Liquipedia Review #19
Helloooooooooooooooo everyone! Long time no see! Have you missed us? Most certainly not! Liquipedia's viewer numbers are spiking as ever. StarCraft is doing great, ESPORTS is doing great, Teamliquid is doing great and Liquipedia, guess what, is also doing great. Here's why:
by Pholon
Liquipedia was really happy to have been a big part of TeamLiquid's MLG Anaheim portal, being featured in big banners. The results have been incredible. We've received a lot of messages from people all around the globe checking Liquipedia for updates, using their computers or phones, and, though I'm not one to boast, these figures speak for themselves (thx to R1CH).
Baseline average visits per day: 50k
- Friday: 80k
- Saturday: 142k
- Sunday: 194k
Hits:
- /starcraft2/2011_MLG_Pro_Circuit/Anaheim 275,287
- /starcraft2/2011_MLG_Pro_Circuit/Anaheim/ChampionshipBracket 262,761
- /starcraft2/2011_MLG_Pro_Circuit/Anaheim/Pools 139,951
- /starcraft2/2011_MLG_Pro_Circuit/Anaheim/Open_Bracket 98,622
Pretty amazing - Liquipedia wants to be the primary source of StarCraft related knowledge and on the discipline of keeping track of tournaments we're doing extremely well. As we heard:
Here's something: people in the back stage at MLG had Liquipedia open for the results. So yeah
- MLG Visitor
- MLG Visitor
The main point, though, is the following: The MLG Anaheim articles could not have been such a success if they had not been updated accurately and often. We have our contributors to thank for that. To quote my colleague Noam:
[22:13] <Noam> so far i havent been able to make a single score edit count
[22:13] <Noam> every time i go in and click edit i get the "someone else has.."
[22:13] <Noam> these guys are too good
Today we want to hail these people. It's been good to see some regulars as well as new names appear among the editors and we could name people like JBright, Wren, 2par, Deyster, Aoe2fan and Dezzimal but, to be honest, the list goes on and on and on. There is however one person in particular we'd like to acknowledge: Blahz0r, whose contributions by now run into the hundreds. Last but not least, a huge shoutout to everyone on the TeamLiquid Twitter account, who have provided us with superfast result updates throughout the events.
What also went down was Assembly Summer. There, our contributors also helped destitute viewers to find the most accurate results in record time. We salute everyone who helped out and present the List of Contributors:
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2par
A Wet Shamwow
ADd3z
Aksfjh
Ariadnesthread
Bakram
Bear4188
Bibsybob
Blahz0r
Blueblister
Bournebreezy
Butterbrain
Carny
Cheebah
Chenz
Clafou
Clues
Coc0x
Coincoin
Danglars
DeathSquire36
Deyster
Dezzimal
DivinO
Draconicfire
Dukeb9
Dydtaylor
EllyHaTran
Ergho
Fionn
Flowsthead
Flyspeck
Garpetun
Gorlin
GreenAndOrangeTurtle
Hoonose
Iainlefish
JBright
JadaFire
Kareltje
Koorb
Liveon
Llamanamedosama
Lobo2me
Lord nibbler
Mairu
Majloon
Mike-965
Miwi
MtJoy
Naseroo
Neroin
Otolia
PartyBiscuit
Perpetration
Pirat6662001
Preylol
Progman
Qurid
RPR Tempest
Rafaliusz
RenardDesMers
RoninShogun
S32
Sanakan
Sky2042
Slyderturtle
Sn7.buddy
Snador
Snapcall
Stocc
Strammefar
Tamerlane
TheBB
Tnud
Totally spy
VenomBRA
Wren
Xtfftc
Xyl
ZaSzRH
Zephirdd
Zim23
A Wet Shamwow
ADd3z
Aksfjh
Ariadnesthread
Bakram
Bear4188
Bibsybob
Blahz0r
Blueblister
Bournebreezy
Butterbrain
Carny
Cheebah
Chenz
Clafou
Clues
Coc0x
Coincoin
Danglars
DeathSquire36
Deyster
Dezzimal
DivinO
Draconicfire
Dukeb9
Dydtaylor
EllyHaTran
Ergho
Fionn
Flowsthead
Flyspeck
Garpetun
Gorlin
GreenAndOrangeTurtle
Hoonose
Iainlefish
JBright
JadaFire
Kareltje
Koorb
Liveon
Llamanamedosama
Lobo2me
Lord nibbler
Mairu
Majloon
Mike-965
Miwi
MtJoy
Naseroo
Neroin
Otolia
PartyBiscuit
Perpetration
Pirat6662001
Preylol
Progman
Qurid
RPR Tempest
Rafaliusz
RenardDesMers
RoninShogun
S32
Sanakan
Sky2042
Slyderturtle
Sn7.buddy
Snador
Snapcall
Stocc
Strammefar
Tamerlane
TheBB
Tnud
Totally spy
VenomBRA
Wren
Xtfftc
Xyl
ZaSzRH
Zephirdd
Zim23
Strategy Woes
By salle
When StarCraft 2 and Liquipedia 2 started, one might have drawn the conclusion that the strategy section of LP2 would be as great as its predecessor's. But sadly, that's not the case... yet. Due to strategies evolving so fast in the new game because of balancing patches, a lot of strategy articles were outdated before they were even completed. So there were fewer and fewer contributions to the strategy section.
This doesn't mean it's terrible or that no one uses it. In fact in the last 30 days, the three races' main strategy pages have had between 200k and 230k page views each. If you Google "Protoss/Terran/Zerg Strategies," these pages are typically the number one result. So there are a lot of people looking up strategies on LP2 but the amount of contributions to the strategy section as a whole isn't up to the challenge.
This cannot be. Please read the full call to arms at the strat forum.
The Best Results Page of All Time ... of All Time!
We covered it a while ago: Our guys at the Recent Tournaments front are doing a tremendeous job. So pay them a visit once in a while and catch up with the surge of ESPORTS that is washing over us right now.
Yours truly,
- Liquipedia staff
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Your reward for reading through this is the awesome Jinro picture our staff member GHOSTCLAW took at the latest MLG. Be sure to cheer for Jinro on Wednesday!
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