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Liquipedia Review - Volume V
January 12th, 2010 13:03 GMT
We apologize for the lateness of this newspost, we have all been busied by the holiday seaon and finals. But without further ado:
The Liquipedia Review - Volume V
Brought to you by mikeymoo and Imperator
We now have over 1000 pages on Liquipedia! We would also like to thank 7mk for his purchase of www.liquipedia.net. (It's a bit late, but you can thank him here.) You can now reach us from there as well! As an aside, Dark Archons are appearing everywhere in StarCraft matches. We told you so 
In other news, it seems like Liquipedia is getting a little bit of exposure in Korea! First, a thank you to Nonduc for the putting in the data for Jaedong's Race Statistics! Does anybody see the similarity to the Korean Wiki?
1. Main Page Overhaul .
Take a look.
+ Show Spoiler [Front Page] +
Liquipedia's Main Page is has been vastly improved. It now has the latest StarCraft news, as well the latest new things from within the wiki. And the best part? Our game of the day section! Each day, the Main Page feature a new "Game of the Day". In this feature, we showcase a particular game each day and analyze it. Get in touch with one of us if you think there is a good game to showcase! We restructured the portal as well, hopefully you will find it more intuitive!
2. TSL
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Kennigit/PSTSL/PS_TSL_Banner.png)
With the TSL underway, the stars of today have shown themselves, and we need your help to immortalize them in a wiki page. Not sure which players have pages? You can see a somewhat complete list of foreigners here. If you think a player should be added to the "Notable Foreigners" section, by all means, go ahead and edit! Obviously IdrA and ret have pages, but some of the highly ranked players on the ladder are missing, like MaNa and MorroW. Get in there! For those of you that missed some the of action, we have an article detailing the TSL2 here. We would like to thank SnowFalling for his hard work on the TSL2 article!
3. Maps .
A very major thank you to Slugbreath for helping immensely with the map section! More about Slugbreath later.
Our maps section is being expanded with many new maps. Ever wondered what those standard maps in your map directory looked like? Well now you can find out! All of Blizzard's Broodwar non-ladder default maps have articles, with the StarCraft ones coming soon. You can give them a look and see if you want to try something new with one of these old maps. You will notice that many of our maps are sporting higher res images, courtesy of repdepot.net and reXplorer. Additional thanks to Imperator and IntoTheWow!
Our pick from the classic maps - Sirocco, due to its brilliant tagline.
Your Enemy flamed you on the forums. There is only one recourse.
4. User in Spotlight
An interview with Slugbreath, the Map man.
+ Show Spoiler [Interview] +
LP: First off, give us a quick introduction of yourself.
Slugbreath: I'm 23 years old and come from Sweden. I started to play StarCraft back in around 2000. However it's only this year that I have picked it up again and truly realized what a great game it is.
LP: How did you find Teamliquid and Liquipedia?
Slugbreath: Truth to be told, I don't really remember! I think it might have been either due to a former co-worker to me or due to Tasteless mentioning Teamliquid in the GOM leagues that made me find Teamliquid. From there I found Liquipedia.
LP: Why did you decide to become active in Liquipedia? And why in the map section, specifically?
Slugbreath: I first went to Liquipedia to find out more about various progamers. Who are they and what are they known for? Especially the gamers of yesterday interested me since I have always been interested in history and I guess that StarCraft history is no exception!
Slugbreath: So I found a lot pages about progamers to be very, very empty, including pages about people I had heard a lot of talk about!
Slugbreath: So I thought that, well, I don't know too much about these people, but at least I can add links to interviews and articles about them.
Slugbreath: So I did.
Slugbreath: From there I went ahead and started the "Blizzard's Map of the Week" page, since I had stumbled upon it while searching for some other page.
Slugbreath: I didn't think that pages about individual maps were relevant enough to merit their own page on Liquipedia but when the page "Brood War no-ladder default maps" showed up, I asked in the Liquipedia IRC channel if it would be a good idea to make pages about those maps too.
Slugbreath: I think it was Mystlord (not sure though) who said that, yes, it was a good idea and should eventually be done and seing how it was something that I easily could do, I started to create individual pages for those maps.
Slugbreath: From there it has just snowballed, I guess.
Slugbreath: I like to catalog things and to have a project going on, so it suited me well to focus on maps.
Slugbreath: Also, it felt like info that should be on Liquipedia.
LP: Do you have any plans after you finish with the maps?
Slugbreath: Looking at the sheer amount of maps left to be added I doubt that I will be done any time soon!
Slugbreath: But there is always stuff to be done.
