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I would love to try out the new AutoWikiBrowser and provide feedback on it. Send an email to floresg2 AT gmail.com. Thank you. Gflores Talk 22:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to try this out also it looks a lot friendlier than the pywiki framework -- Kaiserb 00:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Anyone interested can download it here, bear in mind that it is a development version! Martin 09:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
You auto-thingy wasn't just doing a recat in this edit [1]. You can see that it also added a space after the initial asterisk in lists (which is unnecessary), and also doing some other changes that I couldn't figure out what they were (removing spaces?). Blank Verse 22:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
The bot works quite well. The only issues I have had is when a blank page loads i.e. image with no tag. The bot carries the information from the previous edit and trys to fill in the blank page. — KaiserB 23:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you please add me ( User:KaiserbBot) to the official users list for this bot software. Thank you, — KaiserB 16:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I suspect that this is a problem I have encountered before, whereby I can't see the stuff right at the bottom of the AWB window; there's no scroll bar so I simply can't get at it.
My windows toolbar is double-height, to allow more stuff to be displayed in the "clock" area, and to allow more window buttons. You can see a sliver of the top of my toolbar right at the bottom of the screenshot. I suspect that AWB positions its buttons either relative to the top of the window, or based on incorrect information as to where the bottom of the window actually lies.
It's really frustrating, since this looks like an excellent tool…I'd like to see and use all of it
In the meantime, I've a couple of questions:
Make list
" could be "Make list
" maybe…Tools→Options
does nothing for me: should it?HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 11:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
OK, in order...
Let me know if there are other features that I coud add, I have some that I haven't enabled yet as well.
thanks - Martin 11:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I came across a user's signature which had been broken by the brief outage of HTML Tidy a while back, and I thought that it would provide an ideal exercise for me to get to know AWB. However, AWB doesn't seem to be able to find the broken text, even here when I can see it right there in the textbox! The text in question is:
[[User_talk:Admrboltz|<sup>=/\=</sup>]]
and I was attempting to replace it with:
[[User_talk:Admrboltz|<sup>=/\=</sup>]]
(note that in the wikitext I have had to double-escape the first version: the second version is actually the broken one which is rendering just fine here :-). Are there some settings I should be tweaking? Should I be double-escaping the HTML entities like I had to just above? — Phil | Talk 14:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I just discovered you have to take great care sometimes… I was searching for:
[[Box of Delights]]
which I had just turned into a REDIRECT, so I could short-circuit it. I fetched the list of "links to" articles and told AWB to replace that with:
[[The Box of Delights]]
which is the proper article. Imagine my horrified interest when the first article appeared with every single instance of "?]]" replaced with [[The Box of Delights]]: it was obviously treating the [ ] like a character range. But I didn't have "Is regex" selected: should it really be doing this? If that option is switched off, shouldn't it treat the string as completely raw? It works fine, BTW, if you use
\[\[Box of Delights]]
(which obviously won't work now 'cos I've been and gone and done it :-) HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 16:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Whoops, I just realised that what i had done initially was correct (I was starting to get worried), but I was passing the wrong parameter to my find and replace method, and as such regex was permanently on (as you suggested). Its fixed now (simple find and repace really is simple now!)
Martin
16:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
For the option, 'Ignore if contains:', is that only for the title of the page or for anything in the article? Also, is there a way to add several entries (like User: Wikipedia: talk:), basically I just want the main article namespace.
Secondly, I think this tool would be great for disambiguating links, but I really don't know how that would function in the program. Perhaps using the what links here option, and somehow getting a list of links from the term's disambiguation page (or the person could just create this in notepad), then the person could enter some link to disambiguate in the search field and AWB will search for it in the small textarea and perhaps highlight it. Upon which, the user will change the link to point to its appropriate location. I don't know that may be difficult to implement. If I'm not being clear, let me know. I'm way too tired right now. BTW, can't wait for the local text file support. Thanks. Gflores Talk 04:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to preview the effect of manual changes? I'm not that confident in my typing to be certain I always get it right first time… HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 08:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
So I haven't a bot account, but I would like to have AWB sit in the background, touching a whole list of articles, fixing "links to" issues for updated templates. Can I set it to go off at 1 minute intervals, just wandering down the list of articles? What's the best way to make sure it just touches, doing nothing substantive at all? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 09:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to delink solitary years e.g. [[2005]]. But I need to avoid years if they are not solitary. I have been searching for 'in [[2005]]' and ' of [[2005]]' but that is laborious. Presumably I can make use of regex to avoid ']] [[2005]]' and ']], [[2005]]' etc.
I know that you are not a regex helpdesk but could you let me know how regex find square brackets and how it does ignore? Bobblewik 10:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like the option to be able to inhibit adding articles to my watchlist. If it were possible to preserve the current situation (i.e. only "add" them if I am already watching), that would be great. In the meantime, I'm hoping that, despite the abjurations not to click in the browser pane, if I untick "add to watchlist" it will be respected HTH HAND Phil | Talk 10:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpTextbox1").InnerText
. To be honest I havent looked into this issue that much, I had other priorities (such as getting the "preview" button etc. ) now that's done, I'll give it some more thought. I doubt anyone other than myself could understand the source as it needs to be tidied up a lot and noted properly ;( If there is anything specific you want to know, just ask though! I know that when I find the answer it will be simple, such as the code is above. thanks
Martin
15:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpWatchthis").Checked=False
. How wrong am I?
Phil |
Talk
16:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpMinoredit").SetAttribute(string attributeName, string value);
Martin
16:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)I note that there is now an option to "add to watchlist". Actually what I need is the opposite: I already have this option set in my Preferences. What I want is the option that the pages I deal with through AWB not show up in my watchlist unless I specifically say so. Sorry to be a pest, but would this be difficult now you've figured out how to control that check-box? — Phil | Talk 10:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I think I just discovered that the editing box doesn't use the standard "Ctrl-X = cut" shortcut: I tried "cutting" out some text to move it down a line and AWB dropped out. What was really disturbing is the fade effect you seem to have applied: for a significant number of seconds it gave the impression that this machine had blown several fuses. Maybe you could put something into those "Options" you left blank, and inhibiting the fade-out could be the first… So what is permissible for editing in that box? — Phil | Talk 11:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
The auto-fix of section headings has a bug. See what it did in the following edit [2]. Bobblewik 14:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok, Ive added security to both potential sides of the problem, available in next release. thanks Martin 01:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB seems to be affecting other applications when it's working. If I send it off to fetch a page for processing, and switch to another application during the pause, I seem to be getting an "enter" keystroke being spontaneously generated which is making my other application do stuff. Is this a side-effect of how AWB works? If so, can it be stopped? Please? — Phil | Talk 09:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
If you add more entries to the list of articles, AWB should check whether an entry is already there and not add it twice. (As a side-comment, I've had some interesting phenomena when removing items from the list, but I'm unable to reproduce them: removed items staying put, selections becoming multiple, random stuff. I'll let you know if it recurs.) HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 13:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Whenever I use this program I get a wierd bug. See the screencap. Broken S 19:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC) By the way this program is really sweet (I am still using it even though I have to click through the error messages [3 errors per page fixed]). Broken S 19:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
While doing a touch run (doing null edits) to update the list of used templates in articles I noticed that AWB on redirects opens the redirect page and not the target page of the redirect (Example Plzen). For this specific kind of run I would have needed that AWB opens the target page, not the redirect page. I made the list from the "What links here" of template:if. – Adrian | Talk 13:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok, what features can I add to make your lives easier? Are there any specific jobs that the program could be adapted to better suit? Martin 00:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, are there any more general fixes that I could add? Martin 00:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
You should really consider releasing the source code to the AutoWikiBrowser. That way, other people can help improve it! :) -- Ixfd64 10:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Information for users (Martin feel free to copy and use this info any way you want):
Martin has been kind enough to use my regex in the date delinking section. I am not as good at regex as I would like to be. Here are the concepts and the details:
My ideal regex would match:
I also try to avoid pages that discuss calendars and the origins of week/month names. My crude way is to search for the word 'calendar' and 'god'. But that could be tightened.
Here is the search regex I have used in the past:
Note that the first few characters test for preceding square brackets. That is a crude method of avoiding a year link that is part of a full date.
Here is the replace field that I have used in the past:
Here is the ignore field that I have used in the past:
This is in an attempt to avoid controversy. For example, a page might talk about 'Odin' and link to Wednesday.
Known weaknesses:
Suggested improvements (regex coding is not my speciality) would be welcome. Bobblewik 15:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
You don't want to use .* for anything intended to be within [[ ]] as it will continue "eating" characters past the first set of ]] (and probably continue til the last set of ]] on the page). It'd also end up matching things like [[Monday Night Football]]. Is it just, say, Monday and Mondays that you want to match? -- Mairi 01:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Martin has just told me that it can do multiple passes. Here is my latest proposed regex:
First pass looks for century, decade, month, day:
Search: \[\[(\d*.. [Cc]entury|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December
|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass looks for year
Search:::([^\]]{4})\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\]([^-\[])
Replace: $1$2$3
Comments? Bobblewik 00:11, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Latest proposed regex:
First pass delinks century, decade, month, day:
Search: \[\[(\d*.. [Cc]entury|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December
|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass delinks month/year combination like [[January 2002]]:
Search: \[\[((?:January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) [\d]{3,4})\]\]
\]\]
Replace: $1
Third pass delinks years that are not part of a date preference target. Should be no false positives and only a few misses:
Search:::(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[JFMASONDjfmasond\d])
Replace: $1$2$3
Fourth pass is a repeat of the regex in the third pass. This is to delink the second link of [[2002]]-[2005]]. Should be no false positives and only a few misses:
Search:::(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[JFMASONDjfmasond\d])
\[\[(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) ([\d]{3,4})\]\]
Not fully tested yet. Improvements welcome. Bobblewik 12:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I can't get these regexs to get any matches, are you testing them in AWB or some other way? Martin 22:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
The ones I have been using are the 4-pass set listed above under "Latest proposed regex", as they were when first psoted to this page -- i haven't checked for any edits inm place after i copied them to a text file for easy access. I typically get hits on passes 1, 3, & 4, rarewly if ever have I seen a hit on pass 2 so far. I am doing a larger run now, -- I'll report on my results. i note that I have had to check the "remove all date links" option on the beta tab for these to work -- so far, based on insufficient testing, I need Both regegex in the set options tab and the chcekbox on the beta tab enabled -- i will confirm that with a specially constructed test page later today or tomorrow -- i have to log off in a minute. DES (talk) 22:47, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, thanks, could you just clarify what the best regexes are, as the 4th pass doesnt have a "replace" now, and do you use Mairi's change, thanks Martin 00:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
First pass:
Search: (?i)\[\[(\d*.. century|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass:
Search: (?i)\[\[(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) (\d{3,4})\]\]
Replace (there is space character before second dollar character): $1 $2
Third pass:
Search: (?i)(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[jfmasond\d])
Replace: $1
Fourth pass:
Search and replace: identical to third pass.
Bobblewik
12:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Please do not use your tool in order to enforce style decisions that do not have broad consensus. Some authors (me included) like to link years in order point readers to background about the discussed period; other authors do not. This is an issue similar to British English vs. American English: it should be left to individual editors; marching in with overpowering technology is out of place. Thanks,
AxelBoldt
18:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I have been runing tests of the 4-pass regex at User:DESiegel/Date Test Please take a look at the history. I will report results more fully shortly. DES (talk) 21:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
After further tests with the latest version of the date regex in the find/replace box, as shown above, I find there are soem interesting limits. Here is a diff showign the net effect of 4-passes: diff.
The points I note are:
This may be of interest. DES (talk) 22:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Additional false negative cases:
You can see my latest test with version 0.9.9.5 in this edit
Anyone may feel free to use User:DESiegel/Date Test for tests, please revert to a fully linked version after performing any tests. DES (talk) 01:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Proposed improvements (tackles years in one pass instead of two, includes consecutive linked years, includes piped years):
The third pass would become:
Search: (?i)(?<!(?:january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december| \d{1,2})\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(?:(\d{3,4})|\d{3,4}\|(\d{1,2}))\]\](?!-\[\[\d\d-|\s*,?\s*\[\[(?:january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december|\d{1,2} ))
Replace: $1$2
Note that the search regex contains two space characters.
The fourth pass would be deleted.
Seems ok but further testing is wanted.
Bobblewik
19:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I think it is letting me edit even if my username isn't on the approved list (I checked it using another one of my accounts). Broken S 22:04, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an awesome tool. I have one request for isntruction (or a feature request...): I tried setting the "New category" to a blank box, but it's too clever. Is there a way I can carry out a blanket category removal without replace? - Splash talk 22:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB just failed to load Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland: it wants to load Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland instead (I've made the latter REDIRECT to the former). I copied that first link from the text-box having removed the entry from the list. There is obviously some translation problem between the list-box and the browser control. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 16:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I have found the root of the problem;
if you navigate to;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Wiśniowiecki,_King_of_Poland
it automatically converts the URL to (in firefox and IE);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Wi%C5%9Bniowiecki%2C_King_of_Poland
which is right, but if you navigate to the edit URL;
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michał_Wiśniowiecki,_King_of_Poland&action=edit
in firefox it does it properly and navigates to
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Micha%C5%82%20Wi%C5%9Bniowiecki,%20King%20of%20Poland&action=edit
however in IE it navigates to
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michal_Wisniowiecki%2C_King_of_Poland&action=edit
which is clearly wrong. I dont know why it does this, seeing as Firefox doesnt have the problem maybe its a bug in IE. Martin 12:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The date delinking regex has a lot of 'misses'. It is difficult to distinguish between 11 January 2005 and January 2005, so I simply avoid consecutive links. Thus it will delink the January but it leaves the 2005 intact. There are many other permutations that I miss with the huge regex. Unless I do all articles twice, there are lots of misses.
