IFWiki:About
IFWiki is a wiki containing information about interactive fiction, including IF history, theory, craft, tools, and people. IFWiki serves as both a historical record of community knowledge and a guide to resources for playing and creating interactive fiction.
David Cornelson originally setup IFWiki in the mid 2000's and after jumping around hosts and administrators, including Carl Muckenhoupt, it is now in the hands of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. Since then, monthly IFWiki reports to the IFTF Board have been submitted.
IFWiki celebrated its 20th birthday on 28 December 2024 (being 20 years since this page's creation). See IFTF Service Birthdays for more detail.
Please feel free to edit the IFWiki.
Categories
IFWiki uses many categories to organize pages. The top-level category is Basics.
Some notable categories are:
- Works, Years, Authoring system, and Publishers.
- Glossary has pages imported from the IF Theory Book glossary.
- Past raif topics (and subcategories) for links to Google Groups rec.arts.int-fiction threads.
- Tropes (and subcategories) to identify recurring features in IF.
Databases
We also now have the following databases: Games, Events, Software and Architecture.
Users
- Category:User pages is where to find the pages that IFWiki users have created about themselves. Some users have opted to redirect their user pages to the more formalized pages about themselves in Category:People.
- Special:Listusers is an automatically generated list of all IFWiki user accounts. Names in red have created user accounts but have not created their user page.
- IFWiki:Administrators shows a summary of IFWiki's caretakers and their usual roles in keeping IFWiki running.
Discuss IFWiki
See IFWiki talk:About.
Contact us
See IFWiki:Contact.