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Resolved tasks

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2021

Add the respective essence effect to Fallen, Aberrant and Svanir enemies' combat abilities. (It was added to them in-game with release of Drizzlewood Coast.) DJemba (talk) 20:26, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Are you able to give some examples on what needs to be done here? -Chieftain Alex

13:25, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Insufficient detail given, not done. -Chieftain Alex

20:07, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Change any links to Precursor to point at Precursor weapon instead. Preserve appearance of the link in each case. -Chieftain Alex 00:33, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Complete. 76 pages edited. Two pages reverted as they were talking about back items. -Chieftain Alex

17:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Add, in a "Notes" section (add if does not exist already) to each armor item linked from Precursor armor the Template:Precursor stat change warning text. This text also needs to be added to the Gen 2 legendary weapons (Astralaria, HOPE, Nevermore, Chuka and Champawat, Eureka, Shooshadoo, The HMS Divinity, Flames of War, The Shining Blade, Sharur, The Binding of Ipos, Claw of the Khan-Ur, Verdarach, Xiuquatl, Pharus, Exordium) -Chieftain Alex 00:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Overview pages done by hand so far. -Chieftain Alex

20:04, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Done. 124 pages edited, one mistake corrected. -Chieftain Alex

18:50, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Split Category:Human screenshots into subcategories such as: Category:Seraph screenshots, Category:Ministry Guard screenshots, subcategories for the orders, Category:Shining Blade screenshots, Category:Bandit screenshots, Category:Human Pirate screenshots and Category:White Mantle screenshots. Sunlion (talk) 07:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Done apart from Pirates, bunch of variable race npcs bit of a pain to do with a bot. -Chieftain Alex

19:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Will take another look at the rest of the races tomorrow. -Chieftain Alex

17:28, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Picked up 59 NPC images sitting in Category:Screenshots first. -Chieftain Alex

17:57, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Category:Human screenshots
* [[:Category:Zephyrite screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Lionguard human screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Order of the Sunspears screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Order of Shadows screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Separatist screenshots]]

Category:Sylvari screenshots
* [[:Category:Warden screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Durmand Priory sylvari screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Vigil sylvari screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Order of Whispers sylvari screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Lionguard sylvari screenshots]]

Category:Norn screenshots
* [[:Category:Durmand Priory norn screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Vigil norn screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Order of Whispers norn screenshots‎]]
* [[:Category:Lionguard norn screenshots]]
* [[:Category:Sons of Svanir screenshots‎]]

Created above subcategories. -Chieftain Alex

18:50, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Done. 735 files being categorised, plus a few more pirates I added at the end. -Chieftain Alex

19:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Remove all occurences of left-to-right marks (\u200E (‎)) from the wikitext of all pages in namespace 0. If there are no concerns i'll do this no sooner than in three days from now. Meanwhile i'll see to the bot and also look through all pages to see that removing them doesn't turn any text/punctuation arround or if it does that that's ok. I'll also not do this before not having looked through all pages. So whichever takes longer, not before it. (I'll probably also look through all or, depending on feasibillity, only some edits of the bot afterwards to see if things are alright also on the wiki itself.) Should be 764 edits/pages for a total of 1322 LRMs removed. Nightsky (talk) 01:36, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I had the idea to compare them by having them be drawn onto images followed by comparing the images; so it would be the three days now. (There are no visual differences between with and without.) Nightsky (talk) 05:58, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Alright since now three days have passed and no one raised any concerns and there aren't any open questions or anything the like either i'll have the bot do this now. Nightsky (talk) 01:42, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Took me a second to figure out what you were removing. Carry on, it's a good idea. - Do_odleplex 01:55, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Done. Removed the expected quantity of 1322 LRMs with the expected number of 764 edits.

Notes on the Bot: The good news is that it ran into the limit again (despite the bot group seemingly being excempt from ip based ratelimiting as far as i could tell (so i didn't bother trying to hit it)) and the bot propperly sleept the programed minute. Unfortunatelly following the sleep it ran into an exception (where i'll have to see if i can figure out why exactly) except of continuing normal operation so i had to set it up again to continue propperly. Now i know there's no retry after header field included in the response that informs of the rate limit but there seems to be a mediawiki-api-error Did someone miss the X- prefix? header field so i guess that, while not usefull to me (at least at the time; never know though, might be at a later time (though i do think it's unlikely)), is something i guess. Nightsky (talk) 02:41, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

According Story formatting guide, Achievements should be a subsection of Walkthrough. On some story journal pages, the achievements appear as a section after walkthrough (see Destroying Destroyers as an example). It would be nice to have them formatted so that the achievements become a subsection. In other words, on story pages which have the "Achievements" section following the "Walkthrough" section, it should be turned into a subsection so that "Achievements" are contained in "Walkthrough". --Thecaligarmo (talk) 01:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I might be doing something wrong here but i can only seem to find 12 pages where this is the case.

Namely the following:

I don't think it needs a bot for this but again i might be missing something as this seems so few and i was expecting more for a bot edit. Could someone possibly double check i didn't miss any? I guess i can change them sometime after three days from now though unless there's any questions or anything and no one else has done it till then also i guess. (Though i'd do appreciate double checking i didn't miss any.) Nightsky (talk) 04:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I double checked and that seems like a full list. I don't mind doing it by hand if it's too small for a bot. --Thecaligarmo (talk) 14:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

You're free to go ahead. I'd have done it manually myself then. It's not necessarily to small for a bot. A bot can also be used to do just one edit. I'd prefer to do so few edits myself instead of with the bot though; but that might just be me i guess. It's just that i guess i had expected it to be more given that Alex suggested making a bot request for it but i guess he didn't know how few it would be. Someone else can do it with a bot too instead of me if they would want to so like i don't mind. It's just that i'd do it manually following the three days if nothing else has happened in between; whichever from these happenings in between may take. But if you want to do it yourself you obviously can. Alternatively if you'd rather have me do that with the bot anyways instead of manually then i could do that too. Up to you and everyone else really; what i'm gonna do otherwise once it's been more than the three days i already stated. (I wanted to double check it myself then too but that would be then as recently i don't really have all to much time for the wiki so i'd only double check it before i'd do it if no one else has already done so untill then.) Nightsky (talk) 19:56, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm so rubbish at botting I'd have to run my bot through all the story pages to confirm your findings. I didn't realise it would be a small handful of pages. -Chieftain Alex

20:07, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Done by hand. -Chieftain Alex

20:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Add support for a color-fur parameter to the {{Dye infobox}}, displaying it between cloth and leather to retain alphabetical order. (Or should it go at the end?) Have the bot add the parameter to all dye pages (except Hydra Dye). Additionally while adding the then new parameter also sort all parameters to some order. Also update the documentations Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Dye formatting and Template:Dye infobox to reflect the new order. (I would use name, icon, set, material, hue, kit, color-cloth, color-fur, color-leather, color-metal, color-id, bound, rarity, id (Or should it be a different order?) and remove any other parameters. (Some pages have a description parameter (42) and some a requires parameter (5), which are not used by the template and not set to any value respectively.)) I'd do it like that in three days from now. Should be 606 edits/pages. Nightsky (talk) 03:33, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

