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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by dvgrn » February 4th, 2025, 3:28 pm

WhiteHawk wrote:
February 4th, 2025, 12:41 pm
Some new snippets may also be in order, e.g. Water Strider, p15 glider gun, Pedestrian Life, Day and Night, Lx65 Duplicator, Cribbage, and 204p41, among others.
There's already a Pedestrian Life snippet, thanks to hotdogPi's additions from a couple of years ago. But yeah, there are lots and lots of candidates for advertisable articles. If anyone wants to build a bunch more snippets and then post a list here, I can update the necessary pages to get all snippets into the rotation.

They might still not show up during any given rotation due to potential weird caching issues -- but some snippet will show up on every main-page load, and eventually a sufficiently assiduous reader would see them all.

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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by hotcrystal0 » February 4th, 2025, 7:20 pm

Can this be added to Tutorials/Catalyses?
hotcrystal0 wrote:
February 3rd, 2025, 8:58 am
Edit: grin reagent can also (sometimes) work when ship+eater recovers too quickly:

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x = 24, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
6bo11bo$6bobo9bobo$7bo2bo8bo2bo$2o8b2o10b2o$o2bob2o4bo5b2o4bo$2b2ob2o
9bobo$16b2o$2b5o$bo5bo11b2o$b2o2b2o12bo$6bobob2o8b3o$5bo2b2obo10bo$5b
2o!
This should probably be added to Tutorials/Catalyses.

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x = 192, y = 53, rule = B3/S23
33$42b4o$41b6o$40b2ob4o$41b2o3$41b2o$39bo6bo$38bo8bo$38bo8bo$38b9o3$42b
4o$41b6o$40b2ob4o$41b2o!

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Re: There seems to be invalid patterns on the site

Post by WhiteHawk » February 4th, 2025, 10:51 pm

Leaf Bug and Water Strider are not showing up on Category:Spaceships with speed 31c/240

EDIT by dvgrn: They're showing up fine on that page for me. Not sure what happened here -- there don't seem to be recent edits that would have fixed this reported problem, but maybe I'm missing something.
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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by confocaloid » February 5th, 2025, 9:21 am

WhiteHawk wrote:
February 4th, 2025, 10:51 pm
Leaf Bug and Water Strider are not showing up on Category:Spaceships with speed 31c/240
In general, whenever you expect to see some page in a category (because it was included) but don't see that page listed in the category, try clicking the link "refresh" on the right. In this case, the link "refresh" leads to this:

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?titl ... tion=purge

It asks "Purge the cache of this page?" Clicking OK will return back to the category page, and any missing pages should now be visible.

In the event there's no "refresh" link on the right, you can do the following:
  • Switch to the tab "View source" (instead of "Read"). In this case

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    https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Category:Spaceships_with_speed_31c/240&action=edit
  • Go to the address bar of your browser, and at the end of the URL manually replace "action=edit" by "action=purge":

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    https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Category:Spaceships_with_speed_31c/240&action=purge
  • Now you have the same link that would be accessible via "refresh".
More information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge
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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by HartmutHolzwart » February 10th, 2025, 7:54 am

Wouldn’t this snippet also deserve an update:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Glider_synt ... _syntheses

Several of the small spaceships mentioned there now have a syntheses.

EDIT by dvgrn: That section isn't exactly the glider-synthesis snippet, but it is where the out-of-date list was. I think I've removed what has been synthesized so far, but at the rate we're going there might be another update needed soon.

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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by C28 » February 10th, 2025, 8:01 pm

that p80 gliderless HWSS gun might deserve a page
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x = 11, y = 15, rule = B3/S23
9bo$8bobo$8bobo$9bo8$b3o$b3o$obo$2o!
the U-turner gallery
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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by WhiteHawk » February 11th, 2025, 6:36 am

C28 wrote:
February 10th, 2025, 8:01 pm
that p80 gliderless HWSS gun might deserve a page
Not an affirmative or rejection, but there is also no p57 glider gun page on the wiki, which is the only period below 61 (excluding those using filtered streams) to not have it's own page or mention on the related oscillator's page on the wiki.
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Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Post by confocaloid » February 11th, 2025, 6:50 am

Gliderless guns are interesting, I think several of them were discovered recently, they might deserve more than a page (a POTY2024 nomination?)

...Then there are other discoveries which may deserve a POTY nomination but weren't nominated [yet], and there are other notable topics without wiki articles [yet].
C28 wrote:
February 10th, 2025, 8:01 pm
that p80 gliderless HWSS gun might deserve a page
WhiteHawk wrote:
February 11th, 2025, 6:36 am
Not an affirmative or rejection, but there is also no p57 glider gun page on the wiki, which is the only period below 61 (excluding those using filtered streams) to not have it's own page or mention on the related oscillator's page on the wiki.
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