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I would prefer to use "n" rather than "C1" (and likewise for other types of symmetry that a pattern can have in a single generation), both for oscillator patterns and for still life patterns. I think one should distinguish between "Static symmetry" and "Kinetic symmetry" in the infobox, but that do...

"Be bold" doesn't really apply to changes that involve editing multiple pages in quick succession. That's just yet another undiscussed editing campaign, and not any kind of "experimental edits". I'm sorry, confocaloid, but this all sounds like complete nonsense to me. "Be bold" can perfectly well a...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Grandfather_problem&curid=8369&diff=156051&oldid=155578 Problematic for the same reasons. (The topic of the article is grandfather problem , which is not just a single specific pattern. The topic of this article doesn't have any specific symmetry.) I think t...

Large-scale changes definitely need observable consensus. If someone is planning to edit "a few dozen [...] pages" at once, then it is no longer "experimental edits". [...] experimental edits [...] [...] a few dozen still-life pages -- [...] One or two dozen edits is big enough to get the attention...

There has been no reply for a while. Can we safely declare consensus? It seems like the discussion about replacing kinetic symmetry with static symmetry for still lifes has slipped from "active discussion" into "no more discussion for now", quite some time ago. Haycat2009 has asked me if it makes s...

Does MediaWiki support integer division? Day/5. Then you can't quite exactly say "this week's featured article", though. Taking a modulus seems like a cleaner calculation. I just tried an experimental switchover to a mod-68 calculation (and we can bump up the "68" to bigger numbers when more snippe...

I added about 20 more snippets about a year ago, but the featured article algorithm is still limited to the number of weeks in the year, so they haven't been put in the rotation. There are currently 68 snippets in the list of snippets . If we can get to 106 snippets pointing to good advertisable ar...

I think further changes ( such as edits https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=156009&oldid=152450 , https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Charity%27s_p16&curid=25537&diff=156012&oldid=155973 , https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=86P118&curid=30853&diff=156026&oldid=153740 by User:Galoomba...

The issue at hand is larger than just removals of "after" parts (sample objects) in glider syntheses. ... As I posted earlier in the forum thread "Glider synthesis on LifeWiki" , one of several recent editing campaigns is a re-orientation of multiple RLEs in the "RLE:" namespace, without any explan...

The latter example above (58P190) illustrates how the unexplained content removal in ( https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff=155975&oldid=152137 ) transformed a possibly-correct claim into a certainly-incorrect claim. This seems like an easy obvious one to roll back, so I've done that -- simplify...

I can't believe this! What can't you believe, exactly? The top three patterns you posted generate a block-laying switch engine , while the 50x1 pattern at the bottom makes a pair of glider-producing switch engine s. Where did the one-cell-thick pattern come from? Switch engines are rare, but not re...

Okay, looks like the issue at hand is fifteen removals of sample objects in syntheses, on these article pages: Trans-block_on_long_bookend Trans-loaf_with_tail Block_on_cap Elevener Tapeworm Trans-long_boat_with_tail Beehive_with_hooked_tail Cis-boat_on_cap Long_boat_tie_ship Beehive_on_table Snorke...

Anyways, I'll keep using B+Univ. Thats ... really not a very good plan. In any case, my request stands. Please pick a name for this rule and any other rules you may choose to invent, that doesn't have any special characters in it besides hyphens and underscores ... and edit existing posts that ment...

The recently created page " Aperiodic tiling " ( current revision ) misses an important distinction... There's definitely a little copy-editing needed in the first paragraph. The jump from talking about tilings to talking about "sets of shape" (sic) is maybe a little too abrupt, there isn't really ...

It also occurs to me that it there's no reason to do an exact translation of a name, and then impose it forever... Makes sense. On the other hand, this also is going to depend on how ambitious and all-at-once the translation project is. If a Chinese translation of the Life Lexicon ever gets created...

Thought I saw Jormungant saying here that there's no requirement to follow this new faster F171 with a dependent conduit. The message disappeared, but it certainly seems to be true. And it has largely better RT... Here are a few more variants for the record -- repeat time as low as 120, but not lowe...

The strings of new LifeWiki accounts are pretty clearly spammer accounts -- they follow a very standard naming pattern, and none of them ever show up to request a trusted flag. If any of them do create a corresponding forum account and make that request, I'm definitely going to be asking them some v...

Alternatively, if there's enough interest to attempt a larger project, something equivalent to Nicolay Beluchenko's translation of the Life Lexicon into Russian would certainly be an option. We could certainly put a link right next to Beluchenko's, for a completed downloadable translation of current...

Drifters in wires, other types of signals in conduits, and the occasional oscillator The following probably misses a bunch of interesting search results where "Silk" wasn't mentioned close enough to the posted pattern that I could find it in a quick pass -- I'll keep filling in quotes here as I fin...

Can we synthesis p67 snark loop? Sure, why not? If we can build the p43 Snark loop , then a p67 version could be done as a variant of that. Might be interesting to see how much the p43 Snark loop recipe could be improved now, actually. Even if 3G glider insertions #5, #6, and #7 don't happen to wor...

Now I'm trying to collect interesting stuff from Discord that mostly hasn't made it to the forums (unless I missed seeing it). A lot of it is in the category of "promising results". None of these quite yet solve the big outstanding problems like 2c/3 signal turning or branching, or direct glider-to-...

There's a Silk discussion thread , but a lot of actual Silk search results have been getting posted only to Discord, and/or some discoveries are scattered across a number of different threads. I'd like to get a good proportion of these Silk search results in one place where they're easier to review ...

Not sure whether Catagolue will accept this, though, because the target constellation consists of two clusters that are far away from each other. Rather entertainingly, there's a way to fix that, which again -- like Jormungant's contribution -- will look much more obvious in hindsight. Oddly enough...

scripts question: what Python do I need to run golly python scripts? (i know how to install one) The latest 64-bit Python 3 should be fine -- 3.12.6. Check the Windows or Mac Python troubleshooting guides if you have any trouble -- and then, if they didn't help, please post something to say what th...

Indeed, how did that slip on your mind... that is terrible! 2 gliders too much! How devastating! The horror! ... So here is your doom.. Heh, last stage down from 36 gliders to 20. Yep, I should certainly have thought of that, since I knew perfectly well that rectifiers have a transparent input lane...