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A bot account is a special user account which has been flagged so that its edits are hidden by default on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist (visibility can be toggled with the "Show bots" option). These accounts are used to run bot scripts, programs that automate the process of performing repetitive edits across multiple pages.

While it is possible for normal users to run automated editing scripts/programs without a bot account, this is generally discouraged due to the potential for disruption, since the edits cannot be hidden from RC; this disruption is compounded if a script malfunctions.

If a bot account is observed to be malfunctioning, it is usually possible to halt the bot by posting on its talk page.

Currently active bots[edit]

for a system-generated list of all bots, see Special:Listusers/bot

Bot tasks[edit]

Requests that have been declined and accepted tasks that have been successfully completed are eventually archived at /Resolved tasks, however they should first be posted on this page for visibility.

Requests and discussion[edit]

List requests for bot tasks below. Be as specific as possible about the actions necessary to perform the task.
  • Documenting this here since it looks like Doodle ran JARVIS multiple times over November/December and already in January but neglected to note what was going on: -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 14:25, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
    • January 4th: 25 images replaced (gemstore armor skins and miniatures).
    • January 3rd: 42 new images (miniatures and outfits).
    • January 2nd: 49 image links fixed (related to gemstore renames) plus 21 collection maps uploaded.
    • December 30th: 33 redirects fixed, 8 dye disambiguation pages created.
    • December 22nd: 28 redirects fixed.
    • December 17th: Bunch of Glittering weapon skin pages moved and redirects fixed.
    • December 16th: 4794 pages edited to modify spacing between infobox and lead sentence, and capitalise the first letter of the infobox name.
    • December 13th: Sacred Solstice and Thundercrag weapon set icons uploaded/interwikis updated.
    • December 12th: 58 weapon screenshots uploaded.
    • December 10th: 128 infoboxes edited and 49 contained in sections added.
    • December 9th: 161 redirects fixed.
    • December 6th: 25 redirects fixed.
    • December 4th: 113 infobox whitespace edits.
    • December 3rd: 1145 stub template usage edits to add "no reason specified"
    • December 3rd: 656 whitespace edits.
    • December 2nd: 1088 whitespace edits.
    • December 1st: 2531 whitespace edits.
    • November 30th: 451 license template updates
    • November 27th: 1210 infobox edits (reorder parameters), plus 15 redirect fixes.
To be clear, the problem isn't the edits themselves, but that they haven't been written down - the bot account is hidden from recent changes by default + therefore is not subject to the same level of scrutiny.
1Yes Done. 26 edits. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 13:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
  • Organize the chair item icons to their own category.
1Yes Done. 49 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 03:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Check that all of the icons for toys are in the toy icon category.
1Yes Done. 26 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 17:31, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
1Yes I've moved the Lyssa ones with J.A.R.V.I.S., so 16 edits. Unfortunately the widget has an issue if I move more than 4 at a time, so the others will have to wait. - Doodleplex 01:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. 60 files moved with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 20:50, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Replace my confetti draw pictures with a generic one to the Sparkling Wrapped weapons pages, and add the Wrapped weapon as to show how it appears stowed.
1Yes Done. 15 pages edited(plus the same 15 because I can't spell =x) - Doodleplex 01:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Delink the deleted chair nav.
1Yes Done. 51 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 20:50, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Chak weapons have prefixes in the interwikis...which the other wikis don't use and needs to be fixed to link to the right page.
1Yes Done. 11 pages edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 21:21, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Make items that use the Collecion nav(mostly trophy items, not armor/weapons) have a consistent infobox.
1Yes Done. 4129 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S., and 1 edit where my cat hit the save button. - Doodleplex 23:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Add salvage = none to all legendary gen 1/3 weapons infoboxes. --ItVictor (talk) 06:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. 53 edits. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 09:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Move Stormcaller weapons skin pages. The weapons in that category have skin pages like [[Stormcaller Axe (skin)]] that should be moves to Stormcaller Axe. There are currently redirects at those locations that link back to the main items that will need to be dealt with. Stormcaller Hammer was already updated as an example. Should update the mention of the name in the page description. Also optionally skin pages can have the "name" and "icon" parameters removed as they are no longer needed after page move. The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dak393 (talkcontribs) at 20:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC).
1Yes The moving part had to be done manually, but 30 pages were edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. to accomodate the move. - Doodleplex 21:23, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Add/update the Inner Nayos tiles using that_shaman's repository. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 19:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 537 files identified for upload. Forgot to add an edit summary/file description but luckily all the files were previously uploaded so was just an update to existing files. 464 files updated, 73 files were identical and were ignored. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 19:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done, 181 pages updated with id. Templates can now display account progress with this data. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 22:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Add element parameter to all exotic Relic pages, using newly completed salvage research. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 22:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done, 57 relic pages updated. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 22:29, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
  • Add <br><br>{{golden|All dyes have an equal chance to drop.}} to the description of all "Exclusive dye kits" (if possible) -- added with the March 19, 24 update. ~Sime 21:26, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done this one myself, added the senctence and updated some descriptions aswell. —Kvothe (talk) 15:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 06:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
This appears to have missed some pages like Marauder Pearl Speargun and Soldier's Pearl Bludgeoner among others. --ItVictor (talk) 03:41, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