Slugbreath: I like trying to find interviews and photos of progamers and add that to their pages on Liquipedia.
Slugbreath: I also think that adding pages about what happened during various years would be of interest.
Slugbreath: So that if people ask themselves "what leagues were played in 2005 and which maps were played on?", they should easily find such info on Liquipedia.
Slugbreath: Other information could also be added about the years, like which patches were released and new rules introduced by KeSPA.
Slugbreath: You get the idea.
LP: What advice do you have for new users looking to contribute to the wiki?
Slugbreath: I think that the easiest way to start editing Liquipedia is to read the forums on Teamliquid.
Slugbreath: Interviews, articles and translations show up there all the time and very seldom does that info get used on Liquipedia.
Slugbreath: Just by going to the player page on Liquipedia and adding the interview to a player helps.
Slugbreath: One doesn't have to be A+ on ICCUP to edit Liquipedia after all.
Slugbreath: Look at me, I'm M rank!
Slugbreath: I have a Mac, and can't even get on ICCUP.
Slugbreath: To sum it up, it's very helpful and very easy to just add fact to Liquipedia.
Slugbreath: And references.
LP: And that about concludes the interview. Do you have any final thoughts?
Slugbreath: Keep on editing! We still have a lot of empty pages to fill.
5. Promotions .
Slugbreath became the first to be autopromoted by the engine to editor due to making 150 approved edits over the course of two weeks. A hundred and fifty! If you do that, you too can be a Liquipedia editor, too!
(Vote): 1024x768
(Vote): 1152x720
(Vote): 1280x800
(Vote): 1440x900
(Vote): 1680x1050
(Vote): 1920x1200
(Vote): Other (Put in Comments)
Cheers,  Liquipedia Staff
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Liquipedia Players Page
Liquipedia Teams Page
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Hungary11270 Posts
Late but significant. Good job!
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Nice newspost, good to see that progress coming along!
I'm going to have to head back over to liquipedia now, haven't been there for a while, but sounds awesome with all the new content.
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nice and creds too all who has done work in this!
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I use other resolution: 1280x1024
its a pretty popular resolution, i suggest you include it in the poll.
(see this)
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Russian Federation1612 Posts
On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:
I use other resolution: 1280x1024
same
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Catyoul
France2377 Posts
1280x1024 too (2560x1024 technically, but it's over two screens)
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Holy shit, front page looks much better.
Good Job.
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On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:same
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On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:I use other resolution: 1280x1024 its a pretty popular resolution, i suggest you include it in the poll. ( see this)
Ohh I voted 1280x800 but I just noticed that I use 1280x1024 as well
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1600x1200.
Clearly, Starcraft is communist: everyone must play in 640x480.
--oberon
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On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:same
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1680x1050 on both monitors
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Looks great
1152x720 mine
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
wow wow wow wow amazing job on the front page
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Germany2762 Posts
1680 x 1050 at home on my pc and 1280 x 800 on my laptop.
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On January 12 2010 22:41 St3MoR wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:
I use other resolution: 1280x1024
same
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Outstanding Job!!!
Amazing Stuff. Keep it up PLZ.
Thx a LOT. o.Ov
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On January 12 2010 23:04 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:
I use other resolution: 1280x1024
same
same same
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On January 12 2010 22:38 Catyoul wrote:
1280x1024 too (2560x1024 technically, but it's over two screens)
Same here. The poll has almost exclusively widescreen resolutions. 4:3 and 5:4 resolutions shouldn't be forgotten yet, especially on a site about a 4:3 game.
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Hyrule19012 Posts
I have 2 computers...one at 1680x1050 and another at 1280x1024
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Whats with almost all poll options being widescreen?
I use 1280x1024 as well.
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Wow the Jaedong stats page is really really impressive. Great work!
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nice!
My resolution is 1600x900
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1920x1080 (yes, my LCD monitor has a 16/9 aspect ratio).
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1680x1050 and 1280x1024 Duel Monitor.
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Great write-up and info!
Glad to see liquipedia going as strongly as it is, I always direct friends new to Starcraft to it!
oh and other: 1280 x 720
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1600x1200 on primary monitor, 1280x1024 on secondary monitor, 1280x800 on my laptops
I also browse liquipedia fairly often on my iPhone so some mobile support would be great too.
Also, there's a little glitch when using Chrome with the side bar. For some reason it's waaaay below the image in the top left, grab chrome and take a look you'll see what I mean.
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United States3824 Posts
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1366x768
I have a great time looking for wallpapers and such :<
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On January 13 2010 00:11 mmdmmd wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2010 23:04 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:
I use other resolution: 1280x1024
same same same
same same same
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Great to hear such improvements! Thanks everyone!
