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Oblivion: Fix broken anchor on several pages that link to the Animals page

Several of the Oblivion place pages link to the Animals page with an anchor that does not currently exist on that page: Nuisance_Beast . This results in the user "landing" at the top of the Animals page, instead of at the correct spot on that page (which is probably the Mud Crabs and Rats entries).

The full problem link is Oblivion:Animals#Nuisance_Beast. That link has apparently not been working for some time.

Doing a search, some examples of place pages with this link include:

Oblivion:Nornal (Zones 1 and 3)

Oblivion:Cursed_Mine (Zones 1, 2, and 3)

Oblivion:Abandoned_Mine (Zones 1 and 2)

Oblivion:Fort_Ontus (Exterior)

Oblivion:Squandered_Mine (Zones 1, 2, and 3)

Oblivion:Sinkhole_Cave (Zones 1 and 2)

There are probably more pages than this. Usually, the link is in the "Occupants" section of each zone, or the "Exterior" section.

My guess is that there are approximately two ways to fix this:

1. Change the links to point at an existing heading on the Animals page, probably the Mud Crabs entry. Since the bum link is on several pages, this might be good for a bot to do, which is why I'm bringing it up here.

2. Create an anchor, a short new section, or maybe a redirect titled "Nuisance Beast" on the Animals page, so that the existing Nuisance_Beast links have a place to go. This probably doesn't need a bot, but I feel that someone with more experience than me would know the best way to do it.

Thanks!

73.3.58.200 11:13, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

I didn't scan every edit to the Animals page, but at a glance, it looks like that header has never existed, not even when knowledgeable editors were creating the links on other pages. I reworked the leveled lists table and added Nuisance Beast as a header there, which resolved the issue. If you notice anything else like that, please let us know—we really appreciate it! – Robin Hood ^(talk) 10:46, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Moving Better Cities subpages up a level

When the Better Cities wiki was merged in, they had a setup that resulted in essentially subpages in each city. So the page for the Bravil Bayside Inn is actually located at Better Cities:Bravil:Bravil Bayside Inn not Better Cities:Bravil Bayside Inn. I would like a bot to take these pages and essentially remove the city part of the name, as it does not conform to our current set up. In addition, there are multiple in-wiki links that got incorrectly parsed by previous botruns, and resulted in them simply being [[City Name:Location]]. The following cities have pages that need moving (links go to the non-created categories containing the pages needing to be moved).

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Anvil

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Arboretum

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Arena District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Aristocratic District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Bravil

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Bruma

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Cheydinhal

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Chorrol

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Elven Gardens District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Leyawiin

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Market District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Prison District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Skingrad

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Talos Plaza District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Temple District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Waterfront District

Category:Better_Cities-Places-Imperial City, Waterfront Tunnel

This also affects some OD4 pages:

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Kathar

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Kazbai

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Banana Caravanserai

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Galu Oasis

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Sydura Serai

Category:Oblivion_Mod-OD4-Places-Salt Caravanserai

I THINK this covers all the pages that would need moving. If there are any duplicate names, if you could just append the Place to the end of the name, parenthetically (though, if it's an Imperial City location, maybe just append the district name, rather than the city name as well). Jeancey (talk) 18:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Oblivion: Broken anchors on several place pages that link to the Undead Dungeons page

Several of the Oblivion place pages link to the Undead Dungeons page with anchors that do not currently exist on that page: Restoration_Chest and Restoration_Ayleid_Chest . This results in the user "landing" at the top of the Undead Dungeons page, instead of at the correct spot on that page, which is probably the "Chest 04 (Healing)" entry in the table.

The full problem links are Oblivion:Undead_Dungeons#Restoration_Chest and Oblivion:Undead_Dungeons#Restoration_Ayleid_Chest .

The Undead Dungeons talk page shows that something related to this problem was known some time ago; it specifically mentions the difficulty of editing all the place pages that had a "restoration chest" link. It looks like maybe the place pages didn't get edited after that discussion.

Doing a search, some examples of place pages with these links include:

Oblivion:Sardavar_Leed (regular and Ayleid)

Oblivion:Fort_Ontus (regular)

Oblivion:Veyond (regular and Ayleid)

Oblivion:Moranda (regular and Ayleid)

There are probably more pages than this.

