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AWB incorrectly added persondata here. Not sure if this is an AWB bug or an error on the page, so I'm asking here first. This happened with the 5.3.1.0 release, but I just tried it again with 5.3.1.1 SVN 7794 and it would have done the same thing.— Chowbok ☠ 06:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if this is possible but I thought I would ask. I would like to use the database scanner in AWB to generate a list of articles that contain parmeters in a given list. For example if the parameter does not equal (class|importance|etc|etc1|etc2). Does anyone know if that is possible and maybe how to do that? Basically I want to see what parameters are being used for articles in WikiProject United States so that I can fix any that aren't valid. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering whether it is possible with AWB to search for for certain texts in all pages of one category and then export the results in a list. For example. I would like to have a list of all Philippine municipalities and their coordinates as listed on the Italian Wikipedia. These coordinates can be found in the template at the beginning of each article, for example for it:San Jose (Romblon):
|latitudineGradi =12
|latitudinePrimi =3
|latitudineSecondi =45
|latitudineNS =N
|longitudineGradi =121
|longitudinePrimi =57
|longitudineSecondi =33
|longitudineEW =E
would be exported in the list as:
San Jose (romblon), 12, 3, 45, N, 121, 57, 33, E
Hope this makes sense? Magalhães ( talk) 20:05, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been using this for a few months now, but recently started to experience crashes. I use this as a bot to correct special characters and fix typos at Assassin's Creed Wiki (wikia), however it freezes after skipping 2000 or so pages leaving a few more pages unscanned. Does anyone know why this happens? Thank you.. -- 117.192.111.60 ( talk) 18:35, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
A few weeks back, there was a discussion of the idea that names that begin with "Mc" should be alphabetized as they are spelled, not as if they began with "Mac" (example: "John McCain" should not be alphabetized as "Maccain, John"). See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 23#Alphabetizing "Mc" as "Mac". There seemed to be a consensus that they should be alphabetized as they are spelled. Is there a bot that can change all the existing DEFAULTSORTs to fix this situation? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:55, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that the Feature request page was getting quite lengthy and though I would review my own submissions to see if there were some that could be archived now. Below are a list of Feature request sections that I think can be archived. All of the below appear to be completed, were denied, were withdrawn or have been overcome by events (such as the Template redirect/Parameter rename pages). My first impulse was just to archive them myself but since I am not one of the developers I didn't think it was my place to do so without adding a comment here first. If everyone concurs and knowone beats me to it I can do it in the next couple days.
I can't download from SourceForge due to sanctions against my country, and also can't follow the alternative link. :( Can anyone upload the software somewhere else? Thanks in advance. -- Z 06:20, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I couldn't find the whole list of keywords (like %%key%%). I only need a keyword that gives the number of pages that link to the current page. I guess it exists, as AWB sets sometimes the {{orphan}} template... I found 2 lists ( here in 4.4.1.0 and there), but are they complete and up-to-date? The keyword I expect (%%nblinks%% ??) is not there... Zetud ( talk) 19:14, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I looked through the list of AWB Bugs and I think that these may have been resolved. I left some comments as to why I think this.
-- Kumioko ( talk) 17:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Revived from archive as there were no answers.
I am trying to use AWB for a private wiki running on mediawiki. We have a large number of pages (200-300 at least) that we want to move to different name spaces. This is easily achieved by simply Moving the page and putting "Namespace:" in front of the existing page name. Is there any way to accomplish this task with AWB? If not, does anyone know of any other extensions or bots that could do this based on a list of pages? -- 202.49.72.36 ( talk) 21:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
When I view edits in preview, they have no styling. I assume this is because I'm editing on a different wiki (although the wiki is using the Vector theme, I would've expected that to at least work). Is there a way to give the preview window some styling? (Or at the very least, have a default style associated if none can be loaded) – ultradude25 ( T| C) at 19:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Ever since I upgraded to SVN 7906, for every edit I try to save, I get the "Restarting in xx" message. Anyone else having a similar issue? GoingBatty ( talk) 01:29, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to whoever, however, fixed the nasty pitfall that gave me grief any number of times when editing large articles (more than about 3,000 or 5,000 words). AWB would go off and spin for 30 seconds to 30 minutes or more when I would do anything to bring its attention to the edit window, such as clicking in the difference window, typing in the edit window or clicking on the "Find" button. I once waited over a half an hour for it to recover so I could save the F&R rules—I had been testing a large bunch of newly developed (but not yet saved) F&R rules when I clicked in the edit window without looking to see how large the article was. SVN 7910 seems to have fixed this nagging (and sometimes show-stopping) problem. I never saw anyone report this behavior, and I didn't report it, as I once discussed it with GoingBatty, who claimed it didn't affect him. I felt that I was the only one, or one of a very few, who encountered this problem. Happy New Year, and maybe Happy Valentine's Day, to whoever cleaned it up. Chris the speller yack 19:39, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Sadly, I have to reverse my report. I was deliriously happy for about a day, then AWB suddenly went back to its old sluggish ways, right in the middle of a run. I still wish New Year greetings for the crew who maintains AWB, but the 2-pound box of fudge won't be coming, at least for now. If anyone has ideas about how to avoid the Big Spin, I will be happy to try anything. Chris the speller yack 20:38, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, it looks like 2012 will be a good year after all. It turns out that the problem that has plagued me for 10 months is a conflict between AWB and the Speech Recognition program that comes built into Windows Vista Home Premium. Yesterday I apparently had some burp that caused Speech Recognition to crash, and that is what allowed AWB to run at normal speed; it just happened to be at the same time that I switched to SVN 7910, so I gave the credit to the AWB developers. I use Speech Recognition from time to time, so it is always fired up at Windows start up, usually turned off, sitting in the background somewhere. That doesn't prevent the problem; I have to exit Speech Recognition, and then AWB runs fine. Again, Happy New Year to the AWB developers, but I get to keep the fudge. Chris the speller yack 03:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
1st question: According to the user manual, the feature that skips pages that do or don't contain a given string of text can look for either of two strings using (string 1|string2)
. Is there a way to make this work with two strings that contain a pipe symbol within them, like if I wanted to skip pages that contained either of {{WikiProject A |class=List}} OR {{WikiProject B |class=List}}
?
2nd question: I see that I can already make the find/replace feature not case-sensitve, but can I also make it not space-sensitive, so it will treat {{WikiProject A|class=List}} AND {{WikiProject A |class=List}}
the same way?
