IFWiki:Projects
"Projects" is a new idea for IFWiki. The general idea is to consider a particular subsection of IFWiki, rather than all of it, and build plans on how to make that subsection better.
To date (April 2007), IFWiki has mostly concerned itself with maybe four informal "projects", which might be called the Glossary project, the People project, the Games project, and the Competitions project. There is, however, much more about IF that IFWiki could concern itself with, such as how to play IF, how to write IF, how to program IF using a particular authoring system, IF in non-English languages, porting IF, IF and the world-at-large, the history of IF, notable IF publishers, interpreters and other utilities, and so on. Some of this is on IFWiki already, but somewhat haphazardly and sparsely.
Assuming that IFWiki projects is a good idea (and it might not be; there is such a thing as "instruction creep"), then we'd also want (eventually) to direct editors to the IFWiki projects directory as their first stop in figuring out what we're trying to do here.
Reserved article prefixes
- A4: and A5: are reserved for the ADRIFT project.
- CC: is reserved for the Code Compare project, for articles and templates that compare authoring systems against each other.
- Help: is reserved for general help articles.
- Hugo: is reserved for the Hugo project.
- I6: is reserved for the Inform 6 project.
- I7: is reserved for the Inform 7 project.
- IFID: is reserved for Category:Works by IFID redirects.
- IFWiki: is reserved for articles about IFWiki itself, of course.
- IFWiki style: is reserved for the IFWiki style project, for articles about style and formatting issues on IFWiki.
- T2: is reserved for the TADS 2 project.
- T3: is reserved for the TADS 3 project.
Authoring system projects
One of the first things we should push a teensy bit is more documentation on the various authoring systems, in particular ADRIFT, Inform 6, Inform 7, TADS 2, and TADS 3. Therefore, we'll want to start up their associated projects, to wit: the ADRIFT project, the Inform 6 project, the Inform 7 project, the TADS 2 project, and the TADS 3 project.
Plus, we ought to do this in a way that lets readers compare the systems by various system features or programming techniques; this last bit shall be the Code Compare project.
Other projects for Alan, Hugo, Quest, and other authoring systems may also be wanted, but let's see if the projects idea is sound enough first.
TODO: I've been thinking about this concept for an awfully long time. Past time I tried to express it.