Wookieepedia, the most popular Star Wars wiki, appears to have entered an unexpected moment of crisis. It’s impossible to overstate how important Wookieepedia, the fan-run Wiki, is to the Star Wars fandom. It’s one of the largest Fandom sites in existence, with 193,050 pages and counting, and the site has even been frequented by actors and writers as well as general fans.

There’s probably no better online resource when it comes to Star Wars, with Wookieepedia guiding viewers seamlessly through Legends and canon information. Even more impressively, over the last few years, the “Wook” (as it is often called) has become an important part of the online fan community in its own right. Unfortunately, over the last week, the Wook has found itself at the heart of a major controversy.

Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte has proved to be one of Lucasfilm’s most controversial releases to date, with an online backlash and a pretty transparent review-bombing campaign. One of the strangest controversies was over the age of Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi, a character who makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in The Acolyte episode 4. This appearance contradicted a 1999 CD-ROM and a 2013 trading card, both of which established that Ki-Adi-Mundi shouldn’t have been born yet. Neither are actually canon, and Lucas himself contradicted the CD-ROM later in the prequel trilogy when he changed Ki-Adi-Mundi’s lightsaber color.

Ki-Adi-Mundi’s age became an unlikely flashpoint, especially when the canon page on Ki-Adi-Mundi was edited on Wookieepedia to reflect his appearance in The Acolyte. This resulted in death threat messages against the editor, and these were publicly shared by Jordan Wilson - then a key member of the Social Media Team and administrator of the Wook. Wilson had not been given permission to make these public, however, and has since acknowledged that doing so was a mistake. This seems to be the inciting incident for a major change at Wookieepedia.

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    Movies>shows>books>comics>games>Christmas Specials

    This was figured out a long time ago picardfacepalm.jpg

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        Actually, after sleeping, I’d like to amend my statement:

        Original trilogy > anything written by Timothy Zhan > KOTOR > The Clone Wars > Andor > personal headcanon > George Lucas’ fever dream The Prequels > Cool shit I read on Wookieepedia no matter the source > Books/Comics/Games > Disney > Christmas Special > Sequels

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      Unfortunately, the “promise” by Disney upon deleting the EU was a unified canon where all their Star Wars material would be equal. The reality is a lot messier now because canon conflicts still happen, but can’t be resolved officially by tiers.

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        Ach, Disney and their shenanigans. I’ve revised my tier list to suit myself

        Original trilogy > anything written by Timothy Zhan > KOTOR > The Clone Wars > Andor > personal headcanon > George Lucas’ fever dream The Prequels > Cool shit I read on Wookieepedia no matter the source > Books/Comics/Games > the rest of Disney > Christmas Special > Sequels

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          I concur that for headcanon the tier list should be “things I personally enjoy>end”.

          That’s a different discussion than how the canon is formally treated. If somebody asked what is canon, I would give a very different answer than if somebody asked what I personally consider an enjoyable interpretation of Star Wars.