@@TheEmeraldSword04 It's mostly because it's obvious and the wiki is mostly serious with giving its info. It's like saying "eating pizza in real-life is slower than eating it in game".
Fun fact: Strong Bad HIMSELF uses and acknowledges this wiki in an official HSR video when he can't figure out a fan's intentionally-obscure Halloween costume and has to look up who it is
Wow, you've done it, Sega finally knows who you are. Amy even called you the Lore Master meaning that Sega knows Cybershell is the Sonic Lore Master. All my respect goes to you.
my favorite wiki is definitely the Super Mario Wiki, which has standards of quality and professionalism higher than literally any other fanwiki I've ever seen. basically every time I've used a Fandom wiki for something I've always had the thought "dang. this would be so much better if it was following the editorial standards of the Super Mario Wiki instead of what it's doing here"
The Mario wiki is so good. And they have pictures for EVERYTHING, every little enemy from Mario 64 has transparent renders, that must have taken forever.
@@yurifairy2969 That's the main gripe I have with the doctor who wiki. It has insane amounts of info all cited excellently, but the main thing it lacks is pictures. It has barely any images throughout the body of the article and the main one at the top is always a face closeup so its a terrible resource when you need image references.
I love how Amy called you "Lore Master" on 'accident'. Either they did their research or the voice actors or writers for that segment know you. Either way, on top of them making the reference, I can imagine hearing that felt pretty good.
Since you mentioned They Might Be Giants, I should note that there wiki is just as detailed the Homestar Runner Wiki. It's called This Might Be A Wiki and every song they've made has a page on this wiki, even each songs demos or released live versions. Each song page has all the albums it appeared in and when it was first performed live. There are also pages dedicated to every live show a song is played, song themes, a page where you can write you own meaning of the song, a page showing different versions of that song with links to pages of there own, guitar and bass tabs, and even a page about songs that have been mistaken as TMBG songs.
Hunters & Collectors also has a wiki like this, as does NIN. I’m so glad that there are fans living their best life like this, especially when it comes to listening to demos 😂
A few of my favorite wikis Stardew Valley's wiki is mostly written by Eric Barone, the game's developer, and is accurate to the point of speedrunners and challenge runners going by information on the wiki over their own memory The Ultrakill wiki is awash with jokes after a big UA-camr made a joke about editing the wiki to change the lore The Super Mario Wiki is notoriously thorough to the point that when the official Super Mario Encyclopedia came out it had several entries that were partially or fully copied from the wiki, all of these instances of copying are documented on the wiki.
"runners going by information on the wiki over their own memory" What thats absolutley the reverse of the current reality?? For YEARS the admins have refused to change shit because speedrunners discovered them. "The Wiki is right" is literally a meme at this point???
Logopedia is one of my personal favourites, because they have literally every logo known to man documented on it, the designers of said logos, and how the logo has evolved over time.
i absolutely adore the splatoon wiki "inkipedia" cuz they got literally EVERYTHING about this game on here. translation differences, deciphering the in game language, pages about obscure characters only appearing in haikara walker its fucking great side note: man i've been seeing homestar runner related content a lot more lately
Funnily enough, I went as "Anonymous Contributor" for Halloween one year, which actually made Strong Bad himself reference the wiki itself on one of the official "Fan Costumes" compilations.
I like fanon wikis that go into absurd detail about things that don't even exist. Of note is the Plants vs. Zombies Character Creator wiki, which has fanmade plants and zombies... but they also have a category which shows some entries that were made canon. Always accidentally of course, but sometimes the similarities between the fanon and the canon depictions are surprisingly close.
there is an entire wiki about hypothetical tornadoes, detailing fictional tornado outbreaks and storms, but the entire thing is subject to OC power creep so like 90% of the pages are overpowered EF8 Super Tornadoes with a death toll of 500 million and $50 quadrillion damage
I know the knock off fandom version of the Mario wiki would list Bowsers second cousins and distant uncles, from games like NSMBW: The UNDERGROUND and NSMBW: The HIGH SKY, everything I mentioned never actually existed.
My favourite wiki has to be the standalone version of the JoJo wiki. Every character has a list of appearances, their main color palletes across the series, and an in-depth gallery, and in turn each piece of JoJo material has a list of characters that appear within it, whether it be the anime, the manga, any Spin-offs, etc., they have character appearance lists going by part, by volume/episode or even by individual chapters. It even has pages for interviews with Araki, the many pictures he's used for inspiration for his poses, galleries of the model sheets used in the anime and in the Phantom Blood film, and even a page for detailing all of the times when a certain song was played in every episode of the Anime and the OVAs, going as far as putting timestamps for when they are played. It also has information about Araki's other works as well. The Touhou Wiki has to have an honourable mention here, it not only provides information about the official games, but also details fan content and info about certain series that are connected to Touhou.
The JoJo Wiki deserves more praise. They surely put their whole soul in informating the fandom, news, minigames, translations, interviews. It's a must-check.
The Old School Runescape Wiki has to be my favourite, a wiki so essential that they baked a "lookup on wiki" function into the game's UI. It's not just useful and comprehensive, it's also right up there with the dwarf fortress wiki as one of the most entertaining things to read out of context. Just smash the random page button a few times, you won't regret it.
I was about to write up a good summary of the OSRS Wiki (RS3 has just a good wiki too since it's a sister site). Glad you mentioned it here, it deserves all the love it can get.
I think the worst wiki is the rs wiki. The admins are either paedos or corrupt and nepotistic. There's constant infighting, drama, backstabbing, and gossip behind the scenes that they don't show publicly, and my god they're some of the most insufferable people I've ever seen. It wouldn't surprise me if they got a notification from me simply saying "RS wiki," as I know for a fact they search and review every single mention they get on reddit. Do you understand just how up your own ass you have to be to do that?
I think The Cutting Room Floor is my favorite to just browse here and there. It isn’t quite as extensive but the content they cover is so much fun to sift through. That and the pages can sometimes have some fun gags.
I love how the Ed Edd n’ Eddy Wiki has every episode transcripted. You can quote anything from that show(unless it’s a mishear), and you can search it up and see what episode it’s from. It’s surprisingly convenient if you’re obsessed with the show, like I am right now.
Personally I love the Sound Effects Wiki, it's a surprisingly thorough wiki about specific sound effects used in cartoons, shows, movies, games etc. If there's a sound effect I know in my head but don't know the name of I wanna use in a project of mine (especially if I can't find it in my personal SFX horde due to how said sound effect's file might be labelled), it's a great resource to find out what the sound is called and even what sound effects library it originates from. Once you get past the vibe of it being run by a bunch of weird autismos that get _really_ obsessed over sound effects used in children's media, it's a really fascinating wiki.
yeah, autistic people tend to overrun fandom/miraheze wikis. (i'm autistic, so anyone reading this shouldn't bother with the "THIS IS ABLEIST SPEECH!!" shtick)
I've always liked the Touhou wiki (the dedicated website wiki, not the shitty fandom wikia one that regularly gets vandalised). High levels of detail (even for fangames), lots of screenshots of spellcards, a really good article about how to run touhou games on Mac or Linux, and english translations of most of the print works.
Yeah, I really like that they also have transcripts for the games, lists of fandom interpretations of the characters and translations for the encyclopedia-type books on the characters only released in Japan. Really makes it easy to find info on any of the close to two hundred characters the series has.
It's got one major problem, and it's not including all the official games' art for characters in their gallery. The top of the page shows their most recent appearance, but it doesn't show older games' sprites so you can't compare and contrast.
I only wanted to check this comment section to see if someone would mention the Touhou wiki just once, deep down somewhere, if I'm lucky. Third comment I found. Glad to see people appreciate it as much as I do
For serious use, a Fandom wiki is always going to be inferior to a dedicated alternative; however, giving the ability to whip something stupid up in an afternoon for all to see is still great. Harkipedia is my personal favorite, dedicated to the king from the CDI Zelda games and creating a whole alt-history lore around him.
The Super Mario Wiki will always be my favorite, I used to spend hours browsing through obscure Mario information and characters back in middle school. It's just one of those wikis that makes you appreciate the whole idea of surfing a website, finding new things at every corner and learning useless knowledge that makes you happy
The Jerma lore wiki is always one that’ll get a good laugh out of me and my friends, despite none of us ever watching any of his streams, and I’d say I think a lot of the NIWA wikis are quite good, in particular the Animal Crossing one has a ton of stuff on it given the amount of items, holidays, and other minor elements exist in those games. One that I know about, despite not committing myself to running it, is an entire wiki dedicated to guides of speedrunning Super Mario 64. Speedrun wikis are a bit of a rarity, but it figures that one exists for one of the most popular speed games of all time.
One of my favorite wikis is the hypothetical tornadoes wiki, people just create fake tornado events and go into extreme detail on events that never happened. Found it because it comes up when trying to search for real tornadoes lmao
something ive always loved about the hrwiki is that it has a list of every font used in the toons, and examples of their usage. has been a super useful resource of good contexts to use certain typefaces
This Might Be A Wiki is the most extensive fan wiki for anything I have ever seen. It has every show the band They Might Be Giants has every played, every song (both released and unreleased). It’s insane how extensive it is.
The Mario Wiki deserves some credit for how well put together it all is. It was a pretty invaluable resource for my Yoshi's Island video. Each stage had its own small article. I also appreciate that it's lacking the Fandom stink a lot of other large wikis have. And of course there's the cutting room floor. When a UA-camr needs to talk about prototype or beta content for a video game, tcrf is there too provide, lol
Seconding the Mario Wiki. I only used it for Super Mario Advance 4, but it had by far the most comprehensive info on the game, with each of the e-Reader levels (including all the Japan-exclusive ones) having their own articles with maps and pictures of the cards. The only thing it was missing was a deeper dive on the cut content, which is available on The Cutting Room Floor.
