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A Liquipedia Primer
A few months ago, Team Liquid announced its Smash team opening shop with Ken and KDJ. A flurry of excitement flew through the staff. At some point, someone tossed out ".....Liquipedia?" And that's how our new wiki was born.
We aim to be the most comprehensive resource both for the esports side (tournaments, players, teams, etc) but also for the game knowledge side (characters, stages, and so on).
Liquipedia also licenses all the text and code as CC-BY-SA meaning your contribution is open for anyone else to reuse or remix (as long as they also release their derivative work with the same license.) This we think is the best license to service the community, we don't restrict people using the material in a for profit product either. To us this license is ideal as it allows the content we all create to better the community to be used and reused in any number of ways, and allows it to further built upon.
And to further expand on the Share Alike concept, we have partnered with SSBwiki for Melee content
It was our goal to make the Smash wiki as simple to edit as all of our others. The process is the same for any Liquipedia wiki you want to edit!
How to use Liquipedia
The Building Blocks
Main Page
First we have the main page, which has some information in the news section, links to the main tournament around today's date (upcoming, ongoing and previous). For easy access to the big portal pages there's some image banner links and classes have links too. The Liquipedia News box is mostly for contributors of the wiki who might be interested to know of new templates or structural changes to the wiki.
Navboxes
Our Navigation Boxes are typically used to display a team's roster or used display a Tournaments on-going series of events, usually found at the top or bottom of a page.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/G5BM7sA.png)
Infoboxes
Infoboxes represent information in a organized way, most commonly used for player pages such as on Ken's page.
Name, Date of Birth, country, team, social media links, nicknames, and sponsors are presented.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/65KmoOm.png)
Brackets and groups
The brackets are there to show and display information to you, on who has played, what classes they used, and what country they are from, other useful bits of info such as Live report thread links, tournament previews/recaps, and interviews.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/zkE4fBF.png)
Clicking on the little "I" on the bracket will bring up the relevant info (characters, stages, and all other links) relevant to the match.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/qqJzVCu.png)
Groups will list players in ranking order, with a complete match list usually below, accessed by a [show] link. We also use color coding to show how many from a group progress and then it will be shown in the rank column, when a position (move on, or drop out for example) then the background color of the name and score will instead be what's filled in.
Key Areas for Helping Out
The Smash wiki has come a long way since it was started, but at the moment we would really like to get more help in keeping tournaments listed and up to date as they are being played. Most interesting is keeping the score updated, but also character and stock info on which stages are being played.
For the game aspect, the character and stage pages could use some help to be more clear and contain more newbie information.
-See you on the wiki
