DoomWiki Months in Review (Issue #51)

[Xymph]

Happy New Year! The past one has been another fine year for growth of the one true wiki. Tons of new and improved content, new contributors by name and even some anonymous, and extensive maintenance in various areas. The past two months were no different, thanks in particular to the ongoing efforts by Dynamo (mods, people, etc.), Getsu Fune/NMM (secrets), Gauss (walkthroughs of Phobos: Anomaly Reborn and the first half of Doom the Way id Did: The Lost Episodes), Gregor (mods and more), MF38 (music credits), myself (uh, lots of everything), and especially Nockson who contributed a staggering 5,000+ edits since joining 11 months ago.

 

A special maintenance can of worms opened by the latter in June wrapped up in December: the capitalization of Heretic and Hexen things. After an extensive discussion we settled on a renaming table that fits in with the wiki's capitalization policy. Applying these results throughout the wiki is still a work in progress. Other maintenance areas were file licenses, general formatting consistency, redirects, and more. And while Cacoward-ed mod coverage is not happening at the breakneck pace of preceding years, those gaps are sure to get filled in the weeks to come.

 

And so I bid you a fond fondue with the comprehensive round-up of new articles:

 

Core Content

 

Bonus level
Cacowards 2023
Deathmatch (previously a small section in the Multiplayer article)
DMFlags
Doot Eternal
Projectile spot
SNDCURVE

 

Ports

 

Helion
Russian Doom (2023)

 

Tools

 

DoomTools
Linux Doom Editor

 

Mods

(Map articles were postponed for some megawads not yet in a stable state.)

 

Aftermath Oldschool Duel
Brit9
Cabro's Legacy
The Chaos Project
Chiller Castle
The City
The Cognition Engine
Cruel Death
Crusader (2023 WAD)
DBP63: Terminal Voltage
Dissension
Doomdragon
Doomsday Rocket
Doomworld Mega Project 2023: Professional Mapper Edition
Dreamblood
Eviternity II
The Final Frag
FragFest Initialized
Garrulismo
Genetic Disaster
Glaive
Glaive 2
Glaive 3
Hardfest 2
Hell on Egypt
Hexen: Veil of Darkness
Hordes of Chaos X
Infernal War
Junkfood
King Arthur's Camelot
Last Warrior
Linux Jank
Machete
Malevolence: SHUTDOWN
Mudman
Nostalgia 2
Oubliette Fatalis
The Parallel Dimension
Piña Colada
PUSS XXVIII: Quoth the Raven
Return to Lost City
Sepia
Super Sonic Doom (not entirely new but significantly expanded)
Temple of the Doomed
Tetanus
Toms Road
Ultimate Doom In Name Only
Voidspawn
Worm\V/wood

 

People

 

Abbs
Christian Antkow
Brendondle
Bruce
Cabro
Clayton Conroy (iSpook)
Eater29
Eye del Cul
Gabriel Fernandes (Doomaniac)
GuyWithTeaCup
Hand-peeled
HeadshotTAS
Ian McPherson (FraGMarE)
Edgar Lorenz (Wraith)
NepNep
OverflowingMocha
Pedro VC
Petyan
Phil Salvador (Shadsy)
Tonytheparrot
Ventor Tormentor
Wolpertinger
Thomas Zajic (GoDfAtHeR)

 

Index of previous issues

 

Edited January 9, 2024 by Xymph
Cacoward-ed coverage, how could I forget?

[Dynamo]

An excellent send-off for 2023! Some long overdue content finally getting proper care, and I'm personally happy to see the Heretic and Hexen changes too - forgetting that unique capitalization quirk was slightly irritating when doing walkthroughs before...

[DoomGappy]

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but how are megawad added to the wiki? I was playing switcheroom and it doesn't have an article there, though the lead, Jaws in Space, has one and the megawad is listed on his page. 

[Endless]

On 1/25/2024 at 8:12 PM, DoomGappy said:

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but how are megawad added to the wiki? I was playing switcheroom and it doesn't have an article there, though the lead, Jaws in Space, has one and the megawad is listed on his page. 

The Doom Wiki is a volunteer effort, so first someone needs to manually create the article following the proper instructions.

 

Second, the Doom Wiki has certain notability guidelines which help with deciding what deserves and wiki article and what doesn't. For WADs, however, it is very flexible and open, so it ultimately comes down to who has the time and skills to create the article. Megawad pages tend to be very large and have multiple other pages for each map.

[Xymph]

10 hours ago, Endless said:

For WADs, however, it is very flexible and open

But not entirely.

[DoomGappy]

On 1/30/2024 at 6:13 PM, Endless said:

The Doom Wiki is a volunteer effort, so first someone needs to manually create the article following the proper instructions.

 

Second, the Doom Wiki has certain notability guidelines which help with deciding what deserves and wiki article and what doesn't. For WADs, however, it is very flexible and open, so it ultimately comes down to who has the time and skills to create the article. Megawad pages tend to be very large and have multiple other pages for each map.

 

On 1/31/2024 at 5:11 AM, Xymph said:

But not entirely.

Thanks for the answer. Hope it gets a page someday, then, it's a fantastic project. I'm having a blast with the maps. And thanks for the effort you guys put into it too.