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- "Run. Think. Shoot. Edit."
- ― Combine OverWiki's motto
The Combine OverWiki is an independent and comprehensive wiki encyclopedia dedicated to the Half-Life and Portal video game series and its shared universe created by Valve Corporation, and the first of its kind.
The wiki was founded as "Half-Life Wiki" in 2006 on Wikia, a free wiki farm service, and moved in 2011 to a privately hosted domain while the original wiki remained as a duplicate on Wikia.
As an encyclopedia, the purpose of our wiki is to create an accessible compendium of facts and information about Half-Life and Portal in an intelligent and analytical way, with emphasis on behind-the-scenes information and the role of video gaming as an art form.
The wiki also functions as a community hub for Half-Life and Portal fans. Volunteer community members update the existing articles and create new ones regularly based on their own experience of the games and various news sources, making the wiki a vital source for news, updates, and above all exclusive content (See our Content Updates for the most recent changes and additions). Community projects and dialogue between fans is also kept alive through the wiki's various social pages, updated regularly (linked on the right).
The information available here is and always will be free for anybody to share, copy, and adapt, under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Contents
Administration
A small volunteer team of administrators is dedicated to maintaining the quality of the wiki and to managing user disputes, technical problems and the official wiki pages.
History
Disclaimers
Acknowledgments
- Marc Laidlaw, Valve
- Steve Theodore, Valve
- Harry Teasley, Valve
- David Mertz, Gearbox
- Matthew Armstrong, Gearbox
- Planet Half-Life and Kevin "Fragmaster" Bowen for their archive
- Half-Life Nostalgia Project by Dave Johnston
- Benson Russell and Michael Heilemann of 2015, Inc.
- Slava Dejurá for the tools to view the Half-Life (PlayStation 2 port) files
- MobyGames for their archive
- The guys from the website Half-Life Project Beta (notably Витой, H.Grunt and Maelstrom), for their deep knowledge of the Half-Life 2 leak (including fixed maps, brushes, screenshots, and miscellaneous facts), their hi-res scans of the Half-Life 2 section of Raising the Bar, and their Russia-related knowledge
- Alex of LambdaGeneration for his hi-res scans of the Half-Life section of Raising the Bar
- BetaMaster for the HQ Missing Information logo, which was used as the basis of our City 17 logo and its variants
- Vic for his support and friendship through LambdaGeneration.
- Phillip Marlowe for his support and friendship through RUN. THINK. SHOOT. LIVE.
- ValveTime for having hosted us
Logos
Former
Earliest known logo, dated April 2007, using a Combine propaganda poster.
The May 2007 logo, using a different font, the new name of the wiki and the "clean" version of the Combine poster.
Logo variant, dated October 2007, using the original Half-Life cover, for Quartz (Wikia's default skin before Monaco).
The December 2008 logo, using another font and an improved background image.
Version used for the Steam group and the Facebook page.
The December 2009 logo, with the same font as the previous logo and using a picture of Gordon Freeman from Raising the Bar.
Second version used for the Steam group and the Facebook page.
The same logo as the previous one updated in March 2010 with the Aperture Science logo when Portal 2 was announced.
Wikia Spotlight logo used in July 2009.
Wiki logo based on the previous one made for the 2010 skin, uploaded in October of the same year. It still uses the font introduced in 2008.
Wiki logo also based on the Half-Life and Portal universe logo, used as the third incarnation of the Steam group and the Facebook page logos, as well as the Monobook skin.
Wiki logo for April Fools' day 2010.
Logo hacked by Wheatley for Portal 2’s release, briefly used from late May 2011 to June 19, 2011.
Wiki logo for April Fools' day 2013.
Wiki logo for the 15th Half-Life Anniversary special, November 19-21.
Ditto, November 22-24.
Ditto, November 25-27.
Ditto, November 28-30.
Ditto, December 1-3.
Current
The following logos can be used for promotion and link exchanges.
Unofficial Half-Life and Portal universe logo created for the wiki and used as avatar in our social pages.
The revamped logo introduced after the move from Wikia (small).
The revamped logo introduced after the move from Wikia (large).
Posters
The following posters can be used for promotion and link exchanges.
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| Help subjects | Help Hub · Editing · Images · References · Rollback · Tables · Manual of Style · Layout Guide · Protection policy · Talk page policy |
| Projects | Projects Hub · Cleanup Project · Quotes Project |
| Archives | April Fools' Day 2010 archive · Forum archive |
