Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Bots

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

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

• AWB Alex (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot+sysop) operated by Chieftain Alex
• DakBot (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot) operated by Dak393
• Darqbot (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot) operated by Darqam
• Daysky (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot) operated by Medyro
• J.A.R.V.I.S. (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot) operated by Doodleplex
• Kote (talk • contribs • logs • block log) (bot) operated by Kvothe

Bot tasks

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

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 Alex 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.

• Add Template:Fishing hole nav to linked fishing hole pages. -Chieftain Alex 13:34, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. 26 edits. -Chieftain Alex 13:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

• Organize the chair item icons to their own category.

1 Done. 49 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 03:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

• Check that all of the icons for toys are in the toy icon category.

1 Done. 26 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 17:31, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

• Move images of Lyssa's Regalia Outfit, Mursaat Robes Outfit, Raiment of the Lich Outfit, Dragon's Watch Regalia Outfit to use Outfit in the name. DJemba (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

1 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. - Do_odleplex 01:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. 60 files moved with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 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.

1 Done. 15 pages edited(plus the same 15 because I can't spell =x) - Do_odleplex 01:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

• Delink the deleted chair nav.

1 Done. 51 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 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.

1 Done. 11 pages edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 21:21, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

• Make items that use the Collecion nav(mostly trophy items, not armor/weapons) have a consistent infobox.

1 Done. 4129 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S., and 1 edit where my cat hit the save button. - Do_odleplex 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)

1 Done. 53 edits. -Chieftain Alex 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 (talk • contribs) at 20:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC).

1 The moving part had to be done manually, but 30 pages were edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. to accomodate the move. - Do_odleplex 21:23, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

• Add/update the Inner Nayos tiles using that_shaman's repository. -Chieftain Alex 19:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

1 537 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 Alex 19:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

• Add id using API:2/guild/upgrades to each page using Template:Guild upgrade infobox. -Chieftain Alex 21:10, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

1 Done, 181 pages updated with id. Templates can now display account progress with this data. -Chieftain Alex 22:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

• Add element parameter to all exotic Relic pages, using newly completed salvage research. -Chieftain Alex 22:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

1 Done, 57 relic pages updated. -Chieftain Alex 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)

1 Done this one myself, added the senctence and updated some descriptions aswell. —Kvothe (talk) 15:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

• Mark beta weapons/armor as historical to prevent them appearing in rune/sigil extract results per Talk:Superior Sigil of Bursting. -Chieftain Alex 06:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. -Chieftain Alex 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 Alex 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 Alex 18:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. -Chieftain Alex 18:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

• Add missing interwikis/interwiki weight class names for armor pages that come in different weight classes (like Vigil's Honor Leggings (medium) and Vigil's Honor Leggings (light)). - Do_odleplex 17:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. 280 edits with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 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 Alex 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 Alex 21:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

1 4874 edits, no errors identified. -Chieftain Alex 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. - Do_odleplex 21:16, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. 2 pages and 4 images moved, as well as 11 pages edited with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 21:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

• Add updated map tiles from the latest release. -Chieftain Alex 16:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

1 Done. Bit less than 500 files uploaded. -Chieftain Alex 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)

1 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 Alex 17:34, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Also removed historical mobilization + dungeon rush achievements. (569 left). -Chieftain Alex 18:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

1 569 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 Alex 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)

1 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 Alex 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)

1 Done, but also needs subpages creating. -Chieftain Alex 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 Alex 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)

1 76 pages updated, no changes required to 32 pages. -Chieftain Alex 07:05, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Recurring tasks

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. - Do_odleplex 03:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 120 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 02:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 13 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 23:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 136 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 05:32, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 31 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. (also added about 14 interwikis) - Do_odleplex 23:55, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 21 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 04:45, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 224 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 00:18, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 13 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 04:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 173 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 02:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 17 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 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. - Do_odleplex 00:13, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 186 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 18:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 66 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 02:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 246 images with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 02:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Uploaded 266 images today with J.A.R.V.I.S. and 47 three days ago. - Do_odleplex 01:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

• Moving stowed images as the default to the alternate image

Moved 17 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 04:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Moved 60 files and edited 48 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 20:50, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Moved 121 images and edited 60 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 02:02, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Moved 4 files and edited 2 pages to switch stowed/wielded with J.A.R.V.I.S. - Do_odleplex 03:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Moved 64 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. & made 26 edits to switch stowed/wielded. - Do_odleplex 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. - Do_odleplex 02:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Moved 147 files with J.A.R.V.I.S. & made 96 edits to switch stowed/wielded. - Do_odleplex 01:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)