Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-4881935-20141122052611/@comment-4881935-20141123054950

@Black Smith, no. At the moment, I suggest to remove almost everything from the item sections of stat pages. The main purpose of this is to be a substitute until we get the database of items completed. Our current system doesn't store the item's stats at all in a fashion that can be pulled from.

First, the database can be edited by anyone. It just that, not many people know how to edit it, or where. I'm sure when it is finish, the item page will have a direct link to the database, something like the current champion pages. And second, you're putting a lot of unneeded extra writing on the item pages if you want the wiki to be pulling all it's information from the item template themselves. Not only are you writing what the item has, you also have to code it to inform what it doesn't have.

For the stat pages, question. No they don't, but I personally see people making poor judgement if they see an item like, listed as 80 AD, 3800g. Or just - 80 AD. There's a lack of stuff and it feels empty for me to look at. And for a tooltip suggestion, you do realize how hard it's going to read everything that will have to be fit within the small tooltip.

So no, we're not going to store the information on the item pages. It made be easier for the common user, but it makes the coder's jobs harder because now they have to actually pull out the right information without pulling out all the other additional information on the item pages, such as the trivial and patch history.