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The RuneScape Wiki is a wiki started on 8 April 2005, based entirely on the MMORPG game RuneScape and its many features. There are currently 44,138 articles on the RuneScape Wiki.

Overview

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Started in April of 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 potential 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.

Wikis are often targets for vandalism because anyone has the ability to edit them. However, the RuneScape Wiki is moderated by a number of users who keep an eye out for vandalism.

This wiki has grown quickly, gaining editors on a daily basis. It contains a guide to every quest and treasure trail, and over 44,000 articles about items, locations, monsters and more.

How you can help

It is a good idea for users to register an account. This way their IP address can be hidden from public view and they can become part of the community.

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. If you speak another language other than English, you're more than welcome to help here, but helping out our sister projects (Bulgarian, Chinese(T), Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish) would be as good or even better - they need content more than we do right now.

Please do not plagiarise copyrighted content from other sites.

Contribute to the various active discussions we have. The more opinions from the community we get, the better.

You can also help by doing some onerous cleaning duties - checking recent changes for vandalism, creating wanted pages, ensuring that no pages are orphans, making sure that all pages have categories, and generally reorganising information as required.

How to react to updates

Updates come usually once a week from RuneScape. Here are some pointers on how to update the wiki.

All updates

Add the update to the relevant pages, listed on updates
Modify Template:Updates so it's linked off the front page
Add to the year page under Events history
Add to the release date's page

Quests

Edit Quests to include the entry, and also update related information at the top regarding most recent quest, and total quest points.
Write the quest guide (at this stage, don't worry about red links).
Edit Quest points.
Edit List of quest release dates.
Edit Members-only quests.
If the quest provides a reward for a skill, the "quests" section of the skill page needs to be updated to include the quest. For example, Desert Treasure gives magic experience as a reward, so Magic#Quests needs to be updated.

General updates

If the update gives access to a new area, links and articles need to be created for that area.
- If the update affects an existing area, it is worth changing the location articles so that they point back at the quest - for example, Cold War features Ardougne, Lumbridge and the iceberg, so Ardougne and Lumbridge need to be updated, and a new article for the iceberg created.
- If the update involves a dungeon, dungeon mapping should be done.
Ideally, all the new items related to the update need to be added into the appropriate categories.
- If there is a new weapon, it needs to be added to the Weapons page.
- Similarly with Armour.
If the update introduces something new for a skill, the skill page needs to be updated. For example, The Fremennik Isles introduced yak crafting, so the Crafting page needs to be updated.
If there are new monsters, they need to be placed in the Bestiary pages, and the locations pages should point to the new monsters pages.

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