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Thanks, somehow the Sorceresses didn't make it through the unit article naming process. Fixed. I see that there are five other units which somehow have unaddressed dupes among them, too...

The site data is in now, so yes, that information will eventually become visible.

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Hi Ich !

some errors I have found in the wiki :

on the spells page, the following links to not refer to the spell, but to the summoned unit :
/wiki/Black_Servant
/wiki/Corpse_Candle
/wiki/False_Horror
/wiki/Father_Illearth
/wiki/Harvester_of_Sorrows
/wiki/Iron_Dragon
/wiki/King_of_Banefires
/wiki/Monster_Boar
/wiki/Phantasmal_Warrior
/wiki/Poison_Golem
/wiki/Siege_Golem
/wiki/Watcher
/wiki/Will_o%27_the_Wisp
/wiki/Ziz

One has to add "_(spell)" at the end of the URL in order to go to the spell page.

the page :
/wiki/Summon_Mandaha
raises SQL errors

And finally not really a bug but the pages :
/wiki/Ambush_of_Tigers
/wiki/Contact_Couatl
/wiki/Pack_of_Wolves
Do not directly refer to the spell but offer some nation selection before (this look strange since the spell is the same for all nations + there are some spell with several nations that can be access directly from the spell list).

Same note for :
/wiki/Divine_Blessing
which does not contain any spell information, only the description.


edit : hm I am doing a little tool based on the information from the wiki, I used a script to download spells & items informations (thats how I found those errors : the script did not worked there), I'll share it to you when its done maybe I can use a simpler way to get the data I need.

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oups I forgot "Behemot" and "Leviathan" in the first list (those who must have "_(spell)" added).

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Yes, I know. Unit articles take precedence over the spells by the same name. I pleaded that the spells would all be named "Contact ..." or "Summon ..." but that wasn't done, so this is WAD. I might add disambiguation links to those articles to link to the appropriate alternate article, though.

Thanks, fixed. The spell had the old pre-3.23 name.

They're not the same spell - they do have different spell IDs. They're just named the same and have the same effect, yes.

Thanks, fixed.

You don't need to spider the Wiki, if you want the data that I have in my database then I can share it with you. Just drop me an email, for example through the Wiki, if you're logged in. Although with Semantic MediaWiki it IS possible to get RDF data dumps out of the Wiki, which apparently is a cool feature, according to the database/semanticweb folks.

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While reading through the old-age thread, I noticed a "construct lord 1" unit modification effect for the Mason of the Underworld hero. What is this effect?

Also, is it possible to search by unit modifications?

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The modifications now link to "Effect" article pages. They're mostly just stubs so far, but they may contain some info about the effect.

I do want to make them into fully fledged semantic properties later. Until then, you can go to the corresponding "Effect:..." article and use "What links here" from the toolbox to show pages that contain this effect.

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Thanks! +1 to construct summons apparently.

Hrm...I tried this, and the "What links here" says that no pages link to the article. Perhaps the cache hasn't rebuilt since you updated?

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I don't know where you clicked on the "What links here" link, but for the effect you mentioned it links back to two units:

http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Speci...Construct_lord

That reminds me, now I'll introduce this to the items, as well.

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I clicked on the link to the effect from list of effects in the unit block for the Mason article, and then from the effect page, I clicked on the "What links here" in the left nav toolbox. However, it seems to be working now, so I'm still going to suspect it was cache that hadn't caught up yet. :)

Cool, thanks!

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Hmm, what's with the unused items, does this mean there exist items with unused effects/effect combinations or are they just placeholders?

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What do you mean by unused items, exactly? The effect table is guesswork and not all of them have been successfully classified yet.

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Good news, everybody! The Wiki has now better readable effect values for units and items: They directly link to the spells or units that an ability (like domsummon) is referring to, you don't need to look up the unit/spell with that particular ID anymore.

One community member has developed a standalone tool for browsing through the spells and artifacts with a couple of filtering options by using the data from the Wiki, too. (see the previous page) The tool is already usable, let's see if a download option for it will emerge later.

Cheers,
lch

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Great! Going to be useful :)
I can now then redirect my mod units abilities.

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This wiki has replaced several tools I use for modding. I really appreciate the work you guys put into this!

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The Wiki and my associated Dom3 stuff has moved to a new machine. The rusty old Pentium III at 950 Mhz has now been replaced by a (drum roll) Celeron running at 1333 Mhz!! Plus, the OS has been updated and this notebook is a lot less noisy.

If anything doesn't work anymore like it should and you can't use or contribute to the Dom3Wiki like before, then just report this via email or by posting here. And if you didn't contribute yet, then feel encouraged to try this out on the new machine now! ;)

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Someone Wiki savvy make it possible for me to search for "homesick" units.

Thanks!

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I'm sorry, that's not possible right now. The wiki still has a lot of room for improvements and it'd involve a lot of work, but unfortunately I have no time for that.

But I can tell you that the only ones that have it are the Naiad (1226), Blood Guard (1353), Blood Lord (1389), Nushi (1431), Swamp Serpent (1435), Partholonian Sorceress (1795) and Hama Dryad (932).

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Perfect! I only knew about 4 of those, thank you!

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*sad panda*

RE: 1795 - that's interesting, as that unit is also 1) immortal, and 2) a hero. Raises two questions:

1) Do "homesick" units that die of longing for home get resurrected? (assuming they pine away while still in dominion)
2) What is the "home province" for a hero unit? The capital?

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how'd I add my Yomi guide on there? =( And also a Jomon guide I plan on working on sooner or later ...

