Talk:Lifeline/project

Where is this project now?

I became aware of this project through a little ad that I saw probably when I was reading and editing Lifeline Volume 2 and 3 two days ago. Today I had a moment and thought I'd help out with it, but I couldn't get the message back today, and didn't find a reference to it on How to contribute (from the sidebar) or LifeWiki:Helping out, either.

Now the page says that Lifeline Volume 5 needs check_text, but the page itself has the hatnote saying "This article may contain spelling mistakes and/or errors that will not be corrected", which seems to mean that check_text is completed. Well, I thought, this project may be just a bit behind the time, so I looked at Lifeline#Summary of the issues, which goes up to 5, and I thought that apparently issue 6 is in the works now. To my surprise, I saw the same hatnote on Lifeline Volume 6, and even on Lifeline Volume 7, which clearly doesn't look complete yet.

Is this project still going on? Where is OCR now? If it's still worthwhile, how about updating this page and linking to it from the two hub pages. Or else, how about removing the little ad? (Sorry that I don't know anymore where I saw it.) Micromegas (talk) 06:43, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

I think the project is largely dead dormant. But there's obviously lots of work to be done on these, so if you want to be bold, jump in and start editing (and creating images and RLEs, and all that), that'd be wonderful.

Speaking of images and RLEs, I believe it would actually be better to use Template:EmbedViewer and on-wiki RLE snippets these days than static (or even animated) images. If others agree, earlier Lifeline issues should also be updated accordingly, eventually. Apple Bottom (talk) 10:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

This might be a little bit tricky in places. Most things named and identified in LIFELINE are still called the same thing, and are already identified by that name in the LifeWiki. They might well have a different phase and/or orientation in LIFELINE... but do we want another RLE for the same pattern in the RLE: namespace? An example is 'roteightor', LIFELINE volume 6 page 3 -- a different phase is used in the LifeWiki, and another different phase shows up in the Life Lexicon. Maybe an "RLE:Lifelineroteightor" wouldn't hurt -- but it would add up to a lot of clutter, and just using images with maybe a link to roteightor might be a sensible alternative. (?) Dvgrn (talk) 10:20, 3 March 2018 (UTC)