Thread:Karuberu/@comment-195370-20171019155213/@comment-195370-20171020222253

Yeah.. #lst.. I was searching around on how best to bring info into that new-style zone page I was working on and never 100% completed (helped now tooltip maps are back!), and it looked like the correct solution. Checked on Special:Version and lo and behold it was there. Has it been there forever? Who knew.

AH Categories
Weapon (AH) it is then. This is what I ended up going for in my template, so glad we're on the same page. Only reason I didn't use long-form 'Auction House' was space on the categories bar.

Equipment Categories
My preference is also for a prominent link over transclusion, but we can always listen to feedback on that.

Stat Categories
So yeah I mean this is just so a generated category page creates the list of all, eg, 'Enhances Aquaveil', or 'Magic Burst II' items. I'd envisage pulling the info out of the pages into tables at the top of said category pages - the sort that you can currently find "List of all equipment that has xxx". Completely useless for basic stats and substats (STR/DEX/DEF/Attack/Accuracy) as the list would be 10k long. Having a sortable table on a category page means that editors can quickly see that if the table at the top has 12 items and the category lists 13, something needs to be updated.

Categorization Guidelines
Another time then! Kinda think this'll come out in the wash with the designs suggested.

Equipment Tables
So the major quirk about section tags is precisely that they don't function from within templates (you get the section of the root Template, not the page it's transcluded to). That'd just be too neat and easy! However, Templates call the reference via #lst based on parameters fed into it, which obvs means keeping data in one place and getting some neat transclusions to zone, monster, reference and guide articles (I guess you know that, but lurking editors might be reading). I am aware that this may mean splattering item pages with messy sections, but I think that overall it can be well worth it if handled as neatly as we can. Botting in around Item Image would be fab (as per Beehive Chip, then I can manually update the ones where users have just dumped images onto pages as I come across them.

Template Auto-categorization
Good!