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 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. - BeX 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 [[Category:Skill icons|{{PAGENAME}}]] 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 11:38, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

  Well, if they're all using {{PAGENAME}} and no instances of {{subst:PAGENAME}}, 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 {{subst:PAGENAME}}, 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): /}}\n(.*?)([\n])+{{Skill progression/

  Replace with: \n| description = $1 }}\n\n{{Skill progression

  See also: Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/Skills#Description labeling. 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: }}\n(.*?\n){{Skill progression? --  (CoRrRan / talk) 21:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

  Or this: }}\n.*?\n(.*?\n){{Skill progression RegExp is hard. :( --  (CoRrRan / talk) 21:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

  This is also a nice addition to FF: /Find Bar/ --  (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. --  (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: "\}\}\n(.*?\n)\n\{\{Skill progression" replace with "\n| description = $1 }}\n\n{{Skill progression". How does the bot like that? --  (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.) --  (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. (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. --  (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:<Profession> unique items, as they should be in Category:<Attribute> unique items, which is a subcategory of Category:<Profession> unique items. --  (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 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 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. --  (CoRrRan / talk) 19:25, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

  Bot run finished. 360 pages processed. poke | talk 21:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

• Change all {{Welcome|x|y}} to {{subst:Welcome|x|y}} (see also Special:whatlinkshere/Template:Welcome) - Y0_ich_halt 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 <noinclude>[[Category:Collector subpages]]</noinclude> added to the bottom, while those named [collectorname]/Collector armor needs <noinclude>[[Category:Armor collector subpages]]</noinclude>. 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 | species = Undead changed to | affiliation = Undead, | species = Charr changed to | affiliation = Charr and | species = Destroyer changed to | affiliation = Destroyers
| type = Destroyer.

  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)

• 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. --Lemming 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! -- 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)

• 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 21:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

  Bot finished. poke | talk 20:02, 19 August 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)

• 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)

• Request archival of guild pages listed on User:Wynthyst/Sandbox/Guild pages to be moved as they have all gone beyond the 3 months of inactivity. -- Wyn 08:32, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

  Bot finished. poke | talk 13:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

• Request archival of guild pages listed on User:Wynthyst/Sandbox/Guild pages to be moved as they have all gone beyond the 3 months of inactivity. -- Wyn talk 09:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

  Bot finished. poke | talk 00:19, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

• Request archival of guild pages listed on User:Wynthyst/Sandbox/Guild pages to be moved as they have all gone beyond the 3 months of inactivity.-- Wyn talk 21:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

  Bot finished. One guild was not moved automatically because the historical guild page already existed. Resolved that manually by merging the new article with the old one, however the guild might not be really inactive given that the original guild was restored on the day of the first historical archiving.. poke | talk 13:56, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

• I hereby formally request that redirects be bot-removed from high-res skill icons. These redirects serve no purpose, just make it an extra click to view the full-size images. - Tanetris 16:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

  Bot finished. poke | talk 23:16, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

• I request that anything with the title armor (as in the address bar like Ranger Tyrian Armor), have a redirect of like say Ranger Tyrian Armour - an example that's been done and I am requesting this for our British users. -- riyen ♥ 08:06, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

  Done. Created all missing redirects. poke | talk 18:37, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

• Request archival of guild pages listed on User:Wynthyst/Sandbox/Guild pages to be moved as they have all gone beyond the 3 months of inactivity. -- Wyn talk 08:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

  Bot finished. poke | talk 17:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

  It only did 152 of the 347 on the list? -- Wyn talk 22:43, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

  Uhh, wtf!? I'll check what was wrong tomorrow and will rerun the missing ones o.O poke | talk 00:08, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

  I redid the list, so it's clear of those that wikichu did, plus as a few more from today. -- Wyn talk 03:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

  Fixed that, last batch was finished. poke | talk 12:25, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

• Request adding the Skill ID to all Skill Articles like it is with 25/90 and a few others. --SilentStorm 17:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

• Request archival of guild pages listed on User:Wynthyst/Sandbox/Guild pages to be moved as they have all gone beyond the 3 months of inactivity. -- Wyn talk 09:57, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• replacing links to Lucky with links to Lucky and Unlucky. See the discussion at Talk:Lucky#Renaming_of_article. There is broad consensus for the move, but the page has a huge amount of incomming links, therefore bot assistance would be helpful for the move. --Xeeron 09:03, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