@@atrocity3010 I happened to contribute (a start at least) a few articles on the e-Reader levels :) Back around 2010/2011 when the level lists were incomplete with red links I felt compelled to jump on that
TCRF has to be the best wiki to just hit random page and read. WiKirby is also great for condensing the world of Kirby lore. The Emulation General Wiki and the Official Terraria Wiki are also worth a mention for how helpful they were when I used them. Some of the most impressive I know of that I don't really use are UESP and ArchWiki. I've heard high praise for both of them.
it can not be understated how important wikis are because nowadays a lot of information on subjects are being locked behind paywalls or make you Have to join a discord to get access to documentation which makes me personally very upset. Making it so you have to join a discord to get information that's hidden is so bizarre to me
so much video game stuff that would have been a gameFAQs text document 15 years ago is now either 75% ads on a Fandom-owned site or in some discord like you said
@@bingus549 y'know why? cause editing is usually free and anyone can do it. very rarely will you look up the wiki for something that *no one* knows about. And hey, if you know stuff that isn't documented, you can always make sure no one is gonna be in the dark like you, right?
My personal favorite wiki definitely has to be the Puyo Puyo Nexus wiki. It’s one of the largest repositories for Puyo Puyo specific information, going into detail about each character, and every game. I made an entire presentation about Puyo Puyo in my AP seminar class just using information from the Puyo Puyo wiki. It was a constant read for me during my school years as it was one of the few unblocked video game wikis. Definitely recommend checking it out if you’re an American Puyo Puyo fan.
The Smash Wiki is an amazingly comprehensive wiki on the whole series, documenting every character and changes made to them, single moves that each character has usually with their own individual page, weird glitches, single player modes, irl events and players (yes, which includes controversy) and more.
I absolutely adore the "kirby bulborb" wikia. it's a mostly solo ran site made by the guy who runs a youtube plush series of the same name. last time I checked, he actually updates it daily. it's incredibly thorough about subject matters that somehow all fit into the oddly extensive kirby bulborb lore. it's just always been fun rummaging around, trying to find the most absurd pages I can find. The dude is obviously incredibly dedicated to his art, and it's almost certainly some kind of outsider art. The plushy videos themselves are weirdly entertaining, too.
The They Might Be Giants wiki (This Might Be a Wiki) has: Every show they've ever played over the last fourty years listed - including the amount of wiki editors that attended. A unique entry for the history and context of every song, both released and unreleased, alongside fan interpretations of the song. Guitar, bass and drum tabs for EVERY song, in case you want to learn how to play them. Info on every project the Johns have ever worked on outside of TMBG (I've learned so much about Flansburgh's work as a music video director!) It's just...so much information, and so lovingly put together!
My personal favorite wiki is the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. It is such a useful resource on the games, along with all of the lore that exists outside the games. It has been around almost as long as the Elder Scrolls series has.
It's a pretty neat resource, for sure. One of my friends is on the UESP team, actually, so sometimes I get to hear about occasional behind the scenes stuff or weird niche things, like the recent historic change of Lore:Dragons being been moved to Lore:Dragon. Its been the former since before "Lorespace" even existed on UESP, way before Skyrim itself. Its finally been changed for consistency. Funny things like that.
As a Kirby fan and Wikirby editor, I find a lot of joy in working with them and just looking at articles. It's very organized and a lot more dedicated than the fandom wiki. I've made a lot of amazing friends there and I cherish every one of them (Hi Jelly, Sam, Kirb and everyone else!) 💜
It still really sucks that the Fandom-style Kirby Wiki gets placed higher up most times on Google searches. It's a good wiki, great even, but Wikirby's got that beautiful look, great formatting, and more!
I just could never exactly understand the beef Wikirby and r/Kirby had against the Kirby Wiki. Being an editor from the Kirby Wiki myself, it's a bit difficult to forgive and forget the disrespect that was shown to some of our members, and belittling both aforementioned parties doled out (having been around the Kirby Wiki since 2012 myself, I've seen much of it) instead of lending a helping hand, or pointing us in the right directions, instead jumping to posts and Thanks Kirby Wiki/Twitter to mock us or individual editors. I get things aren't necessarily like that these days, as it does seem to have tapered off (at least, I hope it has... admittedly I've never paid much attention to the drama that happened off the Wiki, I was just aware it happened/the knowledge was brought to me from other editors) and I've never believed in an "Us vs. Them" mentality that was pushed so frequently in the past by those two parties. I'm just happy both communities exist, I wouldn't be the same person without making the great friends that I have, all through editing on the Kirby Wiki. Let's see what the future holds for us, eh? EDIT: I do understand the way people feel about FANDOM... I suppose that people were unfairly taking their frustrations out on us because we were associated with FANDOM, which is a pity. At the end of the day though, even though we're different communities, we're still just regular people and Kirby fans. That type of stuff just shouldn't be happening...
@@dachel683 It's rather surprising at first, but once it happens a handful of times it just becomes unfortunately ordinary. Wiki's, no matter if independent or FANDOM supported, are still driven by ordinary people. There should be no type of drama at all between Wiki's... but then again, we aren't the only two communities with a history. Things like this just happen. Different people, different ideas, clashing interests... etc.
The Silent Hill wiki is pretty good. It covers things like what aspects of the characters' psyche the monsters might represent - in the good games, anyway. It had an incident a few years back where a rogue admin started changing all the pages to fit his personal pet theory where the games are secretly about the trauma of circumcision, which was pretty funny to hear about from a distance.
@@rando843 gotta be honest, I don't read the wiki. I was just assuming there wasn't much to analyse in the precise enemy choices in Thing You Recognise: The Silent Hill Diablo Game. SH4 kinda mid though
puella-magi wiki has insanely in-depth articles on everything Madoka magica, even random fan stuff. Its messy sometimes and many pages are outdated, but it's so thorough I wouldn't want it to change one bit.
My personal favorite HRWiki anecdote is that there’s a post on the wiki using spoons as an example of unnecessary wiki content (I’m not sure if it was from a mod or something), and linked on that page is a wiki article for spoons. On said article there is a line that states of “A main page pop-up says that, without this very wiki, The Brothers Chaps could not remember which toon The Cheat held a spoon in. The Cheat, incidentally, has never held a spoon in a toon. (The closest he gets is holding a whisk in yes, wrestling.) However, he does hold a spoon in Homestar Ruiner, as he mixes the Jela-Ton into the pool water.” Also, you got the official Sonic the Hedgehog account to both seemingly accidental reference Homestar Runner and refer to you as the lore master in one tweet?! That’s some neva-forgive action right there.
My favorite HRWiki moment is Homestar making a joke about rednecks that made no sense then saying, "Bwahahaha! dey do not weaw showts." And there was an argument over whether he said "Shorts" or "Shirts".
I was extremely active on the HRWiki when I was a kid from about 2008-2010 - it was my first online community. Kinda weird to think that Homestar Runner was actually getting regular updates in those days, and the site has been in its dormant state now for over a decade.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the Minecraft Wiki yet, it is very mechanically in-depth, complete with tutorials and references in case you wanted to implement the more complex ideas in your own worlds.
@@XanthinZarda Fandom buying things like gamepedia was the worst thing to happen to wikis as a whole Fandom is soaked in ads, bad design and a general lack of quality from the core
Personally my favorite wiki is Bulbapedia. Whenever I'm thinking about anything Pokémon related I can just look it up on there, whether it is to find out what moves a Pokemon learns or if something silly just comes to mind. One recent discovery I made is that Ariados can learn Psychic at level 63 in Pokémon GSC.
I'm glad you gave TFWiki a shoutout citing its snarky writing, but when it comes to covering decades old franchises with multiple reboots, that site too is also unmatched in that regard. You have disambiguation pages for every reused character name/term, detailed descriptions of every TV show, movie and comic with listings of what characters appear in it divided by faction, listings for every toy and piece of similar merchandise a character has recieved, and pages for every piece of fan jargon.
As soon as I started this video I was telling myself "man I hope he talks about Hrwiki, that's the best wiki on the internet forsure." I can't express how excited I got when you revealed it Homestarrunner influenced me so much as an artist, this rules. Thank you so much.
this wiki reminds me of the spongebob wiki, despite the fact it's on fandom. they are very organized and dedicated, they have pages for every character (including incidentals/bg characters, their original sheets, the ways those incidentals were named, etc), every episode, every track used in the show, entire transcripts, and every episode has a collection of nearly every frame from said episode. i really like it, and they are very dedicated to categorizing anything and everything spongebob related. you can even view the deleted scenes, storyboards, links to every track, etc. not to mention the subgenre of spongebob music which has its own community dedicated to ripping the unreleased tracks from the show. the list goes on, and i'd have to say that's my personal favorite wiki.
i like it a lot too, used to be very active on the social side of it (username's SwagM) but i do think it isn't as thorough as it used to be. like there used to be tons of really specific pages and plenty eventually got removed for being too specific lol
The Spongebob wiki is so useful if you remember a random quote but don't remember what episode it's from. If you just type the quote into Google, 9 times out of 10 a transcript of the episode it's from will pop up. Thank you Encyclopedia SpongeBobia.
If you need any more proof that the HRWiki is the most thorough and up-to-date wiki in existence, the brothers Mike and Matt Chapman, _the creators of the cartoon site,_ regularly use it to fact check themselves and keep the characters and timeline consistent.
The Coppermind, which is the wiki of all Brandon Sanderson stuff is fantastic. Of course it is not a fandom wiki which is very cool. One feature I really appreciate is the time machine, which lets you go back before a book was released if you want to avoid spoilers for it. It is also incredibly in depth on all the ways the books connect, and also hosts Arcanum, which has a record of basically every time Brandon has ever answered a question ever.
