RuneScape:News

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News

 * As of December 14th, The RuneScape Wiki now has over 7,000 articles! A huge thank you to all the editors that helped.
 * UnRuneScape Wiki has been created! Feel free to join in on the sillyness. 02:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The three-revert rule has gone into effect. 06:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Pointy, Cool Spy0, and Dechaineux have all been sysopped by Dtm142 01:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * A three-revert rule has been proposed. Please discuss it on its talk page if there are any concerns. 01:38, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Skill was sysopped by Dtm142. 03:56, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * RS:NOT was made into policy after some time without objections. 19:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dtm142 was given forumadmin powers by Sannse. 01:08, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Wowbot was given bot status by Sannse. 01:08, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Stinkowing was sysopped by Dtm142. 04:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * A new wiki policy, RS:NOT, has been proposed. You can discuss the policy on the talk page. 02:11, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Huanghe63 has returned after retiring for 4 months to help out with the wiki. You can welcome him back here. 14:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Administrators can now select edit summaries when they delete a page! 00:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Standard summaries can now be used! See this page for more info. 20:29, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Dreadnought's admin rights have been temporarily removed by Sannse. Please discuss this incident here ASAP. 02:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Preloaded templates can now be used! This means you can insert templates much easier into pages. See this page for more info. 18:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Dtm142 was bureaucrated by Sacre Fi. 22:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Tarikochi has been sysopped by Hyenaste. 02:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Dtm142 and Gangsterls have open requests for bureaucrat status. See the requests for adminship page or vote on Dtm142's nomination here, and on Gangsterls's nominations here. 02:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wowbagger421 has created a new bot for the wiki. Please discuss this on User talk:Wowbot to help decide whether it should be given bot powers. 03:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It has been decided that the Autumn Wiki Fest of 2007 will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2007 from 2:00 pm until 3:00/30 pm USC, 1:00 pm until 2:00/30 pm Mountain, 3:00 pm until 4:00/30 pm EST and 12:00 pm (noon) until 1:00/30 pm PST. Atlandy would also like to remind all users attending the event to stock up on items they will be dropping for the drop party.
 * The Warhammer Beta contest is now open! See RuneScape:Warhammer Beta Giveaway for details.  RuneScape Wikians who have made 50 or more edits this month and are 18 or older are eligable. 18:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The Fall Wikifest is under discussion here. 18:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Bureaucrats Whiplash and Sacre Fi have been giving the rollback button to trusted non sysops. Please contact a bureaucrat if you feel that you deserve this privilege. 19:30, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The Administrators would like to remind everyone that in the Wiki forums non-RuneScape/Wiki threads are against the rules and will be locked. 19:00, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The nominations are reopened.
 * The nominations for UotM are closed for 5 days until tempers calm down. August 8, 2007.
 * Sysops: There are new guidelines for using the Sitenotice.  Please see the Sitenotice talk page for details.
 * The wiki hit its 5000th article at 13:24 (UTC) this morning. The article was G.L.O. Carranock written by Syugecin during this morning's editing spree in which over 20 articles were created. 13:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Amaurice was sysopped by Whiplash on 21:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC).
 * The evil dude was sysopped by Whiplash on 14:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC).
 * Chaoticar was sysopped by Hyenaste on 01:00, July 2, 2007 (UTC).
 * Chiafriend12 has returned early from his WikiBreak to check up on the Wiki and possibly not return to WikiBreaking. 02:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Irraok has quit RuneScape, he first announced this at the wikifest, at 12:07 PCT19:36, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Whiplash, a Bureaucrat, has retired. You can say bye to him here. Requests for bureaucratship nominations are now open again. 03:28, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Christine (Clv309) was sysoped by Oddlyoko on 19:16, 18 June 2007
 * Navij11 has returned from a long break to rejoin the Wiki. 01:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Chiafriend12 has apparently left, due to problems created by last weeks update. 04:51, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Tesfan was sysoped by Oddlyoko on 14:00, June 11 2007 (UTC)
 * Tel Fyr was blocked and thus users may no longer welcome him back.
 * Total Rune returned as Tel Fyr and was later pardoned by Oddlyoko. You can welcome him back here, although his stay is temporary.
 * Huanghe63, an editor on the wiki for almost a year, has announced his leave. You can say bye to him here.
 * A vandal attack this morning resulted in numerous blocks. 8 June 2007.