If it operated sequentially, I could do a lot more. For example, it could tackle day, month, decade, century links first. I do not have to check for consecutive links in those cases. Then if it did another search of the same article, a search for year links could be more focussed and effective.
I expect that it AutoWikiBrowser simply has a huge regex. But I don't actually know what it does. Does it, or could it, go through the article more than once? Bobblewik 23:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Would it be a bad idea to make a "lite" version (with limited features) for people without authorization? -- Ixfd64 02:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The article
In The End: Live & Rare just came up for processing, but AWB can't deal with it.
It keeps trying to load the article
In The End: Live which obviously gives it gyp.
The list contains "In The End: Live & Rare
" which doesn't necessarily help: fixing it did nothing.
Another encoding problem?
HTH HAND
Phil |
Talk
15:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
How difficult would it be to arrange that we could search/replace more than one thing at a time? I'm thinking that it would be nice if we could do these at the same time, maybe as a side-effect of other stuff:
HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 18:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Options
" menu, so that we could pick/choose which we wanted to apply at any given time: I've been wondering exactly what was involved in this, and I gerenally simply switch it off. You could have a little table of "entity replacements" like the above to which we could add our favourites: it should be a snip to include a tick-box for each saying "yes, do this one". HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
10:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When i first started to use AWB yesterday, it soemhow operated as User:205.210.232.62 (my usual IP whn not logged in) until i realized this, and clicked on the log-in link in the AWB browser window. Must one normally log-in separately from AWB even if already logged in on another browser? Your demo video does not show this. Or did I do soemthing incorrect? DES (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When trying out AWB for the first time yyesterday (I made a date-delink run on ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Biography) I attempted to make a manual change on one article (correcting an incorrect category) in the AWB browser. It appeared as if this chage was undone when i saved the articel, but I am not sure. Are manual changes supposed to be saved? I gather that there is no way to do a diff or preview for manual changes at the moment, is this correct? DES (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that B/AWB recently made the earth-shattering change from
== Municipalities ==
to
==Municipalities== in one article.
Just wondering... Why?
Picapica 23:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
A truly Delphic response, Martin. It's not the outer limits represented by "a lot more than that" that bother me, however, but the inner pickiness of a routine that goes to all the bother of removing two spaces with the result, as far as I can see, of affecting what appears on screen not one jot... Is it not legitimate to comment upon that? -- Picapica 00:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Many thanks for the speedy response, Martin, but this "click ignore" is a new thing to me, even though I've been editing Wikipedia for what seems like yonks now. How does it work? And how precisely does your having removed spaces which make not one jot of difference to what appears on screen (see "weird edits" above) "make other changes easier"? -- Picapica 01:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Not really "unfair" (I hope), BrokenSeque, just plain ignorant: I don't even know what "running the script" means. Clearly I've stumbled into a parallel wikipedia world involving some kind of automated editing. Me, I just do the old-fashioned one-man look-think-and-if-necessary edit routine: I haven't come across anything in the "advice to editors" introductory pages dealing with "using programs" which "remove spaces to make other changes easier". I was just wondering why anyone/anything would go to the bother of carrying out makes-no-difference changes to articles when there is so much else that needs to be checked. I shall have to investigate further... Merry Christmas, anyway. -- Picapica 16:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
"Ignore if contains" does not appear to work if the text is in the title.
It would be nice to have the ability to have two fields: one to match the title text; and another field (as now) to match body text. [unsigned comment by Bobblewik]
I asked User:Bobblewik about this on his talk page, and he directed me here. In removing standalone year links, there are some which should not be removed because the article on the year contains a factoid about the original article, and (especially in earlier years) it helps frame the current article with other events of the same year (century links would apply, also). The example I cited is the link to 1117 from Mii-dera.
So, since the Special:Whatlinkshere/Mii-dera shows the reverse link from 1117, if AWB can limit its date regexp matches to anything NOT found in the Whatlinkshere pages, it would prevent the wrongful removal of years. If it can't, then anyone using AWB for date link removal needs to be careful not to remove anything important.
Can the author clarify whether the above is possible or not?? Neier 08:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
So, basically we have several projects that are busily linking dates, and then this one de-linking them. Why? Sombody just delinked 1967 as the year of the Six-Day War. Not useful!
What we really need is making sure that any year near any month and day is linked. Please don't de-link dates.
I'm floundering a bit for the actual name for this, but it'll probably come to me just after I click "Save" . What I'd like is to be able to specify sub-expressions in the Search box and refer to them in the Replace box. like in MS Word. For example:
Search for : {{sodium}}<sub>([01-9]*)</sub> Replace with: {{sodium|\1}}
where the \1
refers to the first item in (…)
as shown.
HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Search for : {{sodium}}<sub>([01-9]*)</sub> Replace with: {{sodium|$1}}
Do you think it would ever be possible for AWB to be taught to understand templates and parameters? This would make it much easier to mass-change templates which have parameters renamed, or which have been moved or replaced.
So given a template name, it would look for
{{template name
and then search for the matching "}}". If you told it how many parameters and what the new name for each one should be, it could match up the number of "|" symbols. Obviously this is a bit blue sky right now but I thought I'd set it down for consideration. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Under what license is this software published? I take it from discussion on this page that the source code is not available? AxelBoldt 18:19, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Comment moved from
User talk:Bobblewik
Your bot is changing birth and death dates from use of a en-dash to a hyphen. Not only is this change gramatically incorrect, it seems like a rather controversial change to assign to a bot. Where did the decision to do this gain consensus?--
Alabamaboy
21:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Here it changed
–
to
–
which are the same, I think this is what he means. Martin 21:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Me too. I much prefer using the html entities than the literal characters. Look:
Hyphen | – | — | |
These all look different in the edit box: | - | – | — |
These all look exactly the same in the edit box: | - | – | — |
See what we mean? -- ALoan (Talk) 02:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. This was confusing but glad things worked out. Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
( 354- 430) comes out as ( 354-430). ( Roman Catholic Church)-- SarekOfVulcan 08:58, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, the 1946 in the first line of It's a Wonderful Life wasn't delinked -- leaving it intact for now so you can debug more easily.-- SarekOfVulcan 09:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Looks like it's taking out template links. When it alpha sorts during cleanups See: [6]
In addition to the ordering and the alphebetical listing of categories and language links it would be good if the same could be done with {{Link FA}} templates since even though a lot of articles have non or have so few that it isn't worth it there are some articles that have more than enough to make it worthwhile especially as it will fall into wider usage. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 09:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Here are some suggestions:
Just some thoughts. Feel free to use or ignore them.
Bobblewik
12:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I've only tested it out when changing over lists of articles from one category to another but when using make list with a category with an ampersand(&) in it it doesn't give any results despite the fact there are articles in the category. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 22:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
One of my favorite cleanups is to remove all occurences of a link after the first one. Is this straightforward enough to do? I could write it in VFP (and I still might), but if it were included in AWB, it would make things easier for me.
Thanks for all the hard work to date!-- SarekOfVulcan 06:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I feel that in a long articel it is often valid to link to the same destination agian after severla paragraphs, particualrly after more than one screen-full. So I think that "removal of reduandant links" would be better as a pointer than an automated tool. DES (talk) 16:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
The regexs do not seem to be useing "classic" basic regular expression syntax, as described in Regular expression but some extension (in particualr "(?i)" for case insensative does nbot appear in any of the versions in our article. Exactly which version of regualr expressions does AWB use, and is the syntax documeted anywhere online? DES (talk) 16:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I processed Noah Wyle but it did not identify 'External Links'. I had to make the change to 'External links' manually. Bobblewik 12:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I am seeing quite a few misses related to split dates like: [[January]] [[18th]], [[January]] [[18]] and [[18th]] and [[19th century|19th centuries]]. I may want to update the regex to cope with these if that is ok. Bobblewik 14:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB's description says it will add auto template subst'ing in the future. Using WP:SUB, I have come up with this regexp:
Replace:
{{(bio-cats)}}|{{(clear)}}|{{(clearleft)}}|{{(clearright)}}|{{(copyvio)}}|{{(lived)}}|{{(Lifetime)}}|{{(lifespan)}}|{{(Prettytable)}}|{{(sub)}}|{{(sup)}}|{{(moved)}}|{{(moved-n)}}|{{(tmfrom)}}|{{(tmto)}}|{{(unsigned)}}|{{(unsigned2)}}|{{(3RR)}}|{{(3RR2)}}|{{(3RR3)}}|{{(nn-warn)}}|{{(nothanks)}}|{{(nothanks-sd)}}|{{(obscene)}}|{{(selftest)}}|{{(test-n)}}|{test2-n)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test2a-n)}}|{{(test2b)}}|{{(test3-n)}}|{{(test4a)}}|{{(test4-n)}}|{{(test)}}|{{(test0)}}|{{(test1)}}|{{(test2)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test3)}}|{{(test4)}}|{{(test5)}}|{{(test6)}}|{{(blatantvandal)}}|{{(bv)}}|{{(attack)}}|{{(No personal attacks)}}|{{(Npa)}}|{{(Npa2)}}|{{(Npa3)}}|{{(Npa4)}}|{{(blanking1)}}|{{(blanking2)}}|{{(blanking3)}}|{{(blanking4)}}|{{(drmafd)}}|{{(drmafd2)}}|{{(drmafd3)}}|{{(drmafd4)}}|{{(drmafd5)}}|{{(MIPblock)}}|{{(multipleIPs)}}|{{(spam)}}|{{(spam2)}}|{{(spam2a)}}|{{(spam3)}}|{{(spam4)}}|{{(vanity)}}|{{(vblock)}}|{{(verror)}}|{{(verror2)}}|{{(verror3)}}|{{(verror4)}}|{{(Edit summary personal)}}|{{(Editsummarynew)}}|{{(sofixit)}}|{{(Summary)}}|{{(Edit summary)}}|{{(name your images)}}|{{(image source)}}|{{(image copyright)}}|{{(subst)}}|{{(SharedIP)}}|{{(ISP)}}|{{(AOL)}}|{{(repeat vandal)}}|{{(anon vandal)}}|{{(vw)}}|{{(Award)}}|{{(newvoter)}}|{{(welcome)}}|{{(welcome2)}}|{{(welcome3)}}|{{(welcome4)}}|{{(welcomeip)}}|{{(anon)}}|{{(Album Image)}}|{{(afd)}}|{{(afd2)}}|{{(afd3)}}|{{(afd|bottom)}}|{{(afd|top)}}|{{(tfd2)}}|{{(tfdnotice)}}|{{(ifd)}}|{{(ifd2)}}|{{(idw)}}|{{(idw-uo)}}|{{(idw-pui)}}|{{(idw-cp)}}|{{(cfd)}}|{{(cfd2)}}|{{(cfdu)}}|{{(cfr)}}|{{(cfr2)}}|{{(cfru)}}|{{(cfm)}}|{{(cfd-article)}}|{{(cfr-speedy)}}|{{(tfd-keep)}}|{{(Actinium)}}|{{(Aluminum)}}|{{(Americium)}}|{{(Antimony)}}|{{(Argon)}}|{{(Arsenic)}}|{{(Astatine)}}|{{(Barium)}}|{{(Berkelium)}}|{{(Beryllium)}}|{{(Bismuth)}}|{{(Bohrium)}}|{{(Boron)}}|{{(Bromine)}}|{{(Cadmium)}}|{{(Caesium)}}|{{(Calcium)}}|{{(Californium)}}|{{(Carbon)}}|{{(Cerium)}}|{{(Chlorine)}}|{{(Chromium)}}|{{(Cobalt)}}|{{(Copper)}}|{{(Curium)}}|{{(Darmstadtium)}}|{{(Dubnium)}}|{{(Dysprosium)}}|{{(Einsteinium)}}|{{(Erbium)}}|{{(Europium)}}|{{(Fermium)}}|{{(Fluorine)}}|{{(Francium)}}|{{(Gadolinium)}}|{{(Gallium)}}|{{(Germanium)}}|{{(Gold)}}|{{(Hafnium)}}|{{(Hassium)}}|{{(Helium)}}|{{(Holmium)}}|{{(Hydrogen)}}|{{(Indium)}}|{{(Iodine)}}|{{(Iridium)}}|{{(Iron)}}|{{(Lanthanum)}}|{{(Lawrencium)}}|{{(Lead)}}|{{(Lithium)}}|{{(Lutetium)}}|{{(Magnesium)}}|{{(Manganese)}}|{{(Meitnerium)}}|{{(Mendelevium)}}|{{(Mercury)}}|{{(Molybdenum)}}|{{(Neodymium)}}|{{(Neon)}}|{{(Neptunium)}}|{{(Niobium)}}|{{(Nitrogen)}}|{{(Nobelium)}}|{{(Osmium)}}|{{(Oxygen)}}|{{(Palladium)}}|{{(Phosphorus)}}|{{(Platinum)}}|{{(Plutonium)}}|{{(Polonium)}}|{{(Potassium)}}|{{(Praseodymium)}}|{{(Promethium)}}|{{(Protactinium)}}|{{(Radium)}}|{{(Radon)}}|{{(Rhenium)}}|{{(Rhodium)}}|{{(Roentgenium)}}|{{(Rubidium)}}|{{(Ruthenium)}}|{{(Rutherfordium)}}|{{(Samarium)}}|{{(Scandium)}}|{{(Seaborgium)}}|{{(Selenium)}}|{{(Silicon)}}|{{(Silver)}}|{{(Sodium)}}|{{(Strontium)}}|{{(Sulfur)}}|{{(Tantalum)}}|{{(Technetium)}}|{{(Tellurium)}}|{{(Terbium)}}|{{(Thallium)}}|{{(Thorium)}}|{{(Thulium)}}|{{(Tin)}}|{{(Titanium)}}|{{(Tungsten)}}|{{(Ununbium)}}|{{(Ununhexium)}}|{{(Ununoctium)}}|{{(Ununpentium)}}|{{(Ununquadium)}}|{{(Ununseptium)}}|{{(Ununtrium)}}|{{(Uranium)}}|{{(Vanadium)}}|{{(Xenon)}}|{{(Ytterbium)}}|{{(Yttrium)}}|{{(Zinc)}}|{{(Zirconium)}}|{{(WP:RM)}}|{{(Move2)}}|{{(TFAfooter)}}|{{(article)}}|{{(See also)}}|{{(ll)}}|{{(language link)}}|{{(ed)}}|{{(doctl)}}
With:
{{subst:$1}}
I haven't tested it but I will soon. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I see you're been sorting interwiki links by their language codes. That's not good, because English Wikipedia uses different sorting order where links are sorted alphabetically, based on local language (for the correct order, see this page, second option).-- Jyril 21:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
When I coded it, I had to choose one order, so I just chose the order that was most popular, I know there is no consensus, but I don't follow the logic that this means I should use the second most popular choice. Martin 10:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I note that AWB is sorting stub tags to tghe very end. I thought that WP:STUB recomended stub tags after all text, but before non-stub category links. DES (talk) 22:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
There is an option to mark all edits as minor. I have set this option as true - however, every time I close and reopen AWB, it resets my options. Can you fix this by saving all options in a .dat file that is loaded upon opening the program? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
A`problrem occured yesterday when my login cookie expired. Please increse the priority for re-checking the cookie more often, perhaps on every page edited. In the mean time I advise users to double check that they remain logged in -- the display will show the difference if you look. DES (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been asked twice now about a possible problem with AutoWikiBrowser's "general fixes" function. The AWB removes the leading and trailing spaces in headings, such as this one, but MediaWiki automatically generates the sections with one heading. I haven't seen it cause any problems, but Help:Editing has it that way too. Just so you know. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 22:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Why has this been disabled in Windows 98? I used it before but now I can't. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 13:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
After downloading version 1.5, I opened the AWB and clicked on Help>About to make sure it was the right version. It said it was version 1.5.1.0, not 1.5. I closed the about window and then immediately got this error:
See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at AutoWikiBrowser.AboutBox.okButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- AutoWikiBrowser Assembly Version: 1.5.1.0 Win32 Version: 1.5.1.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Jacob/Start%20Menu/Programs/Wikipedia/AutoWikiBrowser.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.
