Talk:List of rules investigated on Catagolue

I noticed that this list is missing B3/S2457. Since I am assuming that this list is automatically generated from a text file, can someone add B3/S2457 to that and then add it to the list?

For that matter, is the file available anywhere online for people to edit? What about the program that is used to format it into a list? I think they should both be, preferably with the raw list posted on the wiki (possibly as a subpage of this one) and the script on the forums.

Gameoflifeboy 00:17, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Added, thanks. And to answer your question, yes, this is automatically generated.

I can post both the raw list and the script used to format it. Where would the best place to put these be? On one hand I'm inclined to have them on the wiki, since that's where this articles lives as well; on the other hand the forum's where people hang out. Apple Bottom (talk) 10:08, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

I was thinking to at least have the list on the Wiki so that people could add rules to it after searching those rules, maybe under List of rules investigated on Catagolue/rulelist or another subpage of the page.

As for the script, it could be posted on the forums, with a link and instructions for use given on this talk page. Gameoflifeboy 01:03, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and posted all files on the forum. I'm not sure there's much point in making the rules list editable on-wiki, since the script reads a local copy anyway. If someone needs the raw list of rules it's very easy to re-generate from the formatted article anyway; something along the lines of cat article.txt | perl -nE 'm/census\/(.*?)\/ / and say $1' is enough. Apple Bottom (talk) 10:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Splitting the table

Can this table be split into outer-totalistic and non-totalistic tables? - AwesoMan3000 (talk) 15:33, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

In case you're wondering why, I want these to be separate when Catagolue supports Generations and Larger than Life rules, as to not have a bunch of different types of rules bundled into the same place, and would also remove the need for the Outer-totalistic column, alongside the Rule integer column in the non-totalistic table. - AwesoMan3000 (talk) 16:15, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes, that would certainly be possible. Sensible idea, too; I'll make a mental note to adjust my scripts to handle this. Apple Bottom (talk) 10:50, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Done. Apple Bottom (talk) 17:02, 10 August 2017 (UTC)