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

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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

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Since I fixed Template:Item icon to work on my userspace (and all of wiki) - I know and noticed some items are listed with a picture that is not the same name.png (or .jpg). An example of this would be the runes: Rune of Minor Vigor, it breaks if I want to use the template here. Could a bot fix this for all or some of the items? Thx -- Karasu (talk) 19:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
    Personally, I don't really see a need to do this. The rune names are like that to not have unnecessarily the same image multiple times on the wiki and it works quite fine in all current articles. Changing all rune articles now and duplicating the images multiple times is not really worth the result of simply being able to use a template. Instead you could utilize the standardized names of those images and create a rune icon template instead, if you really see a need for having a template to display the icons. poke | talk 17:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Request adding a "Formatting Guide Compliance" section to all quest discussion pages. I may later ask that some status entries be added to that section based on the presence of some template or sections information on the main page, but I've been up all night and need some sleep before I specify the details for that.      mtew 11:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
    Please add the following templates to that section:
    • {{Guideline status|I=Y}} if the Infobox template is used.
      {{Guideline status|I=X}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|M=Y}} if the Infobox template has a 'map' parameter and the image exists,
      {{Guideline status|M=X}} if the Infobox template has a 'map' parameter and the image does not exist, or
      {{Guideline status|M=n}} if the Infobox template does not have a 'map' parameter.
    • {{Guideline status|V=?}}. If you can figure a way to detect the presence of an overview, add either a Y or X parameter value.
    • {{Guideline status|P=Y}} if the 'Required' (or whatever it should be called) section is present,
      {{Guideline status|P=X}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|O=Y}} if the Objectives section exists,
      {{Guideline status|O=X}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|B=?}}.
    • {{Guideline status|R=Y}} if the Rewards section exists,
      {{Guideline status|R=X}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|E=?}}.
    • {{Guideline status|W=Y}} if the Walkthrough section exists,
      {{Guideline status|W=x}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|N=y}} if the Associated NPCs section exists,
      {{Guideline status|N=x}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|D=Y}} if the Dialogue section exists,
      {{Guideline status|D=X}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|A=Y}} if the Notes section exists,
      {{Guideline status|A=n}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|T=Y}} if the Trivia section exists,
      {{Guideline status|T=Y}} otherwise.
    • {{Guideline status|C=?}}.
    mtew 20:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
    I would like to have some comments and consensus about that idea first; I would prefer to not add a template (with unclear parameter names btw) on so many pages to have it removed later because people decided to make it different. poke | talk 20:25, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
    This may surprise you, but none of the parameters are used by the template itself. Their names and use are defined by "Guideline item" templates in the Formatting Guidelines. In this particular case, the Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Quests page contains the parameter name specifications. Other reports will use different guidelines and different parameter names, but the "Guideline item" and "Guideline status" templates are very unlikely to change. There is a link to an example report on the guideline discussion page.
    Some of the codes have been in use for a long time in the quests project. Some are new. Each will probably require someone look at the corresponding quest page, judge the actual content and change the code value to reflect their judgement. That is, each template is a place holder in a sort of project 'to-do' list.
    While not strictly necessary, each template could be put in a separate list entry with a comment describing the condition matched. You might even have the bot 'sign' each entry since these are discussion pages.      mtew 16:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
    The link is actually on the project page. Directly, it is Pre-Searing Prophecies Report.      mtew 23:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
    The meaning of the parameters values are documented on Template:Guideline status.      mtew 14:37, 3 February 2009 (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)
  • 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)
  • Is it possible to teach Wikichu to add a redirect to guild pages when they are moved to a historical status so that the lingering links to the old guild name do not show up on the wanted pages? Elric 22:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
The Redirect from the Old Page to the Historical one has once been there and was very annoying and has been removed recently. One Reason was so that Historical Guild Pages which became active again could be easily moved back without needing a sysop for it. --SilentStorm Talk to me 22:36, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Please excuse my ignorance but why? What makes it difficult to delete a redirect and then move a page without sysop attention? Elric 23:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Becoz only Sysops can Delete / Move over Redirect. --SilentStorm Talk to me 23:21, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Can't users edit a page to remove the redirect and then copy/paste the contents of the now historical guild or even {{subt:Guild:Old_Guild_Name (historical)}} and just hit save? Elric 23:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Overly complicated. Also why do you want those stupid Redirects so badly? Just ignore the Redlinks for Guild Pages or correct the Links --SilentStorm Talk to me 00:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Copy-pasting does not preserve page history, which is important for GFDL attribution. - Tanetris 00:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Okie dokie.. can wikichu fix those links? I looked at the first 500 wanted pages and more than half of them are Guild pages. I explored a few. Each page has dozens of links. It would take a human a lifetime to do it all. Elric 00:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you Tanetris, I didn't know it was a GFDL issue. That explains the sysop involvement. Silent... It's not the links in pages I am worried about. Its hundreds of pages filling up the Special:Wantedpages. These aren't going away and if I read right they will continue to stack up. Elric 00:21, 27 January 2009 (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)
  • 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)

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