Star Conflict Wiki (discussion)

@Binky:

I did not know how far your knowledge reaches, but I assumed, you know some scripting languages.

If you would have to learn python for this, but you can already do something else, please, use what you already know of, it’s not worth to learn a language just for one task, except you are like me, and like these challenges. I tried to emphasize, that I know selenium, because I have worked with it from python, which is my primary language for 6 or 7 years now (but I had others) professionally. It comes naturally to actually start with the familiar.

Python has also the upside of also being deployable as single exe file, if you really want to go that far, while still being a scripting language.

Your task would also be possible to be solved completely without selenium with httplib.

 

What I meant to say with my long text is exactly that if you want a final - one simple - solution, which does not need future users to install stuff, it would be better to implement the whole thing in one language, not just the filling out-forms part, otherwise, you still have to “prepare the templates in excel”, and then “move the data to the server with that program there”.

 

The best solution is simply to have this on the server which runs the wiki as a cronjob, anyway.

 

Because the CSV and the things involved will eventually change, you want something which is usable by anybody, but also changeable by anybody.

 

It would work also perfectly as a JS app e.g., or having a selenium script + office vb script. Hell, it would be even possible to write that in VisualBasic, if you are crazy enough for it. It’s just way harder, and the code I offered was just lying around, since I wrote this

 

 


 

Wouldn’t have been right to say it’s trivial and then not do it. :wink:

 

Snib will solve it.

Snib will solve it.

Already done, I coordinated with Binky yesterday, just waiting for the devs to update the data file now. If you were intending to provide a python/selenium based solution yourself instead, that’s still perfectly possible and welcome.

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just came here to see the same thing, please bump those files.

Well this got really complicated quickly! Just looking for a place to mention that maybe info on achievements, holidays with events/achieves attached to them, and player titles would be useful. I’d offer to help but this is getting way complicated quick. I’ve used media wiki before but i’m more fluent in wikidot, which is similar. But I could compile info about these things if anyone is interested. But otherwise i’ll stay out of the way :D 

They should just shut the wiki down IMO. They stopped supporting it months ago and outdated as it is yet linked from home page and launcher it is not exactly making a good impression. 

New wiki seems to have some odd problems with images. I can’t upload new ones with the error:

 

Possibly related, images can no longer be scaled. If you try to specify a size for the image other than the native size of the stored image it just displays the image name instead.

At the moment we are collecting information to update wiki.

 

All new data will be included in wiki a bit later. 

I still say it’s better to wait until 1.0 to do any wiki updating…

I still say it’s better to wait until 1.0 to do any wiki updating…

Had offered months ago to automate the data part so that would not have been an issue. But since I’m not allowed to extract the data from the client and the devs don’t care to provide it to us anymore it never happened. And I’m just replying to this because I forgot to unfollow this topic. Fixed now. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve come to the conclusion that putting detailed stats on the wiki is pointless since they’re subject to change too often, but basic information on game concepts like synergy, implants, loyalty, roles etc, and brief descriptions of things like weapons, missiles and modules are worth keeping up to date.

I would not call it pointless for the data to be displayed in the wiki per se, I’d rather say it is pointless work for you, since the data there should really be updated automatically at each patch. This way it is indeed pointless, and only misleading,  so probably that was a good decision.

 

I would still love the data exported, tools like Snibs tools and even more could come from the community.

Ahh! this is where we an make an account to edit the Wiki, this might need to be made clear on the Wikis Register/Login Page.

 

 

I made a thread about this here; [http://forum.star-conflict.com/index.php?/topic/21869-adding-content-to-or-allowing-public-access-to-the-wiki/](< base_url >/index.php?/topic/21869-adding-content-to-or-allowing-public-access-to-the-wiki/) please delete it then.

I was trying to upload an Image to the Wiki ToolBox and got 

 

Do I not have sufficient Privileges?

Yarr!!, Server Side Permission Restrictions http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Problem_uploading_files:_Could_not_create_directory_%22mwstore://local-backend/local-public/5/54%22.

Yeah images still seem broken. Looks like the fix is a simple permissions change, so since it hasn’t happened yet I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Nice to see someone working on the wiki again btw. On your Currency page you state that you can convert Credits in to GS. I’m not seeing this in the in-game exchange, I can only see how to convert RL cash to GS and GS to credits.

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