Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Editing bots/Completed/archive


 * go through all weapon articles and change ==Location== to ==Acquisition== . I think there are still much articles with that "old" section name that have not been changed. - MSorglos 07:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot run completed with 414 changes made. MisterPepe talk 01:49, 27 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Move favoriteskill to User favorite skill to conform with User template naming convention, replacing all pages which used the old template. --Jamie [[Image:User Jamie.gif|(Talk Page)]] 12:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This is a pretty uncontroversial change, really - especially since it's fixing something to match formatting guidelines and/or naming conventions. I'm going to start the bot run, and it should only take about five to ten minutes to finish the job. MisterPepe talk 16:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot run completed with 84 changes made. It only took about 8 minutes, including configuration. I would just like to mention that that is really cool ;) MisterPepe talk 17:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Go through all the miniature articles (43) Category:Miniatures and add a sort key to each that does not include the Miniature part of the page name. Thanks -- Lemming64 12:55, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot run (okay, I split it up into two runs to make my life easier) completed. The sort keys have been fixed. Enjoy ;) MisterPepe talk 09:22, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Could someone replace "Crafter" in the armor crafting table column with "Armorer" please. - B e X  16:35, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Completed by Dirigible. MisterPepe talk 02:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Go through Category:Skill icons and change all into skill icon tag. or introduce the tag if category is missing. Reason being there's a new category for icon redirects. I've already done the warrior icons, so I'm not if it might affect a bot's applicability. EDIT: Nitneuq78 chipped in and did the Beast Mastery skill icons too... -- ab.er. rant  [[Image:User Ab.er.rant Sig.png|sig]] 11:38, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, if they're all using and no instances of , it's really easy. And no - that doesn't affect the bot run. I'll get it started in a minute. MisterPepe talk 18:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Run started. MisterPepe talk 18:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If there's uses of, then just use a regex. \[\[Category:Skill\ icons\|.*?]] should catch everything just fine. --Dirigible 18:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, good call. I've been trying to learn regex, but I still fail@it =\ MisterPepe talk 18:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. MisterPepe talk 21:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Go through articles using NPC infobox and change "type" to "service". (Noticed this on Artisan page)


 * After a recent update to the quest infobox, I am wondering if your bot can automate updating all the wiki quests to take the changes into account, so that quest infoboxes follow the new format? Two changes specifically required: (see comments, if you care)
 * It strikes me that this isn't too far removed from the recent Dialogues->Dialogue change performed by the bot, and saves Sktbrd341‎ a whole lot of editting! Also suggested on the quest project page. --BramStoker (talk, contribs) 18:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I'm done. Ugh. And yes, it's quite far removed from a simple change like that ;) I ended up semi-botting it. MisterPepe talk 22:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks a lot for doing it so quickly :) --BramStoker (talk, contribs) 22:08, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Prepare the following task and do it, when a consensus is found here.
 * Go through all skills and put the skill description from the text into the Skill infobox template (description parameter). This could be easy with RegExp. Example (which should work but I didn't tested it):
 * Search (multiline):
 * Replace with:
 * See also: Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/Skills. poke | talk 17:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I won't be able to do this until next weekend, out of town for the week, sorry. Hopefully Pepe will be available before then. If not, we can always start a manual crusade, I can help with that even from here. :) --Dirigible 03:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm available, I'm just waiting for consensus before starting =P MisterPepe talk 03:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Testing regex prior to starting bot run; will begin shortly afterwards. MisterPepe talk 22:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that regex doesn't work. I'm trying to rework it, but I'm not very good with regular expressions =P I know that the "{" characters need to be escaped, but I'm not sure what other problem(s) I'm missing. If someone can help with this, I'll have the bot run finished early this evening =P MisterPepe talk 23:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * How about this: ? -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 21:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Or this:  RegExp is hard. :( -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 21:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * This is also a nice addition to FF: /Find Bar/ -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 22:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, regex is awesome when it works and horribly maddening when it doesn't =P Anyway, neither of those work (tried it both with and without escaping the "{" characters) when tested on Blackout. I'll try fiddling with XML a bit, but regex is (hypothetically) the easy way to do it =P MisterPepe talk 22:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * How do you test it? Perhaps I can do the same thing... it has something to do with how many newline characters there are to be found IMO. -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 22:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've been testing it by running the bot on just that one page. The "flavour" is slightly different, but you could also try http://www.regextester.com/index.html =P MisterPepe talk 22:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * This works for me on Blackout: " " replace with " ". How does the bot like that? -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 22:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've got nothing. It seems to not work in the Python flavor. I tried debugging it with the trial of this thing, but I really don't know what I'm doing =P MisterPepe talk 22:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you give me a link to your bot-software? And perhaps some info on the setup of it? Thx. (P.S. Feel free to continue on my talk page.) -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 22:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I got something to work. Starting bot run. MisterPepe talk 02:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Run completed with 1160 edits and a rather depressing amount of time spent. MisterPepe talk 05:07, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I know you guys are just itching for something to do, so does anyone want to go through and sortkey this category Category:Flag templates? If not I will do it manually *groan* -- Lemming64 17:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Not really needed as I will go through all those templates in some time (see here) poke | talk 18:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Do they really need a sort key? From what I see they're sorted just fine in Category:Flag templates even without that? --Dirigible 21:57, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * My guess is that Lemming was hoping to get it to where they would be sorted under proper letter-headers (since right now, they're all listed under 'T' for Template - whether it's worth it display-wise is a tossup. [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 21:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm ignored by Digirible ^^ But as the formatting guide is not accepted yet it will maybe take some time till I start. poke | talk 22:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Great work, Dirigible! You are nearly as fast as a bot :D poke | talk 22:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Wasn't ignoring you, by the way, just a bit bored. :P Did those manually, quicker than setting up a bot to do so. :) --Dirigible 22:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Pepe's Touchbot (periodic)
