Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-35719775-20190514163556

s'up.

So right now we've got a bit of an issue with keeping the breed count on the wiki in sync with the number of breeds in the in-game encyclopedia. Previously we were manually updating the breed count with each new release, I've tried updating to an automatic process that will increment with each page added to Category:Dragon Types, but this is kind of tenuous because:


 * Non-article sub-types included in Category:Dragon Types count toward the total
 * Some non-breed articles or redundant articles are included (ie, Bright Pink Dragon which in-game is merged with Aria Dragon as a breed, the Legendary Trio article, Leetle Tree)
 * Seasonals are treated as 4 breeds by the encyclopedia, but 1 article on the wiki

Right now we take the number of pages in Dragon Types and subtract 16 to align with the site-recognized breed count. I don't love this, because then any time a non-dragon article/category is added to Category:Dragon Types we need to update the expression to calculate the number of breeds. And we're not even subtracting all 19 non-breed articles in Dragon Types, because the Seasonals create a 3 breed debt by being listed as 1 breed.

It'd probably be more convenient in the long run to just keep a 1:1 relationship between wiki breed articles and encyclopedia breed articles, and have a separate category that's only for catching breed articles (rather than Category:Dragon Types, which includes breed articles, group articles and categories, rarity categories, etc).

tl;dr: To automatically keep breed count up to date as new dragons are added to the game and the wiki, I'd like to:
 * 1) Create a new category exclusively for dragon breed articles to keep an accurate page count
 * 2) Break Seasonal Dragon article into distinct breeds as the in-game encyclopedia does
 * 3) Merge the Bright Pink Dragon and Aria Dragon articles (Optional. If new breed article category is added, Bright Pink can just be omitted from the category as a retired breed) 