Editing User:Xymph

DOOM changed my life. Yes, really. :)

== Done / To-Do ==
[[Special:Contributions/Xymph|Contributions]] so far.

* ✓Add to/update 1990s history & the classic games where I can
* Add to/update ✓[[Timeline]], ✓[[Gamers.org]], ✓[[idgames archive]], ✓[[Usenet groups]], ✓[[RGCD Support Team]], ✓[[Doom Help Service]]
* Add/update stewards: ✓[[John Van Essen]], ✓[[Piotr Kapiszewski]], ✓[[Ty Halderman]], ✓[[Richard Ward]], ✓[[Tony Lezard]], ✓[[Raphaël Quinet]], ✓[[Mike Newton]], ✓[[Joost Schuur]], ✓[[Ian Mapleson]], ✓[[Paul Falstad]], ✓[[Tom Neff]], others?, ✓[[Frans P. de Vries (Xymph)|me]]
* ✓Play through all of [[Doom II]], [[TNT: Evilution]] and [[The Plutonia Experiment]], and proofread/improve their levels' pages (and [[Ultimate Doom]]'s) along the way (or afterwards)
** <small>Of course I played Doom II numerous times back in the day, so the trip down memory lane was augmented via [[Brutal Doom]] on [[GZDoom]].</small>
** <small>The late great [[Ty Halderman]] kindly sent me a boxed copy of [[Final Doom]] in 1996, but I never got around to playing it until now. :)</small>
** <small>While I do own boxed copies of [[Hexen]] and [[Strife]], I never got around to playing more than their demos. I did however complete [[Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders|Heretic: SotSR]].</small>
** <small>Boxed copies of [[Doom 3]] and [[Resurrection of Evil]], and a digital copy of [[The Lost Mission]], were also completed, as well as [[Doom 64 (2020 version)|Doom 64]] (on PC) with its [[The Lost Levels|Lost Levels]] episode.</small>
* ✓Analyze and improve [[User:Xymph/Map views|map views]] images
* ✓Create the [[User:Xymph/DMMPST|DMMPST]] map statistics tool to generate wiki-ready [[:Template:Mapdata|mapdata]], [[:Template:Things|things]] and [[:Template:Map skel|map skel]] structures, as well as [[thing]] appearance statistics
* ✓Operate the [[User:XymphBot|XymphBot account]] to [[Special:Contributions/XymphBot|automatically]] and ongoingly:
** update Statistics sections of map pages and add new map skeletons via the dmmpstBot script
** upload map view images via uploadmapBot and add them to map pages via mapviewBot
** add author(s) and their level categories to map skeletons via authorBot, [[par time]]s via partimeBot, links to demo sites via demolinkBot, and extra monsters/equipment categories via extraCoopBot
** generate navigation boxes for map series via navboxGen and add them to map pages via navboxBot
** add/update deathmatch sections, player spawns and map views via dmsectionBot, pspawnsBot, uploadmapDmBot and mapviewDmBot
** on mapper pages, checks consistency and authorship of WADs/maps and applies consistent formatting via mapperMaps, and create new mapper pages via createMapper
** add [[ONEMANDOOM: WAD Reviews|OneManDoom]] and [[Doom Underground]] review links to PWAD pages via onemanLinks and doomugLinks
** generate lists of [[User:Xymph/List of Wikipedia links|Wikipedia]], [[User:Xymph/List of Interwiki links|Interwiki]] and [[User:Xymph/List of templatable links|templatable]] links, of [[User:Xymph/List of redirects|redirects]] and [[User:Xymph/List of bad Interwikis|bad interwikis]], of [[User:Xymph/Pages starting with an article|pages starting with an article]], and of [[User:Xymph/Mappers ranked by map count|mappers ranked by map count]]
** perform other checks and edits via various Bot scripts
* ✓Process [[User:Xymph/Speedrunners|speedrunning information]] from [[Compet-n]] and [[DSDA]] and generate record tables for categories, WADs, maps and speedrunners ([[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2017#Updating.2Fadding demo links|talk]], [[User talk:Eris Falling#DSDA table_updates|talk]], [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2019#competn|talk]], [[Talk:Speedrun#Bringing this page into modernity|talk]], [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2020#Speedrunning record tables|talk]], [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing#DSDA records tables|talk]], [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing#Broken links to doomedsda.us|talk]])
* ✓Collect statistics of built-in and included demos via the [https://github.com/Xymph/LmpStats LmpStats library] and add them to the pertaining PWAD pages via the builtinDemos script
* ✓Add or update (as appropriate) data tables for Things in Doom, [[Doom 64]], Heretic, Hexen & Strife, using tools compiled against each game's [[User:Xymph/INFO.C|INFO.C file]] to extract relevant information directly from the engine's data tables <small>[imaginatively titled DMINFO, 64INFO, HTINFO, HXINFO & SFINFO]</small> ([[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2016#Thing data tables|talk]], [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing#Thing data tables|talk]])
* Try and figure out if a {{wp|GIMP}} script can automate placing [[:Template:Map spots|map spots]] as much as possible
* Odd 'n ends as I encounter them
* Fix archive.org & dead links
** <small>I believe archive.org links should point directly to the most recent valid archive, so wiki users won't have to hunt down the date bar there themselves</small>