Thanks for your help, — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 03:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+(Alabama|Alaska|Florida|etc)[ ]*\|[ ]*class[ ]*=[ ]*list[ ]*}}
{{\s*WikiProject $1|class=list}}
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+(Alabama|Alaska|Florida|etc)(.*?)class[ ]*=[ ]*(FA|FL|B|C|List|etc)(.*?)}}
{{\s*WikiProject $1$2class=$3$4}}
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+Toronto(.*?)importance[ ]*=[ ]*(Low|low|Mid|mid|High|high|Top|top)(.*?)}}
will look for any WikiProject Toronto banners that already have an importance rating. So I understand it better, in your line, what is the difference between \s and [ ]*, aren't they both looking for white spaces? What is the question mark adding to (.*?) that is not accomplished by (.*) alone? —
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs)
19:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Toronto|importance=High}}{{Another template here}}
.Why does AWB replace {{subst: → {{ ( example)? In the example and on the {{ Afdrescue}} documentation, the subst is within nowiki tags so that a user can copy and paste. This particular template should be subst'd and not transcluded. Flatscan ( talk) 05:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Does AWB automatically change from the Cite web template to the Cite book template if the domain name is books.google.com, as in this edit? If so, it shouldn't because not all content from that domain name is a book. Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I want to use AWB to help correct exit lists on road pages, but I don't even understand how to use the program. The User Manual is like Greek to me. Can someone help? Allen ( talk) 11:11, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Feedback at Wikipedia talk:Persondata#Diacritics, special characters regarding AWB general fixes would be appreciated. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:53, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone, just had a quick question: Is it generally advised to skip an article if only minor genfixes are made? Thanks, - down load ׀ talk 20:00, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Could I get some clarification on what will trigger the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters page logic. Does this logic work for non article pages such as talk pages, categories and the like or just main articles space. There are things on here that apply only to non article space that don't seem to be working. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:36, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
I want to use AWB on another wiki. I need to make copies of a whole bunch of different pages, with slight differences. For example, I have a bunch of pages named "XXX (Foo)", and I want to make a copy of each of them at "XXX (Bar)", at the same time replacing all instances of "Foo" actually on the page with "Bar" - in a sense, a find/replace that also includes the page title. I can figure out the find/replace for the page body - that's easy - what I can't work out is how to mass-copy all the pages. I don't want to move them (that's easy too =P) because I still need to retain the originals.
Help, anyone? Is it even possible? -- Belthazar451 ( talk) 10:42, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
I am also interested in this, but simply for moving/renaming pages, rather than copying them. No one answered my question either. 202.49.72.36 ( talk) 02:41, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there any reason why AWB (Ver 7916) does not save on Commons recently? Older version work. Snowman ( talk) 22:59, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
The AWB "preview" button shows a fairly basic preview without much formatting, but as recently as 14th January it did manage to show red links in red. Today all the links are showing blue, whether or not the target page exists. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour? I'm using AWB 5.3.1.0 and Windows 7. -- John of Reading ( talk) 17:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
When I about to delete an article, I have to choose from one of the WP:CSD reasons. But I use AWB for Wikia and the delete reasons are listed on MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown page.
Can I change the list of those reasons? I want to remove all the present items and add the new ones? Teyandee ( talk) 07:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a long list of users on the AWB users page that have been inactive for a long time. As we all know, things change rapidly in Wikipedia and what was common practice only a few months or weeks ago could be against the rules today. I recommend, especially for the bot list if no others, that we trim the list of AWB users to eremove those that haven't edited in the last year. Some haven't edited in 3-5 years and I think if they come back, which seems rather unlikely at this point, they should probably get their bearings first before they start doing mass edits again. One example is User:Blood Oath Bot which hasn't edited since sometime in 2008. I would note that some of them may be used on other Wiki's besides Wikipedia and IMO, if this is the case, we should mark them appropriately. Perhaps in a separate section or page. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:09, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this might be a dumb question but how can I include redirects into the results of the database scanner? I can't find such an option. — Ark25 ( talk) 09:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
The Persondata template has been listed for deletion or modification at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 30#Template:Persondata. As an application that would need to be modified if the template is deleted or modifed I am leaving this notice. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:32, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there an program I could use (I've heard people use AWB for editing Wikipedia (possibly other sister projects)) that could give me a list of articles which use the prefixes:
?
(You'll see that on my user page I mention that these "prefixes" usually are used to indicate some sort of pov (usually, these words are added by inexperienced editors.).)
I've resorted to using CTRL+F to find these words on articles, but is there a program that can do this for me when I click on "Random article"? Curb Chain ( talk) 03:11, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
\b(fam|great|well|know|best)\w*\b(?<!\b(family|families)\b)
. Someone there may be able to find a browser add-on for you - you'll need to tell them which browser you use.Greetings everyone. I made a list of some talk pages using AutoWikiBrowser, and i need to know how to exclude the non blank pages from the list, or extract the completely blank pages from the list. How can i do this please?-- M.Gedawy Talk 01:19, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed the memory usage of AWB has doubled since December. I've got two AWBs running all the time. The one that deals with talk pages is running around 120M while the one that deals with articles is running around 260M. It also coincided with me getting a new laptop and going from Vista to 7. So, I don't know if it is me hallucinating, AWB or the windows update. (If it is hallucinations, why can't I also stop hallucinating that I'm married?) Has anybody else seen this or is it an OS issue? Bgwhite ( talk) 07:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to set the edit comment when used in a non-English wiki? An AWB user in huwiki states he cannot do it because summaries are wired in code. Bináris ( talk) 08:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Here you find some: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9sei/B.Zsoltbot Bináris ( talk) 14:42, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, and "replaced"? Bináris ( talk) 09:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
For reference please see: Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Kumi-Taskbot_and_collapse_parameters. I'm crossing this over to here because Kumioko ( talk · contribs)'s AWB abuse is also done without bot privileges Kumi-Taskbot ( talk · contribs). I recently posted this on the bot owners noticeboard:
I won't even bother pointing out how many edits are made that don't match the edit summary. Oftentimes it's nothing more than white space or template positioning. Brad ( talk) 19:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has AWB's "Google search" stopped working? -- John of Reading ( talk) 20:37, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
rev 7962 Reedy: Killing Yahoo plugin, service was apparently shut down in April 2011. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Please revoke AWB access for Kumioko and Kumi-Taskbot. All tasks related to the bot have been revoked, which negates need for AWB and I no longer feel inclinded to use the software or perform any but the most sporadic and trivial of tasks. If an when I need access to the software again I will rerequest access. I have already deleted all code, both completed and uncompleted (such as the roughly 3200 line module I wrote to auto add Infoboxes (only person, military person and Politician though). These tasks are not needed or desired by the community and at a roughly 1 in 250 article error rate (which I was working on reducing before using) the chance of making a mistake is too high for community approval or interest. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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I was using this username User:Ramajois but I usurped to User:Shriram and I cannot login with my current username. Can the right be transferred or something to what I'm using now or should I have to place a new request? Shriram ( talk) 21:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to determine which articles do not have a Category:Musical groups by year of establishment. I've copied the 143 children of this category to User:Argolin/sandboxAWB1. The musical group articles list is at User:Argolin/sandboxAWB. When I use the List comparer, it places all "categories on page" in list 1 into results. "Links on page" in list 2 the same. What am I doing wrong? I'm using ver 5.3.1.1. and am brand new to AWB. Thanks Argolin ( talk) 10:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
