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Revision as of 00:54, 15 January 2011
Team Fortress Wiki (formerly and founded as TF2 Wiki) was created by Nos in October 2007. Its goal is to provide Team Fortress 2 players with information that they will find useful to further their understanding of the game.
In June 2010, the Wiki and its content was moved to a new server hosted by Valve, and became the official Team Fortress Wiki, covering everything related to TF2 and its older siblings Team Fortress Classic and Quake Team Fortress.
Contents
What is a Wiki?
See Wikipedia's article on what is a "Template:W".
- A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known Wikis.
How to get started and where to find things
- Those links on the left under "Navigation" are the way to find your way around.
- First check out the Main Page, it tells you what's new and has useful links.
- Try the search box! It is quite useful, though you can always search within the Wiki using Google.
- If you are bored you can always check out a random page!
How to edit
This is a Wiki: a cooperative and informative website that anyone can edit to make it better.
To edit a page you have to first sign in, or if you haven't created an account yet, create one.
The Team Fortress Wiki, like Wikipedia, utilizes the wiki markup to format a page. For example: Entering any text between two equal signs creates a title. Wikipedia has a cheat sheet designed to help newcomers. You should also check out the tutorial for the very basics.
We also have a manual of style which you should follow, this gives guidelines on the way you should format pages.
Resources
- Wiki markup
- Help:Editing
- Template:W on Wikipedia
- Editing Template:W on Wikipedia
- Translation
- Other
- Help:Contents
- Help:Contents on Meta-Wiki
Where to get help
- #tfwiki IRC channel (how to connect)
- Team Fortress Wiki:Discussion – our main discussion page
Who are the people in charge?
This site is operated by volunteers from the TF2 community. Valve's direct involvement in the day-to-day running of the site is minimal, apart from a terms of use policy which all contributors must adhere to.
See Group rights for a complete list of users with elevated privileges.
Site statistics
These are just a few quick facts about this site:
Trivia
- The Team Fortress Wiki became an official Valve wiki on June 30, 2010, as part of the unofficial Valve Wiki Network. Source: TF2 Official Blog- Listen!
- Entering the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter) on your keyboard anywhere on the Wiki will trigger an easter egg where a BLU Spy saps the wiki logo at the top of the sidebar to the left.