Sometimes the words "restoration chest" also appear in the prose of the place pages, but not as a link. Those probably don't need to be turned into links.

I'm not sure what the right fix is. Like last time, editing the Undead Dungeons page might fix it without having to fix all of the place pages. Or, maybe it's better to bot-edit the place pages.

Thanks!

73.3.58.200 10:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Okay, those have been fixed (give or take a faulty edit summary from a previous job). I don't know if it's necessarily the best solution, but it's better than linking to a section that doesn't exist! – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:09, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Cleanimage template request

Good evening!

Prior to August of last year, I uploaded many screenshots to the UESP that were taken on my laptop. My last computer didn't have specs ideal for high graphics settings. As a result, many of the images I contributed are of a lower resolution than I personally think is acceptable for my own work. I have uploaded too many images in a variety of categories for me to feasibly go through my contribution history to pick through my images and find the worst of my work without collapsing from burn-out. Thus, I've opted to request a bot run.

My question is this:

How difficult would it be to get a bot to put {{cleanimage|res=too low}} on every image I've uploaded that meets the following requirements?

• From year (and earlier): 2020; From month (and earlier): July
• Is of any of the following categories: ON-place, ON-npc, ON-creature, ON-interior, ON-misc, ON-item, ON-object, and ON-quest
• Has not been re-uploaded over (by me) from September 2020 onward.

Basically, I'd like to see if we can put a cleanimage template on every quest, NPC, creature, interior, miscellaneous and quest image that I've uploaded from July 31, 2020 all the way back to my account's creation.

I don't want every single image I've ever uploaded outside the listed categories to be hit. For example, ON-icon, ON-prerelease, ON-render and ON-crown store are all categories I've uploaded to that don't need the template.

I don't regret contributing so much, but I uploaded those hundreds of low res images, and it's my job to replace them. There's too many of them for me to just slap a cleanimage on the ones I see when I go poking through pages I've touched before. Having a bot go through and slap a sticker on the ones that haven't been touched since they were uploaded in all their blurry glory will make it easier for me to retrace my steps, and I can remove the template from affected images as necessary.

Thank you for your consideration! -MolagBallet (talk) 23:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Oblivion, Shivering Isles, possibly more: Map search links don't work anymore

Apparently, at one time, it was possible to include ?search=stuff in a link to one of the UESP maps, and you'd get a map with those items highlighted. This doesn't appear to work any longer, at least on recent versions of Firefox on desktop.

This is probably mostly useful for items with the same name that appear in multiple places on the map, like https://obmap.uesp.net/?search=Gate+to+Oblivion or https://simap.uesp.net/?search=Obelisk+of+Order . It's still possible to do a search on the map, but you have to open the map page first, and then type in the search box (which I think feeds a script on the map page). I don't think you can include the search terms in the URL anymore - or at least, I don't know what the right format is.

Ideally, if there is some other URL format that still allows linking to a map search, the existing links that use ?search= should get edited into the new format. Maybe a bot job can do this.

I think many (most? all?) of these links use the Map Link template, so possibly editing that template to use the new URL format would also fix the links, without having to do a bot job.

If there isn't a way to directly link to a map search any longer, then existing links that use ?search= should probably have that parameter removed, and just link to the top level of the map. Alternatively, move the ?search= text to an instruction for the user, so they see something like "Their locations can be seen on the Shivering Isles map (put Obelisk of Order in the search box)."

This doesn't affect map links that don't use the ?search= parameter. Links that use the x and y coordinates, and links that go to uniquely-named places, are working correctly and don't need to be changed.

Thanks! 73.3.58.200 05:52, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Apparently, this was nothing more than an oversight. The site owner's going to try to add the functionality in the near future, so you should see it start to work again at some point, with no template changes or bot run required. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 18:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Good to know. And thanks for rescuing my request from the bozo bin.  :) 73.3.58.200 05:33, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

The site owner has updated the code. It doesn't work quite the same as the old one (I don't think...it's been a while), but instead, it will pre-populate the search list with the search term, and you can click on individual items. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 14:59, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

I checked it just now and this change seems to be live, at least for obmap and simap. It works as you said; you get a list of things that match underneath the "search" box, and can click on an item in the list to zoom the map to that item. Thanks for chasing this! 73.3.58.200 09:01, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

ESO Collectible Pages

Good morning! I'd like to ask about the feasibility of a bot run for creating Collections pages. I maintain these pages on the regular, and there are a few things I'd like to outline that would be crucial in a potential bot run, if what I'm looking for is at all possible to begin with.

