Fan wiki

Fan wikis, which are a part of fandoms, cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comics, sports, and other topics.

Some present analysis, fan theories and fiction, and video game strategy guides and walkthroughs, while others only document official canon.

Fan wikis cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comic books, sports, and other topics.

[6] Fan wikis generally cover their objects of study in depth; editors create extensive film character biographies, describe video game plots in detail, and present trivia about television episode productions.

[7] Wikipedia editors, by contrast, disfavor describing fictional elements at a high level of detail, referring to such material using the derogatory term fancruft.

[13] When editors hyperlink between and categorize articles, or update navigation lists, they creatively interpret the subject by connecting different topics and themes.

[14] Mittell compared editors' use of those tools on fan wikis to scholars writing reference texts about and annotated editions of "classical literature and mythology".

In a case study of Lostpedia, the narrative scholar Laura Daniel Buchholz stated that editors organized their perception of the show based on the geography of the island and the creation of competing fan maps.

Mittell and the media and cultural studies scholar Henry Jones have analyzed fan wikis as paratexts, which are a set of works that accompany and interact with a text.

[22] Some editors develop expertise in their wiki's policies and assist in tasks such as determining consensus, while others become familiar with evaluating the reliability of sources.

[24] Lostpedia became a part of the show's canon when its administrators worked with the runners of an official alternate reality game called the Lost Experience to hide clues on the wiki.

Those wiki communities cited Fandom's advertising methods, issues with security and outdated software, and corporate control as reasons for migrating.