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Johto4933 Posts
It is June 4th. A day that has shaped teamliquid.net more than most people realize. 5 years ago a decision was finalized, that shaped the websites to an extent as only a few decisions ever had.
5 years ago today salle was officially made Head of Liquipedia following in the steps of Aesop who held that position before that.
Salle originally started out as a normal contributor as have most of us Liquipedia people. He was a big fan of MarineKing and his first contribution was to create a page for him (Yes, at some point Liquipedia had no MarineKing page, the page in the link looks a bit broken because the wiki has changed a lot since then).
And do you realize how long 5 years are? Liquipedia at this point only had StarCraft Broodwar and StarCraft II wikis, the Dota 2 wiki was already started, but only just a couple weeks before that. esports was still tiny compared to today, Na'Vi was one of the top contenders in Dota 2, Mvp was winning GSLs and IEMs, Broodwar was still played in KeSPAs Proleague. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was not even released yet. 5 years in esports are basically a generation in this fast moving industry. And for these last 5 years, salle has been in prime position to form the scene.
There are only a few websites that can claim to have the same reach in the esports scene. Reddit, teamliquid.net, hltv.org and a couple others are cumulating a lot of esports fans, but people from all these websites will regularly come to Liquipedia.
It is crazy to think that the wiki originally was meant as a Broodwar strategy resource and only that. 5 years ago no one foresaw just how big Liquipedia would become. But salle leads the staff and the contributors to build all the wikis we have now. At this point, Liquipedia consists of 9 main wikis, 4 public alpha wikis, 10 not quite public alpha wikis and a shared repository wikis. Originally just being a side-project of teamliquid.net, the wikis eventually outgrew the main website by quite a margin.
Since the editing of Liquipedia is in fact very anarchic, and keeping an overview over all of that might just be one of the biggest accomplishments, and salle does just that. Of course, he doesn't do it alone, but he still manages the big overview of it all.
5 years and going, and which better day would there be to say "thank you" and celebrate one of the silent people in the background, that keep esports running. So thank you salle, to another 5 years!
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Mexico674 Posts
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United States13143 Posts
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
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Italy12246 Posts
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On June 04 2017 09:06 DARKING wrote:
Long may he reign!
LONG MAY HE REIGN
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TLADT24920 Posts
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On June 05 2017 05:51 BigFan wrote:
Who's Salle?
is she single? is she related to intrigue?
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Germany2687 Posts
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I have great memories of both of you from YourLetters and salle in particular has been very helpful as of late for my noob endeavors in setting up Liquipedia for CPL (as have others, of course!). Please keep up the great work, it is very much appreciated!
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the guy constantly blocking girl blog wiki
yuyukad.
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Norway28665 Posts
Hooray for Salle! Hooray for Liquipedia!
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Austria24417 Posts
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TLADT24920 Posts
On June 05 2017 07:35 StorrZerg wrote:is she single? is she related to intrigue?
might want to delete this, what if your gf saw it? 
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Thanks Salle! I really love how approachable and awesome Salle whenever I have any questions or issues with Liquipedia. Very swell guy.
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United States1201 Posts
Long live Salle, the blamed one!
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He only has one diamond coin. Is he even trying?
(Especially from my total of zero coin, I know better!)
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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France9034 Posts
On June 05 2017 17:57 GeckoXp wrote:
the guy constantly blocking girl blog wiki
yuyukad.
He's that close to greatness, and still refuses to make the move. #BlameSalle
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On June 06 2017 22:43 Ragnarork wrote:Show nested quote +On June 05 2017 17:57 GeckoXp wrote:
the guy constantly blocking girl blog wiki
yuyukad. He's that close to greatness, and still refuses to make the move. #BlameSalle
I'd contribute ^^
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Switzerland2892 Posts
Sally stole my 2nd gold coin
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Sweden5554 Posts
Wow, thanks, FO, and thanks, everyone else too 
On June 05 2017 05:51 BigFan wrote:
Who's Salle?
A soon to be a middle aged guy from Sweden who likes Anime, MMOs, and esports.
On June 05 2017 07:35 StorrZerg wrote:is she single? is she related to intrigue?
No, and no, at least I don't think so.
On June 06 2017 21:43 AbouSV wrote:
He only has one diamond coin. Is he even trying?
(Especially from my total of zero coin, I know better!)
No, my editing went way down after I was made Head of Liquipedia. in one and a half years I did more than 2/3s of all the edits I've done in my 6.5 years contributing to this wiki.
I try to help out once in a while but I am actually rather rusty. Also, so many of our contributors are so much better than me at it these days anyways that I will have to ask them for help for things every now and then. However having done this for so many years I'm still ranked 42 in terms of edit numbers, and I'm in shared 16th place with 16 others at 1 diamond, together with these people: CynicalDeath, DARKING, gonace, imallinson, itsjustatank, Koorb, miwi, NovemberstOrm, razarza, Shloub, shz, Swampflare, tehh4ck3r, Tephus, and Vappy. Not a bad group of people to be sharing the podium with.
On June 07 2017 17:35 pPingu wrote:
Sally stole my 2nd gold coin
Not quite me that stole it. It was lost to the sands of time due to someone besides me screwing up for once. Our intention was for you to keep it, but shit happens, sorry, if you come by the HQ ever I'll buy you a beer to make up for it, does that sound fair?
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
On June 07 2017 17:35 pPingu wrote:
Sally stole my 2nd gold coin
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Sweden5554 Posts
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On June 04 2017 12:59 Elyvilon wrote:
#blamesalle
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Hungary11291 Posts
Congratulations on the five years! It's so amazing what LP is doing nowadays and that's to a large part your fault.
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Johto4933 Posts
On June 09 2017 05:52 Aesop wrote:
Congratulations on the five years! It's so amazing what LP is doing nowadays and that's to a large part your fault.
I like how you call it his fault and not his achievement lol
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Germany913 Posts
So it has been over 5 years since the great crash of the wiki?
Just kidding, congratulations to old man salle, and good luck for the next 5 years \Ü/
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Sweden5554 Posts
That has been over 6 years since it happened, mate. The first match of the TSL 3 was on 19 March 2011.
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is this the salle from SC/BW times? if so hiyo salle sup my man
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Sweden5554 Posts
On June 15 2017 22:54 lagcats wrote:
is this the salle from SC/BW times? if so hiyo salle sup my man
Think you're thinking of someone else. I played some SC/BW only when it was fairly new, I didn't play multiplayer after 2000 until 2010 when open beta for SC2 was out. (I was decently hooked on MMOs for that period)
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Netherlands6181 Posts
How did I miss such a glorious blog?
Old man salle, my hero <3
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Hello Salle im Cele. My variation of our quite similar nicknames is much cooler than yours, then your diamond liquipedia contrib button looks way cooler then my single bronze one. Goes to show nobody can have it all in life. Regardless: You rock, sir!
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