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This is the page for the WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games. It covers all massively multiplayer online games (MMOs or MMOGs) as well as articles related to the subject of MMOs.

Scope
  • Any and all articles about computer and video games falling under the genre/classification of MMOG.
Goals
  • To create more articles about MMOs.
  • To update existing articles about MMOGs.
  • To set guidelines for articles about MMOGs.
  • To get more articles under the scope of the project to GA and FA status.
What this WikiProject is not

Contents

[edit] News

WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games Open Tasks
Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of massively multiplayer online games. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.
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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.


Archive
For an archive of our past news, please visit our news page.

[edit] Parentage

The following is a list of other WikiProjects closely connected with this WikiProject.

[edit] MMOGCM

The current Massively Multiplayer Online Games Collaboration of the Month is MMOFPS.
The next winner will be selected on Saturday, April 28, 2007.
Last month's article was MMORPG


The Massively Multiplayer Online Games Collaboration of the Month (MMOGCM) is a way to collaborate on a specific stub, uncreated article, or an article on it's way to achieving GA or FA status.

[edit] Our Achievements

This section presents the best articles under our scope; it shows the GA and FA class articles as well as the FT class topics. No matter the number of articles here, we are achieving constantly.

[edit] Good Articles

  1. Make Love, Not Warcraft
  2. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
  3. RuneScape
  4. World of Warcraft

[edit] Featured Articles

  1. Featured article Final Fantasy XI

[edit] Featured Topics

  1. Final Fantasy titles (with Final Fantasy XI)

[edit] Portals

[edit] Resources

[edit] Templates

This template should be used on all the talk pages of articles that fall under the scope of this project. Please ignore that it says NA.
MMOG logo This article is within the scope of WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of massively multiplayer online games. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the the assessment scale.


This template should be used on all the talk pages of users who frequently edit articles related to MMOGs
Hi, I've seen you frequently around articles dealing with MMOGs. Please consider joining WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games, an effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding MMOs.

If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks that you can help with. Thank you for your time.


  • {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Massively myltiplayer online games/Archive Template}}
This template should be used on all archives in the Article Archive section.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Massively myltiplayer online games/Archive Template

This infobox should be used on articles about a specific video game.
This infobox should be used on articles about a specific character or NPC.
This template should be used in place of {{stub}} for any and all stubs under the project scope.

[edit] Categories

This should be added to all games that fall under the category of a massively multiplayer online game.
This should be added to all games that fall under the category of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
This should be added to all games that fall under the category of a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game.

[edit] Policies and guidelines

These are policies and guidelines from Wikipedia which may be of use to editors who edit articles under our scope. WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games did not create them and therefore have no association with them but all articles (under our scope and otherwise) must follow them.

Please review these notability guidelines before considering creating a new article.
Please review these notability guidelines before considering creating a new article.
Part of What Wikipedia is not, an official policy.