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World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by in 1994.

World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, .

Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001.

The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is a subsidiary of the American company Activision Blizzard.

The company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce, and Allen Adham.

The company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings.

In 1994 the company became Chaos Studios, then Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates.

WoWWiki is a wiki about the Warcraft fictional universe, and one of the largest wikis about a specific subject.

It began as an independent project in 2004, and in 2007 joined Wikia.

In late 2010, most of the administrators that were unhappy with Wikia mandated changes started an independent fork known as .

Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment.

The series is made up of five core games: , , , World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone.

The first three of these core games are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual armies in battle against each other or a computer-controlled enemy.

The fourth and best-selling title of the franchise is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), where players control their character and interact with each other in a virtual world.

The most recent title is Hearthstone, a digital collectible card game.

A wiki is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser.

In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup") and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.

A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine.

There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems.

Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary.

Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material.

Others may permit access without enforcing access control.

Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.

A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.