When I saw the video title I had a feeling you meant the H*R wiki. As for other good wikis out there, TV Tropes (yes, it's a wiki) is excellent for it's pure entertainment value as well as being a decent resource for discovering new media of all types (though for certain minds it can lead to hours lost to unending curiosity). The Cutting Room Floor is also a strong contender for it's immense wealth of information and images of unused content in video games, as well as detailed lists of regional differences and the occasionally juicy tidbit about a game's development.
Tv tropes is great! I love discovering things through it and just getting loads of ideas from reading random trop- Whoops FUCKING 20 tabs opened send help i can't stop clicking on hyperlinks
I use "WiKirby" a lot as it's my favourite wiki. It has great documentation of the Kirby games, artwork, Easter Eggs and even has a listing for "The Book Meta Knight was reading in the opening to Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Deluxe)".
Not a traditional wiki, I guess, but I think PC Gaming Wiki is one of the absolute best wikis out there for folks who wanna play old games on modern PCs. For practically every game I have that has released prior to 2012 I've gotten useful information on running them smoothly.
niwa (nintendo independent wiki alliance) is overall pretty snazzy, but wikirby to me personally is a wonderful and charming wiki with a great community backed with it. i've edited the wiki for about over two years now and it has been such a joy to see it grow back from the years it was desolate (it was founded in 2010 but only seemed to steadily pick up more traction around 2017-2019). it's lighthearted in places, while still taking its subject matter seriously. i love everyone there so much, and couldn't have asked for a better first community to become a part of... i met my very best, closest friend as well as other good friends there ❤ seriously, check it out. the community works hard to make it thorough and welcoming, with the coverage and userbase increasing consistently. it's one of the best communities on the net, in my opinion~
I don't often use Wikis, but shoutout to the Evangelion wiki for being there for me to deep dive for hours to try and make any sense of the plot of the final few episodes. Nothing like reading through a wall of text for an intangible philosophical concept, clicking a blue link halfway through, and starting a new wall of text on a huge robot that fights aliens. And as much as people shit on Wikia / Fandom wikis, you have to respect there being a free way to host consolidated knowledge for fans who simply don't have the money to host a dedicated site or programming experience to lay it out properly. Plus I've gotten a ton of mileage out of Fandom sites for niche games / shows.
It's probably not a true contender for the best wiki, but I've always appreciated how thorough the Spongebob wiki is. Each episode has a bunch of production notes, and lists things like what songs played during the episode. What's more, if you go to the page for any given song, it has the song itself, the dialogue spoken while it played, and visuals of that moment. Because of how deeply engraved some of those moments are in my memory, it's really cool to see a compilation of all that. It makes you realize how prevelant certain songs, or even certain instruments, really are.
I run a fan wiki for Crazy Frog. Thanks for making this video, I love the concept of hosting your own fan wiki on your own website as opposed to just posting on Fandom
Try Breeze Wiki, its an alternative frontend for Fandom! Self hosting is a big step. If you choose to take it, it would be cool i love to see self-hosted stuff. But there's a lot of Free Wiki Hosting services as well, there's more options than DIY vs Fandom.
I like this Digimon fanwiki called ‘wikimon’. It has a whole detailed list of every evolution a Digimon has. Plus all their attacks, weapons and the materials their armor/body is made of
I guess it's cheaper to run a fandom wiki, that's why people do it. It's just that it can get very laggy with its advertisements and idk what viruses the site is sending your way (cookies off helps a little). Having many tabs open and then especially closing them can slow down your computer or even freeze for up to minutes. It's inconvenient when you try to look up stuff for the game you are playing and since fandom wikis are less often thorough, your desired information might be on a different page/article. You can sometimes find your stuff better by doing a general google search (or asking ChatGPT now idk)
The dustloops wiki is a great wiki that covers most of the popular anime fighting games. It's has good information but also plenty of humor to go along with it. Also who could forget the legendary character bios on the super combo (formally srk) kof 98 character pages, definitely worth a read.
I love that they have a page for a shitty Fist of the North Star game that has a move that is so poorly programmed that it has a chance to make the arcade cabinet burst into flames
@@samt3412 The move hits “an infinite amount of times” and it causes the machine to get very angry. It can either crash the game, softlock the game until the timer runs out, or in rare case it causes the machine to overheat and burst into flames
There used to be a long-running fanwiki a few years back called 1d4chan. It was essentially, like many other community encyclopedias, a place where people would post and share information; specifically around table-top games like Warhammer, DnD, and other titles. However almost every single page was filled to the brim with comedic humor and dialogue between fictional characters as though they were constantly fighting over who was in control of the article. There was also an archive for fan made stories and content which made the website far more unique compared to most wikis which majorly only focus on official work or media. Sadly, I think the website was shut down a while ago or suffered some server crash, so chances are all of those stories, pages, and work are long gone.
The UESP is a pretty good wiki, it's got most things on the lore and, for skyrim at least, it's got breakdowns of every single interior with every single item in said interior.
Hell its even got a page about Oblivion's broken leveling system 😂 But yeah it has taught me a lot about Morrowind's mechanics and general lore. I've been stuck on so many quests I had to resort to UESP for help.
The non-fandom jojos bizarre adventure wiki is really great. Im also quite fond of the sonic robo blast 2 wiki, it makes learning how to mod the game incredibly accessible. i also occasionally like to think about the weirdly invasive mike and melissa fandom, as well as the back in the barnyard fandom that enjoys talking about udders and milk a little too much on certain character descriptions.
I love JoJo Encyclopedia. They take the term Dedicated to a whole nother level. Coming thru my mind, vocal percussion on a whole nother level, coming thru my mind.
I absolutely love the jojo wiki and personally believe it’s the best wiki on the internet because of how comprehensively it covers JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure as a series, with in-depth pages for each and every thing, even the individual chapters
They have transcripts to most Araki interviews which is very welcome as a source to combat people lying about the series with fake facts that no one bothers to look into. There is still one missing last I checked, one interview that supposedly was where Araki said he intended for Lisa Lisa to beat Kars' ass a lot more than in the final version but the editors didn't want that. Still not sure if that one is real but it was cited there.
I really like going to the Super Mario Wiki since it has basically everything, it has all the characters in the entire Mario series, even obscure ones. And the funniest part is, I found out the signs in Mario Galaxy are actually characters instead of objects as shown on the character page. And whoever created the Homestar Runner Wiki is the true Homestar Runner fan.
My personal favorite Wiki is probably TV Tropes. I don't know why but I can spend literal hours reading about how my favorite media uses certain tropes that also show up in other media (learning more about storytelling, fun facts and such in the process), not to mention the obligatory rabbit holes I end up going through that leave over 30 new tabs open in my browser for the next couple weeks.
I remember accidentally stumbling on a fanfiction section of a page once, and laughing my ass off at some of the crossover fics listed. I didn't even read them all the way through (just the first few pages), the crossover choices were just hilarious and I was in total shock that this existed.
Runescape / Oldschool Runescape / Runescape Classic have a great wiki. Each game has it's own wiki, but at any time you can click a button at the top of the page which will take you to the respective page for the other games if it is available. It's really cool for seeing the divergence in design and history of the game.
Shoutout to the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure wiki, incredibly thorough with both Jojo and the author’s other works, pages going over references to and in the series, galleries of a ton of the series art, and its not a nightmare to navigate on mobile
I really enjoy the Wiki Biosector01, a wiki dedicated specifically to Bionicle. It uses its own domain rather than being hosted on fandom, and does a fantastic job cataloguing and citing the most niche of Bionicle lore. It's been quite useful for my own endeavors in the community when working on lore for fan projects or just looking for details I didn't know. Even if you're not big into Bionicle I recommend checking it out to enjoy the site layout and UI!
@@planescapedwhy would they get involved in a third party client? Not Wikimedias fault the teachers can’t update to adapt to modern tech. I’d prefer they fix the ‘citation needed’ bug first. Seems every day I get on I find at least three or four, sometimes in one article! Do better, Wikipedia
BIONICLESector01 is my favorite wiki - it’s the formerly-official wiki of the BIONICLE community. It has a competitor in the Fandom wiki, but the wiki has remained independent since its inception and the owner has repeatedly rejected *buyout offers* from Fandom. It’s kind of crazy. The Fandom wiki was started by a former BIONICLESector01 user who got mad because he wasn’t allowed to make things up and put them on the wiki. BIONICLESector01 encourages and enforces a citation system, something the Fandom wiki does not do, so BIONICLESector01 is really the only reliable and trusted source in the community aside from a newer one called The Great Archives that focuses on using direct and exact wording with every claim sourced. Because BIONICLESector01 is so old, there are wide and popular misconceptions present in the fandom that seem to have originated from there, and people *today* have to perform what is essentially digital archaeology to uncover whether or not unsourced rumors that started on the wiki are actually true. There’s all sorts of crazy stuff happening in the BIONICLE community
The hrwiki is in fact pretty dang amazing. It's always a struggle not to visit there for a minute and wind up spending the next hour watching random toons based on a single entry. Also I've never come across a passage with jarringly bad grammar on it, unlike some other, larger fan wikis.
This is such a timely video (though I'm watching it 7 days late) because I recently felt inspired to contribute for the first time to an obscure, niche fan wiki to translate and archive some content that maybe all of 10 people worldwide will ever search up. But at the same time, there's been so many times that I've searched for something and been insanely grateful that some random soul made a wiki page for it, so I'm glad to have finally paid it back.
the dustloop wiki is really good to me. theres jokes for a lot of character attacks that is just a treat with all the raw data you get. I also think kiranico was invaluable to monster hunter players back in the day.
