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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Icehouse mailing list >>>> Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' >>> has the volume pi*z*z*a. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Icehouse mailing list >>> Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Icehouse mailing list >> Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse >> > > > > -- > A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' > has the volume pi*z*z*a. > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse >