User blog comment:NOBODY/Popularizing the Nitrome Wiki/@comment-4368470-20121214014822/@comment-3060206-20121215024945

Runescape's community is much larger in size than Nitrome's fanbase, so yes, they will have a lot of users. And with a larger span of users who edit comes more users who are able to maintain the wiki pages at a much faster pace than a handful of Nitromians who regularly edit here can.

I have belief that as long as Nitrome continues to run, Nitrome Wiki will never be a complete encyclopedia. Yes, an encyclopedia book might be complete, but wikis are open websites for people to contribute information to. If we want to promote the wiki, yes, people will come and read it, but they won't be able to contribute if a lot of the articles are complete already. So if we want more editors, that means editors have to have something to do.

Of course, the wiki should always strive for completion, but "completion" is not possible unless Nitrome stops making games or any other sort of business. We will continue to maintain and develop our articles, and by promoting Nitrome Wiki in the process, perhaps we can reach out to other Nitromians interested in assisting with the project.

What is your idea of a "complete" encyclopedia anyway, Emite? Runescape Wiki has over a thousand stubs on their wiki. That's about 5% of all their articles, which is a larger percentage than Nitrome Wiki's.