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Feel free to contribute to any of these tasks and remove them from the list if completed | Feel free to contribute to any of these tasks and remove them from the list if completed, or add updates/advice if relevant to the tasks currently here. Additionally, if you notice any new wiki-related bugs that aren't listed in the bugs section, please feel free to add them there as well. | ||
==Short-term== | ==Short-term== | ||
*[[apgcode]]: Needs explanation of how linear-growth patterns are encoded | *[[apgcode]]: Needs explanation of how linear-growth patterns are encoded | ||
*[[Adjustable spaceship]]: Expand with info on [[half-baked knightship]]s and the [[HighLife]] [[basilisk]]s | *[[Adjustable spaceship]]: Expand with info on [[half-baked knightship]]s and the [[HighLife]] [[basilisk]]s | ||
*[[ | *[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]: add support for custom list-style-types for references (i.e. something like <tt><nowiki>div.reflist ol.references {list-style-type: inherit;}</nowiki></tt>) - I tried this out in my own userspace and, like the last time I tried to mess with CSS/JS, it didn't seem to do anything so not sure what to do from here | ||
**Probably useful to switch the footnotes for the still life table in [[Glider synthesis]] to <tt>lower-alpha</tt> to conserve space while still clearly separating these from citations | |||
**Okay, looks like user scripts just straight up don't work on LifeWiki - no clue why; so I had to edit MediaWiki:Common.css directly to try it out | |||
**Imported [[Template:Efn]] from Wikipedia which is theoretically supposed to support letter-style footnotes but it didn't do anything when I tested it out | |||
*[[Phase]]: Add gallery of phase shift reactions | |||
*[[Remini]]: Needs infobox | *[[Remini]]: Needs infobox | ||
*[[ | *[[Speed Orthogonoid]]: Needs infobox | ||
*[[Template: | *[[Template:LongLivedMethuselah]]: is there a way to force the quotient values to display a certain number of decimal digits? May make the table look a little neater. | ||
*[[Template: | *[[Template:OscillatorPeriod]]: entering any value for ''p'' for a category that doesn't exist yet results in a database error ([https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5732 forum thread]) | ||
*[[Template:Reflector]]: support ''rotor'' parameter? Seems to be used in several articles anyway e.g. [[p7 bumper]] | *[[Template:Reflector]]: support ''rotor'' parameter? Seems to be used in several articles anyway e.g. [[p7 bumper]] | ||
==Long-term== | ==Long-term== | ||
*Replace static images with LifeViewers throughout the wiki where applicable | *Replace static images with LifeViewers throughout the wiki where applicable | ||
**Most of these should use the ''pname'' parameter rather than ''rle'', for ease of copy-pasting and so that they can be included in the pattern collection - see [[:Category:Articles using EmbedViewer with no pname]] for a list of pages that use ''rle'' | |||
*Complete transcriptions for [[Lifeline]] (also see [[Talk:Lifeline/project]]) | *Complete transcriptions for [[Lifeline]] (also see [[Talk:Lifeline/project]]) | ||
**[[Lifeline Volume 4]] page 10 was formerly missing but has finally been [https:// | **[[Lifeline Volume 4]] page 10 was formerly missing but has finally been [https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=95621#p95621 recovered by Heinrich Koenig], so needs to be added to the wiki page | ||
**Update the [[Lifeline Index]] accordingly - there's a comment there explaining how to convert things for a given volume to the updated links (i.e. link to transcribed version instead of scan) | **Update the [[Lifeline Index]] accordingly - there's a comment there explaining how to convert things for a given volume to the updated links (i.e. link to transcribed version instead of scan) | ||
*Update/expand [[tutorials]] | *Update/expand [[tutorials]] (mostly ones in [[User:Goldenratio/Incomplete Tutorials]]) | ||
*Review [[:Category:Oscillators]] and add categories as part of [[User:Entity Valkyrie]]'s [[:Category:Sparkers|sparker category project]] | *Review [[:Category:Oscillators]] and add categories as part of [[User:Entity Valkyrie]]'s [[:Category:Sparkers|sparker category project]] | ||
