Wowhead is a search database for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW). Created in December 2005 as a "talent calculator", the site expanded into its current role and form in June 2006. Wowhead functions as a user generated database relying upon players of WoW themselves, though the information is uploaded automatically through a client side program.
Client software is available for both the Windows an...
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Wowhead is a search database for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW). Created in December 2005 as a "talent calculator", the site expanded into its current role and form in June 2006. Wowhead functions as a user generated database relying upon players of WoW themselves, though the information is uploaded automatically through a client side program.
Client software is available for both the Windows and Mac platforms. Users can manually add comments to database items or discuss the items themselves in a moderated forum. Comments placed on database items are moderated by the community themselves, with members having the option to "Down-rank" out-dated and useless posts to the point where they are purged, and "Up-Rank" posts of significance so that they are highlighted. The database is automatically cross referenced by the software between items, non-player characters and zones or dungeons.
Wowhead garnered some attention when it was...
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