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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.

 

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.

 

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]].

 

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.

 

# To contribute example code and tutorials for both simple and difficult concepts.