Wiki Bi-Weekly

In an effort to keep our forum community aware of what is happening in the wiki, we're launching a new series of wiki articles to keep you all up to date on happenings over there. I will go through the largest changes in the last two weeks, showcase a random article, and finish up with what we'll be working on next and how you all can help out. Comments and feedback will be appreciated.

What's New?
During the last two weeks we've added many new pages to the wiki regarding areas. Whereas before you might have seen a page as empty as this, all areas in Act I to Act IV for Diablo II have now been remade into detailed pages with monster information, general area information and galleries where applicable, like the DiabloWiki.com - Forgotten Tower (Diablo II)

DiabloWiki.com - Forgotten Tower (Diablo II)

Forgotten Tower (Diablo II).

What of Diablo III in these last few days then? Well, Blizzcon was over a month ago and most info from that time has been added one way or another to the wiki by now: check out the pages on the DiabloWiki.com - Talisman

Talisman,

Artisans,

PvP and of course the DiabloWiki.com - Demon Hunter

Demon Hunter. We also have new high-res screenshots of all the classes, as well as comprehensive lists of all skills and traits currently confirmed on the respective class pages.

For those loyal Diablo I fans in our userbase, we've also started looking at those sections of the wiki as well. There are plans to add all the relevant Diablo I information to the wiki over the coming weeks, and while the data is of yet not there, we have started adding all the monster animations to the wiki in preparation.

Also give a big thanks to OmniBOT, who fixed up several articles to give them better structure in the wiki a few days ago, most notably the page about DiabloWiki.com - Items

Items, which had a lot of grammatical and some factual errors in it. Other articles shaped up included DiabloWiki.com - Act I

Act I and the DiabloWiki.com - Borderlands

Borderlands. Always nice to see people help out with the wiki project

Article Spotlight
In this first bi-weekly, we're going to showcase an old article, however it is to date by far the largest in the wiki. It is the DiabloWiki.com - Affixes (Diablo II)

Affixes (Diablo II) page, which lists all the prefixes and suffixes present in Diablo II.

In a large and comprehensive list, one can find an affix by what bonus it grants, in which level intervals it provides said bonus, and on which items that specific affix can appear. it is quite helpful in determining what affixes a rare or magic item can actually spawn with. For example, did you know that only magic amulets, boots and circlets with an item lvl of 26 or more can spawn with more than 25% magic find?

What's Next?

Over the next two weeks, we will finish up the remaining area pages for Act V, finish up the last superunique pages, and add the still missing Diablo I animations to the wiki.

If you have any suggestions as to how to shape these pages or what content to display on them, be sure to drop a reply in the respective forum threads or send me a PM. If you want to help out adding new content to the wiki in the next few days, there will soon be threads created on how to implement Diablo I monster, quest and NPC pages in the wiki forum, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

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DieHardBastionFan
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Posted Nov 28, 2010
The maps in the Forgotten Tower article are awesome, so we have those for every non-random area

EDIT: We do, that's just great. How did you make them?

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Posted Nov 28, 2010
D'aww, thanks for the recognition, now I need to go back and finish editing it 'cause I only made it about halfway through the page XD

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Posted Nov 28, 2010
But... D=

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Posted Nov 28, 2010
No.

Also, great job with the news article. Is it possible to organize the Affixes (Diablo II) into a nice legible chart? It looks pretty damn organized now but that whole issue Ophion brought up can be a hassle to read.

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Posted Nov 28, 2010
Unfortunately, the way the affixes are set up in the game makes it difficult to present them in an incredibly organized fashion. The only real options are to do it the way we have now or to split each affix up into the different level "tiers," if you will. The second option isn't really ideal either because then you can have a very large number of lines of the exact same affix on the same item(s), so it begins to get cluttered. Before making the page, we did have a rather lengthy discussion about the best way to arrange the information (the relevant discussion starts on page 4 if you're interested). Now, since I was the one who did most of the work on that particular page, I may be somewhat biased, but once you get used to reading the nomenclature that is set up, it's actually quite easy to understand. I did my best to explain how to read all the numbers at the top of the page. There's a lot of information on the page, so no matter how it's set up, it all has to be there and there's only so many ways that the information can be presented. Unfortunately, this means it's going to be cluttery, one way or another.

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Posted Dec 1, 2010
Quote from DieHardDiabloFan

EDIT: We do, that's just great. How did you make them?

With a nice little program called ds1edit, courtesy of Paul Siramy over at the Phrozen Keep

Still waiting for the wiki to accept larger pictures before I upload some maps of Lut Gholein and the Chaos Sanctuary as well.

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Posted Dec 1, 2010
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Best thing would be through tabs that only showed one item type at once, but that is not possible I guess

Something along these lines has actually been planned, we just haven't really implemented it yet. While the Affixes page itself is meant to be more of a master list, if you check out Axes (Diablo II), you can see that we do have a collapsible list of prefixes that can occur on axes. The plan is to do that for every kind of item page, we just haven't gotten around to it.

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Posted Oct 6, 2023
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