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Revision as of 00:32, 21 June 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 Team Fortress 2 and its older siblings, Team Fortress Classic and Quake Team Fortress.
Contents
What is a Wiki?
See Wikipedia's article on what a "Template:W" is.
- 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 Team Fortress 2 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 pages listing facts and statistics 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.
