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{{FoCW_Header|Eternal Lands Wiki|Welcome to the EL Wiki!}}
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{{FoCW_Header|Eternal Lands Wiki|About the Eternal Lands Wiki}}
Well, this is really being turned over to an Eternal Lands Wiki, rather than one that is maintained and owned ONLY by the Fellowship of the Celtic Woods. It's our hope that more and more players will sign up to be editors and content contributors so that our knowledge base can grow and help many players of many degrees of skill.<br />
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=== About ===
If you wish to contribute, please sign up using your character name from Eternal Lands and use GOSSIP (one of the most wonderful bots ever created) to inform DragonCairn of your intentions. Until DragonCairn (DC to his friends) knows who you are, you will not be approved.<br />
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This is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] about the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG MMORPG] [http://www.eternal-lands.com Eternal Lands]. It is maintained and enhanced by players of Eternal Lands. The wiki is not officially supported or sponsored by Eternal Lands or its staff.<br />
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We are dedicated to making this the best source of information it can be, and hope that you decide to join us in this goal.
This project was started by the Fellowship, is hosted by the Founder of the Fellowship {who pays all the bills associated with this task}, and still receives a minimum of 90% of it's content and updates from the Fellowship.  We are dedicated to making this the best source of information it can be, and hope that you decide to join us in this goal.<br />
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=== Contributing ===
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If you wish to contribute, please sign up using your character name from Eternal Lands and follow the instructions below to get it activated:
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* Either email elwiki.net[at]googlemail[dot]com or contact a user with [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|bureaucrat]] rights.
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* Please make sure to read the [[Help:Editing|editing help]] before making your first contributions to the wiki.
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As the game is ever-changing, the wiki is always in need of being updated, corrected or enhanced in areas that were neglected or that somebody thinks are neglected. In short your contributions are appreciated!<br />
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There's also a second way of contributing and that is helping out financially, details on that can be found [[Eternal Lands Wiki:Site support|here]].
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=== History ===
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This project was started by the Fellowship of Celtic Woods, was hosted by DragonCairn, the Founder of the Fellowship, for almost 2.5 years and received the major part of its contributions from the Fellowship for quite a long time after the start.

Revision as of 21:42, 9 January 2009

About

This is a Wiki about the MMORPG Eternal Lands. It is maintained and enhanced by players of Eternal Lands. The wiki is not officially supported or sponsored by Eternal Lands or its staff.
We are dedicated to making this the best source of information it can be, and hope that you decide to join us in this goal.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute, please sign up using your character name from Eternal Lands and follow the instructions below to get it activated:

  • Either email elwiki.net[at]googlemail[dot]com or contact a user with bureaucrat rights.
  • Please make sure to read the editing help before making your first contributions to the wiki.

As the game is ever-changing, the wiki is always in need of being updated, corrected or enhanced in areas that were neglected or that somebody thinks are neglected. In short your contributions are appreciated!
There's also a second way of contributing and that is helping out financially, details on that can be found here.

History

This project was started by the Fellowship of Celtic Woods, was hosted by DragonCairn, the Founder of the Fellowship, for almost 2.5 years and received the major part of its contributions from the Fellowship for quite a long time after the start.