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Should there be a license field? The wiki defaults to CC BY-SA 4.0 in footer, but if an individual game is under a different licence it might be nice to specify it in the infobox? Oh, related; I uploaded an image and it offered licenses, but the CC one is old 2.5 version?
:Would it be useful? I guess it would be nice to be able to search for or sort games based on license. It wouldn't be hard to add the field, just takes time to update each game page. Do you know if there was a default license on the old wiki? I'm not seeing anything at the bottom of the pages cached on archive.org. Do we just assume they were released under the CC version available at the time if not specified? -[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 22:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
== Proposed New Fields ==
=== Adaptation ===
*A field specifying if a game was an original design for pyramids, direct adaptation to play with pyramids and no rules changes, or a reimplementation of another game with rules changes.
Is there a better name for the field itself? Origin, Designed For, etc.
What should the 3 (or more) allowed values be?
*Designed for Pyramids / Original Design
*Adaptation / Port
*Reimplementation / Variant
-[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 02:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
=== Reimplements ===
*A field that would contain a game name indicating what game this was a reimplementation of.
This information could also just be part of the description in the game page. But, having it saved in Semantic MW would also let us generate automatic "Reimplemented By" lists on game pages.
Taking into account the back end Semantic MW data side of things, I would prefer this field only allowing a wiki page name. That would then be turned in to a link automatically. For example:
: reimplements=Martian Chess
Would show up in the infobox something like this:
: Reimplements: [[Martian Chess]]
It might be possible to get the field to recognize external links as well. My argument against this is that if we try and use that data programmatically we would probably have to filter out any game with a URL in this field. Meaning they wouldn't show up in whatever lists or counts using the reimplements field. Can we just make simple pages for external games? We already have basic pages for games like Chess and Scrabble. -[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 02:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
=== License ===
*A field specifying the license the game was released under.
I couldn't find a default license in archives of the old wiki. Some games specify a license at the bottom of their page which we can just enter in to this field. If we can't find a license do we default to "unknown", "reserved", or maybe the CC license version of the time the game was added? -[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 02:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
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