The GameDev.net Wiki (GDWiki) has not seen a lot of attention from us on staff for a number of reasons, the largest one simply being a lack of resources. This has been the case for quite some months now, even before the switch to the new site. The wiki was originally based off of the Game Programming Wiki (GPWiki), however after GDWiki founder Oluseyi had to move on from active participation in GDNet no one really stepped up to take his place. Once the GPWiki crew realized this they forked the wiki (as was their right in our original agreement) and continued to maintain that wiki separately on their own, while GDWiki continued to operate as well, but without any real oversight.

I recently got back in touch with the GPWiki crew and they were still open to working with us, however they wished to continue to remain independent. Rather than try to find some way to have GDWiki and GPWiki co-exist, we decided to just combine the two since GDWiki was largely based off GPWiki to begin with and no too many edits to GDWiki had been made to make the process unbearable. We're in the end stages of doing that right now and in the next few days the Wiki link here will point straight to GPWiki.

The D3D book hosted on GDWiki is currently unavailable but we will be moving that over to GPWiki as well where it will be accessible again.

I'm really happy that we were able to make this work and that the wiki will now be consolidated and monitored by a team that has been doing so for years already with the start of GPWiki. There have been discussions about getting GDWiki more tightly-integrated with the website moving forward - has this option been lost? Not completely. The GPWiki guys are still open and willing to discuss these things with us and once the merge is complete we'll be continuing these discussions. If you are a wiki user and/or have used either GDWiki or GPWiki and have suggestions/opinions/ideas about how you'd like to see the wiki add value to the site, let us know in the comments. Don't forget it's a two-way street and we would like to leverage the GPWiki as much as we would like to see it continue to grow with new content. So the question isn't just how we can use GPWiki here on GDNet, but how can we get GDNet users interested in contributing to GPWiki?

Thanks goes to GPWiki Admin Karl Walsh for his help getting this whole process going after I got in touch with him. We're looking forward to working more with him and the GPWiki crew!

[size="3"]Note for existing GDWiki users:

The GPWiki crew has migrated accounts in addition to merging content. Here's the full list:

[spoiler]Updated Users with profile pages

User:Acidburnz
User:Ahy1
User:Akiross
User:Allocius.Reikei
User:Almar Joling
User:Asztal
User:Braddabug
User:Captain P
User:Chaosprime
User:Coldacid
User:Crioto
User:Eeyore
User:Egore911
User:Frob
User:GhostManZero
User:GregoryEnglish
User:Jpetrie
User:Kidmosey
User:Lightbringer
User:MMM
User:Machaira
User:MaulingMonkey
User:Me22
User:Neolisk
User:Placidbox
User:Ra
User:Rawr
User:Reddi
User:Seoushi
User:Sharkk
User:Snoolas
User:Spodi
User:Truant
User:Suigintou
User:Superpig
User:Trillian
User:Truant
User:Yamen.dahrouj
User:Zjackoby
User:ZJackoby-Wounded Advocate

Migrated users with edits but no profile

Agwan
Bregma
Code zombie
Derek5432
Draik
Fastcall
Force of will
Gabberkooij
Gasdeveloper
GrimFang4
Gyrthok
Heptagonal
Jason Z
Jhoxley
Mad Hacker
Mehrlin
Moitoius
Nightlet
Nik02
Peacefulshade
PolymorphicPinapple
RedEyedKiller
Richard Geslot
Senemmar
Scan
Shadowisadog
Thefranky
Wolf

Users with edits, but not migrated due to database clashes
(you will need to create a new account on GPWiki)

Acidzombie24
Ezbez
Pro-rsoft[/spoiler]