Template talk:MasterGameListCount

Template:MasterGameListCount last updated at: Mon Feb 19 00:30:34 EST 2007

How does this work?
The game list counter is updated by AlphaBot, a Java based client application that requires a manual trigger. The bot loads Category:Game_List and does a recursive search through all Game System Categories, keeping track of existing game pages. It then removes duplicates if one game title happen to be on more than one platform. The generated list of games can be found at Template:MasterGameListCount/GameList.


 * Note: This counter does not update automatically, it requires a user to execute the program!

The bot is akin to a pessimistic algorithm that will undershoot the actual number of game titles (IE. Donkey Konga, while having two different versions, will only be counted as one. IE2. If two titles are different, but have the same name, it will be counted as one, such as Sports titles that appear on handhelds compared to home console version). However, since it only takes the title as a mark that such a page exist, it does not ensure that the page has useful content, only that a page exist and can be tabulated.

No longer needed?
With SMW, is this really necessary? George (Talk &middot; Contribs &middot; Edit count) 12:47, January 10, 2016 (UTC)
 * Even without it, it's useless. The Bot doesn't run, and without it, this template is just a number.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 22:56, January 10, 2016 (UTC)