What happened? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Please look at the following edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bao%27an_%28Shaanxi%29&diff=33502758&oldid=33500193
The user complained about new lines. I do not know whether new lines are good or bad, but should I worry? Bobblewik 21:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusin about the order of lang links. ja is ususlaly between nl and no. Rich Farmbrough. 00:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to allow AWB to convert Unicode characters from their HTML codes to their proper symbols? See Curpsbot-unicodify if you're not sure what I'm talking about. -- Ixfd64 01:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there AWB developers. I've noticed that AWB-assisted edits have a habit of reformatting wikitext in addition to the noted changes in the edit summaries. It would be nice if the reformatting were performed as a separate edit before the intended change (with an edit summary like "reformatting wikitext"). This would lead to much clearer diffs and a better reflection of what was actually done to the article. None of this applies, of course, if this behavior has changed in more recent versions or if what I have seen is a result of the AWB user's actions and not the software itself. Mike Dillon 16:34, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Another thing that should be added is the ability to change categories with a modifier after them, for example {{Category:Wikipedians in the United States|Jtkiefer}} The way AWB currently handles them if you tried to change them over to say {{Category:Wikipedians}} or {{Category:Wikipedians|Jtkiefer}} I'd end up with something like {{category|Jtkiefer}} which causes problems and which is an unusable category. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 23:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Due to the recent success of Firefox, OpenOffice, and other open source programs, I was wondering what the general consensus would be on making the AWB open source. I could release the source code and then make a page, maybe Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Open source, where anyone could request features, and developers could post code. If I implemented such a plan, I would also make available to developers an extensive list of the changes in each version of the AWB. Any ideas? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I have two requests. Every now and then I notice the alert about a long article having stub status. Could there be a button (or something) that would quickly remove all the stub templates. I hate scrolling through the text and finding it.
Secondly, this tool is works wonderfully with fixing typos. I imagine it could do the same for disambiguating pages, but I'm really not sure how it would work. The idea I have is somehow a the program receives the different terms from the user (which he collected from the disambiguation page). After getting the list of pages linking to the DAB page, the user goes through each one. If it's the first term (say, pop music), he clicks on it (or maybe presses a hotkey) and the link changes to that term. Say pop -> pop. Clicking on option two (pop art) results in changing pop -> pop. I hope I've explained myself alright, it's difficult to describe. Let me know if you have questions or any suggestions. Oh, and welcome back! :) Gflores Talk 07:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Minor regex request: I'm looking for a regular expression to fix bad links. Essentially, it needs to look for links in this form... [[http://www.abc.com]] and change it to this [http://www.abc.com]. Same with [[http://www.abc.com link]]. Sometimes, linke are like this [[http://www.abc.com|link]]. This needs to be changed accordingly to [http://www.abc.com link]. Any help is appreciated. I read a little about regex and came up have used this in AWB... \[\[([Hh]ttp:[^\]\]]+)]] However, it doesn't change for the later caveat (the '|') and may find false positives. If you have time. Thanks. Gflores Talk 18:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replace \\[\\[http:\\/\\/(.*)\\]\\] with [http://$1] replace \\[http:\\/\\/(.*)\\|(.*)\\] with [http://$1 $2]
fixes double space: replace \\[\\[(.*) (.*)\\]\\] with [[$1 $2]] fixes space at beginning: replace \\[\\[ (.*)\\]\\] with [[$1]] fixes space before "#": replace \\[\\[(.*) #(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1#$2]] fixes double underscore: replace \\[\\[(.*)__(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1_$2]] fixes underscore at beginning: replace \\[\\[_(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1]] fixes underscore before "#": replace \\[\\[(.*)_#(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1#$2]]
Another request: according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), the sections should be in the following order at the end:
or
I know the AWB separates the categories, language links, FA templates, and Persondata templates and puts them in the correct order - could you do the same with the above sections, i.e., could you write code to separate them and then put them in the correct order? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 21:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
FYI: There is a 1.6.2 listed under the list of changes, but the check page doesn't show this version as enabled. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS
17:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
In addition, I was looking through the code of 1.6, and, in AboutBox.cs, on line 131, there is a type: guidlines should be guidelines. In AssemblyInfo.cs, the copyright date should be 2006 on line 13. Can I have the source for 1.6.2? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:08, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Note to all: a new version (1.6.3) is on its way! I have already added the following to it:
I e-mailed the source to Martin, who will clean up some of the regexs for various tasks. The new version should be out today or tomorrow. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin - why'd you remove "When using this software, check every single edit and try to avoid making extremely minor edits such as adding or removing a single space" from the notice? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin says (above) that AWB "is not broken, it's not even specifically designed for this task as you seem to suggest."
We have no way of knowing the intent of the author that it's specifically designed for any particular task.
Unfortunately, the actual effect of AWB is to mass de-link dates, and to mass de-alphabetize inter-wiki links. For example, see breakage of Wikipedia:Disambiguation and breakage of Israel. That's just two very high profile examples.
Therefore, we should assume that it's misused because of poor quality control by the program author (regardless of intent), and prohibit futher use.
I beg to differ:
Please cease and desist using AWB until its results are tested and proven to conform to consensus.
My own bot has a function to convert old cut-and-pasted tables into invocations of Template:Album infobox. Because of all the crazy things folks have done with the formatting between the paste and my conversion, the function can't be 100% accurate, so I check every edit (in raw wikicode) before it's posted. Regardless, I still run it at the normal 30-second throttle, because the bot, not me, is doing most of the work. AWB should enforce a timeout as well. — Cryptic (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for disabling the date removal "thing", please:
Please cease and desist using AWB until its results are tested and proven to conform to consensus.
Just to let you know, on this page, NTL, it incorrectly moves the line to the bottom (it thinks it's a translation link? It begins with...
ntl:hell following shortly after. Devalued and struggling with debts of around $18bn NTL was forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2002 in order to organise a refinancing deal. The company did not emerge from protection until January 2003,
I'm using 1.6.5 and doing a typo fix in some other paragraph in the article. Gflores Talk 16:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
The AutoWikiBrowser page does not answer: Are there any plans to port AutoWikiBrowser to compile on Linux? (There's the Mono C# compiler and the MonoDevelop IDE available, though this page is grim about how well WinForms apps work on Linux. It sounds like Mono's WinForms support isn't up to the same quality level as its other toolkits, like Gtk# and Qt#. -- Unforgettableid | talk to me 19:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Interwiki bots, when adding new links, routinely sort the interwiki links. Thus, it's probably preferable to disable the option in AWB as it makes diffs more difficult to read. -- User:Docu
Hey there. Just a quick request. Is it possible to add a date to when each new version is/was released? This just makes it easier if one has been away and they wish to see the changes that have taken place since their last version.
For example:
Version | Released | Release notes |
---|---|---|
1.7.0 | January 16, 2006 | Allows for openings into other areas of space and time. |
Would it be possible to make a feature that would help AfD artciles? When I'm going through the articles needing cleanup I find the need to AfD some of them, but I don't want to stop very long or switch browsers to do that. I'd imagine that it would (after pressing a button) subst in the template then take you to the next page where you could write the summary and finaly takes you to the daily page to subst in the deletion page. Broken S 15:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I just started using AWB today to do some disambiguation link repair. I don't have a lot of suggestions ye but figured I would add them here as I think of them:
Can somebody check: [12]. Does it reveal a bug in interwiki sort? Bobblewik 19:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin, one of the rules for the AWB is "Don't edit too fast." What do you consider "too fast"? I noticed that you routinely crank out edits at five or so per minute, yet User:Talrias blocked User:Bobblewik on 29 Dec for editing the same amount, saying it was not possible. Is that speed acceptable? Thanks. -- M @ th wiz 2020 21:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
(indent) The point of the "general fixes" is simply that while you are fixing something such as a common typo, re-categorising or something, that it also makes other minor changes at the same time, as a rule of thumb, if a change doesnt actually affect the look of an article, then don't make it. Also, you will be pleased to hear that the software does have the feature you mention, the "ignore if doesnt contain" is very helpful as it will automatically skip any pages that do not contain what ever the problem is you are fixing. As for your rules; small edits are good, but not if the total edit is insignificant, edits can exceed the edit summary (but not by anything significant), this might sound strange to write, but the vast majority of edits ever made exceeds the summary in some way, just don't let them be misleading, (I think this problem will be solved naturally if you skip pages that dont contain the mistake you are fixing) thanks Martin 10:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Is there any way for telling the AWB not to change (by default) a given piece of text? In two different revisions, two editors have removed a lone underscore that was instead necessary [13] [14] . Another editor has found the solution of replacing it with the HTML code "_", but I am not convinced that the AWB will not delete it again. Having some way for telling the AWB not to change a given piece of text (or, at least, making it alerting the user that that piece of text is not to be changed automatically) would solve the problem. Thanks. - Liberatore( T) 13:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[[A_B|C_D]]
, AWB should transform this to [[A B|C_D]]
. HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
15:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB fails to reconize {{1911}} as adding a categoy. I suspect it does not catch them from any template as that woudl be hard to do. Its still probbly notable as articles with only 1911 britinica categorys probly need more. Dalf | Talk 08:25, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I know I'm evil (and greedy and possibly stupid :-): Could AWB be extended so that mutilple regex replace actions could be entered and executed in the same run (a list of search/replace fields)?
Maybe I'm on a totally wrong track, so I try to explain what I want to do: The underlying problem I'm thinking about to solve is changing calls to templates that need renames in parameters. Specific example job I'm about to do: template:Web reference supports an old variant that used uppercase/lowercase in parameter names. I'm thinking about changing these to the new lowercase only parameters variant.
Reason for this (sorry for my verbosity): Web reference is currently a meta template and I'm trying to convert that to using the new CSS-Trick of Netoholic. I have problems to do that supporting both kinds of parameter sets, so I'm thinking about switching calls to the lowercase only parameters variant.
Sorry for nagging with this whole chain of reasoning and many thanks for any help and ideas in advance. And thanks again to Martin for providing this great tool. (And please don't bother to tell me if I'm asking too much or the wrong thing!). -- Adrian Buehlmann 12:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
This is a great tool. Is it possible to configure it to work with other wikis, like other languages, or meta.wikimedia.org? Elonka 03:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought that the date delinking feature was removed. However, Bobblewik seems to be doing a lot of date delinking. For example, see this edit. Has it been removed, or has it been added back? -- M @ th wiz 2020 02:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
My name (Eagle 101 is in the list, but AWB tells me that I am not elegible to use it? What am I doing wrong. (yes I am logged in, on windows SP v2, and have broadband internet. What is wrong.
