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  1. #21

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    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.

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  2. #22

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elteria View Post
    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.
    Pretty much this yeah whenever you fight something, make something or just do anything relevant to istaria, just open up the lexica and check if the data is current and correct. ^^

  3. #23

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    Small update on performance:
    The server has finished the base maintenance, Lexica should be a bit faster now. I've been testing for a bit and made benchmarks. I'm not happy to be honest. Welllllllll we're not out of ideas. Luckily Wikipedia themselves are a good information base for performace issues on MediaWiki. I start to evaluate a solution, but that takes a whole while because I need to test all that in an extra environment prior to installing it.

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  4. #24

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    Hi everyone!

    We created a file download repository for game mods.
    Please refer to http://community.istaria.com/forum/showthread.php?30484-Modders-heaven-Serving-your-files! for all details!

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  5. #25

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    Hookahey!
    I'll be rolling out a major package of improvements for the server. These hacks are operating system critical so please expect Istaria Lexica to be offline here and there within the next few hours.

    I'll let you know when it's done.


    *throws out a single chocolate mouse, just to watch who's going to catch it*

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  6. #26

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, October 04th, 2015

    Server Performance:
    The update has been successful (I hope!) and the server now runs on an experimental code compiler which should increase loading pages. I've already examined that the search suggestions are fast as hell - finally! It's still not too optimal but comfort has raised. I'll be evaluating some configuration in the next weeks to get it more stabilised.

    Content updates:
    • Hiring permits: Detail pages like Tavernkeeper Hiring Permit now enlist who sells them. Prices were updated to the current ingame value.
    • Spring Festival: All NPCs added, their quests added and their sold items added
    • Added 12 items for the Earn Title: Relic Hunter quest Formula: Dwarven Relic Collection. These were also added to the proper creature's loot tables
    • Treasure Chests and Mimics now got a sortable table, including coords, levels and tiers
    • Fixed some coordinates not showing on NPC and creature tables
    • All uncategorized pages were placed in categories now
    • Alot of creatures have been updated slightly on their details


    Site updates:
    • Extension:CharInsert: added template {{VendorSells}}
    • Template:Quest: Level defaults to 0 now so quests without a provided level still show up on dynamic tables
    • Removed two false blog links and replaced them with the lexica news page
    • Added captchas on page creations for non-regeistered users to further prevent spamming

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  7. #27

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    What a great improvement on load speed. Nice work Elteria, hope it stays stable
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  8. #28

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    Before it lagged a bit more that most websites but was fine. Now it is instant!, it just pops on the screen very fast. I have a fast connection and usually most webpages are fast.
    Thank you

  9. #29

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    Suggestions in the search box, popup results almost instantly now, very good.
    Death points are temporary, Glory is forever!
    Need game info? Try Istaria Reference or Istaria Lexica Wiki

  10. #30

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

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    Very good speed. Good improvement.

  12. #32

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

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  13. #33

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    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.
    Last edited by Elteria; October 8th, 2015 at 03:06 PM. Reason: typo!

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  14. #34

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, October 22nd, 2015

    Content updates:


    Site updates:
    • Template: Urban Summary now uses the destination pad coordinates for the istariareference map links.
    • Created Template:Infobox:Portal and Template:Infobox:Landing Pad which will soon be used to explain Istaria's wormhole system. :-)
    • Added a few travel list templates as a preparation for use on landing pad articles to ease showing the available routes.
    • Template:Infobox:Creature has got a maximum health and level parameter added (was in earlier but got removed *self bonks*). The shown level and health is now a calculated average value.
    • Created Template:Paymentmethod. No we don't want you to pay us ). It's used to show hints in an article on how to pay an NPC with non-currency methods (Imperial Rank Token for example).

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  15. #35

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, November 24th, 2015

    Spam issues:
    The spam bots have finally found the Lexica. Some of them are able to break through the secured registration procedure. However this is not a big problem since they cannot be invasive in any manner. The scripts just create a new account and post a 'Viagra text' (perhaps you already know that from your e-mail account) to their own user page. I am evaluating a few ways to get the issue solved and to let registration for new users stay as easy as it is by now.

    Just don't buy any viagra, with the correct partner you won't need it anyway *chuckles*

    Content updates:
    • Much of Dralnok's Doom creatures have got heavy updates. Health, Levels, Weaknesses, Coordinates, ...
    • Vilitis Plant, Small Tebolli Plant and Nagara Plant have found a place in the wiki!
    • All article names, which were affected by name changes in Delta 279, were updated
    • All tier 4 creatures were updated with loot lists
    • The Emotes article was nicely updated. Khutit and Sslik emotes were added and the dragon ones updated.
    • The Trandalar Grand Magus was completely updated. Quests were added and linked, aswell as the list of buyable items
    • Some missing locations have been added (mostly because they contain portals or pads)
    • Broken Items (such as the Priceless Thornwood Longbow) are now searchable and leads you to the concrete details page
    • Broken Broad Sword: On tables there was a wrong name (Broken Short Sword), this has been fixed.
    • Guard Kerrak has been renamed (former: Kerrak). He also got promoted to Sslanis Gatekeeper.


