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Welcome to The Countdown Wiki, a community project to build an encyclopaedia about Channel 4 television programme Countdown. We currently have 18,258 articles.
Contents
News
- Countdown has a long and friendly association with the great game of Scrabble, which now has its own wiki. Check out the nascent Scrabble wiki and see how it's coming along.
- Mark Tournoff's book Crucial, detailing his extensive Countdown appearances, is available now from his website, Forestdale Publications.
Getting starts
New users
We hope you enjoying reading our articles. Everyone can contribute to them! To edit an existing page, just click the edit link at the top of the page you want to edit (although you can't edit this page!) To create a new page, enter its name into the search box on the left and click "Go". If the page does not already exist, you will be given the option to create it. If you are not familiar with the wiki system, don't worry about formatting and syntax - just enter the text you want and other people will polish it for you. Be bold in your editing - any mistakes you make can be easily undone, and we have very broad concept of Countdown relevance. If you want to practise editing, take a look at the sandbox.
There is no need to create an account, but it only takes a few moments and some features are easier to use if you log in. You can create an account here.
Existing users
To see what's changed since your last visit, check out Recent Changes.
Articles
You can also see the full list of articles, or check our main categories for a more organised view:-
- Series - example articles: Series 50, Championship of Champions XII.
- People - example articles: Julian Fell, Chris Wills, Ben Wilson, Chris Cummins, Harvey Freeman.
- Episodes - example article: Episode 1 (still some formatting issues to be resolved here.)
- Terminology - example article: octochamp.
- Community - example article: c4countdown.
Projects
You can see our completed projects, or work on any of our open projects:
New articles needed
Our priorities for article creation, in order:-
- All finalists, priority being given to:-
- 15-round finalists.
- Remaining finalists (9-rounders and such.)
- Other heavily-linked pages (now mainly guests and lexicographers.)
Existing articles
Primary project: Recap checking project.
7,880 checked of 8,533 recaps
Secondary project: Many other existing articles are only outlines and are just begging to have more details added, so go ahead and expand them if you have anything interesting to add.