THANK YOU for mentioning how horrid Fandom wikis are. There's an autoplaying video, an ad on top or bottom with a small x, and return to life every time you refresh or go to another page
The Idolm@ster wiki (project-imas) is pretty great: song lyrics, translations, complete discographies, biographies of characters, biographies of real people, accounts of real-world events regarding the franchise, dedicated fan forum, archive of photos/videos, etc. all despite the fact that the series (games, music, manga, anime, movies, novels, events) having never been officially localized in English or had any sort of release; 100% fan-driven. Also, the webmaster for the original wiki announced that he would shut down the website at the end of 2021 after being online since 2008, but thankfully he ended up handing over the website to some people who also run the Touhou wiki, so it's been in good hands ever since.
I quite like Bulbapedia and MMKB (Mega Man Knowledge Base) myself lol; just great wikis all around filled with tons of information, and it's always just fun for me to go through them just to see something random, even if I'm just looking into something I already know Also these aren't ones I tend to look into very often, but the Super Mario Wiki, Sonic News Network, and the Kirby wiki are also very nice too, and aren't a bad way to look at something from each of those franchises whether I have the itch for it or somethin'
The rosenkreuzstilette wiki. It's a short-lived series of doujin Megaman clones with original magical girls. The way the game's lore and wiki explain everything from how a buster shot works, to the detailed backstories and relationships with characters who are effectively Megaman X bosses, it's all really charming. The games just have nice effort in the presentation, sprites, music, and story in a time before romhacking the games really took off. Not even MM9 was out yet.
The best wiki went away during Wikia's change to Fandom where they took away all the non-marketable wikis. The wiki in question: Animated Foot Wiki. While not the only wiki to document every appearance of bare feet in cartoons and anime, it was certainly the most definitive. Look up almost any show and you could find an entry. With each entry there were images of every single frame that showed the feet in question. It was amazing, and funny. haha. But, alas, it was taken down. an archive was uploaded to another wiki site, but most of the images weren't saved, and it's not updated or anything anymore. It's really a shame. All those manhours spent documenting the feet of cartoon characters, all gone. There would even be fan art on some pages. My discord avatar for the past 5 years has been an image of Sora from Kingdom Hearts sucking on Kairi's feet that I got from Kairi's page on Animated Foot Wiki. Kairi's page was unsurprisingly very well documented. Unfortunately, that avatar has gotten me banned from countless discords. Also, apparently I've been banned for "bringing up feet" too often. It's all BS though. There were never any rules in any of these servers against bringing up feet or having an avatar of someone sucking on a foot. I think they just didn't care for my personality and were too ashamed to ban someone for a reason like that, so they made up a rule about talking about feet so they didn't have to confront whatever part of themselves that didn't like me. But yeah. I don't think there will ever be a wiki as good as animated foot wiki ever again. It came at the perfect time for a wiki like that to exist, and it was destroyed as the internet became more commodified. That's some toothpaste we can never get back in the tube, and that toothpaste is made up of the countless animated feet that were sacrificed.
@@zero123alpha6 Maybe he just enjoys feet in an ironic way? I don't know the wikia to fandom change happened quite a while ago so that might be too late to be ironic over something.
cybershell, i love this video. recently ive watched through nearly every piece of homestar runner content and ive used the wiki extremely often. the show means a lot to me so having such a dedicated resource for homestar runner information has been truly great. its a really amazing wiki.
Fighting games have great wikis too, such as Mizuumi or Dustloop, if you're not a pro you'll find a use for it. It's a great resource for learning fighting games, it has flavor text, it can be funny, it has a list of notable players, it gives you background info, it's great.
The Adventure Time wiki is pretty magnificent. My favorite aspect is how each episode of show's respective articles detail things like production notes, behind the scenes, obscure facts, and easter eggs + trivia. You can also find images of storyboards and other media from the production stages. Adventure Time's wiki is massively extensive, and it was quite impressive even just three years after it first aired. Throughout my adolescence, I'd often pull up the wiki and read random stuff to pass time.
"Yes, I know you clicked this video to hear me talk about funny wikis and now I'm explaining the differences between the DVD and UA-cam versions of a two decade old flash cartoon, if you have a problem with that; too bad, you can't leave now, the video is almost over. Sunk cost fallacy." LMAO, this cracked me up, definitely one of the best things I ever heard this year.
Funny story. A couple of friends and I started a weekly tradition where we go through and look at old Homestar Runner stuff in (mostly) chronological order. This video was uploaded and we saw the notification while I was screensharing some Trogdor the Board Game stuff. We joked about what the video might be about, saying "oh maybe hrwiki gets a mention, haha!" and moved on. We ended up watching this video after one of our friends got off, and needless to say we weren't let down. This was an awesome surprise.
the Warrior Cats wiki is ridiculously thorough. it documents 1000+ characters and their every appearance. it documents every mistake made in each book (there are plenty). it's been documenting the family trees of these cats long before the official site made their own version. it has a timeline breaking down when every event happened, and pinpointing character births and deaths whenever possible. the authors have admitted to using the wiki themselves.
"A real-life blindfold usually disables the wearer's sight instead of preventing sight-deteriorating effects"
-Terraria Wiki
Lol
Though sight deteriorating effects in real life are often blocked by a blindfold
@@jek__ thats like saying getting shot in the heart prevents any future headaches
Why is that funny? I don't even play Terraria and hardly get it.
(before you decide I should be smite down, i have it on my Steam wishlist, calm down)
@@TheEmeraldSword04 It's mostly because it's obvious and the wiki is mostly serious with giving its info.
It's like saying "eating pizza in real-life is slower than eating it in game".
The HR wiki now says "Cybershell" instead of "a user". Good job, Lore Master, you have immortalized your name.
I spent hours on this place when I was 12. This legit is one of those rare instances where the niche subject feels directly targetted at me.
Whoa it's Doobus Goobus
aw yeah, goobus TAKE THAT LOAD
Fun fact: Strong Bad HIMSELF uses and acknowledges this wiki in an official HSR video when he can't figure out a fan's intentionally-obscure Halloween costume and has to look up who it is
Hah that’s great.
The wiki is also given special thanks in the telltale game
Wow, you've done it, Sega finally knows who you are. Amy even called you the Lore Master meaning that Sega knows Cybershell is the Sonic Lore Master. All my respect goes to you.
I just realized that Sega also knows who's the Motherfu~
I noticed that too, and I'm so bloody happy for Cybershell, and impressed by Sega/Sonic's developers/marketing
@@josephwilson3180 13:35
It blew my fucking mind when she said that.
Amy? With her three big smooth arcs of hair? Cybershell is a lucky man...
my favorite wiki is definitely the Super Mario Wiki, which has standards of quality and professionalism higher than literally any other fanwiki I've ever seen. basically every time I've used a Fandom wiki for something I've always had the thought "dang. this would be so much better if it was following the editorial standards of the Super Mario Wiki instead of what it's doing here"
The Mario wiki is so good. And they have pictures for EVERYTHING, every little enemy from Mario 64 has transparent renders, that must have taken forever.
Cool but how many Super Mario games are there?
@@yurifairy2969 That's the main gripe I have with the doctor who wiki. It has insane amounts of info all cited excellently, but the main thing it lacks is pictures. It has barely any images throughout the body of the article and the main one at the top is always a face closeup so its a terrible resource when you need image references.
Oh hi Jan what are you doing here
@@1Pidds Why Are People Always Surprised To See UA-camrs On UA-cam. I Work Here
I love how Amy called you "Lore Master" on 'accident'. Either they did their research or the voice actors or writers for that segment know you. Either way, on top of them making the reference, I can imagine hearing that felt pretty good.
His last video IS a payed promotion, talking about lore. It's safe to asume he IS a lore master
Since you mentioned They Might Be Giants, I should note that there wiki is just as detailed the Homestar Runner Wiki. It's called This Might Be A Wiki and every song they've made has a page on this wiki, even each songs demos or released live versions. Each song page has all the albums it appeared in and when it was first performed live. There are also pages dedicated to every live show a song is played, song themes, a page where you can write you own meaning of the song, a page showing different versions of that song with links to pages of there own, guitar and bass tabs, and even a page about songs that have been mistaken as TMBG songs.
TMBW is great!
Hunters & Collectors also has a wiki like this, as does NIN. I’m so glad that there are fans living their best life like this, especially when it comes to listening to demos 😂
Weezerpedia is also good
They have pages for live versions of songs from a live CD they sold twice at shows in 1994.
I like how this channel went from video games to basically anything that crosses your mind
Classic UA-cam at its finest
Imagine if Cybershell collaborated with Atomic Shrimp on something....
like jan misali and conlangs
I think Cybershell being such a long-time internet user helps when it comes to thinking of obscure topics to make videos on
Fr, I can confirm as Saul Goodman
A few of my favorite wikis
Stardew Valley's wiki is mostly written by Eric Barone, the game's developer, and is accurate to the point of speedrunners and challenge runners going by information on the wiki over their own memory
The Ultrakill wiki is awash with jokes after a big UA-camr made a joke about editing the wiki to change the lore
The Super Mario Wiki is notoriously thorough to the point that when the official Super Mario Encyclopedia came out it had several entries that were partially or fully copied from the wiki, all of these instances of copying are documented on the wiki.
"runners going by information on the wiki over their own memory" What thats absolutley the reverse of the current reality?? For YEARS the admins have refused to change shit because speedrunners discovered them. "The Wiki is right" is literally a meme at this point???
"all of these instances of copying are documented on the wiki." lol
Mario Wiki is fantastic, I love how they list the references to previous games on every game’s page.
Concerned Ape made the wiki himself? Massive respect honestly
Barone is based for essentially writing his documentation in a wiki format and making it public
Logopedia is one of my personal favourites, because they have literally every logo known to man documented on it, the designers of said logos, and how the logo has evolved over time.
i absolutely adore the splatoon wiki "inkipedia" cuz they got literally EVERYTHING about this game on here. translation differences, deciphering the in game language, pages about obscure characters only appearing in haikara walker its fucking great
side note: man i've been seeing homestar runner related content a lot more lately
Don't forget they showcase the splatfest top 100 for every team in every region.
im pretty sure you cant really decipher the language
because its mostly gibberish
@@Octol1ng dude, there's literally an entire page on inkipedia deciphering the language.
