Istaria Lexica

[Elteria]

Thanks everyone.

Meepsa, maybe you'll find some old CPU off an Automaton for my hardware?

[Elteria]

Greetings Istarians,


Updates on Istaria Lexica, August 22th, 2015

Content updates:

• The Bitter Pickle quest line, areas, mobs and drops are in now.
• Trophy Hunter: renamed misnamed quests (mainly just false capitalised parts).
• Trophy Hunter: added a few missing quest texts.
• Trophy Hunter: The overview page now has fixed table widths which makes it better readable/searchable.
• Trophy Hunter: The Imperial Outpost quests are listed again.
• Trophies: All trophy articles are in now (~170 new).
• Trophies: All pictures are in now (~140 new).
• Trophies: Linked all creatures to the trophy loot.
• Trophies: Linked all trophy quests the the loot and the creatures.
• Added tons of missing creatures!
• Templates: Template:LootList now outputs a sorted list of loot. Side effect of that is a fix where some of the loot had leading whitespaces when showing on articles.
• Templates: fixed some layout bugs (margins) on several templates.
• Quartermasters now put out a sorted list of buyable items.
• Quite alot of quest NPC dialogues and -texts were added.
• Resources: A few resource pages have been revamped: Azulyte Crystals, Gems and Essence.

Site updates:

• We changed the captcha system on registration to reCaptcha (Google) since we all know: Gnomes can't do simple maths.
• On article commits which contain external web links, a captcha verification popped up. This is suppressed now.
• Extensions: Installed Extension:CharInsert. The tool appears below the WikiEditor box and offers Lexicans WikiCode clickies. The most used templates and the most used WikiCode snippets are available. If you feel something is missing, please let me know (very easy to add more)!
• Extensions: Installed Extension:RegexParserFunctions. This enhances MediaWikis' parser with some tags to enable regular expressions in WikiCode (good for template development, especially on search/replace tasks).
• Extensions: Installed Extension:WikiLove. I thought we should have a chance to be nice to each other on IL :-). You can post barnstars and small messages of appreciation to other members from their user page (not your own, self loving is a no-go, teeheee!). There's a new 'Thank user' button above the user page.
• Layout: The middle part (right below main menu) of the menu toolbar now appears on every page (was suppressed earlier).
• Licenses: License templates were revamped to fit with the current site's design. They're also looking more unique now for 'familiar feeling'.
• Licenses: The Image copyright tags help page has been changed to fit with our needs.
• Licenses: Added Template:GNU GPL.
• Licenses: Added Template:Cc-by-sa-2.0.

Be well Istarians!

[LOVWYRM]

impressing- again
where do you get that much creativity from?

(though I have an idea^^)

many thanks- again

[Elteria]

Mmmhh...
I forgot to mention the most urgent update of all:

• Stella the mascot has found her living place on our web page.

@Lov, thanks! Not much creativity needed, just trying to think what the users could be happy with.

[Elteria]

Updates on Istaria Lexica, September 3rd, 2015

Server move:
The new hardware has been chosen and we're going to move there on Sep. 17th and 18th. This should take no longer than 24 hours without issues but if there are any I'll inform you right here. While moving, the site may still be available, or not. Please do not count on a good performance or a persistent connection. Once everything runs fine I'll give you a final okay in the good old Deforian-manner
Committers, please avoid doing changes on the site on those two days. I'm pretty sure, one or another is glad about a bit of a vacation.

Content updates:

• All mimics and treasure chests are in now. That includes everything they can drop and what you need to get them opened and and and...
• More than 100 creatures added. Including loost lists, coords, screenshots and quest links. More will follow!
• All resources have got their screenshots added
• Fabric, Wood and Stone pages were heavily updated
• Adventure Trainers: added a table with all trainer NPCs
• Craft Trainers: added a table with all trainer NPCs
• Gatekeepers: added a table with all NPCs. However, the gatekeepers are not all in yet, and some must be renamed first (all due)
• Quartermasters: added a table with all NPCs
• Tavernkeepers: added a table with all NPCs
• Trophy Hunters: added a table with all NPCs. You may also want to visit this page for a complete overview on the quests.
• Vendors: added a table with all NPCs
• New creature category: Azular
• Added 52 of the quest relevant bottle caps, including details and screenshots
• Bags of Coin are all in now
• Category:Crafting has a newcomer-friendly description now, as well as lists about schools, tools and machines
• Page 'Crafting' has been moved to 'How to craft' and got added to the Player Guides as it is one of them
• Category:Item has got a description now and a nice inventory screenshot

Site updates:

• The new purge script got a few fixes. To get it work correctly more changes are due once the server move is done.
• Made lots of preparations for the server move, so not much done else.

