Wowhead is a World of Warcraft information database featuring a JavaScript interface. The site catalogs items, quests, talents, and much more — all able to be searched, sorted, and arranged to find the information needed. Wowhead is currently the only major database website that has been mentioned by Blizzard in their Community Spotlight.
The website started out as a talent calculator in December 2005. The talent calculator offers the ability to import builds from Blizzard talent calculators. It was in beta from April 4th to June 25th, 2006[2], and the database was released on June 26th, 2006[3].
Wowhead makes extensive use of AJAX for its interface function and requires JavaScript to be enabled in order to function.
The team[]
- Wowhead
- Alexis Martyn (Wowhead: perculia, Wowhead News: perculia) - Site Director[4] (of Twitter @wowhead also)[5]
- Serrinn? (Wowhead: Serrinn) - Contributing editor (did coverage during BlizzCon 2015
- Jerek Dain (Wowhead: Jerek) - Designer / Developer[4]
- Former
- Guillaume (Wowhead: Skosiris) - Co-founder; part of Blizzard's web team[6]
- Joshua Coussard (Wowhead: Mystadio) - Co-founder (Software Developer?)[4]
- Shaun (Wowhead: TheOnyx, Wowhead News: TheOnyx) - Site Director; web director for En Masse Entertainment (TERA Online)[6]
- Casey (Wowhead: Malgayne, Wowhead News: Malgayne) - Head of Community/Content; Community Analyst at Zynga[6]
- Brielle (Miyari) - Sr. Content Manager; social media at BioWare[6]
- Andreas (Wowhead: Koper) - Software Developer; went to Curse[6]
- Alayton (Wowhead: alayton) - Software Developer, still helps with model viewer[5]
- Claire (Wowhead: PoeticDragon) - Software Developer
- Dan (Wowhead: fewyn, Wowhead News: fewyn) - Now Torhead Content Manager, but still helps with Wowhead from time to time[5]
- SpiffyJr (Wowhead: SpiffyJr) - Developer[4][5]
- Rhea Monique (Wowhead: Ashelia, Wowhead News: Ashelia) - Site Director[4] (of Twitter @wowhead also), content producer[5]
- Victor Mazzia (Wowhead: Aryu) - Developer[5]
- Erorus - Developer[4]
- Shelbi Roach (Wowhead: Lilith) - Web Designer[4]
- Sarah Schnau (Wowhead: Noxychu) - Artist[4]
- Claire (Wowhead: PoeticDragon) - Software Developer[4]
Ownership[]
Wowhead was originally a privately owned site, owned by its founders, Joshua and Guillaume. During June 2007, Wowhead was sold to ZAM Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of Affinity Media, after several management and hosting changes.
Downloads[]
Wowhead Client[]
An application (Windows and Mac OS X) that checks for data to upload, uploads data, installs the client AddOn, and checks for updates.[7] Requires a Wowhead account to upload data.
MMOUI Minion[]
An upcoming AddOn manager that will work in cooperation with WoWInterface.com.[8]
News[]
A separate domain of http://www.wowheadnews.com was introduced for an official news blog on April 26th, 2011 by Site Director, Ashelia.[9] On June 7th, 2012, the news portion of the site is now also accessible from http://www.wowhead.com/news and the redirect http://news.wowhead.com.
See also[]
- Web API - Blizzard web based API information and documentation
References[]
- ^ As of 9-Nov-2015.
- ^ Skosiris 2007-09-24. I might be one of Wowheads first members... Wowhead Forums > WoW General.
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20060710074323/www.wowhead.com/?news
- ^ a b c d e f g h i More > About Us & Contact. Wowhead. Retrieved on 2013-12-02.
- ^ a b c d e f fewyn 2012-10-09. Wowhead AMA comment (fewyn). Reddit.com.
- ^ a b c d e Malgayne 2012-10-09. Wowhead AMA comment (Malgayne). Reddit.com.
- ^ http://www.wowhead.com/client
- ^ Malgayne 2009-05-06. Introducing MMOUI Minion!. Wowhead News.
- ^ Ashelia 2011-04-26. Introducing Wowhead News. Wowhead WoW General forums.
External links[]
- News
- Related
- Reviews
- API
http://api.wowguild.co/api/doc/ - Rich Spell API, a public WoWHead backed item API used by wowguild.co.