Question on Unique items; do we want a page for each unique, or just a list for each group (eg: Normal boots, Elite Body Armor)?
There are a couple of options I suppose.
The first is one page for each unique. That may be a bit redundant, so let's look at what form of data we have about uniques.
1. Stats
This is what Arreat Summit provides you with, and if this is all we're going with, I think we can be a little more efficient in our space usage.
2. Images
Not only can we include the regular image, but for Torso, Helm, Weapon and Shield we can actually upload .gifs of how they look in game, much the same way monster files are created. That's still not enough to warrant an article on their own.
3. Drop rates
This area is a bit harder to figure out, since treasuse classes got all mixed up in 1.10 and onward. In 1.09, you could easily check if a monster could drop an item or not, nowadays practically any monster can drop anything found in their respective act, and it just becomes useless to find all that information when it's not really helpful at all.
Other than that, there's not a whole lot to know about items. Of course, we could add a text for each unique detailing its effectiveness in different builds. Shako, Dracul's Grasp and Stone of Jordan are examples of Uniques that could get a lot of information in that department.
So perhaps we could take the same approach as with the runes: one page for each unique, and then articles listing all unique normal boots, all nightmare boots, and all hell boots.
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And as far as certain uniques, I already did this with the annihilus and torch, but a nice section for side notes. For example, Gheed's, Anni's, and Torch's- you can only have one of each in your inventory at one time, state the pandemonium event from which they came, etc.
And, while I'm on it, why is it that any links to pandemonium event go to a page listing the Uber Tristram pandemonium event as the only one? I think it would make more sense if the page defined pandemonium events, and then lhad sections under it for Uber Tristram and the Diablo Clone.
Also, as far as monsters, Blizzard has made it so that both Uber Diablo in Tristram and Uber Diablo have the same name. In game this is cleared up by calling the spawn-alone one "mini-diablo" or "diablo clone". What would be the best way of going about that in the Wiki if we want it accurate?
And, while I'm on it, why is it that any links to pandemonium event go to a page listing the Uber Tristram pandemonium event as the only one? I think it would make more sense if the page defined pandemonium events, and then lhad sections under it for Uber Tristram and the Diablo Clone.
Because Diablo Clone isn't actually referred to as the Pandemoniium Event, hence you get to the Uber Tristram article.
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Also, as far as monsters, Blizzard has made it so that both Uber Diablo in Tristram and Uber Diablo have the same name. In game this is cleared up by calling the spawn-alone one "mini-diablo" or "diablo clone". What would be the best way of going about that in the Wiki if we want it accurate?
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Making a disambiguous page. Or linking the Clone at the top of the Uber's page like: Were you looking for [[Diablo Clone]]?
Ditto, that's probably the best way. Call the Article Diablo Clone, but put a link to it at the top of the Uber Diablo article.
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Ha, actually, now that I checked their bestiary at Mount Arreat, Diablo Clone is listed as Uber Diablo, and Diablo from Uber Tristram is listed as Pandemonium Diablo. I just thought that's weird, since the others in Uber Tristram are prefixed by "Uber", whereas only Diablo in Uber Tristram is prefixed instead by Pandemonium. (http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/monsters/act5-uberdiablo.shtml - the list at the top.)
Because Diablo Clone isn't actually referred to as the Pandemoniium Event, hence you get to the Uber Tristram article.
O.o Go figure, I always just assumed it was a Pandemonium Event. I thought Diablo Clone was called that even before patch 1.11 (That's when Uber Tristram was installed, right?) Oh well. Those solutions are all perfectly logical.
We should also double check the patch pages to make sure they hold the same truths.
@Magistrate - Hey, I noticed your wor on the sorceress pages. Good job, but will you finish your techniques? I would prefer to have them all under the same appearance. Btw, could you not sign your created articles? It's nothing big, just something we don't do.
The first is one page for each unique. That may be a bit redundant, so let's look at what form of data we have about uniques.
1. Stats
This is what Arreat Summit provides you with, and if this is all we're going with, I think we can be a little more efficient in our space usage.
2. Images
Not only can we include the regular image, but for Torso, Helm, Weapon and Shield we can actually upload .gifs of how they look in game, much the same way monster files are created. That's still not enough to warrant an article on their own.
3. Drop rates
This area is a bit harder to figure out, since treasuse classes got all mixed up in 1.10 and onward. In 1.09, you could easily check if a monster could drop an item or not, nowadays practically any monster can drop anything found in their respective act, and it just becomes useless to find all that information when it's not really helpful at all.
Other than that, there's not a whole lot to know about items. Of course, we could add a text for each unique detailing its effectiveness in different builds. Shako, Dracul's Grasp and Stone of Jordan are examples of Uniques that could get a lot of information in that department.
So perhaps we could take the same approach as with the runes: one page for each unique, and then articles listing all unique normal boots, all nightmare boots, and all hell boots.
And, while I'm on it, why is it that any links to pandemonium event go to a page listing the Uber Tristram pandemonium event as the only one? I think it would make more sense if the page defined pandemonium events, and then lhad sections under it for Uber Tristram and the Diablo Clone.
Also, as far as monsters, Blizzard has made it so that both Uber Diablo in Tristram and Uber Diablo have the same name. In game this is cleared up by calling the spawn-alone one "mini-diablo" or "diablo clone". What would be the best way of going about that in the Wiki if we want it accurate?
Ditto, that's probably the best way. Call the Article Diablo Clone, but put a link to it at the top of the Uber Diablo article.
O.o Go figure, I always just assumed it was a Pandemonium Event. I thought Diablo Clone was called that even before patch 1.11 (That's when Uber Tristram was installed, right?) Oh well. Those solutions are all perfectly logical.
@Magistrate - Hey, I noticed your wor on the sorceress pages. Good job, but will you finish your techniques? I would prefer to have them all under the same appearance. Btw, could you not sign your created articles? It's nothing big, just something we don't do.
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Oh, it looks like you get them all... I'm going to check them just to make sure though.
How do you do redirects, I kind of forgot...