What is the Best Wiki on the Internet?

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[@So7nded]

I like how this channel went from video games to basically anything that crosses your mind

[@Gaizure]

Classic KZbin at its finest

[@jumpingpeppers2263]

Imagine if Cybershell collaborated with Atomic Shrimp on something....

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

like jan misali and conlangs

[@periwinkuru]

I think Cybershell being such a long-time internet user helps when it comes to thinking of obscure topics to make videos on

[@Gamigner]

Fr, I can confirm as Saul Goodman

[@HBMmaster]

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"

[@yurifairy2969]

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.

[@byakuyatogami2905]

Cool but how many Super Mario games are there?

[@shadepizza4217]

@@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.

[@1Pidds]

Oh hi Jan what are you doing here

[@HBMmaster]

@@1Pidds Why Are People Always Surprised To See KZbinrs On KZbin. I Work Here

[@MrSkerpentine]

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

[@profile2047]

Hah that’s great.

[@henrynelson9301]

The wiki is also given special thanks in the telltale game

[@petergriffinf00tball]

anonymous contributor

[@hlibushok]

The HR wiki now says "Cybershell" instead of "a user". Good job, Lore Master, you have immortalized your name.

[@lumpsmchumps6047]

I wouldn't be surprised if the wiki has an entry on this video

[@GhostGlitch.]

​@@lumpsmchumps6047I would be surprised if it didn't.

[@DoobusGoobus]

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.

[@AccelerateHedge]

Whoa it's Doobus Goobus

[@orlin_home]

aw yeah, goobus TAKE THAT LOAD

[@GmNdWtchr96]

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.

[@John-jl4dl]

you were the man who made them change the page name from "Anonymous" to "Anonymous Contributor"

[@cillobillo1059]

Oh, that was you! You’re a legend man. Great job.

[@RunstarHomer]

The wiki has been referenced in homestar cartoons a few times since then. You started a new trend!

[@EstradusTheDragon]

@@RunstarHomer A lot of the commentary tracks reference the wiki in some fashion or another, if that counts as well.

[@guyrocketram9698]

Oh crap I remember that lol.

[@Pikana]

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.

[@sebastiangudino9377]

His last video IS a payed promotion, talking about lore. It's safe to asume he IS a lore master

[@cyber-corpp]

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.

[@SlugKiss]

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.

[@ManaphyandManaqua]

Came here to say the runescape wikis too

[@Altais_]

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.

[@logicphile6207]

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?

[@aaronsound]

How do i like the game, idk what to do nor what i could want to do, im lost.

[@Shmookcakes]

@@aaronsound Look up Josh Strife Hayes Beginners Guide to Oldschool Runescape

[@lob5645]

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.

[@SoIstice]

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.

[@trustytrest]

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.

[@NeonIceyy]

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

[@AmanomiyaJun]

@@trustytrest That’s in the gallery.

[@Treeskrub]

Shoutout to the Chinese variant of the wiki just for being way more detailed than the western counterpart for some reason

[@zappodude7591]

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.

[@Triple-Q]

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.

[@bedgegog]

Ah, I remember that website. It was like a fever dream for my oblivious 10 year old ESL brain.

[@starlight_artist]

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

[@LevitationMaster]

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.

[@CrackmiserGaming]

QQQ

[@SrMadru]

The spongebob fanon wiki is on SEASON 373

[@christianavendanocross8218]

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.

[@XenoZane]

TMBW is great!

[@PickleSurpriseVEVO]

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 😂

[@BudBonkerson]

Weezerpedia is also good

[@ozharms]

They have pages for live versions of songs from a live CD they sold twice at shows in 1994.

[@petergriffinf00tball]

expeeeremental fiiiiiilm

[@SquiddoSquid]

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

[@NintenDan.2005]

Don't forget they showcase the splatfest top 100 for every team in every region.

[@Octol1ng]

im pretty sure you cant really decipher the language because its mostly gibberish

[@SquiddoSquid]

@@Octol1ng dude, there's literally an entire page on inkipedia deciphering the language.

[@SquiddoSquid]

@@Octol1ng rassicas has a 30 minute video about how it was deciphered

[@Octol1ng]

@@SquiddoSquid will check that, thank you

[@TectonicImprov]

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 KZbinr needs to talk about prototype or beta content for a video game, tcrf is there too provide, lol

[@succojones]

...or the KZbinrs just read the cutting room floor article in its entirety 🤓

[@kellymountain]

@@succojones with blurry gifs and frame smoothing

[@atrocity3010]

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.

[@seanmcbay]

That’s my choice. I feel like I learn something new every time I look at it.