 * In an attempt to quell the recent fighting on the wiki, Whiplash has implimented a new policy. Please read here.
 * Sacre Fi was bureaucrated by Oddlyoko on 04:44, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Gangsterls was sysoped by Whiplash on 15:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * A Summer WikiFest 2007 is being planned for Saturday, June 24th.
 * Malestro was sysoped by Oddlyoko on 16:17, 27 May 2007 (UTC).
 * Syugecin‎ was sysoped by Whiplash on 00:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC).
 * A new page, called no page has been created to redirect to the pages that have many links to them and have been deleted or never created. This helps us clean up the wanted pages list and leaves room for essentials.  Please redirect those awful pages that fit in that category here.
 * Dtm142 was sysoped by Whiplash on the 21st of May.
 * Gangsterls and Moogel have both been blocked. Gangsterls for cussing, and Moogel for repeated small vandalism.
 * Patcong has returned! Please take the time to welcome him back here!
 * Our Google placement fell! Searching RuneScape is hard to find. But RuneScape Wiki still has us in first!
 * Wowbagger421 was sysoped by Whiplash on the 14th of May.
 * Google placement, as of 02:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC) (UTC): Searching runescape wiki in Google places the RuneScape Wiki in first place. Searching runescape on Google places the wiki on page 8.
 * Endasil was sysoped by Whiplash on the 11th of May.
 * Oddlyoko has returned from his break! Help us welcome him back here!
 * Congratulations to Whiplash, whose successful bureaucratship came as no surprise.
 * The wiki just reached it's 4000th article goal! Gilded throne, our 4000th article, was created by Sacre Fi on 14:33, 6th of May 2007 (UTC). The wiki's new goal, 5000 articles, is expected to be achieved by March 1st, 2008. To do this, everyone must pitch in and we must stay clean of RuneScape Gold advertisements and any other things that encourage rule breaking. Please see this forum for more details.
 * The wiki has undergone massive changes. Vimescarrot announced his leave, Patcong quit, Chasngcars was harassed with racist comments by Total Rune, who's immatureness led him to his absence. Total Rune also insulted Ilyas, Whiplash, Stinkowing and many others. This resulted in him being blocked once by Ilyas (1 week) and once by Whiplash (perm). Rune also pelted Whiplash and Ilyas with racist, sexist, and disturbing insults until they negotiated on permanently blocking him, on his request. With this massive 7 day fight in mind, being the worse since Shadowdancer's incident, Whiplash is soon to become a bureaucrat. The fight seems to have slowed down and the RFA page is calming down.
 * Google placement, as of 23:28, 9 April 2007 (UTC): Searching runescape wiki in Google places the RuneScape Wiki in first place. The main page is listed first with the RuneScape article second. Wikipedia's RuneScape article is third. Searching runescape on Google places the wiki on page 22.
 * A vandal attack happened on April 19th which lasted from 01:52 to 02:35 and resulted in 5 blocks on 4 different users, 4 of them infinite and one for a year which was changed to infinite, and Chiafriend12 being accused of being a "potty mouth" by Sacre Fi.
 * A darker version of our RuneScape Wiki has been created on April 13th. For the darker side of RuneScape.
 * Emosworld was sysoped by Eucarya on the 2nd of April, 2007.
 * The wicked powers of Bob the Cat that plagued the main page on the first of April have been vanquished!
 * Almost 50 market threads were deleted by Huanghe63 for various reasons. Please see this page. 30 March 2007.
 * Chiafriend12 was sysoped by Eucarya. 30 March 2007
 * Over 20 market forums were deleted by Ilyas for various reasons. Please see this page. 27-28 March 2007
 * NEW POLL. 25 March 2007.
 * A Massive vandal attack has resulted in 13 blocks ranging from 3 days to infinite. 19 March 2007.
 * There is now a new forum for off topic related discussions check it out here. 17 March 2007.
 * New poll. 17 March 2007.
 * NEW POLL. 12 March 2007.
 * The so-called "fad" for RFAs seems to be slowing down. However, Chiafriend12 seems to be supported by many users. 11 March 2007.
 * Sacre Fi was sysoped by Eucarya on 18:45, 10 March 2007. Please take the time to congratulate him on his talk page. 11 March 2007
 * Ilyas created Forum:I have set up a system to organise users and their clans. 11 March 2007.
 * Grievous797 returned from his vacation of RuneScape and RuneScape Wiki. Please take the time to welcome him back either here or here. 11 March 2007.