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The happenings on the wiki, grouped by week.

Week of Sunday, 29 December 2013

• Removed type-link parameter from {{skill infobox}} and skills using parameter.
• Temple armor goes back home.
• Happy New Year!

Week of Sunday, 15 December 2013

• User:Adalwolf uploads adorable images of minis.
• User:Dr ishmael goes to town on recipe lists and produces {{Base ingredients}} and {{base ingredients lookup}}. Nobody knows where it will be used. Yet.
• cyko reaubought uploads previews for dungeon weapon sets and other weapon set images.
• User:Dr ishmael finishes all of the Illustrious armor pieces.
• User:W.Wolf creates PvP equipment purchased from vendors with glory.

Week of Sunday, 08 December 2013

• User:Dr ishmael creates Illustrious armor crafting component pages.
• The dungeon rare armor component and set pages get cleaned up thanks to a coordinated effort at GWWT:ARMOR. Loot versions remain neglected and without a template.
• Illustrious armor pages are finally created, albeit with next to no content.
• User:Psycho Robot begins cleaning up dungeon weapon pages with {{Dungeon equipment}}.

Week of Sunday, 01 December 2013

• Created articles for new healing skills.
• Created {{icon}} for general icon template.
• Rylek gets completely confused on User talk:Stephane Lo Presti#edge of the mists and gets nowhere in discussion.
• Created {{Discipline recipe nav}} for navigation, using #arraymaps unnecessarily. Converted {{chef recipes nav}} and related pages to match other disciplines.
• User:Malgalad uploads half of image update requests.

Week of Sunday, 24 November 2013

• Glob of Ectoplasm/salvage research opens for business. Can be edited via a [[Form:Glob of Ectoplasm salvage research|form]].
• User:Chieftain Alex passes his RfA.
• {{SDRH}} finally allows manual numbers of trials/totals to be input.
• All occurances of {{item stat}} are fixed to match Relyk's clean wikicoding.

Week of Sunday, 17 November 2013

• Created {{tl|formlink}} for generating... form links.
• Updated {{object infobox}}, [[Form:Object infobox]], and Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Object formatting for Semantic Forms.
• Created {{{equipment}} for generating equipment icons because no one else bothered.
• Updated Recipe templates to hide discipline and rating automatically when source is restricted to Mystic Forge. Amazingly nothing gets broken.

Week of Sunday, 10 November 2013

• User:Yoe Dude gets mad when User:Santax uploads better quality images for any images Konig has uploaded. Files are serious business. I have a similar occurrence with File:Zephyr Sanctum.jpg so not biased at all.
• Created {{vendor table}} for some arbitrary tables.
• Updated {{vendor table row}} to display armor weight.
• User:Sol Solus merges Mystic Forge/Other Items with Mystic Forge. In reality, should be using {{recipe list row}} for displaying these, maybe a mystic forge recipe template for the special case.
• User:Louise continues adding NPC levels for various areas and creates new NPC pages.
• Created Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Semantic Forms and [[Form:Object infobox]].
• User:Chieftain Alex creates [[Form:Skill infobox]]. End up using [[Form talk:Skill infobox]] for discussion.
• User:‎Lon-ami creates [[Zone/Template]], [[Zone/Template/Color]], and [[Zone/Template/Region]]. User:Chieftain Alex quickly creates Template:Zone table row instead, a failed SMW venture turned row template.

Week of Sunday, 03 November 2013

• Created {{event table row}} for easy generation of event details commonly used in achievement guides.
• User:Louise (formerly 74.210.188.63) adds NPC levels for various areas and creates new NPC pages.
• ArenaNet adds RecentChangesLogFilter, a mediawiki extension by User:Poke, which hides all of the user creation spam in recent changes. (An option to change the default log visibility can be found in your preferences)
• User:Claret adds NPC rank to lots of NPCs. She also updated many events with mismatched names.

Week of Sunday, 27 October 2013

• Updated {{item stat}} to use {{attribute}}.

