Template:Infobox Website StrategyWiki is a wiki-based website aiming to provide gamers and game walkthrough authors with the definitive repository of videogame walkthroughs, FAQs and strategy guides with the advent of the MediaWiki engine. Unlike similar sites, StrategyWiki has a "one game, one guide" rule. Rather than having each author work on a guide of their own, everyone contributes to one single guide for each game. This is both to take full advantage of the wiki design and to eliminate the inevitable redundancy of maintanence and expansion between different guides.[1]
Traditionally, videogame walkthroughs are created as plain text files with no formatting or embellishments other than visual tricks such as ASCII art. In recent years this format has been increasingly criticized for having not evolved along with advances in web design and web content accessibility.[2]. By using MediaWiki, StrategyWiki guides can utilize features such as rich text, tables and inline images, all things that are either impossible or extremely difficult to replicate in a plain text file.
Similar sites
Since its founding IGN has started the IGN Vault Wiki, but only for computer role-playing games and MMORPGs. 1up also operates a wiki, called MyCheats.
Involvement with Wikibooks
When Jimmy Wales no longer wanted videogame walkthroughs on Wikibooks, StrategyWiki used the transwiki process to copy many guides to their site.[3]
Milestones
- StrategyWiki has grown to incorporate nearly 2500 different articles containing 8000 maps, screenshots and other illustrations.
- StrategyWiki has nearly 100 to 200 edits on an average daily basis.
- StrategyWiki hosts over 700 guides, 100 of which are in a "complete" state, covering most or all elements of the game in question.Guides at completion stage 4</ref>
- StrategyWiki is attracting nearly 30 new authors every week.