[@FirstNameLastName-mn9sz]

TCRF is lacking beta content for a lot of obscure of games though. But it’s a good resource overall

[@CoCoPay]

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.

[@Cane-Aubright]

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

[@portalfreak7628]

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.

[@Gamerappa]

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)

[@harrysachz5408]

Thanks for telling me about this, it will be a resourceful tool.

[@logamuffin3876]

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.

[@TheGoldMedals]

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.

[@manjackson2772]

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.

[@ahumblepotato9801]

Don't remind me.

[@CommanderWiggins]

Oh my god the Silent Hill Circumcison fiasco. That's something I had shoved way deep in my mind.

[@rando843]

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 >:(

[@AndorianBlues]

the circumcision wiki thing is pretty much the only think I know about Silent Hill at all tbh

[@manjackson2772]

@@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

[@BinglesP]

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.

[@TheSultan1470]

Hmm, most shows have transcript pages

[@cugeltheclever2957]

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.

[@Lunam_D._Roger]

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.

[@sehtuk3953]

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.

[@MichaelXX2]

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.

[@choppun9213]

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.

[@insomniostudios4359]

Never thought puyo would be anywhere here in this comment section ngl

[@Boomie_365]

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!

[@CptJistuce]

But it can't say with confidence if they're giants or not.

[@petergriffinf00tball]

i like the sloshy wiki better

[@GoldStorm07]

My favorite aspect of the Homestar wiki is the transcript for an unreleased cartoon called Soap Box Doiby. The Chaps came across the unfinished text at one point and just uploaded it for people to read.

[@ozharms]

There’s also “Sbemail 136 Alternate Versions” and “Proposed Peasant’s Quest Sequels.”

[@Scarfy101]

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.

[@usermcskull4713]

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

[@MishKoz]

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.

[@Pend3m0nium]

@@usermcskull4713OMG SWAGM??? ITS ME IDROPPEDMYPEN

[@Pend3m0nium]

I would also like to add that ESB is essentially a direct democracy, which sets it apart from other wikis. Any user has the ability to vote and comment on any wiki change, page deletion/merge, staff promotion, etc through a support/oppose/neutral system. It really makes it feel like an actual community effort to make the best SpongeBob database possible. I met a lot of good friends through this wiki in 2019-2021 and we still talk today!

[@usermcskull4713]

@@Pend3m0nium hiii pen :)

[@kathy444]

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

[@SoupwithSeafood]

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

[@ok0_0]

Yea. As someone who refuses to use discord it's kind of a bummer how much shit is 'paywalled' by it.

[@BB-848-VAC]

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

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

@@BB-848-VAC 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?

[@TheSultan1470]

@@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.

[@ian3406]

The TF wiki is surprisingly comprehensive for a toy line

[@ECartmanist]

Got banned from Wikipedia for editing my schools page to include a time someone shat in the Urinal

[@TeddAnimates]

You go champ

[@tdawgmaster1729]

Was it a high school?

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

Wikipedia moderators are literally 1984, wtf.

[@astarjelly]

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~

[@star_void]

Agreed~!

[@Zolerian]

So true.

[@ianwiltdotcom]

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

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Bing-bing!

[@GaybrohamStinkton]

@VisualPlugin the Multlingual Programmer ....instead of realising no one under 69 has seen ads online in 20 years?

[@Featherinmycap]

@VisualPlugin the Multlingual Programmer I think he's referring to the fact that adblock has been a thing since 2005.

[@WannabeMarysue]

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.

[@KringleDingle]

you run the funniest site on the net?

[@sebisonic]

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

[@circleas7192]

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.

[@reillymcwriting]

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".

[@circleas7192]

@@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.

[@Bootleg_Jones]

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.

[@henrynelson9301]

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

[@balbo5385]

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

[@samsonm6455]

Finally somebody said it!

[@rando843]

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

[@XanthinZarda]

@@rando843 Hence why I prefer the All the Tropes alternate.

[@M0vess]

Holy shit he's back and he's now doing content everyone's favourite video game. Wikipedia.

[@planescaped]

I think I played that game back in highschool. Though they still hadn't patched the whole "valid source" glitch that teachers had.

[@BigBoy257]

Indeed, Sakamoto-san

[@uhhhCheese]

So true Sakamoto

[@bbgncntrl]

@@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

[@M0vess]

@@planescapedFuck those teachers there are some dedicated motherfuckers who just sit there and edit wikis for free. Valid source my ass.

[@wifiwaifu5243]

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)".

[@PanzerMan332]

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.

