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The Galaxypedia is a place where everything related to Galaxy is documented. Things like ships, ship data, turrets, guides, players, events, incidents, and much more are all documented here. The Galaxypedia is the successor to the Galaxy Wiki. The Galaxypedia uses data supplied by the game itself to stay up-to-date. | The Galaxypedia is a place where everything related to Galaxy is documented. Things like ships, ship data, turrets, guides, players, events, incidents, and much more are all documented here. The Galaxypedia is the successor to the Galaxy Wiki. The Galaxypedia uses data supplied by the game itself to stay up-to-date. | ||
== Why we switched from FANDOM to the Galaxypedia == | == Why we switched from FANDOM to the Galaxypedia == | ||
The Galaxy Wiki, started by SeanMorabito_YT, was the previous wiki for Galaxy. However this | The Galaxy Wiki, started by SeanMorabito_YT, was the previous wiki for Galaxy. However this wiki was abandoned in favour of the Galaxypedia. But why did we do this? To answer that question we first have look at the points made below. | ||
* Fandom uses ads, and its pretty annoying. The Galaxypedia is funded through donations and we don't use ads at all. This can speed up page loading and you wouldn't have to turn on your ad-blocker which will also improve page loading times. | * Fandom uses ads, and its pretty annoying. The Galaxypedia is funded through donations and we don't use ads at all. This can speed up page loading and you wouldn't have to turn on your ad-blocker which will also improve page loading times. Not to mention FANDOM's choice of advertisements were horrible and the placement of advertisements often broke pages. | ||
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File:Galaxypediamove1.jpg|thumb|FANDOM Advertisement Example | File:Galaxypediamove1.jpg|thumb|FANDOM Advertisement Example | ||
File:Galaxypediamove2.png|thumb|FANDOM's Poor formatting when it comes to Advertisements | File:Galaxypediamove2.png|thumb|FANDOM's Poor formatting when it comes to Advertisements | ||
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* | * FANDOM has rules on how we can customize it. With the Galaxypedia we can do whatever the hell we want with it, its our site so our rules. We have full reign over the Galaxypedia, but we have minuscule amounts of power when it comes to the Galaxy Wiki | ||
* | * Expanding on the point above, because we own the website we can enforce our own rules. We have our own [[Galaxypedia:Terms of Service|terms of service]], [[Galaxypedia:Privacy policy|privacy policy]], [[Galaxypedia:Copyrights|copyright policy]], etc. Instead of being forced to also moderate rules that FANDOM enforces, we can simply focus on our own rules. | ||
* FANDOM's servers are unreliable. The Galaxypedia uses cloudflare caching and internal caching. What this means is that if our server ever goes down, | * FANDOM's servers are unreliable. The Galaxypedia uses cloudflare caching and internal caching. What this means is that if our server ever goes down, cloudflare's servers simply send a cached version to you so you can continue viewing the Galaxypedia while we're fixing the servers. | ||
* We are able to edit the backend of the Galaxypedia which allows us to directly edit the database, styles, fonts, etc. what this means is that we're able to once again, edit everything and how the Galaxypedia works whereas with fandom we can only edit what they let us edit. | * We are able to edit the backend of the Galaxypedia which allows us to directly edit the database, styles, fonts, etc. what this means is that we're able to once again, edit everything and how the Galaxypedia works whereas with fandom we can only edit what they let us edit. | ||
* Through the use of [[User:Ketchupbot101|Ketchupbot101]], the Galaxypedia is directly linked to the game. Ship pages and the Turrets page get automatically updated by Ketchupbot. This means that the Galaxypedia will always be up-to-date in its infoboxes, whereas FANDOM required manual editing of infoboxes which was hard to do when a lot of things change day by day in Galaxy. | |||
With all of that into consideration, the Galaxypedia has numerous advantages than FANDOM. And because of that the Wiki Staff for the Galaxy Wiki abandoned it and created the Galaxypedia. The old Wiki Staff are now known as the Galaxypedia staff and help to make the Galaxypedia better than the Galaxy Wiki. | With all of that into consideration, the Galaxypedia has numerous advantages than FANDOM. And because of that the Wiki Staff for the Galaxy Wiki abandoned it and created the Galaxypedia. The old Wiki Staff are now known as the Galaxypedia staff and help to make the Galaxypedia better than the Galaxy Wiki. | ||
== Where did the slogan come from? == | == Where did the slogan come from? == | ||
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=== Why could the Galaxypedia be inaccurate? === | === Why could the Galaxypedia be inaccurate? === | ||
This is a good question, and one that I (smallketchup82) personally researched & analyzed for a while. When you look at sites like Wikipedia, they're able to always stay up-to-date on information because thousands of people are constantly editing it and supplying information. But when you look at the Galaxypedia, its miniscule in comparison to Wikipedia. The Galaxypedia struggles to get even 50 active editors per day. Plus, Galaxy having around 200 average active players online does not help at all. Unless Galaxy blows up in popularity, or the entire community starts believing that contributing to the Galaxypedia should be a priority, the Galaxypedia can never be considered fully up-to-date. Fortunately, a good amount of people do dedicate time into updating the Galaxypedia, and such users help to power the site. You can also help provide up-to-date and accurate information by contributing your knowledge to the Galaxypedia. Ask the staff to learn more. | This is a good question, and one that I (smallketchup82) personally researched & analyzed for a while. When you look at sites like Wikipedia, they're able to always stay up-to-date on information because thousands of people are constantly editing it and supplying information. But when you look at the Galaxypedia, its miniscule in comparison to Wikipedia. The Galaxypedia struggles to get even 50 active editors per day. Plus, Galaxy having around 200 average active players online does not help at all. Unless Galaxy blows up in popularity, or the entire community starts believing that contributing to the Galaxypedia should be a priority, the Galaxypedia can never be considered fully up-to-date. Fortunately, a good amount of people do dedicate time into updating the Galaxypedia, and such users help to power the site. You can also help provide up-to-date and accurate information by contributing your knowledge to the Galaxypedia. Ask the staff to learn more. | ||