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User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2

2019-12-06T13:20:03Z

Yoshi: /* Trash Wiki */ new section

For the old user talk, please see [[User talk:Old Entity Valkyrie 2]]

Entity Valkyrie is back on the LifeWiki! For the Terms and Conditions under which this change was made, please see [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=84443#p84443 this forum posting]. [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 21:32, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

== "Conflict" pages ==

I've also made several "Conflict" pages dedicated to some editing conflicts I've made in the past. I currently have three: [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2/Bx222 eater removal conflict|Bx222 eater removal conflict]], [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2/Rich's P16 conflict|Rich's P16 conflict]], and [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2/Dependent conduit conflict|Dependent conduit conflict]].

These conflict pages contain only an RLE describing what the conflict was.
[[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 23:42, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

==EmbedViewer==

Do you know why LifeViewer now shows the GUI buttons? Can the default be without the GUI? — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Entity Valkyrie 2|contribs]]) 9:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

: Probably just a bug. Odds are good that it will be patched in the next build.
: Next time around, if you report this kind of change in behavior directly to Chris Rowett at [https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1622 the main Pattern Viewer thread], he might see it sooner than if you start a whole new thread for one bug report. Also, don't forget the four tildes to sign your questions. Without an identifier, that line could just as well be someone else writing to ask '''you''' that question. [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 14:31, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

::EDIT: This has been fixed. [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 20:25, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

== Oscillators ==
Excuse me, can you add the P5 pipsquirter information ontothe [[pipsquirter]] page? [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 04:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Excuse me, can you also specify what 28P7.4 is? It is mentioned in the site [[pre-pulsar shuttle 28]]. [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 08:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Also, can you please change the page [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2/Rule:StateInvestigator]] to a true Rule: page? This is so that I can LifeView this rule on [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2/StateInvestigator]]. [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 20:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

For the page [[Spark]], can you change the definition of "fountain" to "no cells one row behind" and add "superfountain" to mean "no cells two rows behind"? I noticed this because the [[fountain]] itself has cells 2 rows behind. [[User:Entity Valkyrie 2|Entity Valkyrie 2]] ([[User talk:Entity Valkyrie 2|talk]]) 10:12, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

== Trash Wiki ==

Hello, I'm excited to proudly announce that a new wiki project has been launched today. Trash Wiki is a free encyclopedia where Wikipedia articles that don't meet notability ends up on Trash Wiki to be saved from being deleted. [http://editthis.info/trash_wiki Trash Wiki - official website]. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 13:20, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

User talk:Sokwe

2019-12-06T13:19:00Z

Yoshi: /* Trash Wiki */ new section

==Welcome!==
Hi there, and welcome to LifeWiki! In answer to your question on my talk page, some of the LifeWiki conventions are described on the [[LifeWiki:Style guide]] page, and in particular the "pattern names should be in lowercase" thing is described at [[LifeWiki:Spelling]]. LifeWiki is still very new though so a lot of conventions and whatnot haven't been formally written down, and unfortunately the LifeWiki procedures and guidelines pages are still a bit of a mess. My best advice right now is to just use your best judgment and you'll pick it up in no time. The guidelines are by no means set it stone, and if you have recommendations for what guidelines ''should'' be, then you're of course more than welcome to suggest them.

Also, thanks for your contributions to the [[spaceship]] article, it's already looking a ''lot'' better. I have plans to do something similar with the [[oscillator]] article as well, as it's a bit of a mess right now. [[User:Nathaniel|Nathaniel]] 18:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

== Silver's ==

Hi Sokwe, as you seem to create redirs, you may find every Silver list's [[red link]] on my home page User:Methodood/sandbox1. --[[User:Methodood|Methodood]] 06:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
:Thanks, a lot of the Lexicon's pages could be made to redirects. I'll look into it tomorrow. ~Sokwe 06:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

== p60 glider shuttle ==

When you mention the p60 glider shuttle on your userpage, are you referring to a shuttle creating gliders or simply a glider bouncing back and forth? If you mean the former, could I have the pattern? I am trying to make a p60 LWSS gun for the [[Star gate]], and I plan on using glider synthesis to create the LWSSes. Thanks, [[User:The last username left|The last username left]] 04:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
:Never mind, I just realised that Star gate contains a p60 gun. I'll catalogue it. [[User:The last username left|The last username left]] 23:53, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

