What could we do on the Wiki to let smart assistants answer questions about what herb heals what injuries?

If I ask the Google Assistant on my phone, "In the Gemstone 4 game, what herb heals minor limb injuries?" it will provide a link to the herb guide on play.net and on the wiki. But I want it to just say "ambrominas leaf." It would also be helpful if I could ask it about Icemule, Pinefar or Teras herbs.

At first I thought maybe if we put hidden text on the Wiki with a separate sentence for each herb (e.g., "In the Gemstone 4 game, ambrominas leaf is the herb that heals minor limb injuries." "In the Gemstone 4 game, basal moss is the herb that heals minor torso injuries." and so on) and then waited several days for the search engine to index that information, then that might work. But I see that there is already a separate wiki page for ambrominas leaf that contains a similar sentence.

There is probably a way I could get my personal Google Assistant to answer herb questions using its Remember command or using IFTTT, but by now I've pretty much got the herbs memorized, and that solution would only work for one person.

Herbs seems like a good place to start because it is a fairly easy topic that would be useful to other people.

>I don't know why the wiki doesn't use them.

because someone has to go in and individually create them. The wiki doesn't have a professional webmaster who knows the ins and outs of webpage design, and depending on Simu for that type of input or help is unproductive. If you feel this is a major issue that the wiki is lacking, please start a discussion in the village pump and we'll see what we can do.

Many information-heavy sites generate these crucial markups automatically from the first paragraph on the page, too. It's not optimal, but it saves work.

Whether you mean content or coding, Allereli, you're right. If there is not someone in charge of it at the home office ... we're going to have to do what we can with what we have.

Back to the question at hand, one could BUILD a mobile-friendly, search-friendly herbs web site, get Google on it, and PRESTO! Your voice assistant should be able to find the information.

;herbs2 seems quicker to me :)

~L

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>I was just thinking it would be fun to get the so-called "smart" assistants to respond audibly to a request for info about GS4.

Alexa integration would definitely be something I'm interested in

>I cant do it on my phone but there is a focus search link some GM made that searches only GM specific sites.

I think he meant GS specific sites:

http://gs4search.surge.sh/

This should probably be updated to include the Elanthian Forums, Twitter, and Reddit (if that's going to be used regularly). I believe Wyrom has the info to do that.

Oooh, what fun!

Alexa, in Gemstone, what herb do I need for a minor limb injury?


... don't tempt me to go there. I have THINGS that need doing instead.

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;tune towncrier

"I cannot sort the spell active window the way I want to (either by choosing which ones are at the top or allow sorting by duration left)" -- The WikiWitch

The last I paid attention, aren't they grouped by list in order by level?
(And seeing that word, 'window', made me think, "Okay, THERE is a reason to use StormFront (rather than having to type out/hit the macro for, 'Spell Active', each time).")
(With the Wizard, is it possible to train one of the sub-windows that doesn't get used (like Familiar, for a non-Wizard character, or Thought (for pretty much all of me)) to accept the 'spell active' readout?)

>>"Alexa, in Gemstone, what herb do I need for a minor limb injury?" -- Luxelle

I am doomed. You have given me a project idea that now won't get out of my head.