Red Dead Wiki:History

Manifest Destiny
Although the wiki seems to have been active beforehand, the automatic Wikia message for creating it was sent on June 16th, 2009, with the recipient being Th3warr1or. Th3warr1or made no edits to the wiki. Originally called Red Dead Redemption Wiki, the wiki's history between then and the start of 2010 is somewhat blurry, but the wiki seems to have been active in some way. Eventually, on January 26, 2010, TeslaRaptor adopted the wiki. Overtime, he would do things such as promote three users (TNT LotLP, Tiktaalik, and Raadec) and during his time as a member of staff, the wiki was merged with Red Dead Revolver Wiki. In May 2010, Red Dead Wiki had over one million daily views following the release of Red Dead Redemption.

Between then and now
TeslaRaptor last made an edit on June 22, 2010. After this, users such as JackFrost23, Blaff 60, Raziel Reaper and Crowbar would gain prominence. The GTA Wiki was affiliated with Red Dead Wiki.

Adoption
On July 20, 2016, LS11sVaultBoy adopted the wiki. He then began a large clean up of the wiki. Following the adoption, talk pages were replaced by message boards and Discussions were added. In 2017, he promoted users such as monkeypolice188, JamesTheNerdKing, who created the wiki's offical Discord server, The Spawny Award, and the Hall of Gunslingers, and JackiBackiBoy, who made massively edited the wiki and cleaned it up. In 2018, with Red Dead Redemption II on the horizon, the wiki would gain nearly one hundred thousand views after Rockstar Games released more information on the game. Raziel Reaper returned and Linus Spacehead was promoted.