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Re: [Icehouse] Listing games by submission date?

  • FromBryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • DateFri, 14 May 2010 15:59:18 -0400
Thanks a lot, Scott.  I'll look it over more later.  (Touch of fever
right now...)

Bryan

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:28 PM, S Myers <iamthecheeze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's what I did:
>
> There is a page which is believed to be a fFairly up-to-date listing
> of all games on the wiki, which Ryan pointed out:
> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:List_of_games
>
> I looked at the history of that page:
> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:List_of_games&limit=500&action=history
>
> And I looked at the difference between the oldest edit in 2009, and
> the current page:
> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:List_of_games&diff=16466&oldid=13512
>
> However if I were really thinking, I would have compared the oldest
> edit in 2009, and the fFirst edit of 2010:
> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template%3AList_of_games&diff=16152&oldid=13512
>
> fFrom this, I simply copied and pasted everything "new," indicated in
> red on the right side of that page.
>
> The downside of this method is that it assumes my starting datum, the
> "list of games" page, is correct to start with.
>
>
> Interestingly, -- and this is almost a completely different way of
> solving the problem -- there is a wiki system page showing all pages,
> in order of creation:
> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Ancientpages&limit=5000&offset=0
>
> The downside of this, you'll note, is that just because a page was
> made in 2009, does not mean it was a game that was created in 2009.
> The page fFor martian tic-tac-toe was created in January, but the game
> is considerably older than that, I believe.  Branches Twigs and
> Thorns, I think, is much older than September, but that was when
> someone decided to make a page about it.  Also, not all pages are
> about games, so it would require some considerable pruning and
> examination.
>
>
> All of this starts to address the greater problem of listing "every
> game created in 2009."  Sometimes, it just isn't very clear when a
> game was actually "created."  Regardless, I think it's a noble effort,
> and if we can get the bulk of it ironed out, I think we can come up
> with something interesting.
>
> Cheers!
> --Scott
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Bryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> I'd like to repeat the question, this time not rhetorically: How did
>> you pick out the games added to the wiki in 2009?  I still would like
>> to find good ways of doing searches like that.
>>
>> I see that Ryan trimmed out some games whose pages were started before
>> 2009; and I found 5 games from the class exercise done by Anthony
>> Kapolka that were not listed, and added them myself.  So I wonder if
>> there are any other games that were missed from the list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bryan
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:35 PM, S Myers <iamthecheeze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> eh, it's what i do.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Bryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Wow, thanks!  How'd you do that so fast?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM, S Myers <iamthecheeze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> hey, look at you, taking some initiative.  =)
>>>>>
>>>>> I see your initiative, and raise you a new page:
>>>>> http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=New_in_2009
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Bryan Stout <stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks Ryan!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I said earlier, I want to look at the games submitted in 2009.
>>>>>> Now, the reason I want to do that is for possible Icehouse community
>>>>>> awards for the best new game(s) of 2009, to be awarded at Origins, as
>>>>>> discussed a couple of times in the past.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bryan
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