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provocating
07-25-2014, 01:02 PM
I have been putting thought into this and want to bounce some ideas off you guys. I want to create a nice wiki for Chronicles of Norrath. Manually creating these pages will take me a long ass time. I do not mind putting in the desciptions and I can do that in my spare time, but a lot of this data is in the PEQ database. So I am thinking since there is a mediawiki API already out there, and it works well I should be able to hash something out in C# in a short amount of time.

Thoughts on issues I may encounter?
Akkadius
07-25-2014, 01:38 PM
I have been putting thought into this and want to bounce some ideas off you guys. I want to create a nice wiki for Chronicles of Norrath. Manually creating these pages will take me a long ass time. I do not mind putting in the desciptions and I can do that in my spare time, but a lot of this data is in the PEQ database. So I am thinking since there is a mediawiki API already out there, and it works well I should be able to hash something out in C# in a short amount of time.

Thoughts on issues I may encounter?

Not really making much sense what exactly you want to put into the Wiki.
provocating
07-25-2014, 01:40 PM
I found a C# wrapper for MediaWiki, when I have something more solid I will post something here regarding what I am trying to accomplish.

UPDATE:

Okay, using the API was able to create a new MediaWiki page so I am good. My plan is to pull from the PEQ database to create a MediaWiki. Past that point the users will be able to edit the pages to add more specifics like Descriptions of the zones, items, etc..
demonstar55
07-25-2014, 06:24 PM
I think you're wanting to do something like p99's wiki?
provocating
07-25-2014, 06:46 PM
Yep, and it is coming along pretty good right now. I am polling the database and filling the wiki.
demonstar55
07-25-2014, 07:16 PM
Then, as long as the data you want is in the DB, you shouldn't run into issues :P
provocating
07-25-2014, 07:18 PM
It is going to more about cross-linking the data that will be an issue. I will have to seriously think about a good way to accomplish that. It also depends on how much data I want to bring over.