For a while now, I've been making a lot of edits to the
Speedrun article on Wikipedia. It's really large and informative already, so I consider it nearing to completion.
Since
tool-assisted speedruns are so important in the speedrun society, it was decided (not by me, although I agree with it) that it should have its own article and that the speedrun article should contain a summary of that article.
For a long time, the speedrun article had an elaborate small summary of what tool-assistance is all about, but now it is moved into its own article. So now might be a good time to ask this community to help me improve this article to a good status. If you would like to help out, simply check out
the article and start writing, whether you have an account or not!
Some things that I think should be in it:
- An elaborate history section that starts with early Doom "tools-assisted speedrunning" or "built demos" and ends with the current state of the community which is mainly about playing with emulators.
- Information about why and how these movies are being produced, similar to the information page on Bisqwit's wiki (although it should not copy anything from there without permission); while maintaining a NPOV attitude, of course, since I'd hate to see this article reduced into an outlet for propaganda
- Information about why tool-assisted speedruns are sometimes regarded as controversial
Of course, we've got plenty of material to illustrate the article with, as well as many graphics of techniques and glitches that we can use, like the BisqBot graphic that is up.
I hope that you'll come around and fix the article up with me, since right now it's very basic and I'm not sure if I'll have that much time to do it all by myself. And, afterall, collaboration is fun. Be sure to cite your sources.
PS: the
Speedrun article could also use some improvement, especially in some smaller areas (Super Mario series, Half-life, Mega Man series), since it's far from perfect yet. But that's less important right now, I believe.
