Lifeline/project

Project

• As stated in [ConwayLife forums] :

Lifeline #5 is on the way. The process might be shortened with a project where contributors register themselves for limited tasks and publish every step on this subpage :

• scan a magazine issue
• OCR and check text
• create images
• check work, create links and edit wiki page

Issues status

issue	scan	OCR	check_text	images	links_check_all	summary	collate
1	X	X	X	X	X	X
2	X	X	X	X	X	X
3	X	X	X	X	X	X
4	X	X	X	X	X	X
5	X	X	X	x	x
6	X	X
7	X
8	X
9	X
10	X
11	X

• Please help fixing this table!
• "X", done ; "x", partially ; " ", please help = fill blanks with your name if you have some time.
• Summaries are in Lifeline#Summary of the issues
• To collate a Lifeline issue is to check wether a picture exists under some other name, or if a question in issue # N :

gets its answer in # N+1 => create a link or stays unanswered => add to "Open problems in the Game of Life" which is to be created.

Lifeline style

Be bold! Please add guidelines for :

Text

The proposal is to keep linefeeds in the wiki source and let it flow on the page, except maybe in a table.

References and links

As usual in a wiki, only the first occurrence of a possible link is set.

Pictures

Pictures are conveniently :

• Drawn using golly and its grid that may be made 5*5, the same as Wainwright's pics
• Uploaded with the applet and saved in ConwayLife.com (.rle, to store the source file)
• Saved as .png and uploaded here : there exists a shorter way with a link to the CL site.

Naming pictures with page number looks easier (lifeline_vol05_503.png is pic 3 of page 5 of issue 5)

There must be a common way to label a picture (insert text of specific font, put "x" instead of cells, and so on) : the howto is lacking for now.