History of the Obby Wiki

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This page outlines the backstory and history of the Obby Wiki project.

Backstory

The Obby Wiki was founded originally at obbywiki.com on the 1st of April in 2025 by @Wolf1te as a focused replacement for both the abandoned Legacy Obby Wiki and the Roblox Obbies Wiki on Fandom. The Obby Wiki (sometimes previously referred to as the 'Modern' Obby Wiki) was the first obby-focused or obby-adjacent wiki to sustain itself without the help of a host/wiki-farm such as Fandom.

Timeline (prior to the founding of the Obby Wiki)

• September 2020: The original Roblox Obby Wiki was founded on the 6th by 49dr, originally on Fandom. This is known today as the Legacy (Roblox) Obby Wiki. There is no affiliation today between the legacy wiki and the modern Obby Wiki.
• September 2022: The Roblox Difficulty Chart Obby Wiki was founded, also on Fandom, but by @Wolf1te.
• May 2024: An attempt was made to reformat the then abandoned Legacy Roblox Obby Wiki, but that fell short. Another attempt was made to create the Roblox Obbies Wiki by @Wolf1te, which could be free of the debts of the Legacy Wiki, but that was also abandoned.
• April 2025: The Obby Wiki was founded on the 1st by @Wolf1te as not an alternative, but a direct replacement to the Legacy Wiki and the Roblox Obbies Wiki. This is what the Obby Wiki is today, and you can read more about what has happened since then below.

Evolution & Change Archives

This section highlights changes by day and how the Obby Wiki evolved. Please note it is not conclusive and there may be a lot of missing details. This section is purely for notes on how the Obby Wiki's systems evolved, not what was documented on it.

2025

The Obby Wiki was founded in 2025. While still the most defining year, there was very little activity in this year.

April

• April 1st 2025:
  • The Obby Wiki was officially founded. The database was set up, the first user account (User:Wlft) was created, and the logo was created.
  • This page, the Project:About page, was protected at 21:55.
• April 2nd 2025:
  • The Citizen skin was setup on the wiki, officially becoming the default skin for the wiki.
    • As part of this, the sidebar was also updated.
• April 3rd 2025:
  • The Attributions page was created.
  • The {{Obby}} (infobox) template was created with the PortableInfobox extension. This was later replaced with the {{ObbyGameInfobox}} template.
  • The obbywiki.com domain was registered, and the Obby Wiki was officially publicly available
• April 4th 2025:
  • The first category, Category:Difficulty_Chart_Obby, was created.
  • Development:Get_Started, the first development tutorial was created.
• April 6th 2025:
  • The first obby article was created, No Jumping Difficulty Chart Obby.
  • The second obby article was created, IMPOSSIBLE TROLL OBBY.
  • The Obby category was created.

May

• May 1st 2025:
  • The first navigation box was created, Navigation:CopyrendTowerSeries. This navigation template manually listed every tower obby by this development group and required manual updates. Today, editors can use the {{AlsoBy|...}} template to automatically list every obby created by a user/group on the Obby Wiki.

August

• August 27th 2025:
  • The {{DifficultiesV1}} template was created to list all of the difficulties in a difficulty chart obby, for example. It is currently not in use.
• August 31st 2025:
  • InfoboxNeue was imported, as well as many other modules from the Star Citizen Wikis.
  • The modern {{ObbyGameInfobox}} was created with limited function compared to its modern form. It was fitted in as a replacement to the previous template, {{ObbyInfobox}}, and used InfoboxNeue.

October

• October 11th 2025:
  • {{RobloxBadges}} was created, a template which automatically listed every badge from a Roblox game (obby) via its universe ID only.

December

• December 5th 2025:
  • The {{ObbyGameInfobox}} template began categorizing every obby into Month, Year, and Month Year categories, such as December 2025.
• December 20th 2025:
  • The guilded parameter is deprecated from {{ObbyGameInfobox}}, as Guilded was shut down on the 19th.