@@Octol1ng rassicas has a 30 minute video about how it was deciphered
@@SquiddoSquid will check that, thank you
I could watch a 45-minute Cybershell video about paint drying and it would still be a banger.
Do not give him ideas.
Okay but what about a 15 minute video about Wikipedia
@@ChicaneryBear I would actually watch him talk of paint drying, it would be so good
npc comment
Well he already did an hour and a half video about Chao which is basically the same thing
Funnily enough, I went as "Anonymous Contributor" for Halloween one year, which actually made Strong Bad himself reference the wiki itself on one of the official "Fan Costumes" compilations.
you were the man who made them change the page name from "Anonymous" to "Anonymous Contributor"
Oh, that was you! You’re a legend man. Great job.
The wiki has been referenced in homestar cartoons a few times since then. You started a new trend!
@@RunstarHomer A lot of the commentary tracks reference the wiki in some fashion or another, if that counts as well.
Oh crap I remember that lol.
I like fanon wikis that go into absurd detail about things that don't even exist.
Of note is the Plants vs. Zombies Character Creator wiki, which has fanmade plants and zombies... but they also have a category which shows some entries that were made canon. Always accidentally of course, but sometimes the similarities between the fanon and the canon depictions are surprisingly close.
Ah, I remember that website. It was like a fever dream for my oblivious 10 year old ESL brain.
there is an entire wiki about hypothetical tornadoes, detailing fictional tornado outbreaks and storms, but the entire thing is subject to OC power creep so like 90% of the pages are overpowered EF8 Super Tornadoes with a death toll of 500 million and $50 quadrillion damage
I know the knock off fandom version of the Mario wiki would list Bowsers second cousins and distant uncles, from games like NSMBW: The UNDERGROUND and NSMBW: The HIGH SKY, everything I mentioned never actually existed.
QQQ
The spongebob fanon wiki is on SEASON 373
My favourite wiki has to be the standalone version of the JoJo wiki.
Every character has a list of appearances, their main color palletes across the series, and an in-depth gallery, and in turn each piece of JoJo material has a list of characters that appear within it, whether it be the anime, the manga, any Spin-offs, etc., they have character appearance lists going by part, by volume/episode or even by individual chapters. It even has pages for interviews with Araki, the many pictures he's used for inspiration for his poses, galleries of the model sheets used in the anime and in the Phantom Blood film, and even a page for detailing all of the times when a certain song was played in every episode of the Anime and the OVAs, going as far as putting timestamps for when they are played. It also has information about Araki's other works as well.
The Touhou Wiki has to have an honourable mention here, it not only provides information about the official games, but also details fan content and info about certain series that are connected to Touhou.
The JoJo Wiki deserves more praise. They surely put their whole soul in informating the fandom, news, minigames, translations, interviews. It's a must-check.
I was going to say this. There’s even a page compiling all of the people who have worked on the series. They’re super dedicated!
jojowiki writers would get their own little stands all about gathering in-depth information about people.
The Old School Runescape Wiki has to be my favourite, a wiki so essential that they baked a "lookup on wiki" function into the game's UI. It's not just useful and comprehensive, it's also right up there with the dwarf fortress wiki as one of the most entertaining things to read out of context. Just smash the random page button a few times, you won't regret it.
Came here to say the runescape wikis too
I was about to write up a good summary of the OSRS Wiki (RS3 has just a good wiki too since it's a sister site). Glad you mentioned it here, it deserves all the love it can get.
I think the worst wiki is the rs wiki. The admins are either paedos or corrupt and nepotistic. There's constant infighting, drama, backstabbing, and gossip behind the scenes that they don't show publicly, and my god they're some of the most insufferable people I've ever seen. It wouldn't surprise me if they got a notification from me simply saying "RS wiki," as I know for a fact they search and review every single mention they get on reddit.
Do you understand just how up your own ass you have to be to do that?
How do i like the game, idk what to do nor what i could want to do, im lost.
@@aaronsound Look up Josh Strife Hayes Beginners Guide to Oldschool Runescape
I think The Cutting Room Floor is my favorite to just browse here and there. It isn’t quite as extensive but the content they cover is so much fun to sift through. That and the pages can sometimes have some fun gags.
Oh yeah some of the pictures have funny names if you hover your mouse over them for a few seconds
They've removed pages for some unlicensed Super Famicom games I'm really interested in so I don't use them for casual browsing anymore.
@@raspberry1440kb what's the story on that?
Yeah care to elaborate? Haven't heard of this personally.
@@gmestanley2214 I want to see al pages with the funny text 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱:)
I love how the Ed Edd n’ Eddy Wiki has every episode transcripted. You can quote anything from that show(unless it’s a mishear), and you can search it up and see what episode it’s from. It’s surprisingly convenient if you’re obsessed with the show, like I am right now.
Hmm, most shows have transcript pages
Personally I love the Sound Effects Wiki, it's a surprisingly thorough wiki about specific sound effects used in cartoons, shows, movies, games etc. If there's a sound effect I know in my head but don't know the name of I wanna use in a project of mine (especially if I can't find it in my personal SFX horde due to how said sound effect's file might be labelled), it's a great resource to find out what the sound is called and even what sound effects library it originates from. Once you get past the vibe of it being run by a bunch of weird autismos that get _really_ obsessed over sound effects used in children's media, it's a really fascinating wiki.
yeah, autistic people tend to overrun fandom/miraheze wikis. (i'm autistic, so anyone reading this shouldn't bother with the "THIS IS ABLEIST SPEECH!!" shtick)
I've always liked the Touhou wiki (the dedicated website wiki, not the shitty fandom wikia one that regularly gets vandalised). High levels of detail (even for fangames), lots of screenshots of spellcards, a really good article about how to run touhou games on Mac or Linux, and english translations of most of the print works.
Yeah, I really like that they also have transcripts for the games, lists of fandom interpretations of the characters and translations for the encyclopedia-type books on the characters only released in Japan. Really makes it easy to find info on any of the close to two hundred characters the series has.
It's got one major problem, and it's not including all the official games' art for characters in their gallery. The top of the page shows their most recent appearance, but it doesn't show older games' sprites so you can't compare and contrast.
I only wanted to check this comment section to see if someone would mention the Touhou wiki just once, deep down somewhere, if I'm lucky.
Third comment I found. Glad to see people appreciate it as much as I do
@@trustytrest That’s in the gallery.
Shoutout to the Chinese variant of the wiki just for being way more detailed than the western counterpart for some reason
For serious use, a Fandom wiki is always going to be inferior to a dedicated alternative; however, giving the ability to whip something stupid up in an afternoon for all to see is still great. Harkipedia is my personal favorite, dedicated to the king from the CDI Zelda games and creating a whole alt-history lore around him.
The Super Mario Wiki will always be my favorite, I used to spend hours browsing through obscure Mario information and characters back in middle school. It's just one of those wikis that makes you appreciate the whole idea of surfing a website, finding new things at every corner and learning useless knowledge that makes you happy
The Jerma lore wiki is always one that’ll get a good laugh out of me and my friends, despite none of us ever watching any of his streams, and I’d say I think a lot of the NIWA wikis are quite good, in particular the Animal Crossing one has a ton of stuff on it given the amount of items, holidays, and other minor elements exist in those games. One that I know about, despite not committing myself to running it, is an entire wiki dedicated to guides of speedrunning Super Mario 64. Speedrun wikis are a bit of a rarity, but it figures that one exists for one of the most popular speed games of all time.
You've never seen a jerma stream and you read the jerma lore wiki
@@VEE0034 A. The lack of context in some scenarios makes it funnier
B. We have enough awareness of Jerma’s general antics that I’d say it works.
I can't believe cybershell didn't fade into the ether the moment he got the voice cast to make a homestar runner reference, his life's work complete
One of my favorite wikis is the hypothetical tornadoes wiki, people just create fake tornado events and go into extreme detail on events that never happened. Found it because it comes up when trying to search for real tornadoes lmao
something ive always loved about the hrwiki is that it has a list of every font used in the toons, and examples of their usage. has been a super useful resource of good contexts to use certain typefaces
This Might Be A Wiki is the most extensive fan wiki for anything I have ever seen. It has every show the band They Might Be Giants has every played, every song (both released and unreleased). It’s insane how extensive it is.
The Mario Wiki deserves some credit for how well put together it all is. It was a pretty invaluable resource for my Yoshi's Island video. Each stage had its own small article. I also appreciate that it's lacking the Fandom stink a lot of other large wikis have.
And of course there's the cutting room floor. When a UA-camr needs to talk about prototype or beta content for a video game, tcrf is there too provide, lol
...or the UA-camrs just read the cutting room floor article in its entirety 🤓
@@succojones with blurry gifs and frame smoothing
Seconding the Mario Wiki. I only used it for Super Mario Advance 4, but it had by far the most comprehensive info on the game, with each of the e-Reader levels (including all the Japan-exclusive ones) having their own articles with maps and pictures of the cards. The only thing it was missing was a deeper dive on the cut content, which is available on The Cutting Room Floor.
That’s my choice. I feel like I learn something new every time I look at it.
@@atrocity3010 I happened to contribute (a start at least) a few articles on the e-Reader levels :) Back around 2010/2011 when the level lists were incomplete with red links I felt compelled to jump on that
TCRF has to be the best wiki to just hit random page and read. WiKirby is also great for condensing the world of Kirby lore.
The Emulation General Wiki and the Official Terraria Wiki are also worth a mention for how helpful they were when I used them.