== User Merge and Delete ==

You now have the ability to use the "User Merge and Delete" tool -- it can be found at [[Special:SpecialPages]]. [[User:Nathaniel|Nathaniel]] 11:39, 25 May 2011 (CDT)

== Question about [[Oscillator]] page maintenance ==

Hello Sokwe. I'm new to this wiki and have a few questions regarding some recent edits/revisions that you made. The criteria for which oscillators may be listed on the "smallest oscillator" table seems arbitrary and inconsistent. Recently I noticed that [[48P31]] could interact non-trivially with many oscillators, which I am now aware that many of these interactions were likely noticed by many individuals prior to me. I decided to replace P124 lumps of muck hassler on the smallest oscillator table with the much smaller [[T-nosed p4 on 48P31]], which quickly lead to you deleting the entry for P124 entirely. I also added a few other oscillators of various periods which where also deleted from the table. My question is as follows: What oscillators should and shouldn't be listed in this particular table. The LifeWiki notability guidelines state that a pattern is considered notable if "It currently holds, or at one point held, a record of some kind." which i believe these patterns do (or at least improved upon the entries currently listed in the table). To avoid repetitive edits and reversions of this table can you clearly state what oscillators, periods, and types of oscillator interactions meet the notability guidelines. I appreciate your patience in answering my questions. [[User:Jsorr|Jsorr]] 14:06, 17 September 2011 (CDT)
:I deleted the the p124 oscillator from the list because it is not the smallest known non-trivial period-124 oscillator. As I mentioned at [[Talk:T-nosed_p4_on_48P31]], there are smaller sparkers that can interact with the p31 oscillator. Here are the smallest known non-trivial oscillators with periods of 31n for 2<n<7:
x = 134, y = 27, rule = B3/S23
7b2obo2bob2o27b2obo2bob2o25b2obo2bob2o28b2obo2bob2o$2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o
13b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o11b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o14b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o$2o5bob
o4bobo5b2o13b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o11b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o14b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o$8b
o6bo29bo6bo27bo6bo30bo6bo6$8bo6bo29bo6bo27bo6bo30bo6bo$2o5bobo4bobo5b
2o13b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o11b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o14b2o5bobo4bobo5b2o$2o4bo2bo4b
o2bo4b2o13b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o11b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b2o14b2o4bo2bo4bo2bo4b
2o$7b2obo2bob2o27b2obo2bob2o25b2obo2bob2o28b2obo2bob2o6$45bo34b2o$9b3o
32bob2o31bo2bo33b2o$13bo34bo29bo4bo34bob2o$8bo4bo30bo2bobo27bo6bo29bo
2bo2b2o$12bo33bo2bo27bo6bo29bobo$9b2o36b2o29bo4bo31bo$9bo69bo2bo$9bo
70b2o33b2o$9bo105b2o!
:I did not add these patterns to the list because I had no intention of adding their pages at this time. Also, the p124 lumps of muck hassler also should not have been on the list (this was probably my fault, as I included this in my post at [[Talk:Oscillator]]). Unfortunately, there are still a few errors in the list which I have yet to correct. ~[[User:Sokwe|Sokwe]] 15:38, 17 September 2011 (CDT)

== Administrator assistance ==

There's a pile of spam pages to delete... [[User:JWatCCI|JWatCCI]] 17:37, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

== Mark Niemiec's page ==

You might like to change your link to its new location http://codercontest.com/mniemiec/lifepage.htm--[[User:Laverock|Laverock]] ([[User talk:Laverock|talk]]) 14:15, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

:Thanks. I've updated the link. ~[[User:Sokwe|Sokwe]] 22:10, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

==[[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]]==
Howdy! The LifeWiki's lacked a central discussion page so far, so I've gone ahead and created the [[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]] as a friendly place where the community can get together to discuss things in a relaxed atmosphere. You're cordially invited to join in!

