March 2024 report

Report to IFTF Board.

IFWiki (March 2024):

• 1296 edits by 19 editors. Only five months in the history of the wiki have had more edits.
• Made progress in planning the games database.
• Multiple pages for past game jams/competitions updated with dead links replaced, additional links added, and additional context/explanation added. These pages include:
  • RomanceNovelComp
  • SwashComp
  • 1999 Spring IF Art Show
  • 1999 Summer IF Art Show
  • 2000 IF Art Show
  • TinyUtopias IF Jam
  • TravelComp
  • Acorn User 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition
  • Concours de Fiction Interactive Francophone 2024
  • PrologueComp
  • ToasterComp
  • WalkthroughComp
  • DinoComp
  • DragonComp
  • GESCH MiniComp
  • UseComp
  • LOTECH Comp 2002
  • LOTECH Comp 2006
• New pages for old events, including:
  • IF Demo Fair
  • The Border House Game Jam
  • Big Trashy Twine Jam
  • Big Chaos Twine Jam
  • The Pulse Pounding Heart Stopping Dating Sim Jam
  • Naked Twine Jam
  • Ruin Jam
  • Twiny Jam
  • LocusJam
  • SubQjam 2018 and 2019
  • Interact-if text-based story jam
  • IF Short Games Showcase
• Pages/calendar entries for new events: Dialogue Jam 2024.
• Updating old Event pages to be added to the Event database (infobox). (Often minimally; more data entry still required.)
• Catalogue the source code released as a result of Source Code Amnesty Day 2023. (And add 2024 to the event calendar.)
• Add some missing history to the list of ADRIFT Competitions.
• Add links to IF Archive material to all those mini-comps that have any.
• Add a page about Unbox, and templates {{ifarchive unbox}} / {{ifarchive unbox link}} to link directly to zip (etc) file listings from IFWiki.
• Catalogue Graham Nelson's 1990s columns in Acorn User magazine.
• Start a Category:Glulx.
• Spanish-language scene:
  • Fix dead links on SPAC fanzine page to point to copies on the IF Archive.
  • Make existing uses of {{Template:WikiCAAD}} and {{Template:wikis}} redirect dead links to wiki.caad.es to the Wayback Machine.
  • A page on the Aetheria Game Engine (AGE).
  • Info on Spanish versions of BYOD and Las Relíquias de Tolti Aph.
  • Fix a longstanding naming mistake: English-language sites have erroneously called Daniel Carbonell "David" for decades.
• New people pages for some recently active people, particularly organisers of recent events (such as Neo-Interactives, Concours Francophone, Concours Moiki, SeedComp!, ParserComp), some recent authors, and some people from the 1980s commercial era.
• Detailed version histories for games Christminster, Delusions, The Wedding, Wearing the Claw, and Bogeyman.
• Historical info for Parchment and Gnusto interpreters.
• Untangling pages for various Commodore computers and topics.
• Content and template pages created: [this list is automatically generated]