 * A recent change to the Guild cleanup template added 34 guilds into the pending deletion category.. This proves that the touchbot has to run more often, thanks Pepe :P poke | talk 22:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Remove Future feature from pages in Category:Future_feature. Perhaps use a DPL list to get only articles with EotN-stuff. -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 22:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Disagree as I think that the content with future feature (which was added before official release) has to be checked first on correctness.. poke | talk 23:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Showing that the information may be incorrect is not exactly the purpose of Future feature. Just like the tag itself reads, it's there to show that whatever it's been slapped to is still in active development and may change drastically over time, (f.i. GW2, the EotN skills when Izzy first released them expecting feedback from the readers, etc). Since EotN is now officially released, that tag really doesn't apply anymore. Just like with every other page on the wiki after any game update, if information is incorrect, the editors/players will correct it regardless of whether or not there's a tag on it warning about potential mistakes (and on a wiki where any article may have errors, such a tag seems inappropriate). Nonetheless, I put a list of all EotN pages that were on that list at User:Dirigible/EotN, feel free to use that page however you wish. :) --Dirigible 00:42, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hm, okay :) Thanks for the list! poke | talk 12:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Remove all items from Category: unique items, as they should be in Category: unique items, which is a subcategory of Category: unique items. -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 19:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm on it :) poke | talk 19:05, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * It should remain on a few items that do not have an attribute but are shared, like the Wayward Wand etc. -- Lemming [[Image:User Lemming64 sigicon.png]] 19:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * To be more specific: Wayward Wand (unique), Straw Effigy (unique), Droknar's Staff, Droknar's Scepter, Droknar's Focus, Golden Boar Scepter, Staff of the Forgotten, Kerrsh's Staff. I think I may be missing a couple though. -- Lemming [[Image:User Lemming64 sigicon.png]] 19:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we know there are a couple with shared attributes, but that should be easily fixed if they happen to be changed too. -- [[Image:User Corrran sig.png|CoRrRan]] (CoRrRan / talk) 19:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Bot run finished. 360 pages processed. poke | talk 21:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Change all to x (see also Special:whatlinkshere/Template:Welcome) - Y0_ ich_halt  [[Image:User Y0_ich_halt_sig.jpg|16px|Have a look at my page]] 19:32, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Setting up my bot.. poke | talk 20:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Finished. 203 edits done. poke | talk 22:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Unprotect everything in Category:Templates and its' subcategories. -- Gordon Ecker 06:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to note that I'm working on my framework to handle protections, it can take a while. poke | talk 15:23, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Done by hand. poke | talk 19:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Unique-items (those articles under the Category:Unique items and all its sub-categories) need to be re-tagged from stub, item-stub or weapon-stub to unique-weapon-stub, as to point to the right formatting guideline. (Re-tag only, if no stub tag exists, there is no need to add it).--Fighterdoken 18:49, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Setting up the bot. poke | talk 19:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot run finished. 747 pages were processed. poke | talk 21:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Pages of collectors tables needs cats. Specifically, pages of the name type [collectorname]/Collector should have added to the bottom, while those named [collectorname]/Collector armor needs  . Don't know how practical this would be for current bots. Backsword 08:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Setting up bot. poke | talk 22:14, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot run finished. 489 pages were processed. Anja is currently correcting the non-npc collector subpages. poke | talk 23:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Change "species = Human" to "type = Human" wherever it appears in a call to Template:NPC infobox. At the moment, that happens in exactly these pages (for the Main namespace): --Rezyk 22:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Moved the list to User:Wikichu/list.
 * Ok, Rezyk :P I'll set up a bot ^^ poke | talk 22:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot run finished. 1388 pages edited. poke | talk 01:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Now that the NPC infobox supports it, I'd like to see certain changes done. Specifically, any creature left with  changed to ,   changed to   and   changed to.
 * All this assuming the Rezykbot haven't done them all yet. Backsword 04:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, Prophecies Charr have no family and belong to the Charr army / affiliation, while Eye of the North Charr belong to the Charr family / species and the Charr army / affiliation. -- Gordon Ecker 07:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Aye, but there is only like 6 or 7 that breaks the pattern, and we'd do them manually anyway. Backsword 05:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Update:Rezyk did all the hundreds of undead manually, so forget that one. Backsword 09:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there still an action needed then? poke | talk 22:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Would still like the destroyers and charr done. Backsword 05:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Setting up the bot.. poke | talk 17:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot run finished, 164 pages edited; and then readded the type parameter for destroyers, 35 pages edited. But the Charr pages are missing a type now, is that intended? poke | talk 17:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup. It's the most notable anomality with the system. Prp. Charr are typeless. Can be tested by bringing Pyre there. (Still think we should denote this somehow, but's that a debate for somewhere else.) Backsword 09:00, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, then this task is finished, let me know if you need anything else :) poke | talk 10:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)