The first discussion I started is on how to best integrate the LifeViewer applet ([[LV:Viewer]]) that is now available on the LifeWiki thanks to [[User:Nathaniel]]'s efforts.

See you at the bar! [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 11:23, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

== Trash Wiki ==

Hello, I'm excited to proudly announce that a new wiki project has been launched today. Trash Wiki is a free encyclopedia where Wikipedia articles that don't meet notability ends up on Trash Wiki to be saved from being deleted. [http://editthis.info/trash_wiki Trash Wiki - official website]. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 13:19, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

User talk:Ian07

2019-12-06T13:17:35Z

Yoshi: /* Trash Wiki */ new section

==Thanks==
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for helping out with the tracking categories --- both maintaining them, and emptying them. ;) Much appreciated! [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 20:32, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
:No problem. I still have some more cleanup stuff on my to-do list which I should be able to finish up soon since I have four whole days off from school starting on Thursday. [[User:Ian07|Ian07]] ([[User talk:Ian07|talk]]) 20:56, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

:: Excellent. Oh, and thanks for helping out with everything else you've been doing as well --- I'm just looking through the backlog on [[Special:RecentChanges]], that's some good editin'. [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 20:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

==Also==
Also, just in case you ever urgently need to get in touch (say, when infoboxes break, like they did with the [[blinker puffer]]), you can ping me by sending me a mention on Twitter (<tt>@_AppleBottom_</tt>) or a PM on the forums; the former'll get my attention faster, though it may be a while until I'm able to respond either way. I'm not able to keep daily tabs on the wiki anymore, so I may not see messages here (on the Tiki Bar, talk pages etc) for a while. [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 22:28, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

==And thanks again==
Many thanks for cleaning up after the Release 29 Lexicon import project. I suspected there were quite a few loose ends, but didn't know there were quite ''that'' many missing links (and hadn't dared to look)! [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 16:52, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

== Error in news entries ==

In the main page's "In the news" section, the forum links for the news articles of April 21, April 17, and April 10 all seem to go to the same post (the one for April 10). Even if I had the permissions to edit it, I do not know the correct links for the posts corresponding to the first two entries. Do you think you could fix this? --[[User:Ch91|Ch91]] ([[User talk:Ch91|talk]]) 15:47, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

: Fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out! [[User:Ian07|Ian07]] ([[User talk:Ian07|talk]]) 15:57, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

== Yoshi ==
Hello, apparently I have found out that [[User:Yoshi]] was deleted by [[User:Nathaniel]] in 2011. For some strange reason, when I created an account with this username, the username didn't exist. How bizarre! Someone else must have owned this account for some reason, even know it let me have this name as I signed up. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 18:29, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

: Heh, I was confused for a minute when I saw the custom signature (and green DISPLAYTITLE on your userpage) because for some reason I had assumed those things were exclusive to Wikipedia (no one else actually uses custom sigs here as far as I know). As for the deleted "Yoshi" from 2011, I suppose that's probably because deleting a user is different from blocking them and thus doesn't prevent you from creating a new account under that username.

: Of course, on LifeWiki blocking generally isn't necessary now anyway because A. the "trusted" flag system has been used since 2016 to prevent spambots and B. vandalism by human users is basically nonexistent due to our community's small size; I've been here for over a year and paying close attention to [[Special:RecentChanges]] and I don't think I've seen a single person come here with the specific intent of causing disruption.

: Having said all that, welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay here. [[User:Ian07|Ian07]] ([[User talk:Ian07|talk]]) 21:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

:: Thanks for the heads up! --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 17:51, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

::: Shall I try another site to add information to [[Richard K. Guy]]? I am not very good at putting things in my own words... I just want to point that one out. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 18:30, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

== Trash Wiki ==

Hello, I'm excited to proudly announce that a new wiki project has been launched today. Trash Wiki is a free encyclopedia where Wikipedia articles that don't meet notability ends up on Trash Wiki to be saved from being deleted. [http://editthis.info/trash_wiki Trash Wiki - official website]. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 13:17, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Richard K. Guy

2019-12-06T13:16:30Z

Yoshi: He's British, not American, so it is 30 September 1916. Cannot believe that he is still going. He overtook the author Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990)

{{Person|image=true|name=Richard K. Guy|born=30 September, 1916|nat=British|inst=University of Calgary|alma=University of Cambridge}}
'''Richard Kenneth Guy''' (born 30 September, 1916 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is a British mathematician and the father of [[Michael Guy]]. His most significant discovery in [[Conway's Game of Life]] is the [[glider]]. He also co-wrote ''[[Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays]]'' with [[John Conway]] and [[Elwyn Berlekamp]].

