RuneScape:About

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The RuneScape Wiki is the official wiki based entirely on the MMORPG game RuneScape and its many features. There are currently 69,674 articles and 150,659 files on the RuneScape Wiki, with 9,006,208 edits made to 724,058 pages in total. The wiki currently has 565 active users and 37 administrators.

Overview

Started on 8 April 2005 by Merovingian, the RuneScape Wiki's goal is to remain a vast, knowledgeable source for all things in RuneScape. As the site is a wiki, anybody can edit it, and all are encouraged to do so.

The RuneScape Wiki aims to be a competitor to all major RuneScape fansites. Guides to new quests or holiday events, for example, can be made in under an hour, far ahead of other fansites. With more contributors, this goal can be easily achieved.

This wiki has grown quickly, gaining editors on a daily basis. It contains a guide to every quest and treasure trail, and roughly 69,700 articles about items, locations, monsters and more.

How you can help

If you see anything that needs changing - change it! If you notice improper grammar, spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, inaccuracies, incompleteness or anything else that needs doing, hit the Edit button at the top of the page and correct it yourself. Feel free to also come and contribute to the various active discussions we have. The more opinions from the community we get, the better.

We also have One Small Wiki Favour, an initiative in which you can earn bonds for helping out with various tasks around the wiki. These tasks change every few weeks, so if something doesn't take your fancy right now, it could do in the future!

Other activities you can help out with include:

Other projects that need your help can be found at RuneScape:Maintenance along with common maintenance tasks.

It's a good idea for users to register an account. This way, your IP address is hidden from public view, all your edits can be attributed to one account, and you can customise your userpage to your heart's content.

Check out our editing guides for more information on how to edit and what to help with, and don't be afraid to ask in our Discord server for any help.

History

2023
  • 2 June - The wikis are moved to new technical infrastructure, making web serving 2-2.5x faster!
  • 29 April - The wiki was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.39.
2022
2021
  • 24 November - The wiki's 60,000th article, Frosty Cerberus off-hand claws, is created
  • 20 November - The sysadmins completed the migration to MediaWiki 1.36 to keep the wikis running on a stable architecture.
  • 15 October - A small group of admins met in Philadelphia to improve the wikis' technical infrastructure including; updating PHP scripts, migrating databases, and fixing CSS in preparation for the upcoming MediaWiki upgrade.
  • 2 October - The third anniversary of the launch of the official RuneScape Wikis!
  • 3 June - Upgrades made to our map extension and templates to create advanced (dungeon style) maps to replace many on the image based maps currently on the wiki.
  • 24 May - In collaboration with the Vis Wax FC Discord, the RuneScape Wiki now predicts optimum rune combinations for the Rune Goldberg Machine.
  • 12 April - The RuneScape Wikis 2021 Family Photo, and Merch Family Photo, are done. Check them out here!
2020
  • 21 November - The RuneScape and Old School RuneScape Wikis win the Community Champion award at the Golden Gnome Awards
  • 9 November - A wiki button is added to the in-game chatbox
  • 8 August - The Events Team holds Wikifest 2020
  • 27 March - The wiki's 50,000th article, Quintessence, is created
  • 18 March - New news gadget and page to collect official RuneScape news from various sources (Twitter, Reddit, RuneScape.com, etc.)
2019
2018
2017
2016
  • 7 December – Jagex acknowledges editors with an in-game title
  • 30 August – The wiki approves a dark mode (to be implemented at a later date)
  • 16 May – Users are asked to come up with forum titles that are not f---ing boring!
  • 5 April – The transcript namespace is established
2015
2014
  • 3 October – The wiki changes its theme, logo, and main page
  • 19 April – The Featured Articles system is discontinued
2013
2012
2011
2010
  • 5 June – The wiki holds the 2010 Summer Wikifest
  • 22 May – The wiki's 15,000th article, Dragon ore, is created
  • 20 April – The wiki receives silver status on Jagex's former list of recognised fansites
  • 31 March – The wiki reaches 100 million total pageviews
  • 20 March – The wiki holds the 2010 Spring Wikifest
2009
2008
2007
  • 14 December – The wiki's 7,000th article is created
  • 22 September – The wiki holds the 2007 Autumn Wikifest
  • 18 July – The wiki's 5,000th article, G.L.O. Caranock, is created
  • 24 June – The wiki holds its first Wikifest
  • 6 May – The wiki's 4,000th article, Gilded throne, is created
2006
  • November – The wiki's 2,000th article is created
  • August – The wiki's 1,000th article is created
2005
  • 8 April – The RuneScape Wiki is founded

See also

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