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Wiki hosting service and domain
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Wiki.gg[a] is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis about various topics, most prominently video games, television shows and other entertainment media[1]. The privately held for-profit company was founded in March of 2022 by Patrick Johnston (PCJ), former staff at Gamepedia.
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Comment: Need significant coverage. Kovcszaln6 (talk) 14:32, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Wiki hosting service |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | March 16, 2022 |
| Headquarters | U.S. |
| Founder | Patrick Johnston |
| Products | Wiki hosting |
| Employees | 8+ (2024) |
| Parent | indie.io |
| URL | wiki |
| Advertising | Direct and advertising networks |
| Registration | Optional Commonly required for editing wikis |
| Launched | March 16, 2022 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike 4.0 |
| Written in | PHP, JavaScript (Node.js) |
Wiki.gg uses MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki software that is used by Wikipedia. Unlike the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, Wiki.gg operates as a for-profit company and derives its income from advertising video games, sponsorships and their Steam Store video game bundles that are curated by their parent company indie.io. Wiki.gg wikis are hosted under the domain 'wiki.gg'.[2]
The platform is maintained by Indie.io, formerly known as Freedom Games. The company's staff had previously worked on the development of Gamepedia, a repository of information for video games created by Curse.[3] The website was founded by Donovan Duncan, former president of Fandom Inc.[4]
History
2022–2023: Early days and growth
The platform will be launched to the public for the first time in March 2022 after receiving support from video game studio Re-Logic to migrate the official Terraria wiki from the previous host Fandom, citing issues with obtrusive ads as well as improving connection with the game's community.[5][6] Later in 2022, the Ark: Survival Evolved wiki developed by Studio Wildcard will be integrated into the platform.[7]
By November 2022, Freedom Games had secured approximately $10 million with the aim of expanding the Wiki.gg platform and its catalog of independent games.[8][9][10]
Later in 2023, much of the administration of the former Wowpedia hosted on Fandom[11] would move to the Wiki.gg platform,[12] following the inclusion of forced features that obstructed content. Additionally, the Hearthstone wiki specializes in covering game data for another game produced by Blizzard Entertainment, would also move to Wiki.gg during the same time period.[13]
2024–2025: Rise in popularity
In February 2024, part of the publishing group behind Apex Legends will transfer to Wiki.gg from its previous host, Fandom, following multiple surveys indicating problems with ads and a lack of transparency on the part of the company.[14] In April 2024, Singularity 6 and Wiki.gg collaborated to bring the official wiki for Palia onto the platform, and the platform added the option to integrate community magazines, including the first edition of “The Prancing Sernuk”m created by 10 editors who had been reporting on the game's development since its beta.[15]
The aftermath of wikis forking from both Fandom and Miraheze, Wiki.gg grew in size with regards of how many wikis were moving over to the platform, the Hearthstone Wiki had over 200,000 articles, the World of Warcraft Wiki (formely called Wowpedia on Fandom). During this time the Minecraft Wiki was having an in-depth discussion of forking from Fandom due to the recent decline in popularity and trust within the userbase of the wiki, Wiki.gg was the first choice for moving platforms to, however Weird Gloop, the hosting company of the Runescape Wiki, offered them a better deal, resulting in them not going with Wiki.gg.[16][17][18]
Throughout 2024, Wiki.gg loosened its restriction on only hosting videogame related wikis, allowing wikis on other topics to be hosted on their site as well.[1] The policy change paved the way for non-gaming wikis such as the South Park Wiki[19] to fork to Wiki.gg, however the platform continued to be prominently known for its gaming wikis. In that regard, the company continued establishing cooperations with game developers, including games like Dead by Daylight. It also host the wiki for Alaskan Road Truckers.[20]
Game coverage
The platform has several repositories of information on independent games, including Signalis, published by Humble Games and Playism.[21] In addition to Don't Starve, a game published by Canadian studio Klei Entertainment.[22] The Wiki.gg platform also hosts information about the Finnish game Fear and Hunger.[23]
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Notes
- Stylized in all lower-case letters as wiki.gg
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