User:Adys/News/Items/OpenWDB

It's true I was not supposed to come back working on any WoW-related projects, particularly now I have other very long non-WoW ones. Though, a couple of days ago, I got my hands on the client again (hey, against my will!). Figured it was time to complete a 1-year old project.

Creating a database on the wiki is nothing specially new. With the help of Zeal and Tekkub, we had that started during the BC betas. The ones who were around at this time will remember all the slowdowns, crashes, errors... well, it was horrible. The hacked templates were slowing the wiki down in a horrible and painful way. Eventually, we stopped. A couple of months later, the parser functions were installed on the wiki. Well-needed, we got around finishing a lot of neat templates. But we had given up on creating a db back then, including me. Well, it's time to get the project up again. During these months, I had largely the time to design a solid ground-up MediaWiki-based WoW all-around database (SGUMWBWOWAADB for short). The ones who don't know how a db works will want to read up on the soon-to-be-updated process page, which will explain what will happen and how (and eventually why). More knowledgeable folks will want to read up on the OpenWDB syntax and definition as well as the Item default and an Item example.