2026

February

• February 4th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki updated to MediaWiki v1.45.1.
• February 5th 2026:
  • DiscourseIntegration, the first extension built by the Obby Wiki was created to bridge the Obby Wiki and the now defunct Obby Forum. The extension is currently archived on GitHub.
• February 8th 2026:
  • The 'random obby' button was added to the sidebar, allowing anyone to get a random obby page (Special:RandomInCategory/Obby).

March

• March 1st 2026:
  • The ObbyWikiHomePage extension was officially created. It later replaced the original main page and originally launched with a highlights carousel, sub-genre links, and contributing links.
    • As part of this, the main page was moved from 'Main Page' was moved to 'Home'.
• March 8th 2026:
  • Cargo support was introduced into the Obby Wiki via the largest template, {{ObbyGameInfobox}}, allowing obbies to be queried automatically by other wiki pages and templates.
  • The {{AlsoBy}} template was created with the recent Cargo improvements, which pulls every obby released by a group or developer and lists them by sub-genre.
• March 9th 2026:
  • SMTP was finalized and users were now able to use regular MediaWiki email functions.
  • The RobloxPlaceMediaExtractor extension was released, allowing contributors to pull and download thumbnails and icons from Roblox games in a high-quality WebP format quickly.
  • The {{FAQ}} template was released. Editors could now set questions and answers.
    • This release also coincided with the {{ObbyFAQ}} template, which automatically constructed {{FAQ}} templates with preset questions and answers from the Cargo data.
• March 11th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki footer extension was created.
• March 16th 2026:
  • The first player page was created as @Wolf1te, originally as a live test page for the {{PlayerInfobox}} template.
• March 21st 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki deployed an optimized edge API to automatically query all required Roblox API endpoints faster than it is possible in Scribunto.
• March 23st 2026:
  • Extension:DynamicJsonLD was created.

April

• April 1st 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reached its 1st-year anniversary! A celebration announcement was posted to the now defunct Obby Forum celebrating the achievement and noting the key milestones reached and improvements made since the founding of the wiki a year earlier.
• April 5th 2026:
  • The WikiWireBot user account was created on the wiki.
• April 6th 2026:
  • WikiWire, the CI tool which automatically uploads modules and templates from GitHub onto MediaWiki was created by the Obby Wiki.
    • Later, most modules from the Obby Wiki eventually used this tool to automatically upload transpiled Luau code.

May

No recorded events during May 2026.

June

• June 6th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki officially completes its domain migration from obbywiki.com to obby.wiki. Along with this change, the article path was changed from /wiki/Article to simply /Article, as well as the home page being served at just obby.wiki, instead of obbywiki.com/wiki/Home.
    • As part of the domain migration, a new Cloudflare origin certificate was implemented, providing the Obby Wiki with complete SSL coverage, which was previously dubious.
• June 7th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki Article Flow (Vue) extension was officially released, allowing editors to easily create a boilerplate article with information available automatically pulled from Roblox APIs so editors had to do less work to get started writing. Editors could simply put in their title, choose a layout, paste in the Roblox URL, answer any remaining questions, and the extension would guide them through automatically uploading every thumbnail/icon and then generate the wikitext boilerplate where the editor can open the page and start writing.
    • The complete extension name is 'ObbyWikiArticleFlowVue'.
    • This was considered a major breakthrough for the Obby Wiki.
    • This release coincided with the domain migration on the 6th, but was separate.
• June 10th 2026:
  • The {{MonthSummary}} template was introduced to Month Year directories like September 2025. This template pulls live cargo data from every obby released in that month and year and summarizes the sub-genres, including the most popular obby released in that month as well as the most frequent sub-genre.
  • The {{Cn}} (aka. the 'citation needed') template became available.
• June 17th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki began documenting other obby-adjacent wikis, with the Wiki category eventually being created, starting with the old Roblox Difficulty Chart Obby Wiki.
    • Along with this, the {{WikiInfobox}} and {{WikiNavplate}} templates were introduced.
• June 19th 2026:
  • The first test run of the TrendingArticles extension started. This new extension started tracking page view counts on every content page on the Obby Wiki, as well as displaying the articles with the most views in the last week per-category, similar to Fandom.
• June 20th 2026:
  • The {{WikiCallout}} template was created to distinguish wiki pages from game pages, such as the Eternal Towers of Hell Wiki article from the Eternal Towers of Hell article.
• June 26th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki was placed under maintenance due to a server upgrade. No edits were allowed during this time as they may have been lost during the migration. The edit freeze lasted 26 hours and the database was rolled back. Some historical data from this date, such as total wiki page views for June 26th 2026, may be missing.
• June 27th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki's server and backend infrastructure was successfully migrated to NGINX (previously running Apache2). Along with this came many improvements such as Redis caching, LuaSandbox support, wikidiff2 support, and more. Almost every page takes two seconds or less to load, or 3-4 seconds cache-less at most, but sometimes even less.
• June 28th 2026:
  • Namespaces 'Difficulty:' and 'OW:' (the project namespace) began counting towards the total content pages number.
• June 29th 2026:
  • {{WikiInfobox}} now stores data via Cargo, allowing the {{WikiNavplate}} to update itself automatically when a new wiki is documented.
  • Support for browsing documented wikis by platform/host (Fandom, Miraheze, and Independent) was added.
  • The Obby Wiki surpassed the 200 pages milestone, being at only 192 pages the previous day.
• June 30th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki style guide was created.
  • The first transpiled const assignment was used in a module.
  • Sign ups no longer required an email address, and users could now edit pages without needing to add one.