I used version 1.7.4.0 and had Czestochowa in the list. When "Bypass redirects" is checkmarked (default), AWB loops forever on that redirect ("Browser status is {Loading|Complete}). I had to click the ignore button (BTW a stop button might be a good idea? Don't know). Same happens on Nowy Sacz, Znin, Elblag and others (from what links here of list of Template:Infobox Poland). Low prio problem for me. Just wanted to report it. -- Adrian Buehlmann 14:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
This one is for the wish list: it would be nice if the text edit window (lower right window) of AWB could use a fixed width font (like courier or so?). I recently noticed how helpful this edit window really is (I was a bit reluctant to edit there until recently but it works just great). But this is just a "nice to have" one (not that important, no clue how nasty to implement). Thanks! -- Adrian Buehlmann 15:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to have an option to turn off the loading of images? Some days, like today, I notice a huge delay after I click save, and it's mainly due to waiting for the images to load in the page. I wind up clicking Start the Process again to skip to the next article. -- Kbdank71 20:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB isn't letting me do any work since it keeps saying that I'm not logged in even though I'm logging in and I can even check a special page in the browser (which get pulled dynamically) and get the fact that I'm logged in. I'm using 1.7.4.0 btw. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 22:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The general cleanup function replaces underscores in link anchors with spaces. This is incorrect behavior; the part of the link after the '#' character should not be altered. Kelly Martin ( talk) 06:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
I just registered and AWB isn't letting me do any work. It keeps telling me to log in, I keep logging in, and it keeps saying I'm not logged in. BTW, I've got version 1.7.5.0. Alr 15:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I use Firefox and only go with IE when absolutely necessary. I did try logging in with IE and then with AWB in various combinations. Didn't work once. Alr 20:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Seems to be working OK now. Thanks! Alr 23:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Under "alerts" when it says multiple wiki-links, if you double click a repeated link, in will highlight that link in the text, but will not highlight the last two sqaure brackets: ]]. So for example if you double click on a link saying Spain, it will highlight the [[Spain part in the text box to the right, but not the final brackets. I hope I have made myself clear. Thanks, — FireFox • T • 17:58, 28 January 2006
Making it so I can remove categories is a big help. I was doing it by hand (with awb opening the articles for me).
There appears to be a bug with the category removal though... if the category is listed like [[Category:Child prodigies|*]] (with the asterisk) then it wants to wipe out everything after that as well (other cats, interwiki links). I've just been ignoring those articles where that happens and I'll do them by hand. -- Syrthiss 04:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not good at filing bug reports, so I'll just describe step by step how to reproduce this bug and leave the brilliant prose for featured articles... :-)
The above happened enough times as to lead me to believe it wasn't just something I was doing wrong. It seems that AWB just wouldn't sit quiet in the background. I'm using the latest version of AWB (just downloaded it today) and I have no memory of this error happening before, so it might be interesting to have a look at this. Thanks. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB version 1.7.8 loops forever if I try to make list from category:if templates. -- Adrian Buehlmann 08:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible, if "Apply general fixes" is checked, to not move categories enclosed within noinclude tags to the end of the article? I've come across a few templates that someone had edited with AWB, and the category was moved outside of the tags, causing a number of articles that had that template to be miscategorized. -- Kbdank71 19:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Can we get an option to populate the article work list from a specified user's contributions? Kelly Martin ( talk) 19:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to put a timer under the save button? such that the timer would reset everytime the save button is pressed? It would be nice to have, if it does not take that long to program. Thanks!!!!! Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 22:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Some categories are in a particular order. However AWB goes through and sorts them into alphabetical order. The result is I constantly have to partially revert AWB changes made by users. Is there a way around this? Can new rules for category sorting be added? Jdorje 05:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if I am doing this correctly so I'll just describe what I did.
Is there a way to make it not follow redirects (or do what I'm trying to do)? Oh, by the way could you have it give out a warning if someone type in the category name as "Category:This category" because then it will look for "Category:Category:this category" which is almsot never what is intended. It's not that important though. Broken Segue 20:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I have an unenabled version but the download seems to be broken. Dalf | Talk 07:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't call this high up on the priority list, but I think it would be nice if there was an option to turn off the "List Complete" and the "No articles in list, you need to use the make list" messages. -- Kbdank71 14:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Changes I make in the editing pane are not being reflected when I click "Preview" or "Show changes" again, although they are passed through when I click "Save". This makes it all too easy to make mistakes, I fear: could someone fix it fast, please. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:26, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to let the user add several find/replace patterns instead of just one? Thanks, AxelBoldt 21:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there a reason we can't save or load our settings? Secifically our regex and comment field settings? This would be a nice feature. Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 22:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
When I run AWB on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, the preview shows that it is trying to empty out the contents of 2 <nowiki> sections (<nowiki>{{wikify}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>). Please point AWB at that page and take a look. -- kingboyk 23:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
It would be great if AWB could recognise a subst'd AFD tag, and not suggest moving the Pages for deletion category to the bottom. That would save some time for me, as a lot of my minor edits are tweaking of deletion-listed pages. Another time saver would be if it didn't suggest changes which are no more than the insertion of removal of line breaks. -- kingboyk 00:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It seems to be common usage to annotate an Oscar category with the name of the actor involved, in an HTML comment, and I assume this happens for other categories also. However AWB unhooks these comments and leaves them dangling in mid-air. Could the category-sorting code be fixed so as preserve these comments? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It's nice to see the implementation of multiple find and replaces. Would it be possible to create multiline find and relplaces too? For example, when you set AWB to find a sub-heading and replace it with nothing, it normally leaves an extra unwanted gap ( example). This could probably be fixed with a multiline find and replace, if it is possible to do so. — FireFox • T • 20:57, 6 February 2006
\r\n
to indicate "new line". --
M
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th
wiz
2020
20:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)Possible minor bug: AWB 1.8.1 wanted to do this edit to Australian Electoral Commission (Apply general fixes:yes, Auto tag:yes). I believe I did not set such a replace (I was doing things like this). BTW: really great the new multi-regex replace! -- Adrian Buehlmann 23:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
AWB 1.8.1: If I have set "Bypass redirects" AWB does not edit the redirect page, it instead edits the target page of the redirect (superb so far). I have now set in "Skip articles" (on the "Set options tab") a regex expression in "Skip if doesn't contain". It seems to me that the skip expression is applied on the redirect page. I would rather expect that the skip expression is applied on the page that AWB edits, i.e. the target of the redirect if "Bypass redirects" is set. BTW an option that would "click ignore for me" if it is a null edit would be fine ("skip null edits"?). (Sorry for not using the newest version, I have just loaded a bunch of multi-regexes right now into a 1.8.1 instance of AWB and I am too lazy to reenter them into the newest version :-). And sorry for being so greedy on features. AWB is just such an wonderful thing :-) -- Adrian Buehlmann 19:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Um, me again (don't beat me :-). Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni is a redirect to Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni. I believe my AWB 1.84 loops forever on this. -- Adrian Buehlmann 13:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
If you have "Skip articles with no changes" set, then the "Preview" button acts like "Ignore". I can only assume that the dingus which checks for "no changes" is failing to spot any changes because these are not displayed when you do a "Preview". I note that this feature is disabled when you set "Preview instead of diff".
Might I suggest that the "Skip articles with no changes" should only actually perform the skip when you first land on the article and thereafter be disabled until the next article? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 17:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
When making a list, article titles containing HTML entities such as an ampersand (&) appear in the list as the HTML code for them (&). Simple fix I guess... BigBlueFish 10:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Due to only the most recent version of the software being enabled, and being updated every few days, is it possible to enable multiple versions of the software, so that a particular download of the program lasts more than a few days, and then only require an update when a "major" update is made? The constant un-enabling of the different versions makes things quite difficult, as using AWB seems to require a new download practically every single time I use it.
A self-update feature in the program whereby it updates itself to the most recent version might make things less difficult as well.
SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't mind that older versions are disabled, but I would prefer that the check occurred at the "Make list" point and not after the "Start the process" button press. I know I can save the results and reload them, but it would be easier to switch to the new version if I didn't have to repopulate the article list. That's a small annoyance that I can live with though. -- JLaTondre 15:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
See these edits made with the AWB (general fixes and autotag on, nothing else on): [17] [18] [19] [20]. Why did the AWB do this? -- M @ th wiz 2020 19:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I just starting work on Wikipedia:Bad links with AWB. AWB is such a great tool for this project and saves quite a bit of time. However, for some reason, the setting "mark all edits as minor" isn't working. All my edits are being marked as major edits even though the setting is checked. I've also tried closing AWB and opening it again with no luck. Is this a bug or user error? PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 22:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
While going through Wikipedia:Bad links, I've been getting some weird results every 1/20 pages that I (luckily) catch in the "show diff" and fix manually. I'll review the code and let you know if I make any progress as to the cause of this. I can't give you a sample edit, though, since I fix them manually. -- M @ th wiz 2020 00:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Does one need to have a bot flag on their account to use "bot mode" - I'm listed in the access as a bot. I have a 8000 entry list to do and I rather automate over clicking 8000 times :) Tawker 12:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Martin - can you add a preset edit summary to the drop down box such as: "bad link repair. You can help!"? Thanks. -- M @ th wiz 2020 22:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I used to be able to use the "In Template Rule" to replace parameters and/or text within nested params (e.g. {{ B}} is inside of {{ A}}, and I need to change something in {{ B}}). However, recently I can only affect the top-level template (e.g. I can edit stuff in A but not B). Is this something implemented in the most recent version, or am I doing something stupid? Primefac ( talk) 19:07, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
What did I do wrong to get this? Also, there is a faint green glow surrounding the program. Artix Kreiger ( talk) 15:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
When I used Autowikibrowser to adding Category:Module to Module page,it looked like a bug(because it show a red text,and the pages can't add to the category,so what should I do(Is it Autowikibrowser bug,i'm a Wikia aka Fandom administrators.)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HansJie ( talk • contribs) 11:12, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Exception: | `UriFormatException` |
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Message: | `无效的 URI: 无法分析主机名。` |
Call stack: | 在 System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind) 在 System.Uri..ctor(String uriString) 在 WikiFunctions.Variables.RefreshProxy() 在 WikiFunctions.Variables.SetProject(String langCode, ProjectEnum projectName, String customProject, String protocol) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(String code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject, String protocol) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.OpenPreferences(Boolean focusSiteTab) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) |
For posterity, this is phab:T203327. Archiving. -- Izno ( talk) 17:31, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
In MOS:ORDER, Short description comes above hatnotes but general fixes puts hats first. Consequentially, some edits are reverted because of this. Sun Creator( talk) 14:30, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
I am getting this following error on AWB:
TypeInitializationException
Exception: | TypeInitializationException |
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Message: | O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers' accionou uma excepção. |
Call stack: | em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..ctor(Int32 stubWordCount, Boolean addHumanKey) em AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm..ctor() |
Inner exception: | TypeInitializationException |
Message: | O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix' accionou uma excepção. |
Call stack: | em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.GetProjectLanguages(ProjectEnum project) em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter.set_InterWikiOrder(InterWikiOrderEnum value) em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter..ctor() em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..cctor() |
Inner exception: | XmlException |
Message: | A tag de início 'img' na linha 21, posição 38, não corresponde à tag de fim de 'a'. Linha 22, posição 3. |
Call stack: | em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowTagMismatch(NodeData startTag) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEndElement() em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc) em System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) em System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) em System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml) em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.LoadFromNetwork() em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix..cctor() |
NOTE: I'am using an old version of Windows Vista -- JotaCartas ( talk) 12:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
@ Billinghurst and JotaCartas: I have filed this as phab:T257147. I am archiving this topic shortly per a discussion on WT:AWB to retire the /Bugs page. Please feel free to follow on Phab. -- Izno ( talk) 17:47, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Using Win10, AWB 6.1.0.1, when I preview an article being edited, it appears that it does so using an IE11 browser object (Internet Explorer version: 11.0.18362.836 / .NET version: 4.0.30319.42000 / Windows version: 6.2). I'm seeing a number of problems using it. Perhaps someone can tell me if these are reported yet (and if they are, what I should search for on phab since I couldn't find anything relevant ):
|mp_category=
uses {{
Hlist}}
to create a bullet-separated list. In the browser, this renders "ApolloNEO", with no space or bullet between the two. There are other styles that don't render quite right either. It renders correctly in Firefox and also when I browse the page from a separate instance of IE11 (though see below).Does any of this sound familiar? —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 04:27, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The option shown above when ticked still applies the
MOS:ORDER fixes which itself is bug on the current release. If this option was working it would be a workaround, but it doesn't work with
MOS:ORDER either.
Sun Creator(
talk)
17:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
This general fix for the incorrect accessdate parameter is a false positive as the accessdate for that reference was not "2016-10-08". It could have been "2016-10-18" or "2016-10-28" but in this case, it was none of them so I reverted it. However, why is AWB putting a random number in front of "2016-10-8" without knowing what the real accessdate is? Pkbwcgs ( talk) 13:13, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
AWB wants to insert {{
Reflist}} on
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic despite the code already containing <div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="-moz-column-width: 30em; -webkit-column-width: 30em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><references responsive="0">
and </references></div>
. --
Ahecht (
TALK
PAGE)
19:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
If, in the diff section, I double click on a line to revert a change that was made automatically (by general fixes, custom regex, etc.), all the text in the edit window changes to be highlighted in dark gray (#D3D3D3) instead of the normal syntax coloring. Is this an existing reported bug (I couldn't find it in phab)?