My preference would be to follow the API order, which is cloth, leather, metal, fur. It also has a more logical flow to it, to me. Greener (talk) 04:03, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

~~Currently we have mostly order~~ I would prefer hue then material and rarity then bound. (Sorting infobox parameters in general is something that Doodleplex and I would like a bot to do. I will put a discussion on the Community portal.) —Kvothe (talk) 13:00, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

The order i would use is based on the current order the parameters are in on the dye pages. There's currently 53 dyes with hue then material and 553 dyes with material then hue and no dyes with bound and rarity on the same page. So i'm not quite sure what you mean by mostly the order you mention. Mostly where? (I know the item infobox has it rarity then bound for example as to which i wouldn't be opposed but i can't think of another infobox with a hue or material parameter so i'm curious about where you're coming from here.)

hue then material

material then hue

I guess you already noticed this as i can't find anything on the Community Portal, but to be clear: The bot would be replacing the template completely anyways. (And remove any unneccessarry spaces, (Looking at you charr dyes. (Following the Exclusive.)) parameters, (see above) correct a few incorrect hex codes, uppercase them all as that's what the majority is like but not all and whatnot.) Having it (I'm not gonna do that bare pawed.) then also sort the parameters is a marginal increase in complexity.

Also, anyone want to tie break adding the color-fur parameter at the end or between cloth and leather? Nightsky (talk) 18:02, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

I stand corrected with hue and material - should just be consistent. I would go with alphabetical for color-fur. (Did not have the time to make the community portal topic yet.) —Kvothe (talk) 19:50, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

All good. What should be consistent though? If you're thinking about the square previewing the color value being in the same possition as the parameter then i can reasure you that that's how i'm planing to add it. (With regard to that i'm assuming that everything affects both, the order of the square and of the parameter. (Please let me know in case any one of you two meant only one of the two; the square or the parameter individually.)) Nightsky (talk) 21:17, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

for no reason whatsoever I would love fur to be after cloth/leather/metal. -Chieftain Alex

23:11, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Well that makes it tied again. Does anyone feel like tie breaking? Or should i simply toss a coin to decide between

name, icon, set, material, hue, kit, color-cloth, color-fur, color-leather, color-metal, color-id, rarity, bound, id

and

name, icon, set, material, hue, kit, color-cloth, color-leather, color-metal, color-fur, color-id, rarity, bound, id

right before actually doing it then? Nightsky (talk) 23:58, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Honestly it's just the parameter order. I'll fight for the infobox display order later, pick whatever you want and add them. -Chieftain Alex

11:23, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Which i would have liked to be consistent with the display order. Hence why i'm assuming both to be one and the same thing with regards to their prefered position. So it wouldn't just be the parameter order. At least that's how i had it in mind. Nightsky (talk) 17:40, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Will do this in a bit once i got this sorted out fully. It'll be color-fur at the end for the time being. We can debate about/change this later if the need arises but it's gonna be at the end for the time being so that there's some defined way in which to do this. Nightsky (talk) 03:41, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

All seems well now. Forgot to create the property for fur - as i got sidetracked - but it exists now. Also fixed the incorrect assignment caused by Hydra Dye in conjunction with the change to the {{dye infobox}} i made. Will leave it yellow untill the thing with the order is more clear and will look out for any further anomalies in the need of correcting for a while too. Some statistics:

Pages total: 606
Distinct things done: 8

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[605/605] Add color-fur parameter.
[100/100] Order parameters.
[175/63] Had lowercase hex.
[11/6] Had hex value != API.
[42/42] Remove description parameter.
[47/47] Remove rarity parameter. Matches what the template determins from the value for set.
[44/44] Remove icon parameter. Matches what the template determins from the value for set.
[5/5] Remove requires parameter.

Bot notes: It propperly responds to rate limit responses now. (Well i guess it responded propperly to them before; i just made it wait to long.) Nightsky (talk) 04:42, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

(Reset indent.) So.. anything with regards to the order then still? If not i'll close this in like a week or so. Nightsky (talk) 17:36, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Keep the parameter order like it is now. Already bugged Darquam to update his tool. —Kvothe (talk) 22:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Nothing in opposition to it so i'll leave things as they are. Nightsky (talk) 00:19, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Add missing "type" parameters to {{recipe}} using the API, watching out for LegendaryComponent, ShortBow, etc. -Chieftain Alex 23:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

101 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

23:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Add new parameter resource type = Cloth / Leather / Mine / Plant / Wood to each of the {{Object infobox}} on resource node pages only, with a view to populating Property:Has gathering node type at a later date when the infobox edit is made. Use "Has object type::Resource node" to find the associated pages. -Chieftain Alex 21:54, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

196 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

23:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Update items that had their account binding removed with the January 19, 2021 patch. Based on the API i can find 553 items accross 85 pages remaining that had their binding removed and have not yet been adjusted. This is however not taking into account 297 items (IDs: 614, 5834, 5856, 6316, 6324, 8506, 9027, 9110, 10019, 10125, 10810, 11267, 11403, 14492, 23276, 29618, 31189, 31252, 31334, 31344, 31528, 31534, 31538, 31539, 31624, 32039, 32184, 33103, 33127, 33213, 33324, 33673, 33694, 33937, 33943, 33962, 34063, 34075, 34083, 37255, 37722, 37729, 37752, 37842, 39060, 39416, 39434, 41588, 41589, 41590, 41591, 41661, 41688, 41699, 41714, 42495, 42501, 42502, 49446, 49447, 51804, 51832, 51847, 52754, 53446, 53605, 53712, 61065, 61108, 64362, 81882, 87538, 91036, 91042, 93920, 93992, 94153, 94155, 94154, 94157, 94156, 94159, 94160, 94163, 94165, 94164, 94167, 94169, 94168, 94170, 94175, 94177, 94176, 94181, 94180, 94183, 94182, 94189, 94193, 94196, 94199, 94198, 94201, 94200, 94203, 94202, 94205, 94204, 94207, 94211, 94212, 94217, 94216, 94219, 94223, 94222, 94225, 94227, 94229, 94228, 94230, 94234, 94237, 94236, 94238, 94241, 94243, 94242, 94245, 94244, 94247, 94251, 94250, 94253, 94255, 94258, 94261, 94263, 94262, 94265, 94264, 94267, 94266, 94268, 94271, 94270, 94273, 94275, 94274, 94277, 94279, 94278, 94283, 94282, 94287, 94286, 94290, 94296, 94299, 94298, 94301, 94302, 94304, 94307, 94308, 94313, 94312, 94315, 94314, 94317, 94318, 94321, 94323, 94322, 94325, 94326, 94329, 94328, 94331, 94339, 94338, 94342, 94345, 94344, 94347, 94346, 94349, 94348, 94351, 94350, 94353, 94352, 94357, 94356, 94359, 94363, 94362, 94365, 94364, 94367, 94366, 94369, 94368, 94371, 94370, 94373, 94372, 94375, 94374, 94377, 94379, 94378, 94381, 94380, 94383, 94382, 94385, 94384, 94387, 94386, 94389, 94391, 94390, 94393, 94392, 94395, 94394, 94397, 94396, 94399, 94398, 94401, 94400, 94402, 94405, 94404, 94407, 94406, 94409, 94408, 94411, 94410, 94413, 94412, 94415, 94414, 94417, 94416, 94419, 94418, 94421, 94420, 94423, 94422, 94425, 94424, 94427, 94429, 94428, 94431, 94430, 94433, 94432, 94435, 94434, 94437, 94439, 94438, 94441, 94443, 94442, 94445, 94444, 94447, 94446, 94449, 94448, 94451, 94450, 94453, 94452, 94455, 94454, 94457, 94456, 94459, 94458, 94469, 94494, 94530, 94535, 94543, 94556, 94560, 94572, 94584, 94609) for which i don't have any data from before the patch and hence can't easily compare flags. I'll change the ones i could make out in the near future. Nightsky (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Need to look for anomalies and through the items i don't have data for from before the change still but the bot part is done. Not so surprising statistics:

Pages total: 85
Distinct things done: 1

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[553/85] Remove account binding.

