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<p style="font-size: 1.25em">Welcome to <big>'''[[StrategyWiki:Guide/About|StrategyWiki]]'''</big>, a collaborative and freely-licensed wiki for all your video game strategy guide and walkthrough needs! The guides here can be edited by anyone, so feel free to [[Special:Userlogin|jump in]] and improve something!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0">We have guides for '''[[:Category:Games|{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Games}} games]]''', of which '''[[:Category:Guides at completion stage 4|{{#expr:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Guides at completion stage 4}}+{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Guides at completion stage 5}}}}]]''' are in a completed state.</p>
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Welcome to <big>'''''StrategyWiki'''''</big>, a collaborative wiki that seeks to become the largest source for videogame strategy guides! We hope to cover videogames for all platforms--on consoles, handhelds, and PCs--as well as import videogames. This website can be edited by anyone, so feel free to collaborate with us! Our eventual goal is to attempt replacing GameFAQs as the number one gaming strategy website. While GameFAQs has been a great resource, it has become somewhat dated as of late.  


There are many problems which StrategyWiki seeks to improve upon:
<p style="text-align: center; margin: 0">'''Genres''' ({{c|Genres|all}}): '''{{c|Action}}, {{c|Adventure}}, {{c|Fighting}}, {{c|First-person shooter|FPS}}, {{c|Puzzle}}, {{c|Racing}}, {{c|RPG}}, {{c|RTS}}, {{c|Sports}}, {{c|Strategy}}'''</p>
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<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.  
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<big>''One game, one guide.''</big> Unlike GameFAQs, which allows 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.
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<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 GameFAQs, 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!)
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<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.
<small>Previous news can be found at [[StrategyWiki:Announcements]]</small>
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Systems: '''[[:Category:Playstation 2|Playstation 2]]''' |
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'''[[:Category:Nintendo DS|Nintendo DS]]''' |
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'''[[:Category:Xbox|Xbox]]''' |
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'''[[StrategyWiki:Categories|All systems]]'''<br />
Genres: '''[[:Category:Action|Action]]''' |
'''[[:Category:Adventure|Adventure]]''' |
'''[[:Category:FPS|FPS]]''' |
'''[[:Category:Puzzle|Puzzle]]''' |
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* [[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.
* [[Mario Kart DS]] needs cleaning. It'll probably be in the "single page format", since it is not a quest and has no real spoilers.


''To vote for the next Collaboration of the month, visit the [[StrategyWiki:Collaboration of the Month|Collaboration of the Month]] page with your comments on why your nominee page should become the collaboration of the month. This could include a specific game, policies needing finalization, or anything that the community should work together as a team to complete.''
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<h4>About us</h4>
We were founded in December with the idea that strategy guides that exist on the internet could be improved. GameFAQs is great, but there are many flaws. Guides from IGN are loaded with ads or require Insider. And purchasing strategy guides? Well, let's hope those become an outdated relic of the 90's.
 
Our one single goal: open content strategy guides for everyone.
 
<h4>Help us spread the virus!</h4>
 
Er, kidding. Just help us get the word out about the wiki!
 
* [http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstrategywiki.net%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page;title=StrategyWiki%20-%20Videogame%20Strategy%20Guides;notes=StrategyWiki%20enables%20gamers%20to%20collaboratively%20create%20strategy%20guides. Post to del.icio.us]<br />Suggested tags: games videogames gaming wiki tools
 
<h4>Discuss</h4>
 
We're on #strategywiki at irc.initialized.org. Let us know what you think.
 
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''The water in Twilight Princess looks absolutely stunning.''
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''Time for an important question: Will Link ever look like this again?''
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Latest revision as of 18:07, 11 December 2023

Welcome to StrategyWiki, a collaborative and freely-licensed wiki for all your video game strategy guide and walkthrough needs! The guides here can be edited by anyone, so feel free to jump in and improve something!

We have guides for 9,537 games, of which 827 are in a completed state.

Genres (all): Action, Adventure, Fighting, FPS, Puzzle, Racing, RPG, RTS, Sports, Strategy

Featured Guides
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was the first Castlevania game released by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. It followed in the new style of Castlevania games (called "Metroidvanias" due to the heavy influence of the Metroid series) that started with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

all featured guides   ·   nominate   ·   what is this?

Announcements
September 20, 2023: Cross-Wiki Week

NIWA's Cross-Wiki Week 2023 begins September 23. For information on the event and how to participate (for the chance to win a Nintendo e-Shop card!), see Cross-Wiki Week 2023.

July 23, 2023: We now have over 9,000 guides started!

The 9,000th and 9,001st guides were started, Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends and Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate.


Previous news can be found at StrategyWiki:Announcements

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NIWA - The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance
Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance
Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance

StrategyWiki is a member of NIWA, a group of open-content encyclopedias based on Nintendo franchises.

SEIWA - The Square-Enix Independent Wiki Alliance

StrategyWiki is a member of SEIWA, a group of open-content encyclopedias based on Square-Enix franchises.

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