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Bulbapedia
Bulbapedia is the largest English language Pokemon wiki. It is an online, "community-driven" website that is an encyclopedia specialized for Pokemon. Bulbapedia is part of Bulbagarden and has many different information on the Pokemon world. Their name is taken from the Bulbasaur, one of the main pokemon in the Pokemon anime and the first Pokemon in the National Pokedex List.

Creation and Development
The website was created on December 21, 2004 and was created for "a collaborative and open work environment which makes interacting with other staff and looking up information very simple." Sadly, this did not work but it did gather attention and people started writing articles. Eventually, there were 100 articles in three weeks. It opened to the public on February 14, 2005 and was told to be "Bulbagarden's Valentine's Gift to the Fandom." 21 articles were created in the first 24 hours and withing three months there were 1,000 articles. The idea of Bulbapedia proved to be successful so they continued with it. On June 29, 2008, the 10,000 article was added.

In the summer of 2007, the Bulbapedia team decided to do a vote and let its users decide on a choice. The idea of advertising to pay for the costs of running the website came up and people voted for it.

Vandalism
As the fact that Bulbapedia is a wiki, it of course will experience vandalism. One of the incidents that stood out was named The Great Bulbapedia Turkey Shoot.