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== Forge Community Wiki ==

The Forge Community Wiki is a wiki about the Minecraft modding API Forge. It was created as an alternative to the [https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/ official docs]. It is actively maintained by many contributors and has its own [https://discord.gg/Nn42eAh Discord server].

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	The '''Forge Community Wiki''' (abbreviated as '''FCW''') is a community wiki about [https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge Minecraft Forge], the popular open-source modding API for [[wikipedia:Minecraft\|Minecraft]].		The '''Forge Community Wiki''' (abbreviated as '''FCW''') is a community wiki about [https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge Minecraft Forge], the popular open-source modding API for [[wikipedia:Minecraft\|Minecraft]].

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	The '''Forge Community Wiki''' (abbreviated as '''FCW''') is a community wiki about [https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge Minecraft Forge], the popular open-source modding API for [[wikipedia:Minecraft\|Minecraft]].		The '''Forge Community Wiki''' (abbreviated as '''FCW''') is a community wiki about [https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge Minecraft Forge], the popular open-source modding API for [[wikipedia:Minecraft\|Minecraft]].

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−	== Forge Community Wiki ==	+	The '''Forge Community Wiki''' (abbreviated as '''FCW''') is a community wiki about [https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge Minecraft Forge], the popular open-source modding API for [[wikipedia:Minecraft\|Minecraft]].

−	~~The Forge Community Wiki~~ is ~~a wiki about the Minecraft modding API Forge. It was~~ created as an alternative to the [https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/ official ~~docs~~]~~. It~~ is actively ~~maintained~~ by ~~many contributors~~ and ~~has its own~~ [~~https~~:~~//discord~~.~~gg/Nn42eAh Discord~~ server].	+	It is created as an community-centric and more accessible alternative to the [https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/ official Forge documentation], which is actively curated by the Minecraft Forge team.
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		+	== History ==
		+	On the September 19, 2020, in the <tt>#squirrels</tt> channel of the official Forge Project discord, user [[User:SciWhiz12\|sciwhiz12]] mentioned the idea of creating a wiki for Forge documentation. An official wiki previously existed for Minecraft Forge, however the cost and burden of maintaining such a wiki was too significant on the Minecraft Forge team (which consisted of volunteers), so it was shut down.
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		+	Another user, [[User:Curle\|Curle]], offered to host a community wiki on their servers, and giving adminship over to sciwhiz12. The community wiki initially started out on the popular wiki engine [[wikipedia:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]], but due to certain technical difficulties, the decision was made to move to using a simpler wiki engine: [[wikipedia:DokuWiki\|DokuWiki]].
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		+	On October 16, 2020, the community wiki was officially made publicly open. On October 23, 2020, a regular update to the web server that ran the wiki caused severe technical issues, and the wiki staff decided to move back to using MediaWiki as the wiki engine.
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		+	== Purpose ==
		+	The Forge Community Wiki was created to serve three major purposes:
		+	# To collectively keep track of features, changes, updates to Minecraft Forge and vanilla code.
		+	# To create and collaborate on articles with in-depth explanations about a variety of Forge-related subjects.
		+	# To contribute example code and tutorials for both simple and difficult concepts.