Like every wiki, Bulbapedia's development was dependent on the community, and in the years that passed since its opening, many thousands of users have contributed to its success. Currently, it is the largest English-language Pokémon wiki. The 10,000th article was created 3 years later, on June 29, 2008. At least 21 new articles were created within the first 24 hours of operations, and within three months 1,000 articles had been written. It eventually opened to the public on February 14, 2005, marketed as "Bulbagarden's Valentine's Gift to the Fandom". The original period of development sought members of the Bulbagarden community to write for "a collaborative and open work environment which makes interacting with other staff and looking up information very simple." This proved unsuccessful, but Bulbapedia proceeded with a dozen or so contributors, and reached 100 articles within three weeks. Images for the website are stored at the Bulbagarden Archives, which also supplies artwork, photographs and screenshots for Bulbanews, an affiliate news site also run by Bulbagarden.īulbapedia was set up by Zhen Lin on December 21, 2004. Both Bulbapedia and Bulbagarden get their names from Bulbasaur, notable as the first Pokémon in the National Pokédex order. It is affectionately known as the 'pedia, Bulbawiki or simply Bulba among its contributors. Its name is a portmanteau of Bulbagarden, the Pokémon website which runs Bulbapedia, and encyclopedia. It attempts to document the Pokémon franchise as a whole, in a system that anyone can read and edit. "the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia"īulbapedia's logo, the bulb of a Bulbasaur with a Poké Ball superimposed on itīulbapedia is an English-language community-driven Pokémon wiki encyclopedia.
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