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Posted May 19, 2015
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mrkgnao: 59 so far
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CarrionCrow: How many are you hoping for?
Well, the wiki had about 240 public wishlists (some obviously not actively maintained). Somewhere in the 100+ range would be nice.
Posted May 19, 2015
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CarrionCrow: How many are you hoping for?
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mrkgnao: Well, the wiki had about 240 public wishlists (some obviously not actively maintained). Somewhere in the 100+ range would be nice.
Should be doable in a fair amount of time. Only took a week to get what you have now.
Posted May 19, 2015
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oosickness: ```
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mrkgnao: Is this a post or not?
Maybe wanted his friend to add him, so he posted something meaningful instead of creating a new thread.
Posted May 19, 2015
laur3ntziu00

My wishlist https://www.gog.com/u/laur3ntziu00/wishlist
Posted May 19, 2015
https://www.gog.com/u/luksmk/wishlist
Posted May 19, 2015
I'm not sure if anyone thought of this yet, or if the list is intended to only include people who voluntarily opt-in to it, but it should in theory be possible to write a script that collects GOG usernames through the forums and then checks to see if each user has a public profile because the URLs are identical except for the embedded username so it would be really easy to script. Since the usernames of members that post in the forums are public information, and if one shares their wishlist publicly it is public info also and not enabled by default so it is an opt-in thing, I think it would be perfectly acceptable to script this though much in the same way Google searches all public webpages on the Internet and provides search and other features to locate or query the data.

A nice web UI could be made potentially to that could make navigating it all for different reasons easier. Anyhow just an idea that popped in my mind I thought I'd share in case anyone thought it was something interesting to hack on.
Posted May 19, 2015
https://www.gog.com/u/sasuke12/wishlist

sasuke12
Post edited December 19, 2015 by sasuke12
Posted May 19, 2015
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skeletonbow: I'm not sure if anyone thought of this yet, or if the list is intended to only include people who voluntarily opt-in to it, but it should in theory be possible to write a script that collects GOG usernames through the forums and then checks to see if each user has a public profile because the URLs are identical except for the embedded username so it would be really easy to script. Since the usernames of members that post in the forums are public information, and if one shares their wishlist publicly it is public info also and not enabled by default so it is an opt-in thing, I think it would be perfectly acceptable to script this though much in the same way Google searches all public webpages on the Internet and provides search and other features to locate or query the data.

A nice web UI could be made potentially to that could make navigating it all for different reasons easier. Anyhow just an idea that popped in my mind I thought I'd share in case anyone thought it was something interesting to hack on.
I thought of that, but suppose someone posted only one post two years ago, how would you find him? It would require scanning millions of posts.

How much of the forum should one scan? How often? How would one avoid crossing GOG's IP blocking access limit? Seems daunting.

Anyhow, if someone wants to do it, I would be grateful.
Post edited May 19, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted May 19, 2015
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mrkgnao: Well, the wiki had about 240 public wishlists (some obviously not actively maintained). Somewhere in the 100+ range would be nice.
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CarrionCrow: Should be doable in a fair amount of time. Only took a week to get what you have now.
Quite doable. BTW, is your post to be added to the list?
Post edited May 19, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted May 19, 2015
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mrkgnao: Is this a post or not?
Of course it's a post, we can all read it, right?


Regarding your post #114 - FWIW, I'm a supporter of opt-in. Granted, people that have set their wishlist to "everyone' probably don't mind, but can you be sure they're all ok with their info being collected and used by a third-party tool?
Posted May 19, 2015
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HypersomniacLive: Regarding your post #114 - FWIW, I'm a supporter of opt-in. Granted, people that have set their wishlist to "everyone' probably don't mind, but can you be sure they're all ok with their info being collected and used by a third-party tool?
I agree, although it could be argued that setting it to everyone is opting in to it being used by anyone for anything. I wouldn't be surprised if you can already google public wishlists.

When I began harvesting the wishlists from the wiki, I decided not to contact every one of the 240+ users and ask for their permission, but I did make it clear that one could opt out by contacting me. No one ever did.
Posted May 19, 2015
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mrkgnao: I agree, although it could be argued that setting it to everyone is opting in to it being used by anyone for anything. I wouldn't be surprised if you can already google public wishlists.

When I began harvesting the wishlists from the wiki, I decided not to contact every one of the 240+ users and ask for their permission, but I did make it clear that one could opt out by contacting me. No one ever did.
Fair enough, it was just a thought.

A possible explanation for no-one contacting you might be that a good number of people are no longer active here or on GOGWiki.

Regarding the low participation here - there's a good chance that people are missing this thread due to the many TW3, Galaxy and Friends threads, or perhaps not quite understanding the purpose of the thread just by reading its title, hence not opening it to read the OP. So, harvesting usernames and wishlist links could be the solution, and it's entirely up to you, but since you've started this thread, which is clearly opt-in oriented, going the other route now may be seen a bit as changing the "rules" midway. Also just a thought.
Posted May 19, 2015
Rolodzeo

https://www.gog.com/u/Rolodzeo/wishlist
Posted May 19, 2015
dudetterinazor

wishing for more time as well!
Posted May 19, 2015
Sorry mrkgnao.


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