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Damn, I like the revamp on the front page. Very snazzy good work guys!
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1280 x 854 (silly mac laptop )
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I'll start using this site now ^^
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On January 13 2010 03:31 PaperLuigi wrote:
1366x768
I have a great time looking for wallpapers and such :<
I have the same You can always stretch wallpapers or edit them a little 
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netbook 1024x600
Thanks! Love the new main page
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On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:I use other resolution: 1280x1024 its a pretty popular resolution, i suggest you include it in the poll. ( see this)
+1 same here.......
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On January 13 2010 01:13 St0rmRush wrote:
nice!
My resolution is 1600x900
same
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Hoooooooooollllllyyyyyyy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit Jaedong's article.
wow Muta Harass is the featured article again -_-
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I'm at 1366 by 768. ^^ Great work!
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On January 13 2010 02:36 r0yale wrote:
1600x1200 on primary monitor, 1280x1024 on secondary monitor, 1280x800 on my laptops
I also browse liquipedia fairly often on my iPhone so some mobile support would be great too.
Also, there's a little glitch when using Chrome with the side bar. For some reason it's waaaay below the image in the top left, grab chrome and take a look you'll see what I mean.
? Many users have Chrome (including me) and have never noticed this, at home or at school for me.
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Thanks for all of the hard work you guys have put in!
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
job well done as always <3
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On January 13 2010 07:09 excelZerg wrote:
1920 x 1080
same here.
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Excellent job guys, but one thing that I hoped for is to see the search box way up. It's a PITA to have to scroll down to get to it and CTRL-ALT-F doesn't work in Chrome (you may wanna make some test with Chrome too guys there seem to be some problems out there too).
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1280x1024
never felt so mainstream but also so ignored, thank you for understanding emos
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WOW. Usually I don't pay attention to these Liquipedia updates (I use the site frequently though), but am glad I checked this one.
THE MAP SECTION IS AMAZING.
Finally, one place to see a full screenshot of the entire map, no matter which one it is. That is such an awesome update and I give you guys mad props.
+ Show Spoiler +Its seriously fuckin awesome. Have wanted that for so long. <3
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On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:I use other resolution: 1280x1024 its a pretty popular resolution, i suggest you include it in the poll. ( see this)
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Taiche
France1963 Posts
On January 12 2010 22:03 Imperator wrote:courtesy of repdepot.net and reXplorer.
Glad this helped Great job with the articles !
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1280 x 1024 is the res i use on my starcraft computer.
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1600 x 900
(20 inch widescreen)
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I love liquipedia!
and my screen resolution is 1600x900
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United States3824 Posts
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United States3824 Posts
But that's at my Imax theater so...
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2560x1600 and 1920x1200.
Yes, starcraft is fun on 30" - Especially with a 2nd monitor to keep build orders and pics of FE-walling open. ^_^
/brag.
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Amazing job with Liquipedia, looks really great and useful for players at all skill levels!
One suggestion came to mind as reading it, would be nice to have replays available to download for certain things. For example, a replay which demonstrates an opening TvZ build (I suppose YouTube links would be neat too for that.) It could even be a subsection maybe how the relevant games are listed at the bottom of some articles.
Thanks for the great work.
1280 x 1024
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1280x1024. Glad to see it's not uncommon.
Thanks for all the hard work on one of the most awesome wikis in the world.
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United States4991 Posts
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Australia3119 Posts
The PvZ builds page needs to cleaned up. Right now it's a complete mess with very unrefined and flawed builds taking up lots of space. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Category:PvZ_Builds
for example, there are like 5 different versions of +1 speed zeal attacks. what baffles me is the one with the most content is some fucked up version where you skip stargate? like wtf is this, 2006?
there are also a lot of articles that link no where.
it needs to be two main categories: 1 base play and 2 base play (FE expands). then two sub categories for each; for one base you have 1 gate tech and 2 gate zealot openings, for 2 base FE you have stargate openings and non-stargate openings
i love to fix all of this but I can't edit categories or something .. or maybe i can could someone tell me how?
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I've got 1366x768. Laptop. :O
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On January 12 2010 23:04 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2010 22:32 Jenia6109 wrote:On January 12 2010 22:20 538 wrote:
I use other resolution: 1280x1024
same
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Russian Federation405 Posts
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1920x1080.
1920x1200 is so 2000's ;D
full HD yo~
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Canada780 Posts
Nice article; Liquipedia is great and more people should edit.
Congratz on the promotion Slugbreath.
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My screen resolution is a bit of an odd ball at 1366 x 768 The front page looks great.
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