Forum:Spell table idea

{{forum post| I have set our Golem ready for action if you think so. (I set it up, so it can easily find "{{split table" or "{{class table" and replace it with "{{spell table" or even "{{spell table|edition=" (Note that it will always be in semiautomatic to prevent changing non-spell pages. Also, it is even possible to be more effective so as to add more parameters but that requires more expertize), but as mentioned we will still need to do some manual work too, quite less though and those pages will be visible from Special:RecentChanges or from Special:Contributions/StoneGolemBot once it has worked on them. OR I can even work on them slowly as the bot reaches each page. Either way, manual or not I'm in to help..
 * — Jandor (talk) 21:33, August 22, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| This is going to be a hard slog any way we cut it. To be sure, you will have to match "{{Split table", "{{split table", "{{Class table", and "{{class table". I hope the bots can use categories. For a test, can you do the two spells in Category:Encounter evocations? Replace just the first occurrence of split/class table with. If your test case works, then you can turn it lose on all the spells in Category:Encounter prayers (4 pages, replacement string: ) and Category:Encounter spells (55 pages, replacement string:  ). Only change the first occurrence of split/class table. Then I'll go through them and finish them off. How does that sound?
 * &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 00:19, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| Using the bot on cats... *DW cringes* I will admit, ole Stoney is like bulldozer... I hope he does not create havoc...
 * - Darkwynters (talk) 04:16, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| Darkwynters, I kept a hard leash on our stony and so he did both 59 pages, mentioned above, quite comfortably and with no rage.. :) (Please check Tempest breath cause there is a "formely", indicating a previous edition other than 4e, but the input after the "Stony" touched it is also 4e... and also others if you want before it goes bulldozer-hard on all others...:P ) I will go through the other spells (Category:Spells nearly 720) in 10 hours or so (from time of posting)...(Are there any other spells anywhere?) Also, categories have been added automatically...Moviesign your spell table is indeed a genious masterwork (I had to test it with bot to fully comprehend the value of it...) Darkwynters is proud of you...
 * — Jandor (talk) 08:34, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{Forum post|Looking great, everyone. It looks like Jandor has things covered with the StoneGolemBot and he's all over the regular expressions. If you have anything dumb for me and UnseenServantBot to follow up on, let me know.|— BadCatMan (talk) 12:30, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| I'll have to look up Tempest breath when I get home to my books. Thanks for running the bot on those pages Jandor. I have gone behind you and removed the old categories from those pages. What are you proposing for all the other spells? There is no way to automatically pick the right edition(s) on those. I'm in favor of breaking it up into blocks of 50 or so and sharing the load. I doubt you want to sit at the computer for 10 hours and edit all those yourself. BadCat, if you find some time, you're welcome to use UnseenServant in manual edit mode to help us out :) And you never know, you might discover a batch that could be done automatically. DW, please help me think of the best way to categorize 4e spells. It might involve changing the way the {{tl|Spell}} template and/or the {{tl|Spell table}} work, to get them in the right format and categories. I'm wondering specifically about the power names (Discipline, Evocation, Hex, Prayer etc.) and how they relate to class and level. Also, Category:Spells by level only makes sense when it is edition-specific. Once this template conversion is done, there will be a bunch of categories to delete and new, higher-level ones to create and organize. If you can see where automatic category generation can help, let me know. Thanks! :)
 * &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 14:13, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| It's not that difficult (..I really meant 10 hours from the time I posted (I wanted to go to a near beach :P) ) I think the best plan is for the bots to go like what we have set them (replacing the things we said) and their operators (e.g. me, badcatman) to change the specific edition. This can easily be done, in the way I describe in BadCatMan's talk page where I left a descriptive note, for unseen to also work easily on this and future changes implimentations. We are all doing a great work and we are having fun too.. Anyone, keep right behind the Stony Havoc path and make any other changes you think.
 * — Jandor (talk) 18:03, August 23, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| {{tl|spell table}} has been deployed. I hope we didn't miss any spell pages. Let me know if you have any problems using it.
 * &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 02:37, August 28, 2013 (UTC)}}

{{forum post| I'm thinking of adding the sort field to the automatically generated spell categories for spheres and domains. So it would produce something like: Does that seem like a good idea?
 * &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 22:04, September 11, 2013 (UTC)}}