Some of the most impressive I know of that I don't really use are UESP and ArchWiki. I've heard high praise for both of them.
it can not be understated how important wikis are because nowadays a lot of information on subjects are being locked behind paywalls or make you Have to join a discord to get access to documentation which makes me personally very upset. Making it so you have to join a discord to get information that's hidden is so bizarre to me
so much video game stuff that would have been a gameFAQs text document 15 years ago is now either 75% ads on a Fandom-owned site or in some discord like you said
Yea. As someone who refuses to use discord it's kind of a bummer how much shit is 'paywalled' by it.
The problem is a lot of the time the info is confidently incorrect or incomplete or biased but nowadays its treated like an actual encyclopedia
@@bingus549 y'know why? cause editing is usually free and anyone can do it. very rarely will you look up the wiki for something that *no one* knows about. And hey, if you know stuff that isn't documented, you can always make sure no one is gonna be in the dark like you, right?
@@SoupwithSeafood A wiki is a reliable and trusted source, most of the time. And it collects all the information onto one website, so there you go.
My personal favorite wiki definitely has to be the Puyo Puyo Nexus wiki. It’s one of the largest repositories for Puyo Puyo specific information, going into detail about each character, and every game. I made an entire presentation about Puyo Puyo in my AP seminar class just using information from the Puyo Puyo wiki. It was a constant read for me during my school years as it was one of the few unblocked video game wikis. Definitely recommend checking it out if you’re an American Puyo Puyo fan.
Never thought puyo would be anywhere here in this comment section ngl
The Smash Wiki is an amazingly comprehensive wiki on the whole series, documenting every character and changes made to them, single moves that each character has usually with their own individual page, weird glitches, single player modes, irl events and players (yes, which includes controversy) and more.
I absolutely adore the "kirby bulborb" wikia. it's a mostly solo ran site made by the guy who runs a youtube plush series of the same name. last time I checked, he actually updates it daily. it's incredibly thorough about subject matters that somehow all fit into the oddly extensive kirby bulborb lore.
it's just always been fun rummaging around, trying to find the most absurd pages I can find. The dude is obviously incredibly dedicated to his art, and it's almost certainly some kind of outsider art. The plushy videos themselves are weirdly entertaining, too.
I did not expect to see someone know Kirby Bulborb in the wild. I remember seeing him do stuff with Pikminjake and Harvestmoon8109 almost a decade ago
The They Might Be Giants wiki (This Might Be a Wiki) has:
Every show they've ever played over the last fourty years listed - including the amount of wiki editors that attended.
A unique entry for the history and context of every song, both released and unreleased, alongside fan interpretations of the song.
Guitar, bass and drum tabs for EVERY song, in case you want to learn how to play them.
Info on every project the Johns have ever worked on outside of TMBG (I've learned so much about Flansburgh's work as a music video director!)
It's just...so much information, and so lovingly put together!
But it can't say with confidence if they're giants or not.
My personal favorite wiki is the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. It is such a useful resource on the games, along with all of the lore that exists outside the games. It has been around almost as long as the Elder Scrolls series has.
It's a pretty neat resource, for sure. One of my friends is on the UESP team, actually, so sometimes I get to hear about occasional behind the scenes stuff or weird niche things, like the recent historic change of Lore:Dragons being been moved to Lore:Dragon. Its been the former since before "Lorespace" even existed on UESP, way before Skyrim itself. Its finally been changed for consistency. Funny things like that.
As a Kirby fan and Wikirby editor, I find a lot of joy in working with them and just looking at articles. It's very organized and a lot more dedicated than the fandom wiki. I've made a lot of amazing friends there and I cherish every one of them (Hi Jelly, Sam, Kirb and everyone else!) 💜
It still really sucks that the Fandom-style Kirby Wiki gets placed higher up most times on Google searches. It's a good wiki, great even, but Wikirby's got that beautiful look, great formatting, and more!
I just could never exactly understand the beef Wikirby and r/Kirby had against the Kirby Wiki. Being an editor from the Kirby Wiki myself, it's a bit difficult to forgive and forget the disrespect that was shown to some of our members, and belittling both aforementioned parties doled out (having been around the Kirby Wiki since 2012 myself, I've seen much of it) instead of lending a helping hand, or pointing us in the right directions, instead jumping to posts and Thanks Kirby Wiki/Twitter to mock us or individual editors.
I get things aren't necessarily like that these days, as it does seem to have tapered off (at least, I hope it has... admittedly I've never paid much attention to the drama that happened off the Wiki, I was just aware it happened/the knowledge was brought to me from other editors) and I've never believed in an "Us vs. Them" mentality that was pushed so frequently in the past by those two parties.
I'm just happy both communities exist, I wouldn't be the same person without making the great friends that I have, all through editing on the Kirby Wiki. Let's see what the future holds for us, eh?
EDIT: I do understand the way people feel about FANDOM... I suppose that people were unfairly taking their frustrations out on us because we were associated with FANDOM, which is a pity. At the end of the day though, even though we're different communities, we're still just regular people and Kirby fans. That type of stuff just shouldn't be happening...
@@Dylan-xx2tk what im surprised about is people getting into fights over wikis at all
@@dachel683 It's rather surprising at first, but once it happens a handful of times it just becomes unfortunately ordinary.
Wiki's, no matter if independent or FANDOM supported, are still driven by ordinary people. There should be no type of drama at all between Wiki's... but then again, we aren't the only two communities with a history. Things like this just happen. Different people, different ideas, clashing interests... etc.
The Kirby live radio wiki…
The Silent Hill wiki is pretty good. It covers things like what aspects of the characters' psyche the monsters might represent - in the good games, anyway. It had an incident a few years back where a rogue admin started changing all the pages to fit his personal pet theory where the games are secretly about the trauma of circumcision, which was pretty funny to hear about from a distance.
Don't remind me.
Oh my god the Silent Hill Circumcison fiasco. That's something I had shoved way deep in my mind.
The Circumcision Wars will be a tale told years from now.
I don't appreciate implying SH4 is not one of the good games though >:(
the circumcision wiki thing is pretty much the only think I know about Silent Hill at all tbh
@@rando843 gotta be honest, I don't read the wiki. I was just assuming there wasn't much to analyse in the precise enemy choices in Thing You Recognise: The Silent Hill Diablo Game.
SH4 kinda mid though
puella-magi wiki has insanely in-depth articles on everything Madoka magica, even random fan stuff. Its messy sometimes and many pages are outdated, but it's so thorough I wouldn't want it to change one bit.
My personal favorite HRWiki anecdote is that there’s a post on the wiki using spoons as an example of unnecessary wiki content (I’m not sure if it was from a mod or something), and linked on that page is a wiki article for spoons. On said article there is a line that states of “A main page pop-up says that, without this very wiki, The Brothers Chaps could not remember which toon The Cheat held a spoon in. The Cheat, incidentally, has never held a spoon in a toon. (The closest he gets is holding a whisk in yes, wrestling.) However, he does hold a spoon in Homestar Ruiner, as he mixes the Jela-Ton into the pool water.”
Also, you got the official Sonic the Hedgehog account to both seemingly accidental reference Homestar Runner and refer to you as the lore master in one tweet?! That’s some neva-forgive action right there.
My favorite HRWiki moment is Homestar making a joke about rednecks that made no sense then saying, "Bwahahaha! dey do not weaw showts." And there was an argument over whether he said "Shorts" or "Shirts".
@@reillymcwriting Yeah, that one’s good too. Did they ever even really resolve that? I remember it just being noted at the bottom of the page.
I was extremely active on the HRWiki when I was a kid from about 2008-2010 - it was my first online community. Kinda weird to think that Homestar Runner was actually getting regular updates in those days, and the site has been in its dormant state now for over a decade.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the Minecraft Wiki yet, it is very mechanically in-depth, complete with tutorials and references in case you wanted to implement the more complex ideas in your own worlds.
I miss the old wiki
Minecraft wiki's kinda mid tbh, I'll usually just watch youtube tutorials instead if i need help with stuff
The Minecraft Wiki used to be good.
Then it got Fandumbed.
@@gplastic me too.
@@XanthinZarda Fandom buying things like gamepedia was the worst thing to happen to wikis as a whole
Fandom is soaked in ads, bad design and a general lack of quality from the core
Personally my favorite wiki is Bulbapedia. Whenever I'm thinking about anything Pokémon related I can just look it up on there, whether it is to find out what moves a Pokemon learns or if something silly just comes to mind.
One recent discovery I made is that Ariados can learn Psychic at level 63 in Pokémon GSC.
I'm glad you gave TFWiki a shoutout citing its snarky writing, but when it comes to covering decades old franchises with multiple reboots, that site too is also unmatched in that regard. You have disambiguation pages for every reused character name/term, detailed descriptions of every TV show, movie and comic with listings of what characters appear in it divided by faction, listings for every toy and piece of similar merchandise a character has recieved, and pages for every piece of fan jargon.
I love how Cyber manages to trojan horse a bunch of really interesting stuff into an otherwise unrelated video. Hell yeah, Loremaster.
Absolute master of the craft
Reminds me of a family guy plot setup.
Thank you Mr Loremaster for asking Knuckles that important question.
I really enjoy the sonichu wiki. It's amazing how much you can know about an individual that you never met.
