Talk:Update 17 named items

Too Big!
{{Post|3|ShoeMaker (Special:Contributions/Technical_13{{!}}Contributions &bull; {{#ifeq:{{#replace:{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}|1}}| |_}}|User_talk:Technical_13|IRC |User_talk:Technical_13{{!}}Message}}) 08:03, February 20, 2013 (EST)|Actually it may not be too bad... Once {{User|EllisDee37}} is done, I'll protect the raw page so it's unwritable by non-administrators. Then, I can check the main page for it at least every few days and copy paste it into Notepad++ on my computer, do a simple replace to replace " {{ " with " {{SUBST: ", then copy and paste it to the raw page and save it. That should cause the wiki to replace any thing that is templated with the contents of what was templated. This should remove the inclusion of "most" of the templates and just leave us with mostly popups... Once I have finished reformatting the templates to all use the popups in the same way (I'm about 1/3 done at the moment, but know that at least 3/4 of the ones left to go already use it right) I can then re-edit the raw page, copy and paste it to Notepad++ again, and apply a regex replace to strip everything except the effect name (it should be  {{Long popup|  Here between the two pipes  |Blah-blah-blah}} ). So, a ReGex replacing " \{\{Long popup\|(.*)?\|(.*)\}\} " with "$1" Then there should be no more non-Category:Meta templates used on the page. }} {{Post|1|Cdr (Contributions &bull; Message) 14:19, February 20, 2013 (EST)|What about splitting into "naned items (new)" (GH stuff) and "named items (updated)" (everything else)? Page is still glacially slow, not sure if other work that was being done to address this has been completed.}} {{Post|1|EllisDee37 (Contributions &bull; Message) 20:19, February 20, 2013 (EST)|Oh sorry for the confusion; I finished last night just before the U17 maintenance started. I saved the faster version to my hard drive, so if you end up deleting the page, no harm no foul. At least now I can plan out my gear.}} {{Post|2|--Cru121 (Contributions &bull; Message) 03:49, February 25, 2013 (EST)|I am slowly moving non-gianthold stuff to separate articles. But I have another idea: let's use plain text for version level 12-24 and use templates only for lvl 25 loot. And perhaps slots, because I like it colorful. Whaddya think?  I have changed madstone crater loot to use this new paradigm: Update_17_named_items}} {{Post|3|--Cru121 (Contributions &bull; Message) 05:18, February 26, 2013 (EST)|I wonder, is also a link like  {{Item:Moonhowl Axe}}  slower than plain old  Moonhowl Axe ? Is this the way to go:  Moonhowl Axe ? The article has a lot of item links... }} {{Post|4|ShoeMaker (Special:Contributions/Technical_13{{!}}Contributions &bull; {{#ifeq:{{#replace:{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}|1}}| |_}}|User_talk:Technical_13|IRC |User_talk:Technical_13{{!}}Message}}) 06:56, February 26, 2013 (EST)|It has nothing to do with the usage of Template:Item. What I am thinking, and have mentioned somewhere (maybe in the next section down on this page), is that we should remove all of the "use to be" information for the items from this page and put that information on "loot history" pages for each individual story-arc (preferred) or quest. That should substantially reduce the size of this page in of itself. That history information really doesn't belong on a page that is intended to show everything that is NEW from Update 17. Also, I agree as someone above pointed out, template usage should be reduced to only the highest tier item for multi-tiered new items, with an exception for if an effect is in a lower tier but not the higher (if "Blurry" becomes "Displaced" or some such thing). }} {{Post|5|Snake (Contributions • Message) 08:36, April 8, 2013 (EDT)|Perhaps we can just remove all the template links to the item properties and just leave plain text listings. Every item should have its own page anyway and I am working on completing 'variant' pages for each item. Do we need any template data on this page? }}