How to create a list that has outgoing links, say from a template, to Redirect pages? (The alternate is available: skip redirects). - DePiep ( talk) 10:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I want to explore main page but editing it's talk page at the same? How can I do?-- 221.11.26.238 ( talk) 11:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
In my AWB app, Auto Save Edit Box (Which is an option in preferences>>Editing and Saving>>) is not working. I've set 30 seconds and a filename, so that it should save changes to the file (on local host). But it is not creating the file at first place. And if I create the file manually even then it is not writing to the file the contents of edit-box. Please solve this problem of mine. - Hemant wikikosh ( talk) 20:31, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just downloaded AWB (v5.3.1.0) for the first time. I'm using WinXP on a 10.5" netbook (Lenovo S10-2) at 1024x600, and I can't see the bottom of the interface in its window, either maximised, or by moving the window around so that the bottom of it is in the middle of my screen. I can't find a reference to this in these pages. Before I raise a bug, is this a known issue, perhaps with a work-around? I've put a screenshot at http://twitpic.com/8mfz6c - the edge of the window is blue, the desktop dark grey. Note how the "find" box is unviewable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a lot of pages that need to be moved into a namespace for organization purposes, how would i go about using AWB to rename so that it goes from the being called (ex. "pagename" to "player:pagename" ) I am renaming pages on a custom wiki I run for about 1,500 people. Thanks -- Darkskynet ( talk) 01:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to use a bot to search through and replace the hundreds of links to a page on my personal wiki, let's call it [[Color]] and most of the links to it are piped with an alternate text such as [[Color|Color +33]] and I've gotten a ReGex search that finds it correctly as \[\[Color\|Color \+\b[0-9]{2}\b\]\] but I can't seem to figure out what to put in the replace with box to get a result of {{Color|33}}. any help would be appreciated. -- Technical 13 ( talk) 03:44, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Am I just over analyzing this (although I would like to understand how ReGex works better)? Can I just have it search [[Color|Color %%key%%]] and replace it with {{Color|%%key%%}}? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 13:11, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a large group of C:pages similar to ( 'Charisma +1 items' on DDOwiki) that I would like AWB to read the C:Page, visit each one of the pages in that C:, pull the information from the templated section that starts with |enhancements=, and create a list on the C: page that looks like '''<Name of page>''': <List of enhancements>. One that I manually populated is located at 'Wisdom -1 items'(There are three pages that don't belong in that C: I still need to figure out. Ignore them.). Can I do this with AWB? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 18:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I've also noticed that AWB slows way down (from like 340 pages per minute to 25-30 pages per minute) the more items that are on the log tab, and clicking clear log almost instaneously speeds it back up. Is there any place to disable all logging functions or even just that log tab? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Why does Does not bind(.*?) only find Does not bind and not Does not bind on Acquire with " on Acquire" stored in $1? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:31, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I may add some more to the list and just update the time if there is not yet a response. -- Technical 13 ( talk) 05:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Technical 13 ( talk) 06:23, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Could anyone remove the gap between the list and the title, as displayed below.
The following versions are enabled:
4.6.2.0 enabled 5.3.1.0 enabled 5.3.1.1 enabled (svn) ~ ⇒TomTom N00 @ 22:11, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
How do I set AWB to run in automatic mode (not having to click "save" for each edit)? — danhash ( talk) 15:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please explain what the files Log.txt and profiling.txt are for? I see they are not part of the SVN snapshot. Although I have Options > Preferences set so that logging is not enabled, these two files are updated every time I use AWB. My Log.txt is over 2 MB, and my profiling.txt is over 100 MB. What would happen if I deleted these two files? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
What is advertised as 8047 actually displays 8046 in "Menu" → "Help" → "About" and in edit summaries. This does not appear to be serious. Chris the speller yack 04:23, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I just had a custom namespace added to the wiki I'm a sysop of and there are 2K+ pages that need to get moved there. Does AWB have a function to move pages and prepend "NewNS:" to the current Page Name? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:03, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone, since yesterday evening I've been experiencing a problem where every time I try to save a page AWB doesn't save the page and its status changes to "Restarting in x seconds." As such I have been unable to make any edits through AWB. I have tried restarting the application, logging off my account (Windows 7), and changing my AWB list. Any solutions? Thanks in advance, - down load ׀ talk 18:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to utilize either magic words (like {{BASEPAGENAME}}) or wildcards with AWB? I use it on a wikia wiki with lots of galleries on subpages, and most of the galleries are currently categorized according to the gallery name. For instance, [[ABC/Gallery]] is categorized under [[:Category:ABC images]], [[YXZ/Gallery]] under [[:Category:YXZ images]], and so on. Community consensus is that those categories need to go, and AWB should be the easiest way to do it. If I can get it to accept a magic word (to remove [[:Category:{{BASEPAGENAME}} images]]), or a wildcard (so it will remove any category from a given subset of pages which has the word "images" in it), which I haven't figured out how to do. -- Tulipclaymore ( talk) 15:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm from Chinese Wikipedia, and my AWB auto generated edit summary like "clean up, assist by AutoWikiBrowser (8046)". (Original text is Chinese, I translated yet.) Now is there any way to let it generate "clean up ( AWB)"? It seems more succinct. Thanks!-- 铁铁的火大了 ( talk) 12:34, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Some notes: "assist by AWB" is part of the code and I can fix it if you want. I added the specific Chinese version with the help of a Chinese editor last year in Wikimania. The "(8046)" part is better not to be removed. IT exists in all snapshots so we can control the presence of bugs in each version. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
This shouldn't affect most of you, but AWB's search/replace logic for "in-template" check has been revised to address this issue in r8062. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:45, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
On many edits, ones where it takes me a few seconds to look through the changes to check they're OK, when I click "Save" I get an error message at the bottom of the window saying "Underlying connection closed ..." and then it restarts in X seconds. How can I get this to stop? Thanks. DrKiernan ( talk) 11:25, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Can this tool be used to scan an article to see if a certain editor has ever edited it? And if he has would it show which edits were his? Is it possible to use this tool to enter a username or an IP, or a combination of both to see which articles they overlap on? Darkness Shines ( talk) 16:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Which part of AWB is making these changes? Describing them as fixes seems to be going a bit far. Kanguole 00:21, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I want to replace:
{{SpamBot|[[User:Technical 13|ShoeMaker]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 01:55, April 17, 2012 (AST)|AWB=1}} simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post
The first-line is a template I used in a first pass to place them all in a " Marked as spam" category. The format of this template is {{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=(options)}}. If "AWB" exists, it is set to (0|m|man|manual) for using AWB in manual-mode or (1|a|auto|automatic|b|bot) for using AWB in bot-mode. The template can be seen here and an example of the output on a page can be seen here.
