Istaria Lexica

[Elteria]

Greetings everyone.
This is the update thread for Istaria Lexica. Lexicans will post site-related updates here to inform the community. You are invited to have a talk in this thread, as long as it is site related and does not end up in flames or pointless debates. If you feel the urge to loose some frustration I'd encourage you to use the proper boards: 'Just Ranting' or 'Rant Istaria Style'.

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Updates on Istaria Lexica, August 14th, 2015

Content updates:

• General: All of the pictures (4500+) have been heavily optimized to enhance the loading time of the site.
• General: Added reference footers to 11119 pages. This ensures to stay license conform on our third party content.
• Buildings: Residential, Commercial and Industrial flags have been updated and there are lists by zone type available now.
• Creatures: A new Loot List for creatures has been established. This should make it easier for Lexicans to add loot to creatures and fixed a few buggy behaviors. In parallel, some pre-filled templates were added to add certain loot-types (like Tier 1 hoard loot, Tier 6 broken items,...) with just one small call. This saves hopefully alot of time on editing.
• Creatures: Changed the template behavior for the creature summary. Resources shown have become searchable which results in a sortable list for our readers.
• Items: Added all missing (211) broken item components. They need to get linked to the formulas still, though.
• Items: Added tons of missing technique resource details like screenshots, description, links to monsters the are dropped off, link to techniques, and so on. All in all these were around 1000 pages.
• Delta276: Tier 4 and Tier 5 crafting boons were added. The lower boons were updated while on that mission, too.
• Delta276: Added new bonus infos to the updated emblems
• Delta277: Renamed some articles to fit with the delta changes
• Lore: A few lore pages and NPC dialogue texts have been added

Site updates:

• Added a scheduled script doing a cache-purge for each edited page. It runs every two minutes and acts as a workaround for a Semantic Mediawiki problem, where dynamic tables do not update their view when a contained page result was changed. The script is still in testing, if you still find weird results in articles using SMW tables, please let me know.
• Added APC to the site. The tool caches certain site parts so browsing should become a bit faster.
• Added Extension:Arrays to the site, which lets editors use -programmatic like- array functions in WikiEditor
• Added Extension:CreateBox to have a direct and easy to use page creation link on Istaria Lexica's main menu.
• Added Extension:DynamicPageList, which is a pretty good alternative to Semantic Mediawiki. It offers Lexicans advanced research options when looking for certain sets of pages and enlisting those in their article.
• Added Extension:LabeledSectionTransclusion. This enables Lexicans to show a selected section of another article in their own article. Already actively used on the New Page templates' documentation pages.
• Added Extension:YouTube, so that Lexicans are able to add YouTube videos via WikiEditor. Example can be found on the main page (thank you Racktor!).

[Arzel Rashemi]

• Added Extension:YouTube, so that Lexicans are able to add YouTube videos via WikiEditor. Example can be found on the main page (thank you Racktor!).

That is some great news! I'm loving all these extensions that allow a user to do more and get more indepth with a page and its information.

[Elteria]

Thanks Arzel, always glad when I get something better

[Elteria]

Greetings Istarians,
just a small heads up: Our server location is getting some new switches installed on 18th/19th. Please be aware that there may be some timeouts or even 404 errors when trying to access the site. The breaks should be very short timed though, spamming F5 on your browser might do the trick

A small hint on our site performance: I'm aware of the slow loading and this is sadly permanent by now (ten years old hardware). I'm currently looking for an alternative so stay tuned.

[Dacurly]

A small hint on our site performance: I'm aware of the slow loading and this is sadly permanent by now (ten years old hardware). I'm currently looking for an alternative so stay tuned.

I don't find it that slow, not having a lot of ads makes it way faster than most web sites

[meepsa]

I don't find it that slow, not having a lot of ads makes it way faster than most web sites

seconding this, sure it might not load super-duper fast, but it shouldn't have to.

teeny tiny edit:
I think I'll make it a routine for me to go on my blight characters on tuesday and check their vaults/inventories for stuff that might need updating on the Lexica

[Teto Frum]

Keep up the good work. Some nice new changes

[Berdagauret]

It *looks* awesome! I'll have to spend a few hours going through everything, but, first impression is: WOW!!!

[AlaeNymVoar]

I thought this was a good thing to have, Always good to have more Sites and things to help out the Istaria Community, I've looked at the Site a lot, I like it, and i noticed it was being moved around, but i used it during the days, but never really seemed that slow to me. I like it a lot, thought it was very good. I heard some Mixed Complains and Good things about it too.

[Elteria]

Why thank you, Alae and Berda.

[Elteria]

• Tier 1 loot lists on creatures were heavily updated and should be pretty complete now.

That's wrong. I was talking about the creatures themselves, not their loot. All Tier 1 and Tier 2 creatures were updated and missing one have been added. The lists should be very accurate now.

[Spyrioyo]

Will you be willing to add in abilities mob have and their attacks too in the future?

[meepsa]

Will you be willing to add in abilities mob have and their attacks too in the future?

I've slowly been working on it, a big thing I ran into though is that some mob buffs do not have tooltips.
I already sent in a ticket about it and the devs are working on it.

Mob abilities are a bit of an oddity to write down though, we can only guess the cooldown based on the time between using it, and then the damage tresholds can only be guessed at based on getting hit by it multiple times, but then it's also dependant on armor, resistances, etc.

But at the very least I'm working on updating all mob abilities with their damage type and tooltip if possible (like hardened shell).

[Malicore]

whats wrong with this statement on Lexica dragon crafting? shouldn't this be every 20 lvls you get next tier? says 10, but shows 20 ((Every 10 levels of craft you receive the next tier of crafting abilities (20, 40, 60, 80, 100).))

[Elteria]

Heya,
can you link me where you read that? I'll check then.

[Malicore]

http://www.istaria-lexica.de/Dragon_Crafting 4th line down. And BTW.. Thanks to anyone involved in Lexica. Awesome job folks. Much appreciated

[Malicore]

Someone has lightning arrow listed as 2 hour duration, it's only 30 minutes. even the pic they posted showing the details says 30 min duration

[Elteria]

Thanks Malicore, I've fixed that

[Elteria]

Greetings,
the server may not be accessible from time to time, because some router is causing issues on my ISPs site. This should be fixed soonish.

[Elteria]

Some of them already contain such information. This is hell of a work since the committers need to 'analyse' the abilities and attack types out of their own fights with each of the creatures. My guess is that a fast committer may write down the data for one creature in 3-5 minutes. Looking at the amount of different creatures in istaria lets come to one fact: This is a community task, not bearable for a single person

This leads to the Lexica wiki-strategy: The community helps the community. The more players help on such tasks, the more accurate the creature details will be.

One example from myself: I've been looking around on the redbacked spiders in aughundell because of a missing trophy (was taken out of game but I needed confirm). While that I found out that the reddies had no screenshots and one type of them was taken out of the game (bugfix). I edited them while playing and once again we've got more accuracy on the site. That's what everyone is able to do, without too much knowledge about wiki stuff.