Forum:How do you manually update world qualities?
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How do you manually update world qualities?[edit]
The False-Season is Autumn, not Summer, and I'd really like to get this one fixed because it means the tracker on The Rat Market guide is incorrect. - TheDoctor1977 (talk) 18:35, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- As a sub-page from the World Quality page, there will be a sub-page named /History.[1]. So for the False-Season, it would be The False-Season:/History. This is the page that was previously updated via bot, and now must be manually updated by wiki users.
The format was originally designed for bots, not humans, so it's not very friendly but not too bad to work with. It looks a bit better in Edit mode, where you can see the linebreaks. The general format is each line is an observation of the world quality, with a timestamp. The number before the pipe is the value, and the value after is a timestamp which if you stare at it is just concatenation of date parts, YYYYMMDDhhmmss. The last line has the current value, inside wiki markup that lets other pages recognize it as the current value. Note that many World Qualities are numbers under the hood, even if they display as strings, the mapping is defined in the source code for the world quality page itself.
To update, copy out the old values onto a new line to keep the history. And then replace the old values inside the markup with new values. You can backdate the timestamp if you want to, if you happen to know the exact switchover. Functionally the only part that actually matters for the rest of the wiki is what's inside the Current Value markup, but sometimes historical records are nice.
- PSGarak (talk) 19:06, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- ↑ This is different from the /history sub-page, which tracks the edit history. This name collision is my fault, I apologize for the difficulty it may cause.
