Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Reporting wiki bugs

I took the current page from GWW as this is an important page needed on any wiki really. — ク Eloc 貢 07:26, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

anyone else geting a 503 error?

just wondering if i am alone in this 503 error madness- Zesbeer 00:44, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I suspect they're doing the second update for semantic mediawiki - i.e. fun extensions. errors errors everywhere Chieftain Alex 00:48, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

they are doing something I keep getting:

"Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 1825756792

Varnish cache server"

which makes me a sad panda when I am in the mood to edit I want to edit.- Zesbeer 00:53, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Yeah I was going to confess to poke that I've produced a working version of gwwt for this wiki. >.> 77.97.208.117 01:10, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I get the despised "Varnish cache server" message only when I'm trying to make massive edits after some hard work. At least it goes away after a couple minutes.--Relyk 04:16, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

It's Saturday. The web/tech team doesn't do installs on weekends. This was unrelated to new extensions, which aren't happening anyway. —Dr Ishmael 04:25, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

77.97.208.117, huh? poke | talk 17:19, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

StringFunctions extension - #pad:

{{#pad:Ice|5|x|center}}

{{#pad:Ice|5|x|center}} ^ from the mediawiki example. I'm wondering why it seems to be completely disabled. -Chieftain Alex 22:32, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Because pad functionality has been integrated into MW as magic word functions.

{{padleft:Ice|5|x}}

xxIce —Dr Ishmael 22:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Great, thanks! -Chieftain Alex 08:51, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

#replace

How am I supposed to replace a string like: No extra<br>item with a string such as No extra item?

I've tried to use #replace as listed on mw:StringFunctions##replace:, but by using

{{#replace:My_little_home_page|_|<nowiki> </ nowiki>}}

(without the space in the closing nowiki tag) I get:

Mylittlehomepage

Which isn't what I intended, and isn't what was indicated by the example as the result (which should be "My little home page"). Any ideas as to what to do for such a case? (clearly parserfunctions wasn't an exact functionality match) -Chieftain Alex 11:26, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Parser functions eat space characters, you should put a html entity, like   for whitespace:

{{#replace:My_little_home_page|_| }}

My little home page

MalGalad 11:41, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm storing the output of the replace as a semantic property, so when I query for it, I get the raw html >.> (not useful in this case) -Chieftain Alex 11:54, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Where's your example? Sounds like a previous problem where {{PAGENAME}} is returning the raw html.--Relyk ~ talk < 13:31, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Instead of using br tags, restrict the width of your columns? —Dr Ishmael 13:47, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

People already use br tags in the SDRH template, alex had code for column width at one point but don't know what happened to it. Maybe have a bot run through?--Relyk ~ talk < 13:50, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

The problem was that it looked stupid as hell with restricted column widths. I did it in a fairly cackhanded manner though so perhaps I could improve over my previous attempt. -Chieftain Alex 16:44, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Recent changes atom feed

I hadn't clicked on the atom feed button shown from recentchanges in a while, but its showing the following message:

[574fe842] 2013-12-07 18:02:58: Fatal exception of type MWException

I don't recall if it worked previously (i.e. not sure if its a bug, or just that it can't be accessed with a browser), but it doesn't appear to work now. -Chieftain Alex 18:04, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

That’s a known bug, and already fixed and prepared for the next update. poke | talk 19:09, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

API not recovering the correct unlocks?

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How to know if an error goes on this page

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JavaScript visible on the Super Adventure Box page

I was reading up on Super Adventure Box and when I tried opening the account unlocks section I saw that some JavaScript leaked into the content. 45.21.49.218 02:08, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

The gw2 API is currently experiencing some issues, likely related. ItVictor (talk) 02:53, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Specter - Siphon / Rot Wallow Venom

Wiki page of Siphon doesnt show the increased cd of 25 seconds in wvw/pvp

Rot Wallow Venom is currently bugged and looses its ICD when applied by more than one specter. (like Necros "Demonic Lore" used to) Brotmann (talk) 17:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Not a gw2wiki bug. Simply an ingame behaviour that is not written down on the article yet. -Chieftain Alex 18:01, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Pages missing from Google search

Unsure if this is the right place to put this, but I've noticed that there's quite a few pages on the wiki that don't exist on google. Initially noticed it on the pages for Frostfang, Dawn, and Mystic Coin, but likely affecting others. Pages show fine on other search engines. Charrkus (talk) 09:52, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Known issue that is being looked into. --ItVictor (talk) 10:43, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

This seems to be doing better since Justin did a little magic. Googling Frostfang, gw2 dawn, and mystic coin all get the wiki as top result for me. Results may vary though. - Tanetris (talk) 05:49, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Just to note it looks like there's some pages where this is happening again. The Main Page is the most significant of these, though Pact Supply Network Agent is also affected. Standard search on Firefox, Edge, and Chrome via Google does not show these pages. Searching for gw2 wiki instead comes up with the Guild page. --Charrkus (talk) 09:22, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Probably 504 error related, and the google crawler lowers the ranking as a result. -Chieftain Alex 17:02, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Collection Achievements in The Desolation Wrong

I've been doing a couple of collections in The Desolation (Path of the Gods and Acrid Springs Recovery) and when I apply the API key for my character, it is reporting that I haven't gotten items that I have, and I have gotten items that I haven't. I think somehow the information for the items have changed somehow? I've had to compare the remaining items from the in game achievement with what data on the collection pages but ignoring the reporting of what is completed by the wiki.

It appears to be off by one. For Acrid Springs Recovery it is reporting I haven't done #2 but have done #3 (I have done #2 but not #3), haven't done #9 but have done #10 (I have done #9 but not #10), it is also reporting that I haven't done #17 despite having it completed.

I saw the same behavior for Path of the Gods, appeared to be off by one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhinehold (talk) at 22:53, 16 February 2026‎ (UTC).

Fixed thanks for report, template was rewritten at the weekend and has a few quirks I had missed. -Chieftain Alex 07:00, 17 February 2026 (UTC)