Also, is there an existing feature (or feature request) to show the line number the cursor is on in the edit window? When trying to find in the edit window an edit shown in the diff window as being on line number nnn, it would be far easier if I could see those line numbers in the edit window. Or is there perhaps a better way to get to a place in the edit window relevant to a change in the diff window? Thanks. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 01:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
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I would love to try out the new AutoWikiBrowser and provide feedback on it. Send an email to floresg2 AT gmail.com. Thank you. Gflores Talk 22:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to try this out also it looks a lot friendlier than the pywiki framework -- Kaiserb 00:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Anyone interested can download it here, bear in mind that it is a development version! Martin 09:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
You auto-thingy wasn't just doing a recat in this edit [1]. You can see that it also added a space after the initial asterisk in lists (which is unnecessary), and also doing some other changes that I couldn't figure out what they were (removing spaces?). Blank Verse 22:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
The bot works quite well. The only issues I have had is when a blank page loads i.e. image with no tag. The bot carries the information from the previous edit and trys to fill in the blank page. — KaiserB 23:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you please add me ( User:KaiserbBot) to the official users list for this bot software. Thank you, — KaiserB 16:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I suspect that this is a problem I have encountered before, whereby I can't see the stuff right at the bottom of the AWB window; there's no scroll bar so I simply can't get at it.
My windows toolbar is double-height, to allow more stuff to be displayed in the "clock" area, and to allow more window buttons. You can see a sliver of the top of my toolbar right at the bottom of the screenshot. I suspect that AWB positions its buttons either relative to the top of the window, or based on incorrect information as to where the bottom of the window actually lies.
It's really frustrating, since this looks like an excellent tool…I'd like to see and use all of it
In the meantime, I've a couple of questions:
Make list
" could be "Make list
" maybe…Tools→Options
does nothing for me: should it?HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 11:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
OK, in order...
Let me know if there are other features that I coud add, I have some that I haven't enabled yet as well.
thanks - Martin 11:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I came across a user's signature which had been broken by the brief outage of HTML Tidy a while back, and I thought that it would provide an ideal exercise for me to get to know AWB. However, AWB doesn't seem to be able to find the broken text, even here when I can see it right there in the textbox! The text in question is:
[[User_talk:Admrboltz|<sup>=/\=</sup>]]
and I was attempting to replace it with:
[[User_talk:Admrboltz|<sup>=/\=</sup>]]
(note that in the wikitext I have had to double-escape the first version: the second version is actually the broken one which is rendering just fine here :-). Are there some settings I should be tweaking? Should I be double-escaping the HTML entities like I had to just above? — Phil | Talk 14:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I just discovered you have to take great care sometimes… I was searching for:
[[Box of Delights]]
which I had just turned into a REDIRECT, so I could short-circuit it. I fetched the list of "links to" articles and told AWB to replace that with:
[[The Box of Delights]]
which is the proper article. Imagine my horrified interest when the first article appeared with every single instance of "?]]" replaced with [[The Box of Delights]]: it was obviously treating the [ ] like a character range. But I didn't have "Is regex" selected: should it really be doing this? If that option is switched off, shouldn't it treat the string as completely raw? It works fine, BTW, if you use
\[\[Box of Delights]]
(which obviously won't work now 'cos I've been and gone and done it :-) HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 16:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Whoops, I just realised that what i had done initially was correct (I was starting to get worried), but I was passing the wrong parameter to my find and replace method, and as such regex was permanently on (as you suggested). Its fixed now (simple find and repace really is simple now!)
Martin
16:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
For the option, 'Ignore if contains:', is that only for the title of the page or for anything in the article? Also, is there a way to add several entries (like User: Wikipedia: talk:), basically I just want the main article namespace.
Secondly, I think this tool would be great for disambiguating links, but I really don't know how that would function in the program. Perhaps using the what links here option, and somehow getting a list of links from the term's disambiguation page (or the person could just create this in notepad), then the person could enter some link to disambiguate in the search field and AWB will search for it in the small textarea and perhaps highlight it. Upon which, the user will change the link to point to its appropriate location. I don't know that may be difficult to implement. If I'm not being clear, let me know. I'm way too tired right now. BTW, can't wait for the local text file support. Thanks. Gflores Talk 04:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Is it possible to preview the effect of manual changes? I'm not that confident in my typing to be certain I always get it right first time… HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 08:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
So I haven't a bot account, but I would like to have AWB sit in the background, touching a whole list of articles, fixing "links to" issues for updated templates. Can I set it to go off at 1 minute intervals, just wandering down the list of articles? What's the best way to make sure it just touches, doing nothing substantive at all? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 09:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to delink solitary years e.g. [[2005]]. But I need to avoid years if they are not solitary. I have been searching for 'in [[2005]]' and ' of [[2005]]' but that is laborious. Presumably I can make use of regex to avoid ']] [[2005]]' and ']], [[2005]]' etc.
I know that you are not a regex helpdesk but could you let me know how regex find square brackets and how it does ignore? Bobblewik 10:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like the option to be able to inhibit adding articles to my watchlist. If it were possible to preserve the current situation (i.e. only "add" them if I am already watching), that would be great. In the meantime, I'm hoping that, despite the abjurations not to click in the browser pane, if I untick "add to watchlist" it will be respected HTH HAND Phil | Talk 10:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpTextbox1").InnerText
. To be honest I havent looked into this issue that much, I had other priorities (such as getting the "preview" button etc. ) now that's done, I'll give it some more thought. I doubt anyone other than myself could understand the source as it needs to be tidied up a lot and noted properly ;( If there is anything specific you want to know, just ask though! I know that when I find the answer it will be simple, such as the code is above. thanks
Martin
15:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpWatchthis").Checked=False
. How wrong am I?
Phil |
Talk
16:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpMinoredit").SetAttribute(string attributeName, string value);
Martin
16:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)I note that there is now an option to "add to watchlist". Actually what I need is the opposite: I already have this option set in my Preferences. What I want is the option that the pages I deal with through AWB not show up in my watchlist unless I specifically say so. Sorry to be a pest, but would this be difficult now you've figured out how to control that check-box? — Phil | Talk 10:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I think I just discovered that the editing box doesn't use the standard "Ctrl-X = cut" shortcut: I tried "cutting" out some text to move it down a line and AWB dropped out. What was really disturbing is the fade effect you seem to have applied: for a significant number of seconds it gave the impression that this machine had blown several fuses. Maybe you could put something into those "Options" you left blank, and inhibiting the fade-out could be the first… So what is permissible for editing in that box? — Phil | Talk 11:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
The auto-fix of section headings has a bug. See what it did in the following edit [2]. Bobblewik 14:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok, Ive added security to both potential sides of the problem, available in next release. thanks Martin 01:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB seems to be affecting other applications when it's working. If I send it off to fetch a page for processing, and switch to another application during the pause, I seem to be getting an "enter" keystroke being spontaneously generated which is making my other application do stuff. Is this a side-effect of how AWB works? If so, can it be stopped? Please? — Phil | Talk 09:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
If you add more entries to the list of articles, AWB should check whether an entry is already there and not add it twice. (As a side-comment, I've had some interesting phenomena when removing items from the list, but I'm unable to reproduce them: removed items staying put, selections becoming multiple, random stuff. I'll let you know if it recurs.) HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 13:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Whenever I use this program I get a wierd bug. See the screencap. Broken S 19:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC) By the way this program is really sweet (I am still using it even though I have to click through the error messages [3 errors per page fixed]). Broken S 19:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
While doing a touch run (doing null edits) to update the list of used templates in articles I noticed that AWB on redirects opens the redirect page and not the target page of the redirect (Example Plzen). For this specific kind of run I would have needed that AWB opens the target page, not the redirect page. I made the list from the "What links here" of template:if. – Adrian | Talk 13:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok, what features can I add to make your lives easier? Are there any specific jobs that the program could be adapted to better suit? Martin 00:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, are there any more general fixes that I could add? Martin 00:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
You should really consider releasing the source code to the AutoWikiBrowser. That way, other people can help improve it! :) -- Ixfd64 10:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Information for users (Martin feel free to copy and use this info any way you want):
Martin has been kind enough to use my regex in the date delinking section. I am not as good at regex as I would like to be. Here are the concepts and the details:
My ideal regex would match:
I also try to avoid pages that discuss calendars and the origins of week/month names. My crude way is to search for the word 'calendar' and 'god'. But that could be tightened.
Here is the search regex I have used in the past:
Note that the first few characters test for preceding square brackets. That is a crude method of avoiding a year link that is part of a full date.
Here is the replace field that I have used in the past:
Here is the ignore field that I have used in the past:
This is in an attempt to avoid controversy. For example, a page might talk about 'Odin' and link to Wednesday.
Known weaknesses:
Suggested improvements (regex coding is not my speciality) would be welcome. Bobblewik 15:56, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
You don't want to use .* for anything intended to be within [[ ]] as it will continue "eating" characters past the first set of ]] (and probably continue til the last set of ]] on the page). It'd also end up matching things like [[Monday Night Football]]. Is it just, say, Monday and Mondays that you want to match? -- Mairi 01:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Martin has just told me that it can do multiple passes. Here is my latest proposed regex:
First pass looks for century, decade, month, day:
Search: \[\[(\d*.. [Cc]entury|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December
|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass looks for year
Search:::([^\]]{4})\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\]([^-\[])
Replace: $1$2$3
Comments? Bobblewik 00:11, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Latest proposed regex:
First pass delinks century, decade, month, day:
Search: \[\[(\d*.. [Cc]entury|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December
|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass delinks month/year combination like [[January 2002]]:
Search: \[\[((?:January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) [\d]{3,4})\]\]
\]\]
Replace: $1
Third pass delinks years that are not part of a date preference target. Should be no false positives and only a few misses:
Search:::(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[JFMASONDjfmasond\d])
Replace: $1$2$3
Fourth pass is a repeat of the regex in the third pass. This is to delink the second link of [[2002]]-[2005]]. Should be no false positives and only a few misses:
Search:::(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[JFMASONDjfmasond\d])
\[\[(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) ([\d]{3,4})\]\]
Not fully tested yet. Improvements welcome. Bobblewik 12:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I can't get these regexs to get any matches, are you testing them in AWB or some other way? Martin 22:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
The ones I have been using are the 4-pass set listed above under "Latest proposed regex", as they were when first psoted to this page -- i haven't checked for any edits inm place after i copied them to a text file for easy access. I typically get hits on passes 1, 3, & 4, rarewly if ever have I seen a hit on pass 2 so far. I am doing a larger run now, -- I'll report on my results. i note that I have had to check the "remove all date links" option on the beta tab for these to work -- so far, based on insufficient testing, I need Both regegex in the set options tab and the chcekbox on the beta tab enabled -- i will confirm that with a specially constructed test page later today or tomorrow -- i have to log off in a minute. DES (talk) 22:47, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, thanks, could you just clarify what the best regexes are, as the 4th pass doesnt have a "replace" now, and do you use Mairi's change, thanks Martin 00:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
First pass:
Search: (?i)\[\[(\d*.. century|\d{3,4}s|January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December|(?:Mon|Tues|Wednes|Thurs|Fri|Satur|Sun)days?)\]\]
Replace: $1
Second pass:
Search: (?i)\[\[(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) (\d{3,4})\]\]
Replace (there is space character before second dollar character): $1 $2
Third pass:
Search: (?i)(?<![yhletr\d]\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(\d{3,4})\]\](?!-|\s*,?\s*\[\[[jfmasond\d])
Replace: $1
Fourth pass:
Search and replace: identical to third pass.
Bobblewik
12:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Please do not use your tool in order to enforce style decisions that do not have broad consensus. Some authors (me included) like to link years in order point readers to background about the discussed period; other authors do not. This is an issue similar to British English vs. American English: it should be left to individual editors; marching in with overpowering technology is out of place. Thanks,
AxelBoldt
18:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I have been runing tests of the 4-pass regex at User:DESiegel/Date Test Please take a look at the history. I will report results more fully shortly. DES (talk) 21:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
After further tests with the latest version of the date regex in the find/replace box, as shown above, I find there are soem interesting limits. Here is a diff showign the net effect of 4-passes: diff.
The points I note are:
This may be of interest. DES (talk) 22:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Additional false negative cases:
You can see my latest test with version 0.9.9.5 in this edit
Anyone may feel free to use User:DESiegel/Date Test for tests, please revert to a fully linked version after performing any tests. DES (talk) 01:07, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Proposed improvements (tackles years in one pass instead of two, includes consecutive linked years, includes piped years):
The third pass would become:
Search: (?i)(?<!(?:january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december| \d{1,2})\]\]\s*,?\s*)\[\[(?:(\d{3,4})|\d{3,4}\|(\d{1,2}))\]\](?!-\[\[\d\d-|\s*,?\s*\[\[(?:january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december|\d{1,2} ))
Replace: $1$2
Note that the search regex contains two space characters.
The fourth pass would be deleted.
Seems ok but further testing is wanted.
Bobblewik
19:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I think it is letting me edit even if my username isn't on the approved list (I checked it using another one of my accounts). Broken S 22:04, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an awesome tool. I have one request for isntruction (or a feature request...): I tried setting the "New category" to a blank box, but it's too clever. Is there a way I can carry out a blanket category removal without replace? - Splash talk 22:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB just failed to load Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland: it wants to load Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland instead (I've made the latter REDIRECT to the former). I copied that first link from the text-box having removed the entry from the list. There is obviously some translation problem between the list-box and the browser control. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 16:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I have found the root of the problem;
if you navigate to;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Wiśniowiecki,_King_of_Poland
it automatically converts the URL to (in firefox and IE);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Wi%C5%9Bniowiecki%2C_King_of_Poland
which is right, but if you navigate to the edit URL;
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michał_Wiśniowiecki,_King_of_Poland&action=edit
in firefox it does it properly and navigates to
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Micha%C5%82%20Wi%C5%9Bniowiecki,%20King%20of%20Poland&action=edit
however in IE it navigates to
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michal_Wisniowiecki%2C_King_of_Poland&action=edit
which is clearly wrong. I dont know why it does this, seeing as Firefox doesnt have the problem maybe its a bug in IE. Martin 12:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The date delinking regex has a lot of 'misses'. It is difficult to distinguish between 11 January 2005 and January 2005, so I simply avoid consecutive links. Thus it will delink the January but it leaves the 2005 intact. There are many other permutations that I miss with the huge regex. Unless I do all articles twice, there are lots of misses.
