This page is intended for news related to WoWWiki.
2011 and later[]
2010[]
30th December 2010 - WoWWiki news blog launched
30th December 2010 - Keep or remove new optional features? Help us decide!
30th December 2010 - New Cataclysm-themed look
20th October 2010 - WoWWiki branches to Wowpedia
3 July 2010 – Cataclysm content cavalcade!
6 June 2010 – Fun with Captions!
4 June 2010 – Wikia interview with Magelo!
1 February 2010 – 80,000 articles and counting!
3rd January 2010 – WoWWiki has over 80,000 articles!
2009[]
23rd October 2009 – Create a WoWWiki magazine!
24th August 2009 – Kirkburn's BlizzCon 2009 Report
1st July 2009 – BlizzCon 2009 ticket contest winners!
27th April 2009 – BlizzCon 2009 ticket contest announced!
27th April 2009 – Screenshot contest winners!
7th May 2009 – WoWWiki forums!
1st May 2009 – WoWWiki and Xfire in-game browser!
30th April 2009 – WoWWiki upgrades: now on MediaWiki 1.14!
27th April 2009 – Screenshot contest time!
2008[]
12th November 2008 – 65,000 articles and counting...
29th September 2008 – WoWWiki has shattered the 60,000 article barrier!
25th August 2008 – The WoWlympics have ended - who will win WotLK beta keys?
18th July 2008 – WoWWiki and WotLK information...
Update: we now have portal dedicated to WotLK up! See Portal:WotLK.
17th June 2008 – Monaco 3.1 has gone live!
12th June 2008 – New search engine!
15th May 2008 – WoWWiki upgrades - what's new?
- Major upgrades are in place.
- Many new extensions are now active.
- The new "Monaco" skin is of course active.
- The OpenSearch plug-in for IE7 and Firefox is finally fixed! Go to your browser's search box and add us!
- Our user database has merged with Wikia's - you can use your account to log in to Wikia wikis.
- The main page portals have been overhauled with a cleaner design and new functions.
- Many other little tweaks around the site to improve performance and usability.
As ever, feedback is always welcome - please visit the village pump!
2nd May 2008 – Upgrade status!
28th March 2008 – Site stats update!
27th March 2008 – WoWWiki has been upgraded!
14th March 2008 – SXSW panel audio is up!
8th March 2008 – WoWWiki and Wikia Gaming at SXSW!
29th February 2008 – WoWWiki upgrades underway!
7th February 2008 – Instance boss pages changes!
17th January 2008 – Another milestone reached!
2007[]
31st December 2007 – Happy New Year from WoWWiki!
29th November 2007 – Can't find your guild page?
Guild:Guildname (Servername Location)
21st November 2007 – 51,000 articles!
1st November 2007 – "WoW patch info" box!
30th October 2007 – 45,000 articles!
20th October 2007 – Patch 2.3.0 updates!
19th October 2007 – WoWWiki upgrades!
1st October 2007 – Hover tooltips and more!
26th September 2007 – WoWWiki Steam Community group!
7th September 2007 – Wikia Press Release!
5th September 2007 – Warhammer Online beta key update!
28th August 2007 – Warhammer Online beta key giveaway!
17th August 2007 – "Warcraft news" box
15th August 2007 – 40,000 articles
12th August 2007 – WoWWiki @ Blizzcon
4th August 2007 – Mid Blizzcon Report
4th August 2007 – Mid Blizzcon Report addendum
1st August 2007 – Main Page redesign
25th July 2007 – Site update
25th July 2007 – Blizzcon 2007 update!
3 Jul 2007 – WoWWiki Cited for its success by CIO Magazine
See Five Things Wikipedia's Founder Has Learned About Online Collaboration By C.G. Lynch, Thu, June 28, 2007 ].
14th June 2007 – BlizzCon 2007 Sponsorship update!
7th June 2007 – BlizzCon 2007 Sponsorship!
6th June 2007 – Wiki and server update
10th May 2007 – Looking for foreign language editors!