Week of Sunday, 13 October 2013

• User:‎Dr ishmael adds trait facts to elementalist traits, User:Mora does it for mesmer traits.
• User:Chieftain Alex removes {{Recipe/Requires}} from pages. Some issues with User:Poke's bot runs than Alex had to fix manually.

Week of Sunday, 06 October 2013

• User:Claret trims the hedges of the infoboxes. They look more purty now.
• User:Lon-ami moves List of unique weapons to List of standalone weapons, yet another arbitrary name (poorly chosen and without consensus) and List of named weapons is still there.
• Devon Carver receives some love this week after stephane does a tl;dr about how the quote can be misconstrued. When someone fixes it to match some other anet staff pages, Felix decides consistency with quotes trumps any logical formatting at reverts it. Even though not all the anet staff pages are consistent and the problem is left unaddressed. Yay!

Week of Sunday, 29 September 2013

• Discussion about dungeon formatting on Talk:Twilight Arbor (explorable) takes place. It needs to be moved to formatting discussion but Moxie flin is too lazy. User:Rakuin also moves the dungeon path pages without enough discussion and Rylek gets mad.
• User:Ryoko Nine Winters‎ creates wikipedia templates, which have to be deleted by Shard lime once again.
• User:‎SentinelArk adds skill coefficients to a majority of the rest of the skills.
• User:‎Psycho Robot redirects the Celestial equipment to the proper pages.
• User:Sol Solus starts creating recipe list navs for the crafting professions.

Week of Sunday, 22 September 2013

• User:Sol Solus switching all the recipe lists for crafting professions to {{recipe table}}.
• User:Konig Des Todes returns to update some lore articles and leave lots of comments..
• Chat links in search, poke makes item id support multiple values to map item ids to the correct page.

Week of Sunday, 15 September 2013

• Updated featured article for Tequatl Rising.
• User:‎Vaught creates Wupwup recipe sheet pages.
• Created {{vendor list header}}, {{vendor list}}, {{vendor list result format}}, and changes to {{vendor table row}} for querying for a particular item from vendors.
• Updated {{tl|item facts}} and {{tl|item facts result format}} to display appropriate icons with {{attribute}}
• Created {{attribute}} for generate attribute stats.

Week of Sunday, 08 September 2013

• Reddit thread about using the /wiki command yet again!
• All renown hearts have an article and at least a renown heart level.

Week of Sunday, 1 September 2013

• User:Dr ishmael creates the Crafted ascended weapon sets.
• Guild Wars 2 Wiki:App reaches 5000 downloads.
• Super Adventure Box: Back to School goes live.

Week of Sunday, 25 August 2013

• User:‎Dr ishmael implements {{craft table}} on more of most of the crafted items.
• User:Callis.6253 posts a random guild that does champion farming on Queensdale champion farm like it's something cool and new. Gets promptly reverted by User:Manifold.
• Relyk waits on his Mini Mr. Sparkles.
• User:Stephane Lo Presti vows revenge against Relyk.
• Posted Guild Wars 2 Wiki: The First Year reddit thread. Expect to see 2 comments and 5 likes.
• Created Soft Lander page.
• User:Teknomancer uploads male heritage armor.
• Added content for Super Adventure Box: Back to School and split Super Adventure Box and Super Adventure Box (release).

Week of Sunday, 18 August 2013

• User:‎Dr ishmael implements {{craft table}} on most of the crafted items.
• User:Stephane Lo Presti changes user privileges 20 times and creates Game credits without a category and protects the page.

Week of Sunday, 4 August 2013

• User:Captain Combat documents the Sovereign weapon skins.
• User:Shard lime organized the sadly ignored Bronze weapons.
• Champion loot bag has multiple ids connected to the a loot bag of the same name, except the contents of the bags can't be disambiged by any obvious properties. List of champions also hasn't been moved to an appropriate space so we can generate an actual list of all champions.
• User:Poke organizes version 1 of the API into appropriate pages.
• The API namespace opens up as the official documentation of the Guild Wars 2 API, replacing the one on the official forums.
• User:Dr ishmael implements {{craft table}}, {{craft table group}}, and {{craft table row}} for groups of crafted items. A giant complicated glob of code to make it possible to link individual ids all under the same article.
• Added achievement category display to {{achievement list}}. Makes it much easier to see different categories for an activity.
• User:Aquadrizzt creates an amazing 7 articles for the Queen's Jubilee preview play day, and gets reverted!
• Created {{achievement box}} and {{achievement box result format}} for displaying individual achievements, over using {{tl|achievement infobox}}.
• User:Chieftain Alex creates a rough draw of drop rate data with {{Drop rate lookup table}} and {{SDRF}}. The code itself still needs some improvements but matching up templates is annoying.

