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I would remove the lord dictator thingey, also don't overdo the 'city' thing, make sure the page is readable. --Qubodup 18:57, 26 August 2007 (CEST)

I implemented your suggested changes.--Kiba 19:00, 26 August 2007 (CEST)

[edit] Use categories instead of lists

Lists are very useful for keeping track of a handful of items of the same sort. However, if more items are to be added, the work of keeping the list up to date and in a sorted state becomes too large. For this reason, MediaWiki contains "self-updating lists" - categories. As the number of games/developers/etc increases, the more will this wiki benefit of making the smart choices from the beginning. /81.226.3.160 21:19, 26 August 2007 (CEST)

Lists can contain additional information for each entry besides the link to the page (like a homepage link) at some point the 'latest release' info will probably be erased from the lists, but they are not hard to maintain, if the additional information is constant --Qubodup 05:04, 28 August 2007 (CEST)

[edit] Some long term ideas

Hey guys.

I'm glad there is talk here about being developer friendly while focusing on end users.

As a developer I've been researching many hundreds of Free Software games over the last while with the goal of using the best parts of them toward a new game with a simplified but complete economic simulation that ties in-game 'virtual' costs to real-world 'physical' hosting costs.

Lately I've been considering writing some scripts to scrape places such as http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=80 that contains ~20,600 entries (though I've noticed many duplicates) or http://freshmeat.net/browse/80 with 3424 entries...

Some other places to consider scraping:

• http://GNU.org/directory
• http://berliOS.de
• http://GNA.org
• http://Savannah.GNU.org
• http://Sarovar.org
• http://Code.Google.com
• http://RubyForge.org

Any interest in such a utility to automate the construction of pages including licensing and 'type' categorization?

It could also be used update project data that varies over time such as the current-release.

http://OSSMole.sourceforge.net might be a good starting point. --AGNUcius 21:06, 2 October 2007 (CEST)

It is a good idea to make good use of the new forum I just added. I don't like the scrapping places to make new articles. I want to focus our effort on expanding existing games articles. However if we can scrap to simply updating existing content, it will be a great thing for editors on this wiki. That mean we can simply focus on expanding existing articles to vast details.--Kiba 21:45, 2 October 2007 (CEST)