“There must be more written about Chris Chan then George Washington”
-Harry Partridge
As soon as I started this video I was telling myself "man I hope he talks about Hrwiki, that's the best wiki on the internet forsure." I can't express how excited I got when you revealed it
Homestarrunner influenced me so much as an artist, this rules. Thank you so much.
this wiki reminds me of the spongebob wiki, despite the fact it's on fandom. they are very organized and dedicated, they have pages for every character (including incidentals/bg characters, their original sheets, the ways those incidentals were named, etc), every episode, every track used in the show, entire transcripts, and every episode has a collection of nearly every frame from said episode. i really like it, and they are very dedicated to categorizing anything and everything spongebob related. you can even view the deleted scenes, storyboards, links to every track, etc. not to mention the subgenre of spongebob music which has its own community dedicated to ripping the unreleased tracks from the show. the list goes on, and i'd have to say that's my personal favorite wiki.
i like it a lot too, used to be very active on the social side of it (username's SwagM) but i do think it isn't as thorough as it used to be.
like there used to be tons of really specific pages and plenty eventually got removed for being too specific lol
The Spongebob wiki is so useful if you remember a random quote but don't remember what episode it's from. If you just type the quote into Google, 9 times out of 10 a transcript of the episode it's from will pop up. Thank you Encyclopedia SpongeBobia.
If you need any more proof that the HRWiki is the most thorough and up-to-date wiki in existence, the brothers Mike and Matt Chapman, _the creators of the cartoon site,_ regularly use it to fact check themselves and keep the characters and timeline consistent.
The Coppermind, which is the wiki of all Brandon Sanderson stuff is fantastic. Of course it is not a fandom wiki which is very cool. One feature I really appreciate is the time machine, which lets you go back before a book was released if you want to avoid spoilers for it. It is also incredibly in depth on all the ways the books connect, and also hosts Arcanum, which has a record of basically every time Brandon has ever answered a question ever.
When I saw the video title I had a feeling you meant the H*R wiki. As for other good wikis out there, TV Tropes (yes, it's a wiki) is excellent for it's pure entertainment value as well as being a decent resource for discovering new media of all types (though for certain minds it can lead to hours lost to unending curiosity). The Cutting Room Floor is also a strong contender for it's immense wealth of information and images of unused content in video games, as well as detailed lists of regional differences and the occasionally juicy tidbit about a game's development.
I love browsing TV Tropes, even though i mostly just look at the pages on video games. They can have some really interesting trivia on there
Tv tropes is great! I love discovering things through it and just getting loads of ideas from reading random trop- Whoops FUCKING 20 tabs opened send help i can't stop clicking on hyperlinks
Finally somebody said it!
TV Tropes is mostly good but the people running the site are like fucking insane and make some of the worst changes known to man
@@rando843 Hence why I prefer the All the Tropes alternate.
I'm glad you found some way to immortalize being called the Loremaster while also getting the Sonic cast to answer a Homestar Runner reference.
I use "WiKirby" a lot as it's my favourite wiki. It has great documentation of the Kirby games, artwork, Easter Eggs and even has a listing for "The Book Meta Knight was reading in the opening to Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Deluxe)".
Not a traditional wiki, I guess, but I think PC Gaming Wiki is one of the absolute best wikis out there for folks who wanna play old games on modern PCs. For practically every game I have that has released prior to 2012 I've gotten useful information on running them smoothly.
Honestly, Cybershell could talk about the various types of sandwiches he likes and I'd still be entertained.
seconded, cybershell please treat this as a request to make a sandwich video
He's already done that years ago, taught us how to make his favorite sandwich
He made a sandwich in his hit series: cooking with cybershell
How fitting that jan Misali replied on this video-- people give 'em that compliment all the time!
niwa (nintendo independent wiki alliance) is overall pretty snazzy, but wikirby to me personally is a wonderful and charming wiki with a great community backed with it. i've edited the wiki for about over two years now and it has been such a joy to see it grow back from the years it was desolate (it was founded in 2010 but only seemed to steadily pick up more traction around 2017-2019). it's lighthearted in places, while still taking its subject matter seriously. i love everyone there so much, and couldn't have asked for a better first community to become a part of... i met my very best, closest friend as well as other good friends there ❤
seriously, check it out. the community works hard to make it thorough and welcoming, with the coverage and userbase increasing consistently. it's one of the best communities on the net, in my opinion~
Agreed~!
So true.
I don't often use Wikis, but shoutout to the Evangelion wiki for being there for me to deep dive for hours to try and make any sense of the plot of the final few episodes. Nothing like reading through a wall of text for an intangible philosophical concept, clicking a blue link halfway through, and starting a new wall of text on a huge robot that fights aliens.
And as much as people shit on Wikia / Fandom wikis, you have to respect there being a free way to host consolidated knowledge for fans who simply don't have the money to host a dedicated site or programming experience to lay it out properly. Plus I've gotten a ton of mileage out of Fandom sites for niche games / shows.
Well, there you go
It's probably not a true contender for the best wiki, but I've always appreciated how thorough the Spongebob wiki is. Each episode has a bunch of production notes, and lists things like what songs played during the episode. What's more, if you go to the page for any given song, it has the song itself, the dialogue spoken while it played, and visuals of that moment. Because of how deeply engraved some of those moments are in my memory, it's really cool to see a compilation of all that. It makes you realize how prevelant certain songs, or even certain instruments, really are.
I run a fan wiki for Crazy Frog. Thanks for making this video, I love the concept of hosting your own fan wiki on your own website as opposed to just posting on Fandom
Bing-bing!
@VisualPlugin the Multlingual Programmer ....instead of realising no one under 69 has seen ads online in 20 years?
@VisualPlugin the Multlingual Programmer I think he's referring to the fact that adblock has been a thing since 2005.
Try Breeze Wiki, its an alternative frontend for Fandom!
Self hosting is a big step. If you choose to take it, it would be cool i love to see self-hosted stuff. But there's a lot of Free Wiki Hosting services as well, there's more options than DIY vs Fandom.
you run the funniest site on the net?
The MUGEN database.
1. I'm not biased.
2. It counts.
I like this Digimon fanwiki called ‘wikimon’. It has a whole detailed list of every evolution a Digimon has. Plus all their attacks, weapons and the materials their armor/body is made of
I guess it's cheaper to run a fandom wiki, that's why people do it. It's just that it can get very laggy with its advertisements and idk what viruses the site is sending your way (cookies off helps a little). Having many tabs open and then especially closing them can slow down your computer or even freeze for up to minutes. It's inconvenient when you try to look up stuff for the game you are playing and since fandom wikis are less often thorough, your desired information might be on a different page/article. You can sometimes find your stuff better by doing a general google search (or asking ChatGPT now idk)
The dustloops wiki is a great wiki that covers most of the popular anime fighting games. It's has good information but also plenty of humor to go along with it. Also who could forget the legendary character bios on the super combo (formally srk) kof 98 character pages, definitely worth a read.
so true! love dustloop and supercombo, also mizumi
I love that they have a page for a shitty Fist of the North Star game that has a move that is so poorly programmed that it has a chance to make the arcade cabinet burst into flames
"Unfortunately, no longer blows out your speakers" - Tyrant Rave, Xrd
@Toxic-Pyro how do you program a game so badly it not only breaks the game, but breaks the machine itself?
@@samt3412 The move hits “an infinite amount of times” and it causes the machine to get very angry. It can either crash the game, softlock the game until the timer runs out, or in rare case it causes the machine to overheat and burst into flames
I'm surprised there's no mention of Encyclopedia Dramatica
Probably because it’s basically an hate site
There used to be a long-running fanwiki a few years back called 1d4chan. It was essentially, like many other community encyclopedias, a place where people would post and share information; specifically around table-top games like Warhammer, DnD, and other titles. However almost every single page was filled to the brim with comedic humor and dialogue between fictional characters as though they were constantly fighting over who was in control of the article. There was also an archive for fan made stories and content which made the website far more unique compared to most wikis which majorly only focus on official work or media. Sadly, I think the website was shut down a while ago or suffered some server crash, so chances are all of those stories, pages, and work are long gone.
The UESP is a pretty good wiki, it's got most things on the lore and, for skyrim at least, it's got breakdowns of every single interior with every single item in said interior.
Hell its even got a page about Oblivion's broken leveling system 😂 But yeah it has taught me a lot about Morrowind's mechanics and general lore. I've been stuck on so many quests I had to resort to UESP for help.
The non-fandom jojos bizarre adventure wiki is really great. Im also quite fond of the sonic robo blast 2 wiki, it makes learning how to mod the game incredibly accessible. i also occasionally like to think about the weirdly invasive mike and melissa fandom, as well as the back in the barnyard fandom that enjoys talking about udders and milk a little too much on certain character descriptions.
I love JoJo Encyclopedia. They take the term Dedicated to a whole nother level.
Coming thru my mind, vocal percussion on a whole nother level, coming thru my mind.
Got banned from Wikipedia for editing my schools page to include a time someone shat in the Urinal
You go champ
Was it a high school?
Wikipedia moderators are literally 1984, wtf.
bro your pfp of Cartman fits with the comment lmaoooo
I absolutely love the jojo wiki and personally believe it’s the best wiki on the internet because of how comprehensively it covers JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure as a series, with in-depth pages for each and every thing, even the individual chapters
The staff is truly the definition of dedicated.
They have transcripts to most Araki interviews which is very welcome as a source to combat people lying about the series with fake facts that no one bothers to look into.
There is still one missing last I checked, one interview that supposedly was where Araki said he intended for Lisa Lisa to beat Kars' ass a lot more than in the final version but the editors didn't want that. Still not sure if that one is real but it was cited there.
I really like going to the Super Mario Wiki since it has basically everything, it has all the characters in the entire Mario series, even obscure ones. And the funniest part is, I found out the signs in Mario Galaxy are actually characters instead of objects as shown on the character page.
And whoever created the Homestar Runner Wiki is the true Homestar Runner fan.
My personal favorite Wiki is probably TV Tropes. I don't know why but I can spend literal hours reading about how my favorite media uses certain tropes that also show up in other media (learning more about storytelling, fun facts and such in the process), not to mention the obligatory rabbit holes I end up going through that leave over 30 new tabs open in my browser for the next couple weeks.