{{PatternsFoundBy|name=Richard K. Guy}}

== References ==
* {{CiteLexicon|file=lex_g.htm#glider|name=Glider|accessdate=May 21, 2009}}

== External links ==
* [http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Homepage] of Richard K. Guy at University of Calgary
* {{MathGenealogy|id=1452}}
{{LinkWikipedia|Richard_K._Guy}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guy, Richard K.}}

User talk:Dvgrn

2019-12-06T12:36:05Z

Yoshi: /* Trash Wiki */

Just discovered conwaylife.com thanks to a link sent by Alan Hensel.

Have just been trying to sort out a possible new feature for Golly 2.1, as it happens (see the [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=a557f5fb0904081520t17f16d15n167937624574a2bb%40mail.gmail.com golly-test] discussion thread). Koenig's Object Database is one possible place to look up small patterns, and it looks as if conwaylife.com might be another.

There's also the (probably separate) question of where to put larger engineered patterns, and collections of patterns, that people might want to download and look at. Might be possible to build this functionality into Golly to some extent, also, along with the reverse lookup function.

The main trick here is to somehow avoid the inevitable dead-link problem, as people's individual web sites move or go offline. Presumably Golly either has to point to a permanent central location where *all* the available collections are stored -- or at least there should be an index page in a central location, which can be updated as things change. That way it won't be necessary to keep downloading the latest version of Golly to avoid dead links.

: Welcome! If you'd like to be able to access the database used by our site, you're of course more than welcome to. RLE files are generated by plugging in a pattern name to a URL like the following: [http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider.rle http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider.rle], where of course you replace "glider" with the name of the pattern you want (in lowercase, no spaces or special characters). You can similarly get Life 1.05 or Life 1.06 files if you so desire by going to something like [http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider_105.lif http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider_105.lif]. In order to make patterns actually searchable from within Golly (or have the patterns auto-propagate in a menu within Golly or something like that), I could write a simple script that outputs a plaintext list of all the names of patterns in the "official" database, or a plaintext list of all the patterns, along with their RLE header comments if that would work well for you guys.

: I also already have a script coded that allows people to save their patterns to the public ConwayLife.com database. It takes in an RLE string, a pattern name and optional comments and saves it online, so if you can send a POST request to my server from Golly, then you could have a "save online" option (though the current set-up makes the public database easy to overwrite - someone could come along and save another pattern under the same name as yours, thus overwriting it).

: I'm currently the only person with access to modify the "official" database, but I'm sure I could code a form that allows some of the more interested Life gurus to "log in" so that they have access to modify the official database if there's an interest in that. [[User:Nathaniel|Nathaniel]] 19:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

==[[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]]==
Howdy! The LifeWiki's lacked a central discussion page so far, so I've gone ahead and created the [[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]] as a friendly place where the community can get together to discuss things in a relaxed atmosphere. You're cordially invited to join in!

The first discussion I started is on how to best integrate the LifeViewer applet ([[LV:Viewer]]) that is now available on the LifeWiki thanks to [[User:Nathaniel]]'s efforts.

See you at the bar! [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 11:22, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

==Small-infobox disease==
Saw you mention said disease [http://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Buckaroo&curid=561&diff=46565&oldid=43646 here] --- I take it that's referring to the embedded LifeViewer? Yeah, worth investigating; I may take a look tomorrow, assuming that I'm less tired then and that nobody else has yet. [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 21:28, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

:Just took a look, BTW, all the relevant LifeViewer configuration snippets ([[Template:LifeViewer config/default|/default]] and [[Template:LifeViewer config/oscillator|/oscillator]]) are loaded as they're supposed to, on oscillator pages. Neither contains any specific instructions regarding zoom level or GPS, of course, so articles lacking viewerconfig infobox lines will default to rather small and hasty LifeViewers. This could be changed, using the above templates.

