User:Ian07/To-do list

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:Reflector: support rotor parameter? Seems to be used in several articles anyway e.g. p7 bumper
• Template:Stilllife: setting either type or type2 to "eater" inexplicably causes Category:Eaters to be added regardless of namespace, and the end result is that User:Entity Valkyrie 2/22-bit eater sticks out like a sore thumb in said category

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)
• De-stubbify articles created as part of User:AwesoMan3000's 12SL project
• 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:
  1. how strict the notability guidelines should be, and
  2. 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?)
• 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.

Other to-do lists

• LifeWiki:Task list
• User:Apple Bottom/TODO
  • User:Apple Bottom/TODO/Life Lexicon
• User:AwesoMan3000/Catagolue objects needing pages
• User:Cgoler2/Todo
• User:Dvgrn
• User:Goldenratio/To-do
• User:Sokwe