7th May 2007 – New admin
5th May 2007 – Wiki upgrade complete
1 May 2007 – WoWWiki moving to Wikia!
Over the past few months, I've been thinking a lot about how to keep up with the needs of the WoWWiki community. I'm really proud of how WoWWiki has grown into a valuable resource for all World of Warcraft players, and want to make sure that it can continue to grow. As you've seen, I've had trouble keeping up with server issues, problems, and getting the upgrades and extensions that are needed to make WoWWiki better.
I've looked at a few options on how to solve this over the last month. When Jimmy Wales and Gil Penchina offered to let us move the wiki to Wikia, this seemed like a natural fit and I accepted. These guys have a record of treating communities well and running a great service, and I'm going to stay involved to help make sure that they deliver what our community needs.
Some more details about this are on the village pump! -- Rustak 03:06, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
19th April 2007 – MediaWiki updates and upgrades
The wiki is currently undergoing software changes and updates. This will result into multiple maintenance downtimes during the week. However, the MediaWiki version should be fully upgraded to 1.9 within 10 days.
On a sidenote, multiple changes have already been done to the wiki interface. Email authentication is now necessary to create an account and the editing interface has been made clearer. We hope you like them! --Adys 03:44, 19 April 2007 (EDT)
15th April 2007 – 2.1.0 up for testing!
Patch 2.1.0 is now open for testing. You can now check out the complete release notes as well as a huge undocumented changes list! --Adys 03:44, 19 April 2007 (EDT)
1st April 2007 – Main page overhaul
The Main Page has had an overhaul!
We have added a Featured Article (FA) section and expanded the WoWWiki news section. In addition, the many of the links have been reappraised and in some cases, altered. We hope you enjoy it, and we appreciate any feedback you may have on this or any other part of the site! Kirkburn talk contr
We hope you enjoyed our April Fools, "MeoWWiki"!
29th March 2007 – New WoWWiki guideline
A new guideline has been created! See WoWWiki:Signature. Kirkburn talk contr 06:31, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
28th March 2007 – Favicon
We have one! See http://www.wowwiki.com/favicon.ico
If you're not seeing it in IE, don't worry, it may just take a while. For FF users, visit the above link, reload it, then come back here. It should then appear! Kirkburn talk contr 22:23, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
17th March 2007 – New Admin
Please welcome the newest addition to the administrator ranks, Baggins!. Kirkburn talk contr 19:23, 17 March 2007 (EDT)
February 2007 – The State of the Wiki
In a bit of good news, the wiki will soon be updated to Mediawiki 1.9.2. The recent slowness has been very frustrating, we know, and we've been looking at reason as to why it occurs. We are attempting to simplify the template usage for the moment to reduce load. Hopefully these changes will help until we find a better solution! Kirkburn talk contr 20:37, 26 February 2007 (EST)
Update - though the update has not yet occurred due to other commitments, we have fixed much of the stability problem by reducing the number of special template calls, such as to {{exists}}. Kirkburn talk contr 19:19, 17 March 2007 (EDT)
January 2007 – Wiki upgrade
Tonight the wiki's server was upgraded with more RAM - hopefully as a result we will be able to cope better with the loads from people wanting Burning Crusade information! If you have any trouble, please mention it on the Village pump! Kirkburn talk contr 17:00, 15 January 2007 (EST)
Addendum - we know the wiki has been experiencing some stability issues recently. We are looking into the cause of the problem, and hope to find a resolution soon. Kirkburn talk contr 01:26, 11 February 2007 (EST)
2006[]
December 2006 – New Administrators
December 2006 – Official WoWWiki IRC Channel
For all talk WoWWiki, visit the new official IRC channel, set up solely for your WoW + Wiki needs :P Several of the admins frequent the channel, and you are invited to discuss issues with us or notify us of important developments there! -- Kirkburn (talk) 20:20, 21 December 2006 (EST)
Visit: chat.freenode.net, #wowwiki
December 2006 – Early Dec '06 Performance Problems
October 2006 – Burning Crusade policy
Material pertaining to the beta of the upcoming expansion can now be posted freely on the wiki with some limitations.
Please, no screenshots of unreleased content, and no datamined screenshots. Anything you could or can view in the alpha/beta is postable, as long as no exploits were used.