:Or is that "disease" something else after all? [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 15:57, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

::I'm not entirely sure. Thanks for doing a review, and I think things will just keep getting better from here. It was just that I thought I remembered setting up [[buckaroo]] as an example of the use of LifeViewer in an infobox. Now that I look back at the history, I think what I was remembering was my addition of RLE:buckaroo as a sample for [[Template:Reflector]]. The embedded viewer has all the right LifeViewer config, but I guess I didn't think to go look at the actual buckaroo article and add viewerconfig there. Silly me.

::There may be a few other similar cases where RLE:patternname was added, with the effect of downgrading an article's infobox to a small and hasty LifeViewer view -- but with any luck the number of "diseased" articles is decreasing now. The combination of infobox, RLE: namespace, and viewerconfig line in the article is really not too bad! I hope the system gets more widely used, as people get used to configuring LifeViewer and we start to have more good working examples available to copy from. [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 17:50, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

==Question==
May I ask for my position to change from user to admin? --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 18:45, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

: The current admin group is very small, and I think everyone is in favor of making it larger. However, trusted users can already do 99% of the LifeWiki editing work that admins do. The remaining admin-only tasks are situations where it's definitely possible to do some serious damage, either accidentally or on purpose -- deleting pages, deleting pattern files from the LifeWiki server, changing other users' permissions, etc.

: Now, it's very easy to set the admin flag for someone who has been doing good editing work for half a year or so, responds well to criticism and suggestions, and generally improves the wiki. For someone who only starting editing yesterday, it seems a good bit too early for that level of trust to have been established... but it's just a matter of time.

: I'm curious about some of your changes so far. A fair number of your edits (e.g., [https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Shuttle&diff=prev&oldid=65497 this one]) seem to be (what I would interpret as) reformatting section headers and bullet lists in articles for better readability in edit mode. I haven't done a full survey, so posssibly there are more existing headers formatted like <nowiki>== [ArticleName] ==</nowiki> than I remember. But I think that at least for the moment, it might be better if you didn't try reformatting all 2000+ articles with this same whitespace change, since it doesn't make any difference to how the articles are actually displayed.

: If you want to tackle a big reformatting project like that, a good place to discuss it first would be the [[LifeWiki:Tiki_bar|LifeWiki Tiki Bar]]. That way there will at least be some understanding that you really intend to do a thorough survey and change every instance of these no-whitespace bullets and headers. It doesn't seem like an improvement at all if you might do only half of them and then stop -- probably better to leave things as they are, and avoid a lot of noise on the Recent Changes list.

: There have also been a few cases where an edit summary, most commonly [https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Glider_to_2-engine_Cordership&diff=prev&oldid=65456 "Simplifying page"], didn't really seem to match the actual edit. It was more about moving a tag from top to bottom of an article, or vice versa (and, I guess, adding the abovementioned whitespace, so maybe that's what "Simplifying page" is really supposed to mean).

: Up until now everyone has been reasonably happy with stub tags where they are, at the tops of articles, so it would be helpful if you could use the edit summary to explain why it's a good idea to make the edit. It may not be clear to current editors what you're thinking, especially if you're coming in with lots of experience with standard syntax from another wiki (which won't always apply here). [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 21:16, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

== Trash Wiki ==

Hello, I'm excited to proudly announce that a new wiki project has been launched today. Trash Wiki is a free encyclopedia where Wikipedia articles that don't meet notability ends up on Trash Wiki to be saved from being deleted. [http://editthis.info/trash_wiki Trash Wiki - official website]. Ooh, by the way, I burrowed this image for the logo. https://www.conwaylife.com/w/images/d/df/LifeWiki_trash.png. I hope that you don't mind. I'd love to have some help if anyone is on board. --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 12:34, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

User talk:Dvgrn

2019-12-06T12:34:37Z

Yoshi: /* Trash Wiki */ new section

Just discovered conwaylife.com thanks to a link sent by Alan Hensel.

