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Hey Dfoplayer. Would you happen to have access to the wiki's LocalSettings.php? There seems to be an issue arising with the 1000 character string limit error. It seems to occur most prominently with the Equipment Infobox description parameter. I believe the culprit may have something to do with the Parser Function $wgPFStringLenghtLimit variable. From what I've researched, it is usually defaulted to 1000 and may be causing certain pages to return an error if the string limit is exceeded. Would it be possible to increase the string limit?

Altair (talk)

No I don't have access to that file.

The Last time something like this occurred, we had a "Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. " coming from Template:SkillNav calling Template:IconLink too many times. How it was fixed was beyond me.

Can you give me an example of an equipment page? I looked a recent ones and didn't see 1000 character error.

Dfoplayer (talk)

Luberum Stone Fall was one of the pages a few of the editors were discussing about. They decided to separate the information outside the page template to avoid the issue. To replicate this error, just copy the information under the Description heading and paste it within the description parameter.

Altair (talk)

I don't think it's a parser function problem. If you looked at the the bottom, the 1000 character limit also affects semantic properties.

I have disabled property "Has effect description" for the equipment template. I don't think we will be searching descriptions, just numbers(levels) or class requirements.

It could take awhile for the server to update semantics, as I still see the error while editing Luberum Stone Fall. Try again tomorrow.

Dfoplayer (talk)

Alright. It wasn't semantics.

It is probably Parser functions. The equipment template is trying to replace asterisks(*) with the HTML equivalent from code {{#replace:{{{description}}}|*|& #42;}} and we are sending over 1000 characters.

I would suggest you send a message to User:Gardios to ask why he/she used a replace function. Maybe description with asterisks fails in the template, so Gardios wanted HTML

Dfoplayer (talk)

I messaged him on Discord, but I don't expect a response anytime soon. I don't believe he plays DFO or goes to the wiki anymore.

Altair (talk)