First thing's first: mount IDs.

All mount pages need the collectid from their esolog database entries in the "id=" field of their Collectible Summary. This has proven to monumental of a task for me to do by hand on top of adding pets by hand. I would like to request for all mounts that have an empty "id=" parameter or no "id=" parameter in their Collectible Summary at all to have their id added, and the parameter if it's missing. Those that lack the parameter would have "id=" and a collectid added to their Summary.

Second order of business: page creation for all collectibles.

This is a dance in several parts, and we might need several runs for this task because of the differences in heading levels between Collections hub pages. What I'd like is for us to go about this similarly to the creation of Pet pages: add a link to each heading with a collectible name, and create a page with a Collectible summary in that page. I would like for the bot to fill out most of the parameters itself.

• Part One: Page Creation

Part one: "which parameters are we filling out?"

The bot needs to provide a full Collectible Summary Template for each page. The easiest way to get most of this information is to rely on ESOlog; just pull descriptions and collectids from the database.

But I'd also like the bot to reduce the amount of legwork I have to do: for each collectible, I would appreciate if the bot could pull the editor-created blurbs above the NewLeft.

The parts marked in red are the "editor-created blurbs" being referred to

I've provided an image to illustrate what I mean, because words aren't coming easily to me right now. For most Collections pages, you have a Collections summary, the written details about the collectible, and then you have a NewLeft separating that top section and the infobox from the next section: Occurrences, Physical Description, Gallery, etc. My idea is to put the blurbs marked in red after the Collectible Summary, and above the NewLeft that precedes the rest of the collectible page. For costume pages, we need the little "dyeing: slot 1, slot 2, etc" thing carried over just as the user-added description will be.

If at all possible, I'd like the bot to add prices to the template. Perhaps it can detect the {{ESO Crowns|}} template, and pull the template and value into the "price=" parameter? I don't want to create too much work, but the more effort I can hoist upon a bot, the less time I have to put into finishing these pages, and the more time I'll have to dedicate to pages that need my attention more. I'd also ask that if the bot adds the ESO Crowns template to the price field, that it also adds a link to Online:Crown Store to the "acquisition=" field.

So if "|price={{ESO Crowns|price number}}", then "|acquisition=Crown Store"

I'm not going to ask for the Crates to be added to any acquisition fields, I can do all those by hand unless the bot master has some wizardry they can easily apply to a Crate product. The only idea I have in the way of adding filled "Crate=" and "tier=" parameters to these new pages is by having the bot read our Crown Crate pages, checking to see if the new page's name matches the name of an object on these pages, adding the name of the crate an item is in if it finds a match, and using the name of the header it found the item under to fill out the tier= field.

TLDR: I'd like the not-italicized blurb under each Collectible's heading to be carried over to their new pages. Description and ID are probably easiest pulled from esolog, and Crown prices would be lovely.

• Part The Second: Headings

Part two: "which headings do we need to create pages for?"

I'll run down our Collections pages and specify which heading levels require links for each. The contents of these headings will be where links are added:

Facial Hair

Level 4 headings. Facial hair uses Level 2 headings for overarching categories (separated by how to obtain collectibles), separated further by Level 3 headings that indicate where a collectible can be found. The Level 4 headings are reserved for each collection item. Thus, the bot should be creating links for level 4 headings.

Hats (collectible)

Level 2 headings. The hats page doesn't have any fancy organization headers; all the hats are listed under Level 2 headers. It's safe to throw links on every Level 2 header on that page.

Hair Styles

Level 2 headings. The organizational headings are all Level 1 headings, and the hair styles themselves have Level 2 headings. All level 2 headings should have a link.

Head Markings

Level 3 headings. (we need to make sure to get Online:Head Markings/Crown Crate Rewards in here as well; that page also uses Level 3 headings)

Major Adornments

Level 3 headings.

Minor Adornments

Level 3 headings.

Costumes A-Z

Level 2 headings.

Body Markings

Level 4 headings. (we need to make sure to get Online:Body Markings/Crown Crate Rewards in here as well; that page uses Level 3 headings)

Skins

Level 2 headings.