  Given the rather complicated way the pages were linked to, I decided to do most link changes per hand. All mainspace articles were fixed correctly and there are no double redirects left. In fact, nearly only user pages link to a redirect, and I would object touching those just to change redirects. So it should be fine now. poke | talk 20:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for you having to do it by hand, I thought it was easy to set up a bot, otherwise I would have done it myself. In any case, thx for taking care of this. --Xeeron 09:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

• Request adding {{arenanet image|armor icon}} to all armor icon images. Done some myself, but there's huge ammount of these. - J.P.Talk 11:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

  To be done this weekend. poke | talk 17:04, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

• Requesting all links to pvxwiki.com and pvx.wikia.com be changed to gwpvx.com, as well as guildwars.wikia.com (excluding fr.guildwars.wikia.com and nl.guildwars.wikia.com, but including en. and www.) and gw.gamewikis.org links be changed to guildwiki.org to reflect PvXWiki's and GuildWiki's respective moves. - Tanetris 22:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

  I only found 69 links worth changing from each in total. Ones on user and guild pages and other user content isn't our problem, and the rest are just Help (there are some like FAQ ofcourse), elections/rfa, an abandoned namespace and discussions on several namespaces.

  So i don't think we must use a bot for this. - J.P.Talk 12:15, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

  I'm currently inclined to request a interwiki setup first (although I am not sure whom I should tell), and then replace those by interwiki links, making them more stable. poke | talk 15:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

  I disagree with the 'not our problem' attitude. 69 links (which my gut reaction says is lowballed, but not worth counting) would still be enough to justify a bot run on its own in this case imo (not strictly necessary, but justifiable), and for the others, not only does it cause no harm (unless it's on the userpage of someone who really supports Wikia, I suppose, in which case they're free to change it back), it saves time for those users who would otherwise change theirs on their own, and saves us RC entries.

  Regarding an interwiki link setup: I don't really see either of the other wikis moving again in the forseeable future, and even if they do at some point, it's entirely likely their new hosts would simply acquire the domain names from Curse, since Curse is, to be quite frank, not Wikia. Having interwiki prefixes to PvX and GuildWiki would be nice, and I think it's worth putting in a tech request about it, but considering our current limbo when it comes to wiki tech support, versus the fairly minor chances of the addresses changing again, I don't think it's worthwhile to put this request on hold for that long.

  Asidely, almost forgot the gamewikis address for GuildWiki. Edited that into the request. - Tanetris 14:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

  Obviously we are not going to change people's comments or their userspace to suit the tastes of anyone else. As for mainspace i don't think we should have links to guildwiki there in the first place; if content if missing on this wiki, we should add it. PvX is a different matter. While I would have prefered if people kept their silly fight off this site, that doesn't seem to be happening. As such a bot run would be prefrable. Backsword 13:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

• Request tagging all inactive guilds with {{inactive guild}}.
• Request moving all 'historical' out of the archive.

  In compliance with the updated guild page policy. Tagging guilds as 'inactive' can be done by users, but I feel it would be much better for everyone if a bot did it. --Riddle 23:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

  I'll try to get this prepared within the next few days. Sorry for the delay so far.. poke | talk 17:54, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

• If you have some free time I was wondering if you could set it up to replace a few thing in all of the maps.

I'd like to have the outlined icons, which would be replacing every iteration of "File:Warrior-tango-icon-20.png|25px" with "File:Warrior-icon.png|30px" and so forth with all of the professions.

Change all of the hide/show toggle placement to match the width of the map, so it'd need to replace the width in all of the category tables with the width in the "{{Image label begin}}" template.

I was looking around for a mass-export/import tool so I could do it myself, but I didn't manage to find anything and I'm not skilled enough to first rip all of the maps off of the wiki (or put them back for that matter). Thanks in advance! ~FarloTalk 08:59, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

• Since I'm lazy, I was wondering if one of the bots could go through and delete all of the orphaned (unused) armor images currently flooding GWW:DEL, if it's possible for the bot to distinguish images. Kthnxbai! ~FarloTalk 05:26, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

  Done manually. poke | talk 17:54, 26 August 2011 (UTC)