With:
{{SpamBot|$1|AWB=$2}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D
What's missing from my ReGex search: {{SpamBot\|(.*)\|?AWB\=(.*)}}\n\n(.*)?
{{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=1}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D{{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=1}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D
The template {{ expand}} is deprecated, however is still cited in the manual text. It is actually being considered for deletion at TfD. Should the manual be changed to accommodate this?-- Michaelzeng7 ( talk - contribs) 00:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to scan Category:Molecular Biology (recurse 1 level) to find See Also sections that are out of place. I already applied general fixes to all pages in that giant list, (which included auto-correction of several out-of-place See Also sections) but I'm rescanning to fix the ones that only show up as Alerts. I'd like to exclude any pages that don't display any Alerts. Under the Skip tag, I've selected "Page in Use", "Edit Blocked by Spam Filter", and of course "No alerts". I then selected Pre-parsed Mode and hit Start. Instead of removing a good portion of the pages, it kept leaving a bunch of pages in green for me to manually go through. Yet when I stopped and then went through those green pages myself without being in Pre-parsed Mode, it skipped almost all of them. I'd like to make it automatically remove pages from the list that don't generate alerts, but it only seems to work correctly when I'm not in Pre-Parsed Mode. I have restarted AWB and reloaded my settings and re-generated the list, to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Jesse V. ( talk) 17:30, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Anyone have any ideas? Jesse V. ( talk) 20:40, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Well in general, is there any way to hunt down articles that have out-out-place See Also sections? I'm rather new to AWB but I've been trying to find tasks to do, but I'm still trying to figure out how things work. Jesse V. ( talk) 01:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Just a heads up but it looks like the change talked about in this thread will affect AWB too if I understand the bug report. Here is a link Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#IRC bot operators - heads up. Kumioko ( talk) 18:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Why does AWB have to add the messy "& nbsp ;" before page numbers and measurement units? It makes wading though the wikitext that little bit harder for us humans. Can we tell AWB to stop doing it?? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 04:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
{{ Portalbox}} is a redir to {{tl:Portal}}. It is used on about 8000 pages. I feel that is is worthwhile removing the redir and use {{tl:Portal}} since it is protected. Can we add it to the list of minor fixes that AWB does? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:12, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Comment: It seems that the community agrees that some redirects should be bypassed. This is nice to remark. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:39, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
How can I separate the debug build from non-debug builds? Right now I need a non-debug one to save blank pages. Teyandee ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've downloaded Arabic Wikipedia database and i want to know how to exclude orphan pages using database scanner?-- M.Gedawy Talk 17:08, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I am using AWB with CSV Loader for uploading new words through a bot namely, TamilBOT (toolserverinfo) I am one of the sysop in ta.wiktionary.we are having few rules for the English headers. One of the rule is, the first letter of a new header word should not be in upper case.But when i am trying to upload, AWB converts all the uploading English new headers's first letter into upper case automatically. How can, i upload new words with out this automatic upper case conversion problem?-- தகவலுழவன் ( talk) 18:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
AWB writes the input/output file, and after the external process is complete and AWB has read the file back in, it deletes it.
Is there any way to make AWB not delete the file?
If so, what is it? The Transhumanist 17:05, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
(Windows7)
Is there any way to pass commands through the external processing feature?
Such as using the & or &&, | or > or >> operators after the argument?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 17:10, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
OS. Ubuntu 11.04 Trying to install with Wine but can not since Wine is not recognizing AWB as .exe file (have not faced such problem for any other Windows file eg. IE, MS Paint etc). Please add a {{tb}} in my talk page if anyone replies! -- Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 04:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
On the start panel (where I log in to AWB), I am using the find box. I want to use REGEX to find instances of [[1 or [[2 but REGEX objects that I have an unterminated [] set. Any idea how to do this? Hmains ( talk) 16:46, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
How could I find pages that contain some words, for example "one" and "two" using Wiki Database Scanner? What should I type to "Text" > "Contains"? Separating words with commas doesn't work. 21:06, 28 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.27.226.177 ( talk)
\b(one|two)\b
to search for articles containing the word "one" and/or the word "two". --
John of Reading (
talk)
21:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs contains about 2,400 articles. I had a try at manually fixing invalid ISBN numbers. It is reeeal painful!! Can a script be written that does the following:
The AWB operator can then see if it is a simple typo or a completely different ISBN. If the ISBN search gives robust results it could be saved without the need to double check. Is this feasible? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 02:13, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
UPDATE: it is now 5,240 article! heeelp.... -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
And here is another ISBN related task. Often citation needed a book is added between bare <ref></ref> tags rather than using {{ cite book}}. There are many advantages in using citation templates and I want to convert the bare refs into {{ cite book}} refs. Can this be done:
One tricky aspect is page numbers. They are often all over the shop. Some manual input may be needed for them.
Is this task feasible at least in part? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 07:30, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
This tool has been used several times on the Christian hip hop article. There is an artist named KJ-52. The tool correctly leaves the linked name alone but changes the one that is not linked to read "kJ-52". Is there any way to exclude that article or to warn editors who use the tool? -- Walter Görlitz ( talk) 18:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
In the "get started" section you forgot to write that users need to extract it from the zip file, else it is likely not to work.-- Deathlaser : Chat 13:37, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please advise here? Alan Liefting has started making large-scale changes to animal rights pages and categories, using HotCat and AWB. I have asked him to stop to discuss and explain, but he has continued and will not explain what he is doing. See discussion here.