Also here's a list of the pages edited by the bot for the case of deciding on adding a note:

Nightsky (talk) 21:59, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Rename "id" parameter used in object infobox to "mastery id" to clarify what it's for. -Chieftain Alex 23:26, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

39 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

23:26, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Subsequently agreed this parameter isn't required as sufficiently documented on achievement pages, now removed the 39 completely. -Chieftain Alex

07:07, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Remove {{stub}} from 32 pages which are already using {{section-stub}} (i.e. the missing content is specifically identified with section-stub and the stub template at the top is not helpful). -Chieftain Alex 13:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Done. -Chieftain Alex

13:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Move all Corrupted weapons to match their ingame name, Valkyrie Corrupted [X]. May also want to move the skin pages as well since they will no longer need the suffix. ----BuffsEverywhere (talk) 04:36, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Page moves are done. I'm leaving the redirects + the skin pages where they are for convenience. Some page links still need manually edited, i'll take a look when I'm back from ~~siberia~~ shopping in the blizzard. -Chieftain Alex

09:44, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

All done, barely any bot work in there tbh. Updating on this wiki is so complicated due to all our templates! :) -Chieftain Alex

12:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

The skins of Flame armor previously had "Items with this skin" instead of "Acquisition" as the header for the "skin list" section (see). Maybe a bot could look through the wiki and search for more occurences. As an example Zodiac armor has the wrong/old section title. —Kvothe (talk) 12:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

I found some more sets that have the issue. Aetherblade armor, Braham's armor, Phalanx armor, Primeval armor, Profane armor, Rampart armor, Strider's armor, Viper's armor. If this is not a bot task, let me know - at some point I will do it. —Kvothe (talk) 13:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

If it's consistently applied it can be done with a bot. -Chieftain Alex

15:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Should be always exactly == Items with this skin == on all 108 pages with this heading on them. So you should be good to go; if you want to do it. If not let me know then i'll do it. Nightsky (talk) 18:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Since this hasn't happened yet i'll do it now. Nightsky (talk) 04:14, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Done. Not surprising statistics:

Pages total: 108
Distinct things done: 1

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[108/108] Replace "Items with this skin" with "Acquisition".

Nightsky (talk) 04:37, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Remove parameter 2 from iron ore nodes (as an example) using the gather template [requested by Diego in my ingame mail for some reason...] -Chieftain Alex 15:46, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

I might not be understanding this correctly but if i do an my regex/filtering is correct this might only be six occurences.

Strawberry Patch - {{gather|Strawberry|Strawberries}}
Ancient Sapling - {{gather|Hidden Treasure (item)|Hidden Treasure}}
Orrian Sapling - {{gather|Hidden Treasure (item)|Hidden Treasure}}
Cabbage - {{gather|Head of Cabbage|Heads of Cabbage}}
Blackberries - {{gather|Blackberry|Blackberries}}
Dragon Chest (Death-Branded Shatterer) - {{gather|Crystal Infusion|Crystal Infusion of Power}}

Though there's not a single iron ore node in there so it's probbably wrong. Is this meaning {{gathering node}} instead of {{gather}}? Nightsky (talk) 18:28, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, can only see the six pages with it used. Marking as don't bother. -Chieftain Alex

19:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

If he did mean {{gathering node}} however there would be 703 pages to edit per this revision. Note, need to ignore Baoba Sapling (since that's incorrectly spelled ingame in Dragonfall). -Chieftain Alex

19:22, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Add the sentence "The skin for this item can be unlocked via the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock or the Guaranteed Armor Unlock." to the Notes section or add a notes section for all of the armor skins on the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock/Armor skins page. - Do_odleplex 01:25, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Two things:

The sentence is to be put on all of the skin pages which are directly linked to from the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock/Armor skins page, right?
Assuming the first is correct, may i suggest to reword the sentence to "This skin can be unlocked via the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock or the Guaranteed Armor Unlock." and for it to be put into a template with the template being added instead (similar to {{precursor stat change warning text}}). (e.g. like <onlyinclude>This skin can be unlocked via the [[Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock]]{{#if: {{{1|}}} | or the [[Guaranteed {{ucfirst: {{{1}}} }} Unlock]] }}.</onlyinclude> and then adding e.g. * {{guaranteed wardrobe unlock text|armor}}.)

Assuming the first is correct and the second is ok, this should be 1153 pages. (107 of which contain 107 of the 108 occurences of Items with this skin (With the remaining one being on Dark Moon Shield.) which could make sense to do alongside of this.) Nightsky (talk) 17:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

The template {{skin list}} already lists them on the skin page. So what's the deal with adding an additional note basically stating them same again? Unless, Doodle's "armor skins" is referring to the consumable item that unlock the skins. --Tolkyria (talk) 17:45, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

That's what i'm fearing it is. I'm not sure i could do that then though. Both because i'm not quite sure i could determine the pages in need of edit then and because i'd say that informing about which items unlock an items skin is the responsibility of the skin page associated with the item and not the item page itself; whiches responsibility is to inform of the items skin though. And while i agree that the skin pages list the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock already they don't seem to list the Guaranteed Armor Unlock. Nightsky (talk) 18:17, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Because Guaranteed Armor Unlock still uses {{contains|<consumable item page>}} instead of correctly using {{unlocks skin|<skin page>}}. See also Talk:Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock/Armor skins. --Tolkyria (talk) 19:01, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

I meant the armor or consumable page, not the skin page, sorry. This so people who visit the item page know that they don't necessarily need the item to get the skin from the item. Handy to know for things like Deathly Mantle Skin which is discontinued and very expensive, but the skin can be unlocked via the Wardrobe Unlock. I also completely forgot about this... >_< - Do_odleplex 19:41, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

While I agree that such a note makes sense on expensive, discontinued or hard to achieve armor pieces, I disagree that this is a simple bot task at first sight. There are so many cheap items (e.g. less than 1 gold, crafted armor, t1/t2 cultural armor), easy obtainable items (e.g. character creation) and skins with multiple items (e.g. Seer Mask (skin)) where such a note is redundant. So, I think either the page-edit-list or the even all edits themself have to be done manually. As suggested by Nightsky, generalising the text by using a template (to allow easy adjustments) is definitely worth it. --Tolkyria (talk) 20:37, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

