Editing WorldForge (section)

==History==
The WorldForge Project began in October 1998, under the original name of "Altima." It was originally envisioned to be an "Alternative to ''[[Ultima Online]]''" and was mentioned in an article on the [[Slashdot]] news website,<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Malda
| first = Rob
| title = The Altima Project
| work = [[Slashdot]]
| access-date = 2007-06-02
| date = 1998-11-03
| url = http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/11/03/102224
}}</ref> which became a major source of interested developers.

The original founder has since left the project along with most pre-Slashdot developers.
Despite this, the  community has become populous and able to sustain itself.  A new governing system and selected coordinators has been established, fixing a new direction and a new goal.
This community has decided to work on something much more significant than a "mere Ultima clone,"
and voted itself the new name "WorldForge".  Avinash Gupta was the first leader of the project, followed by Bryce Harrington,<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Sundseth
| first = Douglas
| title = The Worldforge Project: A Gamer's Perspective
| work = [[LWN.net]]
| access-date = 2007-06-19
| date = 2000-03-14
| url = https://lwn.net/2000/features/worldforge.php3
}}</ref> but more recently developers have chosen not to select a leader,
and instead rely on consensus among a small group of determined core developers to decide the
overall direction of the project.<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Lehmann
| first = Frauke
| title = FLOSS developers as a social formation
| work = [[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]
| access-date = 2007-06-20
| date = 2004-09-22
| url = http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_11/lehmann/index.html
}}</ref>

The WorldForge community has adopted the view that "massive" is unnecessary in a non-commercial
game and has focused instead on "community" environments; estimating on the order of a few hundred
players per game world, rather than thousands. Because most WorldForge servers are run by volunteers without strong bandwidth and hardware capacities this direction also has practical reasons.