Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Bots/Resolved tasks/archive 4

Resolved tasks

---

• 2012 & 2013
• 2014 & 2015
• 2016 & 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021

2018

• Add the {{Mad Memoires nav}} navigation template to the Mad Memoires collection items - {{collection nav}} is unordered and is really difficult to follow.

1 Done. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• Add the {{Mad Memoires nav}} navigation template to the Mad Memoires collection items - {{collection nav}} is unordered and is really difficult to follow.

1 Done. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• Finish off the parameter simplification on {{vendor}}.

1 Done. example. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• To document the PvP Runes and Sigils, some of the overview pages share names with the PvP versions - add the pagename to {{rune table}} so it won't break when moved.

1 Done. example. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• Add item level to minor runes (level 0 per the API).

1 Done. example. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• A bigger version of File:Waypoint (map icon).png has been uploaded. Please replace mainspace usage of this file with a templated version, e.g. {{map icon|Waypoint}}.

1 Done. example. -Chieftain Alex 17:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• Update {{prefix selection}} usage to reflect currently listed prefixes from the API. In particular: (1) substitute the badly named "all ascended" option for the prefixes, (2) use new prefix groups from the template where possible, (3) otherwise update other prefixes directly.

Figured out which pages to update. Starting with (1). -Chieftain Alex 18:55, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

1 Forgot to say I finished (2) + (3) too. -Chieftain Alex 09:41, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

• Remove prose usage of Template:Map objective - this template is to only be used on area articles in the "Locations and objectives" section. -Chieftain Alex 21:18, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

1 Replaced with either Template:Waypoint, Template:Map icon, a plain wikilink or plaintext. -Chieftain Alex 21:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

• Update old forum urls to link to gw2archive.eu instead.

1 Asked and completed as per these community portal posts. I'll leave it to you, Alex, to sign off below if you wish. G R E E N E R 03:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

• Currently the set parameter within infoboxes allows shorthands for weapon/armor sets. In theory this is good, but in practise it means we have to use redirects on pages where the set name is like "x weapon skins" instead of "x weapons" or "x armor". I'm going to spell out the full names of all currently specified sets. This change applies to {{armor infobox}}, {{weapon infobox}} and {{skin infobox}}. -Chieftain Alex 11:20, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

1 Complete: Weapon infobox + pages updated.

1 Complete: Armor infobox + pages updated.

1 Complete: Skin infobox temporarily de-SMW'd. Skin pages being updated. -Chieftain Alex 11:20, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Over 8000 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex 14:54, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

• Convert all instances of {{achievement box|name=Whatever}} within "Related achievements" sections to *{{achievement|Whatever}} (note the bullet). (Seems like all cases where we'd prefer to keep the box template aren't under a "Related achievements" header, so we should be good to go.) If possible, any existing bullet points beneath the achievement template should get an extra asterisk so they indent properly. —Idris 16:05, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Would have to loop over all the articles using {{achievement box}}, and just skip it if it does not contain "Related achievements". Messy but doable. Running the bot now (potentially will misfire if a page contains related achievements section below a valid use of the box template - can't really script it to only scan beneath a given section title). -Chieftain Alex 20:40, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

1 663 edits (85 manual). 1205 pages skipped. -Chieftain Alex 21:16, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't sure what was feasible to do with a bot. I can think of a couple of types of articles where this would have misfired (achievement articles and items acquired via achievement), but there shouldn't be too many and I can probably pick them out by hand. :) —Idris 21:48, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

My capabilities with a bot are pretty lame; find and replace, delete, move. Anything else is hard. Re-ordering sections needs some clever regular expressions but would need to be supervised since its so likely to go wrong. Chieftain Alex -5.65.85.217 23:17, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

• Change all of the "See Also" headers to "See also" (at least in main namespace & that the bot could find via text search).

1 Done. A total of 29 edits made by User:J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 19:33, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• Change the casings of Resource Nodes/Crafting Resources/Ambient Dialogue headers to Resource nodes/Crafting resources/Ambient dialogue on area pages.

1 Done. Total of 232 edits made by User:J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 20:16, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• Change all infoboxes using "gallery" instead of "gallery1" and switch it to "gallery1", which will fix the infobox looking for images and causing these images to show up Wanted pages.

1 Done. Total of 1482 pages changed by User:J.A.R.V.I.S. (which caused the wanted pages to drop by the same number). - Do_odleplex 01:48, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

• Change [[Miniature Moose]] to [[Mini Moose]], please.