[@TheSultan1470]

Well, there you go

[@MEAT_EFFIGY]

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.

[@luissantiagomijareso.2450]

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.

[@piinkhat]

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.

[@spimpsmacker6422]

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.

[@GooberInternet]

The MUGEN database. 1. I'm not biased. 2. It counts.

[@watson-disambiguation]

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.

[@rffrice]

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

[@luissantiagomijareso.2450]

The staff is truly the definition of dedicated.

[@rando843]

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.

[@CaptainWalnut]

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.

[@Limit02]

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

[@sokoTV2]

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]

Damn...Are you sure you didn't bring up feet too often? Regardless, I guess that's dedication?

[@bbgncntrl]

@@zero123alpha6I feel like this guy is actually the wikiowner starting a grassroots campaign to make toe sucking cool again

[@SoulBro12]

@@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.

[@EonTheAien]

This entire comment reads like the weirdest flex ever, but you know what? You do you.

[@Maceyoshiman]

Literally a perfect comment for a cybershell video.

[@lispeaks]

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

[@sailorshark3334]

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

[@cranknlesdesires]

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.

[@MatchaCutie14]

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.

[@AnAmbientGrey]

it even catalogues popular mods like Tamriel Rebuilt

[@OvermasterP]

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.

[@DialE4Eggs]

The casualties of the Weegee wars were endless 😢

[@Pend3m0nium]

Encyclopedia SpongeBobia is essentially a direct democracy, which sets it apart from other wikis. Any user has the ability to vote and comment on any wiki change, page deletion/merge, staff promotion, etc through a support/oppose/neutral system. It really makes it feel like an actual community effort to make the best SpongeBob database possible. The site's theming is really appealing and professional looking, matching the aesthetic of the show quite well. It also has extensive information on the tracks used in every episode, character relationships, one-off characters that never appear again, SMASHED POTATOES THAT LOOK LIKE SQUIDWARD, even random objects nobody cares about. Not to mention the site hosts impressive documentation of the spin-offs and movies as well. My favorite part is the page on ESB's history, who created it and how the wiki came to be! I met a lot of good friends through this wiki in 2019-2021 and we still talk today!

[@halfhalf622]

Back when this video came out, it actually got me into Homestar. I had never heard of the series before this video came out and now I'm a massive fan of it. Thanks, Cybershell.

[@siqki]

Today my Grandpa died... _GRANDPA CAN WAIT 1 MORE DAY CYBERSHELL UPLOADED HELL YEAH_

[@Sookaretto]

This was a jumpscare as a major strong bad fan

[@XxesusKerosene]

What if cybershell only made this video so he can get a section of the Strong bad wiki? 🤔

[@cd-ramos]

he already is

[@paysonporter]

Personally I'm a huge fan of the smash wiki, not only because it's ridiculously detailed and has lots of pages dedicated to community stuff, but also because whenever it mentions something not on the wiki, (or when an article is a deliberate stub) It'll link to another (usually pretty good) wiki that explains it in more detail.

[@DixieChix]

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'

[@exceedexceed760]

Congratulations, you're alive to witness an annual Cybershell upload. Truly a sight to behold.

[@IDSearcher]

8:53 "Pirating this knowledge" is such a delightfully dystopic sentence. You unlocked new future DRM fears in me, thanks!

[@XanthinZarda]

Nah, this has been a racket since the textbook publishers got all huffy.

[@IDSearcher]

@@XanthinZarda I was thinking more: "You need to pay 4.99$ to unlock the CPR knowledge to save your grandma"

[@krisstasko]

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!

[@megafan1137]

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.

[@ericlueck5359]

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.

[@itsknighttime9572]

Dear Dr. Shell, Please keep up the largely above average performance. Very truly yours, Mr. Internet

[@averesenso]

The Soyjak wiki (yes, can you believe it, Soyjak wiki) is an absolute hidden gem.

[@royaldayz18]

Some of my favorite wikis include: the spongebob fanon wiki that basically writes custom seasons of the show, going to such extreme heights that the show is being written to last for literal centuries the Spongebob S wiki, a wiki about a now deleted crossover fanfic between Spongebob, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Godzilla, Pretty Cure, and Mortal Kombat. I want to archive as much of it as I can as it is endearingly off the wall. the mips hole wiki. A wiki centered around "every copy of mario 64 is personalized" type shit but to the utmost extreme. It's a compilation of tons of random things ppl have crafted from that weird genre of mario 64 stuff, like a fucking weather system, new enemies, new floors of the castle, an oni that patrols Peach's Castle, a Dorrie boss fight, its all just so fascinating how people have turned mario 64 into a canvas for weird horror.

