Indeed hardly anybody else contributes to that page and as such there may be several weeks and sometimes months between updates from me. You are desperately invited to help.
but
as Rubenwardy stated
you totaly misunderstood the date.
It is the
oldest date I could find that is related to the subgame. So if you sort by date you can find out how long a subgame has been around. Just as the wording
FirstDate might hint. Btw the date is, if possible, retreaved from the forum but that is not the only source. Sometimes it is the date of the first entry at GitHub or any other place I could find information at.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to include the information that players are really interested in which would be
- last release
- works with which version of Minetest
- includes which mobs
- runs on which public server
- size of game
- all authors involved
- complete list of mods inside
The probleme is these informations do change a lot, DreamBuilder even on an almost daily basis. I have not the time and resources to monitor all the games and update them each day. Therefore the list includes information that is fairly static and does not change that often once the game has an entry. Also a basic idea was to create a "sortable" list. For that to work I had to have columns that where filled with data, as empty fields in the wrong places would make this useless. That is why no columns are included where only some of the games yield some data.
As a sidenote, I had also built or edited the templates for the game-info-box. It also sported the "first creation" date but CraigyDavi has edited it to a "Latest Version" field. Needless to say that maintainance of that information does not work well and as such it is useless.
You may remember the
MMDB. The idea was simple. Every mod author updates his entry every time he changes something in his mod. Guess what, it is a wonderfull idea but does not work well in reality. Most people are lazy and don't like to be bothered with such stuff as constantly having to update some remote databases as soon as they have coded something. That is one reason that most use GitHub. Most of these issues are solved automatically there.
So yes, the "List of Subgames" does not include all the information a player would really be interested in. The "List of Subgames" includes only information that is fairly static, is available for all entries and does not need more time to maintain than I can afford to offer. In other words, the list is indeed not a list of the most interesting data I could think of but rather a list of only that information that can be retrieved with an reasonable amount of work and which offers complete columns without any missing data.
but
after all
it is a wikiso help is very much appreciated
