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[Jay]

General DF
Wiki: The wiki knows most everything about DF!  Use it, please! (Off-site URL)
Tutorial: Play along with a tutorial and learn the ropes!
Tutorial: Watch a tutorial in video form and learn the ropes!
Cat hauling bug: What the...?  Why are my cats trying to haul something and complaining of injuries?
Fluids in DF, explained!
Adventure Mode
Chasm: Apparently spawns new chasm creatures every time you visit.
Modding
Re- World Generation: Don't ask when to generate a new world in every single topic!  The answer is here!
General list of mods and utilities.
Reoccurring Names
Urist: Urist?  Urist?  What's the deal with this Urist and why are they so popular?
Wathathafatha: What in the world are these people saying "Wathathafatha" referring to? (Off-site URL)
Developments
Next Release: What's left before the next release of DF?  You need to know!
Dev Log: What's been happening recently in development?
Dev Next: What's going to happen soon?
Dev Version 1:When's DF going to be that elusive 1.0?
40dX: Dwarf Fortress 0.28.181.40d is no longer the most recent version!  Please try the new 40dX series!
Bugs: All reported bugs are listed and eventually hit with pesticide!
Before You Post
Check Your Spelling: Get Firefox and spell-check your posts!  There's no excuse for improper spelling when time is not of the essence! (Off-site URL)
Check Your Spelling: Or if you prefer Internet Explorer for some reason... (Off-site URL)
Search: Search for what you're about to post about before you do it!  There's no excuse for posting something when it's right there!
Guidelines: Yes, the Forum Guidelines are at the top of every page on the forums.  They still need to be listed here.  Read them.  Obey them.

I don't have the time to go through the forums and scout new things to add to this.  Feel free to post stuff for me to check out.
Also, while visiting the other threads, please note that many of them might not have been updated in a long time.  Please do not post there unless you have well-tested information to add.

EDIT 12/10/09: Reorganized, added tutorial links.

[Angellus]

Nice links, loved the comments ^^

Good job.

[Duke 2.0]

 Does anybody actually talk about Wathathafatha? Other than that, great list. Although I still reserve my statements that the search feature is somewhat weak.

[Jay]

Does anybody actually talk about Wathathafatha?

I've still seen it mentioned in a few places, yes.  Better to have the link there then get any real number of topics/PMs on it like with Urist, isn't it?

Other than that, great list. Although I still reserve my statements that the search feature is somewhat weak.

I've never had any problems with it...
All a matter of getting your keywords right.

Spoiler: HFS (click to show/hide)

Searching for "Dwarves in a tunnel mining adamantine" is not going to get you nearly as many results as "Dwarves + adamantine"

On that note, searching for "adamantium" is not going to get you nearly as many results as "adamantine" due to the fact that it's called adamantine ingame, thus should be here too.

Searching for "Cat Nuclear Population Explosion" is not going to get you as many results as "Cat Population Growth"

EDIT: Point that was here was proven incorrect elsewhere.
EDIT2: And the question I posed here is now moot.  Go me.

[Duke 2.0]

 I suppose I base this upon some thread I wanted to search up that I visited that the search was useless with. Something about something was a common word in pretty much every thread. For example, try finding the Dwarf Fortress MUSH thread.
 Also, Urist is everywhere. Wathathafatha appears in what... five threads? It is a good name, but we do-
 Wait a second, why the hell am I debating this? There is no reason to debate this. It won't benefit anybody to have it removed. Screw it, no more about Wathathafatha.

 Again, good link list. Now if only Toady could come here and sticky/use these links in a help sticky.

 Not like most internet newbies read threads, anyway. Then again, we usually get fairly intelligent people.

[Jay]

try finding the Dwarf Fortress MUSH thread.

Bad example. (Or good?  Let me explain this one..)

It's actually a MU*.
You'll probably not find it searching for MUSH, because the only time the term MUSH is used in the topic is the URL.
Double-edged blade, though:
An asterisk (*) is the generic wildcard for a vast majority of search engines.
In all seriousness, I did find it with one search...
It was only 34% relevance when searching for "Dwarf Fortress MU*", without the quotation marks, but it was still the first page of search results, which is pretty good when you think about it given the whole wildcard thing + 2/3 keywords being so very very common...

[Duke 2.0]

 Oh. The quotation thing for specifying specific things didn't work for me, so I assumed the asterisk thing wouldn't either.

[Haven]

For those zany souls that use Internet Explorer or Chinese derivatives thereof, there's always ieSpell.

Now if I could just remember to use it more often...

[Zorgn]

Does anybody actually talk about Wathathafatha?

I have it in my member title just to mess with people who weren't there. Jay, you are undermining my efforts to cause confusion.

[jaked122]

the wiki has become out of date

[Jackrabbit]

It seems alright to me.

[Jay]

the wiki has become out of date

Then people need to update it.
That's entirely the POINT of a wiki in the first place.

Does anybody have anything for me to add to this?

[Aggiedog]

I recommend putting the links into categories for easier reading.

[Jay]

Time to bring this back from the dead.
Requested a sticky from Toady, no response yet;
Sorted into categories;
Looking for more stuff to add..
if (Repository:exists()) {Listings++}

[Puzzlemaker]

Hmm.