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[[Special:Contributions/Xymph|Contributions]] so far.
 
[[Special:Contributions/Xymph|Contributions]] so far.
  
* Add to/update 1990s history & the classic games where I can
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* ✓Add to/update 1990s history & the classic games where I can
* Add to/update <s>[[Timeline]]</s>, <s>[[Gamers.org]]</s>, <s>[[idgames archive]]</s>, <s>[[Usenet]]</s>, <s>[[RGCD Support Team]]</s>, <s>[[Doom Help Service]]</s>
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* Add to/update [[Timeline]], [[Gamers.org]], [[idgames archive]], [[Usenet groups]], [[RGCD Support Team]], [[Doom Help Service]]
* Add/update stewards: <s>[[John Van Essen]]</s>, <s>[[Piotr Kapiszewski]]</s>, <s>[[Ty Halderman]]</s>, <s>[[Richard Ward]]</s>, <s>[[Tony Lezard]]</s>, <s>[[Raphaël Quinet]]</s>, <s>[[Mike Newton]]</s>, <s>[[Joost Schuur]]</s>, <s>[[Ian Mapleson]]</s>, <s>[[Paul Falstad]]</s>, <s>[[Tom Neff]]</s>, others?, <s>[[Frans P. de Vries|me]]</s>
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* 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 <s>[[Doom II]]</s>, <s>[[TNT: Evilution]]</s> and <s>[[The Plutonia Experiment]]</s>, and <s>proofread/improve their levels' pages (and [[Ultimate Doom]]'s)</s> along the way (or afterwards)
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* ✓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>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>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>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>
* <s>Analyze and improve [[User:Xymph/Map views|map views]] images</s>
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* ✓Analyze and improve [[User:Xymph/Map views|map views]] images
* <s>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</s>
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* ✓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]]:
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* ✓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
 
** 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
 
** 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.php, and links to demo sites via demolinkBot.php
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** add author(s) and their level categories to map skeletons via authorBot, and links to demo sites via demolinkBot
 
** generate navigation boxes for map series via navboxGen and add them to map pages via navboxBot
 
** generate navigation boxes for map series via navboxGen and add them to map pages via navboxBot
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** 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, and of [[User:Xymph/Pages starting with an article|pages starting with an article]]
 
** perform other checks and edits via various Bot scripts
 
** perform other checks and edits via various Bot scripts
 
* Add or update (as appropriate) data tables for Things in Doom, Heretic, Hexen & Strife, using [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2016#Thing data tables|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, HTINFO, HXINFO & SFINFO)</small>
 
* Add or update (as appropriate) data tables for Things in Doom, Heretic, Hexen & Strife, using [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2016#Thing data tables|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, HTINFO, HXINFO & SFINFO)</small>

Revision as of 07:40, 20 August 2018

DOOM changed my life. Yes, really. :)

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Contributions so far.