{"build": "1.60.1.70630", "read": "2026-10-27", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "terms": "Licensed under CC BY 4.0: free to use and share, as long as you credit Forever News with a link to https://wowforever.news.", "product": "wowf", "build_name": "WOW-70630patch1.60.1_Retail", "reader": 24, "layout": 12, "kinds": {"talents": {"records": 465, "internal": 0, "left_open": 3, "origin": {"classic": 350, "sod": 38, "forever": 77}}, "spells": {"records": 2294, "internal": 1, "left_open": 17, "origin": {"classic": 1715, "later": 4, "sod": 406, "forever": 169}}, "racials": {"records": 40, "internal": 0, "left_open": 0, "origin": {}}, "items": {"records": 19231, "internal": 1613, "left_open": 327, "origin": {"classic": 12587, "later": 82, "sod": 1914, "forever": 4648}}, "zones": {"records": 1375, "internal": 46, "left_open": 0, "origin": {}}, "achievements": {"records": 441, "internal": 20, "left_open": 0, "origin": {}}}, "meaning": {"build": "The build of the game these records were read from.", "read": "The day we read it from the game's files.", "reader": "The version of our reading rules that read it: a number raised with every correction to how we turn the game's files into records. Two readings are compared as a change in the game only when the same version made both.", "layout": "The version of the shape our copy of the data is kept in: a number raised when a record's fields change.", "product": "The name Blizzard's version server lists the build under: wow_classic_beta is the beta's, wowf the one a build named Retail was first listed under. When two of them hold WoW Forever, this says which one these records were read from.", "build_name": "What Blizzard calls the build itself: a beta build's name ends in ForeverBeta.", "records": "How many records of the kind we read from the build, Blizzard's working records among them.", "internal": "How many of those are Blizzard's own working records, told by a note in the name. Listings leave them out unless asked.", "left_open": "How many have a ? in a text we fill in from the game's templates (a talent's ranks, a spell's text, an item's effects). The mark is counted, not its cause: mostly a number or a name the files do not hold, left open rather than guessed; in a few texts a question mark the game itself wrote, or a piece of the template we could not work out and left as it stood.", "origin": "How many were first made where, told by the number the game gives each. A racial has no such number."}, "second_reading": "How far these readings agree with another, independent reading of the same files is measured by hand whenever our reading rules change: our copy of the data cannot say it by itself. Those measures, each with its date, are published with the documentation page, not in this answer."}