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This project is intended to allow users to request bot edits for highly repetitive editing tasks.

Within the context of wikis, a editing bot is an automated software which is generally used to perform repetitive editing tasks. Since a bot is capable of making a huge number of changes in a short period of time, their changes are not shown on the default Recent Changes page. To see bot edits, activate "show bot edits" on the special page.

If a bot is making inaccurate or inappropriate edits, leave a message on its talk page to shut down the bot and read the bot's user page for additional instructions.

[edit] Current Bots on Guild Wars Wiki

[edit] Requests

[edit] One-time tasks

  • Request adding | rarity = 1 to the infobox for all Quest items. There are exceptions, but the exceptions are few and the articles many, so manually fixing them is a lot easier. Backsword 12:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
    Ok, will set up the bot later; you can make a list with the exceptions if you like so I'll ignore them right away. poke | talk 16:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
    If I only knew. Monumental Tapestry is one, but I'd think there is one or two more like that. Backsword 14:02, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I request that all unique weapon pages be checked for "[[Unique]]" in the type parameter. Those pages which contain it should have it removed, as it is no longer necessary given new functionality of the template and causes the word "Unique" to be included twice in the same line of the infobox (i.e. "Unique Unique Bow", see Arachni's Longbow vs. Elswyth's Recurve Bow.) The template itself is currently a bit dysfunctional, but we plan to have it fixed soon and we'd like all the unique weapon pages to use it correctly when we do. An alternative is to code backwards compatibility into the template, but if we decide on that, I would have to do it, rather than a bot. xD -- Vorith (talk•contribs) 22:05, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
    Before I start preparing the bot, I would like to take look at the infobox first, I think we can save some effort by expanding the infobox' auto detection for the type. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. poke | talk 22:12, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I would like all the weapon dye chart images to be placed in Category:Weapon dye charts. I believe most of them are tied to {{dye chart}} if that helps. --Wyn's Talk page Wyn 21:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
    Bot finished. poke | talk 20:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Requesting a bot to go through the Inactive Guild List and add {{inactive guild}} to each of them. There are more then 500 of those since the policy changed from 6 months to 3 and im too lazy to tag all of em manually (especially since there is no Inactive Guild Tagging in GWWT) --SilentStorm 19:17, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
    This is not a task to be done by a bot. There are too many variables. --Wyn's Talk page Wyn 19:23, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
    I agree with Wyn and decline. poke | talk 20:42, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
    Well ok didnt think about the Contact and possibly missing Stuff - would've been to easy anyway ;) --SilentStorm 21:10, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Periodic tasks

[edit] Old requests

[edit] Completed requests

  • Disambiguation fix - currently every armor collector subpage found here incorrectly has a link to AR for armor rating, but that is a disambiguation and the correct link should be to [[Armor rating|AR]]. This is about 100 edits and will correct about 200 links to disambiguation. --LemmingImage:User Lemming64 sigicon.png 16:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
    Bot run, 69 pages were edited. poke | talk 16:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I request the contents of Category:Cape emblem icons be moved to Category:Cape emblems Thanks in advance! --Wyn's Talk page Wynthyst 17:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
    Preparing bot. poke | talk 17:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
    Bot finished, 147 files edited and old category deleted :) poke | talk 17:56, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
  • I request the pages of GWW:PR/WMODEL be marked at 100px for images if possible, they are currently all at 150px. Fall 03:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
    Not really a task for a bot, when there are only 10 pages, so I just did it myself.. ;) poke | talk 06:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
    Thanks poke ^^ Fall 15:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Declined requests

  • I request making a gallery of skins for each weapon (similar to Gallery of Shields) if this is a bot task. GaaaaaH 09:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
    I don't think that that is a task for a bot. It would be probably easier to go through the weapon types and add them manually. Also I think it was already done with DPL. poke | talk 17:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
    It's been done since I posted the request. GaaaaaH 18:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I request the type in the infoboxes of quest articles be linked as per the new addition to GWW:QUESTS. Not sure if this is tedious enough for the bot, but it seems so. --Chaiyo Kaldor talk contribs 16:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
    Wouldn't it be much better to simply add a switch inside of the infobox template to handle few possible values for that parameter? poke | talk 19:19, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
    Really? That does sound like it would work better. Hadn't thought of that; thanks Poke. Wait, it already does that. OK, looks like I have a bit of self-reverting to do. --Chaiyo Kaldor talk contribs 21:00, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] See also

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