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Pikmin / Re: Pikmin 3 Announced at Nintendo's E3 Block, looks pleasing.

« on: June 19, 2012, 11:01:55 AM »

Only the ability to throw captains and the overhead view thing are particularly interesting to me, but it's still Pikmin, and I still can't wait.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: June 07, 2012, 01:57:02 PM »

NightSky and Sword & Sworcery.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: May 16, 2012, 05:20:57 PM »

I've finished Botanicula now.  It's shorter (I think) and easier than Machinarium, and I think I prefer Machinarium overall, but I enjoyed the experience.  It just inspires this kind of sense of wonder - somehow makes you want to play with and investigate everything.

I also played through Crayon Physics Deluxe recently - I got it a couple of years ago, but never finished it, so I just started again.  And I'm not sure why it took so long, but I tried Super Crate Box.  Very fun, and easy to get sucked into.

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Pikmin / Re: NPC Pikmin 2 for US confirmed!

« on: April 27, 2012, 07:57:10 AM »

...Wait, you still don't have this?

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Pikmin / Re: Pikmin 3 for the Wii U

« on: April 27, 2012, 07:56:33 AM »

Well, we already knew it was going to be on the Wii U (that came out of last E3, IIRC), but yeah, the fact it'll be at E3 is good.

...Of course, most people expected it to be at each of the last however many E3s.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: April 27, 2012, 07:54:34 AM »

Botanicula.  It's a bit very scarily strange.  And I started TWEWY again - I never got around to finishing it and haven't played it for years, so I forgot everything.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: April 04, 2012, 07:35:49 AM »

Yay.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: April 03, 2012, 05:37:50 PM »

Are you still going to be gathering data for the number of edits per week?

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 30, 2012, 04:33:09 PM »

Hey, the only point of criticism was the bit about only fetching once per wiki, and that's pretty important; the rest were just general thoughts.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 30, 2012, 09:13:00 AM »

For (1), since you're fetching from trusted sources, and you're quite sure the output will be valid JSON, you can just eval() it.

Quite important: you're fetching and parsing the page for every category, but you only need to do it once per wiki.  This obviously makes it run about 6 times as fast.

As for errors, if you weren't sure, urlopen gives IOError when the page is dead (or maybe it does so on .read()), and the API will give errors in the returned data structure (in the 'error' key, I think?).  Checking a page is valid JSON kind of conflicts with what I said for (1), so maybe you could have a hack like checking for fetched_string.startswith('{"query":') ?

(...And I'm struggling to refrain from complaining about your HTML - I'm telling myself it doesn't matter.)

Edit: looking at the difference between this table each month might be a better way of getting the monthly edits, too.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 25, 2012, 07:15:18 PM »

Hmm, okay.  Interesting...

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 25, 2012, 06:51:43 PM »

Pretty sure it's 30 days at every wiki.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 22, 2012, 07:54:24 PM »

Active users sounds like a good measure of the number of editors.  You can easily grab it from the MediaWiki API.  For example, you can get the general statistics, including active users, for Pikipedia, at:

http://www.pikminwiki.com/api.php?format=json&action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics

You can fetch and parse this for active users fairly easily - for example, in JavaScript for non-IE:

Code: [Select]

var api = 'http://www.pikminwiki.com/api.php';
var r = new XMLHttpRequest();
r.open('GET', api + '?format=json&action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics', false);
r.send(null);
alert(JSON.parse(r.responseText).query.statistics.activeusers);

Or in Python 3:

Code: [Select]

from urllib.request import urlopen
from json import loads
api = 'http://www.pikminwiki.com/api.php'
print(loads(urlopen(api + '?format=json&action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics').read().decode())['query']['statistics']['activeusers'])


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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats

« on: March 13, 2012, 08:26:06 PM »

Nope, 6th.

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The Lounge / Re: 2 New Members!

« on: February 25, 2012, 04:34:41 PM »

Wow, I didn't expect that.  I didn't mean at all to imply you'd done something wrong.  It was more of an, 'oh, it's interesting how you've interpreted the question completely differently to me; this is what I thought was being asked'.  Sorry if I offended you.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: February 25, 2012, 09:34:41 AM »

Still Jamestown, and Super Meat Boy.

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The Lounge / Re: 2 New Members!

« on: February 25, 2012, 09:34:17 AM »

Pretty sure the question was as to specific examples, to help with guesses of who might be joining.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Quick question about the new NIWA forum design

« on: January 30, 2012, 11:51:47 AM »

http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=1077.0

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: January 29, 2012, 11:29:50 PM »

Jamestown.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Suggestions

« on: December 14, 2011, 09:55:22 AM »

I thought NIWA was for series primarily on Nintendo consoles, not series owned by Nintendo.