*In general, clean up edits by [[Special:Contributions/Entity_Valkyrie|Entity Valkyrie]], [[Special:Contributions/Entity_Valkyrie_2|Entity Valkyrie 2]], and [[Special:Contributions/Pooping_Alien|Pooping Alien]] | *In general, clean up edits by [[Special:Contributions/Entity_Valkyrie|Entity Valkyrie]], [[Special:Contributions/Entity_Valkyrie_2|Entity Valkyrie 2]], and [[Special:Contributions/Pooping_Alien|Pooping Alien]] | ||
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*#how strict the notability guidelines should be, and | *#how strict the notability guidelines should be, and | ||
*#whether the new pages should be added to the same categories (e.g. should the bomber be added to [[:Category:Spaceships with speed c/6]]?) | *#whether the new pages should be added to the same categories (e.g. should the bomber be added to [[:Category:Spaceships with speed c/6]]?) | ||
**Update: [[OCA:HighLife/Bomber]] has been turned into an article, but still needs an infobox (and probably at least a few more categories) | |||
*Maybe add rules, glider syntheses, and/or apgcodes for conduits and reflectors? (discuss beforehand) | *Maybe add rules, glider syntheses, and/or apgcodes for conduits and reflectors? (discuss beforehand) | ||
*[[:Category:Patterns with unknown occurrence data]] and [[:Category:Natural periodic objects with commonness requiring clarification]]: these can be filled in using the Catagolue census tabulations and/or the <tt>textcensus</tt> | |||
==LifeWiki bugs== | ==LifeWiki bugs== | ||
[[User:Nathaniel]] will most likely have to intervene with these since they seem to be issues with the software itself rather than the content of the wiki; however, other users may be able to find a possible solution or at least identify the cause of the problem. | [[User:Nathaniel]] will most likely have to intervene with these since they seem to be issues with the software itself rather than the content of the wiki; however, other users may be able to find a possible solution or at least identify the cause of the problem. | ||
*There might be an easier workaround for RLE: and Rule: pages not copying correctly under wikitext display - [[Special:ChangeContentModel|changing the content model]]. If the default model for those two namespaces could be changed to either JavaScript or CSS, they'll be displayed without the formatting that MediaWiki does normally, including spacing and line breaking. The only caveat is that it'll display an ugly and irrelevant message about clearing your cache, but we should be able to remove that via [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] | *There might be an easier workaround for RLE: and Rule: pages not copying correctly under wikitext display - [[Special:ChangeContentModel|changing the content model]]. If the default model for those two namespaces could be changed to either JavaScript or CSS, they'll be displayed without the formatting that MediaWiki does normally, including spacing and line breaking. The only caveat is that it'll display an ugly and irrelevant message about clearing your cache, but we should be able to remove that via [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] | ||
===DynamicPageList=== | |||
*[[LifeWiki:Did you know]] and [[LifeWiki:Did you know archive]]: might be able to make these generate the list from DPL to avoid having to manually update | |||
**Something like <tt><nowiki>{{#dpl:namespace=LifeWiki|titlematch=Did you know/%|format=,\n*[[%PAGE%]]: |include=*}}</nowiki></tt> but unfortunately this sorts lexicographically instead of numerically (i.e. 1, 10, 100, 101, etc.) | |||
*These are broken due to MediaWiki update; have now been disabled: [[Template:OscModNumbers]], [[Template:SawtoothNumbers]], [[Template:SpaceshipModNumbers]]. A successful fix for [[Template:OscNumbers]] has been implemented but yet to be generalized. | |||
==Other to-do lists== | ==Other to-do lists== | ||
*[[LifeWiki:Task list]] | *[[LifeWiki:Task list]] | ||
*[[User:Apple Bottom/TODO]] | *[[User:Apple Bottom/TODO]] | ||
**[[User:Apple Bottom/TODO/Life Lexicon]] | **[[User:Apple Bottom/TODO/Life Lexicon]] | ||
*[[User:muzik/Catagolue objects needing pages]] | |||
*[[User:Cgoler2/Todo]] | |||
*[[User:Dvgrn]] | *[[User:Dvgrn]] | ||
*[[User:Goldenratio/To-do]] | |||
*[[User:Sokwe]] | *[[User:Sokwe]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:53, 14 August 2024
Feel free to contribute to any of these tasks and remove them from the list if completed, or add updates/advice if relevant to the tasks currently here. Additionally, if you notice any new wiki-related bugs that aren't listed in the bugs section, please feel free to add them there as well.
