https://www.hexwiki.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DavidCaryHexWiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-15T04:55:50ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.23.15https://www.hexwiki.net/index.php/Current_eventsCurrent events2006-12-04T03:01:37Z<p>DavidCary: the wiki way; the WikiIndex.</p>
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<div>13 Aug 2005: I notice that several pages have been defaced by something like spam:<br />
a genuine entry has been erased by some hotel advertising. Is there some way to<br />
indicate that one or more diffs should be un-done?<br />
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I'm not that familiar with the wiki way of doing things. Is there a better place<br />
to put comments like this?<br />
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-- kogorman<br />
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''The wiki way is to "Be Bold" and [http://communitywiki.org/WhyWikiWorks fix simple problems yourself], rather than talking about the problem.''<br />
''To revert a page to a previous version after a bad edit (or after someone has mistakenly reverted a good edit), follow the directions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Revert .''<br />
''This [[current events]] page or the [[community portal]] is a great place to discuss problems like this that affect the entire wiki. (Problems that affect only one page should be discussed using the "discussion" tab for that page).''<br />
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I've just added the HexWiki to the WikiIndex:<br />
http://wikiindex.com/HexWiki<br />
. I hope you don't mind.<br />
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 04:01, 4 Dec 2006 (CET)<br />
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----</div>DavidCaryhttps://www.hexwiki.net/index.php/History_of_HexHistory of Hex2006-12-04T02:24:13Z<p>DavidCary: other similar games</p>
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<div>== Early History ==<br />
The game was first invented by the Danish mathematician [[Piet Hein]]. The first article describing the game, which Piet Hein called Polygon, appeared in the Danish newspaper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politiken Politiken] on 26 December [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942 1942] but the game was introduced to an association of math students at The University of Copenhagen called [[The Parenthesis]] during a lecture on conditions for good games.<br />
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In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948 1948] the game was discovered independently by the mathematican [[John Nash]]. Nash's fellow players at first called the game Nash. According to [[Martin Gardner]], some of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University] students also referred to the game as John, because it was often played on the hexagonal tiles of bathroom floors. However, this story is, according to [[Jack van Rijswijck]], unfortunately apocryphal. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952 1952] [[Parker Brothers]] marketed a version. They called their version "Hex" and the name stuck.<br />
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== Recent History ==<br />
''Here we could add something about the development of the different online communities.''<br />
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Hex has many similarities to the game Go.<br />
One similarity is that both have a wiki dedicated to them, and each wiki has a page pointing to the opposite wiki: [[Go]] and [http://senseis.xmp.net/?Hex Sensei's library: Hex].<br />
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[http://senseis.xmp.net/?OtherGamesConsideredUnprogrammable Sensei's library: other games considered unprogrammable] lists other games similar to Go and Hex.</div>DavidCary