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MarioWiki

MarioWiki is a community that aims to create the best resource for Mario games by Nintendo.

We are currently editing about 15,524 articles.

All pages can be edited and you are welcome to join us and contribute to this wiki. Everyone is free to create a new page or edit an existing one.

Recent news

13 January 2008 - MarioGalaxy2433g5 has been given sysop powers!
12 January 2008 - The site is getting 2 times the updates!
15 July 2007 - the site has launched!

Helping out

If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki.
A list of all help pages can be found in the help category.

If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by expanding them.
Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
You can find a list of useful templates in the templates category, some of which are documented on the templates page.
See the community portal for more!

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