Whirled:About


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Whirled Wiki is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by Whirled players from around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles simply by clicking on the edit this page link.

For help topics and questions see Help:Contents.

Wiki History
The Whirled Wiki was created in February 2007 by the Three Rings developers.

All the text in the Whirled Wiki, and most images and other content, is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CC BY license ensures the content will remain freely distributable and reproducible (see the copyright notice and the content disclaimer for more information).

Exploring the Whirled Wiki
The main reason visitors come to this site is to acquire knowledge. The second reason is to share knowledge. In fact, at this very instant, several articles are being improved. You can view the changes at the recent changes page. New articles are also being recorded.

The Whirled Wiki also has a lot of improvement projects. The hope of any contributor is to provide useful and accurate information to others, and the projects help coordinate efforts. Most articles start as stubs, but after many contributions, they become much improved.

Contributing to the Whirled Wiki
Anyone can contribute to Whirled Wiki by clicking on the Edit this page tab in an article. Before starting to contribute however, you should check out some handy helping tools such as the Wikipedia tutorial and the policies and guidelines, as well as our help pages.

Behind the Whirled Wiki
The Whirled Wiki uses the MediaWiki software. It is an open-source program that is used on all WikiMedia projects.

How to contact project members
If you require more information, the first place to go is the Help:Contents. To contact individual contributors, you should leave them a message on their talk page. The standard place to ask policy and project-related questions is the Help desk. You can also reach other editors via the Whirled Forums, because permanames are the same in Whirled and on the Wiki.