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The Lich King was an entity created by Kil'jaeden the Deceiver from the spirit of the orcish shaman Ner'zhul. Initially trapped within the Frozen Throne, the Lich King eventually merged with the human Arthas Menethil. He is responsible for the creation of the Scourge and rules over the Scourge telepathically from his throne atop the Icecrown Glacier.

The Lich King is the main antagonist of the World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

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28th March 2008 – Site stats update!

Now that we're upgraded, I think it's a good time for a stats update - 55,000 articles, and rising! As a result of the patch we also broke our daily pageviews record, now standing at over 5 million! We have even broken into the top 800 websites according to Alexa. Congratulations all round!

27th March 2008 – WoWWiki has been upgraded!

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8th March 2008 – WoWWiki and Wikia Gaming at SXSW!

Kirkburn here! I'm out at SXSW in Austin, Texas representing WoWWiki - check out more info here and see the Massively report on the discussion panel I spoke on yesterday!

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Welcome to WoWWiki
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Welcome to the WoWWiki community portal!

The community portal is where the WoWWiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki.

You can help build WoWWiki into a better information source by editing and creating new articles.
If you create an account, you can track your changes, and more!
See Help for assistance or ask us a question.
The Village Pump is where we discuss operations, policies, technical and content issues.

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the WoWWiki:About page.

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Things to do

So you want to help out? Great!: There's always loads of things to do on WoWWiki!; WoWWiki has a huge number of viewers, but a relatively low proportion of editors - everyone is valued :); Check out the list on the right for a small selection.; You can also browse the entire Things to do category!

What do we do?: WoWWiki is a wiki dedicated to cataloguing Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft Universe (with a focus, though not priority, on World of Warcraft), covering the entire Warcraft series of games, RPG reference books, strategy guides, novels and other sources. However, this is not Wikipedia, and we have slightly different ways of doing things.; If you want to find out more about our history, visit WoWWiki:About.; This means everything we cover is related to Warcraft - anything offtopic will likely be deleted.

Remember: Stay on topic.; Avoid personal opinions in articles.; Respect the viewpoints of others when discussing changes.; Be careful what personal info you give out.

Vote!: Nominate and discuss featured articles!; Take a look at the votes in progress!

Expand!: Expand and categorise some stubs!; Fulfil some image requests!; Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!

Edit and fix!: Work on merge candidates!; Some pages need to be wikified.; Others have too many external links.; Link pages from Special:Lonelypages back into WoWWiki.; ... or categorizing some uncategorized pages?; Update out-of-date articles!; ... or update pages that need updating due to TBC!; Fix some misspellings.

Or browse the entire Things to do category!

For the latest site news, visit WoWWiki:News or check the Village Pump.

Projects and community teams

If you are looking for a way to help the wiki, one good way is to contribute your time to the projects being worked on by community teams. Note that some teams are currently rather inactive.

Joining a team is always a great way to help out!

Administrators: The admins administer the wiki!

Help Team (join): This community team helps people use the wiki.

Watchdogs (join): The Watchdogs are a WoWWiki patrol team.

Bookkeepers (join): The keepers of lore within WoWWiki, making sure it conforms to the material in the Warcraft world.

Article Council (join): The Article Council ensures consistency of information and styling across all pages.

Template Engineers (join): The Template Engineers focus on creating templates needed for WoWWiki and adding documentation for all Templates.

For more general and looser groupings of users, check out WoWWiki projects.

WoWWiki projects are a place for like minded people to work on areas of the wiki!
Find out more on WoWWiki:Projects!

Some individual projects

Warlock project, started by DuTempete.
Mage project, started by Piumosso-Uldum.
Zone category project, started by Jiyambi.
Kill the evil categories.
Quest list project.

Mini projects

Convert all appropriate tables to "darktable" - see WW:MOS#Tables for guidelines.
Fix article message boxes - see WW:MOS#Article message boxes for guidelines.

Got a project of your own? [Add it here!]

Tip of the day » There's plenty of Boilerplates to help you get your pages right, right from the start!

Discussion on WoWWiki

Got something to say? Here's what to do!

If it's something general and WoWWiki-related please visit

WoWWiki talk:Village pump

If it's not WoWWiki related please visit

WoWWiki talk:Warcraft pump

If it's specific to an article, please visit the talk page of that article.

These are normally in the form [[Talk:ARTICLE]]

If you want to send a message to an individual user, please use their talk page.

These are in the form [[User talk:USERNAME]]

When discussing stuff please remember the following

Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~).
Put new text under old text.
If you're new to the wiki, please take a look at our Talk page guidelines.
Be specific about what you discussing.
Be polite
Assume good faith
Be welcoming

Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit Special:Mycontributions.

WoWWiki guidelines and policies

WoWWiki guidelines

Be bold!

Resources: Editing quickref; How to edit a page; Special pages; Templates (All); Boilerplates (All) • Bot requests; WoWWiki administrators

WoWWiki policies

– Speedy deletion

– Personal articles

– Player character pages

Policy status and phases

Selected essays: Don't bite the noobs; The perfect article; The wiki spirit

You can find out more about the wiki itself on Special:Statistics and Special:Version.

General wiki help

General info: About WoWWiki; WoWWiki FAQ; WoWWikians

Questions and answers: Where to ask a question; Village pump (wiki Q&A area); Warcraft pump (Warcraft Q&A area)

Site administration: Administrators; Support and donations; All pages in the WoWWiki category

WoWWiki account maintenance: Account benefits; User preferences

General usage & editing help: Category-based access to help pages; Where to ask a question; How to contact us

General info: How to edit a page; Wiki Tutorial; Sandbox; Offsite Meta-Wiki Help; WoWWiki:Manual of Style

Common procedures: Deleting a page (Policy); Naming policies; Rename (move) a page

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