Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis

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The logo of Encyclopaediae Pokémonis.

Encyclopaediae Pokémonis, Latin for Encyclopedias of Pokémon, is a multilingual, open-content Pokémon encyclopedia project that includes, among others, Bulbapedia.

History

The first person to conceive the idea of a Pokémon wiki was Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever. Eventually, Bulbapedia itself was created in December 2004, and opened to the public the following February. In April 2005, nYoo suggested a German-language version, however, nothing came of this. However, later in the year, in August, the idea that would eventually spawn PokéWiki came to be.

Due to their both being open-content wiki Pokémon encyclopedias, PokéWiki and Bulbapedia soon allied to form Encyclopaediae Pokémonis, hoping that soon more would join the group. Eventually, Pokémon Wiki answered the call in June 2006, having been created in April of that year.

On April 6, 2007, the Polish-language Wikinezka joined the group. The French-language Poképédia joined in September 2007, and the Portuguese-language LANDpedia joined in December, 2007.

Currently, the six wikis interlink to each other, and navigation between articles on the same subject is made possible by links in the sidebar.

The logo of Encyclopaediae Pokémonis is a Poké Ball image superimposed over a polar azimuthal equidistant projection of the planet Earth, reminiscent of the Flag of the United Nations. The color of the Poké Ball, as well as the color of the underlying Earth, differs among the members of Encyclopaediae Pokémonis: Bulbapedia's is green, PokéWiki's is teal, Pokémon Wiki's is blue, Wikinezka's is red, and Poképédia's is yellow.

External link

Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis
English: Bulbapedia German: PokéWiki Japanese: Pokémon Wiki French: Poképédia Italian: Pokémon Central Chinese: 52Poké Wiki Spanish: WikiDex
English German Japanese French
Bulbagarden's
Bulbapedia
Filb.de's
PokéWiki
Pokémon Republic's
Pokémon Wiki
Poképédia
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Pokémon Central's
Pokémon Central Wiki
Pokémon Zone's
52Poké Wiki
WikiDex
Defunct Members
Portuguese: LANDpedia Spanish: Pokéteca Polish: Wikinezka
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Pokémon LAND's
LANDpedia
PkStation's
Pokéteca
Pokémon Polska's
Wikinezka