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Traditionally, video game | StrategyWiki is a website that hosts thousands of free, collaboratively-written video game strategy guides. | ||
The site was founded in December 2005 by former member [[User:Echelon|Brandon Suit]] with the idea that the existing strategy guides on the internet could be improved. Three years later, in December 2008, [[User:Procyon|Scott Jacobi]] officially established ABXY LLC for the purpose of owning and operating StrategyWiki as a community. Our vision is to bring free, collaborative video game strategy guides to the masses. | |||
Traditionally, video game strategy guides have been created in plain text with limited formatting and no embellishments other than [[wp:ASCII art|ASCII art]]. In recent years, plain text guides have been increasingly criticized for not having evolved along with advances in web design and web content accessibility. | |||
With the powerful MediaWiki processing engine at its core, StrategyWiki guides can utilize rich text, tables, and inline images—all things that are either impossible or extremely difficult to replicate in a plain text file. The addition of these different media forms can greatly increase reader comprehension of information in a strategy guide. | |||
== Why StrategyWiki? What makes it so different?== | == Why StrategyWiki? What makes it so different?== | ||
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<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. Collaboratively working on one central guide for each game ensures a higher quality guide in the end. | <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. Collaboratively working on one central 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 content is licensed under the [ | <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 content is licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License], the same license used by [[wp:Main Page|Wikipedia]], [[wikia:Wikia|Wikia]], and various other wikis. See [[StrategyWiki:Copyrights]] for more information. | ||
<big>''The death of plain text.''</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. Video walkthroughs can even be | <big>''The death of plain text.''</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. Video walkthroughs can even be linked to at sites like [[Template:YouTube|YouTube]]. | ||
== Contacting us == | == Contacting us == | ||
If you'd like to interact with the StrategyWiki community, feel free to contact anyone via the information left on our user pages | If you'd like to interact with the StrategyWiki community, feel free to contact anyone via the information left on our user pages. You can talk with an [[StrategyWiki:Administrators|administrator]] if you need assistance. | ||
== More information == | == More information == | ||
* [[StrategyWiki: | * [[StrategyWiki:Media mentions|Media mentions]] | ||
* [[Special:Statistics|Wiki statistics]] | * [[Special:Statistics|Wiki statistics]] | ||
* [[StrategyWiki:Administrators|Project administrators]] | * [[StrategyWiki:Administrators|Project administrators]] | ||
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