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Originally Posted by loramin
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The reason I'm focusing on this is, I really think it's going to be A LOT harder to flag everything in the wiki by patch than by era (eras are half done).
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First, we have to decide if we really care. We didn't even have a wiki in live, is it really important to accurately tag each piece of content? How bad do you feel if someone runs across karana to find an NPC that didn't actually exist until later in that "general period of time (era)", or gathered all the mats for a cultural recipe but then it turns out that recipe wasn't around until later in velious.
Assuming you want 100% accuracy:
A. The annoucement indicated monthly patches. the list he gave was called the "highlights". So you would want that granularity.
B. I don't think you have to make a hard swap. Here's how I would do it
1. rename existing eras. "Stonebrunt Era" -> "March 2001 (Stonebrunt)"
... I'm not sure if live timeline months make sense here, since our timeline may be slightly different, live monthish? p99 green month (which we may not know until it happens)? p99 green patch #? You may have to change the name of the groups over time, I Assume this is trivial to rename existing category. Probably not for a user, but for the administrator it should be similar to a find/replace?
2. Add new eras. Empty at start, and then over time people can move content from the original eras you have already defined today, into more specific areas.
This way, none of the work you've already done is wasted. Things are already "close" to when they happened on live, and as people learn that a npc/item/recipe/etc is actually attached to a smaller patch, they can just update the era/patch for that content.
You still have some outliers that are more complicated. Things that were introduced at some point after launch, and then removed/changed/nurfed at some other point, so you have to have some way to indicate multiple eras i guess