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Sir Kainoth
Feb Member 2006

Sir Kainoth

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As someone who uses both RS3 and OSRS Wiki site THANK YOU!
It has been so hard for a while to go there for any length of time and deal with the slowness from all the adds.

I would love to see a link in game of some sort.
I remember back years ago when the skill interface was linked to the game guide. You could open the skill interface and each skill linked to RS guide. I hated when that was dumped for the crappy wiki Jagex attempted a few years back. I think this will achieve what they where trying to do back then because it's actually maintained already by people who actively updated it.

To the people thinking it will be a wast of time for Jagex and such... They arn't doing any of it. It already exists they are just helping them move it to their own independent site away from Wikia. If you go to RuneScape wiki or Old School Rs wiki you can read all about why the move.

04-Oct-2018 07:07:43

Sir Kainoth
Feb Member 2006

Sir Kainoth

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Here is what they said

Why?
Short answer: To get away from Wikia.

Longer answer: Here are a few reasons:

The state of advertisements on Wikia is horrendous and not improving.
Wikia's movement away from wiki content to clickbait editorials.
Wikia's increasing control over our site content, via things like JS review and by pushing their own videos over the actual articles.
Wikia's security history is terrible; historically, they haven't fixed a problem until someone abuses it.
Wikia's software is super out of date. MediaWiki 1.19 is six-and-a-half years old and grossly incompatible with new/updates to extensions. Security fixes and similar have to be backported and Wikia's custom additions are mostly things we don't like (and the ones we do have better extensions in current MW).
Wikia don't care about us. We had a discussion with Wikia earlier this year - most of our concerns have yet to be addressed. Not to mention the entire fiasco with featured videos, javascript review, new infoboxes, and so on. Just, they don't care about us or any community in general.
We can solve all of the above by not being on Wikia. Additionally, there’s major upside to having control over our own infrastructure:

We get to use the latest MediaWiki version, 1.31 (and keep upgrading it as updates are released).
We get to use new and updated extensions, or even create our own: we can stop using MediaWiki for exchange prices, make interactive maps, create better calculators… so many opportunities for cool stuff when we’re not limited by Wikia.
We get HTTPS everywhere by default
2FA is available for all accounts
We use a new full width skin, the same used by Wikipedia, allowing us to display more content on the page, rather than the page being riddled in advertising.
We get to expand out into auxiliary things that we can integrate into the wiki - some of you have already been using our general purpose tool server, where we're collating editing tools. There's plenty of things we can

04-Oct-2018 07:11:29

Sir Kainoth
Feb Member 2006

Sir Kainoth

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Continued from above...

...There's plenty of things we can do and there are some grand plans percolating.
That all said, the most important thing is that the people running the wiki will be people that actually care about the games and the communities.


~The RuneScape Wiki

04-Oct-2018 07:16:19 - Last edited on 04-Oct-2018 07:21:53 by Sir Kainoth

Faery Oz
Oct Member 2014

Faery Oz

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I just had a look at the new wiki - and there seems to be lots of things missing? For example I looked at the list of quests (both the full list, and the list by membership status, and there were many quests missing (Nomad, Sliske etc).
What happened to these?

04-Oct-2018 10:36:22

Mauhur
Jun Member 2023

Mauhur

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Mauhur said :
Edit: Yes, I do find it a bit sleazy that only a handful of people will be awarded the Wikian title. However, given how so many people use RS wikis it comes as no surprise they have so much clout with Jagex. Just don't give stroke the egos of the wiki editors and things should be fine.

It was established early on when the title was offered to us that it's NOT a popularity contest. If you play Team Fortress 2, it's more akin to the Wiki Cap, for contributing positively.[/quote]

I hope that's the case, man. It seems odd to me that a title can be awarded by the Runescape wiki team and not by any other informative RS fansite. Don't RuneHQ and tip.it deserve something as well?

I appreciate the fact that the RS wikias are the most comprehensive and informative wikis out there. Very few wikias can boast they have such a dedicated team. However, it certainly isn't the only source of reliable info.

04-Oct-2018 16:21:44

Lord Tharkon

Lord Tharkon

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In case anyone is interested, I made a Tampermonkey redirect script to deal with any bookmarks and autocompletes you still have in your browser.

It's on pastebin WJBeag1Y. The entire world is bragging about cookies and Jagex doesn't even know how to use them.

04-Oct-2018 20:29:31 - Last edited on 04-Oct-2018 20:30:22 by Lord Tharkon

Sir Kainoth
Feb Member 2006

Sir Kainoth

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Faery Oz said :
I just had a look at the new wiki - and there seems to be lots of things missing? For example I looked at the list of quests (both the full list, and the list by membership status, and there were many quests missing (Nomad, Sliske etc).
What happened to these?

I just checked this on the new site and I found
Nomad's Requiem
Grandmaster quest on the list. Maybe they had not updated it on the list yet when you looked. I know it's a work in progress to move the info over. They have said there is still more to do they are not fully up.
I didn't find
Sliske's Endgame
Grandmaster quest on the list of quest
however
, if you type Sliske's Endgame in the search window, it will come up. They also have the following at the top of the page:

Known issues/questions

Search: Functionality and search autocomplete will be restored fully over the next few days.
Dynamic lists: This relies on indexing and maintenance jobs to get these fully working again.
Dark mode: This is coming in a future update, but will take some time.

04-Oct-2018 22:05:34

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