Yesterday we launched our third wiki, a wiki that will aim to cover the professional Dota 2 scene and provide information, help, and tips for players of all skill levels. For us it’s structurally quite a big step since the game is very different from the two StarCraft titles we’ve covered this far. But also the professional scene is driven by team games, which is also different from the professional StarCraft scenes. We think we’ve dealt with those two issues quite well, changed templates to reflect this, and laid a solid foundation on which to build on as we go forward. That is what the wiki is today, a foundation to build on.
The next step is obviously to create more content and increase the coverage of the Dota 2 scene: Players, teams, tournaments, strategies, hero guides, and more. To do this we will need help from the community, from people like you, all you need to do is put in a little time—for some, perhaps effort too—share some of your knowledge, or the knowledge of others that you have found from other sources. The potential for a wiki is almost limitless, and the amount of dedicated people we've found on TL, contributing to the other wikis, have been awesome (but we still want/need more!). We have been fortunate enough to have over 200 pretty dedicated contributors, and over 12 000 who have at least contributed once for our StarCraft II wiki. The results speaks for themselves, I think.
Of course, we hope that some of you reading this are interested in helping out creating this ultimate Dota2 encyclopaedia. A wiki is necessarily dependant on its contributors and, based on our own experience, we have all the faith in the world that the TL community can do it. We hope many of you will become part of this ambitious dream. If you are considering making a start in Liquipedia-editing, check out the tutorial video by Chobopeon below (originally meant for SC2, but nearly everything carries over). Of course, should any questions arise, we are happy to assist anyone in our IRC channel. Take heart, the learning curve for Liquipedia is nothing compared to that of the actual game
Note: For the Dota2 wiki, the template or skeleton pages shown around the 1:30 mark are not all yet in place (but the will soon be,) for now we have Player Template and Team Template.
A wiki is about collaboration, you can use this thread to point out which team(s), player(s), hero(es), and or tournament(s) you want to help edit, if your interest overlaps with others you can hopefully work together to make the page(s) even better. (You may also use this thread to talk about anything else that falls under the topic, of course)
So from me and the rest of the Liquipedia team "We hope to see you on the wiki, Dota 2 fans!"
/salle - Head of Liquipedia
PS. You can direct non wiki editing questions you do not want public to me in PM or to the whole team at liquipedia@teamliquid.net. Otherwise feel free to ask anything in this thread. General feedback to Liquipedia can be directed posted in The Liquipedia Feedback Thread.
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On September 01 2012 01:22 blahz0r wrote: [...]Also, please do not copy content directly from dota2wiki.com (they are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 pretty much means we can't use content from dota2wiki.com because our licenses are not compatible, ours being CC-BY-SA).
On August 31 2012 22:21 Implenia wrote: Which are the parts of the liquipedia that need improvement the most, where our community could help out?
i think we are currently lack of Players and team profile pages. i myself just create Loda profile page after hour of googling. Try to avoid copy pasting from other wiki.
is it possible that there is maybe a mistake in the match template or am i just dumb? look at the second match of every game from ti2, the picks and bans are always on the wrong team. i edited myself some mouz matches last night and saw this. so what you have to do is: give the dire team, the radiant pick and bans, and the other way aound.
yay LP announcement. Lots of content to be had, lets do it people!
Also, please do not copy content directly from dota2wiki.com (they are CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 pretty much means we can't use content from dota2wiki.com because our licenses are not compatible, ours being CC-BY-SA).
On September 01 2012 00:18 Windwaker wrote: is it possible that there is maybe a mistake in the match template or am i just dumb? look at the second match of every game from ti2, the picks and bans are always on the wrong team. i edited myself some mouz matches last night and saw this. so what you have to do is: give the dire team, the radiant pick and bans, and the other way aound.
Let me check that out.
EDIT: Okay, the variable name should have been updated we initially made this template to work as a best of one, then radiant would always be left and dire would always be right, as per Dota convention. But when we moved to a multiple game series we decided to change the left/right sorting order to be of the team, as in the team is always in one column, we're not 100% sure this is how we'll always do it, but for now it's the less of two bad choices we had to make. I'll get to fixing the name of the variables soon, just not while the International is live as people will want to edit the page and me locking it down for edits or me trying to fit it in between people editing it feels a bit So keep putting them on the wrong team for the 2nd match for now.
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Player Template and 
