The Great Library of Greyhawk incorporates the Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index!

 

The Great Library of Greyhawk has a brand new feature!

 

What is it?

The project originally created by Jason Zavoda the Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index, has been modernized and integrated into the GLoG. Through the diligent efforts of Eric Johnson to turn the EGI into a XML where it can be used as a database, and Sean Williams who did the heavy lifting on coding the database, there’s now a table on most every page of the wiki that has citation/source information for references.

 

 

The table queries the database and displays data including the page’s subject, type of subject (Item, NPC, etc), sourcebooks, page numbers, and will soon have product codes added next to the source.
It auto-populates the table, which means anytime the database is updated, new data automatically shows up on the table on the wiki page

 

Where is it?

It’s every content page!  It’s not every page (e.g. – not sourcebooks or author’s names), because some just don’t make sense because they’re not EGI entries and don’t have a bibliography.  But, everything that’s a “topic” has an EGI table!

Occasionally, there’s a page which will populate extra info, e.g., The “Grinder” will still show results including “The Doomgrinder” for obvious reasons, but most of these have been reformatted to not do this. 

We’re continually working on improvements, and it’ll get better and better!!
We want to eventually have cross-links on all the product’s names, so that a user can click the name or product code and go to the page for that product. And, we’d even like to see the database have a forward-facing interface, so community members can add more data to it, if they find something missing in the table, just like the rest of the wiki.

 

All of this only improves the functionality of the wiki and makes your research even easier and better.

 

See an Example!

Read more about the creation of the Encyclopedia Greyhawkania and its newest updates. And download the entire XML in its latest version!

 

Come take a look, at the Great Library of Greyhawk and see all the pages that have the new table!

 

White Plume Mountain, for example!!