User:Ian07/To-do list

Feel free to contribute to any of these tasks and remove them from the list if completed:

Short-term

• apgcode: Needs explanation of how linear-growth patterns are encoded
• Adjustable spaceship: Expand with info on half-baked knightships and the HighLife basilisks
• Caterloopillar: General review, fix grammar
• Random walk: Fix image formatting
• Remini: Needs infobox
• Symmetry: Finish images for hexagonal symmetries section
• Template:Conduit: appears that some information in the infobox is reliant on output offset in order to appear (see for example Fx119 inserter)
• Template:Distinguish, Template:Merge, Template:Merge from: currently broken for the use case of multiple parameters due to the lack of a Template:Int, which is called in Template:Pagelist (if I understand correctly, User:Calcyman just copied these from Wikipedia)
• Template:OscNumbers and Template:OscModNumbers: were broken due to MediaWiki update; have now been disabled
• Article ideas:
  • Margolus neighbourhood (currently a redirect to Cellular automaton#Block_cellular_automaton)
  • RuleLoader and StreamLife

Long-term

• Replace static images with LifeViewers throughout the wiki where applicable
• Complete transcriptions for Lifeline (also see Talk:Lifeline/project)
• Update/expand tutorials
• De-stubbify articles created as part of User:AwesoMan3000's 12SL project
• Review Category:Oscillators and add categories as part of User:Entity Valkyrie's sparker category project
• In general, clean up edits by Entity Valkyrie, Entity Valkyrie 2, and Pooping Alien
• Isorule info where applicable for patterns other than still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships (calculate using this Golly script)
• Update the LifeWiki:Editor pages, most of which have not been substantially changed since 2009
• Per LifeWiki:Tiki_bar#Non-notable_isotropic_rules, create some articles about notable patterns in alien rules (e.g. OCA:HighLife/Bomber); however this may still need to be discussed as there were some unanswered questions from that discussion particularly about:
  1. how strict the notability guidelines should be, and
  2. whether the new pages should be added to the same categories (e.g. should the bomber be added to Category:Spaceships with speed c/6?)

LifeWiki bugs

User:Nathaniel will most likely have to intervene with these since they seem to be issues with the software itself rather than the content of the wiki; however, other users may be able to find a possible solution or at least identify the cause of the problem.

• RLE:Loafer is mysteriously listed in many of the special pages despite not being in the main namespace (specifically Special:DeadendPages, Special:LongPages, Special:AncientPages (here, the "L" in Loafer is lowercase despite being uppercase everywhere else), Special:LonelyPages, Special:FewestRevisions, Special:WithoutInterwiki, Special:ShortPages, Special:UncategorizedPages, Special:UnwatchedPages, and Special:AllPages
  • RLE:Lobster is also in Special:AllPages despite, well, not existing, and being in the wrong namespace at the same time
  • I'm pretty sure these were the first two RLE: pages made, and may have predated the actual creation of the namespace, but that shouldn't matter AFAIK since the page information specifically says it's a page named "Loafer" in the RLE namespace rather than a page named "RLE:Loafer" in the main namespace
• Special:BrokenRedirects: weirdly, RLE:lobster -> RLE:83p7h1v1 appears here, and as blue -> red even though it's actually the latter page that exists, not the former
• Special:WantedPages: appears to contain a few mysterious "cursed pages" which, when MediaWiki attempts to display them, causes the whole page to error (see this thread for more information)
  • Although their numerical positions have changed over time as new redlinks get added, the names of these two pages are both somewhere between "Vase siamese bookends" and "Very^9 long snake" based on the alphabetization of the list
• Special:WhatLinksHere: namespace filter is broken i.e. sometimes pages that shouldn't appear do appear despite being in the wrong namespace, and others are eliminated despite being in the correct namespace
• Moving certain old pages gives an error (see this thread for more information; potential solutions have been posted but not all of them have been tried)

Other to-do lists

• LifeWiki:Task list (not used very often, most of these are already addressed)
• User:Apple Bottom/TODO
  • User:Apple Bottom/TODO/Life Lexicon
• User:Dvgrn
• User:Sokwe