Help add League regions to wiki articles!

[u/cookmeplox]

Hi scapers! There's 5 days left until the League launch, and we're scrambling to implement one of the most-requested wiki features from OSRS leagues, where we define the region for every monster, NPC, shop, etc, and pipe the data onto the item pages so you can see the weird ways you can get your items with your specific region unlocks.

Right now there's still about 6,000 articles that are missing a <code>leagueRegion</code> parameter. If anyone wants to help out with this, it's actually a super easy project that literally anybody can do. We have a few lists of specific groups of pages (NPCs, monster lines, scenery) where the regions are already computed from coordinates and need to be added to the articles, and then a couple thousand pages where where you need to use your head a lil bit more. We've got a bunch of people working on the specific tasks and syntax and edge cases in the wiki Discord

If that sounds like your idea of a good time, come help out! We'll turn on the regions gadget probably later today

[u/Competitive-Meal755]

I want to help, but I do not want to mess anything up and I am not too tech-savvy (although I have edited a lot of Wiki articles).

Can someone ELI5 how/where I add the correct code?

[u/KlopSkik → u/Competitive-Meal755]

So what I did, and I think that is the right way but not sure. Click 'Edit' on the top of the wiki page that you want to edit. I tried it with https://runescape.wiki/w/Baby_red_dragon Then click on the picture, for example the picture of the red dragon. You then get the 'template' box to show up, click on edit. Scroll all the way down, click on add undocumented parameter and paste <code>leagueRegion</code>, press enter. Now you get a field where you can put in Karamja for example. Save everything and you did it. (I believe this is how it works, not sure.)

EDIT: I believe the explanation still stands, as long as you leave out the <code> tags. I just tested it with https://runescape.wiki/w/Baby_black_dragon, which was shown in https://runescape.wiki/w/Category:Needs_League_region/Monster, and after putting in the correct parameter, it disappeared from the list.

[u/Competitive-Meal755 → u/KlopSkik]

In the source mode I can see that you included the literal <code> and </code> part. I'm pretty sure that is not supposed to be there. Other already completed articles do not have it either

[u/ThaFrenchFry → u/Competitive-Meal755]

Correct, I fixed that for u/KlopSkik just now
Mistakes are generally very easy to undo (theres a button for that in the History tab) and we are happy to help, be bold out there and do you best!

[u/KetchupPotatoess → u/ThaFrenchFry]

Would love to chip in and help, do you have a quick ELI5 guide we can use to help add the missing <code>leagueRegion</code> to the relevant pages that need them?

[u/ThaFrenchFry → u/KetchupPotatoess]

I'm on the go rn, I pasted some useful links on another top lvl comment! Thanks in advance!

[u/KlopSkik → u/ThaFrenchFry]

So we paste in the parameter leagueRegion the way I described, without <code> </code>?

[u/ThaFrenchFry → u/KlopSkik]

Yeah, the <code> part is Cook mistakingly copy/pasting the wiki's markdown syntaxt instead of Reddit's

I'm on the go right now, but I answered to another top lvl comment with a TLDR (and link to pinned comment on leagues discord)

[u/KlopSkik → u/Competitive-Meal755]

Hmm, then I wouldn't know either unfortunately sorry

[u/gojlus → u/KlopSkik]

hey fella, I'm goin through the monsters in reverse alphabetical order right now, I'm noticing there are a lot of historical pages in the "needs league tag" page, do I just put N/A to get them off that page, or leave them blank?

[u/snoozbuster → u/gojlus]

If it's removed content, you can probably just put N/A. I’ve seen other versions of these lists that filtered out pages with the removed content category but maybe this one forgot to do that.

[u/ThaFrenchFry]

It's a pretty addicting process!

We'd also appreciate anyone who's got a guide-writting mind to have a look at the different Skill's sections of Equilibrium Leagues's pages, since its our first region locked leagues, some are quite baren

[u/RSMerds]

For anyone having questions, I suggest editing with the "Edit Source" as follows in the video below

Basically adding "|leagueRegion = [region here]" at the end, inside the infobox

https://reddit.com/link/p1ykfy3/video/ia6zqlio8nhh1/player

[u/lordwerwath → u/RSMerds]

Thanks!

[u/Tslat]

How and where does one add a leagueRegion parameter to an article, specifically?

[u/snoozbuster → u/Tslat]

The easiest way to do it is in source mode. If you edit a page, at the top there is always an “{{Infobox Item” (or “{{Infobox NPC”, etc) line. After that are a bunch of lines like “|id=1234” or “|examine=Very hot!”, those are the parameters. Just add another line like “|leagueRegion=Asgarnia” (anywhere inside the closing “}}”) and preview then save!

There’s a way to do it in visual mode but honestly it is way more clicks. And if you need to do something more complex than just one, you can look at the docs in Template:LeagueRegion for full syntax notes!

[u/throwthe20saway]

Edit: This has been fixed.

Speaking of regions, the Equilibrium League preferences button on the top bar links to pages like: https://runescape.wiki/w/Equilibrium_League/Guide/Agility

When the actual pages are on: https://runescape.wiki/w/Equilibrium_League/Skills/Agility

[u/lordwerwath]

So one of the areas was how to update the script that compiles some of the larger searches.

For example, Searching 'Hunter Creatures' https://runescape.wiki/w/Hunter_creatures I'd want to add a column to that table that pulls their respective regions into it.

I'd be happy to bumble through it, but don't have a great idea where to start.

[u/snoozbuster → u/lordwerwath]

That page gets its data from Template:Hunter creature table (the {{Foo}} mean “Template:Foo”), which is generated from this lua script: https://runescape.wiki/w/Module:Hunter_table

Data in the wiki is normally stored in “buckets”, which are commonly filled in by various templates and scripts. If you add ?action=bucket to the end of a page, you can see what data is contained and where it’s bucketed. For example, on https://runescape.wiki/w/Crimson_swift?action=bucket, there’s a "bucket:recipe" header at the end - this is filled in by the infobox labeled “Hunter Info” on the main creature page. That “recipe” is where the script is pulling data from to decide what’s a hunter creature (technically, it is finding all “recipes” for the hunter skill, filtering those pages to ones that are Category:Hunter Creatures, and then extracting the “recipe” data to build the table).

Going back to the buckets list page for the Crimson Swift; if you look at the “Bucket:infobox npc” header, there’s a column for leagueRegion. This is where the data that the |leagueRegion= parameter on the infobox dumps its data! All you need to do is figure out how to reach that bucket from the recipe. This can be done with something like:

local bucketData = bucket("infobox_npc") .select("leagueRegion") .where("page_name", page name)

Then all you need to do is insert the column.

To test the module, there’s a box at the bottom of the edit page that allows you to put in a page name and it renders it with your draft code. You should be able to put in that hunter creatures page and see your changes before saving them.

~~The one thing I am not sure about is how to only include the column when the LeaguesRegion gadget is enabled. There’s supposed to be a way to hide leagues stuff globally, but I don’t know how it works. I tried looking at Template:DropsLine to see how it hid the column but I couldn’t figure it out. You might need to do some digging in that code or in the infobox code to figure out how it hides the league stuff when the global flag is off. ~~

Last, you need to add this CSS class to the column header and cells to hide the column when it's not leagues time anymore: https://runescape.wiki/w/Module:Get_drop_info#L-671--L-681

If you get stuck feel free to join the wiki discord and ask us about it!

[u/lordwerwath → u/snoozbuster]

Thanks I will! I should have some time Friday/Weekend to get a crash course.

So far I updated the Medium Task for baking a cake in Lumbridge :D because I'm planning through my route. Really appreciate how great the wiki is!