Can he be required to stop using AWB without discussing his changes in advance (once challenged)? Cleaning up, if it's required, will be a lot of work because of the speed at which he is making the edits. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:41, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I recently made a feature request and realized there are still requests from early April. As the title of this section says, when do they get looked at? Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
There are several items in both the Bugs and Feature requests pages that I think could be archived. There are several tasks that have been completed, were denied, etc. and these pages are getting rather large and untimely to load. Would anyone have a problem with me moving some of these things into the archive pages? Kumioko ( talk) 16:11, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way to get AWB to make a sound when 'ready to save' appears on the screen? As things are, with processing typically so slow, I would like to turn my eyes and attention to something else when waiting for the 'ready to save' message to appear, but I also want to be alerted so I can get right back to working in AWB when the message does appear. Windows XP. Thanks Hmains ( talk) 16:38, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to use AWB on a custom site ( UOGuide) running MediaWiki 1.16.0 and I keep getting an error.
An error occured while connecting to the server or loading project information from it. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exist. Enter the URL in the format "en.wikipedia.org/w/" (including path where index.php and api.php reside). Error description: Unexpected XML declaration. The XML declaration must be the first node in the document, and no white space characters are allowed to appear before it. Line 2, position 3.
The API is present, but I can't seem to locate the issue. -- Alianin ( talk) 12:28, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I want to use General Fixes as a service to editors, but only if there are also custom changes that I making. On the skip panel, I mark the skip if 'only genfixes' box, but I am still presented with changes such as removing the blank space in 'xxx ]]'. Same problem when I also or only check the skip if 'only cosmetic changes are made' box. Since making AWB edits with only general fixes or with only cosmetic changes seems to outrage a certain group of WP editors and leads to sactions against the offending editors, it seems to me that this feature of AWB must be absolutely correct in its operation. Is there some other box I need to check or something else I need to do? Is this a known AWB flaw? Hmains ( talk) 23:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I am working with another Mediawiki project(v1.17.0), I have downloaded the release version AWB from here and changed the site preference to our MediaWiki address. The problem that even though I have entered my account information and AWB says I am logged in and I am able to make list but everything else seem "disabled", particularly the edit box, am I missing some step or there is some kind of problem, thanks.-- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 02:14, 20 May 2012 (UTC) Sorry, solved. -- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 02:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
How do I switch two paramerts in template, for example:
{{Temlpate name | param1 = value1 | param2 = value2 }}
I want to change to:
{{Temlpate name new | param2 = value2 | param1 = value1 }}
My intution was to Search for:
{{Temlpate name\n\|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*?)\n\|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*?)\n}}
Replacing it with:
{{Temlpate name new | param2 = $2 | param1 = $1 }}
The problem that it doesnt work, anythoughts on how I can achive that and sorry if it seems like a silly question to you, I just started to learn the roopes.-- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 06:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Additional problem, I have setup this rule:
If not contains: <!-- language interwikis --> Find: (\[\[..:.*\]\]) Replace: <!-- language interwikis --> $1
My intention is to place the comment once before the language interwiki links, however, even though I have set it up to run only when the comment doesnt doesnt exsit in the text and the Apply number of times = 1, AWB adds this before every language interwiki link, any idea why? -- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 08:15, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Assuming those are the only 2 parameters you could try something like this:
Find: {{\s*(Template)[ ]*\|(.*?)\|[ ]*param2(.*?)\s*([\|}{<\n]) Replace: {{$1|param2$3|$2$4
Kumioko ( talk) 15:11, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks guys, it seems that the AWB REGEX behaviour is little different then the one in the
online site posted here. Removing the ? works as well, even though it breaks on the site. But what solved the problems was placing everything in single line(rookie mistake?), this works:
{{Temlpate name\n\|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*)\n\|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*)\n}}
While this doesn't:
{{Temlpate name\n \|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*)\n \|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*)\n }}
Is there away to make the second, more readable version to work?
@kwami, that solution seem rater weird, isnt there a simple way to replace only the first occarance of some expression in the text?
I have figured how todo both, using the custom modules, thank for your quick help here. Btw, does anyone know a good repository of custome modules or even better is the
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes module available somewhere to learn from? --
79.183.192.85 (
talk)
19:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Another problem I stumbled upon. How do I capture everything bettwen '=' and '|', not nessary on the same line? for example: ( I want all the text of ParamA)
| ParamA = [[text1]] | paramB = or: | ParamA = [[text1]] [[text2]] [[textN]] | paramB =
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.243.188 ( talk • contribs)
hello,
I want to remove "19XX", whereby "x" is a random number. How to do that with AWB? Thanks.-- GoP T C N 10:55, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
If I understand correctly, you want to remove any 4-digit number that begins with "19".
One of the general fixes is "Changes {{ No footnotes}} to {{ More footnotes}} if article has at least 1 inline citation." Per the question at my bot request, how does AWB tell the difference between explanatory footnotes and genuine citations? Does it look for references with citation templates, or all references? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
<ref>
tags. I think <ref group=...>
isn't counted but would need to check.
Rjwilmsi
14:06, 23 May 2012 (UTC)What is AWB for exactly, first I thought it was a text editor but now it doesn't look like it.-- Deathlaser : Chat 16:36, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
How do I register on none wikipidea Mediawiki project? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.176.215.30 ( talk) 09:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
In the bottom status bar, it says "Admin = Status and Bot = Status", so I assume that you need to have one of those permissions. I am not sure about the Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage page, we dont have such page on our mediawiki 1.17, does AWB just auto check for the page and thus simply creating it will be enough or additional steps are required to set it up. Can we get a clarification on this from the Dev's? Also without any of the above trying to save a page returns a "Edit token is needed to edit pages" WikiFunctions.API.ApiException. -- 79.176.215.30 ( talk) 09:02, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
When I try to use AWB on another wiki, I have to scroll through a list of wikis that I used to manage under Optionts→Preferences→Site, so I want the wiki I manage today to be the only one on the list. I couldn't find an option to tell AWB to forget old wikis, so I decided to just delete AWB and re-download it. However after re-extracting it, AWB still remembers the old websites (and also my login information). Where is this information being stored by AWB, and how do I remove it before re-downloading? — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 23:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
One of the general fixes on the en-wiki is to tag empty level-2 sections with {{ Empty section}}. Just curious - why wouldn't it be appropriate to tag all empty sections on the en-wiki? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 00:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
It would be good to get some effort put into sorting out the bug that randomly stops the keyboard shortcuts from working. Interestingly. Shift-Alt-S works when all methods of saving via the keyboard don't work. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 21:50, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed recently that |BLPO=
is showing as an invalid parameter of WikiProjectBannerShell. Has that template been deprecated or is this a bug I need to writeup for AWB?