1 Done at some point along with moving all the other "Miniature_" prefixes to "Mini_" to reflect ingame. --Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

• Recategorize all the miniatures sitting within Special:UncategorizedPages into their respective subcategories of Category:Miniatures. -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

1 Done. 478 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

• Add bound = account to Category:Starter dyes (to facilitate removal of tradable variable) -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

1 Done. 21 pages. -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

• Remove support for/normalise shorthands for item binding (see Template:Default item parameter/documentation for intended parameters) and item rarities from various infoboxes (colours). -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

1 Done. 709 edits with further support from Doodle. -Chieftain Alex 18:16, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

I got around 300ish. - Do_odleplex 18:20, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

• Requesting undeletion of old bot deletion of File:Tyria alpha map.jpg. Was deleted as orphaned image, but was being kept for archival purposes per its talk page. Deletion reason says to put request for undeletion here. Konig (talk) 21:16, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Done. Make sure to link to it from somewhere unless you want it deleted in the future. -Chieftain Alex 21:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

From	To
One with Fire	Smothering Auras
Cleansing Fire (trait skill)	Lesser Cleansing Fire
Orb of Light	Holy Strike

• Patch Game updates/2018-08-28 skills names changed - please bot fix any links as per table above -Chieftain Alex 20:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

0 Not done. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Update the standard description for minis.

Anet appears to have done an update for their minis, and removed nearly all references to the word miniature. Could we have a bot do a pass over the item descriptions and change:

Double-click to summon this miniature to follow you around. Only one miniature may be in use at a time.

to

Double-click to summon this mini to follow you around. Only one mini may be in use at a time.

Thanks. G R E E N E R 18:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

1 Done. 560 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex 20:46, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

A lot of minis now have two description parameters. Tyndel (talk) 20:49, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Oh damn must have run AWB with one of the rules unticked -_- -Chieftain Alex 20:54, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Okay should be sorted now, Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls going down. -Chieftain Alex 21:13, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

• Update all of the game update monthly overview pages with the new template Alex made. - Do_odleplex

1 Done. 64 pages edited. - Do_odleplex 00:51, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• As not all Anet Employees want their pictures on the wiki(list forthcoming of those who do), set up all pages using Template:ArenaNet employee infobox to have no image if they do not currently have a picture so the template doesn't call for a picture. - Do_odleplex

1 A total of 92 pages edited. - Do_odleplex 01:54, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• Add a bullet point (*) to all articles currently using this format; bullet point should be added before 'The following':

== Available prefixes ==
The following [[item nomenclature|prefixes]] can be selected:
{{prefix selection|whatever the article is}}

—Ventriloquist 12:32, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Bullet-ing that looks odd to me. -Chieftain Alex 18:29, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

It's mainly done so the text don't float oddly, kinda like what we do for related achievements, acquisition methods, and the like. —Ventriloquist 19:03, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

0 Not done. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Few category changes:

Move exotic elite specialization weapons from Category:Specialization weapons to [[:Category:Exotic elite specialization weapons]].

Move ascended elite specialization weapons from Category:Specialization weapons to [[:Category:Ascended elite specialization weapons]].

Move every armor piece inside Category:Specialization armor to [[:Category:Elite specialization armor]].

Articles and categories are already updated and ready for the bot's actions.--Lon-ami (talk) 17:14, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

0 Disagree with categorization. Not done. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

We have different categories for Experimental, Perfected, Precursor, and Legendary weapons. I don't see why elite specialization equipment can't be the same.--Lon-ami (talk) 20:52, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Several short edits: Adding acquistion note to all runes from Mystic Forge/Sigils and Runes — similar to the note I added to Superior Rune of Balthazar. - ❄The F. Prince❄ (talk) 10:24, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

This text should be in a template similar to Template:Exotic weapon text imo. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Do we want one sentence to have its own template though? ❄The F. Prince❄ (talk) 19:47, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, then we can track it later plus modification would be easier. -Chieftain Alex 19:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Done: [[Template:Exotic runes text]]. ❄The F. Prince❄ (talk) 19:55, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Moved to Template:Mystic forge runes text‎‎ and created Template:Mystic forge sigils text‎‎ too. Turned out there was too much inconsistent formatting to bot it easily, did most by hand for the Superior Sigils. Still need to do the Superior Runes, then consider if we want to cover the Major ones too. -Chieftain Alex 22:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Update infobox prefix field for all raid equipment, from "selectable" to "assaulter/defender/healer/malicious".--Lon-ami (talk) 15:20, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

0 This isn't how the prefix parameter works on infoboxes. Prefixes have so far been documented pretty much exactly as they appear ingame (givers excluded), or set to selectable. Specific selectable stats are specified on pages via {{Prefix selection}}. Setting the prefix to "assaulter"/"defender"/"healer"/"malicious" opens up a whole can of worms for the user-made prefix groups.

