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Would love to watch a documentary on the osrs wiki and especially the power transfer from fandom. Such a ridiculously incredible wiki. It makes me wish I never

by soared 2y ago

Would love to watch a documentary on the osrs wiki and especially the power transfer from fandom. Such a ridiculously incredible wiki. It makes me wish I never used it, as no other source of information (video game or not) is anywhere near as complete and knowledgeable. Anything you want to know about osrs, it’s in the wiki.

spondylosaurus 2y ago
I don't play OSRS, but my partner does, and on more than one occasion they've shown me a page from the wiki and I've felt the exact emotion you're describing. Even a lot of enterprise software tools struggle to produce docs as good as the OSRS wiki's.
- TZubiri 2y ago
  Probably related that it pertains to a game built on a 2000 engine. The lack of complexity and repetitiveness is built into the game, which directly correlates to the popularity among the autism community.
  - spondylosaurus 2y ago
    OSRS is forked from a build of RuneScape from 2007, actually :)
    - TZubiri 2y ago
      And the tick based SQL + Java engine was built in 2004 when it migrated from RS classic to RS2.
kibwen 2y ago
I'll nominate the following wikis as contenders to rival OSRS in completeness and thoroughness: https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki https://minecraft.wiki/ https://minecraft.wiki/ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main But you know what the weirdest, greatest one of all is? You'll never guess: it's the Transformers wiki: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page Some absolute madlad has taken it upon themselves to seemingly caption every single image on the 30,000+ pages with a unique sarcastic quip.
- NoGravitas 2y ago
  Memory Alpha is so good. I'm not interested in Transformers, but I've always been impressed by tfwiki whenever I've used it to understand some joke from Shortpacked! or Dumbing of Age.
  - danaris 2y ago
    Memory Alpha is good, but I was somewhat disappointed when they moved to Fandom. It used to at least have its own domain (en.memory-alpha.org for the English version); I don't know what hosting and platform they used at the time.

by soared 2y ago

spondylosaurus 2y ago

I don't play OSRS, but my partner does, and on more than one occasion they've shown me a page from the wiki and I've felt the exact emotion you're describing. Even a lot of enterprise software tools struggle to produce docs as good as the OSRS wiki's.

TZubiri 2y ago
Probably related that it pertains to a game built on a 2000 engine. The lack of complexity and repetitiveness is built into the game, which directly correlates to the popularity among the autism community.
- spondylosaurus 2y ago
  OSRS is forked from a build of RuneScape from 2007, actually :)
  - TZubiri 2y ago
    And the tick based SQL + Java engine was built in 2004 when it migrated from RS classic to RS2.

kibwen 2y ago

I'll nominate the following wikis as contenders to rival OSRS in completeness and thoroughness: https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki https://minecraft.wiki/ https://minecraft.wiki/ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main But you know what the weirdest, greatest one of all is? You'll never guess: it's the Transformers wiki: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page Some absolute madlad has taken it upon themselves to seemingly caption every single image on the 30,000+ pages with a unique sarcastic quip.

NoGravitas 2y ago
Memory Alpha is so good. I'm not interested in Transformers, but I've always been impressed by tfwiki whenever I've used it to understand some joke from Shortpacked! or Dumbing of Age.
- danaris 2y ago
  Memory Alpha is good, but I was somewhat disappointed when they moved to Fandom. It used to at least have its own domain (en.memory-alpha.org for the English version); I don't know what hosting and platform they used at the time.