Kumioko (
talk)
14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
In English, it is quite short(using AWB (8046)). However, the edit summary in Chinese so long that it often can't be fully included(due to the length restriction). The problem appears only in new versions. Do you know who can change it?-- Makecat Talk 03:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
I look at the login info, and it shows the number of characters in the password for the account I set up to use for AWB.
Is there some way (some file?) to get the password? (I've forgotten it and am grasping at straws : ) - jc37 00:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
The saved password is stored in an encrypted form in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AutoWikiBrowser\Profiles). You might be able to recover the password by downloading the source code, creating a debug build, and running the program under a debugger. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:06, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Incidentally, I think that a feature that should be added is one I have seen in other software: When editing the login screen, there could be a checkbox to "show hidden text" to show the hidden password.
How might this be suggested to the developers of AWB? - jc37 15:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed that AWB is very helpful in filling out persondata parameters; however, it oftentimes includes the brackets around the places. Is this appropriate or should it be modified to exclude the brackets? Ryan Vesey Review me! 22:42, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm using TypoScan and sometimes TypoScan gets it wrong, so I change it manually to the right change. However the edit summary shows the wrong thing. Is there any way I can manually change the entire edit summary (i.e. the stuff added to the end of it by AWB)? ··gracefool ☺ 17:33, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
As per this edit [4]. This is the third time I had to replace them. Is there some way to get AWB to stop doing this? Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 04:51, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I've reimaged my hard drive, reinstalled the latest AVN, copies my profiles back, and started up AWB with my bot account. After it skips a bunch of pages, I get an error stating: "The process cannot access the file 'C:\xxxx\profiling.txt' because it is being used by another process." I'm only running one instance of AWB, so I don't know what else could be using it. I've tried deleting profiling.txt and rebooting, and I get the same error. I don't seem to get the error using my regular account. Any ideas? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:56, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
hello,
if I want to replace
with
,whereby "x" means anything, how do you do that? I wrote
but it does not work. Regards.-- GoP T C N 16:10, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Match
<ref\s*name[^>]*>
Mr Stephen ( talk) 20:28, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
\<ref name=(.*?)\>
I would not search for quotes, since they are not always required. Ensure regex is checked. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
13:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
After I finish AWB work on an article/category, I sometimes later find that there is a bad category in the article/category text. Either a category did not exist before I worked on article/text or I made a mistake that resulted in use of a category that does not exist. In either case, I don't see where AWB is telling me about this problem. I would expect to see this info in the Alerts box. Am I missing something? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 16:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
When going through pages, it comes up with an alert, for example "Dead Links Found". Are you supposed to do anything with these alerts?-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 23:26, 8 July 2012 (UTC) And also, is something to be done with topics that come up in the "Multiple Wiki-Links" section?-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 23:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to do a "if this text is on the page, append/prepend this."? I can append/prepend to a list of set pages but all the pages may not have it on. Rcsprinter (rap) @ 19:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I've got an article that uses the EM markup command to emphasize a word. That approach (vs using italics) is recommended by Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Emphasis. The AWB tool, apparently, changes the <em> to '' italics. I've had to undo that change twice. I appreciate AWB, and think it is a fine tool, but on this issue: either the MOS should be changed to state that "em" markup is not recommended; or the AWB should just leave the "em"s alone. -- Noleander ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a question on AWB adding persondata to animals over at Wikipedia_talk:Persondata#People only?. Could a developer answer it? Bgwhite ( talk)
I have noticed quite a few false positives in regards to AWB stating a field is an invalid parameter but the template has the field. In this case I looked at Cite web. As far as I can tell the following fields are all valid in the Cite web template but are not in the logic of valid fields in AWB. Does anyone have any comments about adding them before I write this up as a bug request? Here is the list: arxiv, bibcode, doibroken, isbn, jfm, lccn, mr, oclc, ol, osti, page, pmc, pmid, rfc, ssrn, zbl Thanks again for the help. Kumioko ( talk) 13:36, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
I see information about the Logs tab at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual#Logs, but I don't see information on the Page Logs tab. The screen shots show it labelled "Article Logs" instead. Can anyone provide info on this tab, so we can update the manual? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please define what changes are excluded when the "Only cosmetic changes are made" box is checked? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
My installation of AWB indicates that the compiler is C#2.0 Where does this limitation come from? Is it AWB or some peculiarity of my PC?
Modern constructs like initialising a dictionary don't work. I am intending to update a hundred-odd articles, and a dictionary is the easy way to go. I can Add all the key-value pairs, but it's a bit of a pain. Mr Stephen ( talk) 22:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
to {{PAGENAME:}}
I just reported this as an AWB bug and turned off my use of General Fixes, But I want to use General Fixes, so is there some option of General Fixes on the AWB panels that I can turn off to avoid the above change and still get the rest of the General Fixes changes? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 17:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME:}}
back to {{PAGENAME}}
. Since Rjwilmsi has fixed so many bugs over the last few days, I hope Reedy will publish a new SVN soon.
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:09, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
I've just upgraded to 5.3.1.1 SVN 8097. At the top of the diff panel, there's the text "Double click on a..." and then "Current text / Your text". Between them, they waste one quarter of the height of the diff panel on my laptop. Any ideas for removing/shrinking either of them? -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:10, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
(More) It seems they both disappear after you've made 10 edits, and then re-appear when you restart the program. I'm sure I'll get used to it... -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm a Chinese wikipedia user and I find that sometimes AWB changed Chinese language brackets "(...)" ASCII=65288 and 65289 to English's "(...)" ASCII=40 and 41, just like this edit. In MoS of zhwp, we usually do not use English brackets except dab lks. So is there any way to stopping AWB do that? Thanks!-- 铁铁的火大了 ( talk) 08:18, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
A discussion about this took place in May 2012 (now in Archive 24). Some users, including myself, could not get the "flash" or "beep" to work. I ma happy to announce that it now works for me. Maybe SVN 8097 or another recent release fixed it. Chris the speller yack 23:48, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at the Village Pump about the auto-tagging of stubs with "wikify", and a couple of semi-related issues. Your input would be appreciated. DoctorKubla ( talk) 07:37, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I just got a complaint on my user page for tagging an "op. cit." through AWB with Template:Ibid. Looking at WP:IBID, the user has a point; WP:IBID is only a guideline to begin with, and much more wishy-washy on op. cit. than it is on "ibid." Just thought I'd pass the concern along. Cheers, Khazar2 ( talk) 03:08, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This is about the new diffs as seen in the most recent snapshot, SVN 8097 (although I think the change was actually made about two months ago).
