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'''Gamerpedia''' is a wiki about all things video games, so think about it as like Wikipedia but from the perspective of video games. The wiki has no content license, so people are allowed to freely use of the material on the site without any attribution requirements. | '''Gamerpedia''' is a wiki about all things video games, so think about it as like Wikipedia but from the perspective of video games. The wiki has no content license, so people are allowed to freely use of the material on the site without any attribution requirements. | ||
The site was founded by [[User: | The site was founded by [[User:Gstar|Gstar]] on June 13, 2025. Following several internal discussions about GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses and the risks to using them, Bawitdaba wanted to create a site without any content license and to challenge himself to write as many articles as he can without the temptation of taking shortcuts by copying from Wikipedia and other sources. | ||
Even without a content license, keep in mind that Gamerpedia reuses images under [[wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] guidelines, including from other wikis. For user-generated screenshots, we will do our best to credit the original uploader, website, and even provide a rationale for why the images are being used here. | Even without a content license, keep in mind that Gamerpedia reuses images under [[wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] guidelines, including from other wikis. For user-generated screenshots, we will do our best to credit the original uploader, website, and even provide a rationale for why the images are being used here. | ||
To acknowledge the wiki's the license-free sentiment, Gstar decided to use a game controller image from the public domain while creating the [[:File:Wiki.png|logo]], with the Bahaus '93 font for "Gamerpedia." | |||
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