Wiki FashionQuest Just Got Even Better

[loramin]

TLDR
If you want to find items that are in 2-3 categories (eg. all Shaman-wearable, head slot items with the "Leather" fashion appearance) you can now do so at:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Item_Category_Search. BE SURE to read the warning at the top.


Details
If you missed it I added fashion categories to the wiki a few months back. While they're better than what we had before (nothing) they do have significant limits.

For instance if you want to see all the "Leather" fashion items in the wiki you can go to the "Fashion: Leather" category page. But what if you want to see all Shaman-wearable head-slot items that have that look? Until now, there was no real way to do such a "multi-category search".

(Side Note: A better way to solve this would have been the official wiki multi-category search extension, but I could never figure out who to bribe to get it added to our wiki, so you're stuck with my ghetto version.)

The wiki now has a new page, http://wiki.project1999.com/Item_Category_Search, which you can use to search for items across 2-3 categories. Continuing my previous example, you could use the page to search for the categories "Shaman Equipment", "Head" and "Fashion: Leather", and you will be given a list of only Shaman-wearable leather-looking hats.

However there is a big caveat: the search runs via Javascript, which means it runs on your machine, not the wiki's. To do the search it has to make your browser go to every page in each of the categories you picked (most categories have at least a few pages, and ones like "Shaman Equipment" have a ton). This means the search takes a few seconds to work, but more importantly it means that if your browser just looked up (say) 40 pages, from the wiki's perspective that was like 40 people all trying to get a page at once.

Because of this PLEASE restrict your use of this tool to one search every minute or two, especially for the next few days when there are likely to be a bunch of people using it at once. As long as everyone limits themselves the wiki should be able to handle this new tool without slowing things down noticeably for anyone.

In any case, enjoy the new tool and happy FashionQuesting!