Telepedia vs World Anvil
Telepedia
telepedia.netWorld Anvil
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| Figure | Telepedia | World Anvil |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $2.08/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 7 |
| Spec score · Game Wiki Software | 6.9 (#19) | 8.3 (#4) |
| Intended users | Telepedia describes its hosted wikis as public, community-run spaces and says it does not host private, personal, or restricted-group communities. | The FAQ describes users ranging from beginners and hobbyists to gaming studios, bestselling authors, and professional game masters; Sage is presented for professional authors, gamemasters, studios, and publishers. |
| Support | The homepage says its staff have MediaWiki experience and are available to support users; it links to a Support desk. | The FAQ directs users to its tutorials and Learn guides, support by email, and the community Discord help channel; the pricing comparison lists Fast Lane Support as a Guild feature. |
| What it does | Telepedia hosts community run wikis about games, television shows, and other subjects. | World Anvil is a browser-based platform combining worldbuilding wikis, interactive maps, timelines, RPG campaign management and novel-writing software. |
Plans
World Anvil
- FreemanFree
- Master$4.50 a month
- Grandmaster$8.25 a month
- Sage$25 a year
- Sage$25 a month
- Master$54 a year
- Grandmaster$99 a year
In their own words
Telepedia
Telepedia is a web service for creating and hosting public, community-run wikis about games, television, movies, anime and manga, books and comics, music, and other permitted subjects. Users can start a wiki through a creation wizard without waiting for approval, or ask Telepedia to migrate an existing wiki. Hosted sites use the free, open-source MediaWiki software. Administrators can use ConfigCentre to edit settings, namespaces, extensions, user groups, and permissions. Listed extensions include VisualEditor, MobileFrontend, YouTube, and interactive maps, with additional requests evaluated by Telepedia. The platform also supports in-house, Wikimedia-maintained, and community-supported extensions and skins, while excluding options such as Graph, Widgets, SemanticMediaWiki, SocialProfile, and chat or email extensions. Wikis are searchable and public, and Telepedia may place advertisements that owners cannot remove or modify. Support is available through a Support desk. If a wiki leaves, Telepedia offers XML dumps but not image dumps.
World Anvil
World Anvil is a browser-based set of tools for creating, organizing and storing settings for games, novels and comics. Its wiki supports linked articles, categories, tags and search across a world. Interactive maps connect locations to articles, while timelines track events across eras or parallel histories. Campaign tools provide a digital GM screen, statblocks, NPC creation, character sheets and session reports connected with campaign notes. Online novel-writing software works with the wiki, allowing setting details to be referenced and edited while drafting. Listed integrations include Discord, Google Analytics and Patreon links. Private material is visible only to the user and authorized collaborators, and autosaved work is backed up across multiple servers and in the cloud. World Anvil requires an internet connection; mobile use is through an optimized browser, with no mobile app. The Freeman plan allows two worlds, 42 articles and 100 MB storage.