Wiki

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.

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.

Founding of this wiki

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 SeedPosting the wiki with new articles.

Before that, many other wikis already had pages about NetHack.

NetHack at other wiki

• 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 UnixCulture what GameOfPong was to the world in general.
  • Wiki:NetHack

• 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.
  • Meatball:NetHack

• 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.
  • RogueBasin:NetHack

• 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 hacking. The "hack" element refers to a genre of role playing games known as hack and slash for their violent focus.
  • Wikipedia:NetHack

• Do you want your possessions identified?
  • Uncyclopedia:NetHack

Contrasting Wikipedia

It is interesting to note that several popular Wikia behave like Wikipedia.

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.

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.

Links

• Wikia:c:Internet:Wiki wiki and its origin
• Meatball:WikipediaIsNotTypical