Would it be necessary to keep that long list of tiered spells including level, skill and description on the bottom of the page now that all the “main” pages for the spells are complete and referred to? To me this seems a bit overdone.
--Rvlion 14:09, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I know StalePopcorn wanted that full list on the skill pages so that there is a way of asking things like "when will I get which spell" (sort by adventure or skill levels). If you look at the biped school pages (e.g., Warrior), you will see a listing for the spell lines based on the Usable By property; it might make sense for that template (Template:SchoolQuests) or something similar to be on the Dragon adventure school page. --Swordmage 17:47, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
The problem I have with the current listing is that it shows every Tier of every Spell and because of this only 10 out of 19 spells fit on this page, which increases the uselessness by my idea, but I will not change the listing untill StalePopcorn has given his opinion.
Although for easier access I have made the seperate linked listing for each spell.
--Rvlion 18:02, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- You will notice at the bottom of that list a further results link that, with much more trouble than should be, gets the full list. We see that same problem with the quest lists on Kion and Sslanis. --Swordmage 18:21, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- I just discovered another option for the Semantic Mediawiki that may help: limit=1000 can be added to an ask request to increase the number of entries displayed (lower numbers could be used). I added this to the NPC list on the Kion page as an example of how it works. If we all think this is a good thing to do for most of these generated tables, we can start adding them to the pages and templates. --Swordmage 18:40, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
One step ahead of me as usual folks :) np with using the limit=x parameter. While the page does get a fair bit longer, the actual size of the page (as in amount for users to download) isn't significant. I tried to find out if semantic lists could be split horizontally so they wouldn't be as long lists, but doesn't seem to be possible.
I'm more concerned about large pages with a lot of text/images that would take too long to load. Lists should be fine. As a quick test, if you see any page entries that you have to scroll down > 5 screens to view then that is getting too long.
StalePopcorn 21:59, January 22, 2010 (UTC)