The Tavern

duvessa wrote:Corpses created by Receive Corpses cannot create hides.

crawl wiki wrote: Note that some of the corpses may be fresh enough to produce hides when butchered, so you might be able to pick some dragon armour that way.

Skrybe wrote:Yeah, that's why I was trying in the first place. It's also mentioned in the troll article.

DracheReborn wrote:I think it's a problem because searching anything crawl related in Google usually dumps you on badwiki as the first link (which is how I often ended up there). To be fair, tavern posts are usually the second or third links and the info here is usually better, but not as neatly organized unfortunately. Ideally, learndb should be indexable by search engines, but it seems that it's not the case?

nicolae wrote:

DracheReborn wrote:I think it's a problem because searching anything crawl related in Google usually dumps you on badwiki as the first link (which is how I often ended up there). To be fair, tavern posts are usually the second or third links and the info here is usually better, but not as neatly organized unfortunately. Ideally, learndb should be indexable by search engines, but it seems that it's not the case?

In that case, you can just go to http://crawl.develz.org/learndb/ itself and then hit Ctrl+F

reaver wrote:

Skrybe wrote:Yeah, that's why I was trying in the first place. It's also mentioned in the troll article.

Note this kind of misinformation is pandemic on crawl wiki. Ideally you would not read it at all, simply because the lies are so smoothy mixed with the truth that it's impossible to tell the difference unless you already know about the topic of the article.

nicolae wrote:My current favorite bit of misinformation is that the plutonium sword inflicts Translocations miscasts, even though that is demonstrably untrue and doesn't even make sense, and yet the strategy listed on the page works with the assumption that it works like a distortion weapon.

duvessa wrote:Most of the people who complain about the wiki try to do exactly that for a while, then get discouraged when someone just replaces their edit with more wrong information (just look what happens to the character guides). After reading battaile's post I tried to log in to fix the corpse delivery article only to find that my account had been deleted for the second time, and at this point I see little reason to bother sending another email.

Tiktacy wrote:The biggest design flaw in people is that it makes everyone think what they say is right, even when it isn't.

Inspired by Tiktacy, Hirsch I wrote:The biggest design flaw in people is that it makes everyone think what they say is right, even when it isn't.

MoogleDan wrote:And on a less immature, more useful note...

If you really want to see bad wiki dead, the easiest way that's going to happen is to replace it with good wiki. If you see something false, be it something tiny and subtle or hilariously blatant, message me about it, or get yourself an account on the wiki and update it yourself! I assure you that this is a lot more productive than collecting lists of favorites. That's all I ask, and I don't think it's asking much.

XuaXua wrote:

MoogleDan wrote:And on a less immature, more useful note...

If you really want to see bad wiki dead, the easiest way that's going to happen is to replace it with good wiki. If you see something false, be it something tiny and subtle or hilariously blatant, message me about it, or get yourself an account on the wiki and update it yourself! I assure you that this is a lot more productive than collecting lists of favorites. That's all I ask, and I don't think it's asking much.

Pretty much what I'd have asked, but these people here wojld rather spend time complaining about invalid data rather than validating and fixing it.

Fix a page that isn't someone's personal obsession.

Moanerette wrote:Proofreader seems to be a dying profession. I certainly can't get any work, and it's about the only thing I'm any good at.