Personalities

Level 2 headings.

Polymorphs

Level 2 headings.

• Part 3: Category Parameters

I'm referring to the "|collectibletype=" and "|type=" parameters for this part. collectibletype is the type of collectible it is: hair style, body marking, etc. This and the header situation is why this job would probably require multiple separate runs. All I have to say for this is most of these collectibles don't need the "type" parameter; just "collectibletype". Pets, mounts and Allies are the only collectibles I can think of that are separated in a way that requires the type= parameter. We have a few hair style pages already (like Online:The Standing Flame), so we can probably use those as a model.

I apologize for how long this is, but I wanted to make sure to cover most of my bases. It feels wrong to suggest something this big without trying to help plan it out. I'd like to thank all of our bot-holders for all of their work, and if anyone decides to take this on, I would be most grateful! If anything is unclear or I missed something, please let me know! I'd be glad to help in any way I can. -MolagBallet (talk) 18:35, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

The easy part, Mount IDs, are done.

For the collections, the first thing that actually needs doing is just plain identifying what pages the bot needs to operate on. Going through Online-Items-Collections seems to cover all of them, but if that misses anything, please let me know. Of course, it also includes Pets, which have already been done, but the bot'll just ignore any entries where a page already exists, at least in terms of page creation. I'll probably still include those pages for parameter updates and such, though. I'll need to figure out whether parameters should be updated by the bot if a human's already entered them, but I'll have a better feel for that when I get there.

I'm noticing that there are some entries that are non-standard (Polymorphs is full of them but other pages have some as well). I'll have the bot spit out a list of anything it doesn't recognize so that a human can go over them. I think the criteria will be that any header followed by a :'' in it somewhere before the next header will be counted as legit and anything that doesn't follow that pattern will be listed as non-standard. I think that should catch just about everything, regardless of what header level the page actually uses, without producing too many false negatives/positives.

Similarly, there are pages in that category that don't follow the standard format at all, like Blackwood Tapestry. It should be easy enough to spit out a list of any pages with no standard sections on them at all, but it might turn out to be easier to let them just be listed as part of the same process as above, so you might end up seeing each header on a page listed, rather than a single entry for the entire page. I'll see what works when I get there. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:50, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

As mentioned in Discord, this job is now done. A few notes about the job:

• First, results are here. For the invalid sections, I think the only ones that might be of concern are the ones on the Personalities page (Bound and Bracing Wind). They were completely non-standard, so they were ignored. The rest either aren't intended to be collectibles or, in the case of Tiger Eyeshadow, it had no notable information. For the ones that weren't found in the database, I figured a human should decide if they needed to be kept and had new pages made for them or not.
• In some cases, it wasn't clear what to do with things, so for the most part, the bot ignored them or just went ahead with something not-quite-right, trusting a human to sort it out later. Specifically...

• Entries that had more than one image left both images where they were rather than guessing which one should go in the template. In a lot of cases, this involved some kind of custom formatting, so it makes sense for a human to look at things. Using this approach, I was able to create pages for almost everything, and the oddballs I mentioned previously were thus able to be transferred to new pages.
• The same logic was in place for icons, but for those, it counted both {{Icon}} calls and [[File:ON-icon-whatever]] as being viable candidates, since different pages used different standards. These resulted in a few pages like Skeleton, though, where the icon that should have been transferred seems pretty obvious, but the bot saw multiples so ignored all of them.
• Items that appeared in more than one crate will be listed with all the crates they're in. This will break the template slightly as it stands now, but it's easy to update the template if we need to, or if the affected items are generic and we don't want to list all of the crates they're in, we can just delete the crates in the affected templates.

