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What's GROWING on? A look at Bulbapedia's newest additions from September 2024
Celebrating 54000 articles!
Technically this happened at the beginning of October, but we're going to include it anyway. This past week, Bulbapedia has achieved another milestone: 54000 articles! It's been a short six months since we've tallied yet another thousand articles, and we couldn't be prouder of all the contributors who have made this milestone possible. What is our 54000th article? It's Uxie from Super Electric Breaker! And we couldn't have wished for a more fitting Pokémon than "The Being of Knowledge." Congratulations Bulbapedia on their 54000th article, and congratulations to TCG expert Anzasquiddles on their third milestone article!
The Best Breakfast for Bleary-eyed Buddies!
Sleeping is hard work! Pokémon seem to agree, as they're especially peckish for Biscuits as their breakfast snack. But which treats are best after a good rest? With 8 different biscuits to choose from, that's a difficult question! There's the Poké Biscuit, the Great, Ultra, and Master Biscuits, the Bonus Biscuit, and also event-exclusive biscuits for Entei, Raikou, and Suicune! How can a hungry Snorlax choose? (No, not that Hungry Snorlax...) We're in luck, however: sleep scientists Anzasquiddles and Spriteit have put them all to the test and are ready to share their findings in the new Biscuit article!
While you're here, check out the Old Gold Power Plant article, the newest island in Pokémon Sleep!
September 20th was the start of NIWA's Cross-Wiki Week, an annual event hosted by the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance to encourage collaboration across all of the NIWA wiki partners. For those who don't know, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, NIWA for short, is a network of wikis and their associated websites that aims to chronicle all things Nintendo, supporting wikis independent of large corporate wiki groups, most notably Fandom. This Cross-Wiki Weekend saw over 3500 contributions across all 40 associated Nintendo wikis. What a feat!
The new article from Cross-Wiki Week that we want to highlight is Pokémon language (Mystery Dungeon), written by the Mystery Dungeon Franchise Wiki's very own SungHerSong and WiKirby's ShadowKirby! There are several different languages in the Mystery Dungeon series, with the most prominent being Ancient Footprint runes. In Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon ancient "foot-shaped" writing can be found in the Voidlands, and around the Pokémon World. The partner character is capable of reading it, while Mawile actively studies it. Some Pokémon, like Unown and Jynx, seemingly even have their own individual languages. This article is a fascinating read, so be sure to check it out!
Live for a Fresh New Look
Looking for some new style? Well, in Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, you have almost 500(!) different items to choose from to customize your avatar's appearance! Thanks to style savant Pipefan, you can now browse through the entire back-catalogue of avatar items on this handy list! Whether you are in the mood for the Dragapult Beanie or even the Terastal Form Terapagos Sneakers, we've got you covered from head to toe!
A Bounty of Backgrounds!
Our Pokémon GO content is always evolving, and this time we have the Background (GO) article to share! You may be wondering, what exactly is a background? Glad you asked! It's the image shown behind a Pokémon when viewing its summary in the Pokémon Box. In addition to a background for every type, there's one for Lucky Pokémon, Shadow Pokémon, Ultra Beasts, and more. But wait—there are even backgrounds for real world locations! Trainers who participate in real-world events in Pokémon GO may encounter Pokémon with a themed background for the event-location. New York City (seen to the right), Barcelona, Mexico City, Osaka and more have all been featured! Sometimes, more than once. Thank you GO superstar SlyCooperFan1 for compiling all this excellent info!
A Double Dose of Dedication
Have you heard about Bulbapedia's Bulletin Board? It's a list of curated tasks of particular importance to improve our wiki coverage. Today, we want to shout out two tasks from the Bulletin Board completed in September.
From the Snap Board we have 4Koma Plaza! When we featured this article in last month's What's Growing On, there was a call to action: we needed the images to complement each weekly post. It was superstar Handium who answered that call! Thanks to Handium, readers can now enjoy images from all 466 4Koma Plaza comics. Remarkable!
Next, let's talk about Hoopa - The Mischief Pokémon animated short. Around the sixth generation, most Pokémon movies would also release animated shorts, which acted as prologues to the movies' events. We now have a plot summary for the final short, Hoopa - The Mischief Pokémon, thanks to SuperPikaPool13! Check it out to learn more about Hoopa's antics before it appeared on the big screen!
Show me your (field) moves!
It's been a busy month for Pokémon Ranger Drjwho! From Flash and Burn, to Tunnel and Tackle, this Ranger enthusiast created a grand total of 25 pages for each and every Field Move in the Pokémon Ranger series. So if you're looking to start an Almia Adventure, or simply need some help on your next Ranger Mission, you'll have all the information you'll need, thanks to Drjwho!
Nintendo Cup '97 & '98
It's a revolving door of Pokémon! If you are a fan of the Pokémon Stadium game, you surely know all about the Stadium Cup, one of the four competitions in the game's Stadium Mode. But today we have something that will surprise even the most expert of Stadium Stans! In the Japanese release of Pokémon Stadium (Pokémon Stadium 2 in Japan), there were two exclusive Stadium Cups: the Nintendo Cup '97 and the Nintendo Cup '98. In these two exclusive cups, players could challenge the best of the best in tournaments with exclusive rule variations made specifically for the cups. In the 1998 cup, players could even play against representatives from all over the different Japanese regions: seven finalists of the 1998 Pokémon Stadium National Tournament (along with one generic Lad trainer to fill out the roster) were featured as tough opponents to challenge even the best players' skills. Stadium masters and history buffs won't want to miss this pair of articles, written by MisterE13!
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