Short-term
- apgcode: Needs explanation of how linear-growth patterns are encoded
- Adjustable spaceship: Expand with info on half-baked knightships and the HighLife basilisks
- MediaWiki:Common.css: add support for custom list-style-types for references (i.e. something like div.reflist ol.references {list-style-type: inherit;}) - I tried this out in my own userspace and, like the last time I tried to mess with CSS/JS, it didn't seem to do anything so not sure what to do from here
- Probably useful to switch the footnotes for the still life table in Glider synthesis to lower-alpha to conserve space while still clearly separating these from citations
- Okay, looks like user scripts just straight up don't work on LifeWiki - no clue why; so I had to edit MediaWiki:Common.css directly to try it out
- Imported Template:Efn from Wikipedia which is theoretically supposed to support letter-style footnotes but it didn't do anything when I tested it out
- Phase: Add gallery of phase shift reactions
- Remini: Needs infobox
- Speed Orthogonoid: Needs infobox
- Template:LongLivedMethuselah: is there a way to force the quotient values to display a certain number of decimal digits? May make the table look a little neater.
- Template:OscillatorPeriod: entering any value for p for a category that doesn't exist yet results in a database error (forum thread)
- Template:Reflector: support rotor parameter? Seems to be used in several articles anyway e.g. p7 bumper
Long-term
- Replace static images with LifeViewers throughout the wiki where applicable
- Most of these should use the pname parameter rather than rle, for ease of copy-pasting and so that they can be included in the pattern collection - see Category:Articles using EmbedViewer with no pname for a list of pages that use rle
- Complete transcriptions for Lifeline (also see Talk:Lifeline/project)
- Lifeline Volume 4 page 10 was formerly missing but has finally been recovered by Heinrich Koenig, so needs to be added to the wiki page
- Update the Lifeline Index accordingly - there's a comment there explaining how to convert things for a given volume to the updated links (i.e. link to transcribed version instead of scan)
- Update/expand tutorials (mostly ones in User:Goldenratio/Incomplete Tutorials)
- Review Category:Oscillators and add categories as part of User:Entity Valkyrie's sparker category project
- In general, clean up edits by Entity Valkyrie, Entity Valkyrie 2, and Pooping Alien
- Rule info for certain types of patterns where the rule scripts don't exactly recognize bounded grids:
- toroidal patterns - wicks, agars, titanic toroidal traveler
- Induction coils, Coolout Conjecture, claw, feather, nine, tail
- Update the LifeWiki:Editor pages, most of which have not been substantially changed since 2009
- Per LifeWiki:Tiki_bar/Archive/2019#Non-notable_isotropic_rules, create some articles about notable patterns in alien rules (e.g. OCA:HighLife/Bomber); however this may still need to be discussed as there were some unanswered questions from that discussion particularly about:
- how strict the notability guidelines should be, and
- whether the new pages should be added to the same categories (e.g. should the bomber be added to Category:Spaceships with speed c/6?)
- Update: OCA:HighLife/Bomber has been turned into an article, but still needs an infobox (and probably at least a few more categories)
- Maybe add rules, glider syntheses, and/or apgcodes for conduits and reflectors? (discuss beforehand)
- Category:Patterns with unknown occurrence data and Category:Natural periodic objects with commonness requiring clarification: these can be filled in using the Catagolue census tabulations and/or the textcensus
LifeWiki bugs
User:Nathaniel will most likely have to intervene with these since they seem to be issues with the software itself rather than the content of the wiki; however, other users may be able to find a possible solution or at least identify the cause of the problem.
- There might be an easier workaround for RLE: and Rule: pages not copying correctly under wikitext display - changing the content model. If the default model for those two namespaces could be changed to either JavaScript or CSS, they'll be displayed without the formatting that MediaWiki does normally, including spacing and line breaking. The only caveat is that it'll display an ugly and irrelevant message about clearing your cache, but we should be able to remove that via MediaWiki:Common.js
DynamicPageList
- LifeWiki:Did you know and LifeWiki:Did you know archive: might be able to make these generate the list from DPL to avoid having to manually update
- Something like {{#dpl:namespace=LifeWiki|titlematch=Did you know/%|format=,\n*[[%PAGE%]]: |include=*}} but unfortunately this sorts lexicographically instead of numerically (i.e. 1, 10, 100, 101, etc.)
- These are broken due to MediaWiki update; have now been disabled: Template:OscModNumbers, Template:SawtoothNumbers, Template:SpaceshipModNumbers. A successful fix for Template:OscNumbers has been implemented but yet to be generalized.