I started wanting to make a brand new wiki site for Shadowrun after trying to find info in the current one that is hosted at fandom. Realizing that not only did it not have all of the newest info, but it was missing references from older books as well as information that was just flat out wrong. Since I couldn't just recreate a site on fandom, I decided I was going to stand up a MediaWiki site myself and get a new domain name to host it under. I decided to see if shadowrunwiki.com was taken, as it turns out it wasn't. This was looking to be a stroke of good luck as I decided to grab the domain now and then build something out as I went along.

I spent a month or two just seeing what I could do in MediaWiki and learning how to change things in the server. This took some time and left a website that was cluttered with test pages and bad ideas. I cleared that site, and set everything up again on a bigger server. The first one was just a small 2 core Dell box I got for about $200, it was great for testing but would not handle much traffic. It has since been moved over to a proper server. With this move I decided to get as many templates and modules in as I could predict before asking some member of the community for help building out policies for it and setting up ground rules.

The idea here is to get a skeleton that I can then allow the rest of the community to just edit and create the pages that are needed. I plan to make sure that ever known book is listed and that every year and known mega corporation has their own blank page. This is to allow everything else to be filled out and connected to it more easily. At my current rate of changes, since it is just me making changes still, I expect to have the skeleton work done sometime this summer.

If you wish to check out what we have, you can head over to https://www.shadowrunwiki.com

Shadowrun Wiki Site