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'''Oddworld Maniac''' was a primarily French-language [[Oddworld fansite]] created by Psykobee with content provided by Goldy, Epeire and [[Xavier]]. For most of its life it was either replaced by, or incorporated as a subsite, '''Oddworld News'''.

Oddworld Maniac was originally hosted by AltJeux, but switched to Babeloueb.<sup>?</sup> ‘Oddworld Maniac version 8.0’ opened on 1 May 2001<ref name="Maniac8"/> after an appeal by Psykobee for assistance<ref name="startManiac"/> that saw Xavier first join the Oddworld Maniac team. In August 2001 it opened a French-language fan forum,<ref name="forum2001"/> and in October 2001 it was redesigned and hosted an anti-[[SoBe]] campaign.<ref name="antiSoBe"/>

After Babeloueb went down,<ref name="ManiacHistory"/> Oddworld News was launched on 9 November 2001 as a French-language news site to stand in for Oddworld Maniac.<ref name="launched"/> A new French-language forum was created in February 2002.<ref name="forum2002"/> Psykobee created a new design for the relaunch of Oddworld Maniac,<ref name="newdesign"/> originally intended for a March 2002 release but delayed because of personal problems Psykobee was experiencing.<ref name="ManiacHistory"/>

Oddworld Maniac relaunched in June 2002 as ‘Oddworld Maniac v.10’, briefly preceded by the launch of its new, searchable image gallery,<ref name="startImgs"/> which opened with 1154 images<ref name="numberImgs"/>. With the relaunch, Oddworld News became an English-language subsite of Oddworld Maniac,<ref name="ManiacNews"/> which published its first news story in English the following month.<ref name="englishNews"/>

In September 2003, Psykobee decided that he no longer had the time to maintain the site, and Oddworld Maniac and Oddworld News ceased to exist.<ref name="endManiac"/> [[Xavier]] was already working with [[Abe Babe]] and [[Alcar]] to recreate his image database as ‘The Art of Oddworld’<ref name="endManiac"/> (later renamed [[The Oddworld Graphics Gallery]]), and soon after was made a reporter on [[Oddworld-Web]]<ref name="XavOWW"/> and [[OddBlog]].<ref name="XavOB"/>

Recently, an archived copy of Oddworld Maniac has appeared online.<ref name="Maniac11"/> Although it has been renamed ‘Oddworld Maniac v.11’, the page source identifies it as a copy of ‘v.10’ archived in March 2003 by the Wayback Machine and retrieved in December 2009.

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="startManiac">Psykobee (April 2001?). [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20010416233338/http://www.babeloueb.com/oddworld/ Oddworld Maniac homepage]. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (16 April 2001). Internet Archive.</ref>

<ref name="endManiac">Oddworld Forums members (26 September – 4 October 2003). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=9028 Oddworld Maniac / Oddworld News => Now officially dead]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="numberImgs">psykobee (27 June 2002). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=70810#post70810 Post 9] in ‘Oddworld Maniac Pictures!’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="startImgs">Xavier (27 June 2002). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=5463 Oddworld Maniac Pictures!]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="Maniac8">Psykobee (1 May 2001). ‘[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20010610035845/http://www.babeloueb.com/oddworld/?debut=10 Oddworld Maniac : le retour]’. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (10 June 2001). Internet Archive.</ref>

<ref name="ManiacHistory">Xavier (25 March 2002). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=4558 Oddworld Maniac reported]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="newdesign">Xavier (22 December 2001). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=243 New desing !]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="antiSoBe">Xavier (7 October 2001). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=1007 new Oddworld Maniac look]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="launched">Psykobee (9 November 2001). ‘[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20011117075704/http://oddworldmaniac.free.fr/ Ouverture d'oddworld news !]’. Oddworld News. Archived by the Wayback Machine (11 November 2001). Internet Archive.</ref>

<ref name="forum2001">Xavier (22 August 2001). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=1002 FRENCH FORUM]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="forum2002">Xavier (19 February 2002). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=4043 French Oddforums]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="ManiacNews">Xavier (29 June 2002). ‘[http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=5500 Oddworld Maniac / Oddworld News]’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="englishNews">Xavier (3 July 2002). ‘[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020925092719/http://news.oddworld-fr.com/ Upload on the official site]’. Oddworld News. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (25 September 2002). Internet Archive.</ref>

<ref name="XavOWW">Abe Babe (6 October 2003). ‘[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20040218132317/http://www.oddworld.au.com/main.htm Welcome Aboard Xavier!]’. Oddworld-Web. Archived by the Wayback Machine (18 February 2004). Internet Archive.</ref>

<ref name="XavOB">Xavier (6 December 2003). ‘[http://oddworldlibrary.net/oddblog/2003/12/Xav_joins_OddBlog Xav joins OddBlog]’. OddBlog. Oddworld Library.</ref>

<ref name="Maniac11">[http://www.oddworld-fr.com Oddworld Maniac]. Accessed 20 February 2011.</ref>
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