[Elteria]

Bump.

Just a reminder, the Istaria Lexica servermove will start in 15 Minutes...

[Elteria]

*looks at the sandglass*...
*yawns*..
*yawns again, even louder*....
*sticks some toothpicks beween eyelids*
*the toothpicks break*

No more popcorn. Peanuts gone, too. Coffee went out after 20 hours, had to wait 6 more until shop opened. At least I got a breakfast. Cat made me bleed several times, just out of boredness.. or should I say because I ignored her? Red bull didn't help btw.

Ahh well. Let's talk about the server move:
Istaria Lexica is back online with all of it's beauty. There were heavy issues while moving. One story is that the server rack I'm located at catched fire, just at the moment where I made Lexica's database import. Perfect timing don't you think? The vServer was set up in another rack within an hour but I had to restart importing stuff which delayed everything for about three hours. After around 30 hours without sleep the domains were propagated across the globe and Lexica was *runnable*. However, the thumbnails did not load. This issue still exists and seems to be a very, very deep software problem on either my server's set up or MediaWiki itself... or both. I managed to create a workaround so you guys are able to view the images. However, as long as the issue persists you may encounter almost the same slow loading performance as you had at the old server. This is because auntie Elti activates MediaWiki debugging here and there, which slows down like a nuclear winter does *giggles*. I'm sorry. Tonight the server is utilised by 100% because database maintenance scripts are still running. It causes heavy lag while loading pages so please use your left-over patience


We also got a few good news for ya:


Updates on Istaria Lexica, September 18th, 2015

Content updates:

• Quests: Added Earn Title: Antidote Expert
• Quests: Added Primal Instant Heal X: To the Doom!
• Reference Card: Added a new list: 'Available game modification types'
• The Player made game mods page has been heavily overhauled! All already existing entries have been evaluated to have existing download links and refer to the official webpages or community threads. Dead mods have been removed. On a few critical mods there are special installation instructions mentioned now, as well as caveats like conflicts with other mods. Alot of additional mods were added aswell so the whole list contains 49 right now. If found there's something missing, feel free to let us know. I hope this list contains pretty much everything the modding community offers for istaria by now. More surprises to come.
• Several selling NPCs have got an update to their selling lists, or they even got the list added - finally.
• Alot of new boons have been added.
• Delta 278: All changes are in. Two exceptions but I heard some green gnome takes care of that.
• Tier 1 loot lists on creatures were heavily updated and should be pretty complete now.

Site updates:

• Added shiny browser titles which will also show up on your bookmarks. Each individual for every article.
• The Istaria Lexica News section can now be 'watched' by our members.
• New Template 'New GameMod'. Used to create a new article for game mods.
• New Template 'Infobox:GameMod'. Shows brief details about a game mod.
• New Template 'List'. Provides a formatted table with entries (linked to a SMW property). Columns and Headlines are customizable.
• Extension:Charinsert: the clicky listings were reformatted to be more overviewable
• Extension:Charinsert: quite a few new templates, tags and functions were added to the lists. If you would want to see even more let me know. Adding them is as easy as chasing a chocolate mouse.
• Template:Quest has got a fixed width now. This should let it look a bit better on higher resolutions.
• Template:New Quest was corrected to use the proper parameters on the Template:Quest call. It places the article in the correct category (Quest, not Quests) now, too.
• Extension:LinkSuggest. YES! It's finally there after three bug fixes! LinkSuggest acts as an inline-suggestor on WikiEditor for internal wiki links. It enlists up to 10 results whenever you open an internal link '[[' or a template call '{{' and write at least 4 characters. Very useful if you don't know how a template or a page is written correctly. Works pretty much the same as the suggestions on our search bar.
• Cleaned up a whole lot of obsolete and misplaced categories.
• Template:InfoboxMultiproperty got it's values limits increased from 200 to 400. Nadia will be happy now.

[Spyrioyo]

Very good speed. Good improvement.

[Elteria]

Wow so much positive feedback! Thanks everyone. And she's F5 spamming my server again *sniffle*.

[Elteria]

Greetings,
Lexica had a small 'hiccup' in the last hour. The problems should be solved by now. If you still encounter weird things let me know.

[meepsa]

Loving the new speed! my F5 spamming has never been so fast! ^^

[Cegaiel]

Suggestions in the search box, popup results almost instantly now, very good.