• Prices were incorporated by copying the template verbatim. I didn't do any checking on this, so if there was more than one, only the last one will have been used, so that may need adjusted.
• On the list pages, all the headers were updated to links, regardless of what was there previously. The occasionally obliterated {{Anchor}} links with alternate headings, so those will probably need to be restored. Again, I can help with this tomorrow if you want.
• Mostly, parameters for pre-existing pages were kept as they were, but the bot was allowed to update anything that was blank or where it was more likely to be correct than the existing information (e.g., IDs and categories).
• Image descriptions for pre-existing pages were sometimes copied inappropriately during the first half of the run (i.e., the image description was update with the one from the list page, whether or not it actually applied to the one on the individual page. I noticed the problem during the run, so when I did the second run, I fixed it. Hopefully, not too many pages were affected. I can try to help track these down tomorrow if needed.
• Categories/sub-categories were all converted to singular if they weren't already. This seems to have been the standard, but we had one or two plural ones, like Flying Pets. The ones in the database itself are all plural, but following that standard on the wiki probably would've broken a few things, so I played it safe.
• Lastly, where appropriate, images/icons/text were moved from the text into the template. In the vast majority of cases, these were all at the beginning of the text, so any leftover white space was simply trimmed off. If any of them were moved from the middle of the text, though, I didn't try to remove white space, so you may find the odd case here and there with unusual gaps in the text.

That's all I can think of off-hand. Let me know if you have any questions or notice any other issues with the new pages. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

CC Header

We need to replace {{Mod Header}} with {{CC Header}} on every page within Category:Skyrim-Creation Club and its subcategories.

I imagine all of these only have a single parameter. In some cases this will be {{Mod Header|Creation Club}} (e.g. for compilation pages like Skyrim:The Crimson Dirks or Skyrim:Creation Club Quests), but otherwise it will be the name of the related Creation. In cases where the Creation name is used as the param, the result will be two icons on the page: the general CC icon and the specific Creation's icon. See Skyrim:Relics of the Crusader as an example of {{CC Header|Divine Crusader}} in use.

—⁠Legoless (talk) 13:04, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Bulk Upload Icons

Upload ESO icons.

What specifically needs to be done here? – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:21, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Done. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 15:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Update Furnishing Items

Copy all furnishing info from ESO Viewer to Online Furnishing Summary templates.

This will also include:

• Check page- and file-names on the wiki against what would be predicted from the ESO data.
• Check name, titlename, and image parameters to see if they're redundant. If so, remove them.

– Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:21, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Done. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 15:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

ESO Collectible Anchor Link Conversions

Pages with linked to the pages related to what's listed on Online:Collections with an anchor need to be updated to link to the relevant article instead, now that they exist. For example, [[Online:Pets A#Abecean Ratter Cat]] -> [[Online:Abecean Ratter Cat]] -Dcsg (talk) 06:37, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Legends Card Files Similar Images

The image files for Legends cards and card art would benefit from the use of {{Similar Images}}. A semi-auto job might be good for this, to generate a table of what would be moved to allow for editing the table to tweak the job. Ideally, it would list the LG-card (which would serve as the Similar Images "parent") and all other images in that card's page's Gallery, to be filtered through manually to weed out non-similar images (likely not much work). Then, using the table, adding a "Similar Images" section to each image and {{Similar Images}} to the parent pages and {{Similar Images|parent image path}} on the others. -Dcsg (talk) 06:37, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Create Pages for Collectibles

This job already exists (EsoCollections.cs), but may need tweaking for specific collectible types. Follow up in #wiki-technical if nothing is added here before then. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 15:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Furnishing Limit Type

In the log viewer, for all Furnishings [NOT including Collectibles] I would like the HoodBot to add:

|type=

Using the furnLimitType from the log viewer, the types would be:

• 0 = Traditional Furnishing
• 1 = Special Furnishing

|bindtype=

Using the bindType from the log viewer, the bindtype would be:

• 0 = nothing
• 1 = Bind on Pickup

The Type and Bindtype are tied together, however, you will notice that on some furnishings with a furnLimitTypes of 0, that the bindType may not be listed on the log viewer. This is ok. If the bindtype=0, it will be set to not show as not required. You will also find furnishings with a furnLimitType of 0, and a bindType of 1. This indicates a Traditional Furnishing that is Bind on Pickup, such as Furnishings purchased through the Crown Store.

Any furnishings with both parameters of 1 are special and bound, because they are either rewarded, or able to be purchased AFTER completing achievements.