If it operated sequentially, I could do a lot more. For example, it could tackle day, month, decade, century links first. I do not have to check for consecutive links in those cases. Then if it did another search of the same article, a search for year links could be more focussed and effective.
I expect that it AutoWikiBrowser simply has a huge regex. But I don't actually know what it does. Does it, or could it, go through the article more than once? Bobblewik 23:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Would it be a bad idea to make a "lite" version (with limited features) for people without authorization? -- Ixfd64 02:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
The article
In The End: Live & Rare just came up for processing, but AWB can't deal with it.
It keeps trying to load the article
In The End: Live which obviously gives it gyp.
The list contains "In The End: Live & Rare
" which doesn't necessarily help: fixing it did nothing.
Another encoding problem?
HTH HAND
Phil |
Talk
15:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
How difficult would it be to arrange that we could search/replace more than one thing at a time? I'm thinking that it would be nice if we could do these at the same time, maybe as a side-effect of other stuff:
HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 18:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Options
" menu, so that we could pick/choose which we wanted to apply at any given time: I've been wondering exactly what was involved in this, and I gerenally simply switch it off. You could have a little table of "entity replacements" like the above to which we could add our favourites: it should be a snip to include a tick-box for each saying "yes, do this one". HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
10:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When i first started to use AWB yesterday, it soemhow operated as User:205.210.232.62 (my usual IP whn not logged in) until i realized this, and clicked on the log-in link in the AWB browser window. Must one normally log-in separately from AWB even if already logged in on another browser? Your demo video does not show this. Or did I do soemthing incorrect? DES (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
When trying out AWB for the first time yyesterday (I made a date-delink run on ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:Biography) I attempted to make a manual change on one article (correcting an incorrect category) in the AWB browser. It appeared as if this chage was undone when i saved the articel, but I am not sure. Are manual changes supposed to be saved? I gather that there is no way to do a diff or preview for manual changes at the moment, is this correct? DES (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that B/AWB recently made the earth-shattering change from
== Municipalities ==
to
==Municipalities== in one article.
Just wondering... Why?
Picapica 23:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
A truly Delphic response, Martin. It's not the outer limits represented by "a lot more than that" that bother me, however, but the inner pickiness of a routine that goes to all the bother of removing two spaces with the result, as far as I can see, of affecting what appears on screen not one jot... Is it not legitimate to comment upon that? -- Picapica 00:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Many thanks for the speedy response, Martin, but this "click ignore" is a new thing to me, even though I've been editing Wikipedia for what seems like yonks now. How does it work? And how precisely does your having removed spaces which make not one jot of difference to what appears on screen (see "weird edits" above) "make other changes easier"? -- Picapica 01:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Not really "unfair" (I hope), BrokenSeque, just plain ignorant: I don't even know what "running the script" means. Clearly I've stumbled into a parallel wikipedia world involving some kind of automated editing. Me, I just do the old-fashioned one-man look-think-and-if-necessary edit routine: I haven't come across anything in the "advice to editors" introductory pages dealing with "using programs" which "remove spaces to make other changes easier". I was just wondering why anyone/anything would go to the bother of carrying out makes-no-difference changes to articles when there is so much else that needs to be checked. I shall have to investigate further... Merry Christmas, anyway. -- Picapica 16:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
"Ignore if contains" does not appear to work if the text is in the title.
It would be nice to have the ability to have two fields: one to match the title text; and another field (as now) to match body text. [unsigned comment by Bobblewik]
I asked User:Bobblewik about this on his talk page, and he directed me here. In removing standalone year links, there are some which should not be removed because the article on the year contains a factoid about the original article, and (especially in earlier years) it helps frame the current article with other events of the same year (century links would apply, also). The example I cited is the link to 1117 from Mii-dera.
So, since the Special:Whatlinkshere/Mii-dera shows the reverse link from 1117, if AWB can limit its date regexp matches to anything NOT found in the Whatlinkshere pages, it would prevent the wrongful removal of years. If it can't, then anyone using AWB for date link removal needs to be careful not to remove anything important.
Can the author clarify whether the above is possible or not?? Neier 08:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
So, basically we have several projects that are busily linking dates, and then this one de-linking them. Why? Sombody just delinked 1967 as the year of the Six-Day War. Not useful!
What we really need is making sure that any year near any month and day is linked. Please don't de-link dates.
I'm floundering a bit for the actual name for this, but it'll probably come to me just after I click "Save" . What I'd like is to be able to specify sub-expressions in the Search box and refer to them in the Replace box. like in MS Word. For example:
Search for : {{sodium}}<sub>([01-9]*)</sub> Replace with: {{sodium|\1}}
where the \1
refers to the first item in (…)
as shown.
HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Search for : {{sodium}}<sub>([01-9]*)</sub> Replace with: {{sodium|$1}}
Do you think it would ever be possible for AWB to be taught to understand templates and parameters? This would make it much easier to mass-change templates which have parameters renamed, or which have been moved or replaced.
So given a template name, it would look for
{{template name
and then search for the matching "}}". If you told it how many parameters and what the new name for each one should be, it could match up the number of "|" symbols. Obviously this is a bit blue sky right now but I thought I'd set it down for consideration. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Under what license is this software published? I take it from discussion on this page that the source code is not available? AxelBoldt 18:19, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Comment moved from
User talk:Bobblewik
Your bot is changing birth and death dates from use of a en-dash to a hyphen. Not only is this change gramatically incorrect, it seems like a rather controversial change to assign to a bot. Where did the decision to do this gain consensus?--
Alabamaboy
21:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Here it changed
–
to
–
which are the same, I think this is what he means. Martin 21:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Me too. I much prefer using the html entities than the literal characters. Look:
Hyphen | – | — | |
These all look different in the edit box: | - | – | — |
These all look exactly the same in the edit box: | - | – | — |
See what we mean? -- ALoan (Talk) 02:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. This was confusing but glad things worked out. Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
( 354- 430) comes out as ( 354-430). ( Roman Catholic Church)-- SarekOfVulcan 08:58, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, the 1946 in the first line of It's a Wonderful Life wasn't delinked -- leaving it intact for now so you can debug more easily.-- SarekOfVulcan 09:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Looks like it's taking out template links. When it alpha sorts during cleanups See: [6]
In addition to the ordering and the alphebetical listing of categories and language links it would be good if the same could be done with {{Link FA}} templates since even though a lot of articles have non or have so few that it isn't worth it there are some articles that have more than enough to make it worthwhile especially as it will fall into wider usage. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 09:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Here are some suggestions:
Just some thoughts. Feel free to use or ignore them.
Bobblewik
12:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I've only tested it out when changing over lists of articles from one category to another but when using make list with a category with an ampersand(&) in it it doesn't give any results despite the fact there are articles in the category. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 22:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
One of my favorite cleanups is to remove all occurences of a link after the first one. Is this straightforward enough to do? I could write it in VFP (and I still might), but if it were included in AWB, it would make things easier for me.
Thanks for all the hard work to date!-- SarekOfVulcan 06:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I feel that in a long articel it is often valid to link to the same destination agian after severla paragraphs, particualrly after more than one screen-full. So I think that "removal of reduandant links" would be better as a pointer than an automated tool. DES (talk) 16:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
The regexs do not seem to be useing "classic" basic regular expression syntax, as described in Regular expression but some extension (in particualr "(?i)" for case insensative does nbot appear in any of the versions in our article. Exactly which version of regualr expressions does AWB use, and is the syntax documeted anywhere online? DES (talk) 16:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I processed Noah Wyle but it did not identify 'External Links'. I had to make the change to 'External links' manually. Bobblewik 12:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I am seeing quite a few misses related to split dates like: [[January]] [[18th]], [[January]] [[18]] and [[18th]] and [[19th century|19th centuries]]. I may want to update the regex to cope with these if that is ok. Bobblewik 14:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
AWB's description says it will add auto template subst'ing in the future. Using WP:SUB, I have come up with this regexp:
Replace:
{{(bio-cats)}}|{{(clear)}}|{{(clearleft)}}|{{(clearright)}}|{{(copyvio)}}|{{(lived)}}|{{(Lifetime)}}|{{(lifespan)}}|{{(Prettytable)}}|{{(sub)}}|{{(sup)}}|{{(moved)}}|{{(moved-n)}}|{{(tmfrom)}}|{{(tmto)}}|{{(unsigned)}}|{{(unsigned2)}}|{{(3RR)}}|{{(3RR2)}}|{{(3RR3)}}|{{(nn-warn)}}|{{(nothanks)}}|{{(nothanks-sd)}}|{{(obscene)}}|{{(selftest)}}|{{(test-n)}}|{test2-n)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test2a-n)}}|{{(test2b)}}|{{(test3-n)}}|{{(test4a)}}|{{(test4-n)}}|{{(test)}}|{{(test0)}}|{{(test1)}}|{{(test2)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test3)}}|{{(test4)}}|{{(test5)}}|{{(test6)}}|{{(blatantvandal)}}|{{(bv)}}|{{(attack)}}|{{(No personal attacks)}}|{{(Npa)}}|{{(Npa2)}}|{{(Npa3)}}|{{(Npa4)}}|{{(blanking1)}}|{{(blanking2)}}|{{(blanking3)}}|{{(blanking4)}}|{{(drmafd)}}|{{(drmafd2)}}|{{(drmafd3)}}|{{(drmafd4)}}|{{(drmafd5)}}|{{(MIPblock)}}|{{(multipleIPs)}}|{{(spam)}}|{{(spam2)}}|{{(spam2a)}}|{{(spam3)}}|{{(spam4)}}|{{(vanity)}}|{{(vblock)}}|{{(verror)}}|{{(verror2)}}|{{(verror3)}}|{{(verror4)}}|{{(Edit summary personal)}}|{{(Editsummarynew)}}|{{(sofixit)}}|{{(Summary)}}|{{(Edit summary)}}|{{(name your images)}}|{{(image source)}}|{{(image copyright)}}|{{(subst)}}|{{(SharedIP)}}|{{(ISP)}}|{{(AOL)}}|{{(repeat vandal)}}|{{(anon vandal)}}|{{(vw)}}|{{(Award)}}|{{(newvoter)}}|{{(welcome)}}|{{(welcome2)}}|{{(welcome3)}}|{{(welcome4)}}|{{(welcomeip)}}|{{(anon)}}|{{(Album Image)}}|{{(afd)}}|{{(afd2)}}|{{(afd3)}}|{{(afd|bottom)}}|{{(afd|top)}}|{{(tfd2)}}|{{(tfdnotice)}}|{{(ifd)}}|{{(ifd2)}}|{{(idw)}}|{{(idw-uo)}}|{{(idw-pui)}}|{{(idw-cp)}}|{{(cfd)}}|{{(cfd2)}}|{{(cfdu)}}|{{(cfr)}}|{{(cfr2)}}|{{(cfru)}}|{{(cfm)}}|{{(cfd-article)}}|{{(cfr-speedy)}}|{{(tfd-keep)}}|{{(Actinium)}}|{{(Aluminum)}}|{{(Americium)}}|{{(Antimony)}}|{{(Argon)}}|{{(Arsenic)}}|{{(Astatine)}}|{{(Barium)}}|{{(Berkelium)}}|{{(Beryllium)}}|{{(Bismuth)}}|{{(Bohrium)}}|{{(Boron)}}|{{(Bromine)}}|{{(Cadmium)}}|{{(Caesium)}}|{{(Calcium)}}|{{(Californium)}}|{{(Carbon)}}|{{(Cerium)}}|{{(Chlorine)}}|{{(Chromium)}}|{{(Cobalt)}}|{{(Copper)}}|{{(Curium)}}|{{(Darmstadtium)}}|{{(Dubnium)}}|{{(Dysprosium)}}|{{(Einsteinium)}}|{{(Erbium)}}|{{(Europium)}}|{{(Fermium)}}|{{(Fluorine)}}|{{(Francium)}}|{{(Gadolinium)}}|{{(Gallium)}}|{{(Germanium)}}|{{(Gold)}}|{{(Hafnium)}}|{{(Hassium)}}|{{(Helium)}}|{{(Holmium)}}|{{(Hydrogen)}}|{{(Indium)}}|{{(Iodine)}}|{{(Iridium)}}|{{(Iron)}}|{{(Lanthanum)}}|{{(Lawrencium)}}|{{(Lead)}}|{{(Lithium)}}|{{(Lutetium)}}|{{(Magnesium)}}|{{(Manganese)}}|{{(Meitnerium)}}|{{(Mendelevium)}}|{{(Mercury)}}|{{(Molybdenum)}}|{{(Neodymium)}}|{{(Neon)}}|{{(Neptunium)}}|{{(Niobium)}}|{{(Nitrogen)}}|{{(Nobelium)}}|{{(Osmium)}}|{{(Oxygen)}}|{{(Palladium)}}|{{(Phosphorus)}}|{{(Platinum)}}|{{(Plutonium)}}|{{(Polonium)}}|{{(Potassium)}}|{{(Praseodymium)}}|{{(Promethium)}}|{{(Protactinium)}}|{{(Radium)}}|{{(Radon)}}|{{(Rhenium)}}|{{(Rhodium)}}|{{(Roentgenium)}}|{{(Rubidium)}}|{{(Ruthenium)}}|{{(Rutherfordium)}}|{{(Samarium)}}|{{(Scandium)}}|{{(Seaborgium)}}|{{(Selenium)}}|{{(Silicon)}}|{{(Silver)}}|{{(Sodium)}}|{{(Strontium)}}|{{(Sulfur)}}|{{(Tantalum)}}|{{(Technetium)}}|{{(Tellurium)}}|{{(Terbium)}}|{{(Thallium)}}|{{(Thorium)}}|{{(Thulium)}}|{{(Tin)}}|{{(Titanium)}}|{{(Tungsten)}}|{{(Ununbium)}}|{{(Ununhexium)}}|{{(Ununoctium)}}|{{(Ununpentium)}}|{{(Ununquadium)}}|{{(Ununseptium)}}|{{(Ununtrium)}}|{{(Uranium)}}|{{(Vanadium)}}|{{(Xenon)}}|{{(Ytterbium)}}|{{(Yttrium)}}|{{(Zinc)}}|{{(Zirconium)}}|{{(WP:RM)}}|{{(Move2)}}|{{(TFAfooter)}}|{{(article)}}|{{(See also)}}|{{(ll)}}|{{(language link)}}|{{(ed)}}|{{(doctl)}}
With:
{{subst:$1}}
I haven't tested it but I will soon. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I see you're been sorting interwiki links by their language codes. That's not good, because English Wikipedia uses different sorting order where links are sorted alphabetically, based on local language (for the correct order, see this page, second option).-- Jyril 21:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
When I coded it, I had to choose one order, so I just chose the order that was most popular, I know there is no consensus, but I don't follow the logic that this means I should use the second most popular choice. Martin 10:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I note that AWB is sorting stub tags to tghe very end. I thought that WP:STUB recomended stub tags after all text, but before non-stub category links. DES (talk) 22:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
There is an option to mark all edits as minor. I have set this option as true - however, every time I close and reopen AWB, it resets my options. Can you fix this by saving all options in a .dat file that is loaded upon opening the program? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
A`problrem occured yesterday when my login cookie expired. Please increse the priority for re-checking the cookie more often, perhaps on every page edited. In the mean time I advise users to double check that they remain logged in -- the display will show the difference if you look. DES (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been asked twice now about a possible problem with AutoWikiBrowser's "general fixes" function. The AWB removes the leading and trailing spaces in headings, such as this one, but MediaWiki automatically generates the sections with one heading. I haven't seen it cause any problems, but Help:Editing has it that way too. Just so you know. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 22:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Why has this been disabled in Windows 98? I used it before but now I can't. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 13:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
After downloading version 1.5, I opened the AWB and clicked on Help>About to make sure it was the right version. It said it was version 1.5.1.0, not 1.5. I closed the about window and then immediately got this error:
See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at AutoWikiBrowser.AboutBox.okButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- AutoWikiBrowser Assembly Version: 1.5.1.0 Win32 Version: 1.5.1.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Jacob/Start%20Menu/Programs/Wikipedia/AutoWikiBrowser.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.
