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On August 05 2012 11:53 Lineridarz wrote:
Just let BW die man, it had its funeral, it's over... it's sad but you just have to come to accept it.
User was temp banned for this post.
I surprised this was only a temp ban. A pretty freaking low blow to the people who even made this site possible.
I'm an SC2 baby, so I can't help. But I would love to see people contribute. I have definitely spent my fair share of time perusing the BW wiki to try and catch up on the history that I have missed leading up to the era I currently follow. Preservation of information is a great thing, especially for something with a huge legacy that BW has.
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On August 05 2012 23:58 imallinson wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 23:44 tofucake wrote:On August 05 2012 19:26 imallinson wrote:
It might be a good idea to make a list of the pages that have gaps it would make it easier for people to hop in and add stuff where it's needed. here I made a list Well if it's only every page we should have it done in no time 
Actually, yes. Many of the pages right now are not only a bit ugly, but also do not give you more informations than infoboxes, in the best cases grids and results. This is cool, but I can't see how that is helpful for any user that wants to have an idea what really happened. A lot of events, teams and player profiles are completely missing - especially the foreigners need a lot of work.
You can basically hit the "Random Page" link a few times and check for typos, spelling and so on. As soon as you find something that interests you, you can do research. Check the sources. See if you can add information, provide background (Battle Reports, overall context explanations, screen shots, trailers, ...) and start right off. Lucky for us, a lot of information is already there. So indeed, if only a couple of users add a line here and there, fix this and that, the whole thing will look a lot better. This doesn't even require a lot of time.
Believe me, you can actually enjoy playing detective and work on that. It has some sort of creative character to it. Sometimes at least. And you get coins. Coins are good!
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Hong Kong9179 Posts
On August 06 2012 04:32 Oiseaux wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2012 11:53 Lineridarz wrote:
Just let BW die man, it had its funeral, it's over... it's sad but you just have to come to accept it.
User was temp banned for this post. I surprised this was only a temp ban. A pretty freaking low blow to the people who even made this site possible. I'm an SC2 baby, so I can't help. But I would love to see people contribute. I have definitely spent my fair share of time perusing the BW wiki to try and catch up on the history that I have missed leading up to the era I currently follow. Preservation of information is a great thing, especially for something with a huge legacy that BW has.
While the focus of this thread is the BW section of Liquipedia, feel free to contribute to SC2 Liquipedia as well!
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Brood War has cookies and chat channels!
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Long live Liquipedia, the Brood War Bible. Hopefully some of those who were lucky enough to follow this scene from the beginnings can help add some information. Unfortunately I never even knew a competitive scene existed until SC2 was announced, I grew up as a custom game/campaign BW noob  . If I find areas that I can add to the information I will gladly help edit some bits of information in. Great thread idea.
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I'm going to slowly update all the proleague's with the results, but I'm afraid I don't have the background knowledge to really add anything. It doesn't help that TLPD has events mixed up either :/ (it has the 2006 SKY proleague results in the 2005 SKY proleague section).
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What about doing a reverse of what Liquid normally does with things like gifts and cheerfuls to players. By that I mean send out a letter to BW teams, players and organizers for their input on thier history and general information. Maybe include some little known details as well. If Team Liquid shows them Liquidpedia and all the history our crack team of editors has added, perhaps they would take a little time to fill out a form or send a letter back to us.
Can't get much better then getting data straight from the source. I think they would appreciate it as well seeing a massive and detailed archive of all their hard work (even if it is in english). A kind of monument to BW history.
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I'll take care of the typos.
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Awesome, I would love to be able to read more about it.
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Netherlands6142 Posts
Excellent initiative tank! <3
I'm planning do a tutorial on HowToEditOldAssProleague pages on the Liquipedia stream in ~1.5 hours (2:30pm CEST, 12:30 GMT (+00:00) local) since we got a bunch of that left undone and it's pretty easy to pick up. Tune in if you're interested! I'll put the VOD up later.
edit: VOD!
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Started editing on  Perfectman, not really sure where to put what though.
And all the info stems from TLPD; are those kinds of updates really necessary? Tried to google some background info but it was really hard, esp. since i cant read korean ...
Cheers for the initiative!
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Hyrule19260 Posts
TLPD doesn't store things like "Player A popularized build B in tournament C round D against opponent E" and the like.
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It is really hard to edit BWLP since a lot of the info isn't common knowledge. I guess I can be content in trying ot fix it when I have time later.
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Awesome idea behind this Tank! :D Sadly my knowledge is limited to only the last couple of years in BW and only from reading a few articles and watching VODs. I hope those who have been around for awhile will help out the BW TLPD sections!
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On August 07 2012 01:05 TheRealNanMan wrote:
Awesome idea behind this Tank! :D Sadly my knowledge is limited to only the last couple of years in BW and only from reading a few articles and watching VODs. I hope those who have been around for awhile will help out the BW TLPD sections!
I think that there will be quite a lot of foreign BW content to add soon with the ABC initiative
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Really great initiative. Whilst BW may have had its apparent final night in the spotlight now, even if it is to never reclaim past glories the rich history it spawned should be remembered.
This is the game that set E-sports off as a genuine going concern - if it isn't recorded now, we'll look back in decades time and be so disappointed that its legacy isn't available to be remembered.
I really hope this initiative does well.
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This is awesome - I keep up with the general video game scene, and for the past few months game preservation has become a bigger issue as older systems start to fail and we lose access to the games of yore. This initiative dovetails nicely with that - BW has probably the most storied history of any game (or pretty close, at any rate!) and preserving its past is a worthy cause.
I'm not sure exactly what I can do, given that I only came into the BW scene in 2008 or so, and it seems like most of the information needed stems from the early days of BW, but I'm still up for the task.
Putting this here both for myself and for others: it strikes me that one of the best ways to glean info on any given subject is to search on TL main for it; I'd bet that if you simply plug a progamer's name into the search function you will get lots of juicy threads with detail that can be folded into Liquipedia. Of course googling is another strategy, and perhaps using google to search TL will yield good results.
Anyway, hopefully I'll be able to help in some small way.
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There is a pretty popular random wiki in Korea called Angelhalo wiki(recently changed to RigVeda wiki) and they have an amazing amount of(albeit biased and not necessarily well written/organized) information regarding BroodWar and it's professional scene.
Their Starcraft 1 portal(there's a section for e-sports):
http://rigvedawiki.net/r1/wiki.php/스타크래프트
Their full list of BW tournaments from 1999:
http://rigvedawiki.net/r1/wiki.php/역대 스타리그 일람
That might serve as a pretty extensive Korean source if someone's willing to translate parts from it.
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