User:Bongolium500



One of my prouder achievements. Hi, I'm Bongo50 almost everywhere, but my fandom account is Bongolium500. I'm an admin around here and you'll often find me tinkering with templates, CSS and other more technical aspects of the wiki. If you need any help with this or anything else, feel free to drop me a message on my talk page. In particular, I am relatively skilful with Lua and Semantic Media Wiki. I'm not very good with DPL but I'm willing to help where I can.

I have an ambitious goal to watch, read, listen to and play every Doctor Who universe story, something I will probably never achieve.

The wide and varied DWU


Doctor Who has many crossovers, both licensed and not so licensed. One of my favourite things about the Doctor Who universe is how large it is. Name any series (particularly a TV or film series) and it is almost guaranteed that you will be able to link it back to Doctor Who somehow. It's a great feeling to know that many of your favourite fictional universes (for me, that's the Doctor Who universe, the universe, the  multiverse and the  universe) are actually one and the same (even if by some very tenuous connections).

Of course, many of these crossovers end up being unlicensed, either on the Doctor Who side of things, the other series' side of things, or both. However, the legal DWU is large and expansive as well! Here are some of my favourite corners of it:


 * Iris Wildthyme - I've listened to all of the Big Finish audios in the Iris Wildthyme series (other than Iris Wildthyme and Friends), listened to The Wormery, listened to all of the Excelis Saga, read the first few stories in Wildthyme on Top and read Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus. I feel that the series is incredibly creative and constantly interesting.
 * Cyberman - I've listened to it all with the exception of Kingdom of Silver and Keepsake (which I will get to one day in my Main Range listen-through) and desperately crave more. The first audio is a little weak in my opinion but the rest is just phenomenal and I cannot recommend it enough.
 * Class - I've watched the TV series, read What She Does Next Will Astound You and listened to Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince. I feel that this series is so underrated in the wider fandom and that's a shame. I think the writing is clever and the main plotline really gripped me. It's a shame that Series 2 will likely never happen.
 * Dalek Empire - I've listened to the four Main Range entries, Dalek Empire I and Dalek Empire II: Dalek War. The four Main Range entries vary in quality but Dalek Empire I knocks it out of the park with four brilliant audios. Dalek Empire II: Dalek War starts a little weak but grows to be almost as good as the first series.
 * The Daleks - I've read a decent number of the comic strips. I like this series just because of how it doesn't fit into wider continuity very well. (Or does it...)
 * Faction Paradox - I like this series a lot. So far, I've read Of the City of the Saved..., Dead Romance, the comic and most of The Book of the War. I've also listened to Protocols, True History and all of the recent BBV Faction Paradox audios (including all of Hellscape... no regrets).

The less-licensed crossovers can still be a lot of fun as well. Here's my favourite: This is an extract from the (first edition) adventure "The City Beyond the Gate", published in  #100: "A tall, blue box with a bright light on top is found. A tall, curly-haired man with a floppy hat and a long scarf enters the box, followed by a girl saying, "But Doctor, where are we going now?" The light starts to blink, and the box makes hideous screeching noises and slowly vanishes. This encounter can only occur once."

- #100

It describes a random encounter that can occur during the adventure at any time. While this adventure was intended for the setting, all settings are linked. Moreover, all editions of D&D share the same continuity. Therefore, there's technically nothing stopping the Doctor from popping up in your game!

To do list
In no particular order:
 * Finish
 * Write documentation
 * Begin other templates
 * or ?
 * Finish /cite source/
 * Write technical documentation
 * Improve usage documentation
 * Write usage documentation for connected templates
 * Write implementation steps
 * Write forum opening post
 * Propose on forums
 * Rewrite in Lua (to improve performance)
 * Improve
 * Rewrite in Lua (to improve performance)
 * Improve

Sandboxes and Subpages
This list is updated manually and so is pretty much always outdated as I create new subpages quite often (at this point it is so out of date that it is basically useless). I have added an automatically updated list below:

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Alt accounts
On occasion, I have needed to test something that requires a fresh, brand-new Fandom account. It is for this reason that I have created the following accounts: I have no malicious intent with these accounts and they will only be used to test thing when absolutely necessary.
 * User:Bongolium500 ALT ACCOUNT
 * User:Bongolium500 ALT ACCOUNT 2
 * User:Bongolium500 ALT ACCOUNT 3
 * User:Bongolium500 ALT ACCOUNT 4

I also have a bot account, User:Botgo50.