About the Epiphone Wiki & Wiki History

# The Unofficial Epiphone Wiki:About

## General Information

### Disclaimer

The information contained in this website may not be 100% complete or accurate and is a work in progress.
We are the unofficial source of information for all Epiphone guitars and instruments. This website is not affiliated with the Epiphone Company or Gibson Guitar Corporation in any way. We do not deal in the buying or selling of instruments of any kind, nor do we offer evaluation services for your instruments.

### What the Epiphone Wiki does

* Provides a comprehensive list of Epiphone Intruments and other products.
* Provides specifications for Epiphone instruments and products.
* Provides Information to help identify Epiphone products.
* Provides serial and model number decoding information for Epiphone products.
* Provides images and accurate representations of Epiphone products.
* Provides brief histories and facts pertaining to Epiphone products.
* Links to arcticles on Wikipedia for related keywords and products.
* We welcome informational contributions, corrections and additions to content.

### What the Epiphone Wiki does NOT do

* We do not buy or sell musical instruments or products.
* We do not help to locate discontinued parts or products.
* We do not evaluate or assign monetary values to instruments or products.
* We do not run advertisements on the Epiphone Wiki.
* We do not charge a fee for content or information.
* We do not accept donations of any kind.
* We do not allow registration or outside editing of content.

The Epiphone Wiki is a closed wiki. This means that we do not allow membership registration or editing of content by non-members. Though we accept and appreciate any information provided by non-members, the info contained within this website is far to vast and complex to allow editing and membership creations. Over the years, information about Epiphone products has seen a wide variety of opinions and inaccuracies. Due to this, we feel that it is best to keep the Epiphone Wiki closed to outside editing in an attempt to disseminate the correct information from the inaccurate so that you may have access to the the most accurate, comprehensive and consistent information possible.
If you have any information regarding Epiphone products that you would like to share with us, please contact us at:
***epiphonewiki@gmail.com***
Thank you.

## About the Epiphone Wiki

### The Original Epi-Wiki

Epi-Wiki 2010

Despite this, the original Epi-Wiki recieved much praise as a potential source of information from Epiphone fans across the inernet. After almost two years with little in the way of content, an apparent lack of funding, as well as interest, forced the Epi-Wiki to close its doors sometime in 2010.

### The Epiphone Strat & Telecaster Guide

Epiphone Strat & Telecaster Guide

At the time, there were many questions on a variety of message boards asking about the Epiphone S & T-Series guitars. Many people had never seen them before and others thought that they might be fake or counterfeit Epiphone products. Queries about these models were cropping up on a weekly basis, and many people were left with questions unanswered. Realizing this, I decided it was time to research these models and put the information on a website for everyone to see. The Strat & Tele guide was a success and people were able to gain information about their mysterious Epiphone Strat & Tele-like guitars. With nearly 50,000 unique hits, the Strat & Tele Guide went offline for good in November, 2013. Currently, the Epiphone Wiki covers all of the information in the Strat & Tele Guide with more accurate and updated specifications.

### The Epiphone Wiki

#### *- In the Beginning*

Epiphone Wiki 2013

Shorty after this, I painstakingly searched for, and saved, every cached page from the Epi-Wiki that I could find. My thought was that even if the Wiki was gone, I still may be able to answer some guitar related question with the remnants of the website. The Strat & Tele Guide was still going strong and saw an increase in traffic as the Epi-Wiki cached pages started to disappear from search engines. During this time I tossed around the idea of starting a new wiki where the old Epi-Wiki left off. Myself and fellow forum member & friend, Greg Fitts (R.I.P.), bounced ideas back and forth for several months before taking any actions. Greg had his own project of compiling a database of info and links to anything guitar related, but was instrumental in setting the direction of the wiki project and provided much encouragement to get things off the ground. We decided that the best course of action was to contact another individual (that previously showed interest in taking over the original Epi-Wiki) to partner with me for this project.
Agreeing to take on the project, my new partner Sjael and I quickly began to formulate a plan to create a new Epiphone related wiki. On January 14, 2011, I bought the epiphonewiki.com domain. Sjael provided the hosting and set up the wiki program shortly afterward. Our original idea was to use the information from the original Epi-Wiki as a starting point for the new wiki. Quickly learning that the information structure was different than what we had in mind for our own website, we scrapped that plan and started from scratch.

#### *- The Epiphone Wiki Team*

Supporting information for the wiki comes from people from all corners of the world. Even though these contributing Epiphone fans & owners arent officially team members, without their helpful information, corrections and additions, the Epiphone Wiki wouldnt nearly as accurate and helpful to the Epiphone community.

**The Team:**
* **Member:** RTH
* **Location:** United States of America
* **Wiki Duties:** Editing, Research, Organization, Images
* **Specialties:** Identification, Model number decoding, Epiphone strat models, Headstocks & more...
* **Member:** Paruwi
* **Location:** Germany
* **Wiki Duties:** Editing, Corrections, Forum Support
* **Specialties:** Identification, Verification, Serial Number decoding
* **Member:** Sjael
* **Location:** New Zealand
* **Wiki Duties:** Hosting, Maintenance, Backend
* **Specialties:** Coding, Recovery, Being awesome