What happened? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Please look at the following edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bao%27an_%28Shaanxi%29&diff=33502758&oldid=33500193
The user complained about new lines. I do not know whether new lines are good or bad, but should I worry? Bobblewik 21:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusin about the order of lang links. ja is ususlaly between nl and no. Rich Farmbrough. 00:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to allow AWB to convert Unicode characters from their HTML codes to their proper symbols? See Curpsbot-unicodify if you're not sure what I'm talking about. -- Ixfd64 01:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there AWB developers. I've noticed that AWB-assisted edits have a habit of reformatting wikitext in addition to the noted changes in the edit summaries. It would be nice if the reformatting were performed as a separate edit before the intended change (with an edit summary like "reformatting wikitext"). This would lead to much clearer diffs and a better reflection of what was actually done to the article. None of this applies, of course, if this behavior has changed in more recent versions or if what I have seen is a result of the AWB user's actions and not the software itself. Mike Dillon 16:34, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Another thing that should be added is the ability to change categories with a modifier after them, for example {{Category:Wikipedians in the United States|Jtkiefer}} The way AWB currently handles them if you tried to change them over to say {{Category:Wikipedians}} or {{Category:Wikipedians|Jtkiefer}} I'd end up with something like {{category|Jtkiefer}} which causes problems and which is an unusable category. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 23:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Due to the recent success of Firefox, OpenOffice, and other open source programs, I was wondering what the general consensus would be on making the AWB open source. I could release the source code and then make a page, maybe Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Open source, where anyone could request features, and developers could post code. If I implemented such a plan, I would also make available to developers an extensive list of the changes in each version of the AWB. Any ideas? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I have two requests. Every now and then I notice the alert about a long article having stub status. Could there be a button (or something) that would quickly remove all the stub templates. I hate scrolling through the text and finding it.
Secondly, this tool is works wonderfully with fixing typos. I imagine it could do the same for disambiguating pages, but I'm really not sure how it would work. The idea I have is somehow a the program receives the different terms from the user (which he collected from the disambiguation page). After getting the list of pages linking to the DAB page, the user goes through each one. If it's the first term (say, pop music), he clicks on it (or maybe presses a hotkey) and the link changes to that term. Say pop -> pop. Clicking on option two (pop art) results in changing pop -> pop. I hope I've explained myself alright, it's difficult to describe. Let me know if you have questions or any suggestions. Oh, and welcome back! :) Gflores Talk 07:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Minor regex request: I'm looking for a regular expression to fix bad links. Essentially, it needs to look for links in this form... [[http://www.abc.com]] and change it to this [http://www.abc.com]. Same with [[http://www.abc.com link]]. Sometimes, linke are like this [[http://www.abc.com|link]]. This needs to be changed accordingly to [http://www.abc.com link]. Any help is appreciated. I read a little about regex and came up have used this in AWB... \[\[([Hh]ttp:[^\]\]]+)]] However, it doesn't change for the later caveat (the '|') and may find false positives. If you have time. Thanks. Gflores Talk 18:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replace \\[\\[http:\\/\\/(.*)\\]\\] with [http://$1] replace \\[http:\\/\\/(.*)\\|(.*)\\] with [http://$1 $2]
fixes double space: replace \\[\\[(.*) (.*)\\]\\] with [[$1 $2]] fixes space at beginning: replace \\[\\[ (.*)\\]\\] with [[$1]] fixes space before "#": replace \\[\\[(.*) #(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1#$2]] fixes double underscore: replace \\[\\[(.*)__(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1_$2]] fixes underscore at beginning: replace \\[\\[_(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1]] fixes underscore before "#": replace \\[\\[(.*)_#(.*)\\]\\] with [[$1#$2]]
Another request: according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), the sections should be in the following order at the end:
or
I know the AWB separates the categories, language links, FA templates, and Persondata templates and puts them in the correct order - could you do the same with the above sections, i.e., could you write code to separate them and then put them in the correct order? Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 21:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
FYI: There is a 1.6.2 listed under the list of changes, but the check page doesn't show this version as enabled. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS
17:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
In addition, I was looking through the code of 1.6, and, in AboutBox.cs, on line 131, there is a type: guidlines should be guidelines. In AssemblyInfo.cs, the copyright date should be 2006 on line 13. Can I have the source for 1.6.2? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:08, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Note to all: a new version (1.6.3) is on its way! I have already added the following to it:
I e-mailed the source to Martin, who will clean up some of the regexs for various tasks. The new version should be out today or tomorrow. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin - why'd you remove "When using this software, check every single edit and try to avoid making extremely minor edits such as adding or removing a single space" from the notice? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin says (above) that AWB "is not broken, it's not even specifically designed for this task as you seem to suggest."
We have no way of knowing the intent of the author that it's specifically designed for any particular task.
Unfortunately, the actual effect of AWB is to mass de-link dates, and to mass de-alphabetize inter-wiki links. For example, see breakage of Wikipedia:Disambiguation and breakage of Israel. That's just two very high profile examples.
Therefore, we should assume that it's misused because of poor quality control by the program author (regardless of intent), and prohibit futher use.
I beg to differ:
Please cease and desist using AWB until its results are tested and proven to conform to consensus.
My own bot has a function to convert old cut-and-pasted tables into invocations of Template:Album infobox. Because of all the crazy things folks have done with the formatting between the paste and my conversion, the function can't be 100% accurate, so I check every edit (in raw wikicode) before it's posted. Regardless, I still run it at the normal 30-second throttle, because the bot, not me, is doing most of the work. AWB should enforce a timeout as well. — Cryptic (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for disabling the date removal "thing", please:
Please cease and desist using AWB until its results are tested and proven to conform to consensus.
Just to let you know, on this page, NTL, it incorrectly moves the line to the bottom (it thinks it's a translation link? It begins with...
ntl:hell following shortly after. Devalued and struggling with debts of around $18bn NTL was forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2002 in order to organise a refinancing deal. The company did not emerge from protection until January 2003,
I'm using 1.6.5 and doing a typo fix in some other paragraph in the article. Gflores Talk 16:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
The AutoWikiBrowser page does not answer: Are there any plans to port AutoWikiBrowser to compile on Linux? (There's the Mono C# compiler and the MonoDevelop IDE available, though this page is grim about how well WinForms apps work on Linux. It sounds like Mono's WinForms support isn't up to the same quality level as its other toolkits, like Gtk# and Qt#. -- Unforgettableid | talk to me 19:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Interwiki bots, when adding new links, routinely sort the interwiki links. Thus, it's probably preferable to disable the option in AWB as it makes diffs more difficult to read. -- User:Docu
Hey there. Just a quick request. Is it possible to add a date to when each new version is/was released? This just makes it easier if one has been away and they wish to see the changes that have taken place since their last version.
For example:
Version | Released | Release notes |
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1.7.0 | January 16, 2006 | Allows for openings into other areas of space and time. |
Would it be possible to make a feature that would help AfD artciles? When I'm going through the articles needing cleanup I find the need to AfD some of them, but I don't want to stop very long or switch browsers to do that. I'd imagine that it would (after pressing a button) subst in the template then take you to the next page where you could write the summary and finaly takes you to the daily page to subst in the deletion page. Broken S 15:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I just started using AWB today to do some disambiguation link repair. I don't have a lot of suggestions ye but figured I would add them here as I think of them:
Can somebody check: [12]. Does it reveal a bug in interwiki sort? Bobblewik 19:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Martin, one of the rules for the AWB is "Don't edit too fast." What do you consider "too fast"? I noticed that you routinely crank out edits at five or so per minute, yet User:Talrias blocked User:Bobblewik on 29 Dec for editing the same amount, saying it was not possible. Is that speed acceptable? Thanks. -- M @ th wiz 2020 21:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
(indent) The point of the "general fixes" is simply that while you are fixing something such as a common typo, re-categorising or something, that it also makes other minor changes at the same time, as a rule of thumb, if a change doesnt actually affect the look of an article, then don't make it. Also, you will be pleased to hear that the software does have the feature you mention, the "ignore if doesnt contain" is very helpful as it will automatically skip any pages that do not contain what ever the problem is you are fixing. As for your rules; small edits are good, but not if the total edit is insignificant, edits can exceed the edit summary (but not by anything significant), this might sound strange to write, but the vast majority of edits ever made exceeds the summary in some way, just don't let them be misleading, (I think this problem will be solved naturally if you skip pages that dont contain the mistake you are fixing) thanks Martin 10:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Is there any way for telling the AWB not to change (by default) a given piece of text? In two different revisions, two editors have removed a lone underscore that was instead necessary [13] [14] . Another editor has found the solution of replacing it with the HTML code "_", but I am not convinced that the AWB will not delete it again. Having some way for telling the AWB not to change a given piece of text (or, at least, making it alerting the user that that piece of text is not to be changed automatically) would solve the problem. Thanks. - Liberatore( T) 13:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[[A_B|C_D]]
, AWB should transform this to [[A B|C_D]]
. HTH HAND —
Phil |
Talk
15:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB fails to reconize {{1911}} as adding a categoy. I suspect it does not catch them from any template as that woudl be hard to do. Its still probbly notable as articles with only 1911 britinica categorys probly need more. Dalf | Talk 08:25, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I know I'm evil (and greedy and possibly stupid :-): Could AWB be extended so that mutilple regex replace actions could be entered and executed in the same run (a list of search/replace fields)?
Maybe I'm on a totally wrong track, so I try to explain what I want to do: The underlying problem I'm thinking about to solve is changing calls to templates that need renames in parameters. Specific example job I'm about to do: template:Web reference supports an old variant that used uppercase/lowercase in parameter names. I'm thinking about changing these to the new lowercase only parameters variant.
Reason for this (sorry for my verbosity): Web reference is currently a meta template and I'm trying to convert that to using the new CSS-Trick of Netoholic. I have problems to do that supporting both kinds of parameter sets, so I'm thinking about switching calls to the lowercase only parameters variant.
Sorry for nagging with this whole chain of reasoning and many thanks for any help and ideas in advance. And thanks again to Martin for providing this great tool. (And please don't bother to tell me if I'm asking too much or the wrong thing!). -- Adrian Buehlmann 12:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
This is a great tool. Is it possible to configure it to work with other wikis, like other languages, or meta.wikimedia.org? Elonka 03:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought that the date delinking feature was removed. However, Bobblewik seems to be doing a lot of date delinking. For example, see this edit. Has it been removed, or has it been added back? -- M @ th wiz 2020 02:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
My name (Eagle 101 is in the list, but AWB tells me that I am not elegible to use it? What am I doing wrong. (yes I am logged in, on windows SP v2, and have broadband internet. What is wrong.