I have no issues with a template. I'd rather be consistent on it's usage though, but I think I'll save that the for the community portal to see how everybody else would like it to be used. - Do_odleplex 21:04, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Seems it's not well received over at the community portal. Nightsky (talk) 23:12, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Change the "[[:Category:Gem Store mounts]]" into "Category:Gem Store mount skins" and fix it on all affected pages. Right now, it is confusing/incorrect, as you get skins and not mounts. ~Sime 14:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Couldn't agree more. The category named that way could (although i'd say unlikely; though possibly nonetheless) be understood in a missleading way. If it doesn't happen untill then i'll do it some time after four days from the time you asked/gave the heads up. Should be 239 pages; generally as many as the category has. Nightsky (talk) 17:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I'll do this now then. Nightsky (talk) 21:19, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Done. As many pages edited as expected/are in the category. And updated Category:Gem Store mount licenses to point to the new category. Unspectacular statistics:

Pages total: 239
Distinct things done: 1

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[239/239] Change [[Category:Gem Store mount<"" to " skin">s]].

Nightsky (talk) 21:45, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Add ascended food guild storage ids per Gamli Aðalsteinnson's vendor window. -Chieftain Alex 18:27, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Done, some pages already had their secondary ids so I copied that layout. (fwiw did briefly discuss with other users whether the service pages should be separately documented, judged too confusing). -Chieftain Alex

18:27, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Add {{prefix nav}} to prefix pages. -Chieftain Alex 18:27, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Done, 47 pages edited.

Sinister turned out to not be in "Category:Glossary", and was instead in "Category:Attribute combinations" - will delete that second category for now + move it into Glossary, but we might want to have a separate category for the prefixes. Any thoughts? -Chieftain Alex

18:33, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Following manual review of intended context for all pages linking to "Griffon", correct the 44 pages linking to the Race overview page which should be linking to the Mount page. -Chieftain Alex 17:45, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Done. -Chieftain Alex

17:45, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Also completed the same for the obvious ones of Raptor (mount), haven't reviewed the core zone pages, assumed those were all linking the race pages. -Chieftain Alex

18:15, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Now change the links for [[Raptor]] to [[Raptor (race)]]. And [[Griffon]] to [[Griffon (race)]]. Once that's done we can move the pages properly. -Chieftain Alex

16:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Also done. -Chieftain Alex

18:20, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Populate Property:Has sector id by adding sector id into the {{location infobox}} on all area/instanced area pages. -Chieftain Alex 09:07, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Done. 1400 ish pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

13:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

So i've had a script compare all png wiki images to all the png API images that i could find and it determined an exact match (considdering red, green, blue and alpha values) for what appears to be close to 4000 images. I'm still in the proccess of working out the exact figures as well as those for possible additions (which there probaly arent any (or at least not much (but again; do not know yet))) but while i don't have those quite yet i figured i'd bring it up here already and i should be able to determine them within four days from now; after which i'd have the bot add the file ids to the images associated templates if there are no objections or anything by then. Nightsky (talk) 19:54, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Should be 4047 file ids accross 4037 distinct pages; with the sole page to see an additional id added while already having one present being [[:File:Unnamed trophy (Champion Mark).png]]. The remaining 437+23 matches already have the matched ids present, with 23 of those being redirects to other files which as such have been matched multiple times. Nightsky (talk) 23:07, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Ok; doing this now then. (Also, it should be 4046/4036 and 438+23 now since Sunlion added the file id to File:Crystallized Magic (Black Lion Chest).png already.) Nightsky (talk) 19:56, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Happened verry slowly and was interrupted but is now done. Stats as expected:

Pages total: 4036
Distinct things done: 1

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[4046/4036] Add File ID.

Nightsky (talk) 03:07, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Populate new parameters "dye channels" and ~~"dye defaults"~~ for armor skin pages in {{Skin infobox}} using the skins API (discussed here: User talk:Akashanephthys). -Chieftain Alex 17:14, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Something went wrong and I've aborted this bot run (255 pages in) after identifying from a sample check a page with parameters being fed by my substitution page which bore no resemblance to the API. Going to run a second sweep to erase what I've done so far (thankfully realised before the remaining 1992 pages were done). -Chieftain Alex

18:59, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Updated the subst list, happy the results are now sane - ready to go tomorrow (2246 pages total). -Chieftain Alex

23:03, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Discovered there's an API bug making the color default data unusable whereby it changes almost constantly in the api - I've removed this bit from the request and only add the number of slots. -Chieftain Alex

10:49, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Based on something similar happening (thought that might only change with patches, never payed any atention to it past that it changes; so not quite sure when it does but it did in the past and probably still does) with the value for the vendor_ids field in /v2/items and that not being enabled for sure based on the state of /v2/vendors reported by /v2.json, this could also be a not yet ready for use thing which simply happens to already show up. Nightsky (talk) 11:30, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Complete. -Chieftain Alex

16:26, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

0 So, I was browsing dyes lately... e.g. Antique Gold Dye, displaying "Antique Gold Dye is a starter yellow metallic dye...." in the popup, but after I clicked the dye there was nothing... no intro, just the section Gallery... leaving me completely puzzled. It turned out that this this dye infobox edit is actually faking an intro text that is not visible on the dye page itself. In my opinion, anything that's worth adding as fake intro text is also worth adding as real intro text. Also it's kinda awkward to combine this with a manual intro text if needed and still have a proper popup.
Thus my request: please turn this into a real substituted plain intro text for Starter/Common/Uncommon/Rare dyes. --Tolkyria (talk) 17:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

For what it's worth i merely wanted the popup to display something. Three questions:

1) Would it be ok if the infobox would add the intro? That way the intro wouldn't be duplicating the infobox (in the source) and dye properties would have to be updated in only one place. The end of the included part of the template could then look something like:

[...]
{{ #if: {{{color-fur|}}}     || {{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | Hydra Dye | <!-- Is missing fur in the API. --> | [[Category:Dye stubs]] }} }}
}}
{{#ifeq: {{lc:{{{set}}}}} | exclusive |
{{{name|{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}} is an [[Dye#Exclusive colors|exclusive dye]] from the [[{{{kit|}}} Dye Kit]].
|
{{{name|{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}} is a {{lc:{{{set|}}}}} {{lc:{{{hue|}}}}} {{#switch: {{lc:{{{material|}}}}} | natural leather = leather | natural metallic = metallic | #default = {{lc:{{{material|}}}}} }} dye.
}}<noinclude>{{clear}}
[...]

