki (projections of current events speculation on what would happen from the present) and the only Future time allowed, will be the Futures of completely original timelines if the author so wishes. While we encourage you to work up to the Present day, delving into the future of your own personal Alternate history or Timeline can be a fun, educating, and interesting process that we in no way wish to infringe upon. Derivative works are not allowed on our wiki, and we will remove them if posted. Only original and user created content will be allowed to be posted, and a Timeline based on something such as "The Man in the High Castle" would not be allowed