Bendy Wiki:About
Bendy's Inkcyclepedia, alternatively titled Bendy and the Inkcyclepedia and simply known as the Bendy Wiki, is a wiki site conceived as a source for all documented information about Bendy, a franchise media based around a series of rubberhose cartoon-style horror games created by theMeatly and Mike D.
History
The Bendy Wiki was originally founded on Wiki FANDOM by Gjlewis (also known as "GJ-Lewis X" on Wiki FANDOM) on February 15, 2017, five days later after the demo release of the first Bendy and the Ink Machine chapter. Gjlewis was impressed with the demo's rubberhose cartoon-styled art and its unique horror theme direction so much he takes an opportunity to create a wiki to archive everything about Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Around 2018, the wiki's URL was changed from bendy-and-the-ink-machine.fandom.com to bendy.fandom.com just to show that Bendy and the Ink Machine is not the only game of the franchise, after the following announcement of the Bendy in Nightmare Run mobile game.
Over the years, however, the Bendy Wiki was increasingly criticized for inserting misinformation with lack of citations, taking unconfirmed information literally, while containing unfinished and out-of-date content; most of the issues were left unchanged due to the result of the entire wiki admin team being almost inactive while the founder is mostly busy with his life outside of the internet. The Wiki FANDOM in general is also facing several controversies, notably the aggressive amount of ads for unregistered visitors, creative code restrictions, etc.
For both reasons, on December 5, 2023, Gjlewis finally decided to join Wiki.gg and open up a brand-new Bendy Wiki as a successor to the Wiki FANDOM version, with Wiki.gg hosting it for more creative CSS freedom, a less disruptive anonymous reading experience, and a heavy veritable-based content, although the wiki remains private at the time. Thus, despite the new wiki's creation, the old Bendy Wiki FANDOM would still move on as a non-affiliated "zombie" wiki. Later before 2024, the title "Bendy's Inkcyclepedia" is adapted as the new name for the Bendy Wiki; the title is a combo pun to "encyclopedia" with "en" replaced by "ink" and "cycle" replacing "cyclo". The wiki's early name was "Bendy and the Dark Inkipedia" with "Inkipedia" as a spoof to "Wikipedia"; it was quickly changed because "Inkipedia" turns out to be already used as a name for the independent Splatoon Wiki. The wiki's theme layout used similar colors from the book cover of Joey Drew Studios Employee Handbook and novel adaptation of The Illusion of Living. When Gjlewis start modifying the codes, the first early version of the wiki's layout was based off the Bendy and the Dark Revival pause menu, then moved to more Cycle-based colors and style (yellow, brown, black, etc.) but was also scrapped for looking "too ugly and eyesore".
The wiki continues to be under construction in private for the next five months, with over 100 articles made to show off examples of completely new page layout structures for better reading and guide.
Gjlewis is not the only one with a big dream for a new Bendy Wiki to happen. Salpho, since April 2024, makes promo posts on several social medias about the idea for the new Bendy Wiki, gaining a lot of attention and as well positive feedback from the Bendy fan community, although Gjlewis is unaware of the viral agreement until May 11th; Gjlewis decided to announce on Twitter that the new Bendy Wiki is indeed already happening and promised that the wiki will be publicly opened tomorrow. The next day, on May 12th, the new Bendy Wiki is finally live.
Credits
- Created by Gjlewis
- Administration by:
- Special thanks to:
- MLSpence and Skyguy555 for the wiki's infobox renders.
- Alex4401 for coding management.
- Sillylawrence for archiving Bendy and the Ink Machine facts and ingame codes.
- All users for contributing the wiki.