Plus setting it to anything other than "selectable" will break a bunch of templates which check if the "prefix" parameter is equal to selectable or not. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

But they're actual prefixes, used across pretty much all the equipment dropped at raids. There's no other selectable groups out there, and user-made groups shouldn't be accepted anyway. The templates can always be adjusted from an if to a switch, I doubt there's many using that property anyway. This change would let us know which raid weapons are which selectable group through its properties, and classify them accordingly.--Lon-ami (talk) 20:52, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Aren't they just part of the weapon naming scheme, indepedent of the prefix attributes? -Chieftain Alex 06:22, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

They're fixed selectable groups, Assaulter's weapons always have "assaulter attribute combinations". Most selectables are pretty inconsistent across the board, but raid equipment has the same prefix pool for every assaulter/defender/healer/malicious equipment.

Where could this be useful? Well, right now, when generating tables, you can't really tell which of the four variations has each prefix. Substrings won't work, since sometimes the prefix is in the middle, like Qadim's Assaulter Pistol. It's kinda pointless to put the four variations together (and a waste of space), so using something like Qadim's Pistol ^{Assaulter / Defender / Healer / Malicious} would be the ideal solution. You can retrieve the four easily by using has skin, but you can't rename them correctly, even if they're sorted, since you can't give the output template any kind of custom index, and you can't control who's first, second, and so.

Maybe there's a way to do that, in which case the property wouldn't be necessary in this case. I would like to create a special item icon template for both the raid weapons (with the structure above) as well as items with attuned/infused versions, and combinations of both, like {{item icon|Xera Backpiece}} ^{Assaulter Inf / Defender Inf / Healer Inf / Malicious Inf}. Doing it manually is a pain, and can't automate it without a property to identify each properly; unless there's another way to do it, of course.--Lon-ami (talk) 10:25, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

• Due to the restructuring of Attribute combinations some section got merged, but several pages are still linking to the old sections, e.g. prefix redirects.
  • The sections Attribute combinations#Three attributes and Attribute combinations#Four or more attributes got merged into Attribute combinations#Three or more attributes.
  • The sections Attribute combinations#Single attribute and Attribute combinations#Two attributes got merged into Attribute combinations#One or two attributes.
  • Would be nice if a bot could handle this. --Tolkyria (talk) 21:30, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

1 Done. -Chieftain Alex 22:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Anet has updated the names of all items from Poly-luminescent to Polyluminescent. All item pages, files, and disambig pages will need to be moved. All links found on pages and templates will need to be updated.
  • A list of all pages to be moved can be found here.
  • A list of all files to be moved can be found here.
  • It should go without saying that we appreciate everything our bot overlords do for us. G R E E N E R 16:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

• 1 Done. 26 pages/files moved. 33 pages edited. Special:Whatlinkshere should slowly filter through when the material page cache expires in 24h. -Chieftain Alex 19:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

• Change every infobox using "release" and switch it to "requires" as per consensus on Community portal.

• 1 Done. 16042 pages where changed. I think some of the skill history pages are still using release upon a wiki search, but otherwise everything else should be switched now. - Do_odleplex 23:19, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

• Added coordinates to all adventures.

1 32 pages edited. Manually reviewed map_floor data afterwards -Chieftain Alex 19:29, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Recurring tasks

• Update all icons that use the redirect arenanet image to use {{ArenaNet image}}. This will probably need to be a recurring task. —Dr Ishmael 03:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Initial run complete, 1863 pages edited. —Dr Ishmael 21:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Run #2 complete, surprisingly few needed it. 242 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex 13:48, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Run #3 comple, only 9 pages edited. This task may not be as needed much anymore methinks. - Do_odleplex 21:45, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Agreed, archiving. -Chieftain Alex 19:49, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

