Doom Wiki Month in Review (Issue #3)

[Quasar]

This was a particularly busy month given the announcement of Doom Eternal, continued activity surrounding the upcoming film, and lots of community business to document. We also had a somewhat successful photo drive that added pics of many merchandise items to articles that were in need.

 

Classic Doom

• Bad seg angle
• Dynamic light
• The Official Doom FAQ (Original text) - we were granted permission to directly host this under the CC BY-SA by Hank Leukart. Big thanks due to him.

 

Doom (2016)

• Lateral thrusters
• Tesla rocket
• Threat sensor
• Doom Collector's Edition

 

Doom Eternal

• Doom Eternal
• Revenant
• Cacodemon
• Imp
• Baron of Hell
• Arachnotron
• Arch-vile - Huge thanks to Mark Diaz for permission to host his photo of the E3 statue.
• Pain elemental
• Super shotgun

 

Merchandise

• GameStop Doom demon cards - Special thanks to Man of Doom for pictures of the collector's ed exclusives
• Collector's Edition revenant statue
• Cacodemon coin bank - Thanks to Linguica for the photo
• Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus
• Demon Destroyer Gunn

 

People

• Mark Diaz - programmer for id Software
• Emerson Tung - concept artist for id Software
• Devon West (Darkfyre)
• Tristan Clark (Eris Falling)
• Robert Babor (Fusion)
• Revved - this was the "most wanted" page on the wiki, with 87 red links
• Lainos

 

Mods

• 3 heures d'agonie 2
• 3 heures d'agonie 3
• L'agonie Finale
• MAYhem 2012
• MAYhem 2013
• Squid
• Squid 2
• Doomworld Mega Project 2017
• Doom 3: Mr. Smiley Head's Safari
• Plus literally hundreds of map articles (mostly for the aforementioned mods)

 

Previous Issue

 

 

[fraggle]

12 minutes ago, Quasar said:

Demon Destroyer Gunn

 

I really admire the dedication to the cause in researching and documenting this thing.

[Tristan]

21 minutes ago, Quasar said:

• Revved - this was the "most wanted" page on the wiki, with 87 red link
• Plus literally hundreds of map articles (mostly for the aforementioned mods)

 

Speaking of WantedPages, the current total is 4,445, this is a decrease of 22 since Issue #1, where I also quoted the total.

This may not seem like much at first, but around the time Issue #2 came out, the total had risen to about 4,600 - needless to say those hundreds of map articles are keeping things under control. Long live XymphBot.

[Memfis]

Doom Wiki is really impressive to be honest. Such thorough documentation of the most obscure aspects of Doom!

[Marlamir]

Thanks @Quasar for you work. Is great to see how big this wiki is.

[Tristan]

There was another person article last month: Jay Reichard (silentzorah). This was becoming a highly-linked page, if you've ever heard a MIDI remix of an IWAD track during your travels through various mods, there's a good chance it came from this guy.

[gaspe]

This is a bit off-topic but I don't know where I can ask about this exactly. Did the Plutonia 2 site, linked on the wiki, go down?

[Gez]

Looks like the website changed address and the Plutonia 2 subsite has been a casualty of that move. The best would be to contact t.v. and ask him whether he can put it back.

[wildweasel]

On 7/1/2018 at 10:06 AM, Quasar said:

Merchandise

• GameStop Doom demon cards - Special thanks to Man of Doom for pictures of the collector's ed exclusives

I can't be the only one a bit disappointed that these are just trading cards and not an actual deck-of-52. (Has that ever existed in a Doom form?)

[Alfonzo]

Eris finally scored a wiki page. Well I'll be dead and rained on.

[Tristan]

2 hours ago, Alfonzo said:

Eris finally scored a wiki page. Well I'll be dead and rained on.

 

oi :P

[Xymph]

On 7/1/2018 at 7:32 PM, Eris Falling said:

Speaking of WantedPages, the current total is 4,445, this is a decrease of 22 since Issue #1, where I also quoted the total.

Today, 4,280 and counting down. :)

[ZeroTheEro]

Glad some of the handiwork I started is here.