2) Or would it be ok if i'd add a template instead that uses the properties set by the infobox to display the intro instead of a plain intro? The template could be something like:

{{#if:
{{#vardefine: dye| {{{1|{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}} }}
{{#vardefine: set| {{lc: {{#show: {{#var: dye}} |?Has dye set }} }} }}
{{#vardefine: hue| {{lc: {{#show: {{#var: dye}} |?Has dye hue }} }} }}
{{#vardefine: material| {{lc: {{#show: {{#var: dye}} |?Has dye material }} }} }}
{{#vardefine: material| {{#switch: {{#var: material}} | natural leather = leather | natural metallic = metallic | #default = {{#var: material}} }} }}
{{#vardefine: kit| {{{kit|}}} }}
}}{{#ifeq: {{#var: set}} | exclusive |
{{#var: dye}} is an [[Dye#Exclusive colors|exclusive dye]] from the [[{{#var: kit}} Dye Kit]].
|
{{#var: dye}} is a {{#var: set}} {{#var: hue}} {{#var: material}} dye.
}}

3) Or should it be added everywhere as plain text only?

Either way i'll do it not before four days have passed since the time of the request provided it hasn't been done by someone else by then already. Nightsky (talk) 19:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

In my opinion intros should be pure plain text, add it once and probably noone will ever touch it again. It's simply there, no gimics, no templates to care about. --Tolkyria (talk) 20:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. Nightsky (talk) 21:04, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Nevermind. --Tolkyria (talk) 21:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Remove all occurrences of [[Template:Gallery widget]] and [[Template:Fullscreen images widget]]. -Chieftain Alex 17:45, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

306 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

19:25, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Please replace all occurrences of the [[Template:Event empty bar]] (280 usages) with the more powerful Template:Event bar empty (378 usages, allows also green bar). Please delete or redirect [[Template:Event empty bar]] afterwards. --Tolkyria (talk) 20:35, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I will do this tomorrow. -Chieftain Alex

22:41, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Done. 282 pages edited. Old template deleted. -Chieftain Alex

08:30, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Per Template talk: Vendor list#Template rename, rename the following templates:

Old template name	New template name	Notes
Vendor list Vendor list header Vendor list header notes Vendor list result format	Sold by Sold by header Sold by header notes checker Sold by result format	Upcoming rename. Item acquisition template.
Weapon set vendor list Weapon set vendor list result format	Weapon set sold by Weapon set sold by result format	Upcoming rename. Item acquisition template for collection pages.
Vendor table Vendor table header (query) Vendor table result format	Vendor query table Vendor query table header Vendor query table result format	Upcoming rename. Vendor queries.

--BuffsEverywhere (talk) 23:35, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Please move/update the templates and leave a redirect. I will then go and dodge the redirects. -Chieftain Alex

00:01, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Moves done and updated the templates. ~~I hope I didn't miss anything.~~ --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 00:51, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

10200 pages queued up, bot started. -Chieftain Alex

17:44, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

3054 pages edited so far (edits are so slow I'll need to break this into separate days). -Chieftain Alex

00:09, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Days 2 + 3 complete. Couple of leftovers from the look of it, I will need to do those by hand. -Chieftain Alex

13:25, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

A lot of skins are missing the collection parameter. Please add collection parameter to skins contained in Property:Has achievement collection. —Kvothe (talk) 09:58, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

One can create a substitution list with:

<includeonly>{{#arraymap:{{{2|}}}|~|@@@|{{#ifeq: {{#show:@@@|?Has context}}|Skin|{{!}} @@@ = {{{3|}}}<br>}}|}}</includeonly><noinclude>
{{#ask: [[Has achievement collection::+]]|?Has achievement collection|?Has achievement page|format=plainlist|template={{FULLPAGENAME}}|searchlabel=|limit=50|offset=0<!-- increment through until 450 -->}}

--Tolkyria (talk) 11:03, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I've had a look at this and it seems it affects 2578 pages, 167 of which have a collection parameter already specified; and of those 12 appear to be missing at least one additional entry.

I might be able to do this in a bit/later; since the point has been raised for a while already i'll start then once i am able to. Untill then, is there maybe anything on "short"-ish notice? Nightsky (talk) 22:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Short note on the bots errors that Sunlion discovered and fixed (Thank you!): The basic parser i made doesn't like braces. And i did not catch any of the 39 pages when looking for anomalies in the bots output initially; which is on me. There's 32 more pages that would have been affected by this (though i did except them now so it should work fine for them too (though i'll keep an eye on them and the rest again regardless)) still coming up. (Namely the two weapon sets Royal Flame and Glitched Adventure.) Other than that it's currently through with ~1900 edits of what should be 2578 in the end. Nightsky (talk) 04:54, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Slow still, interrupted again and with seven erroneous bot edits but it's done now. I didn't do the math though; so it's only 2578-167+12 edits and not 2578, but alas. Stats:

Pages total: 2423
Distinct things done: 2

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[2435/2411] Add "collection" parameter and value.
[15/12] Add additional achievement.

Nightsky (talk) 05:56, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Note that your bot cut off the description parameter, for example see here. Based on my query there should be 21 pages that contain 24 vertical bars in total, where I fixed 15 occurences, 5 were unaffected and you already fixed one (see here, edit: not sure if this has the same origin as the previous once, since the vertical bar is only present in the raw wiki code); so without checking the rest of the pages I assume that it's fine now. Please make sure to find out why it happened to avoid it in the future. --Tolkyria (talk) 19:19, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

It treats those as separators for parameters and since there's no = in between that and the next it treats it as a positional argument; which it then proceeds to ignore. (The dye template was much easier to deal with than the skin template.) I'll have a look at all pages to see if there's any more such cutoffs. I was hoping Alex could do this as i figured i'd probably run into thinks like this but this has been here for quite a while and i figured i'd give it a try. It seems that despite my preparations i wasn't prepared well enough for it though.

As for the "Whisper's Secret Cowl (skin)"; that is the same as the previous thing. This happened as the 682th edit while the ones Sunlion fixed were edits 1106, 1107, 1109, 1151, 1165 and 1232; so earlier on. I've cought this while checking all pages for it and prevented the same thing from happening to the weapons part of the two sets above that were still to come up (edits 1941-1956 and 2096-2111). And at least that worked. Nightsky (talk) 20:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

I did not find any further occurences. This also seems to be what Sunlion actually found and i didn't read it right. Though at this point i'm also not sure about anything anymore. Nightsky (talk) 20:56, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm sure you did a great job.. I saw this request and didn't know if any of the achievement templates would break. Editing infoboxes and tables with bots almost always unearths some weird usage cases. CA -81.154.20.255 21:32, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Noone doubted this, no need to resignate Nightsky. I just wanted to point out that there's a problem with vertical bars in chat links such that you can adapt and overcome this the next time.

The only high-usage template that uses this parameter (and thus the related property) is collection nav which on default excludes skins; furthermore, I already checked this yesterday. Otherwise, the template collection achievement uses it, but since it specifies the wanted collectible directly, there shouldn't be any problems either. So overall, everything fine, thanks for your bot edit! --Tolkyria (talk) 22:02, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

My english might be failing me here but i can't see how they're resignating me. (Though i'm also not entirely sure on the meaning of resignate, so.. i don't know. (And you're aware that the ip you're replying to is not me, arent you?)) I assumed (and now i guess i know for certain) that's how you mean it, and i appreciate that you did point it out.