I followed all the weapon links from the EOD beta that I was looking at, didn't check the others + forgot there were a few different ones. Are they all linked from somewhere?. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 06:21, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Finally looked at this again, just went through the weapon/armor list for the EoD section on Beta and added historical tags for pages that were missing it, although in retrospect unimplemented would've been a better fit (Note: only applied to armor/weapons listed directly, no trinkets or anything that was listed in any of the containers). --ItVictor (talk) 07:41, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Update version history tables (and update skill descriptions if possible) for all skills added with Expanded Weapon Proficiency that are still missing the release date. --ItVictor (talk) 15:15, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Tables were added manually but there's still a decent chunk of skill that are missing wvw/pvp splits, once those are added a bot run could make the skill history pages. --ItVictor (talk) 03:04, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Quick bot run to add a single category, "Skills with incorrect defiance break tooltips". -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 18:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 18:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. 280 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 17:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Use the CSV provided on discord to add skin acquisition text. This should be done by skin name not page name. We should also consider whether this should be part of the description field or a separate parameter. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 05:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Prepared the data file to identify wiki page names. Created 3 missing skins from the wiki to support this. Added "acquisition" parameter to skin infobox. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 21:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 4874 edits, no errors identified. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 18:26, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Move Conjured Amalgamate Shield and Conjured Amalgamate Greatblade to be "Amalgamate's" as they got renamed at some point. - Doodleplex 21:16, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. 2 pages and 4 images moved, as well as 11 pages edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 21:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Add updated map tiles from the latest release. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. Bit less than 500 files uploaded. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:49, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Change catogory in the ArenaNet image template of files wich which names contain "character select background icon" to "Character select background icon". - Eleria (talk)
1Yes Done manually, and also adjusted the category to Category:Character select background icons to make it plural to fit in with the normal naming. poke | talk 20:12, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Create redirects for achievements that don't have their own article. As far as I can tell, strike achievements since End of Dragons, and Secrets of the Obscure in general are missing these redirects. Myriada (talk) 19:48, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Checked achievements beyond id 5470 (an arbitrary id which seems to be before EOD, and ignored any without id), of which there are 2182 entries. Then removed duplicate achievement names where the parent group was historical, 2161 entries. 1460 of those pages existed (828 are redirects, 632 were actual pages) - 701 redirects therefore were available for creation. After removing 109 historical achievements, that leaves 592 for creation. I will create these shortly. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 17:34, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Also removed historical mobilization + dungeon rush achievements. (569 left). -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 18:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 569 achievement redirects created. These cover 52 categories.
Adventure Guide: Volume Five, Adventure Guide: Volume Four, Adventure Guide: Volume One, Adventure Guide: Volume Three, Adventure Guide: Volume Two, Amnytas, Arborstone, Champions, Community, Convergences, Daily Dragon Bash, Daily Festival of the Four Winds, Daily Fractals, Daily Icebrood Saga, Daily Lunar New Year, Daily Strike Mission, Daily Super Adventure Festival, Decade of the Dragons, Dragon's End, End of Dragons, End of Dragons: Act 2, Explorer, Heights of Glory, Hero, Horn of Maguuma, Inner Nayos: Citadel of Zakiros, Inner Nayos: Heitor's Territory, Inner Nayos: Nyedra Surrounds, Legendary Armor, Legendary Trinkets, Legendary Weapons, Lonely Tower Fractal, Lunar New Year, Player vs. Player Rush, Profession Achievements, PvP Seasons, Return to All or Nothing, Revenge of the Marionette, Rift Hunting, Secrets of the Obscure, Shadow of the Mad King, Super Adventure Box: Nostalgia, Super Adventure Box: Quality Testing, The Battle for Lion's Arch, The Midnight King, The Realm of Dreams, The Wizard's Tower, Through the Veil, Weekly Rift Hunting, Wintersday Daily, World vs World, World vs. World Rush,
-Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 18:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Dungeon Rush shouldn't be historical yet. In fact, it's returning early july. Please add those redirects as well :) Asuaka (talk) 18:44, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Set all the underwater spear skills to uw only (via the uw replaces = none parameter?) Currently the uw only property is automatically set by the infobox for spear skills, but that should be changed in preparation of the land spear beta test later this month. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 19:47, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done, 58 pages edited. Also changed the parameter for weapon type from "twohand" to "aquatictwohand" on all three types of underwater weapon and amended the /history pages too. Did a second loop through to fix some other stuff. 353 pages edited. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 08:54, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
  • Add version history table to all land spear skill pages to indicate that they were available during the beta event. --ItVictor (talk) 22:20, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done, but also needs subpages creating. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 23:50, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Realised I'd used the wrong date yesterday, amended to 27th. Missed a few pages, added to those. Created subpages with beta parameter. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 06:41, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
  • When you get a chance could you remove the ", Research" from the Salvage line of the gen 1 and gen 2 precursors (including Experimental and Perfected as well as actual Precursor)? See [[Precursor_weapon#List of precursor weapons for links. None of em are research-salvageable. Already did gen 2 swords (Exemplar's Edge, Vengeance, and Save the Queen) myself, but figured a bot run made more sense then doing them all manually. Thanks - Tanetris (talk) 06:21, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 76 pages updated, no changes required to 32 pages. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 07:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
