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Did lifewiki just break?

The page looks messed up, bar on the right side is gone

NooneAtAll3 wrote: June 5th, 2026, 3:15 pm Did lifewiki just break?

The page looks messed up, bar on the right side is gone

The server move. Everything should be back now

I mixed up right and left :/
You had a vertical bar on the left side with main links, "what links here", etc - now it's gone

I guess it's part of updating to ugly "modern" wiki : (

any chance of returning it back?

NooneAtAll3 wrote: June 5th, 2026, 3:25 pm I mixed up right and left :/
You had a vertical bar on the left side with main links, "what links here", etc - now it's gone

I guess it's part of updating to ugly "modern" wiki

any chance of returning it back?

I think Nathaniel will handle that in the near future.

NNlk05 wrote: June 5th, 2026, 3:26 pm I think Nathaniel will handle that in the near future.

Unfortunately it looks like there's less I can do than you might expect. I have made a change to try to force the left navigation menu to stay stuck to the left, but it's only partially supported.

There are two collapsible navigation menus that now seem to be collapsed by default. At the top-left of the wiki, there is a three-line button. Clicking it opens up the left navigation bar (containing Recent changes and other related links). There is a button in that menu to pin it to the left side of the wiki. Near the top-right of the wiki is a "Tools" menu that can similarly be pinned, but as far as I can tell it can only be pinned on the right side rather than the left, which is... well, I don't personally like it.

Will dig some more.

Whenever I search something and it automatically redirects to a page, this notice pops up at the top:

LifeWiki wrote:Notice: Unexpected clearActionName after getActionName already called in /home/njohnsto/conwaylife/w/includes/context/RequestContext.php on line 318

I have no idea what it means, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong happening visually, as far as I can tell.

Could you also bring back the LifeWiki logo? It's nowhere to be seen in the main page.

I6_I6 wrote: June 5th, 2026, 4:25 pm Whenever I search something and it automatically redirects to a page, this notice pops up at the top:

LifeWiki wrote:Notice: Unexpected clearActionName after getActionName already called in /home/njohnsto/conwaylife/w/includes/context/RequestContext.php on line 318

I have no idea what it means, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong happening visually, as far as I can tell.

Is this fixed now? I can't reproduce it. If it's still happening, let me know a specific search term that is bringing up this message.

Logo is back now, but due to MediaWiki's changes it looks different than it used to.

Edit: Success! Back to looking the way it used to!

Wiki main page has a couple redlink categories - "Pages using DynamicPageList4" and "Pages using DynamicPageList4 parser function"

Success! Back to looking the way it used to!

I confirm, left navigation menu is back and looks good. Thank you!

(I was so scared that design would've followed/been forced to follow the wikipedia's bad decisions)

Nathaniel wrote: June 5th, 2026, 6:21 pm

I6_I6 wrote: June 5th, 2026, 4:25 pm Whenever I search something and it automatically redirects to a page, this notice pops up at the top:

LifeWiki wrote:Notice: Unexpected clearActionName after getActionName already called in /home/njohnsto/conwaylife/w/includes/context/RequestContext.php on line 318

I have no idea what it means, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong happening visually, as far as I can tell.

Is this fixed now? I can't reproduce it. If it's still happening, let me know a specific search term that is bringing up this message.

As an example, try searching Motor grader. It redirects to 139P7H1V0 with the notice.

I edited the gemini page because i decided so as my first edit other then my own user page spimplifying the speed

B468S02357 wrote: June 13th, 2026, 5:27 pm I edited the gemini page because i decided so as my first edit other then my own user page spimplifying the speed

Please don't. The speed is meant to be unsimplified.

What do you mean?

NNlk05 wrote: June 13th, 2026, 5:41 pm

B468S02357 wrote: June 13th, 2026, 5:27 pm I edited the gemini page because i decided so as my first edit other then my own user page spimplifying the speed

Please don't. The speed is meant to be unsimplified.

B468S02357 wrote: June 13th, 2026, 5:54 pm What do you mean?

Looking at the revision history of the Gemini article, B468S02357 changed the simplified speed in the infobox from (2560,512)c/16849793 to (5,1)c/32909.8. HotdogPi promptly changed it back with the comment "partial undo: 32909.8 is not an integer".
Speeds and simplified speeds only use integers for displacement and the denominator by convention. Otherwise, the reader would have to calculate the integer simplified speed by themselves, which is extra work, and the slope also is in the infobox anyway.

Integers make more sense to me so i was thinking they'd make more sense to you

while I'm totally against "dividing numerator and denominator" even by gcd (since denominator is also used to show period), this kinda makes me wonder if there's a better notation to make slope more visible?

(5,1)*512/16849793

Should we put [[Category:Isotropic non-totalistic rules]] on User: namespace pages? It seems like most of the pages are OCA namespaced with one exception. I will put [[Category:NNlk05's Rules]] in the meantime.

So in case you were wondering, the Whopper Rule is:
123aqy5ace/2-a3ay/4|1e234j/3-i5ace6k/4
The augmented version is just in a 61-by-62 torus
A notable thing is that the "beehive" shape expands and forms two "lines" in two directions, there are some variants that form the two lines in only one direction
I am officially calling the expanding shape the Parallellinator, and the two-direction version the Double Parallellinator
(You can change the names at any time, but I named them that because I have humorous naming conventions)

KeychainPerson wrote: June 28th, 2026, 9:59 pm So in case you were wondering, the Whopper Rule is:
123aqy5ace/2-a3ay/4|1e234j/3-i5ace6k/4
The augmented version is just in a 61-by-62 torus
A notable thing is that the "beehive" shape expands and forms two "lines" in two directions, there are some variants that form the two lines in only one direction
I am officially calling the expanding shape the Parallellinator, and the two-direction version the Double Parallellinator
(You can change the names at any time, but I named them that because I have humorous naming conventions)

What do you mean? Why is this in Miscellaneous LifeWiki Discussion?

NNlk05 wrote: June 29th, 2026, 12:43 am

KeychainPerson wrote: June 28th, 2026, 9:59 pm So in case you were wondering, the Whopper Rule is:
123aqy5ace/2-a3ay/4|1e234j/3-i5ace6k/4
The augmented version is just in a 61-by-62 torus
A notable thing is that the "beehive" shape expands and forms two "lines" in two directions, there are some variants that form the two lines in only one direction
I am officially calling the expanding shape the Parallellinator, and the two-direction version the Double Parallellinator
(You can change the names at any time, but I named them that because I have humorous naming conventions)

What do you mean? Why is this in Miscellaneous LifeWiki Discussion?

Reference:

I6_I6 wrote: June 28th, 2026, 3:29 pm

KeychainPerson wrote: June 28th, 2026, 11:49 am This wiki will expand quite quickly once I find out how to make pages; I have been a Life Enthusiast for quite a while and have discovered quite a few things, including a rule that I call the Whopper Rule

Interesting! Could you share your rule with us here in the Forums? (Preferably in the Thread For Your Unrecognised CA.)
Please note that you have to make sure that the rule (or anything else) has to be notable enough for you to create an article about it in LifeWiki.

I don't know why they posted it in this thread.

Can https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Gravity be deleted?

What's the differece of {{stub}} and {{WIP}}?

pifricted wrote: July 28th, 2026, 7:07 am What's the differece of {{stub}} and {{WIP}}?

WIP means it's actively being worked on. Something can remain a stub for years.

OCA:Ship

Do this rule enough notable to have is own page?

What is "Template:LinkWeisstein" (which seems to be present in almost every old article revision)?