Yup, thanks for the reminder. Here's how things currently work:goldenratio wrote: ↑July 28th, 2020, 1:31 pmhttps://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Kickback
No RLE/Plaintext file for the 90-degree reactions? (clicking returns a Not Found message)
If you see a LifeViewer animation of a pattern, or a LifeViewer frame in general, then the way to get the pattern is by clicking to launch LifeViewer, then hit R if it's an animation and you want to get the first frame -- and then Ctrl+C will put the pattern in your clipboard.
These RLEs can be added by anyone, in the RLE namespace, as an article called RLE:{pname}. LifeViewer knows to look there, so then those RLEs can be used in embedded viewers in other articles.
However, there's also a "LifeWiki pattern collection" that can be downloaded as a ZIP file. Generally we want every pattern that's showcased in the main namespace to also show up in the pattern collection, just on general principles. Those direct "RLE" and "plaintext" links point to those pattern-collection files.
However, getting those files there means uploading them to the LifeWiki server, and for security reasons only a few people have permission to do that. Generating files with good comments and uploading them manually is one of the most time-consuming never-ending tasks on LifeWiki -- so the current system involves doing them in batches.
Next time someone runs the auto-upload script -- which doesn't happen _too_ often because it involves scanning every main-namespace LifeWiki article looking for new stuff -- any RLE-namespace files that aren't represented on the server will be created (with standardized comments) and uploaded semi-automatically. I'll kick off an auto-upload run now, while I'm thinking of it. Thanks again!