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[[Wikihack]] is a '''wiki'''; it is a web site that allows all readers, including [[you]], to edit almost any page. The process is simple: click "edit" at the top of a page, make some changes in the box that appears, and then save them.
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[[NetHackWiki]] is a '''wiki'''; it is a web site that allows all readers, including you, to edit almost any page. The process is simple: click "edit" at the top of a page, make some changes in the box that appears, and then save them.
  
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''If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but Wikihack seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the [[Wikihack:Sandbox]]. If you want to learn about this wiki, read [[Wikihack:About]]. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wiki, from the perspective of this wiki.''
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''If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but NetHackWiki seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the [[NetHackWiki:Sandbox]]. If you want to learn about this wiki, read [[NetHackWiki:About|About]]. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wikis, from the perspective of this wiki.''
  
 
== Founding of this wiki ==
 
== Founding of this wiki ==
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This wiki has an entry in the Central Wikia at [[w:NetHack]]. It was founded at 11 October 2005 by [[User:Sgeo]]. Users immediately began the task of [[Meatball:SeedPosting|SeedPosting]] the wiki with new articles.
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Though many other wikis have had pages about NetHack, we are not aware of any attempts to start a NetHack wiki before 2004.
  
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Before that, many other wikis already had pages about NetHack.
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Magnus Nilsson started a different NetHack wiki, formerly at riters.com, on 3 September 2004, in response to an [[rgrn]] suggestion by xanthian. Though not much content appeared there, its "recent changes" page did feature a random (true!) NetHack [[fortune]]. Within a few months, spammers overran the wiki.
  
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== NetHack at other wiki ==
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[[User:Sgeo]] started this wiki (then called [[WikiHack]]) on [[wikipedia:Wikia|Wikia]] on 11 October 2005. Editors immediately began the task of [[Meatball:SeedPosting|SeedPosting]] the wiki to encourage the development of many detailed articles.
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* ''NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration ("roguelike") game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. ... NetHack was to [[Wiki:UnixCulture|UnixCulture]] what [[Wiki:GameOfPong|GameOfPong]] was to the world in general.''
 
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* ''This is a rogue-like game with cult status. It is a single-user game where you descend into a Dungeon, trying to find an Amulet. The fascination of the game is the unbelievable amount of complexity introduced by many many interactions between items, spells, and the surroundings.''
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When Wikia changed their terms and their wiki skin, the admins of the WikiHack decided to make a change, and on 8 November 2010 the wiki was moved to the server where [[nethack.alt.org]] resides. It continues to live in Amazon AWS next to the NAO instances.
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* ''There is no ready supply of Scrolls of Identify, and you start out not even knowing ''which'' scroll is the Scroll of Identify, so you have to develop tactics for identifying all of the items that you collect.''
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Right now we have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles]].
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** [http://roguebasin.t-o-m-e.net/index.php/NetHack RogueBasin:NetHack]
 
  
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* ''The name NetHack references the fact that its development has been coordinated through the Internet, though it is not a multiplayer game, nor is it in any way connected with computer-security related usages of the word [[Wikipedia:Security cracking|hacking]]. The "hack" element refers to a genre of [[Wikipedia:role playing games|role playing games]] known as [[Wikipedia:hack and slash|hack and slash]] for their violent focus.''
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[[Category:NetHackWiki]]
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* ''Do you want your possessions identified?''
 
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** [[Uncyclopedia:NetHack]]
 
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== Contrasting Wikipedia ==
 
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It is interesting to note that several popular Wikia behave like Wikipedia.
 
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Some wikis at Wikia tend to emulate Wikipedia by calling themselves encyclopedias. The Star Wars wiki, ''Wookieepedia'' -- at [[w:c:StarWars]] -- does this extremely. A read through [[w:c:StarWars:Wookieepedia:Welcome, newcomers]] shows Wookiepedia not only considers "neutral point of view" to be policy, but links to Wikipedia for the policy.
 
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Though some wikis apparently do want to follow Wikipedia policy, this approach has several problems. It requires consensus among wiki users that they want to be like Wikipedia. It causes problems, because Wikipedia has a community that wants to build a free encyclopedia, and that is not the purpose of most other wikis. However, this wiki welcomes users from Wikipedia and other wikis.
 
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== Links ==
 
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* [[Wikia:c:Internet:Wiki]] ''wiki and its origin''
 
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* [[Meatball:WikipediaIsNotTypical]]
 
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Latest revision as of 13:46, 22 October 2023

NetHackWiki is a wiki; it is a web site that allows all readers, including you, to edit almost any page. The process is simple: click "edit" at the top of a page, make some changes in the box that appears, and then save them.

If this seems strange (or if wiki seems familiar, but NetHackWiki seems strange), you might want to experiment by editing the NetHackWiki:Sandbox. If you want to learn about this wiki, read About. The remainder of this page concerns the origin of wikis, from the perspective of this wiki.

Founding of this wiki

Though many other wikis have had pages about NetHack, we are not aware of any attempts to start a NetHack wiki before 2004.

Magnus Nilsson started a different NetHack wiki, formerly at riters.com, on 3 September 2004, in response to an rgrn suggestion by xanthian. Though not much content appeared there, its "recent changes" page did feature a random (true!) NetHack fortune. Within a few months, spammers overran the wiki.

User:Sgeo started this wiki (then called WikiHack) on Wikia on 11 October 2005. Editors immediately began the task of SeedPosting the wiki to encourage the development of many detailed articles.

When Wikia changed their terms and their wiki skin, the admins of the WikiHack decided to make a change, and on 8 November 2010 the wiki was moved to the server where nethack.alt.org resides. It continues to live in Amazon AWS next to the NAO instances.

Right now we have 4,189 articles.

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