Also, did Alex's computer break again, is he away (from where he's logged into and doesn't recall the password whilst away), is this an imposter or what's the CA for? Nightsky (talk) 23:11, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't think so, but yes the IP should be Alex unless he has a twin out there. - Do_odleplex 23:17, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Was watching a film and using my phone. Sheesh this page is long on mobile. -Chieftain Alex

23:32, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

On a good wiki-speed day (not today), add {{ArenaNet image|screenshot|Physical appearance screenshots}} to the pages listed in my sandbox. (requested by Myriada on discord) -Chieftain Alex 21:38, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Ran for 2.5hrs and did 460 images; got another 400 to go but I feel the wiki performance is too poor to continue right now, will resume later in the week. -Chieftain Alex

19:31, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Hold onto your pants, just managed to average 10 edits per minute this morning to finish off the run. See Category:Physical appearance screenshots for outcome. File names could probably do with a tidy up at some point; suggest considering this next weekend after the next wiki patch. -Chieftain Alex

09:14, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Just noticed it's left behind a trailing brace on most (all?) pages. If I recategorize the files any further I will fix this (has no impact but looks dumb). -Chieftain Alex

09:57, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Add == Teaches recipe(s) ==\n{{Teaches recipe}} (plural section heading if mulitple recipes are taught) as documented on Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Item formatting to all recipe sheets. (Note: Some already have the section for testing.) Talk page were the change was discussed. —Kvothe (talk) 21:51, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

I will start with this once i've done at least the following:

Eat.
See if the sections are ordered as expected from the formatting article everywhere and if they are not determine if it poses any problems to adding the section in a consistent manner.
See if item IDs for the recipes are set everywhere as well as if they match the name of the page and if they are visible in the API for determining singular/plural heading purposes.

Nightsky (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Ok, i've found 13 recipe pages without an ID, 15 with an ID set but it's not available in the API and one (Recipe: Machined Weapon Core) with an ID set and available in the API but without (extra) recipe id(s) in the details.

Without ID:

ID unavailable in API:

Recipe: Ascalonian Herbs [9534]
Recipe: Wurm Stew [9558]
Recipe: Asuran Harpoon [9596]
Recipe: Asuran Speargun [9598]
Recipe: Asuran Trident [9602]
Recipe: Bjarni's Celery Snack [9559]
Recipe: Wooden Sword [9555]
Recipe: Vallog's Demise [36615]
Recipe: The Replicator [36619]
Recipe: Shukov's Launch Codes [36618]
Recipe: Ring of Blood [36614]
Recipe: Alpha Conduit [36609]
Recipe: Stargazer Pendant [36597]
Recipe: Satchel of Hunter's Acolyte Armor (Master) [10001]
Recipe: Satchel of Apothecary's Prowler Armor (level 75) [39451]

I'll leave the section away for those without an ID set and will add the singular one for those with the ID unavailable in the API as the results of the template for them only show one item each. I'll also leave the section away from Recipe: Machined Weapon Core.

Additionally it would appear as that the template doesn't do well for the last two items on the second list, which seems like it might be something someone may want to have a look at. (See {{Teaches recipe|Recipe: Satchel of Apothecary's Prowler Armor (level 75)}} or {{Teaches recipe|Recipe: Satchel of Apothecary's Prowler Armor (level 75)}} or both, or - while that wont show it - neither in preview or alternative.)

Also, only two (2) pages had sections out of order. Nightsky (talk) 20:14, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Slow still and interrupted again but the bot's done. Stats:

Pages total: 3455
Distinct things done: 2

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[3267/3267] Add "Teaches recipe" section.
[188/188] Add "Teaches recipes" section.

Nightsky (talk) 05:58, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

From this diff i've noticed the template also accepts a type of only recipe instead of recipe sheet, which the bot did not cover as is. I'll have the bot do these too. Should be 260 more pages with 254 being singular and 6 being plural headings. If that's the figures it end's up with once it's done i won't follow up with stats to this; since they'd only repeat what i just listed. Nightsky (talk) 01:24, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Update links to [[:Category:Animal companion skill icons]] and rename the category to Category:Pet skill icons as the animal companion name has been a redirect to the main pet page for years now. Sunlion (talk) 04:02, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Started and don't imagine it will have any trouble. -Chieftain Alex

09:35, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Update 188 pages using a comma separator in the skin parameter of item infobox to use the semi-colon separator. page list. replace function. -Chieftain Alex 17:50, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Done. -Chieftain Alex

09:35, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Create redirect pages for titles to Title (similar to achievement redirects). —Kvothe (talk) 13:58, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Needed a bit of thinking for this one.

80 titles are shared with existing achievement names which will be redirecting to the correct place anyway.
49 titles are shared with existing non-redirect pages, leave those.
2 titles are shared with existing redirects to non-achievement/non-title pages, leave those (Veteran, Forged Steel).
69 titles don't have pages of any form (redirect or actual page) - these will be created.
61 titles already have redirects, but they are to the title page. Amend those.
The 5 titles remaining are redirects to other types of pages but can be replaced with this new redirect.

That leaves 135 pages to edit. Bot run now in progress. -Chieftain Alex

14:24, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Done. -Chieftain Alex

14:53, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Annotate Template:Pet infobox with new parameter underwater to support setting semantic underwater skill properties for pet skills per Template talk:Pet table. -Chieftain Alex 13:40, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Started, now in progress. -Chieftain Alex

13:40, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Done, 55 pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

14:24, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Split Category:Location screenshots into subcategories based on zone, making for example: Category:Mount Maelstrom area screenshots, Category:Mount Maelstrom PoI screenshots, etc. for all zones. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sunlion (talk • contribs) at 14:03, 7 October 2021‎ (UTC).

It should be noted that not all the screenshots in the category are featured in Location infoboxes for areas and PoIs. There are a few from JPs, or adventures or random shots of an area that didn't quite fit in other categories either. ~~As well as some that I probably didn't notice while I cleaned up the place~~ Myriada (talk) 15:15, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

I'd like to propose this request is revised slightly to splitting location screenshots just by zone, so Category:Divinity's Reach screenshots instead of Category:Divinity's Reach area screenshots and Category:Divinity's Reach point of interest screenshots. This way we end up with 68 additional categories instead of 136, and the POI and area screenshots probably have some overlap anyway.

I had a look at the files (3518). I can identify files matching either area or POI names (2481) pretty easily (remove prefix and suffix only + match on SMW results for areas or POIs). Probably need a different method to figure out the remaining (1037) files... easier when we've removed the straightforward ones I suppose.