The issue with this now is that long strings appear truncated in the diff. If this can't be easily fixed, I think the benefit of unstretched diffs outweighs the occasional truncation inconvenience. (Is this related to IE? I never use it; my version is 8.)
Up to SVN 8097, if "add replacements to edit summary" was checked, details of the replacements would be added to the edit summary, but would then be removed from the edit summary if any manual changes were made in the edit box. With SVN 8207, the replacement details stay in the edit summary even after making manual edits. This results in misleading and confusing edit summaries. I feel this so serious that I am compelled to reinstall the earlier SVN 8097 until this is ironed out. Chris the speller yack 02:05, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am using my bot to edit on my two wikias, it has admin rights on both those sites. But the button on the toolbar to delete a page is unclickable.
How do I delete pages as a bot, I want to delete pages that have the template to delete on them.
Thank you so much, Wilc0NL ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Does delete work in admin non-bot status? I think we disable delte for bot status and we don't have a feature for admin bot to prevent mass deletion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
How do I set AWB to search through and edit the wiki that I want it to? I edit Nukapedia, and I would like to use this bot to assist. If possible, could you respond to me via my linked talk page? If not, then this talk page will suffice. Thanks!
- Tocinoman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.32.206.46 ( talk) 09:58, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to get AWB to recognise that a link to a redirect to a disambiguation page needs disambiguation? For example Particulates is a disambiguation page and AWB deals fine with links to that. However, if you examine Special:WhatLinksHere/Particulates you can see that almost all the links to this page are via redirects. However, when using AWB to try and fix these, it does not recognise that they need to be disambiguated. I can't find any solution to this - is there one or am I back to manually dealing with these?-- NHSavage ( talk) 08:48, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
There was a previous discussion Archive 22#Find and replace: Replace only once, which did not answer the question.
I want to surround some text patten in a page with double square brackets so that the text becomes a link to another article. But I do not want to do that for more than the first instance of the pattern in the page. Is it possible to do this with AWB and if so how?
-- PBS ( talk) 20:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I just downloaded AWB today, and I ran it a few times. However, when it stopped on a page that it showed needed an edit, I clicked "Save", but my watchlist (which has the page added to it) showed no changes. Is there some problem, or was there something else that I was supposed to do to have the edit actually performed? Also, I think that for the newcomers to AWB, there should be a basic English layout of how to actually use the program. I have looked at the user manual, but that did not make it clearer. Thank you for your help. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 23:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
i have tried running it on this one a few times now and it just says finished all pages but i know there is errors on this page so i dnt get why it is getting skipped as that what it says at the bottom of the screen.
I am using SVN 8207 but the same thing happens on the stable build to-- Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 19:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I have seen edits like this recently where commas are stripped from mdy dates when using AWB. Can a check be added to avoid that? -- Walter Görlitz ( talk) 00:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I have 434,000-some edits. I am trying to check on a mistake I made in some of them so I can fix it. I try to make a list with source User contributions. I specify no number; I get 22059 pages. I specify user defined number of 100,000; I get 22059 pages. Is there any way to obtain more of my edits? Thanks. Hmains ( talk) 02:55, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Just wondering if anyone knows how to change the default browser that AWB uses to open articles. My AWB has always defaulted to IE but I want to change it to Firefox and can't figure out how. Kumioko ( talk) 02:48, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Just trying out the edit summary improvements, and they look great so far. Thanks for your continual work to improve AWB! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:50, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I downloaded the latest version of AWB, the snapshot thing, and I've noticed that the diff looks very different than usual. It's not as colorful, and doesn't have the same blue-red-green color scheme that Wikipedia uses. I've also used STiki and there the color scheme looks normal. What's up with AWB? I liked the old color scheme but I can't figure out how to put it back! • Jesse V. (talk) 18:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I want to replace certain instances of {{
cite journal}}
and related templates with carefully-chosen sub-templates of {{
cite doi}}
and {{
cite pmid}}
.
So I need to be able to seek templates based on the value of particular parameters, and then replace the whole template with something based on that value: luckily it's a one-to-one correspondence, and only for set values, so not as complicated as it could be.
How do I go about doing this with AWB?
I have looked at the
Manual without finding much help there.
Anybody got any bright ideas?
TIA HAND —
Phil |
Talk
16:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite journal|author=Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al.|title=Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.|journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.|volume=99|issue= 26|pages= 16899–903|year= 2003|pmid= 12477932|doi= 10.1073/pnas.242603899|pmc=139241}}
{{
cite doi|10.1073/pnas.242603899}}
{{
cite journal}}
will be present, or in what order: the vital one is usually doi
although pmid
might step in when necessary. I suppose it might be possible to construct a sufficiently knarly regex but I'm somewhat out of my depth right now. There's quite a few which I have to do by hand anyway, but being able to get AWB to automate any or it would ease the strain. Thanks for the help. —
Phil |
Talk
20:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Following some discussion last December, there seemed to be consensus that AWB should not be adding non-breaking spaces before unabbreviated units. See:
for the rationale and the fix applied. It seems that it is still inserting these non-breaking spaces and as Mogism points out, it remains one of the vanilla settings, according to the documentation. Did something change since December last, or did the fix not work? -- RexxS ( talk) 18:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
why not introduce a autodate so when a release build is made replacing the old one everyoner will be updated burt it doesnt update to svn solve this type of problem, Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 19:16, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at WP:VPP#Reframing the policy for having access to AWB that involves AWB. David 1217 What I've done 18:23, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for making sort keys case-insensitive! Up til now, I've been using a set of 26 regex replacements to take care of the situations I'm dealing with, so this will really help to simplify my settings.