[@theotherjared9824]

It's clearly the anime bath scene wiki. The wiki that documents in excessive detail every appearance of a bath in every anime.

[@quackersncheese]

One of life's many unanswered questions finally tackled by the greatest questioner of our time

[@kaelisprime9087]

My favourite wiki is TFwiki. Its a wiki for every single thing for Transformers, but its partially a great wiki for info and partially satire. Theres gags attached to images and descriptions both detail everything and joke about it. My favourite part is the random "GO" link on the left side. It randomises the link and image to another entry on the wiki and they are so funny and wild.

[@MaddMan621]

Was not expecting the HRWiki shoutout, nearly brought a tear to my eye. I used to contribute there back in the day. its how i learned to mash tab all throughout the toons to make sure I caught all of the easter eggs

[@_comment]

Fuck fandom. I spent 10 years contributing to one, and they took it away from the community, replaced all the admins, and handed control to the game publishers because they had a shitty sequel they wanted to promote. (The sequel tanked, the developer got merged, and the wiki is tumbleweed central now) Thank you for getting the "wiki" terminology right btw, it really grinds my gears that people will use the words "wikia"/"wikipedia" when they mean "wiki".

[@_comment]

Oh. I paused the video at 2:06 to leave this comment. Then at 2:09 you said "micro-wikias". FFS. Why?

[@TheSultan1470]

Ok... which one?

[@TheSultan1470]

@@_comment What's the problem

[@SoldadoCatolico]

has this video been added to the homestar wiki yet?

[@throni]

nookipedia is an excellent resource for animal crossing information. the cutting room floor is also really interesting, I've spent hours just reading about cut content from videogames.

[@CrashStudios856]

So glad you mentioned dwarf fortress and showed the UESP, those were the first two wiki's that my mind went to.

[@MrDrCthulhu]

I randomly stumbled on one of those micro-wikis last month, and I'm pretty sure it's for a game (actually, game trilogy) that doesn't even exist, but is full of animated sprites, character info, and geographic/history info for locations. It looks like it's just one guy who's been updating it for years. I wanted to send a message and ask what's up with it all, but I'm worried he'd get spooked and delete the whole thing. It's strange, but endearing in a way.

[@IXAnnex]

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.

[@lylesmith726]

The cwcki is definitely the most engaging, you read through it thinking that there's no way it's true. But alas, a quick search proves you wrong, and then you get sucked deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole

[@bossbossboss808]

The Boss Baby Wiki admin here, haven't watched the video yet but I'm excited to see the wiki get the attention it deserves

[@bossbossboss808]

:(

[@destroyerkitty9434]

“Jojo’s Bizarre Encyclopedia” is a pretty fantastic Jojo wiki and just a great example of a good wiki. Comprehensive, detailed, organized, has high quality images, and after all that it has some serious style. It’s one of the cleanest looking wikis ever. It’s purely satisfying to just be on a page and look around even if you don’t know a single thing abt JJBA.

[@megachimp2537]

I physically recoil when I look for a wiki, only to find out it's just on fandom, it is genuinely miserable to use

[@liamleeyum]

i love amy calling you “loremaster” on accident

[@RoachChef]

a game on roblox called lumber tycoon 2 has a very dedicated wiki with every bug, item, mechanic, or any other corner of a game you could think of documented. every dialogue of every character is down, it’s pretty solid.

[@DaMan475]

An absolute gem of a wiki is definitely the Bigger Luke Wiki, a wiki dedicated to the Star Wars fan theory that in the original Star war Trilogy there is 2 Luke Skywalkers, who are exactly identical except for one of them being a few centimeters shorter. There are somehow pages and pages of supporting evidence, further theories, and potential lore implications of the Bigger Luke Hypothesis. Definitely check it out

[@NintendanGX]

UnMario Wikia was my favourite back in the day. just page after page of the most bonkers lore for pre-existing, original or abstract content. Everything from Super Dimentio being the most powerful being in existence but dying the moment he was born due to his oxygen weakness, to Deidara hailing from Toadtown and famously battling against Bill Gates. There was even an article simply titled "Woah!", and its description is something us mere mortals simply can't comprehend.

[@tripled2096]

I think one wiki of note is the Warrior Cats wiki, given just how much insanity happened around it, from the wars fought over Dovewing's eye color, or the fact that the authors of the warrior cats books admitted to referencing due to the sheer number of characters in those books, leading to a circular loop of bad information, not to mention the whole Sue Suzanne ordeal.

