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StrategyWiki is a website that hosts thousands of collaboratively written video game strategy guides. | StrategyWiki is a website that hosts thousands of 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. | 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 | 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 forms of media can greatly increase the impact and understanding of a walkthrough. | 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 forms of media can greatly increase the impact and understanding of a walkthrough. | ||
