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Current news

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• 30 Apr 2026: Inspired by this month's Source Code Amnesty Day 2026 we have a new editing project. See IFWiki:Adding source code URLs to game pages for details.
• 28 Nov 2025: Please add game pages to the new "War" and "Wordplay" literary genres (on existing game pages, by choosing "Actions → Edit with form"). See IFWiki:Editing projects for other ideas.
• 22 Sep 2025: IFWiki has now added a Games database! Changes include the data entry form and the ability to search and browse. See the New games database announcement for more details. Please give it a go!

The following is an archive of previous news items:

Still going strong:

• Annual competitions like IF Comp, Spring Thing, and the XYZZY Awards.
• Parser-based authoring tools like ADRIFT, Dialog, Inform 6, Inform 7 and TADS 3.
• Choice-based authoring tools like ChoiceScript, Ink and Twine.
• Hybrid authoring systems like Quest.
• Retro-style parser authoring tools like Adventuron, PunyInform and ZIL.

Archive

• 27 Feb 2025: We have added a new Architecture database for storyfile formats and other specifications which can be implemented by items in the Software database. See Category:Architecture for existing pages, and use Form:Architecture to add more.
• 27 Feb 2025: We have added "Library" and "Other" to the Software database as potential software types, in addition to the existing "Authoring system", "Interpreter" and "Utility". See Category:Library and Category:Other software for existing pages, and use Form:Software to add more.

• 28 Dec 2024: IFWiki turns twenty! Twenty years ago today, on 28 Dec 2004, David Cornelson created the IFWiki:About page. See IFTF Service Birthdays for more detail.
• 9 Jun 2024: Each month we send a report about the wiki to the IFTF Board. You can help write it by going to: IFWiki reports to the IFTF Board.
• 14 Apr 2024: Please help us write the April 2024 report for the IFDB Board.
• 8 Mar 2024: This month we're asking you to help write the regular report on our activities: see March 2024 report. Any assistance will be welcomed!
• 2 Feb 2024: We added a Dark Mode toggle to the wiki. Just click on the "Dark mode" link in the Navigation menu (log in to see it).
• 2 Feb 2024: Automatic formatting of code is now possible on the wiki. Just use the <syntaxhighlight> tag to enclose code. See the extension's page on the MediaWiki website for full details.
• 28 Apr 2022: Inform 7 is now open-source!
• 1 Sep 2022: IFWiki has a new Events database! Upcoming events automatically show up on IFWiki's front page. Add an event!
• 2 Mar 2023: IFWiki now has an interactive calendar of events on the Main Page, which contains the events you have added to the database using Form:Event. Scroll through months using the arrows, and click on any calendar item to go to its wiki page.
• 19 Nov 2022: IFWiki now checks for broken external links. To help fix the links, see Replacing dead links.
• 23 Jan 2022: The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation has adopted IFWiki!
• 20 Jan 2022: IFWiki has a searchable database of interpreters, authoring systems, and other software!
• 15 Aug 2021: Gruescript, a parser/choice hybrid development language by Robin Johnson