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List of Active Guilds
Provide a monthly tab-delimited file of Guilds that includes information that can be used by the official wiki to provide players with more information about current guilds.

Note: Current community consensus does not support the use of this wiki's Guild space for recruiting. Therefore, ANet should consider carefully whether there is any desire for this utility from active players who might not be participating in discussion of this wiki's policies.

Columns (rationale)
 * Guild Name
 * [TAG]
 * Kurzick|Luxon
 * Faction Amount &mdash; proxy for PvP activity
 * Name of alliance's primary guild or ingame &mdash; proxy for relative interactivity
 * (if easy) # of guilds in alliance &mdash; proxy for relative interactivity

Mechanics

 * 1x/month, ANet would automatically create a file with the list of guilds and store it on wiki server(s).
 * Any registered wiki-contributor could then run the wikicode converter script, which would create the replacement text for the newest iteration of the List of Active Guilds article. Running the script would take, at most, 60 seconds per month.
 * Any guilds with active wiki pages would be automatically linked, as name/tags/links in the article would match the guild page titles.
 * Any guilds without active wiki pages would be easily identified (as redlinks); this also makes it easier for those guilds to start their own pages, using the current or future templates.

Costs & Benefits
Currently, finding a guild requires more luck and determination than necessary. Those recruiting have no way of providing most of the minimum details without resorting to massively spamming allchat. For a tiny investment (1-3 hours of developer time max to execute a single low-level change request), ANet can make it easier for those Looking for Guild and Guild Looking For Player.

Opt-in Option
To address privacy and security concerns, guilds must choose to opt-in to displaying the information on the wiki.
 * Add an option at the Guild Lord: for 10, a guild officer can choose to add the existing guild to the list of available guilds. Guilds that choose this option can toggle it on/off every month.

Additional options, only if the coding for this remains easy:
 * Add an additional option to include the list of members and officers (otherwise: do not provide this information at all)