Foreword

This might be a bit boring and perhaps sound a bit too much like me thumping my own chest, but I wanted to write it down, probably more for myself than for anyone else. My hope though is that it will be a inspirational at least for someone. Because I think that contributing to the wiki, is easy, and very fun, and I just think more people would agree with me if they gave it a go.

My First Year With Liquipedia

My first ever entry into the Team Liquid Wiki was a year ago 2010-11-01, so almost to the day. That first post was actually me creating MarineKing's page, with a note saying "I hope Fake BoxeR deserves his own page as I think making it to Ro8, S-class and the possible name change to something to appease the foreign community grants him some notability." It was a very brief page, as you can see here.

Since then I've done about 4 500 edits, on about 2500 different pages, on Liquipedia two, I have honestly not done very much on Liquipedia 1. I'm not very interested in BroodWar.
On the wiki I started doing template things, I had this idea for showing the distribution of races in a tournament over time, so with a lot of help I created the RaceDist template. And there's been other people who's enhanced it and made it what it is today, but that's my first dabble into doing templates. I then started to do many edits to them, I started updating all the infoboxes, going around and changing all the pages that was using my new one "wrong" and eventually Aesop got so fed up with reviewing my edits he made me an editor so he wouldn't have to any more. And about the same time I also got a Liquichievement called Colourful Changeling, I was (and I think still am) the only to have gotten it, so that made me feel like I was doing something right and I just kept doing that.

Eventually I was promoted to "Junior" Liquipedia Staff and talked to the rest of the staff about TSL3's page, also the coins, I was really keen on getting that off the ground and came with many suggestions and ideas and demands.... For an example, I put the metallic sheen on the gold (and later also silver) coins.

TSL3 Bracket Contest Misshaps

Probably the funniest story (for someone who's not me) is from when I was trying to make an awesome TSL3 Bracket Contest template, so that it would update after each match with the current scores of all the 3k+ people who had participated in the bracket contest, on one single page, without us having to do more than opening the page and saving it again. This however was not a good idea. The page was too large, with too much code to execute. So when I created the page the server just locked up. And stayed locked up for about two hours, until R1CH came and gave me a stern talking to. And motbob was rolling on the floor laughing his ass off.....
So I had to change the whole setup to one that meant a ton more manual work after each day they played matches, which I ended up doing myself, probably out of shame.

Even after this I still somehow managed to become promoted to Full time Liquipedia / TL staff. And got this really cool puzzle piece next to my name here on TL.

Since then I've just kept on doing what I've done before, some tournament updates but mostly just tinkering with templates and making stuff more accessible, creating more links, adding more features that slows downs the server more. Luckily R1CH managed to fix some server settings because during MLG Dallas and Columbus the wiki was going down from too much traffic putting too much strain on the server. So then I could go back to adding features that required more server time.

My latest addition is the Arrows in brackets and groups. The actual code required to do these things is very simple, what takes time is the implementation on all the pages you want it to be on. And with that I'm still not done, I'm actually skiving off from completing it to do this blog post.

During my one year with Liquipedia a lot has happened, the total amounts of edits on Liquipedia 2 has risen from 55 000 to 130 000 (about 200 per day). The amount of pages (images, talk pages are all included) has risen from 7 500 to 13 000 (if we exclude the 3k pages for the TSL3 bracket contest). Especially the last 4 or 5 months with contributions from people like Blahz0r, Noam, Koorb, wren, miwi and a whole long list of others the wiki is getting many more edits per month, but the rate of new pages per month hasn't gone up in the same time, hopefully that means that the content on the pages we have is increasing while we're not getting bloated.

EDIT NOTE:

Original thread of this blog was My one year with Liquipedia, I changed it to get in line with the 2nd blog post that is named My Second Year With Liquipedia. Also the layout was updated, and some headings added.
salle — 2013-04-21