User talk:LuciferLilac

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Hi, welcome to the Fallen London Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Large Single Item Expenditures page.

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Happy Editing!

P.S. Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything else! -- Aximillio (talk) 16:54, 24 February 2022

Hi, thanks for that. We already have a lot of information on item/quality requirements accessibly or somewhat accessibly with the help of Semantic Mediawiki. There is not yet an automatic way to query our database for "actions which cost more than 1000 of something for example", but that might happen within the next several says. Also, you can use the search to find actions which spend, say, a triple-digit amount of something. Is there any information like that you would like to have accessible for the purposes of this guide? -- RagCall (talk) 18:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I'm honestly really not sure what I'm doing, never edited any kind of wiki before lol. Right now I was just doing things by hand but if you had a way of making things slightly faster that'd be appreciated lol!

I basically just have been playing for six months or so and have been frustrated by the seeming lack of any pages that say "hey, here's the *expensive* uses of this particular item", so I thought I'd make it myself!

I'm the type of person ~~Autistic~~ who's happy to methodically do this by rote, so honestly the most useful thing to me would be a more experienced editer reformatting the sections I've already done to be more in line with the wiki standard?

Many thanks!

- Lucy LuciferLilac (talk) 18:21, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Alright then! For now, you can use the search to find pages which mention an item and contain at least a 4-digit number followed by an ' x', so it would find all of the following:

• 1000 x
• 6347 x (other 4-digit number)
• 35423 x (5-digit number)

using the following search query in the usual search:

insource:/[0-9]{4,} x/

(The results are here)

To pick it apart a bit more:

• insource searches in the source code of a page
• for the regular expression specified by the following
  • [0-9] (a digit)
  • occuring 4 or more ({4,}) times
  • followed by a space and the letter x

This should find most occurrences.

Of course you can exchange the 4 for a 3 or 5.

And you can pair it with item names like this. That should at least make stuff a bit faster.

If you have any other questions, let me know here or on my own talk page! -- RagCall (talk) 18:42, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I believe I follow how that works, but it seems to result in too wide a net right now. Would you be able to tell me how to search, for example:

Category: Moon Pearl insource:/[0-9]{4,} x/? LuciferLilac (talk) 18:49, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Now, that's a good idea. That would be incategory:"Moon-Pearl" insource:/[0-9]{4,} x/ (Moon-Pearl has a dash, which I could also have sworn it did not).
For more details, see the search help in the MediaWiki documentation, particularly the section on searching in categories. -- RagCall (talk) 07:59, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Guides

Just as a heads-up, we also have a template for linking to guides: Template:HasGuide (the text is more generic, though). -- RagCall (talk) 21:14, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Ah well, it's done now, lol!

I just was incredibly annoyed at how hard the leveling guide was to find (I tried searching "attributes", "skills gain", "grinding" etc and couldn't find it) so I took it upon myself to fix that lol 193.28.38.202 22:10, 26 February 2022 (UTC)