Week of Sunday, 28 July 2013

• User:Poke is promoted to bureaucrat after a successful RfA.
• Rage321, a Reddit user, posts an explorer achievement guide using User:Dr ishmael's maps and links to the wiki.
• User:Malgalad using {{map link table}} to create subobjects that hold location information and the id for points of interest to avoid the need to add ids to the infobox. Although this is working backwards, where the chat link codes could be created with queries, the work is appreciated.
• Created {{parse tier}} as part of code to calculate the total achievement points for a certain group of achievements.
• Obsidian Sanctum jumping puzzle discussion on User talk:Noxx leads to Obsidian Sanctum (explorable zone), a clarification on "WvW map" on a previous update. The jumping puzzle does not get just its own area, but it's own zone.
• Created {{quartermaster}} for creating the upgrade tables. Previously, this was done there transcluding subpages individually.
• Fixed icon logic on {{item infobox}}.
• User:Vahkris adds most of the content for Cutthroat Politics. Who needs a preview play.
• {{achievement table row}} gets some improvements, including collapsed tier list and suggested locations. Updated the SMW documentation for achievement properties.
• User:198.46.98.226 created List of champions to document foes that will drop bonus loot. Due to the obscure warning, we don't know if legendary rank NPCs will give this reward or if there are other constraints.

Week of Sunday, 21 July 2013

• User:Stephane Lo Presti changes the format for preview play events. More stuff to worry about.
• {{achievement table header}} and {{achievement table row}} are added, along with the achievement subobject. Much of the work was done by User:Malgalad.

Week of Sunday, 14 July 2013

• User:Malgalad creates {{tl|achievement infobox}} for documenting individual achievements.
• User:Indigo121 creates Living Story Summary to summarize the living story releases.
• Achievement rewards gets plenty of attention. The article for Achievement Chest ended up being protected because ArenaNet is dumb and confused people with the achievement reward and the actual achievement chest. This ended up carrying over into the other articles, where anons completely ignore any discussion and hints and still create the articles. This is in respect to all the rewards being listed already and they are simply copypasting it onto new pages. Queue frustration for contributors.

Week of Sunday, 07 July 2013

• Documented the Highpeaks event chain involving Vigil and The Barrowstead.
• User:Yandere makes [[Summoned weapons]], Mesmer weapons, and rewrites icon templates into {{map icon}} master list.

Week of Sunday, 30 June 2013

• User:Relyk adds Bazaar of the Four Winds release from the preview play. 72 articles, 69 images, 580 screenshots.
• Special:Contributions/68.58.170.89 and Special:Contributions/96.250.3.183 write up Shattered Ice Ruins walkthrough.
• User:Dr ishmael confronts User:Claret on having an "accusatory tone". Cue a resulting shitstorm where feelings get hurt and nothing gets resolved.

Week of Sunday, 23 June 2013

• Created {{recipe list row}} for manual lists of items.
• Wrote up Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Upgrade component formatting for upgrade components.
• User:Dr ishmael implements the new templates and formatting to sigils and runes.
• User:Yandere adds {{sigil table}} and {{sigil table row}} to correspond with rune table.
• Alex gives the best summary about templates on the wiki: "Broken shit doesn't work. lol.".
• Created {{recipe list}} and {{recipe list result format}} using the updated recipe template.
• User:Dr ishmael updates {{recipe}} with a new format, semantic properties, and additional parameters to match the API and convert from the use of DPL.
• User:Vahkris write up all the articles pertaining to the new release after being the elected user for preview day. Setting they bar way too fucking high.

