Our crew has been hard at work, pushing towards making the GosuWiki a more awesome place to visit. Since last night, Hearthstone fans have another place to draw information from while Dota 2 readers get an overhauled main page visual.
The aim of the Hearthstone GosuWiki is to compliment GosuGamers' coverage of the scene by providing extra detailed information on all things Hearthstone. Visitors of the Wiki will be able to browse through player, team and tournament profiles, catch the latest player transfers in the blink of an eye, or just find a guide for the class they play with ease.
One of the first things you will see when visiting the Hearthstone GosuWiki is something that has become the standard for eSports Wikipedia pages - an events ticker. Similar to the match-ticker on the GosuGamers front page, this small box will keep you updated with the upcoming, ongoing and recently completed events in Hearthstone.
Clicking the event's name will take you to the main page for the tournament (examples given below), while hitting "Expand" will give you addition information like number of players, type of event and prize pool. You will also find an "All events" button that will take you to a categorized list of all major and weekly tournament currently being tracked on the GosuWiki.
In the centre column, right next to the event ticker, you will see a box with all Hearthstone classes. Clicking on either of them will take you to said class page where listed are all cards for the class, a short description on his/her playstyle as well as the most recent guides.
Speaking of the latter, just below the ticker you will find a constantly updated box which features the most fresh guides, one for each class.
There are several more boxes dedicated to keeping you updated with the pulse of Hearthstone. "Latest news" is linked with our Hearthstone RSS so whenever we publish a news, it will pop up on our Wiki. You can read the gist of it there or click on the title to retun to GosuGamers and catch the full story.
To the far right, we have a "Transfers" list which tracks the changes in professional Hearthstone teams. If a player leaves or joins an organization, a team is created or disbanded or one brand acquires another, it will appear there. Right below them is the "Latest patch" box - expanding it will give you the full patch notes for the latest Hearthstone version.
Something that new players will get to love is our Guides page. Consisting of organized tables and separeted by month and classes, this page provides a long list of hyperlinks to various class articles published all around the Internet. If you're looking for ways to build a Priest deck or how to restructure your aggro Warrior or just for ideas how to beat those imba Hunter decks - this is the place to bookmar.
Player and team pages - editable by anyone
Players are the heart of professional Hearthstone and we want to give them the attention they deserve. Already on GosuWiki are several pages of prominent and televised professional players, featuring their biographies - in Hearthstone and before - list of achievements, links to social and media channels, and hyperlinks to interview with them conducted by various community members.
More detailed player pages will be coming very shortly as our writers work on them but this is also where we need your help. Like every other Wikipedia page, GosuWiki, too, is editable by anyone with an account. If you're a GosuGamers member and want to create a player (or a team) page please, feel free to do so. You will find detailed documentation on how to do so here:
How to create a player page
How to create a team page
Being free to edit by anyone also means that Hearthstone players who are not yet televised but boast a long list of achievements in weekly tournaments have the perfect place to put all that information and then brag with it to whomever they want. Several players have already done so themselves and have helped our GosuWiki grow. Check them out:
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We mentioned at the start of the article that GosuWiki Hearthstone also provides information about upcoming, ongoing and completed events on the scene. Similar to player and team pages, every event page has an infobox with all relevant information, followed by body content with the prize pool distribution, participating teams or players, standings, results, VODs, decklists, streams, interviews... basically every singly thing relevant to the tournament in question.
Below is just a snippet of an example of what you'll see on an event page. This is taken from the page of TakeTV's Gentlemen Cup.
Needless to say, more and more information will be added to the weekly day, hopefully from random contributors as well!
Apart from the brand new Hearthstone Wiki, we also made some changes to our Dota 2 wiki. The region icons have been moved to the center column to make the front page more space efficient - now, the index won't be pushed down too much and you will be able to see the player, team and event anchors in the index without scrolling.
Similar to the Hearthstone Wiki, the transfers box has been moved to the right, while the prominent profiles have taken a turn left and are now just below the events ticker. Said ticker has also undergone changes and you will see the "Expand" button which contains additional information about the event.
Additionally, we ditched the oval shapes and now the Dota 2 page shares the more edgy look of its Hearthstone counterpart.
Stay tuned for more GosuGamers updates and thanks for visiting us!
