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  • Comment: Sources continue to not provide significant coverage of wiki.gg itself. We can't have the article just be sourced on a laundry list of Wikis that migrated to wiki.gg. ~ A412 talk! 00:47, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

wiki.gg
Logo since March 2022
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Wiki hosting service
Available inMultilingual
FoundedMarch 16, 2022; 4 years ago (2022-03-16)
Headquarters
U.S.
FounderPatrick Johnston
ProductsWiki hosting
Employees8+ (2024)
Parentindie.io
URLwiki.gg
AdvertisingDirect and advertising networks
RegistrationOptional
Commonly required for editing wikis
LaunchedMarch 16, 2022; 4 years ago (2022-03-16)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike 4.0
Written inPHP, JavaScript (Node.js)

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.

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

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2022–2023: Early days and growth

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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

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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

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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]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Stylized in all lower-case letters as wiki.gg

References

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  1. 1 2 "Creating a new wiki - wiki.gg Support Wiki". wiki.gg. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Wiki.gg". Support Wiki. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  3. ↑ Sinclair, Brendan (September 2, 2020). "Freedom Games joins indie publisher ranks at full speed". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
  4. ↑ Ong, Jie Yee (August 21, 2023). "FANDOM Wiki Criticised For AI-Generated Answers Riddled With Mistakes". The Chainsaw. Retrieved August 2, 2025. For context, the community behind Terraria, a 2D video game, officially moved the game's wiki page away from FANDOM in May 2022. Terraria's new official wiki is now with Wiki.gg, an alternative to FANDOM that was co-founded by Donovan Duncan, who is the former president of FANDOM
  5. ↑ Dustin, Bailey (March 14, 2022). "The official Terraria wiki is no longer official". PCGamesN. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  6. ↑ "人気サンドボックスゲーム『テラリア』の新たな公式Wikiがオープン！これまでのWikiは非公式として存続". Game*Spark - 国内・海外ゲーム情報サイト (in Japanese). March 15, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Community Crunch 312: Desmodus Reveal, Official ARK Wiki, and More!". ARK News. Studio Wildcard. April 23, 2022. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  8. ↑ Kessler, Ana (November 7, 2022). "Freedom Games Secures $10 Million in Funding". 80.lv. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  9. ↑ Efendioğlu, Ali (November 7, 2022). "Freedom Games raises $10M in Play Ventures-led funding round". Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  10. ↑ Takahashi, Dean (November 4, 2022). "Freedom Games raises $10M to publish indie games". VentureBeat. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
  11. ↑ Jones, Ali (November 1, 2023). "Hollow Knight Silksong community follows WoW, Minecraft, and Fallout as it abandons its wiki over advertising frustrations". GamesRadar+. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Wowpedia Has Moved - Now Warcraft Wiki". Wowhead. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Stop Using the Hearthstone Wiki on Fandom". Out of Games. September 26, 2023. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Apex Legends Wiki Moves to wiki.gg: A New Home for Players and Editors". Z League News. February 10, 2024. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  15. ↑ Florian (April 27, 2024). "Palia: Community erstellt Fan-Magazin "The Prancing Sernuk"". Limitloot (in German). Retrieved August 2, 2025. Die erste Ausgabe von The Prancing Sernuk ist kostenlos im offiziellen Wiki verfügbar, bislang jedoch nur in Englisch. Vielleicht gibt es im Sommer ja schon die zweite Ausgabe?
  16. ↑ "Minecraft Wiki:Moving from Fandom - Minecraft Wiki". Minecraft Wiki. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  17. ↑ Garcia, Jose (July 11, 2023). "Minecraft's Wiki Site Has Gotten So "Degraded" Its Editors Are Voting To Leave En Masse". DualShockers. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
  18. ↑ "Minecraft wiki considers moving on from Fandom". PCGamesN. July 11, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  19. ↑ "Blog:Farewell to Fandom - South Park Archives". southpark.wiki.gg. User:HighJewElfKing. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Alaskan Road Truckers: Highway Edition rolls onto console 11th July". Mynewsdesk. May 24, 2024. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  21. ↑ Kalmanlehto, Johan (2025). "Playstyles in Signalis: Style as an Aesthetic Habit". Game Studies. 25 (2). ISSN 1604-7982.
  22. ↑ Hargreaves, Bryant; Nguyen, Dan N.; Krimbell, Keegan; Gupta, Gopal (2025). "Automated Playing of Survival Video Games with Commonsense Reasoning". In Erdem, Esra; Vidal, Germán (eds.). Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 15537. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 104–112. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-84924-4_7. ISBN 978-3-031-84924-4.
  23. ↑ González Hernández, Guillermo (2024). "La tragedia humana: Dioses y Monstruos en "Fear & Hunger"". Ciencia y criaturas de lo fantástico, 2024, ISBN 978-84-1183-760-6, págs. 261-270. Tirant Humanidades: 261–270. ISBN 978-84-1183-760-6.
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