On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 at 00:27 Alexis Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are some notes I've observed in going through the FLR history data to > clean it up: > > - Application of revision numbers has been occasionally inconsistent. At > one point, they were clearly defined as "the number of times a rule with a > given ID number has been amended", but this is no longer explicit. I feel > that this is the best definition, however, and this has resulted in some > changed revision numbers. Most notably, a few very old rules such as 1006 > and 1023 were amended by rule immediately after the proposal that gave them > their current ID numbers, and this was not previously counted. A few other > rules had amendments inserted into their history (sometimes e.g. due to a > ratification) that were not given revision numbers, these were also > corrected. > - Proposal 7729 was listed as being authored by Henri in one proposal and > Tiger in another. I've listed this as "Tiger or Henri" until I can sort out > the truth. > - On various occasions, rulekeepors combined multiple changes made by a > single proposal into one change in the history. Rule 1681 is clear that > each Rule Change must be recorded separately. While I would like to correct > all this data, doing it for all cases where a proposal amended a rule > multiple times is infeasible. That said, on a number of occasions, the > history indicated that a single proposal changed a rule's power and amended > it, or retitled it and amended it. These are all sufficiently recent that I > intend to fix every instance of these, although not right away. Very old > rule changes where a rule was simultaneously infected and amended I have > not changed, since I will need to determine if I can find rulesets and > proposals from those times in order to evaluate if these were indeed one > single change or two distinct changes. > - Recently, old and new powers have been omitted from power changing > records in the history. This is sufficiently recent that I intend to fix > this, although I haven't yet. > - Amendments with no effect were sporadically recorded as null-amendment > on a small number of rules. I've removed these from the history since they > were not actually rule changes. > - I've updated all occurrence of nicknames in the history to use the most > recent names I am aware of. If anyone notices any missed updates from older > players, please let me know. > - The notation on cleanups by rule has occasionally omitted the identity > of the rule actually effecting the change. I have not corrected this yet, > but plan to try to consistently include both the executor and the rule > responsible. My data format here needs work, however, so the first revision > will not track rule 2430's name in the history as others' FLRs have > recently. > - Converting history into a structured data format will allow interesting > analyses, such as the number of proposals a player has authored that > affected rules still in the ruleset. > > - Alexis >
Addendum: the missing history entry for 2166's repeal is being added.