• Update {{section-stub}} on NPC/location/item pages to the specific section-stub tag, Ie. {{section-stub|npc}}/{{section-stub|location}}/{{section-stub|item}}.(edit) Or just anything that has an infobox made for it, like events, Living World episodes, skills, etc. - Do_odleplex 19:46, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Initial run was done a few months ago; re-run just happened. -Darqam (talk) 20:25, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Forgot to mention: 28 edits done. -Darqam (talk) 20:38, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Ran again npc, 1 edit; event 0 edits; location: 17 edits -Darqam 23:31, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Ran again. Events: 6 Objects:16 NPC:23 Living World:3 Area pages:12 Items: 6. Total edits: 66. - Do_odleplex 05:32, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

4th run, 46 edits done. - Do_odleplex 22:32, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

• Same as above but for {{stub}} since that seems to have blown up. - Do_odleplex 22:32, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

First pass, got all objects (164) and locations (15) for a total of 179 edits. - Do_odleplex 03:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• With regards to Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Projects/NPC Coordinates I'll be saving the coordinates with the bot in order to reduce the amount of RC spam. I'll keep a note here of edits done. The edits performed simply add "| coordinates = [xxxxx, yyyyyy]" to npc infoboxes which do not have them, these coordinates are written out by hand. Edits will be done using pywikibot.

First run: 49 edits for Kessex Hills npcs. -Darqam 15:43, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

81 edits done for Queensdale npcs. More to be done later. -Darqam 05:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Finished Queensdale NPCs with 132 edits. -Darqam 00:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Added npc coords to npcs in Harathi Hinterlands. Made 114 edits. -Darqam 20:37, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Partial addition of npc coordinates done for Gendarran Fields, 81 edits performed. -Darqam 20:57, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

• When skills/traits get changed due to patch notes, have bots change links for the skills and skill icons. - Do_odleplex 21:31, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

For the first run, at least all of the links/icons for skills that have been renamed since April 24, 2018 have been fixed. A total of 343 edits made. - Do_odleplex 21:31, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

• I've noticed this quite often that people tend to leave an extra spaces in places, usually by mistake, so tasks to remove random spaces at the end of lines, after headers and random double spacing in the middle of sentences. - Do_odleplex 22:19, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

First run, just did Bestiary pages since NPC pages would take longer than I have atm. Total of 90 pages edited. - Do_odleplex 22:19, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry but why would you convert "thumb" to "right" on images without descriptions? -Chieftain Alex 08:40, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

It was dead space imo, which was part of the point of the little removing extra spaces sweep. - Do_odleplex 15:24, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Besides having text, it adds some framing to the image which looks better imo, but importantly adds the little link button beneath which may prompt viewers unfamiliar with the wiki that they can click on the image to expand it. -Chieftain Alex 19:15, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Second run, just did Updates, total of 98 edits. Lots of double spacing and headers that either had no spacing or too much. - Do_odleplex 21:06, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• Add a references section and this sentence: * As of September, 2018, players in Belgium are no longer able to buy this item due to the introduction of an anti-gambling law in games.<ref>https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001978607 Guild Wars 2 FAQ</ref> to all gem store dye packages and bundles containing black lion chest keys. Thanks! talk 11:07, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Seems excessive to me, Belgians should know what they can/cannot buy legally. -Chieftain Alex 19:36, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

If you really insist, it'd be in a template in case we need to add more countries/regions later (exactly like the above request). -Chieftain Alex 19:49, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough. How about: [[Template:Gambling law notice]]? Not sure what happens if there's already a references section though. :( talk 09:33, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

• Normalise armor "type" parameter for {{armor infobox}} for the following:
  • leg / legs → leggings
  • hand / hands → gloves
  • foot / feet → boots
  • shoulder → shoulders

1 724 edits. However do note that I haven't touched Chest / Coat, nor Helm / Head, nor apparatus/breathing apparatus, basically because I'm not 100% happy with the outcome on Property:Has armor type / Property talk:Has armor type.

type	Page count
gloves	711
boots	665
Shoulders	660
leggings	640
helm	456
head	267
chest	386
coat	292
apparatus	114
breathing apparatus	53
Grand Total	4244

-Chieftain Alex 15:37, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Currently the armor nav templates say:	Head	•	Shoulders	•	Chest	•	Hands	•	Legs	•	Feet
Should we changed this to:	Helm	•	Shoulders	•	Coat	•	Gloves	•	Leggings	•	Boots

similar to Perfected Envoy armor#Components, etc... --Tolkyria (talk) 17:29, 7 December 2018 (UTC)