A Peek Behind the Curtain at the New Shadowrun Wiki
Greetings Shadowrunners! My name is Aidan. I’m an intern from the Academy of Interactive Entertainment and I’ve been working on a special project for HBS for the last 6 months.

In a continued effort to support User-Generated Content (UGC) and the Shadowrun Community, we’ve been working in partnership with Gamepedia to bring you the new Official Shadowrun Wiki which includes information about all three Shadowrun games.
What’s in the New Wiki?
For each of the games, you’ll see a Game Content section that includes quite a bit of data covering our previous titles, Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut. Most importantly, though, you’ll find expanded content covering the Shadowrun Level Editor. We’ve reorganized and transferred the information about the editor and its capabilities from the original wiki to the new wiki, including a load of raw documentation, tables of data, and tutorials created by studio members and by you, the Shadowrun community. We then added to it, covering all the new editor features the team created for Hong Kong. (Well, almost all, because once again - spoilers!)
Why a New Wiki?
First and foremost, we want to make it easier to find and share information about using the editor so more people can create Shadowrun stories. The new wiki and host allow for a streamlined editing experience and is built on the MediaWiki format which is easily recognizable - it’s the format that Wikipedia runs on. This format also has built-in support for templating and HTML/CSS which can save quite a bit of time when creating many pages with similar content (e.g. Descriptions of all that sweet gear available to your crew). Never touched a wiki before? The basic markdown is easy to pick up and will have you editing pages in no time.
What about the old wiki?
The old wiki will still be available for some time until post launch. We’d like to make the transition as smooth as possible so a notification will be added to the main page directing community members to the new wiki.
Your Turn to Jump In!
While Tagaziel (our man at Gamepedia) and I have been slaving away at the wiki, we are but two men. There's still plenty to work on and with the imminent release of Hong Kong, even more to add! So if you have some knowledge that’s not on the wiki, you’ve found something missing from the old one, or you’ve created some UGC that you want to share, take a shot at creating the appropriate page! Need some help? Hop onto the Community Portal and ask around.

On a final note - I’d like to thank all our community members who have contributed to the Shadowrun Wiki in the past. A lot of you can be seen on the forums pretty regularly helping out newbies to the editor as well and it doesn’t get much better than that. With that it’s back to the wiki for me.
Aidan
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And a quick SR:HK development update!
We’re in the home stretch of development and on-track for release! Stay tuned for more screenshots and a release date announcement next week. I have to say, it’s been amazing watching our art team grow and build off their visual successes in each new Shadowrun game. In addition to a great story and some very exciting game play & feature set improvements, Hong Kong is without a doubt our best-looking Shadowrun yet! I can’t wait for all of you to play it.
- Mitch
Sergio Tobal on
It will be easy to modify the game?like a editor or something, im asking because I know http://www.clandlan.net/ love to make translations and with Dragonfall it was very difficult and they couldnt translate to spanish, it will be easier with hong kong?
Harebrained Schemes LLC 4-time creator on
Thanks for the note, John, AKA Belker. We'll clarify that.
AW on
Oh. Emm. Gee. I see a section called "Functions" in the Editor Overview section. Does this mean what I think it means? *giddy*
Roger Helgeson on
When will the Shadowrun: Albuquerque Kickstarter open up?
jfa82 on
Folks, a minor nit to pick - you might want to make clear that this is the official Shadowrun Wiki for the Harebrained Schemes games, not for the entire Shadowrun canon. There's no official wiki for that, but there is a fan-run wiki (shadowrun.wikia.com) which many contributors have put many, many hours into over the years, incorporating online efforts over previous decades. Not to diminish the awesomeness of what you've created - just requesting a bit of clarity.
Sincerely, John, AKA Belker
RainPally on
Heck yeah!!!!!!!! Woot woot! Great job Aidan. I'm so glad HBS has you on their team. I can't wait to keep working with you moving forward on the wiki.
janju on
Again no screenshot. Come on guys!!!
Davide Rubiconto on
All I can say is: Hell yeah!
TheAgarrar on
The Wiki is looking sweeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to take a trip to Hong Kong
RC on
@HBS Wiz! I like the 2050's setting! ^_^
Harebrained Schemes LLC 4-time creator on
@Matthew Dimalanta
We'll do an update on all the KS rewards a little later. We're in full court press to finish the game. :)
Harebrained Schemes LLC 4-time creator on
@RC - HK takes place in 2056.
RC on
@Vryl, Ahh...IE...that explains everything ~_^
Vryl
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@RC - I use Firefox at home, but here at work it's Internet Explorer. Good thing I won't be browsing the wiki here.
RC on
@Vryl I'm...not seeing what you're describing, Chummer. This is what the wiki looks like to me @1920x1080 http://i.imgur.com/oqmDQNq.png using (I know, I know) Firefox. ^_^
RC on
Hoi @HBS!
I noticed the Wiki description for Shadowrun notes, "the year is 2063" ...is this the time frame for Shadowrun Kong Kong!? ^_^
Vryl
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Okay, gave the wiki a look. Am I the only one gets a big chunk of white around the apparently resized background image? Does not work well with the white text, believe me.
Matthew Dimalanta
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any word on the vanity portraits/characters?
RC on
Wiz, Chummer! Wiki's are community paydata that just keep on growin! ^_^
Vryl
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I hope you get hazardous duty pay, getting thrown in front of the rabid fans after a month of inactivity like this. :p