User:ArmoryProfileBot/FAQ

This page will attempt to answer common questions about the ArmoryProfileBot and provide solutions to common problems. = == General == =
 * Can I add an APB character table to a non-User : article?
 * No. APB currently only supports articles in the User : namespace, to prevent the possibility of its damaging "real" wiki articles.  If you want an APB table to appear in another namespace, create an article under your user page and add it to the user list, then include that page's  in the non-User : article.


 * Wait, what do you mean "an article under my user page"?
 * For example, Kirkburn has "Kirkburn/Characters" in the user list instead of "Kirkburn", so APB looks for his character list at [[User:Kirkburn/Characters/APB Config ]] and posts the character table at   .  By using sub-pages this way, you can place as many APB tables as you like under your user page -- one for you, one for your guild, one for the scepter holders...


 * Can APB create tables in other languages?
 * No. Wowpedia is an English-language wiki and visitors expect the information here to be in English.  Charater, guild, and server/realm names pulled from foreign-language Armories will be displayed in their native language, of course, but all other information (stat names, professions, classes, races, ...) will be displayed in English.

= == Character Lists == =
 * Is there a limit to how many characters APB will retrieve for me?
 * Yes. APB uses several fairly complex templates, so having too many characters on the same page (even if they are in separate tables) can overload MediaWiki's template engine.  To help prevent this, APB currently only publishes the first twenty characters in your character list.


 * What regions does APB support?
 * Currently, APB only supports the North American (US) and European (EU) armory servers. I will be looking at adding support for the Korean (KR) region soon.  If you are aware of an Armory in another region which you would like to see supported, drop a note on my talk page with the URL.


 * Does APB work with servers/realms whose names contain spaces and apostrophes?
 * Yes. Because region names do not (and character names cannot) contain non-letter characters, they're very easy to handle in server/realm names.


 * Does APB work with character/server/guild/etc. names with accented or other non-ASCII letters? (e.g. ö é β ...)
 * Yes. APB should be able to read character names which contain accented letters typed directly (ö), as named HTML entities (&amp;ouml;), as numeric entities (&amp;#246;), or as hex entities (&amp;#xF6;).


 * Does my character list need to include the data template?
 * No. APB ignores it if it is present and will not complain if it is not.  However, some users (myself included) like to add that template, as it indicates that the character list is not a normal wiki article and should not be edited like one.

= == Character Tables == =
 * Can I change the way my character table looks?
 * Not at this time. However, the ability to use templates of your choosing is planned for a future version of APB.


 * Help! My character table didn't get created!
 * In order to avoid swamping Wowpedia or the Armory, APB only runs once a day, early in the morning Pacific time, so if it's been less than a day since you posted your name to the user list, you just need to be patient. If it's been more than a day, then most likely APB was not able to find your  [[/APB Config ]].  Double-check the entry you added to the user list and the name of your Config file and make sure they match.  If you added "JohnDoe" to the user list, then APB will look for an article named " User:JohnDoe/APB Config " for your character list.


 * One or more of my characters don't appear in my character table.
 * Check the source of your   by visiting that page and selecting the  tab.  APB leaves notes in your character table as  when it encounters a problem with a character.  The most common of these is:


 * This means that the Armory returned an empty profile for that character, either because it does not exist at all in the Armory or because it's level is too low for it to be tracked. If you can see that character in the Armory directly, double-check your character list for typos.