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This wiki has outgrown me over the years, and I'm uncertain how I can help.  I am neither part of the Doom community nor a competent FPS player; mostly I've organized and summarized research by others.  Let's also remember that Wikia's maintenance is my fault — note the timestamps [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=30%2C000_Levels&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=] [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryan_W&oldid=79253#30.2C000_Levels] [http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum%3AAR%3AAdoption_request_for_Doom_Wiki&action=history&year=2012&month=-1&tagfilter=].  At the very least, if you have a general question, try [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing&action=edit&section=new here] or [https://www.doomworld.com/forum/1-doom-general/ here].
 
This wiki has outgrown me over the years, and I'm uncertain how I can help.  I am neither part of the Doom community nor a competent FPS player; mostly I've organized and summarized research by others.  Let's also remember that Wikia's maintenance is my fault — note the timestamps [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=30%2C000_Levels&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=] [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryan_W&oldid=79253#30.2C000_Levels] [http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum%3AAR%3AAdoption_request_for_Doom_Wiki&action=history&year=2012&month=-1&tagfilter=].  At the very least, if you have a general question, try [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing&action=edit&section=new here] or [https://www.doomworld.com/forum/1-doom-general/ here].
  
=== To-do list ===
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=== To-do list (currently being re-triaged) ===
  
<ul><li>Make it easier for other Doomers, steeped in deathmatching or modding or community history, to edit:
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<ul><li>Standardize [[User:Ryan W/Maintenance|boring scut work]] so that occasional contributors never have to think about it.</li>
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<li>[[User:Ryan W/TODO/MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]</li>
<li>Stop users being hounded off the site based on "policies" that don't exist, are clearly disputed, or were written by one person a decade ago without discussion.</li>
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<li>[[User:Ryan W/TODO/Subcategorization|Subcategorization]]</li>
<li>Update the FAQ and make it short enough to consider reading.</li></ul></li>
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<li>For topics I know a little about (mostly [[Vanilla Doom|vanilla]] gameplay and associated [[Special:PermaLink/61280|levels]]), make all articles complete, [[Doom Wiki:Style|polished]], and easily navigable.</li>
 
<li>For topics I know nothing about, find experts.&nbsp; I've no clue how to actually go about this &mdash; we are an all-volunteer project with none of the rewards of a forum or social media, so we can't just guilt-trip people to donate their time.&nbsp; The current level of participation is unsustainable, however, and we know that collaboration among experts [[zdoom:Main Page|can occur]].</li></ul>
 
  
 
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This wiki has outgrown me over the years, and I'm uncertain how I can help.  I am neither part of the Doom community nor a competent FPS player; mostly I've organized and summarized research by others.  Let's also remember that Wikia's maintenance is my fault — note the timestamps [1] [2] [3].  At the very least, if you have a general question, try here or here.

To-do list (currently being re-triaged)

About being an administrator

In 2007, this was purely a technical position.  I was permitted to do obvious and tedious tasks (deleting someone's vacation photos, cleaning up my test templates, banning neo-Nazis) without filing paperwork each time.  In return, if I didn't comprehend some of my new tools, I was expected to ask for help before breaking anything.

Since the fork, its meaning has changed to be more like a forum mod: enforcing an overall project "vision" above and beyond stated consensus, teaching new users about contributing, maintaining relationships with the rest of the internet.  I don't believe I'm at all qualified for these, and I certainly don't meet the criteria from the most recent thread.  As of July 2017, I think I'm doing a VERY VERY SMALL amount of good (spam, page moves, system message typos), but obviously I could be wrong.

Terms from Doctor Who that I overuse and probably should be reverted

Season 12:  absorb, ampoule, carthorse, constitution, countersigned, fail-safe, ham-fisted, infirmary, subsidence

Season 18:  annihilation/annihilate, anomaly/anomalous, anticlockwise, automatically, calcified, cheeseboard, consul, dodecahedron, enquiries, hysteresis/hysteretic, nexus, out of phase, wild catastrophe







Alternate accounts for testing display/config stuff and MediaWiki upgrades:





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For doing a lot of work on various articles that I would personally find very repetative to do personally. (All I see in recent changes at times are your edits) Thank you. TheDarkArchon 02:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)