Topic on User talk:Harakoni

Hello, I am writing on behalf of the RimWorld Chinese Wiki team. We would like to inquire about an efficient method to extract and organize game data for populating our wiki's infoboxes.

Currently, due to the limited number of active contributors, updating these sections has become quite challenging. However, we still aim to provide players with comprehensive and detailed content. If you could kindly share any advice or tools that might streamline this process, we would be immensely grateful.

Thank you sincerely for your time and assistance!

Really grateful if could help😭😭

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While editors have made tools to automate the extraction of data before, the majority of it is just taken manually from the .xmls. They're largely human readable (though they are in English) so copying data over that way is typically less work than developing bespoke tools. We had the advantage of being able to grow with the game though - if we were to have to do it all again now, maybe automation would be more viable.

The real trick is making sure that the data is accessible such that you can update one page and have all the other pages update automatically and you can build templates that can extrapolate from it. This wiki uses semantic media wiki and the properties to do that. Template: Infobox main sets most of the properties the wiki uses. For example: here are the properties for a flak vest. And I can ask the wiki to tell me that. So I can use {{Q|Flak vest|Market Value Base}} to say the market value is 225 silver and that number will update whenever the page is updated. The same basic premise lets us do things like the Template:Apparel Stats Table where we take the values from the page properties and do math to find the outcome.

It also has a nice feedback loop where you can tell the wiki to print the details of every item in a class and you can easily spot missing entries.

Sorry if that is not particularly helpful for your case.

Thank you for your thoughtful response - the insights you've provided have genuinely helped advance our understanding of the matter. If it's not too much to ask, would you consider sharing a contact method for professional communication platforms like Discord? This would allow us to consult you more conveniently should any follow-up questions arise. Please understand this is merely a respectful inquiry, and we completely respect your boundaries if this request isn't appropriate. Your guidance would be sincerely appreciated regardless.

Please note this message was translated by AI. Apologies in advance if any phrasing comes across as impolite! 🙏