Have just been trying to sort out a possible new feature for Golly 2.1, as it happens (see the [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=a557f5fb0904081520t17f16d15n167937624574a2bb%40mail.gmail.com golly-test] discussion thread). Koenig's Object Database is one possible place to look up small patterns, and it looks as if conwaylife.com might be another.

There's also the (probably separate) question of where to put larger engineered patterns, and collections of patterns, that people might want to download and look at. Might be possible to build this functionality into Golly to some extent, also, along with the reverse lookup function.

The main trick here is to somehow avoid the inevitable dead-link problem, as people's individual web sites move or go offline. Presumably Golly either has to point to a permanent central location where *all* the available collections are stored -- or at least there should be an index page in a central location, which can be updated as things change. That way it won't be necessary to keep downloading the latest version of Golly to avoid dead links.

: Welcome! If you'd like to be able to access the database used by our site, you're of course more than welcome to. RLE files are generated by plugging in a pattern name to a URL like the following: [http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider.rle http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider.rle], where of course you replace "glider" with the name of the pattern you want (in lowercase, no spaces or special characters). You can similarly get Life 1.05 or Life 1.06 files if you so desire by going to something like [http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider_105.lif http://www.conwaylife.com/pattern.asp?p=glider_105.lif]. In order to make patterns actually searchable from within Golly (or have the patterns auto-propagate in a menu within Golly or something like that), I could write a simple script that outputs a plaintext list of all the names of patterns in the "official" database, or a plaintext list of all the patterns, along with their RLE header comments if that would work well for you guys.

: I also already have a script coded that allows people to save their patterns to the public ConwayLife.com database. It takes in an RLE string, a pattern name and optional comments and saves it online, so if you can send a POST request to my server from Golly, then you could have a "save online" option (though the current set-up makes the public database easy to overwrite - someone could come along and save another pattern under the same name as yours, thus overwriting it).

: I'm currently the only person with access to modify the "official" database, but I'm sure I could code a form that allows some of the more interested Life gurus to "log in" so that they have access to modify the official database if there's an interest in that. [[User:Nathaniel|Nathaniel]] 19:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

==[[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]]==
Howdy! The LifeWiki's lacked a central discussion page so far, so I've gone ahead and created the [[LifeWiki:Tiki bar]] as a friendly place where the community can get together to discuss things in a relaxed atmosphere. You're cordially invited to join in!

The first discussion I started is on how to best integrate the LifeViewer applet ([[LV:Viewer]]) that is now available on the LifeWiki thanks to [[User:Nathaniel]]'s efforts.

See you at the bar! [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 11:22, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

==Small-infobox disease==
Saw you mention said disease [http://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Buckaroo&curid=561&diff=46565&oldid=43646 here] --- I take it that's referring to the embedded LifeViewer? Yeah, worth investigating; I may take a look tomorrow, assuming that I'm less tired then and that nobody else has yet. [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 21:28, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

:Just took a look, BTW, all the relevant LifeViewer configuration snippets ([[Template:LifeViewer config/default|/default]] and [[Template:LifeViewer config/oscillator|/oscillator]]) are loaded as they're supposed to, on oscillator pages. Neither contains any specific instructions regarding zoom level or GPS, of course, so articles lacking viewerconfig infobox lines will default to rather small and hasty LifeViewers. This could be changed, using the above templates.

:Or is that "disease" something else after all? [[User:Apple Bottom|Apple Bottom]] ([[User talk:Apple Bottom|talk]]) 15:57, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

::I'm not entirely sure. Thanks for doing a review, and I think things will just keep getting better from here. It was just that I thought I remembered setting up [[buckaroo]] as an example of the use of LifeViewer in an infobox. Now that I look back at the history, I think what I was remembering was my addition of RLE:buckaroo as a sample for [[Template:Reflector]]. The embedded viewer has all the right LifeViewer config, but I guess I didn't think to go look at the actual buckaroo article and add viewerconfig there. Silly me.

