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[4] Lostpedia provides detailed episode synopses, character biographies, cultural references and themes, as well as a range of other articles.

[6] In June 2008, Lostpedia began holding Q&As with members of the Lost cast and crew, including Michael Emerson, Jorge Garcia, Rebecca Mader, François Chau and David Fury.

[9] Encouraged by Lost's writers and stars, who often interact with fans online, viewers and TV critics alike have taken to rampant theorization in an attempt to unravel the mysteries.

[11] As part of the alternate reality game The Lost Experience, which ran from April 24, 2006, to September 24, 2006, a series of images called "glyphs", were released on numerous websites and in physical locations in cities across the world.

[20] In the aftermath of the game, Hi-ReS!, the company which designed all in-game websites for the Lost Experience, links to Lostpedia on its homepage as a detailed analysis of the franchise.

[21] Tom Lowry of Business Week called the site "a replica of online user-generated Wikipedia, that is dedicated solely to all things Lost.

[29] Lostpedia has set up sixteen sister projects for non-English language contributions in Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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