Talk:Development Page

Googling... (some time for a few days...) I didn't find anything. >_<

Asked a friend... And said where to... Aaaand got this:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)

...Which... is just what I was talking about? :o

====category==== category lists categories to intersect. DynamicPageList will list pages that are found in every category listed. The syntax is   category = Guilds category = Horde 

Now... If I understood things right, all we need next is your super powers in installing the said extension? ^^

♥ Yay for you! ♥ Yay for friends! &hearts;

And yeah, I'll look on the actual Development Page soon, now it's Guild RP tiems! &hearts;

--Helpy Helper Nathira (talk) 19:56, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

I've been looking in to that extension. Wikia does offer it, but only on request. Aparently, it can be very heavy on the servers, particularly when long lists are involved. They actually offer alternative suggestions, so I suspect this is an extension they aren't very fond of. One of those suggestions is to create a bot to do the lists instead. I think a bot like that would actually be especially useful for taking care of some of our more repetitive tasks. I'll see what I can discover about making bots. References:

DPL

Using DPL effectively and alternatives

creating a bot

--Admin Richeron [ T | C ] 22:29, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm! That looks... Scary! ó.ò The bot-stuff is waayy beyond my skillzors.

I'm sure my friend could fashion one up, being a genious and all... ^^ I'm just a bit shy on asking.

I might even have to pay for it... By providing RP! :3

At first I didn't even understand what a bot is or how it can help... But now the way I think this, you mean that a bot would browse the Character and Guild pages and sort them into lists, depending on if they have the Horde or the Alliance cateogry in them? ^^

And being abot it would do that automatically at some programmed intervals? Well... Sounds really neat actually... But while we already have quite a few pages in the wiki, with our edit-rate updating the list manually wouldn't be much of a hassle either...

I think creating the original list will be the worst part :3

the Bot still sounds neat, especially if it would be smart enough to add race and class Categories as well for character pages :P

--Nooby Nathira (talk) 08:36, July 6, 2010 (UTC)