[soared]

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.

[kibwen]

I'll nominate the following wikis as contenders to rival OSRS in completeness and thoroughness:

https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki

https://minecraft.wiki/

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page

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 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]

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]

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.

[spondylosaurus]

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]

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]

OSRS is forked from a build of RuneScape from 2007, actually :)

[TZubiri]

And the tick based SQL + Java engine was built in 2004 when it migrated from RS classic to RS2.