    Site updates:
    • Template:List and Template:LootList had a heavy bug, which preventes a correct listing of the contents in a dynamic list. It also affected the output by showing weird brackets in the list of items. Fixed.

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  16. #36

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    Hi everyone,
    some updates on the spamming issue.

    I've changed to another captcha system and hope it will stop those automated registrations finally. Time will tell. You're being asked a question now whenever you want to register an account or you want to edit an article anonymously.

    If you experience any problems with it, please let me know.

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  17. #37

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    Greetings,
    Lexica had some issues for the last two days but should be back up again. However, the spammers are still there and I am heading to more drastic changes now. This will take a whole while but it should be worth the effort.

    A happy late christmas to you!

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  18. #38

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, January 18th, 2016

    Content updates:
    • Herbs have found a place on the wiki.
    • A few new locations and items have been added.
    • All T5 creatures were heavily updated (Lootlists, Screenhots, Abilities, Locations, etc.).
    • Quest: Investigate Karane the Historian's Tale now has the correct name.
    • NPC quests are now sorted by level first, then name.
    • Quest line 'Niesa's Draught' has been updated but needs some more info still.


    Site updates:
    • Template:Reward has got it's newlines removed. Now it can be used several times on an article without messing up the list's layout.
    • Template:Urban Summary has got another set of coordinates added. x and y reflect the centralised point of a location which comes useful for landmarks.
    • Template:InfoboxMultiproperty got a new optional parameter 'limiter'. Provided data elements are separated by a comma by default. 'limiter' will override that with whatever you would like to use (<br /> for example).
    • Template:LootList now has an optional headline parameter.
    • Layout: Article functions should be better visible now while they don't disturb too much while you're reading.
    • Layout: Articles now got a fixed width, independent to screen resolutions and browser widths. This makes it much easier to format/layout the contents
    • Layout: The search bar has been tweaked. Buttons were made more visible and it's now located below the user functions.
    • Layout: Site buttons became more visible, hopefully you don't need to search for a 'submit' anymore!
    • Layout: Site background images were tweaked, enjoy.
    • WikiEditor: small changes to colors and layout, especially on those little helper clickies at the bottom.
    • Layout: Some of the special pages contained messed up tables (colors), all fixed now.
    • Layout: Tweaked Special:Preferences a bit to be better readable
    • Spam: We finally won the battle. Google's ReCaptcha NoCaptcha protection will help us filtering those critters out. You'll need to pass it whenever you want to register or commit an article while not logged in. If you experience any problems on registration, please let me know!

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  19. #39

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, January 31th, 2016

    Today's highlight:
    Around 720 (!) new screenshots have been added to the creatures. This completes the major revamp of all creatures, including their loot lists, quest references and other details a player could find useful. Enjoy!

    Content updates:


    Site updates:
    • Category:Candidates for deletion has been renamed into Category:Deletion requests. This is found easier when using the search feature.
    • Category:Deletion requests: Added more description and general guidelines.
    • Fixed a server problem where pictures could not be rendered. This caused an error message to be shown instead of a picture.
    • Main Menu: the dynamic links (the ones right below the content links) have been divided with lines and a link to 'Deletion requests' has been added. The two 'Start article' links were changed to be more understandable.
    • Template:Delete now adds Category:Deletion requests to the articles and contains a sandbox example.
    • Template:NPC Summary now adds a Category:NPC to the articles.


    That's it! Cheers!
    Last edited by Elteria; January 31st, 2016 at 08:45 PM. Reason: whoops, named a template wrong

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    Updates on Istaria Lexica, February 28th, 2016

    Today's highlight:
    Dragons! Dragons! Dragons! Tons of quests for dragons have been updated. Very much of them were filled with details out of their beta stadiums. For an overview of the most wanted dragon related quests you will want to visit the new Dragon Quest Category.

    Content updates:


    Site updates:
    • Article Management Templates have been changed to look more unified.
    • A few new icons for free use have been added, they're styled to fit with each other and may become even more if there is need. They're also involved in our active templates.
    • MediaWiki: deactived page caching. The current implementation of Semantic MediaWiki does not provide an accurate way to recache changed pages and their linkde resources. This eases editing pages with SMW content heavily, and, of course, it is much easier for our less skilled editors *hugs*.
    • Template:New Creature now has a second Template:LootList to divide specialised loot from the common list (which can be very, very, long. Eases searching through it)



    Feel free to join in to improve the wiki. Even the smallest effort is well worth it.

    *cheers*

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