diff --git a/apps/frontend/.env.development b/apps/frontend/.env.development
index c845a27..d3f2ff0 100644
--- a/apps/frontend/.env.development
+++ b/apps/frontend/.env.development
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
-VITE_WIKI_BASE=/proxy/wiki
+# Public wiki host. Used only to build external (target=_blank) links to wiki
+# pages, so it must be an absolute URL — NOT the same-origin /proxy/wiki path,
+# which only the dev-server Vite proxy resolves (in the browser it would point
+# at teletypegames.org/proxy/wiki/...).
+VITE_WIKI_BASE=https://wiki.teletypegames.org
 VITE_GIT_BASE=/proxy/git/api/v1