Thread:Fandyllic/@comment-27075564-20170724155029/@comment-1077307-20170807181804

I never said it was coming from SMW.

Its all there. and is self contained. Done in similar way as WowHead, but faster and tighter.

You can generate data from the APIs and so forth, same as when they were mass generating the WoW UI Interface wiki pages and lots of others, but with Lua the lists and the generation can now be one.

You had asked one time that I rebuild the old infrastructures to ease the patch transitions, this is a world better. Doesn't force anything on the wiki or dictate any new design rules either.

The data on the WoW website that's easy to find is terrible now, lots of other webs sites I used to rely on are becoming terrible for details. I spent all day the other day trying to get the basic data those ways for Raid Tracker for patches 7.1.5+, and to update the wiki in all of the usual places as usual and it was epic...

What broke me, was I went to go add the instance ids to the wiki page to be nice in parallel, and I finally gave up and decided I had to go generate what I needed. Then I decided maybe roll a Lua table from the data and generate the wiki with my own WoW add-on editor in the built in Lua console it has. After rolling though al the code I had to write to get that far it downed on me maybe I could just put the generated Lua table in the actual wiki and try out the Lua back-end and immediately realized al the possibilities.

I have spent hours an hours and hour and hours transcribing things I would never do that with outside the wiki. It would be time better spent somewhere else on the wiki.

As an aside I could wrap the whole {{CommonData output in a or and get my root wiki code to paste on a page, or use the data directly.