Adding these parameters manually will take an incredibly long time since many get erased when 'new' iterations of the page are generated. Please add these two as regular parts of the Run for Furnishings after updates :) https://esolog.uesp.net/viewMinedItems.php?type=61

TYSM!! Erorah (talk) 13:08, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

If we need to change the actual name of the parameter in the Online Furnishing Summary to match that of the Log Viewer, we can. Erorah (talk) 13:11, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

This is done now. It can be run individually, but it's also in the list of jobs I run every time there's a patch, so it should get updated regularly. It looks like the type is based entirely on furnLimitType in the ESO Viewer and doesn't change with with bindType at all. I'll try to confirm that tomorrow before I run the job. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 07:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Skyrim Book Editor IDs

Request to add book editor IDs. These IDs provide some additional information about the book (such as if it is considered to be rare, valuable, common), provides information about the topic, and can be another method of sorting books. As this information would take up a single box in a table or infobox at the most, the impact on adding this information would be incredibly light. --AKB ^{Talk Cont Mail} 00:49, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

I agree with the logic, but it has the potential to set a precedent that might be problematic in the long run. There was at least one protracted discussion on the idea of adding Editor IDs a very long time ago. That spans the first two topics here. No consensus was reached either way. Ultimately, the template itself was a disaster and had to be deleted either way. With no consensus, the status quo stood. Personally, at least at this point, I subscribe to both points of view: Editor IDs aren't really necessary or useful for most people's game play—they're not even used in the Console—but they can certainly give insight at times and they're useful for people who regularly use the CK or similar tools.

So, for me, it really boils down to the question of if we do this, do we want to set a precedent that might later come back to haunt us if people want it added to other things? That would be a massive project, particularly if people wanted it to include Oblivion as well. That's definitely not something I have time to get into right now, so for myself, I'd stipulate that this be a one-off thing that's not considered precedent-setting unless one of the other bot owners wants to volunteer to adding EDIDs to more things if people start asking for that. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 01:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Online Furnishing Images

Hi Robin, May we add a job to the bot please?

Category:Online-Furnishings should really not have images listing on it at the bottom. We have to remove ALL those images and have them on the Category:Online-Furnishing Images page instead.

May we either:

Remove this link within each image: [[Category:Online-Furnishings]]

or

Replace this link: [[Category:Online-Furnishings]] with this instead: [[Category:Online-Furnishing Images]]

This would help with my pages cleanup. Thank you so much in advance. E Erorah (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

This one's done. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:19, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Changing Names / Eliminating 'item-'

Hi Robin,

I am not sure which order the next two jobs should happen in.

1] Remove the item- from all furnishing images names.
example:
File:ON-item-furnishing-Elsweyr Cabinet, Wide Elegant Wooden.jpg

2] Have the Online Furnishing Summary look for the new naming process:

Change within the line:
|{{#define:image|ON-{{#if:{{{collectible|}}}||item-}}furnishing-{{#replace:{{{name}}}|:|,}}.jpg}}

to something like

...if:||item-}}furnishing-{{{name}}}.jpg}}

(really not sure how much of that gets removed, whether pipes and braces are involved or not)

Thank you so much. Contact me for questions.
E. Erorah (talk) 15:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Auto placer for premium/animated art on Legends card pages

Greetings, is it possible to create a bot that will place the uploaded art on the pages of the related card in its gallery on page? There are more than 1500 of them in the game, I do my best to upload the animations, so it would help to save time on adding each art to the particular pages separately with a description like "Premium art"

The structure of the name is as follows: LG-card-card name (premium).webp

The exception is "alternative art", where "Alt" is added after the card name, they need to be added to a page with a separate caption, like "Alternate premium art", or something like that, probably needed to clarify with the administrator Ilaro

File example:

• 

  Premium art

• 

  Alternate premium art

Also, I noticed that needed to set a category, is it also possible to make its notice this arts and automatically add the category "Legends-Card Art Images" or some new one? Taking into account that these are premium art

Thanks for your time! Thanks in advance for possible reply! —Maxandkon 11:31, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

That should be doable. Do you need the bot to upload the images as well? If so, you'd have to figure out a way to get them to me. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Skyrim namespace needsimage tagging

I have noticed a lot of Skyrim pages do not have a {{needsimage}} tag. Usually this is automatically added by {{NPC Summary}}, but the affected pages do this instead. Can I get a bot to run through the namespace and remove any non-existent file names from the |image param on Skyrim NPC pages. There may be other templates affected but this run would catch a lot of pages that are currently excluded from Skyrim-Pages Needing Images. —⁠Legoless (talk) 18:00, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

