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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.

Since 2022 IFWiki has been overseen by the IFWiki Committee of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.

Current projects

Here are some IFWiki projects you can help with. For tips on editing IFWiki, see How to edit IFWiki.

Software and Events databases

Please help us populate these databases!

If a page about an event (or an event series) or software (an authoring system, interpreter, or utility) does not have an infobox then you can click "Actions" then "Edit with form" to add one. See IFWiki:Events without infoboxes and IFWiki:Software without infoboxes for ideas.
If information is missing from an infobox, or needs updating, you can click "Edit this infobox".

For help, please see the Databases, forms, and infoboxes section of the How to edit IFWiki page.

Update out-of-date pages

If you see information on a wiki page that is out of date, you can update it.

Some pages are listed in Category:Pages that need to be updated. To mark a page as needing to be updated, and add it to that category, just use Template:Update needed.

Fix broken links

To help fix broken links, see Replacing dead links. Broken links can be found on the Status of external links page.

Wanted pages

You can create pages that have not yet been created. Special:Wantedpages is an automatically generated list of pages that have been named in links, but not yet created. 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.

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

To discuss a specific page of IFWiki, you can use its associated talk page: click the "Discussion" link on any page. For tips on using talk pages, see the How to use Talk/Discussion pages section on the How to edit IFWiki page.

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

To discuss IFWiki in general you can:
- Use this page's talk page, at Talk:About IFWiki. (For help with talk pages, see How to use Talk/Discussion pages.)
- Post at the "IF Community Resources" category at the Interactive Fiction Community Forum, using the tag "ifwiki".

Contact us

If you are having technical problems with your IFWiki account, or if you need to contact an IFWiki administrator directly, please send an email to the following address: admin [at] ifwiki.org