::There may be a few other similar cases where RLE:patternname was added, with the effect of downgrading an article's infobox to a small and hasty LifeViewer view -- but with any luck the number of "diseased" articles is decreasing now. The combination of infobox, RLE: namespace, and viewerconfig line in the article is really not too bad! I hope the system gets more widely used, as people get used to configuring LifeViewer and we start to have more good working examples available to copy from. [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 17:50, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

==Question==
May I ask for my position to change from user to admin? --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 18:45, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

: The current admin group is very small, and I think everyone is in favor of making it larger. However, trusted users can already do 99% of the LifeWiki editing work that admins do. The remaining admin-only tasks are situations where it's definitely possible to do some serious damage, either accidentally or on purpose -- deleting pages, deleting pattern files from the LifeWiki server, changing other users' permissions, etc.

: Now, it's very easy to set the admin flag for someone who has been doing good editing work for half a year or so, responds well to criticism and suggestions, and generally improves the wiki. For someone who only starting editing yesterday, it seems a good bit too early for that level of trust to have been established... but it's just a matter of time.

: I'm curious about some of your changes so far. A fair number of your edits (e.g., [https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Shuttle&diff=prev&oldid=65497 this one]) seem to be (what I would interpret as) reformatting section headers and bullet lists in articles for better readability in edit mode. I haven't done a full survey, so posssibly there are more existing headers formatted like <nowiki>== [ArticleName] ==</nowiki> than I remember. But I think that at least for the moment, it might be better if you didn't try reformatting all 2000+ articles with this same whitespace change, since it doesn't make any difference to how the articles are actually displayed.

: If you want to tackle a big reformatting project like that, a good place to discuss it first would be the [[LifeWiki:Tiki_bar|LifeWiki Tiki Bar]]. That way there will at least be some understanding that you really intend to do a thorough survey and change every instance of these no-whitespace bullets and headers. It doesn't seem like an improvement at all if you might do only half of them and then stop -- probably better to leave things as they are, and avoid a lot of noise on the Recent Changes list.

: There have also been a few cases where an edit summary, most commonly [https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Glider_to_2-engine_Cordership&diff=prev&oldid=65456 "Simplifying page"], didn't really seem to match the actual edit. It was more about moving a tag from top to bottom of an article, or vice versa (and, I guess, adding the abovementioned whitespace, so maybe that's what "Simplifying page" is really supposed to mean).

: Up until now everyone has been reasonably happy with stub tags where they are, at the tops of articles, so it would be helpful if you could use the edit summary to explain why it's a good idea to make the edit. It may not be clear to current editors what you're thinking, especially if you're coming in with lots of experience with standard syntax from another wiki (which won't always apply here). [[User:Dvgrn|Dvgrn]] ([[User talk:Dvgrn|talk]]) 21:16, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

== Trash Wiki ==

Hello, I'm excited to proudly announce that a new wiki project has been launched today. Trash Wiki is a free encyclopedia where Wikipedia articles that don't meet notability ends up on Trash Wiki to be saved from being deleted. [http://editthis.info/trash_wiki Trash Wiki - official website] --'''[[User:Yoshi|Yoshi]]''' ([[User talk:Yoshi|Talk to me!]]) 12:34, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Yoshi

2019-12-05T18:52:38Z

Yoshi: Added user category

{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Yoshi}}
{{Person
|image=
|name=Dove Windsor/Yoshi
|born=8 November 1999 (age 20)
|died=
|nat=British
|res=Ratby, Leicestershire, England
|inst=Leicester College
|alma=None
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' (born 8 November 1999) is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}
[[Category:LifeWiki users]]

Unicycle

2019-12-05T18:51:01Z

Yoshi: Simplifying page

{{Oscillator
|name = Unicycle
|pname = unicycle
|c = 56
|bx = 16
|by = 16
|p = 6
|m = 3
|h = 45.3
|v = 0.89
|sv = 0.89
|rulemin = B3/S23
|rulemax = B378/S23678
|rulespecial = [[Conway's Game of Life|Conway Life]]
|isorulemin = B3-cky/S23acnq
|isorulemax = B2i34-ejnrw5-j6-n78/S234-anry5-cjn678
|synthesis = 22
|synthesisRLE = true
|plaintext = true
|rle = true
|animated = true
|viewerconfig = #C [[ TRACKLOOP 6 0 0 THUMBSIZE 2 GPS 3 ]]
|apgcode = xp6_ccb7w69115a4ozs224y22443z125a8896wed33
}}
'''Unicycle''' is a [[period]] [[:Category:Oscillators with period 6|6]] [[oscillator]] made up of four copies of [[unix]] reacting with each other at their [[block]]s.