I used version 1.7.4.0 and had Czestochowa in the list. When "Bypass redirects" is checkmarked (default), AWB loops forever on that redirect ("Browser status is {Loading|Complete}). I had to click the ignore button (BTW a stop button might be a good idea? Don't know). Same happens on Nowy Sacz, Znin, Elblag and others (from what links here of list of Template:Infobox Poland). Low prio problem for me. Just wanted to report it. -- Adrian Buehlmann 14:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
This one is for the wish list: it would be nice if the text edit window (lower right window) of AWB could use a fixed width font (like courier or so?). I recently noticed how helpful this edit window really is (I was a bit reluctant to edit there until recently but it works just great). But this is just a "nice to have" one (not that important, no clue how nasty to implement). Thanks! -- Adrian Buehlmann 15:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to have an option to turn off the loading of images? Some days, like today, I notice a huge delay after I click save, and it's mainly due to waiting for the images to load in the page. I wind up clicking Start the Process again to skip to the next article. -- Kbdank71 20:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB isn't letting me do any work since it keeps saying that I'm not logged in even though I'm logging in and I can even check a special page in the browser (which get pulled dynamically) and get the fact that I'm logged in. I'm using 1.7.4.0 btw. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 22:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
The general cleanup function replaces underscores in link anchors with spaces. This is incorrect behavior; the part of the link after the '#' character should not be altered. Kelly Martin ( talk) 06:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
I just registered and AWB isn't letting me do any work. It keeps telling me to log in, I keep logging in, and it keeps saying I'm not logged in. BTW, I've got version 1.7.5.0. Alr 15:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I use Firefox and only go with IE when absolutely necessary. I did try logging in with IE and then with AWB in various combinations. Didn't work once. Alr 20:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Seems to be working OK now. Thanks! Alr 23:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Under "alerts" when it says multiple wiki-links, if you double click a repeated link, in will highlight that link in the text, but will not highlight the last two sqaure brackets: ]]. So for example if you double click on a link saying Spain, it will highlight the [[Spain part in the text box to the right, but not the final brackets. I hope I have made myself clear. Thanks, — FireFox • T • 17:58, 28 January 2006
Making it so I can remove categories is a big help. I was doing it by hand (with awb opening the articles for me).
There appears to be a bug with the category removal though... if the category is listed like [[Category:Child prodigies|*]] (with the asterisk) then it wants to wipe out everything after that as well (other cats, interwiki links). I've just been ignoring those articles where that happens and I'll do them by hand. -- Syrthiss 04:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not good at filing bug reports, so I'll just describe step by step how to reproduce this bug and leave the brilliant prose for featured articles... :-)
The above happened enough times as to lead me to believe it wasn't just something I was doing wrong. It seems that AWB just wouldn't sit quiet in the background. I'm using the latest version of AWB (just downloaded it today) and I have no memory of this error happening before, so it might be interesting to have a look at this. Thanks. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 22:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
AWB version 1.7.8 loops forever if I try to make list from category:if templates. -- Adrian Buehlmann 08:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible, if "Apply general fixes" is checked, to not move categories enclosed within noinclude tags to the end of the article? I've come across a few templates that someone had edited with AWB, and the category was moved outside of the tags, causing a number of articles that had that template to be miscategorized. -- Kbdank71 19:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Can we get an option to populate the article work list from a specified user's contributions? Kelly Martin ( talk) 19:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to put a timer under the save button? such that the timer would reset everytime the save button is pressed? It would be nice to have, if it does not take that long to program. Thanks!!!!! Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 22:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Some categories are in a particular order. However AWB goes through and sorts them into alphabetical order. The result is I constantly have to partially revert AWB changes made by users. Is there a way around this? Can new rules for category sorting be added? Jdorje 05:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if I am doing this correctly so I'll just describe what I did.
Is there a way to make it not follow redirects (or do what I'm trying to do)? Oh, by the way could you have it give out a warning if someone type in the category name as "Category:This category" because then it will look for "Category:Category:this category" which is almsot never what is intended. It's not that important though. Broken Segue 20:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I have an unenabled version but the download seems to be broken. Dalf | Talk 07:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't call this high up on the priority list, but I think it would be nice if there was an option to turn off the "List Complete" and the "No articles in list, you need to use the make list" messages. -- Kbdank71 14:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Changes I make in the editing pane are not being reflected when I click "Preview" or "Show changes" again, although they are passed through when I click "Save". This makes it all too easy to make mistakes, I fear: could someone fix it fast, please. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:26, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to let the user add several find/replace patterns instead of just one? Thanks, AxelBoldt 21:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there a reason we can't save or load our settings? Secifically our regex and comment field settings? This would be a nice feature. Thanks Eagle ( talk) ( desk) 22:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
When I run AWB on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, the preview shows that it is trying to empty out the contents of 2 <nowiki> sections (<nowiki>{{wikify}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>). Please point AWB at that page and take a look. -- kingboyk 23:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
It would be great if AWB could recognise a subst'd AFD tag, and not suggest moving the Pages for deletion category to the bottom. That would save some time for me, as a lot of my minor edits are tweaking of deletion-listed pages. Another time saver would be if it didn't suggest changes which are no more than the insertion of removal of line breaks. -- kingboyk 00:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It seems to be common usage to annotate an Oscar category with the name of the actor involved, in an HTML comment, and I assume this happens for other categories also. However AWB unhooks these comments and leaves them dangling in mid-air. Could the category-sorting code be fixed so as preserve these comments? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
It's nice to see the implementation of multiple find and replaces. Would it be possible to create multiline find and relplaces too? For example, when you set AWB to find a sub-heading and replace it with nothing, it normally leaves an extra unwanted gap ( example). This could probably be fixed with a multiline find and replace, if it is possible to do so. — FireFox • T • 20:57, 6 February 2006
\r\n
to indicate "new line". --
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20:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)Possible minor bug: AWB 1.8.1 wanted to do this edit to Australian Electoral Commission (Apply general fixes:yes, Auto tag:yes). I believe I did not set such a replace (I was doing things like this). BTW: really great the new multi-regex replace! -- Adrian Buehlmann 23:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
AWB 1.8.1: If I have set "Bypass redirects" AWB does not edit the redirect page, it instead edits the target page of the redirect (superb so far). I have now set in "Skip articles" (on the "Set options tab") a regex expression in "Skip if doesn't contain". It seems to me that the skip expression is applied on the redirect page. I would rather expect that the skip expression is applied on the page that AWB edits, i.e. the target of the redirect if "Bypass redirects" is set. BTW an option that would "click ignore for me" if it is a null edit would be fine ("skip null edits"?). (Sorry for not using the newest version, I have just loaded a bunch of multi-regexes right now into a 1.8.1 instance of AWB and I am too lazy to reenter them into the newest version :-). And sorry for being so greedy on features. AWB is just such an wonderful thing :-) -- Adrian Buehlmann 19:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Um, me again (don't beat me :-). Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni is a redirect to Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni. I believe my AWB 1.84 loops forever on this. -- Adrian Buehlmann 13:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
If you have "Skip articles with no changes" set, then the "Preview" button acts like "Ignore". I can only assume that the dingus which checks for "no changes" is failing to spot any changes because these are not displayed when you do a "Preview". I note that this feature is disabled when you set "Preview instead of diff".
Might I suggest that the "Skip articles with no changes" should only actually perform the skip when you first land on the article and thereafter be disabled until the next article? HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 17:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
When making a list, article titles containing HTML entities such as an ampersand (&) appear in the list as the HTML code for them (&). Simple fix I guess... BigBlueFish 10:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Due to only the most recent version of the software being enabled, and being updated every few days, is it possible to enable multiple versions of the software, so that a particular download of the program lasts more than a few days, and then only require an update when a "major" update is made? The constant un-enabling of the different versions makes things quite difficult, as using AWB seems to require a new download practically every single time I use it.
A self-update feature in the program whereby it updates itself to the most recent version might make things less difficult as well.
SchuminWeb ( Talk) 03:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't mind that older versions are disabled, but I would prefer that the check occurred at the "Make list" point and not after the "Start the process" button press. I know I can save the results and reload them, but it would be easier to switch to the new version if I didn't have to repopulate the article list. That's a small annoyance that I can live with though. -- JLaTondre 15:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
See these edits made with the AWB (general fixes and autotag on, nothing else on): [17] [18] [19] [20]. Why did the AWB do this? -- M @ th wiz 2020 19:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I just starting work on Wikipedia:Bad links with AWB. AWB is such a great tool for this project and saves quite a bit of time. However, for some reason, the setting "mark all edits as minor" isn't working. All my edits are being marked as major edits even though the setting is checked. I've also tried closing AWB and opening it again with no luck. Is this a bug or user error? PS2pcGAMER ( talk) 22:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
While going through Wikipedia:Bad links, I've been getting some weird results every 1/20 pages that I (luckily) catch in the "show diff" and fix manually. I'll review the code and let you know if I make any progress as to the cause of this. I can't give you a sample edit, though, since I fix them manually. -- M @ th wiz 2020 00:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Does one need to have a bot flag on their account to use "bot mode" - I'm listed in the access as a bot. I have a 8000 entry list to do and I rather automate over clicking 8000 times :) Tawker 12:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Martin - can you add a preset edit summary to the drop down box such as: "bad link repair. You can help!"? Thanks. -- M @ th wiz 2020 22:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I used to be able to use the "In Template Rule" to replace parameters and/or text within nested params (e.g. {{ B}} is inside of {{ A}}, and I need to change something in {{ B}}). However, recently I can only affect the top-level template (e.g. I can edit stuff in A but not B). Is this something implemented in the most recent version, or am I doing something stupid? Primefac ( talk) 19:07, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
What did I do wrong to get this? Also, there is a faint green glow surrounding the program. Artix Kreiger ( talk) 15:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
When I used Autowikibrowser to adding Category:Module to Module page,it looked like a bug(because it show a red text,and the pages can't add to the category,so what should I do(Is it Autowikibrowser bug,i'm a Wikia aka Fandom administrators.)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HansJie ( talk • contribs) 11:12, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
Exception: | `UriFormatException` |
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Message: | `无效的 URI: 无法分析主机名。` |
Call stack: | 在 System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind) 在 System.Uri..ctor(String uriString) 在 WikiFunctions.Variables.RefreshProxy() 在 WikiFunctions.Variables.SetProject(String langCode, ProjectEnum projectName, String customProject, String protocol) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(String code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject, String protocol) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.OpenPreferences(Boolean focusSiteTab) 在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) 在 System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) |
For posterity, this is phab:T203327. Archiving. -- Izno ( talk) 17:31, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
In MOS:ORDER, Short description comes above hatnotes but general fixes puts hats first. Consequentially, some edits are reverted because of this. Sun Creator( talk) 14:30, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
I am getting this following error on AWB:
TypeInitializationException
Exception: | TypeInitializationException |
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Message: | O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers' accionou uma excepção. |
Call stack: | em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..ctor(Int32 stubWordCount, Boolean addHumanKey) em AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm..ctor() |
Inner exception: | TypeInitializationException |
Message: | O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix' accionou uma excepção. |
Call stack: | em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.GetProjectLanguages(ProjectEnum project) em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter.set_InterWikiOrder(InterWikiOrderEnum value) em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter..ctor() em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..cctor() |
Inner exception: | XmlException |
Message: | A tag de início 'img' na linha 21, posição 38, não corresponde à tag de fim de 'a'. Linha 22, posição 3. |
Call stack: | em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowTagMismatch(NodeData startTag) em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEndElement() em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc) em System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) em System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) em System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml) em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.LoadFromNetwork() em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix..cctor() |
NOTE: I'am using an old version of Windows Vista -- JotaCartas ( talk) 12:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
@ Billinghurst and JotaCartas: I have filed this as phab:T257147. I am archiving this topic shortly per a discussion on WT:AWB to retire the /Bugs page. Please feel free to follow on Phab. -- Izno ( talk) 17:47, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Using Win10, AWB 6.1.0.1, when I preview an article being edited, it appears that it does so using an IE11 browser object (Internet Explorer version: 11.0.18362.836 / .NET version: 4.0.30319.42000 / Windows version: 6.2). I'm seeing a number of problems using it. Perhaps someone can tell me if these are reported yet (and if they are, what I should search for on phab since I couldn't find anything relevant ):
|mp_category=
uses {{
Hlist}}
to create a bullet-separated list. In the browser, this renders "ApolloNEO", with no space or bullet between the two. There are other styles that don't render quite right either. It renders correctly in Firefox and also when I browse the page from a separate instance of IE11 (though see below).Does any of this sound familiar? —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 04:27, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
The option shown above when ticked still applies the
MOS:ORDER fixes which itself is bug on the current release. If this option was working it would be a workaround, but it doesn't work with
MOS:ORDER either.
Sun Creator(
talk)
17:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
This general fix for the incorrect accessdate parameter is a false positive as the accessdate for that reference was not "2016-10-08". It could have been "2016-10-18" or "2016-10-28" but in this case, it was none of them so I reverted it. However, why is AWB putting a random number in front of "2016-10-8" without knowing what the real accessdate is? Pkbwcgs ( talk) 13:13, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
AWB wants to insert {{
Reflist}} on
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic despite the code already containing <div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="-moz-column-width: 30em; -webkit-column-width: 30em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><references responsive="0">
and </references></div>
. --
Ahecht (
TALK
PAGE)
19:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
If, in the diff section, I double click on a line to revert a change that was made automatically (by general fixes, custom regex, etc.), all the text in the edit window changes to be highlighted in dark gray (#D3D3D3) instead of the normal syntax coloring. Is this an existing reported bug (I couldn't find it in phab)?
Also, is there an existing feature (or feature request) to show the line number the cursor is on in the edit window? When trying to find in the edit window an edit shown in the diff window as being on line number nnn, it would be far easier if I could see those line numbers in the edit window. Or is there perhaps a better way to get to a place in the edit window relevant to a change in the diff window? Thanks. —[ AlanM1 ( talk)]— 01:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)