The Sims Wiki:About

Our mission
The Sims Wiki (TSW abbreviated) is a wiki about The Sims series developed by EA Games and Maxis. Basically, think of it as an encyclopedia for The Sims series that anyone can contribute to. Our mission is to provide information on The Sims series of games.

History

 * The English Sims Wiki was founded on February 6, 2005 by Jamie.
 * The Sims Fanon Wiki was created in January, 2009 as a place to host all the fanon content.
 * TSW got a new logo on June 30, 2009 after a contest was held. At the same time, TSW also adopted a new skin.
 * On May 17, 2010 it was decided that The Sims Wiki and The Sims Fanon Wiki would not merge.
 * On January 20, 2011 the community partially reversed its previous decision, and approved the creation of a Fanon Namespace.

The Sims Wiki has also been translated into many other languages.

Useful information

 * The Sims Wiki is part of the Wikia network of wikis. This relationship with Wikia allows us to spend less time working on technical behind-the-scenes work, and instead allows us to focus our efforts on improving the encyclopedia.
 * The Sims Wiki has a collection of Policies which govern behavior and content on the wiki. In addition, we have several Guidelines and a Manual of Style that are useful as resources to all aspiring editors.
 * The Sims Wiki, at sims.wikia.com, has an official language of English. Our Language Portal has been set up to provide links to other Sims-related wikis in several other languages.
 * The Sims Wiki has contributors from all around the world, in many different time zones. As a result, all times and dates on the wiki (unless otherwise stated) are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); UTC is typically the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

The Sims Wiki on the web

 * IRC channel
 * Twitter
 * Youtube
 * Facebook
 * Steam
 * Wikiindex
 * Fanhistory