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February 18, 2008
This WP is going to have a radical shakedown, and will be made up and running by March!

May 20, 2007
Only a day after the creation of the last task force, Greeves started the Guild Wars task force as most Guild Wars-related articles were pretty low-quality.


May 19, 2007
After discussion at WT:MMO regarding the notability of MU* games, Martijn Hoekstra created the MU* task force to help improve MU*-related articles as well as to determine the notability of the articles.


April 5, 2007
Shortly after the creation of WikiProject Neopets by IAmTheCoinMan, he moved the page to a sub-page our our project to function as a task force the same day.


April 2, 2007
Back in January, Greeves created our Outreach Department and today, our first newsletter was published. Kudos to Greeves and Ed who wrote it this quarter! Look out for our next newsletter scheduled to come out this July and we hope that you can help contribute to it!


January 18, 2007
Through the help of a few project members, the first good article listed during our project's existence under our scope is World of Warcraft! Thanks to all who helped! Soon before the project was created, Make Love, Not Warcraft (also under our scope) became the first article under our (future) scope to make it to good article status.


January 11, 2007
Greeves created our new Outreach Department to spread the word of our our project and to publish our quarterly newsletter.


January 5, 2007
WikiProject RuneScape (a WikiProject that worked on articles about or relating to RuneScape) became a task force of WikiProject MMOs after Greeves proposed that it was moved to it's new location at Wikipedia:WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games/RuneScape Task Force on late December 20, 2006.

We welcome all new RuneScape Task Force members!


December 30, 2006
Greeves started the MMOGCM process and selected World of Warcraft as the first collaboration. The next MMOGCM will be selected January 30, 2007.


December 28, 2006
Greeves started the guidelines page and wrote the game article guidelines.


December 23, 2006
Greeves created the MMO portal to show off our best articles and guide the reader through our articles.


December 23, 2006
Orfen created the article archive for the remains of deleted articles under our scope. The first article that he put there was [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games/Article Archive/Astro Empires|Astro Empires]].


December 10, 2006
WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games left the proposal stage. Greeves gave the project it's own project page here.


December 10, 2006
Greeves expanded the project's scope to include all MMOs and he started working on a temporary project page (a user sub-page) while the project was still in it's proposal stage.


June 24, 2006
Schzmo proposed WikiProject MMORPGs.