Wowpedia:News

This page is intended for news related to Wowpedia. See also User news.

WoWWiki Cited for its success by CIO Magazine (3 Jul 2007)
WoWWiki was cited by the founder of Wikipedia as a successful example of what a Wiki can do for online collaboration. See.

BlizzCon 2007 Sponsorship update! (14th June 2007)
Tusva and Kaydeethree have been chosen to represent WoWWiki and Wikia at Blizzcon! Congratulations!

BlizzCon 2007 Sponsorship! (7th June 2007)
oWWiki and Wikia are sponsoring two WoWWiki contributors to attend BlizzCon 2007 in Anaheim on August 3-4. Take a look at the 2007 BlizzCon Invitation for qualifications and information on how to nominate yourself. Don't delay, the last date to add yourself is next Tuesday, June 12th!

Wiki and server update (6th June 2007)
As WoWWiki is now on Wikia servers, you may have noticed a few changes around the wiki, especially the improved reliability. Coming up, we will be receiving an upgrade to MediaWiki 1.10 and a user account merge with Wikia. More details on the latter will be coming soon!

Looking for foreign language editors! (10th May 2007)
Playing WoW in a language other than English? Interested in contributing to a World of Warcraft wiki in your language? There are communities on Wikia's foreign-language sites that are being formed... check out the sites for Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, or Slovak. If you're interested in starting a World of Warcraft wiki in a language other than the ones listed here, leave a note on my talk page. -- Rustak 21:30, 10 May 2007 (EDT)

New admin (7th May 2007)
Please welcome the newest addition to the WoWWiki administrators, Teomyr!

Wiki upgrade complete (5th May 2007)
WoWWiki is now running on MediaWiki 1.9.3. See the village pump for more information! 12:37, 5 May 2007 (EDT)

WoWWiki moving to Wikia! (1 May 2007)
Over the past few months, I've been thinking a lot about how to keep up with the needs of the WoWWiki community. I'm really proud of how WoWWiki has grown into a valuable resource for all World of Warcraft players, and want to make sure that it can continue to grow. As you've seen, I've had trouble keeping up with server issues, problems, and getting the upgrades and extensions that are needed to make WoWWiki better.

I've looked at a few options on how to solve this over the last month. When Jimmy Wales and Gil Penchina offered to let us move the wiki to Wikia, this seemed like a natural fit and I accepted. These guys have a record of treating communities well and running a great service, and I'm going to stay involved to help make sure that they deliver what our community needs.

Some more details about this are on the village pump! -- Rustak 03:06, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

MediaWiki updates and upgrades (19th April 2007)
The wiki is currently undergoing software changes and updates. This will result into multiple maintenance downtimes during the week. However, the MediaWiki version should be fully upgraded to 1.9 within 10 days.

On a sidenote, multiple changes have already been done to the wiki interface. Email authentication is now necessary to create an account and the editing interface has been made clearer. We hope you like them! -- 03:44, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

2.1.0 up for testing! (15th April 2007)
Patch 2.1.0 is now open for testing. You can now check out the complete release notes as well as a huge undocumented changes list! -- 03:44, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

Main page overhaul (1st April 2007)
The Main Page has had an overhaul!

We have added a Featured Article (FA) section and expanded the WoWWiki news section. In addition, the many of the links have been reappraised and in some cases, altered. We hope you enjoy it, and we appreciate any feedback you may have on this or any other part of the site!

We hope you enjoyed our April Fools, "MeoWWiki"!

New WoWWiki guideline (29th March 2007)
A new guideline has been created! See Wowpedia:Signature. 06:31, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

Favicon (28th March 2007)
We have one! See http://www.wowwiki.com/favicon.ico

If you're not seeing it in IE, don't worry, it may just take a while. For FF users, visit the above link, reload it, then come back here. It should then appear! 22:23, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

New Admin (17th March 2007)
Please welcome the newest addition to the administrator ranks, Baggins!. 19:23, 17 March 2007 (EDT)

The State of the Wiki (February 2007)
In a bit of good news, the wiki will soon be updated to Mediawiki 1.9.2. The recent slowness has been very frustrating, we know, and we've been looking at reason as to why it occurs. We are attempting to simplify the template usage for the moment to reduce load. Hopefully these changes will help until we find a better solution! 20:37, 26 February 2007 (EST)

Update - though the update has not yet occurred due to other commitments, we have fixed much of the stability problem by reducing the number of special template calls, such as to .  19:19, 17 March 2007 (EDT)

Wiki upgrade (January 2007)
Tonight the wiki's server was upgraded with more RAM - hopefully as a result we will be able to cope better with the loads from people wanting Burning Crusade information! If you have any trouble, please mention it on the Village pump! 17:00, 15 January 2007 (EST)

''Addendum - we know the wiki has been experiencing some stability issues recently. We are looking into the cause of the problem, and hope to find a resolution soon.'' 01:26, 11 February 2007 (EST)

New Administrators (December 2006)
I cordially invite you to congratulate the new wave of admins!