In terms of timescales, I'll probably get around to this next Monday. -Chieftain Alex

18:30, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Started. Monitored population of the first few categories and seems OK so far. -Chieftain Alex

10:26, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

2523 images updated into the new categories. I will have a look at the remaining images later to figure out how to address those. -Chieftain Alex

15:03, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorted another 346. -Chieftain Alex

16:14, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Marking this as complete. Done all which I intend to do with the bot. remaining files. -Chieftain Alex

13:32, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Create "<zone name> screenshot" categories to support the above request (only for non-story locations with >4 areas). -Chieftain Alex 18:30, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

68 66 category pages created. -Chieftain Alex

10:02, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Add a {{Game update infobox}} to all pages of the form Game updates/20??-??-?? and additionally to the pages in Category:April Fools updates. Also remove manualy set categories from these pages. (Not sure if i can have the bot do that removal, or if i'll have to. (Also not sure how many pages but probably ~709 ({{#expr: {{#ask: [[~Game updates/20??-??-??]] |format=count}}+{{#ask: [[Category:April Fools updates]] |format=count}} }}).)) I'll see about doing this no earlier than five days from now. Nightsky (talk) 19:39, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Actually nevermind the April Fools updates. They don't work out with the category seting as it would be currently. For those it would either be necessary to be able to set the infobox to not set categories or not add an infobox to them. Not sure which of the two to do. Nightsky (talk) 19:44, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

As long as the prev and next date have to be set by hand I vote no for this addition as this is editing-wise a complete horror. Especially the requirement to go back in order to set the next date on the previous game update sounds like an extremely tedious job that could be easily missed.

smw:Help:Type Date is a fully supported property type, for example one can easily select previous and next date with:

{{#ask: [[Has context::Game update]][[Has release date::<<{{{date|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}}]]|?Has release date#-F[F d, Y]|sort=Has release date|headers=hide|mainlabel=-|searchlabel=|limit=1|order=desc|default=—}}
{{#ask: [[Has context::Game update]][[Has release date::>>{{{date|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}}]]|?Has release date#-F[F d, Y]|sort=Has release date|headers=hide|mainlabel=-|searchlabel=|limit=1|order=asc|default=—}}

Also the format discrepancy between Game updates monthly overview and Game update infobox is kinda wierd. --Tolkyria (talk) 09:26, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I can understand how it'd be tedious. I tryed to automate it but i could only come up with a dpl query sorted by title that would not work because it wouldn't start with the current date. And since i didn't mean to introduce something new to the pages (e.g. properties) but only move what is already done (setting the category) into the infobox i ended up making the dates manual. Fortunatelly for me you took advantage of the time i leave for input before doing bot things to point out a proper(ty) way. I'll see about amending the template with it imidiatelly.

As for the discrepancy; i figured it would be fine since the monthly overview as providing and overview of multiple days is different to a infobox for a single day, so it would make sense for it to look different; so i made it look like most other infoboxes descibing single entities. And i have the infobox show the dates for the next and previous patch as i figured it would be clearer than only having arrows and also giving more of a distinction to the montly template, so it doesn't seem like it'd be missing the date list or similar. I was also thinking of having a link to the overview for each month but i wasn't sure about it so i've left it out for to maybe add later. But if you have an alternate prefered design i'm amenable for changes. Nightsky (talk) 16:21, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I think, regarding the date infobox entry, there's nothing more irritating for a wiki user than suddenly being stuck because we forget to the next date at one point and thus breaking the date redirect chain. This could be avoided by an automatized SMW approach.

Sure, I understand your point. Obviously for the ~700 game update pages nothing will change in the future, thus theoretically we could hardcode it to save some property declarations. But on the other hand, it won't hurt at all to fully SMW-tize the game updates as those are an important aspect of the game. Actually that could be quite useful for various queries (e.g. weapon infobox has a release parameter using ifexists comes into my mind), so I would go for it.

Between the two designs, I mostly meant the colour scheme (the arrows are fine), so probably setting the table to "promo" is enough. --Tolkyria (talk) 17:10, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I might get around to adding the infobox soon-ish. Once i do i'll add the template specificaly as

<noinclude>
{{game update infobox<conditionally including "
| game update = y
" for balance patches>}}
<previous content of an existing leading noinclude tag, if applicable>
</noinclude><rest of the article, starting with the first heading in the same line as the ending noinclude tag>

at the start and reposition any remaining interwikis at the end as

<rest of the article, starting with the end in the next line as the last text of the article>
<noinclude>
<remaining interwiki links>
</noinclude>

since having the noinclude be in it's separate line at the start but the noinclude at the end in the same line as the normal text of the article (e.g.

<noinclude>
{{game update infobox<conditionally including "
| game update = y
" for balance patches>}}
<previous content of an existing leading noinclude tag, if applicable>
</noinclude>
<rest of the article, starting with the first heading in a separate line as the ending noinclude tag>

and

<rest of the article, starting with the end in the same line as the last text of the article><noinclude>
<remaining interwiki links>
</noinclude>

), while appearing to work fine in between dpl query results, seems to introduce an eroneus empty line at the start. Nightsky (talk) 18:07, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

A multi-line game update infobox with include tags is horrible to deal with as editor and can easily introduce unwanted double line breaks. I suggested a single line format on Template talk:Game update infobox that takes perfectly care of any white spaces, I haven't mentioned it there but I would even put the parameter balance update in the first line. --Tolkyria (talk) 18:19, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Postponing this to another time then, since pending format. Nightsky (talk) 19:15, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Started. I checked and the monthly overview pages are unaffected by a few extra newlines at the top or end. I will remove all existing manual categories on the first pass, remove empty noinclude tags, prefix page content with the infobox wrapped in a noinclude tag. The second pass will restore the balance update category which I'm lazily removing right now on the first pass. -Chieftain Alex

13:19, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm curious. How did you start with something we haven't even agreed on a format for yet? Nightsky (talk) 14:30, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

If the concept hadn't been agreed, it probably shouldn't have been added to this page in the first place. However, the disagreement between the two of you seems to be about whitespace, the position of the noinclude tags with respect to the interwikis and TOC, and whether it should be on one line or many - which is all so minor in the scheme of things it has no effect on anything of significance.

All complete. -Chieftain Alex

15:25, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

I mean i didn't want to do any edits if they're going against the wiki. And in order to not go against the wiki i would have seeked to resolve the discussion that was ongoing so it's clear what to do so it's ok for everyone. (Granted which is somewhat flawed as it excludes everyone not arguing; though if people don't bring forth their concearns there's unfortunatelly hardly much that can be done about it. Tolkyria did; which i'm glad about. It's difficult to do something in a way everyone agrees if no one seeks a discussion to solve it. How are you supposed to know what is expected of you if you don't even know what is wanted from you. Or if what you're doing is in any way helpfull. Or anything for that matter without any kind of feedback.) If the result of the discussion would have been to not add it so be it but doing something without there being a consesus is not a solution if you were to ask me. Nightsky (talk) 16:08, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Discord suggestion from Doodle: Add Template:Potions nav to all potions which don't yet have this nav. exhaustive page list. -Chieftain Alex 18:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Complete. 88 pages edited. Wiki editing speed still seems to be the same speed as before the MW update, anywhere between 5 and 10 edits per minute. -Chieftain Alex

19:24, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Suggested on Template talk:Skill infobox#Remove "-" from parameter names: Rename parameters within Template:Skill infobox and Template:Skill infobox/historical to remove the "-". I've also taken the opportunity to further rename activ-type to "activation type". Specifically:

previous	new
pet-family	pet family
uw-replaced-by	uw replaced by
uw-replaces	uw replaces
weapon-slot	weapon slot
mechanic-slot	mechanic slot
ground-target	ground target
activation-pvp	activation pvp
ammunition-pvp	ammunition pvp
energy-pvp	energy pvp
health cost-pvp	health cost pvp
initiative-pvp	initiative pvp
recharge-pvp	recharge pvp
upkeep-pvp	upkeep pvp
activation-wvw	activation wvw
ammunition-wvw	ammunition wvw
energy-wvw	energy wvw
health cost-wvw	health cost wvw
initiative-wvw	initiative wvw
recharge-wvw	recharge wvw
upkeep-wvw	upkeep wvw
tool_belt	tool belt
activ-type	activation type

