User:Stabbot

Stabbot is a bot that I, Stabber, ran from time to time to make a batch of trivial edits to a number of pages. IT HAS NOW BEEN PERMANENTLY RETIRED. .

The bot scripts were written using the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework. If you want to use pywikipediabot yourself, you will have to make a GuildWiki "family". Take the following file and stick it in your  directory. Now create a file called, and add in it: family='guildwiki' mylang='en' usernames['guildwiki']['en'] = 'Stabbot' (replacing "Stabbot" with your wiki user name). After that, run: % python2.4 login.py And input your password. If it worked, you should be able to run % python2.4 test.py successfully.
 * /guildwiki_family.py

You may want to take a good look at the  script. 90% of the time it will be what you need.

If you want some skeletal code that does some fixed textual operation on a collection of pages, you may want: Replace the "STUB" bits with code. The function  takes the text of the old page as input and returns the new text.
 * /cleanup_template.py

Log

 * /Archive 1 (until April 7, 2006)

2006-04-8

 * Adding Category:Warrior skills (Factions) to warrior Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Ranger skills (Factions) to ranger Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Monk skills (Factions) to monk Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Necromancer skills (Factions) to necromancer Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Mesmer skills (Factions) to mesmer Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Elementalist skills (Factions) to elementalist Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Assassin skills (Factions) to assassin Factions skills.
 * Adding Category:Ritualist skills (Factions) to ritualist Factions skills.

Start: 2006-04-08 02:01:02

End: 2006-04-08 03:15:24

2006-04-10

 * Untitlecase categories for all skills. The following replacements are made:
 * For this run, the bot was throttled even more than usual: edits were spaced at 30 second intervals, and the preloading page generator worked in bunches of 5 pages rather than 20.

Start: 2006-04-10 15:21:09

End: 2006-04-10 19:57:28

Errata
Categories missed in this run:
 * Category:Pet Skills

2006-04-12

 * Redirect all skill icons to the corresponding skill pages.
 * Only for the core and prophecies skills.

Start: 2006-04-12 00:09:48

End: 2006-04-12 01:25:01

2006-04-13
Start and end times are lost because the database crashed a lot in the interim.

2006-04-18

 * Rewriting incoming links to the old style PNG images for skill icons to the new style JPEG images.
 * The following pages were edited: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67

Start: 2006-04-18 02:50:15

End: 2006-04-18 03:11:15

2006-04-19

 * Replace all available Factions PNG skill icons with JPEG versions
 * Add 4px black borders for normal, and #FED700 borders for elite skills
 * Resize to 64x64
 * Redirect the new JPEG image pages to the skill pages.

Start: 2006-04-18 23:55:52

End: 2006-04-18 23:55:52

2006-04-24

 * Migrate Progression, Progression2 and Progression3 to the new design presented in Style and formatting/Skills.

Start: 2006-04-24 10:51:58

End: 2006-04-24 12:15:37

2006-05-10

 * Skill beautification project.
 * Touched every single player skill page.
 * Required scripts: /skill_beautify.py (the driver code, written in Python for the pywikipediabot framework), and /skill_rewrite.pl (the skill beautifier, written in Perl because I don't understand Python's regexp stuff).

Start: 12:02, 10 May 2006

End: 16:06, 10 May 2006