1. Noah Si (Created: 3 March 2024)
2. Wry (Created: 4 March 2024)
3. Category:Concours de Fiction Interactive Francophone (Created: 4 March 2024)
4. Ju / smwhr (Created: 4 March 2024)
5. Sophia de Augustine (Created: 4 March 2024)
6. Lapin Lunaire (Created: 4 March 2024)
7. Kaelhem (Created: 4 March 2024)
8. December 2023 report (Created: 5 March 2024)
9. January 2024 report (Created: 5 March 2024)
10. February 2024 report (Created: 5 March 2024)
11. IFWiki reports to the IFTF Board (Created: 5 March 2024)
12. March 2024 report (Created: 5 March 2024)
13. Category:IFWiki reports (Created: 5 March 2024)
14. MediaWiki:Group-user.css (Created: 5 March 2024)
15. Gavroche Games (Created: 6 March 2024)
16. Amanda Walker (Created: 6 March 2024)
17. Jams hosted by the Neo-Interactives (Created: 6 March 2024)
18. Source Code Amnesty Day 2024 (Created: 6 March 2024)
19. Pinkunz (Created: 7 March 2024)
20. Hand Me Down (Created: 7 March 2024)
21. One True Love (Created: 7 March 2024)
22. Category:Glulx (Created: 7 March 2024)
23. Glulx-strings (Created: 7 March 2024)
24. User:Alyshkalia (Created: 8 March 2024)
25. Mike Carletta (Created: 8 March 2024)
26. Nils Fagerburg (Created: 8 March 2024)
27. Léo Tranlin (Created: 8 March 2024)
28. Milo van Mesdag (Created: 8 March 2024)
29. Christopher Merriner (Created: 8 March 2024)
30. Big Trashy Twine Jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
31. Big Chaos Twine Jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
32. Twiny Jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
33. LocusJam (Created: 9 March 2024)
34. The Border House Game Jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
35. Form talk:Event (Created: 9 March 2024)
36. Naked Twine Jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
37. Manonamora (Created: 9 March 2024)
38. Interact-if text-based story jam (Created: 9 March 2024)
39. Interact-if (Created: 9 March 2024)
40. IF Short Games Showcase 2023 (Created: 9 March 2024)
41. IF Short Games Showcase (Created: 9 March 2024)
42. IF Demo Fair (Created: 10 March 2024)
43. Talk:IF Demo Fair (Created: 10 March 2024)
44. Talk:Interact-if (Created: 10 March 2024)
45. Halfling Dale (Created: 11 March 2024)
46. Sweetpea (Created: 12 March 2024)
47. User:Sophiades (Created: 12 March 2024)
48. VESPERTINE (Created: 12 March 2024)
49. Talk:Neo-Interactives webring (Created: 12 March 2024)
50. Zzap!64 (Created: 14 March 2024)
51. Template:Update needed (Created: 14 March 2024)
52. Category:Pages that need to be updated (Created: 14 March 2024)
53. Stuart Williams (Created: 14 March 2024)
54. Ruin Jam (Created: 15 March 2024)
55. Talk:List of people categories (Created: 15 March 2024)
56. IFWiki:Events without infoboxes (Created: 15 March 2024)
57. Template:Table of Event template usage (Created: 15 March 2024)
58. AGE (Created: 16 March 2024)
59. IF Library (Created: 17 March 2024)
60. Tabitha (Created: 17 March 2024)
61. Hugo Open House Competition (Created: 18 March 2024)
62. @party competition (Created: 18 March 2024)
63. Commodore International (Created: 18 March 2024)
64. Commodore PET (Created: 18 March 2024)
65. Commodore VIC-20 (Created: 18 March 2024)
66. Commodore 16 (Created: 18 March 2024)
67. Commodore 65 (Created: 18 March 2024)
68. Talk:IFBeginnersComp Votes (Created: 19 March 2024)
69. The Pulse Pounding Heart Stopping Dating Sim Jam (Created: 19 March 2024)
70. Category:Pages using DynamicPageList3 parser function (Created: 19 March 2024)
71. Shay Addams (Created: 20 March 2024)
72. Category talk:In memoriam (Created: 20 March 2024)
73. Anita Sinclair (Created: 21 March 2024)
74. Talk:Minicomp (Created: 21 March 2024)
75. Colin Jordan (Created: 22 March 2024)
76. Category talk:French Minicomp (Created: 23 March 2024)
77. Dialogue Jam 2024 (Created: 23 March 2024)
78. Template:Platforms for format (Created: 24 March 2024)
79. Template:Monthly pages created (Created: 24 March 2024)
80. Category:DAAD authors (Created: 24 March 2024)
81. Category:DAAD (Created: 24 March 2024)
82. Category:Adventuron authors (Created: 24 March 2024)
83. Clive Gifford (Created: 24 March 2024)
84. User:Strident (Created: 24 March 2024)
85. SubQjam 2019 (Created: 24 March 2024)
86. SubQjam 2018 (Created: 24 March 2024)
87. Davide Bucci (Created: 24 March 2024)
88. Unbox (Created: 25 March 2024)
89. Template:Ifarchive unbox (Created: 25 March 2024)
90. Template:Ifarchive unbox link (Created: 25 March 2024)
91. Talk:2008 IF Art Show (Created: 29 March 2024)
92. Talk:2009 IF Art Show (Created: 29 March 2024)
93. Allison Parrish (Created: 31 March 2024)

See also

• IFWiki reports to the IFTF Board