== See also ==
* [[34P13]]

== External links ==
* [http://codercontest.com/mniemiec/objname.htm#u Life Objects Sorted by Name (U)] by [[Mark Niemiec]]
{{LinkCatagolue|xp6_ccb7w69115a4ozs224y22443z125a8896wed33}}

{{Symmetry|diagonal4|osc=turn90}}

[[Category:Sparkers]]
[[Category:Sparkers with period 6]]
[[Category:Moderate sparkers]]
[[Category:Dot sparkers]]

{{seminatural}}

User:Yoshi

2019-12-05T18:50:18Z

Yoshi:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Yoshi}}
{{Person
|image=
|name=Dove Windsor/Yoshi
|born=8 November 1999
|died=
|nat=British
|res=Ratby, Leicestershire, England
|inst=Leicester College
|alma=None
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' (born 8 November 1999) is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}

User:Yoshi

2019-12-05T18:49:56Z

Yoshi: Moved

{{DISPLAYTITLE:User:Yoshi}}
{{Person
|image=
|name=Dove Windsor
|born=8 November 1999
|died=
|nat=British
|res=Ratby, Leicestershire, England
|inst=Leicester College
|alma=None
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' (born 8 November 1999) is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}

User:Yoshi/sandbox

2019-12-05T18:48:46Z

Yoshi: Requesting quick deletion: User page is the most appropriate option for this

{{Proposeddeletion|Moving this to user page}}
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'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' (born 8 November 1999) is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}

User talk:Dvgrn

2019-12-05T18:45:40Z

Yoshi:

2019-12-05T18:36:33Z

Yoshi:

User:Yoshi/sandbox

2019-12-05T18:35:25Z

Yoshi:

{{Stub}}
{{Person
|name=Dove Windsor
|image=
|born=
|died=
|Residence=Ratby, Leicestershire, England
|nationality=
|institutions=
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}
[[Category:People]]

User:Yoshi/sandbox

2019-12-05T18:35:07Z

Yoshi:

{{Stub}}
{{Person
|name=Dove Windsor
|image=
|born=
|died=
|residence=Ratby, Leicestershire, England
|nationality=
|institutions=
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}
[[Category:People]]

User:Yoshi/sandbox

2019-12-05T18:34:31Z

Yoshi: Added infobox

{{Stub}}
{{Person
|name=Dove Windsor
|image=
|born=
|died=
|residence=
|nationality=
|institutions=
}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}
[[Category:People]]

Richard K. Guy

2019-12-05T18:31:30Z

Yoshi: Simplifying page

User talk:Ian07

2019-12-05T18:30:33Z

Yoshi:

User:Yoshi/sandbox

2019-12-05T18:27:49Z

Yoshi:

{{Stub}}
'''Dove Windsor''' also professionally known as '''Yoshi''' is a British active editor, wiki patroller, and content provider for [[LifeWiki]]. She has amassed over 45 contributions to [[LifeWiki]], mainly in semi-automated edits using Twinkle or Huggle: doing recent changes patrol; more recently on drafts and new articles. <ref>https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Yoshi</ref>

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Windsor, Dove}}
[[Category:People]]

2019-12-05T18:10:06Z

Yoshi:

Richard K. Guy

2019-12-05T18:09:40Z

Yoshi: Add

2019-12-05T17:54:44Z

Yoshi: Simplifying page. Adding full stops

{{disambig|name=Guy}}
* [[Richard K. Guy]], discoverer of the [[glider]].
* [[Michael Guy]], his son who was a member of the [[JHC group]].