Hey there!
Like a lot of you, I’ve been using the DCSS wiki for years. At some point it started feeling a bit long in the tooth — slow, unreliable, no SSL, some ads — so I figured I’d build something better.
Ashenzari’s Archive started as a personal project — I’m just a player who wanted something faster and cleaner to reference mid-run. Content was migrated from the existing wiki, but there’s still plenty to update and expand, which is why I’m looking for contributors. If you know the game well and enjoy documenting things, any help is welcome.
Wiki: https://dcss.roguelikes.gg/wiki.
We’re also hosting DCSS online at https://dcss.roguelikes.gg— part of a broader roguelikes gg portal at, give it a try if you want a hit of mid-90s nostalgia.
Ad-free, and planning to keep it that way. Happy to answer any questions.
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Love to see it! There has been discussion about a new wiki host for a while https://old.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/1nnx88a/regarding_wiki_performance_and_chaosforge/.
I like the touch of customization in the new webserver though I haven’t made an account yet. The windows 95 theme of the main website seems well executed too!
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i do have experience with managing wiki, but i mostly do cleaning stuff like typo fix and rephasing stuff
Ashenzari’s Archive is definitely faster, and I’ve created an account there so I can port edits there that I make/see from the main wiki. It’s interesting that it runs on MediaWiki but looks clearly different from any other wiki I’ve seen that uses the software. That should make the transition easier for any wiki editors who wish to join the new wiki.
As for dcss.roguelikes.gg, I see three servers from that portal were added to the main page. Are there any plans to make them official (i.e. tracked by CAO scoring, Sequell, etc.)?
wow that wiki feels incredibly smooth.
Seems like you used something to copy over the content of the old wiki? I’m curious how that works. I have no experience with that kind of thing.