Searching For The One Pure Truth (but mostly gear for loadouts)

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Dracora-Speaking

We have been working on a nice sortable gear list, but I feel like its functionality will fall short in the face of hundreds of items. I'd like to be able to try and code something functional like what psypoke uses for pokemon (of which there are many):

But they don't let me see their page code easily and I'm lazy.

So on our SK wiki, people would just be like...

Defense type 1 = normal, defense type 2 = shadow...

status resist = fire....

search...

and bam, all items with that criteria show up.

We should have search criteria for every aspect of an item, IMO - so...color theme, accessory slots, collections, and all that silly stuff in addition to important stuff: Defenses, resistances, weaknesses, abilities (positive and penalty).

Thoughts? Icytea says it's a query string sort of thing, but I can't find much on our Mediawiki that talks about what I'm looking for, not even in developer extensions.

Thoughts? Again, something like this would be nice, and remain functional for the lifespan of the game, while a comparative list's functionality decays in terms of efficiency. I'll still finish the comparative lists of course, this is just something to think about.

Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:33 #1
Bopp
to clarify

To clarify, especially for readers like me who don't know what Psypoke is: You want a search engine for items, where players can enter their criteria and find all matching items? And maybe one for monsters, where players can enter a desired material and see which monsters drop it? Stuff like that?

It's a good idea. Our current system is basically like classic Yahoo --- a curated list. The new idea is like Google. Definitely more maintainable, once it's working.

I don't know anything about MediaWiki developer extensions. But basically you want something that can parse and index your infobox parameters? This could be done with external scripts written in Python, Perl, etc. But hopefully the developer extensions offer some shortcuts.