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Ah, sorry for the double post. Did not realize this thread was here. The page seems to be down. Can anyone confirm?

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Yes its down.

The DNS service thru no-ip still is up, but the machine itself seems to be down. I would think he would have kept the machine up using it for personal purposes and just turned off the address we all knew for it. So it might be a crash (he did recently do a major hardware upgrade which raises the chance of that)

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You should register on the Wiki and edit the page http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Oni_Kings/KissBlade's_guide and add it on the Oni Kings article afterwards. For a template, see the source code of your Patala guide by using the edit button there.

Sorry, they turned off the power in the building over the weekend. It's up again.

There also is some problem with special characters in the database. I will have to convert them so that they don't display as rubbish on a lot of pages. No idea how to do that yet.

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FYI, it's dead again.

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Yes, the hard disc is about to fail it seems. I don't think I have a backup of the new installation on another disc yet, so in case that the drive really is gone it will take me a couple of days to restore things, again, after finding a suitable replacement. GAH, work! :( :( :(

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Some of you ungrateful ****s should donate to the wiki fund. Apparently I am the only person to have done so thus far. Despite everyone else using it all the time.

That will at least keep lch in really, really cheap rubbing alcohol during this time of stress.

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Oh, good idea! But it's down ... so is there a pledgie thingy somewhere?

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I will try to dig up a reciprocate amount but it might take a month or so.

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we demand a dom3 wiki pledgie!

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What's a reciprocate amount? If I donate $10 you'll donate $0.10? The reciprocal?

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Sombre, you scoundrel! History repeats itself, eh? :) There is no Dom3Wiki pledgie, there was a "Donate" button... on the Dom3Wiki! Talk about bad design. ;) Only Sombre ever used it!

I'd like help in form of contributions to the Wiki far more than donations, like FungalReason, Squirrelloid, Graeme and others have been doing over the past days. But the Wiki and the Donate button will be back, I promise. :P Damn fricken piece of junk...

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Quick, donate $0.000000000001!

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No I meant in reciprocation to the help lch gave when my server had hardware problems.

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I figured as much Gandalf. I was just trying to make a joke. Probably it failed. :)

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People just need more irony potential, Maerlande.

The good news: it seems that no data is lost. I have already backed up everything of importance. It will take some time until I can set up the system on a new hard disc drive, so I'll put it up as is again soon for the time being, but you probably should only read it for now unless you're not concerned that any changes to it might get lost.

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Actually, if you want to add stuff to the Wiki just go ahead. The data is being backed up remotely in a 24 hour cycle now. I'll take care about the hardware problems later.

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I can't reach the server myself right now, maybe it has finally died now. I was getting big honking red flashing S.M.A.R.T. errors, "Help me, I'm dying here! Several errors on multiple partitions!" every time I logged in lately, but as I said I kept daily backups so we should be fine. I already have a replacement drive, but as I hope to get a replacement for the case and everything else aswell things might take a little while to set up again.

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Aaand we're back in business. New junkpile, featuring slightly more RAM and a slightly better CPU - we have arrived in 2003 now, hardware-wise (wooo!) and most importantly a new HDD that hopefully will make less trouble than the old one. Sorry for the wait. Enjoy! :)

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Hey Ich
I've tried a couple of times to add content. Strategy guides, etc. Never had permission to edit. Am I doing something wrong?

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The Wiki is quite nice. But sorry, I just donated my last 20 bucks to Llamaserver. Perhaps, when I get a steadily paying job again, I can donate to the Wiki.

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You need to register to create an account. There's a button on the top right, "Log in / create account" for that. But actually, right now you make me aware that I'm not sure that sending out emails works like it used to... So please report back if you manage to do that!

And apparently the new notebook went into suspend mode when I closed the lid... d'oh! :( That is fixed now.

Lingchih, thanks for considering to absorb the costs, but it doesn't have to be money donations, contribution of content to the Wiki would be nice, too.

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Sorry to resurrect this again, but what was the other unit (besides Klaus) that had this? (since you elsewhere mentioned that the What Links Here approach won't work.)

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Hmm, so the "WhatLinksHere" feature seems invariably broken now. I do want to provide backlinks from the effects to the units and items that provide/possess them with the appropriate numbers, but that would require me to introduce a lot of semantic attributes, something that's quite a lot of labour and thus withheld me from starting to work on it. It's still on my TODO list, though.

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Alternatively, you could let search robots crawl the wiki and let Google et al. do the work for you...or is that not allowed for content distribution reasons?

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The content got green lights from Shrapnel Games and Illwinter. Huh, Google doesn't index it yet? Maybe I prevented robots from doing that. File a bug report / request in the bug tracker. ;)

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Both wiki/Ancient_Presence and wiki/The_Citadel_of_Pyriphlegeton raises database error.

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Thanks, this is a bug in the Semantic MediaWiki extension that I am using. I've prepared a temporary (ugly) fix for this and will hand the bug report upstream.

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To silence scruples, the Dom3Wiki server is running fine, the reason that the site can't be reached since yesterday is that some technicans seems to have b0rked the networking for the whole building. When I was passing the distribution room yesterday, while the net was still working, I saw a couple of technicans in front of it, talking about what to do, apparently they managed to kill the Ciscos with whatever it is that they did.

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There will be another scheduled power cut in the building some time tomorrow, so the Dom3Wiki might be unavailable over the weekends. Enjoy your weekend, everybody!

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Ever since the outage I am unable to modify any pages and get a Internal Error when I try.