 * Adys
 * Ragestorm
 * Gryphon
 * Tekkub
 * Varghedin
 * Hobinheim
 * Montag

Admins, I expect you to do your best and always think before doing! -- Kirkburn  (talk) 20:20, 21 December 2006 (EST)

Official WoWWiki IRC Channel (December 2006)
For all talk WoWWiki, visit the new official IRC channel, set up solely for your WoW + Wiki needs :P Several of the admins frequent the channel, and you are invited to discuss issues with us or notify us of important developments there! -- Kirkburn  (talk) 20:20, 21 December 2006 (EST)

Visit: chat.freenode.net, #wowwiki

Early Dec '06 Performance Problems (December 2006)
I finally got through to Rustak and he says he thinks he's fixed the performance problems everyone has probably been noticing. He's been pretty busy, so he hasn't visited WoWWiki recently and his monitoring scripts were not working right. -- Fandyllic (talk) 4:17 PM PST 6 Dec 2006

Burning Crusade policy (October 2006)
Material pertaining to the beta of the upcoming expansion can now be posted freely on the wiki with some limitations.

Please, no screenshots of unreleased content, and no datamined screenshots. Anything you could or can view in the alpha/beta is postable, as long as no exploits were used.

-- Kirkburn  (talk) 10:47, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

Recent policy and guideline changes (September 2006)

 * Deletion policy - there is no longer a separate termination policy. There's no real difference for you people. The speedy deleteion policy covered all the special cases that the termination policy outlined; we're just reducing confusion with this change.


 * Fanfic policy - The only thing we require now is that fanfic be about WoW and not mix in other gaming universes. Everything else was moved to optional advice in the fan fiction guidelines.


 * Do-Not-Post policy - Non-English content is now DNP, with a few possible exceptions outlined in the policy.

-- Mikk (T) 09:04, 26 September 2006 (EDT)


 * Guidelines:


 * Image guidelines have been created, with helpful tips on how to pick image format, handle compression, transparency, background coloring, etc...


 * Fan fiction guidelines have been created as optional practices for writing fan fiction. (It mostly consists of the removed portions of the fanfic policy, reworded as hints rather than rules).

MediaWiki 1.7.1 Upgrade (August 2006)
Rustak has upgraded the MediaWiki software to v1.7.1, which brings with it a number of changes.

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New WoWWiki admins (August 2006)
Please congratulate Kirkburn and Mikk on their promotion to admin. Now you can bug them instead of me! --Fandyllic 8:31 AM PDT 30 Aug 2006

Main Page Updated! (August 2006)
The look of the Main page has changed to the winning design among several proposals on 25 Aug 2006. We hope you like it.

Main Page Update! (August 2006)
The look of the main page will be changing in the next week or so based on the winner of a few proposals. Please see WoWWiki:Main Page Dev 4 for a preview.

Lore (June 2005)
The Lore section has tons of info about the history, characters, places, and creatures of the Warcraft universe.

New Chat Info (June 2005)

 * Usage and Commands
 * Terminology and Shortcomings
 * Troubleshooting

WoW Festival 2005 (Feb 2005)
WoW Festival 2005 was April 22-24. It is sponsored by Rush3d.com and promises to bring out a number of players and community related websites.

http://www.wowfestival.com for details.

New Chronos Library (Jan 2005)
Chronos - a new UI Library has been added to the Front page.

Server Performance Issues (Nov 2004)
The popularity of the wiki caught me a bit off guard; I had to scramble to a bunch of last minute software upgrading and cache setting-upping. Things are working fairly well though; you'll notice a large performance boost if you log out if you're just browsing, and log in just to edit. Also, make sure that your links/bookmarks/etc. look like  http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page  -- not www.wowwiki.com:8080 or /index.php/ (those will still work, but the first form will be the fastest). I'll probably do a hardware upgrade here in the next week or so as well. Thanks for all the contributions! -- Rustak 07:00, 23 Nov 2004 (EST)

Index of Wiki Templates (Nov 2004)
An index of Wiki Templates has been started. Please add to it as appropriate. -- Goldark 09:51, 23 Nov 2004 (EST)

Moved to the "About WoWWiki" namespace (WoWWiki:), July 2005. - Laisren

Server List (Nov 2004)
Complete server list up at : Realms list. -- AlexanderYoshi 01:10, 23 Nov 2004 (EST)

Categories (Nov 2004)
Categories have now been added to many of the gameplay-related pages. Please try to categorize any new pages from now on, using existing catgories where possible, but adding new ones if required -- Goldark 12:11, 22 Nov 2004 (EST)

(Note: Meta:Categories moved to the About WoWWiki namespace (WoWWiki: ) June 2005. -Laisren)

Money Icons (Nov 2004)
You can now add money icons to your posts! Money Example -- OwlBoy 09:27, 22 Nov 2004 (EST)

Spell detail
I've added a new example Spell detail page, at Warlock Spells > Shadow Bolt. I'd like feedback on it, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be nice to have a spell detail page like this for every spell and ability. If so, we could mock up a template on it for future use. -- Jat850 19:29, 21 Nov 2004 (EST)

Classes
There's a new look to the Classes page thanks to Jat850. Many other fantastic contributions by various people. Keep it going! -- Goldark

Hunter, Shaman and Paladin classes added too. All classes now have a basic first page at a minimum, but there's still lots to do. A new Racial Traits page has also been added. -- Goldark

Druid, Mage and Rogue guides are up! Thanks Metaphaze, Goldark, and Sarf! --Alex

Brand new guides for the Warrior, Priest and Warlock. Go check em out! --Alex

Templates
Added some Templates (not Wiki templates) to act as a framework skeleton for the class and quest information -- Goldark

Guilds
Lots of news going on at the Guilds page!

API
A lot of people are working on the World of Warcraft API. Its looking GREAT! --Alex

The Cosmos AddOns list has been started, feel free to help contribute to the documentation!

Newbie Guide
The Newbie Guide is online and ready for perusing! Thanks Vlad!