Week of Sunday, 16 June 2013

• User:Yandere creates {{Environmental skill table row}} for bundles although the template needs to be rewritten.
• User:Mora adds siege weapon skills.
• User:Dr ishmael tests out some API maps.
• User:Chieftain Alex converts service2 parameter to #arraymaps because relyk is lazy.
• {{Skill link table header}} and {{Skill link table row}} get implemented by User:Malgalad and User:Chieftain Alex.
• User:Warrant Officer Bane scheduling for duty.
• Issue about loot objects finally comes up for the location, end up making location optional on {{object infobox}}. Still need to address loot objects to give context.
• Introduction of Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Projects/Wiki News Ambassador for preview events, along with discussion. User:Vahkris is elected for first preview.
• User:Dr ishmael posts a rewrite for {{recipe}}. We must now wait four weeks for enough feedback to get anything done.
• More discussion on dealing with Living Story missions, with the standard "people can't find it" issue.

Week of Sunday, 09 June 2013

• Created Black Lion Weapon Specialist for all the weapon skins. Still need templates to create the weapon skins quickly.
• Updated {{item icon}} and {{item infobox}} for semantic support similar to other templates.

Week of Sunday, 02 June 2013

• Initial implementation for semantic item drops with {{drops}} and {{dropped by}}.
• User:Tsafran fixes the links for drops on multiple article pages. Those damn Globbity Globs of Gloop.
• User:Dr ishmael and User:Teraim rampage through the dyes, adding item IDs and color codes from the API.
• User:Profcinders updates a multitude of armor galleries.
• {{SDRH}} implements #arraymap to make it readable. It's still unreadable.
• User:Poke makes {{parse location}} to do the parsing in {{Location infobox}}. Don't know what else he intends to use it for.
• User:‎Clevin fixes the gives parameter for some objects, leading to switching to parameter to use #arraymap.
• User:Felix Omni adds a walkthrough to Defeat the Karka Queen threatening the settlements. Seriously.
• User:Vahkris deals with historical dialogue and moves dialogue from Lost Shores into subpages.

Week of Sunday, 26 May 2013

• User:MithranArkanere adds the flavor effect article to categorize effects that do nothing. Very useful.
• User:Pling starts a long overdue Reddit Q&A session for the wiki.
• User:Kirbman doesn't like the changes made to {{unsigned}}, which is heavily underdiscussed.
• The {{daily}} needs updating after the Last Stand at Southsun.

Week of Sunday, 19 May 2013

• The wiki article for the API is created after Felix manhandles the poor official forums.
• Updated {{trinket infobox}} to support infusion slot for any trinket because Anet has to make non-ascended items with infusion slots for players to waste money on making them ascended for limited time items. Which isn't true for one of the two items. Go figure.
• Last Stand at Southsun explicitly refers to the wiki articles for the two new back items. :D
• The codeheads set event status fetching with MediaWiki:EventInfo.js and add to the infobox.
  • The feature was later promoted by ArenaNet on Twitter.
• Guild Wars 2 API is introduced. This should get the item ids set with a bot and some form of event status for all the events.

Week of Sunday, 12 May 2013

• Added support for setting the "abilities" of the NPC found in the NPC panel as the Has game description for the NPC similar to approach on other infoboxes.
• Preliminary content for The Secret of Southsun is out. Some guy managed to update the featured article on time.
• Rewrite {{Weapon gallery}} to use a semantic gallery including overlays.
• Rewrite {{Item infobox gallery}} to use #arraymaps and an awesome syntax. Who doesn't like plus signs? (Gets several bug fixes days later)
• Claret get befuddled about the removal of categories, queue the tl;dr responses.

Week of Sunday, 05 May 2013

• Despite concerns about the additions of 50 categories, User:Chieftain Alex uses an even-more OCD sort method on {{Upgrade component infobox}} for Runes and Sigils.
• Wrote up {{rune table header}}, {{rune table row}}, {{rune table footer}}, and {{rune table}}. First template that queries data from items and displays them.
• The wiki gets upgraded. We can now use #arraymaps and #subobjects.
• Updated {{effect infobox}}, apart from the icon issue it has going on.

