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Halopedia, otherwise known as Halo Wiki, is an MediaWiki-based Wikia-hosted online encyclopedia for information on the Halo fictional universe; including information on all three games, as well as the novels. The name Halopedia is a portmanteau of Halo and Encyclopedia, being a pun on the name of . Halopedia is an accurate and valuable resource for anything about Halo including game details, cheats, tricks and more. History Beginnings: 2004-2005 Halopedia, originally known simply as Halo Wiki, began on November 4, 2004 as a project of user , with the help of . Built as an offshoot of his then forum, the BlackBoxRepublic, it quickly attracted a small following of users. To help the growing wiki, AgentSeethroo appointed several other Halopedia's administrators to assist in the maintenance of the site, namely and . Becoming ambitious, AgentSeethroo and Porplemontage created Gamer Focus: a wiki network and gaming site. Because of the recent creation of Halowiki.net, the wiki's name was changed to "Halopedia," and moved to www.halopedia.org, where it became part of the wiki network alongside a Cheats wiki, an overall Video Games wiki, and a . Due to lack of interest, the Cheats wiki and the Video Games wiki closed and the wiki network eventually shut down, leaving the remaining sites, including Halopedia, as stand-alone sites. Throughout 2005, the site continued to grow as the user list expanded to a little over 150. Notability: Early 2006 The site began to be recognized in early 2006; it was mentioned in a section of the Tahlequah Daily Press newspaper of Tahlequah, Oklahoma on February 20, 2006. Perhaps Halopedia's best recognition to date was on the front page of the Bungie.net website on February 14, 2006. A fan submitted article about Halopedia appeared on the front page of the website, prompting Halopedia's membership to increase by 300 percent over several weeks. Server Problems: Mid 2006 Halopedia's growing community began to present a major problem for its creators; the site's growing size was producing a bill in excess of $150 a month for server usage. Throughout May, June, and July, the site would be sporadically down, until it finally went offline for several weeks. Eventually, Halopedia was merged with , a formerly rival wiki that did not have the same issues. Despite the painstaking process of having to copy every article from the original Halopedia (referred to as old.Halopedia due to its temporary filename), the site ultimantely benefitted with several new active users. Current Currently, Halopedia continues to grow in anticipation of many new projects planned for the Halo universe, such as the Halo Movie and Halo Wars. Halopedia has become a central place for speculation and discussion of the upcoming productions. Halopedia currently works closely with several related sites, such as , a wiki project devoted to the multiplayer aspects of the Halo games. Halopedia has come to be regarded as relatively accurate and reliable among Halo fans, a search of "Halopedia" will produce over 31,000 results on [http://www.google.ca/search?hlen&qhalopedia&btnG=Google+Search&meta= Google], many of which are users on various forums and websites citing Halopedia articles as sources of information.
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