I remember accidentally stumbling on a fanfiction section of a page once, and laughing my ass off at some of the crossover fics listed. I didn't even read them all the way through (just the first few pages), the crossover choices were just hilarious and I was in total shock that this existed.
there's some really in depth articles for things you have never heard of on there, it's nuts
@@delusion5867 What were the crossovers?
@@sailorshark3334 I think one of them was TF2 (team fortress 2) x steven universe
@@delusion5867 lmao wut
Runescape / Oldschool Runescape / Runescape Classic have a great wiki. Each game has it's own wiki, but at any time you can click a button at the top of the page which will take you to the respective page for the other games if it is available. It's really cool for seeing the divergence in design and history of the game.
Shoutout to the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure wiki, incredibly thorough with both Jojo and the author’s other works, pages going over references to and in the series, galleries of a ton of the series art, and its not a nightmare to navigate on mobile
I really enjoy the Wiki Biosector01, a wiki dedicated specifically to Bionicle. It uses its own domain rather than being hosted on fandom, and does a fantastic job cataloguing and citing the most niche of Bionicle lore. It's been quite useful for my own endeavors in the community when working on lore for fan projects or just looking for details I didn't know. Even if you're not big into Bionicle I recommend checking it out to enjoy the site layout and UI!
Holy shit he's back and he's now doing content everyone's favourite video game. Wikipedia.
I think I played that game back in highschool. Though they still hadn't patched the whole "valid source" glitch that teachers had.
Indeed, Sakamoto-san
So true Sakamoto
@@planescapedwhy would they get involved in a third party client? Not Wikimedias fault the teachers can’t update to adapt to modern tech.
I’d prefer they fix the ‘citation needed’ bug first. Seems every day I get on I find at least three or four, sometimes in one article!
Do better, Wikipedia
@@planescapedFuck those teachers there are some dedicated motherfuckers who just sit there and edit wikis for free. Valid source my ass.
BIONICLESector01 is my favorite wiki - it’s the formerly-official wiki of the BIONICLE community. It has a competitor in the Fandom wiki, but the wiki has remained independent since its inception and the owner has repeatedly rejected *buyout offers* from Fandom. It’s kind of crazy. The Fandom wiki was started by a former BIONICLESector01 user who got mad because he wasn’t allowed to make things up and put them on the wiki. BIONICLESector01 encourages and enforces a citation system, something the Fandom wiki does not do, so BIONICLESector01 is really the only reliable and trusted source in the community aside from a newer one called The Great Archives that focuses on using direct and exact wording with every claim sourced. Because BIONICLESector01 is so old, there are wide and popular misconceptions present in the fandom that seem to have originated from there, and people *today* have to perform what is essentially digital archaeology to uncover whether or not unsourced rumors that started on the wiki are actually true. There’s all sorts of crazy stuff happening in the BIONICLE community
Absolutely based take
That's awesome and embodies everything Bionicle stands for. To hell with Fandom and their shitty ways.
The hrwiki is in fact pretty dang amazing. It's always a struggle not to visit there for a minute and wind up spending the next hour watching random toons based on a single entry. Also I've never come across a passage with jarringly bad grammar on it, unlike some other, larger fan wikis.
The TF wiki is surprisingly comprehensive for a toy line
Any day with a new Cybershell video is a good day.
He's back
YAY HES BACK
It's a good day to have a good day
What if cybershell only made this video so he can get a section of the Strong bad wiki? 🤔
he already is
before i clicked on this i thought “if it’s not the Homestar Runner wiki the title is wrong.” thank you for not letting me down
This is such a timely video (though I'm watching it 7 days late) because I recently felt inspired to contribute for the first time to an obscure, niche fan wiki to translate and archive some content that maybe all of 10 people worldwide will ever search up. But at the same time, there's been so many times that I've searched for something and been insanely grateful that some random soul made a wiki page for it, so I'm glad to have finally paid it back.
the dustloop wiki is really good to me. theres jokes for a lot of character attacks that is just a treat with all the raw data you get.
I also think kiranico was invaluable to monster hunter players back in the day.
Dustloop and Mizuumi are such perfect wikis and I wish that other genres of games other than fighting games had such comprehensive and practice wikis.
THANK YOU for mentioning how horrid Fandom wikis are. There's an autoplaying video, an ad on top or bottom with a small x, and return to life every time you refresh or go to another page
The Idolm@ster wiki (project-imas) is pretty great: song lyrics, translations, complete discographies, biographies of characters, biographies of real people, accounts of real-world events regarding the franchise, dedicated fan forum, archive of photos/videos, etc. all despite the fact that the series (games, music, manga, anime, movies, novels, events) having never been officially localized in English or had any sort of release; 100% fan-driven. Also, the webmaster for the original wiki announced that he would shut down the website at the end of 2021 after being online since 2008, but thankfully he ended up handing over the website to some people who also run the Touhou wiki, so it's been in good hands ever since.
This Cybershell video contains another reference to the Homestar Runner Wiki.
You gotta make the 2 hour homestar retrospective now
I quite like Bulbapedia and MMKB (Mega Man Knowledge Base) myself lol; just great wikis all around filled with tons of information, and it's always just fun for me to go through them just to see something random, even if I'm just looking into something I already know
Also these aren't ones I tend to look into very often, but the Super Mario Wiki, Sonic News Network, and the Kirby wiki are also very nice too, and aren't a bad way to look at something from each of those franchises whether I have the itch for it or somethin'
The rosenkreuzstilette wiki. It's a short-lived series of doujin Megaman clones with original magical girls. The way the game's lore and wiki explain everything from how a buster shot works, to the detailed backstories and relationships with characters who are effectively Megaman X bosses, it's all really charming. The games just have nice effort in the presentation, sprites, music, and story in a time before romhacking the games really took off. Not even MM9 was out yet.
The best wiki went away during Wikia's change to Fandom where they took away all the non-marketable wikis. The wiki in question: Animated Foot Wiki. While not the only wiki to document every appearance of bare feet in cartoons and anime, it was certainly the most definitive. Look up almost any show and you could find an entry. With each entry there were images of every single frame that showed the feet in question. It was amazing, and funny. haha.
But, alas, it was taken down. an archive was uploaded to another wiki site, but most of the images weren't saved, and it's not updated or anything anymore. It's really a shame. All those manhours spent documenting the feet of cartoon characters, all gone. There would even be fan art on some pages. My discord avatar for the past 5 years has been an image of Sora from Kingdom Hearts sucking on Kairi's feet that I got from Kairi's page on Animated Foot Wiki. Kairi's page was unsurprisingly very well documented.
Unfortunately, that avatar has gotten me banned from countless discords. Also, apparently I've been banned for "bringing up feet" too often. It's all BS though. There were never any rules in any of these servers against bringing up feet or having an avatar of someone sucking on a foot. I think they just didn't care for my personality and were too ashamed to ban someone for a reason like that, so they made up a rule about talking about feet so they didn't have to confront whatever part of themselves that didn't like me.
But yeah. I don't think there will ever be a wiki as good as animated foot wiki ever again. It came at the perfect time for a wiki like that to exist, and it was destroyed as the internet became more commodified. That's some toothpaste we can never get back in the tube, and that toothpaste is made up of the countless animated feet that were sacrificed.
Damn...Are you sure you didn't bring up feet too often? Regardless, I guess that's dedication?
@@zero123alpha6I feel like this guy is actually the wikiowner starting a grassroots campaign to make toe sucking cool again
@@zero123alpha6 Maybe he just enjoys feet in an ironic way? I don't know the wikia to fandom change happened quite a while ago so that might be too late to be ironic over something.
This entire comment reads like the weirdest flex ever, but you know what? You do you.
Literally a perfect comment for a cybershell video.
cybershell, i love this video. recently ive watched through nearly every piece of homestar runner content and ive used the wiki extremely often. the show means a lot to me so having such a dedicated resource for homestar runner information has been truly great. its a really amazing wiki.
Fighting games have great wikis too, such as Mizuumi or Dustloop, if you're not a pro you'll find a use for it. It's a great resource for learning fighting games, it has flavor text, it can be funny, it has a list of notable players, it gives you background info, it's great.
The Adventure Time wiki is pretty magnificent. My favorite aspect is how each episode of show's respective articles detail things like production notes, behind the scenes, obscure facts, and easter eggs + trivia. You can also find images of storyboards and other media from the production stages. Adventure Time's wiki is massively extensive, and it was quite impressive even just three years after it first aired. Throughout my adolescence, I'd often pull up the wiki and read random stuff to pass time.
Today my Grandpa died... _GRANDPA CAN WAIT 1 MORE DAY CYBERSHELL UPLOADED HELL YEAH_
I physically recoil when I look for a wiki, only to find out it's just on fandom, it is genuinely miserable to use
"Yes, I know you clicked this video to hear me talk about funny wikis and now I'm explaining the differences between the DVD and UA-cam versions of a two decade old flash cartoon, if you have a problem with that; too bad, you can't leave now, the video is almost over. Sunk cost fallacy."
LMAO, this cracked me up, definitely one of the best things I ever heard this year.
Funny story. A couple of friends and I started a weekly tradition where we go through and look at old Homestar Runner stuff in (mostly) chronological order. This video was uploaded and we saw the notification while I was screensharing some Trogdor the Board Game stuff. We joked about what the video might be about, saying "oh maybe hrwiki gets a mention, haha!" and moved on. We ended up watching this video after one of our friends got off, and needless to say we weren't let down. This was an awesome surprise.
The casualties of the Weegee wars were endless 😢
the Warrior Cats wiki is ridiculously thorough. it documents 1000+ characters and their every appearance. it documents every mistake made in each book (there are plenty). it's been documenting the family trees of these cats long before the official site made their own version. it has a timeline breaking down when every event happened, and pinpointing character births and deaths whenever possible. the authors have admitted to using the wiki themselves.