Creating a new wiki

New wiki creation on wiki.gg is done on a case-by-case basis. Please submit a ticket if you have a topic that you want to make a wiki about.

What to expect

Applying to open a wiki

We'll want to know what the wiki is about, who you are (e.g., admin of an existing wiki, a game developer, a moderator of a TV show's Discord, etc.), and how many people will be helping you. Please give us as much information as possible in the "anything else" section.

We typically reply to tickets in about 1–3 business days (keeping in mind US holidays).

Creating your wiki

If your application is accepted, you'll be given an invitation to our onboarding Discord server. Onboarding is a process during which you prepare the wiki for publication with our help. Onboarding includes:

• Theming the wiki (we can help you edit the CSS if needed, please see Getting help with theming for more information on this)
• If applicable, creating one or two infoboxes
• Designing the wiki's front page (generally based on one of our default loadout wiki's example main pages)
• Creating a few content pages
• Customizing your sidebar

Additionally, if your wiki is a fork from another site, we ask you to start either creating several new content pages or editing the existing content pages so that the content is meaningfully different and Google won't mark the wiki as a duplicate (if you are self-hosting the old wiki and will be shutting that version down, hosting the old wiki on a platform that allows community-requested wiki deletion, or are otherwise able to get the old wiki taken down by making a request for takedown as the rights holder to the IP, this is less important).

Publishing your wiki

Wikis are never "complete," so the time that we publish your wiki is just the beginning of your wiki journey!

When you are ready to publish your wiki, we recommend making announcements about the new wiki in community forums, e.g., Discord servers, subreddits, etc. If you aren't the developer or other rights holder of the wiki's topic, get in touch with them and see if they'll officially endorse the wiki! They can help inform the community that the new resource exists.

But most importantly, have fun editing 🙂

FAQ

Hosting

How much does it cost to host a wiki with wiki.gg?

Nothing! Hosting a wiki with wiki.gg is free!

My wiki isn't about a video game. Can I host with you?

Yes, absolutely! We accept any kind of content, from video games, TV shows, TTRPGs, and even non-entertainment topics. Please send us an application if you want to make a wiki here!

I'm just a player/reader/watcher of the topic I want to make a wiki about. Is that okay?

Yes! Wikis do not have to be officially recognized to be allowed on wiki.gg.

What types of wikis don't you allow?

We don't allow wikis for Roblox games or NFT games. We also ask that wiki topics are interesting to a broad community, for example if you wanted to make a wiki for pictures of your pet axolotl, we would not accept that. If you aren't sure, please send an application and ask!

Forking to wiki.gg

If I am forking to wiki.gg, what pages will be included?

We'll include everything, although for some hosts with very specific extensions we will usually ignore a few namespaces that don't contain wiki content (for example, we might not import thousands of forum posts). If your previous wiki wasn't using the Vector skin, your wiki will likely need to be re-themed, but we can help you with that!

What about my user account, can I keep it?

Yes! You will be able to visit a special page, Special:ClaimExternalAccount , to reclaim your old account.

Editing

What is the customization policy for wiki.gg?

Please see: Customization policy.

I want the Visual Editor, is that supported?

Yes! Just let us know in your onboarding channel that you would like VE enabled.

What about other extensions?

We are willing to enable most extensions other than Semantic MediaWiki. If you want DPL or Cargo, we would ask you why; depending on your plan, we might suggest either to use Cargo instead of DPL or Lua data modules instead of either one.

Can I automate edits to my wiki?

Yes, MediaWiki has an extensive API for editing. You can use tools like AutoWikiBrowser or PyWikiBot, and there's some great Python libraries; we recommend looking into mwcleric, mwparserfromhell, and mwclient. mwcleric is a framework that wraps mwparserfromhell (syntax tree generator) and mwclient (API client library).

Your TOS disallows crawling or scraping the platform. Does that mean I can't use automated tools like AWB and PWB to edit or monitor my wiki?

You're absolutely allowed to use automated tools such as AWB and PWB! Just respect our rate limits and only use these tools for the purpose of improving/monitoring your wiki. If you aren't sure, please fill out a ticket and ask us.

Allowed types of wikis

Why don't you permit wikis about Roblox games? Can you make an exception for...?

We don't support the exploitative nature of the game, and Roblox wikis tend to get spammed a lot given their demographic. No, we will not make an exception.