Doom Wikia expansion project: HOWTOs

I'm expanding doom Wikia walkthroughs with, well, more walkthroughs. As kind of a scratchpad I'm using User:Ryaxnb as my walkthrough page. It will have Several walkthroughs.

Key walkthroughs:
* Walkthrough to get jDoom working on Mac OS X, with pretty textures
* Walkthrough, as above, on Vista/XP
* Walkthrough to get GZDoom working on Vista/XP.
* Walkthrough for Zdoom or compatible on Ubuntu 8.04/8.10.
* Walkthrough for Prboom-Plus on Ubuntu 8.04/8.10
* Walkthrough for Prboom-Plus on Mac OS X 10.5/10.4.
* Walkthrough for Wad file addition on PrBoom-Plus/PrBoom on all major platforms
* Walkthrough for Prboom-Plus on Windows Vista/XP
* Guide to Doom resources: The above walkthroughs, popular forums, sites, wad reviews, wads, mirrors.
All work is appreciated. Edit my user page as you see fit. I will be working on it. Thank you

These don't really belong on the Doom Wiki, but rather port-specific documentation...

I thought you mean level walkthroughs...

Maybe not so much walkthroughs as troubleshooting guides for when things don't go as expected.

Yeah, the wiki uses "how to" for these types of articles or sections, while a "walkthrough" is an explanation of how to navigate a level in a WAD.

myk said:

Yeah, the wiki uses "how to" for these types of articles or sections, while a "walkthrough" is an explanation of how to navigate a level in a WAD.

This is correct. I've updated the thread title :-)

MikeRS said:

These don't really belong on the Doom Wiki, but rather port-specific documentation...

Do all of those ports have places for non-developers to submit their own instructions?  Are all of those places *actively* maintained, so that ryaxnb's writing isn't immediately buried in spam?  Are they all in a format which allows others to expand and maintain the instructions as new versions/OSes become available (assuming that ryaxnb doesn't have an infinite amount of free time to work on this for the rest of his life)?  If not, I'd say he's starting something in a helpful manner.

I see no reason why instructions of this kind can't be put on the wiki. If they're useful, authors of source ports can include copies with the binaries they distribute or copy them onto their websites.

Xeriphas1994 said:
Do all of those ports have places for non-developers to submit their own instructions?  Are all of those places *actively* maintained...

Yep, well most of them;

Doomsday: http://sjke.org/dew/index.php?title=Doomsday_Main_Page
EDGE: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/EDGE
Eternity: http://eternity.youfailit.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Legacy: http://legacywiki.net/index.php/Main_Page
Vavoom: http://vavoom-engine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
ZDoom/GZdoom/Skulltag:http://zdoom.org/wiki/Main_Page

Though it should be noted that the Doomsday Wiki only came back online a couple of days ago after being offline for over a year. So it is currently a little behind.

And nobody ever works on the Eternity wiki :P

fraggle said:

I see no reason why instructions of this kind can't be put on the wiki. If they're useful, authors of source ports can include copies with the binaries they distribute or copy them onto their websites.

Similarly, ryaxnb, before starting a guide completely from scratch it may be useful to examine such a site, in case someone else has already done some of the work for you.  (Assuming the license is compatible, that is, which rules out the Legacy Wiki.  Hmm, it appears that some links need updating.)