ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝Jul 16, 2024

What's Going On With Wookieepedia, The Star Wars Wiki?

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What's Going On With Wookieepedia, The Star Wars Wiki? - Feddit UK

> Wookieepedia, the most popular Star Wars wiki, appears to have entered an unexpected moment of crisis. It’s impossible to overstate how important Wookieepedia, the fan-run Wiki, is to the Star Wars fandom. It’s one of the largest Fandom sites in existence, with 193,050 pages and counting, and the site has even been frequented by actors and writers as well as general fans. > >There’s probably no better online resource when it comes to Star Wars, with Wookieepedia guiding viewers seamlessly through Legends and canon information. Even more impressively, over the last few years, the “Wook” (as it is often called) has become an important part of the online fan community in its own right. Unfortunately, over the last week, the Wook has found itself at the heart of a major controversy. > > Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte has proved to be one of Lucasfilm’s most controversial releases to date, with an online backlash and a pretty transparent review-bombing campaign. One of the strangest controversies was over the age of Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi, a character who makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in The Acolyte episode 4. This appearance contradicted a 1999 CD-ROM and a 2013 trading card, both of which established that Ki-Adi-Mundi shouldn’t have been born yet. Neither are actually canon, and Lucas himself contradicted the CD-ROM later in the prequel trilogy when he changed Ki-Adi-Mundi’s lightsaber color. > > Ki-Adi-Mundi’s age became an unlikely flashpoint, especially when the canon page on Ki-Adi-Mundi was edited on Wookieepedia to reflect his appearance in The Acolyte. This resulted in death threat messages against the editor, and these were publicly shared by Jordan Wilson - then a key member of the Social Media Team and administrator of the Wook. Wilson had not been given permission to make these public, however, and has since acknowledged that doing so was a mistake. This seems to be the inciting incident for a major change at Wookieepedia.

Show threadsp3ctr4lJul 17, 2024

The inciting incident was that the only canon that existed had a birth date for Ki Adi Mundi a good number of decades after the Acolyte takes place, combined with more lore and canon stating that his species is relatively short lived.

Then, someone edited his listed birth date to be roughly 30 or 40 years before the Acolyte takes place, with absolutely no citation, so as to allow Mundi to be alive in the show.

Cereans (Mundi’s species) who live to 60 years are considered ‘ancient’, and well now that the Acolyte show exists, Mundi would be 120 or 130 in the prequels. This would be akin to a human living to something like 220 years old with 0 explanation.

That is what blew up into the insane drama which has apparently now resulted in death threats.

The other reason people are angry about the retcon is because Mundi has nearly no lines in the prequels, but one of the few he gets is to express shock at a report of Sith:

Impossible. The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.

Yet, in the Acolyte, he is shown to be aware of a rogue force user as he receives reports of this.

Basically, him being alive or not aside, this means that either he is a moron/incompetent who never followed up on this report, or a liar covering up a conspiracy… and because he says this amongst the Jedi High Council, this becomes transitive and means they are all some combination of either incompetent and/or knowingly going along with a lie.

In the Prequels, the excuse for the incompetence of the Jedi High Council is that basically Palpatine was exuding some kind of Dark Side ‘confusion’ ‘mind clouding’ effect that made the Jedi never realize what was going on, being unable to sense a Sith in relatively close proximity to them.

This does not work going backwards about 100 years as Palpatine would not have been alive.

Who knows, maybe episode 8 will offer some kind of explanation for this?

Show threadSquorlpleJul 17, 2024

EDIT: Ok, I have now seen episode 8.

While the show very much seems to be setting up for a second season… given that this is easily the most controversial, poorly received by fans and least watched of the Disney + Star Wars shows… I do not know if that is going to happen.

As it stands…

Show threadsp3ctr4lJul 17, 2024

I have been adding to and editing my post as you replied, so apologies for that but…

I am seeing two ways to read this post, and I am not quite sure which one you are going for.

  • You are with me writhing in pain as older established characters continue to be significantly altered in a way that is detrimental to the overall narrative of pre Disney Star Wars

  • You are implying that Yoda is referencing these things that occured 100 years ago in a scene where he very clearly is not.

    • Sorry, I am in full autism mode trying attempt to understand how basically any of the canon works at all, at this point.

    Show threadSquorlple
    Mostly the first option, but the second option was also intended as a joking subtext about his new connection to these events
    Jul 17, 2024 at 7:56amWeb
    Show threadsp3ctr4lJul 17, 2024

    Damn, it has been a time since I have seen or heard someone intentionally say or post something that has two or more distinct interpretations.

    Bravo on that, haha.