[@SofaKingStupid]

UESP is one of my favorites. It's not as detailed as the homestar wiki, but there are a lot of pages for random npcs or items that can be found, even if it's just a random ESO npc with one line of dialogue.

[@aturchomicz821]

My personal favourite Wiki on the internet though must be the polish version of Uncyclopedia, Nonsensopedia. With classic jokes like "Neo-kids ( also known as neo-kids, pokemons or children of the bush)", strong bonds with its past as seen with articles like "Nonsensepedia has hit an iceberg" and special events like "Ponyweek" back in 2012 it really just represents the 21st century Zeitgeist of being a polish person on the internet. Too real smh🗿🗿

[@infinitefun527]

HomeStarRunner is LEGIT a masterclass in writing, so I'm glad the wiki is so good.

[@facing_w0rlds]

The Nine Inch Nails wiki looks really nice and collects obscure info, even the band itself link it on their website now

[@foodwich2132]

It's a shame how much of a downfall Fandom has had. I used to use it back when it went by Wikia, I used edit the Bleach and Ace Attorney wikis some ten or twelve years ago. The searches got ruined, talk pages got deformed and ads now are all over the damn site. You can't even open any fandom page on your phone now without getting a load of ads. They even play a whole video nowadays before opening a page its ridiculous. Was nice looking back at Homestar in this video too, I loved Homestar Runner growing up and was the first show I was exposed to on the internet. SBCG4AP was a great game too, was honestly one of Telltale's best.

[@TheSultan1470]

They do not, not anymore.

[@SoulBro12]

Gotta give props to the JoJo wiki (not the fandom one) for being one of the few concise anime wikis that actually got me into the series. The site is fun to browse even to someone who hasn't gotten into series speaking from experience

[@dmansuperich2800]

Very cool subject for a video. I personally love browsing wikis for different media, as long as it's not a Fandom wiki, so this was a question I've thought of before. Personally I feel the best out of the ones I've browsed is the Mario Wiki, lots of dedicated people work on it and you can tell. I also like Wikirby but that's probably because I like Kirby.

[@ShadowXeldron]

The NetHack wiki is one of those wikis that is basically essential for playing the game. In fact, I've probably spent more time on the NetHack Wiki than I have actually playing NetHack.

[@CrownRock1]

I think the height of your career is getting the cast to refer to you as the "Lore Master."

[@Nieveria]

my favorite wiki is, of course, the touhou wiki. pretty plain all things considered but i love how they also document the terrible unfunny jokes the fandom made up for each character

[@edfreak9001]

I hope they never get rid of sections like that, touhou in the west especially has such a strange and unique identity that it would be horrendous to erase that just because it seems to (slowly, finally) be gaining a legitimate foothold with major game releases on Steam and such.

[@JamisonHingle]

The JoJo's bizarre adventure Wiki is one of those Wikis with two competing Wikis. The first one is a Fandom site filled with ads called JoJo's bizarre wiki. While the clearly better one is the JoJo's bizarre Encyclopedia Wiki which has no ads and has more interactive options to see the art and goes as in depth to include a transcriptof every single interview the creator has ever done. However in my opinion the best Wiki is Wikizilla, one of the biggest Godzilla Wikis ( It is competing with GojiPedidia which is also good if I remember correctly). This Wiki goes ridiculously in depth for a 66 year old franchise. Seriously they have articles about Kaju from a Dr pepper commercials, they have an article for a turtle skeleton that was in the background of one movie for like 12 seconds. They also have a fantastic KZbin channel (called Wikizilla) which turns their articles into very high quality videos because people are to lazy to read.

[@bananaraterbehindthescenes3126]

On god, I grew up watching those Kaiju Profile videos

[@SoulBro12]

The Wikizilla channel is a pretty good Audiobook I do say so myself.

[@blueblaze27]

wikizilla is better than gojipedia imo, way less typos and errors. Though goji has a page on hanna-barbera godzilla

[@JamisonHingle]

@@blueblaze27 Hannah Barbarah godzilla is so dumb. In my opinion it's gotta be one of the worst versions ever. Godzooky is kinda cool though.

[@blueblaze27]

@@JamisonHingle to be fair it wasn’t the fault of the creators, the network screwed them over because they wanted godzilla to be “FaMiLy-FrIeNdLy” and that’s why it turned out that way. At least he has laser eyes and was the tallest godzilla ever before shin godzilla happened

[@theonlybilge]

My favourite wiki is whichever one helps me with the game I'm currently playing, especially if it isn't on fucking Fandom Wikia.

[@TheXBoy5]

Cybershell just casually flexed being noticed by the Sonic cast,