Broadly, UESPWiki is a formidable data repository of The Elder Scrolls franchise. It additionally paperwork the dense, typically convoluted lore of the franchise, in addition to books and merchandise bought alongside the video games, and the a number of tabletop video games.
The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages as they seem right now.
Credit score:
Samuel Axon
For all its uniqueness—the type of early “Net 2.0” design fashion, restricted commercial house, and its namespace-centered manner of group—the UESP is an impartial wiki at its core. It has all of the bone construction that makes a wiki accessible and simple to make use of and is pushed by a devoted neighborhood of editors.
The wiki at the moment maintains over 110,000 articles. The phrase “Now we have been constructing a collaborative supply for all data on the Elder Scrolls collection since 1995” is written on the prime of the house web page. This yr, UESP is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
“The phrase I all the time say is ‘we’re older than Google,’” stated 51-year-old Dave Humphrey, founding father of the UESP. “Clearly, we’re not as massive or as fashionable as Google, however we’re older than Google, and we’re older than lots of web sites. In reality, I do not assume there’s another Elder Scrolls-related web site that is older than us.”
The earliest model of the UESP wasn’t a wiki in any respect and is just a bit older than 30 years. It was a message distributed by USENET referred to as Daggerfall FAQ, initially revealed within the fall of 1994, and it featured prerelease content material about The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.
A yr later, the Daggerfall FAQ would turn out to be a webpage, and some months after that, it might turn out to be the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, which was only a webpage on the time, to incorporate details about The Elder Scrolls video games.
When The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind launched, it was the franchise’s greatest sport at that time, and Humphrey shortly grew to become remarkably busy. He wrote a whole bunch of entries for the sport and its two DLCs whereas sustaining his common job. However the extra he did, the extra reader emails suggesting new entries and edits to the location got here in. In 2005, UESP formally grew to become a wiki.