About IFWiki

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

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 IF games, 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.

Vandalism Alerts

Main article: IFWiki:Vandalism

Vandalism in 2007

• VolkSukaHiter8 spammed Talk:Main Page on Jan. 27, 2007.
• Mark LibresPoker spammed Talk:Main Page on Feb. 20, 2007.
• Asfas spammed Talk:Main Page, deleting legit content and replacing with huge spam on Feb. 24, 2007.
• VolkSuka2Hiter8 spammed Talk:Main Page on Feb. 2, 2007. Gosh, that username looks familiar.
• Jkl deleted contents of Perry Parks page on March 5, 2007 without explanation.
• Recolax deliberately "hacked" Talk:Main Page on March 6, 2007. So sad.
• Uzman deliberately hacked Current events on March 8, 2007.
• Preobrajensky spammed Talk:Main Page on Apr. 11, 2007 with p0rn linkz.
• PreobrajenskySuka1 spammed Talk:Main Page on May 2, 2007. No obvious links this time, but still spam.
• Hahawudi spammed Talk:Main Page on May 16, 2007.
• Hahasite spammed Talk:Main Page May 24, 2007. This was just a single link embedded within legitimate content; one might call this stealth spam.
• Wwwzhudan spammed Talk:Main Page on June 9, 2007.
• Zhangpeng created five new pages (including his/her own user page) filled with Chinese spam links on June 14, 2007.
• Xdrs created IFWiki:Rain as a Chinese spam page on June 23, 2007, very similar to what Zhangpeng did.
• Miv12 created IFWiki:Miv12 as a Chinese spam page on June 27, 2007.
• Asdd created IFWiki:Asdd as a Chinese spam page on July 23, 2007.
• XDRS created IFWiki:1314 as a Chinese spam page on July 24, 2007. Perhaps the same guy as Xdrs a couple lines up?
• Hyangel created Xiao as an English/Chinese spam page on Aug 13, 2007.
• Dinyodm created three WoW spam pages on Oct 30, 2007.
• Bjdmmiv created five WoW/other spam pages (including his/her own user page) on Nov 10, 2007.

Categories

IFWiki uses many categories to organize pages. The top-level category is Basics.

Some notable categories are:

• Games, 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

This is an automatically generated list of IFWiki user accounts. Names in red have created user accounts but have not created their user page.

• Special:Listusers

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

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.