Nukapedia, also known as Fallout Wiki, is a

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. It covers all of the ''Fallout'' video games, as well as all ''Fallout'' related content. The Fallout Wiki runs on

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and is currently part of the

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network. The site is also available in several other languages, including Bulgarian, Chinese,

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, Swedish and Turkish and Ukrainian. Originally named simply The Vault, the wiki was split into two independently-run sites: The Vault and Nukapedia, in 2011. The two wikis decided to merge in December 2019, "completing" the process of importing The Vault content to Nukapedia in January 2022.

History

The Vault was founded by

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and launched on February 7, 2005, initially hosted by ''Fallout'' fansite Duck and Cover, as a general source of information about the ''Fallout'' universe, focusing mostly on information about the ''Fallout'' world, as depicted in ''

'' and ''

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''. Its purpose was to continue the work started by ''Fallout 2'' developer

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in his ''Fallout Bible'', which was meant to be a reference guide to the ''Fallout''

, but was abandoned after Avellone left

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. Since the launch, the wiki has expanded to include the entire ''Fallout'' series, both in terms of the fictional universe and in terms of gameplay information and help. In 2007, because the original host could no longer take the wiki constantly being targeted for various exploits by spammers as well as other attackers, the Vault moved to

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, and became one of Wikia's most popular wikis after the release of ''

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'' by

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in October 2008. It has broken previous popularity records for gaming wikis on the weekend after the release of '' Fallout: New Vegas'' in October 2010, with daily page views topping at 8.8 million (the previous record, 5 million, belonged to WoWWiki). Within the first week of the game's release, the site had 2.5 million unique visitors. In an interview with

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, the wiki's founder has stated that it has even been used as a source by developers of recent ''Fallout'' games, citing one example of lore in ''

'' being influenced by The Vault. The Vault has also released some previously unknown information on canceled ''Fallout'' projects like the '' Fallout Extreme'' 2000 console game and the 1998 cancelled ''Fallout'' film project, as well as using its

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channel and other social media to make available audio and video ''Fallout'' Media. Nukapedia has also worked to make available several ''Fallout'' music tracks and

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s on its YouTube channel.

Split

In October 2011, The Vault was split by its founder and many of the administrators moved to FalloutWiki.com, and late
fallout.gamepedia.com
both hosted by

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. The Wikia version remained, now under the name "Nukapedia". Dembowski was globally banned from Wikia for promoting this new wiki on Curse.

Merge

In 2019, after the Curse network of wikis was purchased by Wikia and both The Vault and Nukapedia became hosted by the same company, administrators of both wikis announced a project to merge the two previously split sites into one again, under the name "Fallout Wiki" (subtitled "Nukapedia + The Vault"). In January 2022, it was announced that the merge was complete and the site will continue forward under Nukapedia branding. The original version of The Vault prior to the merge announcement remains archived.The Vault main page, archived November 1, 2021
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Gallery

Nukapedia Logo.png, Logo during the merge, 2019–2022

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