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+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.
-'''How to Make Sure that You Are Investing in Right Property'''
+Since 2022 IFWiki has been overseen by the [https://iftechfoundation.org/committees/ifwiki/ IFWiki Committee] of the [[Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation]].
-Have you ever settled for the first pair of shoes that the salesman shows you, when you go to buy yourself a pair of shoes. Most of the time you check out more than one store and unless you are completely satisfied you do not make the purchase. Just imagine that if you are so particular about the purchase of a shoe that you won’t be using after a year or so, then think how much more vigilant you should be while buying a residential property. As the investment involved is very high you should do a lot of research before buying any property. An experienced and dependable consultant by your side can make a lot of difference than you realize.
+==Categories==
+IFWiki uses many categories to organize pages. The top-level category is [[:Category:Basics|Basics]].
-A property is not something you can discard if it doesn’t turn out to be good. Things that you need to keep in mind while buying a home are –location, location and location. Especially if you intend to live here only for a couple of year before moving on to another place or live there for the rest of your life, this one thing can make a lot of difference.
+Some notable categories are:
+* [[:Category:Works|Works]], [[:Category:Years|Years]], [[:Category:Authoring system|Authoring system]], and [[:Category:Publishers|Publishers]].
-It’s very important that you pay a personal visit to the location to check out the neighborhood. Make sure that the house is in calm and lovely neighborhood and have adequate safety and privacy arrangements. Its good if you hire a home inspector to inspect the house on your behalf before finalizing the deal as this investment in home inspector will pay you for long time. A thorough inspection of electric wiring, plumbing and paint jobs give you an insight into the property.
+* [[:Category:Glossary|Glossary]] has pages imported from the [[IF Theory Book]] glossary.
+* [[:Category:Past raif topics|Past raif topics]] (and subcategories) for links to Google Groups rec.arts.int-fiction threads.
+* [[:Category:Tropes|Tropes]] (and subcategories) to identify recurring features in IF.
-For in depth information on Investing in Properties and various real Estate projects undertaken by Mr. [http://www.hirschfeldnyc.com Elie Hirshfeld], logon to: www.hirschfeldnyc.com.
+==Current projects==
+Here are some IFWiki projects you can help with. For tips on editing IFWiki, see [[How to edit IFWiki]].
-==Vandalism Alerts==
+===Software and Events databases===
-''Main article: [[IFWiki:Vandalism]]. Previous years: [[IFWiki:Vandalism/Archive 1]]'' (2005&ndash;2008)
+Please help us populate these databases!
+* If a page about an event (or an event series) or software (an authoring system, interpreter, or utility) does not have an infobox then you can click "Actions" then "Edit with form" to add one. See [[IFWiki:Events without infoboxes]] and [[IFWiki:Software without infoboxes]] for ideas.
+* If information is missing from an infobox, or needs updating, you can click "Edit this infobox".
-===Vandalism in 2009===
+For help, please see the [[How to edit IFWiki#Databases,_forms,_and_infoboxes|Databases, forms, and infoboxes]] section of the [[How to edit IFWiki]] page.
-* User:Blackjack created [[A day in life]] with inappropriate content, insulting that game's author, on Apr 04, 2009.
-* User:NovilIzelr spammed [[9:05]] on May 21, 2009.
-* User:DronrEldel spammed [[The Bible Retold]] on May 22, 2009.
-* Several users with names in the format "[2-or-3-digit number] buy [something]" created spam user pages for themselves on June 8, 2009. Possibly this was a bot spamming us. They bothered us for several days. UPDATE: We keep attempting to block these guys through June, July, August, but they keep mutating their attack.
-* User:Mdjww created a Runescape-based page in early July. Not in English, though.
-* User:OloorTacoo and User:DomleToout spammed [[The Bible Retold]] and [[9:05]] respectively on July 9, 2009. Hm, those pages were spammed in May. Also, the technique was to add the spam then delete it; is it enough for them that it's in the page's history?
-* User:LaeltRelro spammed 9:05, User:CnaolOrelc spammed The Bible Retold on Aug 18, 2009, same way as it was done in July. (I don't get it. What's special about those two pages in particular?)
-* User:LazelEltor spammed [[David Fillmore]] on Sept 2, 2009, again via two edits: one to add the spam, and the second to delete it.
-* User:Makhishewittl, User:Happyocombss and several other similar spam accounts created spam user pages for themselves on Oct 12 to 17, 2009. They were more annoying than usual because the height of their ads blocked anyone from clicking any of the tabs at the top of the page.
-* '''Good news!''' On Oct 17, 2009, [[baf]] updated our copy of MediaWiki and added a few extensions, one of which will require new users to solve a captcha as part of the registration process. This should prevent a few spambots from creating new accounts at will. Another extension allows [[IFWiki:Bureaucrats|IFWiki bureaucrats]] to merge accounts together and delete one of them; [[Dswxyz]] will use it to start deleting the most obvious spam accounts from the system.
-===Vandalism in 2010===
+===Update out-of-date pages===
-* User:Gentleman Flying created a spam page on May 18, 2010.
+If you see information on a wiki page that is out of date, you can update it.
-* User:Xuebao created a similar spam page on May 25, 2010.
-* User:Rebeca123 added a spam link to the Nerd Quest page on July 15, 2010.
-* Zhenxi840611, then Lxw840611 created the same spam page on July 31 and Aug 1, respectively.
-==Categories==
+Some pages are listed in [[:Category:Pages that need to be updated]]. To mark a page as needing to be updated, and add it to that category, just use [[Template:Update needed]].
-IFWiki uses many categories to organize pages. The top-level category is [[:Category:Basics|Basics]].
-Some notable categories are:
+===Fix broken links===
-* [[:Category:Games|Games]], [[:Category:Years|Years]], [[:Category:Authoring system|Authoring system]], and [[:Category:Publishers|Publishers]].
+To help fix broken links, see [[IFWiki:Replacing_dead_links|Replacing dead links]]. Broken links can be found on the  [{{SERVER}}/Special:RottenLinks?showBad=1&limit=500 Status of external links] page.
-* [[:Category:Glossary|Glossary]] has pages imported from the [[IF Theory Book]] glossary.
-* [[:Category:Past raif topics|Past raif topics]] (and subcategories) for links to Google Groups rec.arts.int-fiction threads.
-* [[:Category:Tropes|Tropes]] (and subcategories) to identify recurring features in IF.
-This is an automatically generated list of categories.
+===Wanted pages===
-* [[Special:Categories]]
+You can create pages that have not yet been created. [[Special:Wantedpages]] is an automatically generated list of pages that have been named in links, but not yet created. 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.
 ==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.
+* [[: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.
-==Wanted Pages==
+==Discuss IFWiki==
-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.
+* To discuss a specific page of IFWiki, you can use its associated talk page: click the "Discussion" link on any page. For tips on using talk pages, see the [[How to edit IFWiki#How to use_Talk/Discussion_pages|How to use Talk/Discussion pages]] section on the [[How to edit IFWiki]] page.
+* If you have a technical problem with IFWiki, please ask about it on the [[Talk:About IFWiki]] page. It may take time for someone knowledgable with tech stuff to respond though, so please be patient.
+* To discuss IFWiki in general you can:
+** Use this page's talk page, at [[Talk:About IFWiki]]. (For help with talk pages, see [[How to edit IFWiki#How to use_Talk/Discussion_pages|How to use Talk/Discussion pages]].)
+** Post at the [https://intfiction.org/c/general/if-community-resources/70 "IF Community Resources" category] at the [[Interactive Fiction Community Forum]], using the tag "ifwiki".
-* [[Special:Wantedpages]]
+==Contact us==
-==Technical Problems==
+If you are having technical problems with your IFWiki account, or if you need to contact an IFWiki administrator directly, please send an email to the following address: '''admin [at] ifwiki.org'''
-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.
 [[Category:IFWiki|Community portal]]