Category talk:Heroes equipment

Seeing as how the Equipment for alphabet parts have been deleted, would it be possible to at least include the item icons in the heroes equipment pages? I used to visit these pages often and I am sure many others did as well.--CrimSoNAnnihilator (talk) 10:29, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Example: Abaddon's equipment icons used to be listed at http://dota2.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Hero_equipment_A_through_C&action=edit&redlink=1. Could his icons now instead just show here? http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Category:Abaddon_equipment


 * As far as I know (and I don't know too much about this), it would not be possible to add icons of each item. The Category system is built into the Wiki itself and is used for hundreds of other non-icon related topics. I think a new type of page would need to be set up. This change was just done yesterday, so things are still being figured out. Kroocsiogsi should be able to answer your question better, as he performed the deletion and has been here a long time. In the mean time, every hero page has a list of their equipment in the exact same format as before.


 * Example: Abaddon.
 * --PimpadelicX (talk) 07:53, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I would reiterate what PimpadelicX's question. Specifically, does Abaddon fulfil your needs? Alternatively, going to any one of Abaddon's equipment pages and using the navigation template at the bottom of the page? If not, could you expand on your use case more? For instance, why do you prefer to see equipment from heroes with names that begin from A to C? Is it just a convenient way to get to a specific hero? What if we added links on the Equipment page to a gallery for every individual hero? --Kroocsiogsi (talk) 08:27, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for responding. After checking your link I've found what I was looking for at Abaddon. It's a shame that I will need to check every hero this way from now on as I found the original equipment pages very useful. I do understand though that their are technical limits to what would be feasible and am more than happy to use these single equipment pages as replacements.


 * As a possible workaround for this issue, could it be possible that the links could all be placed on a single page and when the user expands one of these links, it would load the data?


 * Example: All heroes from Abaddon to Wraith King are listed on one page as expandable sections. These sections would initially contain nothing, but when the user expands a link, the data would populate for that section only. This would allow all heroes to be on the same page, while at the same time minimize the initial size and only retrieve the data that was requested.--CrimSoNAnnihilator (talk) 10:29, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * An interesting proposition, but I don't think the Wiki can do that at the moment. Perhaps there is an SMW extension that could be implemented, but for now the best thing we could do is make a table linking to each hero equipment page in a similar manner to the front page. Another idea would be to link to the templates themselves saving the user load time, but I think it'd be best to keep the templates out of the public eye. Either way, your suggestion or my table would be nothing but a good thing in my eye, assuming it works correctly.
 * --PimpadelicX (talk) 13:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * This is a good idea. CategoryTree, which provides the current category tree on Equipment, lazyloads like this. I don't know if it's technically possible to implement, but it's worth looking into. PimpadelicX, can you explain a little more why you think linking to the templates would be a bad idea? It doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Are you thinking that they would be more prone to vandalism? --Kroocsiogsi (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2014 (UTC)


 * What do you think of the change I just made to Category:Abaddon equipment? Does it solve anything do you think? --Kroocsiogsi (talk) 20:45, 26 June 2014 (UTC)