In that particular case, it looks like Imperialbattlespire did that. I know I've seen some pages where they have the default name but it's commented out to avoid the red link. It's possible he meant to do that and just didn't notice, or maybe for some other reason? In any event, I can either blank it or comment it out fairly easily. Which one works better for you? – Robin Hood ^(talk) 20:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Commenting out would be best, if that works. I think it's being added to ensure uploaders know the correct naming convention. —⁠Legoless (talk) 23:10, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Okay, done. You can see which pages were changed in the bot's history. Don't mind the mixed-up sort order—the bot's doing multiple edits per second, but MediaWiki only records times to the second, so they get ordered randomly after that. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 23:51, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! —⁠Legoless (talk) 08:58, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Syntax Error in Online skill lines pages

The {{ESO Skill Notes}} template is used on most skill lines pages as important clarification. With its current placement a {{NewLine}} tag should be placed before the template, to prevent the template from merging onto the previous line. Currently, on most of these pages, the {{NewLine}} is placed after the template, effectively achieving nothing. An example of this can be seen at Ardent Flame; "notes" is on the same line as "skills include:". An example of the {{NewLine}} being placed effectively can be seen on Destruction Staff.

An alternate solution would be to move the template to below the tables, as that's the general place I'd expect to see notes.
Either way, my request is to have a bot perform the correct placement of the tags, as doing it manually would be tedious and clog up the recent changes. I hope this is a reasonable request for a bot. — Broseph (Talk) 17:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

What's really special about having a {{NewLine}} after the template is that there's already one in the template itself. It's completely pointless to have another one in the text body! While it's otherwise a pretty good job for a bot, given the small number of them, I'd rather alter the template itself to include a blank line (as opposed to a {{NewLine}}) and then go over them by hand to make sure that that's appropriate in all cases and that any NewLines are removed and any other formatting that needs dealt with gets dealt with. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 00:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

And done. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 00:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Good thinking with the template edit, and thank you for doing the tedious work. — Broseph (Talk) 03:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Removing the forced sort from NPC images

When I was doing cleanup of some image categories, I noticed some of the older namespaces forced category sorting by name. While this is good in theory, it's unnecessary when the images in said category all have the same prefixes, and it causes problems when combined with the {{CategoryTOC}} template. So far these are the only categories I've noticed:

Category:Morrowind-NPC_Images Category:Bloodmoon-NPC_Images Category:Tribunal-NPC_Images Category:Oblivion-NPC_Images Category:Shivering-NPC_Images

There could be more, but I didn't feel like I needed to check every image category :). It's also not particularly a worry if there are smaller categories, since the issue should only crop up with image categories of 200+ images. If these sorts could be removed, it should help with navigation of these larger categories via the CategoryTOC template. (If there are issues with this that I have overlooked, feel free to call them out!) Jeancey (talk) 22:44, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Okay, bot's working on this now. I've only done it for the categories you listed; I don't want to do it for more in case there are categories where the sorting is legit. It's easy to re-run the job with additional categories in the future if we need to. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 21:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Online:Pets disambig cleanup

Online:Pets was turned into a disambig last May, but it still has ~a thousand links pointing to it. I propose automatically switching all of these links to point towards Online:Non-Combat Pets, since that is what "pet" refers to in 99% of circumstances on the wiki. The colloquial term for summons should not be used on articles. —⁠Legoless (talk) 20:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

The vast majority are templated, so I've gone ahead and fixed those. Have a quick peek at User:HoodBot/Results and see if there's any links in the right-hand column that should be updated to the Summons page. Whenever those have been changed, I'll put the bot on changing the rest. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:40, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Had a look at the results and all looks good to change. One trend I noticed was that a lot of the links are old anchors from before we had individual pages for pets. It would be great if those links could be converted based on their anchor instead, e.g. [[Online:Pets#Springtide Indrik|Springtide Indrik]] to [[Online:Springtide Indrik|Springtide Indrik]]. —⁠Legoless (talk) 10:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

The bot job is nominally done now, though it'll take a while for the job queue to update "What Links Here" for the page. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:15, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks RH! —⁠Legoless (talk) 16:39, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Creation of New Collectible Pages

Good afternoon! I'd like to put in a request for HoodBot to create pages for the Collectibles recently added to the esolog database. The blank template has also been updated for the Online Collectible Summary. -MolagBallet (talk) 19:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)