Welcome to Acepedia, the number-one encyclopedia on the Ace Combat video game franchise! We are dedicated to providing all available information regarding the Ace Combat games and all related media. Currently, Acepedia hosts 3,264 articles and 16,411 files.
History[]
Electrosphere, the predecessor to Acepedia, was created at EditThis.info on January 10, 2006. The community migrated from EditThis to Fandom (then known as Wikia), where Thunderhead created this wiki under the same name, Electrosphere, on August 19, 2006. After some time, Electrosphere's members branched off to create their own section on the Ace Combat Skies fan website, and later branched off again onto their own website at Electrosphere.info. Meanwhile, this wiki remained separate and was renamed to AceWiki; its remaining users attempted to continue the encyclopedic effort, but AceWiki was rampant with fan fiction and did not have many contributors.
AceWiki renamed to Acepedia in 2010, a year that saw many changes to the wiki. A new skin was applied to all wikis on the network, the Acepedia administration team went through a major shift, and a large effort was launched to collect data across all of the Ace Combat games. Acepedia also prepared for the releases of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon and Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy. In 2013 and 2014, the Main Page, site appearance, and policies were all given major updates by a new administration team. Most importantly, the updated site policy now forbid any unofficial fan-made material from the wiki; this was done to make Acepedia a reliable source of official and verified information from the Ace Combat franchise.
With the release of Ace Combat Infinity in 2014, Acepedia received more consistent pageviews and visitors than ever before. The editors began working to standardize the article formats for aircraft, missions, and in-universe events, as well as to begin adding references where necessary. Acepedia also collaborated with Electrosphere to create the Infinity Ace Seminar, a new-player guide for Ace Combat Infinity that was recognized and endorsed by Bandai Namco. Acepedia began hosting multiplayer events in Infinity for its community members, some of whom also joined the Electrosphere community.
Electrosphere officially shut down in 2015 and entrusted the role of information-keeping to Acepedia. Social media profiles were created for the wiki on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and a live chat group was created in Skype; the chat group has since transitioned to a public Discord server. When Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was revealed at the end of 2015, Acepedia editors went into overdrive to expand the wiki's content and improve the user experience for the release of the new game.
In August 2016, Acepedia celebrated its 10th anniversary with new updates to the wiki, including testing Fandom's new Discussions feature, restoring navboxes to the bottom of articles, and applying for a dedicated Acepedia mobile app; the app has since been consolidated into Fandom's central app and mobile browser experiences.
In December 2018, SlyCooperFan1 was invited by Bandai Namco to represent the wiki in a livestream with Ace Combat Fan to promote Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. The game's release a month later led to the wiki breaking a record: over one million page views were recorded on Acepedia in the month of January 2019. With many new editors and readers, a brand-new game to document, a brand-new Transcript namespace, and a populated Discord server, Acepedia is more consistently active than ever and continues to grow.
Fandom's development of the Unified Community Platform and the new FandomDesktop skin have provided welcome improvements to the Acepedia experience, including light and dark themes and multiple article width options. Fandom's development on new extensions, including interactive maps, is a highly-anticipated project since it will allow Acepedia to present Ace Combat information in more interesting and user-friendly formats.
Functionality[]
Acepedia uses a wiki format, meaning that any registered user visiting this site is able to contribute to and improve it, similar to Wikipedia. We are hosted on Fandom, a wiki hosting service that allows people to create or contribute to wiki communities for any subject in pop culture. The community is moderated by a team of volunteer administrators who have the ability to remove unsuitable content and block users with negative intentions from accessing the site.
There are multiple layers to Acepedia's community:
- Wiki content, including images
- Discussions
- Blog posts
- Discord server