April 28, 2013

• User:Alad makes articles about eaten fisherman and Regurgitated Drake Food.
• Updated PvP Steady weapons using {{weapon strength}}, which was surprising ArenaNet bothered to fix the weapons.
• Created Property:Has weapon strength and {{weapon strength}}.
• Pushed Flame and Frost: Retribution to the featured article the day after release...
• User:Claret proposes some changes on Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Location formatting.
• Moved "ice block" to freeze as references to frozen were changed to chill.
• Armor article gets updated and rewritten, in a long line of pages that need updating.
• Finished most of content for Flame and Frost: Retribution, mostly the write up for the dungeon.
• Chieftain Alex uploads the game the four sets of updated icons from the 30th update. (Dredge, Krait, Gear and Norn)
• Implents {{area events}} after leaving {{event list format}} laying around for a month. Relyk's talk page gets way too much attention because of it.

April 21, 2013

• Steph posts User:Stephane Lo Presti/News/2013-04-26 for the wiki update, which has had drawbacks for the last couple months. Yay.
• User:Vahkris adds all the maps for Guild Trek.
• User:Tulen elementti begins uploading a lot of high-contrast (white/red/gold) armor screenshots and implementing User:Pling's armor gallery template.
• Relyk goes on a revert rage for replacing weapon images with preview images because he made a topic about just that.
• User:Cloned adds a ton of interwiki language links.
• Fixed {{cname}} to use the lame, standard approach.
• User:Shard lime completes two letters of the item stat lookup in one day. It's madness.
• Completed most of the content for Rytlock's Critter Rampage, including the entire map of the game.

April 14, 2013

• User:Cloned adds 1000 interwiki language links.
• Added unique parameter to items, months after ascended equipment came out and the property mattered.
• User:Ching000 fills out dialogue and stuff on The Trial of Julius Zamon.
• The wiki reaches over 1000 event articles, this probably happened two months ago but yeah. (1096 dynamic events, 166 group events, and 66 meta events)

April 7, 2013

• Created {{event infobox gallery}} to handle maps on {{event infobox}} better, along with minor formatting.
• Some people bother to clean up precursor pages, named weapons still get ignored despite desperate cries for help.
• User:Relyk proposes merging icon templates with User:Relyk/icon and pretends that he cares what other people think about it.
• User:Dr ishmael builds a monolith item stat reference template at {{Item stat lookup}}. Also takes care of item attributes with {{prefix attributes}}. The initial javascript for generating chat links was noted two weeks ago.
• User:Poke begins documenting the chat link extension.
• User:Yoe Dude fills out Vulture's Sweep, the random lonely areas people ignore.

March 31, 2013

• User:Relyk uploads his first weapon gif image: File:Super Staff Skin.gif
• Dark Woods is finished.

March 24, 2013

• Sunny Glade is finished.
• Super Adventure Box dungeon is released. Achievement category is added, along with pixel creatures and modifications to {{NPC infobox}}.
• User:Relyk adds default support for icons on {{object infobox}}.
• User:Malgalad finishes up chat links for areas and other stuff that he has been working on over the past few weeks.
• Added The Razing as the featured article the day after the day it was released. Way to be on it guys.
• User:Relyk creates {{Gem store table header}} and {{Gem store table row}} for long overdue Gem Store tables.
• Relyk also creates long overdue pages for the PvP Steady weapons.
• User:Claret continues the charge of replacing all the events with {{event}}.
• User:Dr ishmael implements the some javascript to change game ids into chat links. Meanwhile, poke has a real life.

March 17, 2013

• Guild missions and associated vendors and content get sorted out and finished up this week.
• User:Dr Ishmael finishes uploading locator and boundary maps for every area in the universe.
• User:Yoe Dude creates masses of object articles.

March 10, 2013

• User:Santax and User:Konig Des Todes get a second ban for 6 months, within a week of coming off a ban.
• User:Claret‎ fills out event pages, including associated hearts.
• User:Dr ishmael automates {{Daily}} to use a two week rotation schedule.
• {{heart table}} goes live, along with {{heart rewards}}, {{heart experience}}, {{heart karma}}, and {{heart coin}}.

