Thread:Harasar/@comment-24800939-20190125163923/@comment-1487274-20190606143114

Well, after testing various variants, I still can't form a full list of reprints of specified comics. Sadly, even a combination of DPL and Lua can't process so much information. The best I can do right now is to check Category:Reprints partially.

First variant can check maximum 100 comics, but it can be used to find all or only specific story of the issue (i.e. it can be used to find reprints of any story from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 1, or to find only first/second/third/etc. story from it).

Second variant can check 150-170 comics, but it is much slower than the first variant and returns reprints of any story from the issue.

I guess they still can be useful to form the list of all reprints semi-manually. Either of them would need to be used with different parameters around 20 to 30 times to check every comics in Category:Reprints, but it is still much easier and faster than browsing through every comics manually.

On the other hand, we can create a bunch of new categories with names like: "Reprints of Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 1" or something like that. With a simple update to Comics Template they would be automatically populated with comics where issue was reprinted. This way everything would be done automatically and list (category) of reprints would be always up to date without a need for any maintenance. Though, I guess most of these categories would have only 1 or 2 comics.