Fallout Wiki

Fallout Wiki: Nukapedia + The Vault is a wiki about the "Fallout" fictional universe. It covers all of the "Fallout" video games, as well as all "Fallout" related content. The Fallout wiki runs on MediaWiki and is currently part of the Fandom network. The site is also available in several other languages, including Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish and Ukrainian. Originally named simply The Vault, between 2011 and 2019 the wiki was split into two independently run sites: The Vault and Nukapedia, which decided to merge in 2019.
History and description.
The Vault was founded by Paweł Dembowski and launched on February 7, 2005, initially hosted by "Fallout" fansite Duck and Cover, as a general source of information about the "Fallout" universe, initially focusing mostly on information about the "Fallout" world, as depicted in "Fallout" and "Fallout 2". Its purpose was to continue the work started by "Fallout 2" developer Chris Avellone in his "Fallout Bible", which was meant to be a reference guide to the "Fallout" fictional universe, but was abandoned after Avellone left Black Isle Studios. 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 Wikia, and became one of Wikia's most popular wikis after the release of "Fallout 3" by Bethesda Softworks in October 2008. It has broken previous popularity records for gaming wikis on the weekend after the release of "" 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 October 2011, The Vault was split by its founder and many of the administrators moved to FalloutWiki.com, and later fallout.gamepedia.com, both hosted by Curse. The wikia version remained, now under the name "Nukapedia".
In an interview with Eurogamer, 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 "Fallout 3" 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 YouTube 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 cutscenes on its YouTube Channel.
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 decided to begin the ongoing process of merging the two previously split sites into one again, under the name "Fallout Wiki" (subtitled "Nukapedia + The Vault"). The two versions of the site can still be accessed separately until the merger is complete.