March 3, 2013

• We finally get a name for generic upgrade components: Universal upgrade. Too bad we have to deal with upgrade components that can be used in recipes.
• {{heart rewards}} is implemented into {{heart infobox}} completely as a lookup table.
• Daily/Drop Rate reaches a thousand data entries.
• User:Disconnect works on jewelry and related items.
• User:Relyk adds the {{heart rewards}} and creates table on Renown Heart.
• {{daily}} gets its first entry where achievements don't need to be added.

February 24, 2013

• User:Malgalad updates guild missions for Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm
• ArenaNet create the NPC Bookworm Bwikki whose dialogue "I got lots of papers filled up with squiggles" is based on the supposed lack of accuracy for many wiki articles.
• User:Relyk revamped the upgrade slot handling on {{trinket infobox}}, he was too lazy to update the others.
• User:Sir Vincent III launches a campaign on Talk:List of thief skills on how dual wield skills are presented in skill tables. This eventually lead to suggestions to change skill tables entirely. Not surprisingly, this resulted in changes to dual wield skills and not skill tables.
• User:Chieftain Alex makes the {{daily}} template on Relyk's whim after the changes to Daily and Monthly.
• {{skill infobox}} starts using Property:Has canonical name, removing the need for the second parameter.
• The Red Ring of Death gets changed to the much less amusing Ring of Red Death.
• The addition of damage coefficients is suggested by User:Habar414. Queue another user posting on reddit first and then bothering to discuss it on the wiki.
• Final Rest gets the first image upload using the new Preview functionality.
• Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm along with other changes goes live.
  • Skill are updated.
  • Flame and Frost mail is updated. Daily is updated. Events are updated. The Gathering Storm is mostly updated. Lost and Found needs updating. Game releases are updated.
• User:Chieftain Alex splits the sigil articles to individual sigil items.

February 17, 2013

• User:Disconnect fills out Gold Band, Gold Hook, and Gold Chain and subsequent item articles.
• User: Magistrella adds satchels and bags of equipment, including the recipes.
• User:Relyk adds proper support for the type parameter on {{Object infobox}} along with support for environmental weapons.
• SMW gets moved to the project space months after being first implemented.

February 10, 2013

• User:Relyk added the alcoholic parameter to {{item infobox}} and autocategorized items in Category:Alcohol.
• User:Relyk adds documentation for semantic properties on location: renown hearts, waypoints, points of interest, skill challenges, and vistas
• User:Musha adds various events to Gendarran Fields and Fields of Ruin.
• Discussion of chat links fires up again after a Reddit thread caused an anonymous user to post preview links due to leftover chat codes on dye articles.
• User:Relyk splits the rune articles to individual rune items.
• User:Relyk implements a semantic template {{event}} for generating events on bulleted lists.
• User:Relyk and User:Dr ishmael add semantic query for location on {{event infobox}}

February 3, 2013

• User:Felix Omni and User:Poke release initial build of Guild Wars 2 Wiki:App to much acclaim and excitement.
• User:Knighthonor adds a generic note on all signet pages. User:Mora and others revert edits and User:Dr ishmael approaches the subject on his talk page.
• User:Stephane Lo Presti releases User:Stephane Lo Presti/News/2013-02-08 with MediaWiki information and proposals for improvements to feedback, contributors, and community issues on the wiki.
• User:Freshberrysmoothie proposes formatting for dungeons, assissted by User:Relyk and User:Dr ishmael to make Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Dungeon formatting.
• Laurel merchant is completed within two days of Flame and Frost: Prelude release.

January 6, 2013

• User:Dr ishmael adds {{youtube search}} to stop the revert war on linking youtube videos on jumping puzzles.

December 9, 2012

• User:Jyavoc begins running image bots to automatically tag various images.

November 11, 2012

• User:Jyavoc makes a mark on the wiki when he implements area nav templates.
• User:Chieftain Alex implements initial release of {{SDRH}}.

October 26, 2012

• Semantic mediawiki extension installed.