Memory Alpha
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| Owner | Communal |
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| Revenue | Advertising |
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| Alexa rank |
 17,499 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched |
November 23, 2004 (official), |
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Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial license |
November 23, 2004 (official),
Memory Alpha is a encyclopedia for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. Conceived by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson in September 2003 and officially launched on December 5 of that year, it uses the model and is hosted by on the software. Memory Alpha contains over 40,000 articles in its English edition alone as of June 2016[update], making it one of the . The site is also available in several other languages, including Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish.
On June 12, 2007, Memory Alpha reached a milestone of 25,000 articles with the creation of the article .
Entertainment Weekly named Memory Alpha one of the 25 Essential Fansites in 2007. In comparing it to other Star Trek sites, the reviewer wrote, "Memory Alpha wins out for its handsome, intuitive presentation and its overwhelming mass".
It was revealed in April 2016 that actor and writer for Star Trek Beyond, Simon Pegg, used Memory Alpha as a canon resource in writing of the film, even asking the community's leaders to name and give etymology for a device in the film.
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