July

• July 1st 2026:
  • The footer was revamped and four categories of links were introduced. This followed four months after the complete reimplementation of the Citizen skin's footer.
  • A wiki flow was added to the Article Flow.
• July 2nd 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reached 5,000 edits!
  • The revamped Obby Wiki blog becomes available on the wiki with most historical posts from the old Obby Forum imported and archived.
• July 4th 2026:
  • The ObbyWiki Shared Modules & Templates Repository (obbywiki/modules or OWSMT) was set to public on GitHub. At the time 80% of active code was written in Luau, so unminified module source code was relatively rare on-wiki.
• July 5th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki began using CentralAuth, providing the login service at auth.obby.wiki now instead, designed for future plans.
• July 6th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reaches over 100,000 total words on the wiki!
• July 8th 2026:
  • The 'This Month' link was added to the home page archive section.
• July 9th 2026:
  • Bot fight mode was disabled, allowing access for every bot to use api.php without the chance of being blocked.
  • The Project: namespace was restricted to administrators.
• July 10th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki updates to MediaWiki 1.45.4.
• July 11th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki updates to MediaWiki 1.46.0.
  • The Obby Wiki implements NewAuth, a new extension which allows for login via OAuth providers Google and Discord. Future plans include Roblox OAuth, but that required a manual app review at the time.
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 250 pages!
• July 12th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 300 articles, and later 350 articles!
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 1,000+ images!
  • The Obby Wiki announced significant improvements to redlinks, integrating the default redlink click with the Article Flow modal.
• July 13th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 400 articles!
• July 14th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki enables login and signup support via Roblox accounts (Roblox OAuth).
• July 15th 2026:
  • A new sub-genre was added: Flood-type.
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 450 articles!
• July 20th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki is featured in the Wikux Inspiration Wall: https://wikux.org/inspiration-wall.
• July 21st 2026:
  • Updated to Citizen 3.18 (still on the preview channel).
  • ObbyWikiBot was brought online with its first task: automatically updating wiki statistics daily (6 a day).
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 500 articles, a very significant milestone!
• July 23st 2026:
  • The ObbyWikiHomePage extension began providing a 'Trending this week' section powered by TrendingArticles.
• July 30th 2026:
  • The Thanks extension is enabled, allowing editors to give thanks to others for their work.

August

• August 4th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 400 obbies documented in total.
• August 12th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki reaches 550 articles!
• August 16th 2026:
  • The Obby Wiki updates to Citizen 3.21.
  • The PWA of obby.wiki becomes available for install.
• August 17th 2026:
  • 2FA and password-less login via passkeys become generally available.