About IFWiki

This is an area for organising the development of IFWiki, in the spirit of the original Wikipedia Community portal. (IFWiki runs MediaWiki, the Wikipedia software, but we are not otherwise affiliated.)

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.

This is an automatically generated list of categories.

• Special:Categories

Users

• Category:User pages is where to find the pages that IFWiki users have created about themselves. Few users have bothered to do this, and others have opted to redirect their user pages to the more formalized pages about themselves in Category:People, if only so their username doesn't display as a red link when they sign a comment.
• 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.

Wanted Pages

This is an automatically generated list of pages that have been named in links, but not yet created. Go have at them. Note, some of these may be misspellings, you may want to modify the link in that case, others may be correct alternative spellings/namings or concepts which could be merged, in which case creating a redirect is probably best. Please make sure a page does not exist before you create a new one.

• Special:Wantedpages

To Do

Main article: IFWiki:To-do list

These are tasks that we're working on in the wiki.

We're always looking for content about works of interactive fiction, old and new, of course.

But March (2007) might be a good time to step back and review the state of IFWiki so far, and see if we're on track. Or maybe experiment with new types of content. Or just try to reduce the number of red links where we find them. Maybe even look at that old dusty To-do list that's up there.

Technical Problems

If you have a technical problem with IFWiki, please ask about it on the IFWiki talk:Community portal page. It may take time for someone knowledgable with tech stuff to respond though, so please be patient.