Note the bottom two rows of the table (tool_belt - remove underscore, and activ-type - rename completely). -Chieftain Alex

10:16, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Please keep in mind that Trait infobox (like Skill infobox) also has a split parameter, namely recharge and recharge-pvp/recharge-wvw. --Tolkyria (talk) 17:45, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Good point, I have updated the trait infobox, /subobject and /historical with the renamed split parameter and I will include this in the scope when I run the bot. -Chieftain Alex

11:06, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Bot now running, 5780 pages identified for changes. -Chieftain Alex

15:24, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

I can see you're doing some non-mainspace edits in the same vein... can I suggest if you're using AWB that you use the "in template" rule, (specified without "Template:" namespace), and then nest any replacement rules inside that "in template" rule. No need to correct prose outside of templates. -Chieftain Alex

17:48, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Stopped for today, circa 3000 edits completed (bot crashed at 2k ish). -Chieftain Alex

22:56, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Now complete. Circa 5800 pages edited across the two days. -Chieftain Alex

13:48, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Related to this request, please rename the Template:Trait infobox parameter "improves mechanic-slot" to "improves mechanic slot". I've added backwards compatibility already. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 12:18, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Split out into a separate request. -Chieftain Alex

12:58, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Done by Tolkyria. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 13:23, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Normalise the split parameter on Template:Skill infobox/historical and Template:Trait infobox/historical. Identified 32 different variants of the three options pve/wvw/pvp when reviewing template inputs for the widget rewrite. -Chieftain Alex 10:52, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Started as I'm working on the rewrite for the game mode buttons widget. -Chieftain Alex

11:06, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Done. 1163 pages scanned, with 1052 of those pages edited. -Chieftain Alex

15:05, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Nice, thanks! Could you also normalise this parameter on Skill infobox and Trait infobox for the main skill/trait pages? It would allow us to properly group the values of this parameter on Parameter check (with the input Template: "Skill infobox", Parameter: "split, Category: "Split skills"). --Tolkyria (talk) 16:17, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm feeling dumb that I didn't leave that ticked when I started the "-" parameter name removal run earlier. (i'm about 600 edits into the 5.7k at the moment, i'll enable that rule for the remaining 5.2k pages, and then loop back at the end). -Chieftain Alex

16:42, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Now looping back, 435 pages identified for normalisation. -Chieftain Alex

13:48, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

All complete. -Chieftain Alex

15:42, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

As suggested on Template talk:Verbatim, split out ingame "books" to use Template:Book text instead of Template:Verbatim. Pages identified here. -Chieftain Alex 17:56, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

179 edits completed. -Chieftain Alex

18:26, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Update the descriptions of these items to "A decoration schematic that is processed by the guild's assembly device to make the decoration." --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 10:30, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Since this is based on the API which seems unlikely to change based on any comments here i'll do this without the time for comments i usually leave before edits. Though i will wait with it a while still because i'd like to see if when i rewrite the bot to use multiple connections at once (Also will have to find out if that even works in the first place with the cookies or if edits change them which would mean it would have to be multiple logins which would defeat the point.) if it can then achieve pre bot-edit-slowdown throughput; for which i have to rewrite it first. Nightsky (talk) 16:19, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

At least these 49 items still have the same description as per the API as they do currently on the wiki so i wouldn't change them. (There's also some items withouth ID set so i can't check and some that have an ID set but don't show in the API so i'm not sure how to handle them. (Will probably end up leaving them be and only change those with the description different in the API to that of the wiki though.)) Or do they appear with the changed description in the guild pannel and the API is behind or why are they included in the list? Nightsky (talk) 17:06, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. Those ones didn't get changed. I used a smw query to generate the list and didn't go through the entire list to make sure they were all changed. Sorry. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 17:48, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

The updated descritiption is visible at the scribing station. The guild decoration panel shows other descriptions. (Maybe we want to include those on the pages aswell?) —Kvothe (talk) 20:09, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey it's totally fine. I figured that might be the case but couldn't tell if it was or if it was because it's in game like that so i asked. That's all.

I'm not sure what the source for the item descriptions on the wiki/the API is in game. So i don't think i qualify for a response.

Done. It appears as that making it concurrent allows it to achieve pre slowdown speeds. Though my error handling seems to be incorrect somewhere as the bot recieved an error when attempting to edit Keg Rack (which would have made for 211 instead of 210 edits in total if it would have suceeded) and did not retry the edit untill it succeeds. So while it works i'd have to do more for it to be more reliable on that (of which i can't tell if that would even pay of untill single connection editing speed is back to normal, so not sure if doing so would even be worth it) and the parallelity is likely to make it more difficult to continue in case it needs to be interrupted simply because of the less stricter ordering of the edits. But untill the single connection editing speed is back to normal it's a way to do bot edits at a "normal" speed.

Pages total: 210
Distinct things done: 1

[Occurences/Distinct pages] Hopefully helpfull description of it.
[210/210] Update description.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nightsky (talk) at 21:43, 10 November 2021 (UTC).

Amend usage of Template:Recipe for recipes specifying a type of "apparatus" (77 pages) - these are all recorded as "Helm" ingame. -Chieftain Alex 08:25, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Done. -Chieftain Alex

09:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Amend usage of Template:Recipe for recipes specifying a type of "component" (848 pages) - these are all recorded as "Crafting Component" ingame. -Chieftain Alex 08:25, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

In progress. -Chieftain Alex

09:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Complete. -Chieftain Alex

11:07, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Remove LRMs from pages in namespaces 0 (main namespace) and 6 (File:) (Also 10 (Template:) but that i'll see about doing manually as that should only be four on three pages.), similar to what i've done previously. Should be 81 over 47 pages in ns 0 and 227 over 227 pages in ns 6 for a total of 308/274. Additionally, while editing the pages already anyways, remove leading empty space from pages that have it (74 (all of which would be in ns 6)). Since i've done it before and, i.a., them missing not having caused any problems (as far as i'm aware of) i'll do this as soon as i'm able to. Nightsky (talk) 00:26, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Done. Like last time the bot was using multiple concurrent connections again but unlike last time it ran into rate limiting this time. (I wonder if that means serial connection bot editing speed is back to normal; or if the wiki was less utilized than during the last bot edits or if caused by some other circumstances instead?) Additionally, like last time with concurrent connection editing there was a stray error bringing the totals down by 1/1. There was also stale data on my end that was an old version of a file page (the associated file having since been re-uploaded in a different format (and under a different name) and the previous since deleted on the wiki) which was incorrectly counted as part of the edits, duplicating the existing version; which when accounted for in the calculations and edits brings things down by a further 1/1. All of this makes for a new total of:

[306/272] Remove left-to-right mark.
[74/74] Remove leading spacing.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nightsky (talk) at 02:33, 12 December 2021 (UTC).

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