Via io9.com:

There are a number of fan wikis out there, but none of them have probably ever undergone as big a change as Fandom’s Wookieepedia did when years of careful archiving of Star Wars lore was suddenly declared to no longer be canon. io9 talked to two Wookieepedia editors about that radical change, the challenge of maintaining a coherent encyclopedia for Star Wars, and, of course, Jizz music.

Specifically, we spoke with Mike Delaney, who is the community development team and is a Wookieepedia admin who focuses on Legends (what the old Expanded Universe is now called), and Brandon Rhea, who is the manager of content production, and an admin who focuses a bit more on the new canon.

io9: When all of our precious Expanded Universe was decanonized, how did you decide what to do with all that information on Wookieepedia?

Mike Delaney: Basically the decision was made, fairly early on, that the information wouldn’t be lost, that it wouldn’t be removed. Some advocated that if it was going to be decanonized, it wouldn’t have a place on the wiki. That was a minority opinion. The majority of us on the site always felt that no matter what, the information should be retained in some way. It was just figuring out how that information would be displayed and kept on the site alongside the new canon information that would be brought out by Lucasfilm.

Brandon Rhea: And that was something that tracked exactly with what Lucasfilm was doing anyway. They called it “Legends” for a reason. They said these stories are still around and could still be pulled from. So Wookieepedia kind of adopted the same approach.

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