User talk:Fyrenbot

Test
A single test edit in the sandbox:  --Fyren 02:03, 4 September 2006 (CDT)

Skill destubbing
Starting user-assisted destubbing of skills. --Fyren 02:03, 4 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Maybe later, no time now. --Fyren 02:36, 4 September 2006 (CDT)

Starting user-assisted destubbing of skills. --Fyren 10:54, 4 September 2006 (CDT)
 * Done. See Special:Contributions/Fyrenbot between 11:53 4 September 2006 and 12:41 4 September 2006 inclusive.  --Fyren 11:44, 4 September 2006 (CDT)

Game updates whitespace
Automatic removal of whitespace before the category tag for articles in Category:Game updates. Manually verified correctness. See Special:Contributions/Fyrenbot between 00:40 7 September 2006 and 00:42 7 September 2006 inclusive. --Fyren 23:45, 6 September 2006 (CDT)

Subst of in NPC articles
Automatic substitution of (s///g) in all articles anywhere in Category:NPCs tree. Read in 1404 articles, actually made changes to 793. See Special:Contributions/Fyrenbot between 03:24 13 September 2006 and 03:43 13 September 2006 inclusive. --Fyren 02:46, 13 September 2006 (CDT)

Skill revamp
Assuming my home Internet connection stays stable, sometime around 4-6 AM EST I'm going to change over the templates. This will involve my bot going over every skill article and template. Since there are 1135 skills, this'll take a while. An estimate based on the PAGENAME thing above is 80 minutes. Here's the plan: The worst-case scenario is both my Internet connection and the bot's connection die somewhere in the middle of the skills. Reverting or finishing all of the changes will be a hassle for a human. In that case, the QR tables will have blank stats for the unfinished skills.
 * 1) Replace Template:Skill box with the new version (Sandbox/Skill box), but modified to display stats using either the old parameters or new ones, depending which form is found. This is to not completely break the stats displays in skill articles between the template changeover and when my bot gets to each skill.
 * 2) Replace Template:Skill box qr top with the new version (Sandbox/Skill box qr top), but modified to add a row saying "quick reference tables will likely be temporarily broken." It'd be more effort to keep them looking correct since there's several different ones.
 * 3) Run my bot. The bot is run from a machine with a more stable connection than my home connection, so it's very unlikely there'll be a problem with it.  The bot will go over all the skills in alphabetical order.  I'll be watching recentchanges.  When it's done, it'll create User:Fyrenbot/revamp with a list of skills that it had difficulty with.  A "P" means something went wrong with figuring out progressions, a "T" means something went wrong in parsing the skill template.  A "?" means something generally went wrong but it's not clear what.  I'll have a local copy of this I can look at even in the case the bot dies mid-way and doesn't post it to the wiki.
 * 4) Change the basic skill box and qr top templates to the exact copies in the sandbox.

I'll post again either to say I'm starting or postponing. --Fyren 23:35, 18 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Looks to be working good so far. Nightfall skills have no profression to speak of yet so there may be some problems there.  Overall, nice job.  Looks cleaner and more compact.[[Image:VallenIconwhitesmall.JPG]]  Vallen Frostweaver  07:08, 19 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Yeah, there's no progression tables to convert for most, so it just leaves them without one instead of adding a blank one. And also, here's the post saying I started. Only like two and a half hours after the fact. --Fyren 07:13, 19 October 2006 (CDT)
 * It looks to be removing the manual category inserts ... not a problem for most skills, but for many shouts in quotes, they need the manual category to get them to list in the categories alphabetically. Without them, they all get listed under a quotation mark in the category lists. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 12:13, 19 October 2006 (CDT)
 * It only did for brace yourself, help me, I will survive, lead the way, and make haste. Not sure why, since it should have left all of them.  --Fyren 12:15, 19 October 2006 (CDT)

lol
love the emergency shutoff button.

It's big and red!!! I just can't resist pushing it!!! - 11:34, 4 September 2006 (CDT)
 * I think you need one d: &mdash; Skuld 11:38, 4 September 2006 (CDT)