In May 2008, members of the Science guild celebrated the successful conclusion of a scientific conference held in World of Warcraft: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual.

After 15 years, the Science guild is still active on the Earthen Ring server!

This wiki is managed by William Sims Bainbridge.

Virtual world studies in the WRSP online encyclopedia:

https://wrldrels.org/2019/09/18/world-of-warcraft/

https://wrldrels.org/2019/10/04/everquest/

https://wrldrels.org/2020/01/21/conan/

https://wrldrels.org/2022/06/16/new-world/

WSB information:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sims_Bainbridge

Curriculum Vitae   -  Online Datasets   -  NSF Connection

Archived website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140910194003/http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/

Recent Books: 

2020 Cultural Science: Applications of Artificial Social Intelligence.  New York: Business Expert Press.

2020 The Social Structure of Online Communities.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.