  • Fix the Handiwork recipes, currently specify "source = <recipe sheet name>" instead of "source = recipe sheet, sheet = <recipe sheet name" -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 22:07, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 58 pages updated. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 22:08, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Apply the above to the rest of the pages created overnight, plus rename handiwork to handiworker. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:31, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Total of 353 edits across 242 pages. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:33, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Spear skills are now implemented and can have the "status = future" parameter removed from their skill infobox. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 09:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 52 pages edited. Note that some still need their skill icon updating. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 09:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Upload the Janthir Wild tiles provided by that_shaman. -AWB Alex User AWB Alex sig.png 16:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 522 files uploaded. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:40, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Compared what existed on the wiki vs what I needed whitelisted, identified a further 600+ files, extraction in progress will upload shortly. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:58, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
  • As suggested and agreed on discord, add intro "<Page name> is a Handiworker decoration." to well all the handiworker decorations. Those that are not crafted can be fixed manually. We should also rename them but we have not agreed on the name yet. ~Sime 15:22, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Added similar lead paragraph to 275 pages. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 09:25, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
I've got a list of these pages. I think all the heart NPCs should also be using the "goal" parameter in NPC infobox, and they're not. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:22, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
1Yes 323 pages edited (5 with an event involvement section - placed above the event, 318 others - placed above items offered), plus a further 11 done by hand to add missing goal parameter. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:47, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Short run: Add "Template:Weapon gallery nav" to any page using "Template:Weapon gallery".
1Yes Done. 19 pages edited. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 16:17, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Add the following requirements to mount skin pages based on their types, as ownership conditions have changed majorly for these mounts: ~Sime 22:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
    • | mount type = raptor - | requires = hot, pof, eod, soto, jw
    • | mount type = springer - | requires = pof, eod, jw
    • | mount type = skyscale - | requires = pof, soto
    • | mount type = warclaw - | requires = hot, pof, jw
1Yes Done. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 09:00, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Update interwikis heavy/medium/light skins following 183 page moves on ES wiki. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 13:44, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 13:44, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Update mystic clover estimates from 230 materials per 77 clover, to 250. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 17:50, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
1Yes Done, 26 pages edited. -Chieftain AlexUser Chieftain Alex sig.png 17:50, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Recurring tasks[edit]

This section lists tasks that, for various reasons, need to be repeated at a future time.
  • Image upload batches
Uploaded 19 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 03:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 120 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 02:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 13 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 23:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 136 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 05:32, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 31 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. (also added about 14 interwikis) - Doodleplex 23:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 21 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 04:45, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 224 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 00:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 13 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 04:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 173 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 02:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 17 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 03:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 145 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. Also forgot I wasn't logged in as myself and moved 4 files. - Doodleplex 00:13, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 186 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 18:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 66 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 02:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 246 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 02:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 266 images today with J.A.R.V.I.S. and 47 three days ago. - Doodleplex 01:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 27 pictures with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 11:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Uploaded 21 pictures with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 23:13, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Moving stowed images as the default to the alternate image
Moved 17 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 04:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Moved 60 files and edited 48 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 20:50, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Moved 121 images and edited 60 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 02:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Moved 4 files and edited 2 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Doodleplex 03:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Moved 64 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. & made 26 edits to switch stowed/wielded. - Doodleplex 02:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Moved 62 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. & made 44 edits to switch stowed/wielded. Made some addtional 23 edits of cleaning up file summaries. - Doodleplex 02:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Moved 147 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. & made 96 edits to switch stowed/wielded. - Doodleplex 01:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)