September 2006 – Recent policy and guideline changes
- Deletion policy - there is no longer a separate termination policy. There's no real difference for you people. The speedy deleteion policy covered all the special cases that the termination policy outlined; we're just reducing confusion with this change.
- Fanfic policy - The only thing we require now is that fanfic be about WoW and not mix in other gaming universes. Everything else was moved to optional advice in the fan fiction guidelines.
- Do-Not-Post policy - Non-English content is now DNP, with a few possible exceptions outlined in the policy.
--Mikk (T) 09:04, 26 September 2006 (EDT)
- Guidelines
- Image guidelines have been created, with helpful tips on how to pick image format, handle compression, transparency, background coloring, etc...
- Fan fiction guidelines have been created as optional practices for writing fan fiction. (It mostly consists of the removed portions of the fanfic policy, reworded as hints rather than rules).
August 2006 – MediaWiki 1.7.1 Upgrade
30th August 2006 – New WoWWiki admins
August 2006 – Main Page Updated!
The look of the Main page has changed to the winning design among several proposals on 25 Aug 2006. We hope you like it.
August 2006 – Main Page Update!
The look of the main page will be changing in the next week or so based on the winner of a few proposals. Please see WoWWiki:Main Page Dev 4 for a preview.
2005[]
June 2005 – Lore
The Lore section has tons of info about the history, characters, places, and creatures of the Warcraft universe.
June 2005 – New Chat Info
Feb 2005 – WoW Festival 2005
WoW Festival 2005 was April 22-24. It is sponsored by Rush3d.com and promises to bring out a number of players and community related websites.
http://www.wowfestival.com for details.
Jan 2005 – New Chronos Library
Chronos - a new UI Library has been added to the Front page.
2004[]
Nov 2004 – Server Performance Issues
The popularity of the wiki caught me a bit off guard; I had to scramble to a bunch of last minute software upgrading and cache setting-upping. Things are working fairly well though; you'll notice a large performance boost if you log out if you're just browsing, and log in just to edit. Also, make sure that your links/bookmarks/etc. look like http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page -- not www.wowwiki.com:8080 or /index.php/ (those will still work, but the first form will be the fastest). I'll probably do a hardware upgrade here in the next week or so as well. Thanks for all the contributions! -- Rustak 07:00, 23 Nov 2004 (EST)
Nov 2004 – Index of Wiki Templates
Nov 2004 – Server List
Complete server list up at : Realms list. -- AlexanderYoshi 01:10, 23 Nov 2004 (EST)
Nov 2004 – Categories
Categories have now been added to many of the gameplay-related pages. Please try to categorize any new pages from now on, using existing catgories where possible, but adding new ones if required -- Goldark 12:11, 22 Nov 2004 (EST)
(Note: Meta:Categories moved to the About WoWWiki namespace (WoWWiki: ) June 2005. -Laisren)
Nov 2004 – Money Icons
You can now add money icons to your posts! Money Example -- OwlBoy 09:27, 22 Nov 2004 (EST)
21 Nov 2004 – Spell detail
I've added a new example Spell detail page, at Warlock Spells > Shadow Bolt. I'd like feedback on it, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be nice to have a spell detail page like this for every spell and ability. If so, we could mock up a template on it for future use. -- Jat850 19:29, 21 Nov 2004 (EST)
2004 – Classes
There's a new look to the Classes page thanks to Jat850. Many other fantastic contributions by various people. Keep it going! -- Goldark
Hunter, Shaman and Paladin classes added too. All classes now have a basic first page at a minimum, but there's still lots to do. A new Racial Traits page has also been added. -- Goldark
Druid, Mage and Rogue guides are up! Thanks Metaphaze, Goldark, and Sarf! --Alex
Brand new guides for the Warrior, Priest and Warlock. Go check em out! --Alex
2004 – Templates
2004 – Guilds
Lots of news going on at the Guilds page!
2004 – API
A lot of people are working on the World of Warcraft API. Its looking GREAT! --Alex
2004 – Newbie Guide
The Newbie Guide is online and ready for perusing! Thanks Vlad!