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===Involvement with Wikibooks===
===Involvement with Wikibooks===
When [[Jimmy Wales]] designated he no longer wanted videogame walkthroughs on [[Wikibooks]]<ref>[[wikibooks:Wikibooks talk:Computer and video games bookshelf#I am unaware of any elementary school, high school, or college courses which require computer game walkthroughts as a text|Jimmy Wales comments on Wikibooks]]</ref><ref>[http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks&oldid=434945 Jimmy Wales comments on What is Wikibooks]</ref>, saying that video game walkthroughs had no educational value therefore was in volation of Wikibooks' charter, StrategyWiki used the [[m:Help:Transwiki|transwiki]] process to copy the left over video game guides for continuation to their site.<ref>[[strategywiki:StrategyWiki:Wikibooks Import List|StrategyWiki:Wikibooks Import List]]</ref> They now host the majority of Wikibooks' video game guides. This has inevitably resulted in a large boost to both StrategyWiki's guide count and contributor base, as many Wikibooks users who wished to continue creating game walkthroughs have now become regular StrategyWiki contributors.
When [[Jimmy Wales]] designated he no longer wanted videogame walkthroughs on [[Wikibooks]]<ref>[[wikibooks:Wikibooks talk:Computer and video games bookshelf#I am unaware of any elementary school, high school, or college courses which require computer game walkthroughts as a text|Jimmy Wales comments on Wikibooks]]</ref><ref>[http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks&oldid=434945 Jimmy Wales comments on What is Wikibooks]</ref>, saying that video game walkthroughs had no educational value therefore was in violation of Wikibooks' charter, StrategyWiki used the [[m:Help:Transwiki|transwiki]] process to copy the left over video game guides for continuation to their site.<ref>[[strategywiki:StrategyWiki:Wikibooks Import List|StrategyWiki:Wikibooks Import List]]</ref> They now host the majority of Wikibooks' video game guides. This has inevitably resulted in a large boost to both StrategyWiki's guide count and contributor base, as many Wikibooks users who wished to continue creating game walkthroughs have now become regular StrategyWiki contributors.


== Milestones ==
== Milestones ==
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* StrategyWiki attracts nearly 30 new authors every week.{{fact}}
* StrategyWiki attracts nearly 30 new authors every week.{{fact}}
* StrategyWiki receives per month approximately 100,000 unique visits and over 4,000,000 hits on average.<ref>[http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki:Statistics#Recent_traffic_statistics StrategyWiki's server statistics]</ref>  
* StrategyWiki receives per month approximately 100,000 unique visits and over 4,000,000 hits on average.<ref>[http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki:Statistics#Recent_traffic_statistics StrategyWiki's server statistics]</ref>  
* StrategyWiki is nearly within the top 40,000 ranked websites in the US trafic-wise. <ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=strategywiki.org&url=strategywiki.org Alexa.com statistics]</ref>
* StrategyWiki is nearly within the top 40,000 ranked websites in the US traffic-wise. <ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=strategywiki.org&url=strategywiki.org Alexa.com statistics]</ref>


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