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Welcome to StrategyWiki, a collaborative wiki that seeks to become the largest source for videogame strategy guides! The guides here can be edited by anyone, so feel free to jump in and improve something!

What makes StrategyWiki different?
The current standards of guide presentation are showing their age. StrategyWiki improves upon these weaknesses:

One game, one guide. All editors work together on one unified guide, resulting in a higher quality end result.
Guides are always editable. If authors disappear their work can still be improved upon by others.
The death of plain text. The powerful MediaWiki engine makes fully illustrated multi-page guides possible.
Read more about what makes StrategyWiki different.

Collaboration(s) of the Week

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the finest videogames ever produced by Nintendo. It's also an adventure game that many of us are very familiar with. This is why we've chosen it to be our first big project. We can experiment with the "book format" articles with this game, and this article will serve as a future reference point.

Mario Kart DS needs a little cleaning and expansion. It will likely be left in the "single page format" since it is not a quest and has no real spoilers.

StrategyWiki's policy itself must undergo collaboration in this early stage, and therefore we ask you to voice your opinions in our Community Issues section.

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You can join us on #strategywiki at irc.initialized.org, or use this java chatroom. Ask us questions and let us know what you think. We use this channel to collaborate.

Screenshot of the Week

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Artwork of the Week

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Notice to contributors: The StrategyWiki administration does not condone plagiarism or the use of materials from any other source. Period. With the exception of screenshots and official game art, you must have the ownership of all works you submit to StrategyWiki.

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-== Why StrategyWiki? ==
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-There are many problems which StrategyWiki seeks to improve upon:
+Welcome to <big>'''''StrategyWiki'''''</big>, a collaborative wiki that seeks to become the largest source for videogame strategy guides! The guides here can be edited by anyone, so feel free to jump in and improve something!
-<big>''The wiki format of StrategyWiki allows for multiple editors''</big>, thus improving the insight and quality each guide recieves. With many people able to lend their help and knowledge, guides can quickly gain depth. And with a wide range of editors, secrets are more easily dicovered and documented. Enforcing the community aspect of guide creation also serves to stifle elitism.
-<big>''One game, one guide.''</big> Unlike other sites, which allow an unlimited number of guides per games, we only allow one: with too many choices, it quickly becomes a confusing task to choose which guide is right for you. Collaboritively working on one guide for each game ensures a higher quality guide in the end.
-<big>''StrategyWiki ensures that the guides remain open.''</big> With StrategyWiki, content never "dies", and it can be updated by other writers even if original contributors abandon the guide. This is not true with many other sites, which only allow the original author to edit his or her guide; once the author abandons a guide, there will be no more updates, improvements, or corrections. StrategyWiki also maintains all of its content under the GNU FDL, allowing unlimited use within those terms. (More licensing issues TBD!)
-<big>''There are no more "plaintext" guides.''</big> We have real readability. With adventure games, we can even have multiple-page guides that ensure that a user does not stumble upon spoilers. There's also real markup, and images can be attached. Once we have the bandwidth, we may even allow video walkthrough uploads as well.
-<big>''[[Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time/The_Beginning|Check out how beautiful and organized wiki guides can look!]]''</big>
+<big><big>'''What makes StrategyWiki different?'''</big></big><br>
+The current standards of guide presentation are showing their age. StrategyWiki improves upon these weaknesses:
+* <big>''One game, one guide.''</big> All editors work together on one unified guide, resulting in a higher quality end result.
+* <big>''Guides are always editable.''</big> If authors disappear their work can still be improved upon by others.
+* <big>''The death of plain text.''</big> The powerful MediaWiki engine makes fully illustrated multi-page guides possible.
+* [[StrategyWiki:What makes StrategyWiki different|Read more about what makes StrategyWiki different]].
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