All of the improvements to AWB are greatly appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:57, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm on a Mac. Could someone please take AWB to Birth control and see what it comes up with? I'm hoping you can move refs to the end of sentences in particular (there are a lot of them in the middle of sentences, which I think looks terrible and is against the style guide.) Any other improvements are also most welcome, especially eliminating redirects that look like they would clarify the text, unicodification, typo fixes, and general fixes. Thanks! — Cupco 23:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Mid-sentence refs are not "against the style guide". As a matter of fact, it specifically says they may be used, although it's "usually sufficient to add the citation to the end of the sentence or paragraph, so long as it's clear which source supports which part of the text." The MOS even includes an example. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:54, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I add a site to the site menu? I have tried to use custom but cannot get it to load properly when starting AWB. Tired saving settings and saving default settings. Still will not automatically load my site. Also Tried using the switches /s "settings.xml" /u "UserName" to no avail. Thx DHC DarkShadow ( talk) 16:04, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Is it just me or does the new update to AWB seem to be a bit slower than the old one. I don't want to seem like I am criticizing, just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. Kumioko ( talk) 01:09, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I've been using AWB for a while now. I was then notified I was using an old version - my edit summaries wouldn't list the version, just "updated with AWB," which meant I was using an old version.
I was given a link to download the new one here. I deleted my old version (simply deleted the folder to the recycle bin), and installed the first file on that link (AutoWikiBrowser5312_rev8323.zip). I saved it, and unzipped the file. I then double clicked the file to open it, and double clicked AutoWikiBrowser to run it.
When I went to click "save" to make my first edit on it, "Restarting in..." appeared on the bottom with a countdown. Based on the page, the number would change - sometimes "Restarting in 10" or "Restarting in 20" etc. It'd then go to 19, 18, 17, etc. When it reached 0, the page would just load again. I'm unable to save any edits.
NOTE: When I first opened it, it already knew my username and password... Which is weird, since I deleted the other folder. I also use Windows 7.
Can you please help out?
Thanks. -- Activism 1234 01:14, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser
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08:33, 4 September 2012 (UTC)I've exact the same problem (also Windows 7 (64-bit). regards -- Pitlane02 talk 14:25, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
When I try and preparse with a list of articles that are sorted reverse alphabetically, AWB forces the list back into alphabetical order when it hits a redirect. When it does this is also removes any articles that have been preparsed from the list. Has anyone else had this problem? Kumioko ( talk) 10:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I was using AWB today, and was having issues logging into my account on AWB. So, I tried to do the recommended step on AWB, which was to download a new version of AWB. However, the AutoUpdater did not find any new versions. So, after searching around for a while, I find that version 5.4 was released, so thus I downloaded it. However, when I try to open the .zip file for the download, I get "access denied." Is anyone else having similar issues? Steel1943 ( talk) 04:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Options -> Preference -> General tab -> Enable logging. Any more info on this? I was wondering if this was profiling.txt and if so where the file maybe found because it's not in the normal AWB folders. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 22:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Using AWB in certain cases, I wish to skip all disambiguation pages so as not to work on them. In the skip field, I tried to do this with |{{disambig}}|{{disambiguation}}| but that does not cover every disambiguation page. Noticing that every such page seems to have {{foodis}} where foo could be anything including multiple words such as {{xxx xxx xxxdis}}, I then tried to add |{{dis}}, but that syntax is ignored by skip. Any idea what works? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 20:28, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm getting the standard error stating: "The process cannot access the file 'C:\xxxx\profiling.txt' because it is being used by another process." I am running two AWBs at the same time. I used to get this every once in a great while. However, since updating to SVN8399 from SVN8348, I'm now getting it every five minutes. When it happens, it skips the next article in the queue. It is driving me crazy. Was the problem introduced in the recent update? Something else? Bgwhite ( talk) 22:48, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to skip a page without any alerts (other than Multiple wiki-links) only if there are also no genfixes? For example, is it possible to make AWB to stop on a page where there are typos where there are no alerts? Inks.LWC ( talk) 07:08, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Where are the default settings saved? I would like to back up the file in case my computer explodes or something. Thanks, ~ Bobogoobo ( talk) 21:17, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\AutoWikiBrowser\Default.xml
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C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser
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22:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC)As it was discussed here current version of AWB does not work properly under 64-bit Windows 7. The problem is that under that operation system GUI is quite distorted, many key buttons and sliders are missing and many GUI text is truncated or unreadable. See this image and the image annotations for some examples. Does anybody know if there is a separate x64 Windows 7 version available somewhere? Or is there some way to correct the problem? -- Jarekt ( talk) 16:31, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Can we please turn off the logic to tag articles with Wikify now that the template is deprecated? I know that we are waiting to get some refined criteria of what to tag these articles with but in the mean time its continuing to add these tags and either adding them against the current desire to deprecate its use or requiring it to be manually removed from the edit. Kumioko ( talk) 16:32, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB continues to show the Wikify was added in the description eventhough that edit was not performed. As you can see by this edit I manually removed the addition of the Wikify tag but AWB continued to show this in the edit summary giving the impression to the viewer that edit was performed when it actually wasn't. Kumioko ( talk) 22:03, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you edit the edit summary for portions that AWB adds to the Default summary. For instance, if you go to an article that AWB thinks needs a {{wikify}} tag, but you do not put the tag on the page, how do you change the edit summary to not say "added wikify tag" after whatever you have selected as the default summary? Inks.LWC ( talk) 20:56, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know who wrote the NoLimits plugin, or how it works? There is a concern that its use will 'tax the system' and cause Wikipedia performance issues. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 00:47, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I use AWB to make new categories? For example, I just started the new category Category:Future-Class Wyoming road transport articles using the following code: {{AbQ|topic=Wyoming road transport|project=U.S. Roads/Wyoming}} [[Category:Wyoming road transport articles by quality]] [[Category:Future-Class articles|Wyoming road transport articles]]. How can I do this with AWB? Also, how do I add these new categories to my watchlist? Thank you. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 00:36, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I can't access preferences right now to switch the site I'm using it on. It's giving me an error message:
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System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.String WikiFunctions.Variables.get_Protocol()'. at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.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) | ||||||
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.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3603 | ||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.4.0.0), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.0), revision 7792 (2011-07-23 16:53:25) | ||||||
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AWB incorrectly added persondata here. Not sure if this is an AWB bug or an error on the page, so I'm asking here first. This happened with the 5.3.1.0 release, but I just tried it again with 5.3.1.1 SVN 7794 and it would have done the same thing.— Chowbok ☠ 06:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if this is possible but I thought I would ask. I would like to use the database scanner in AWB to generate a list of articles that contain parmeters in a given list. For example if the parameter does not equal (class|importance|etc|etc1|etc2). Does anyone know if that is possible and maybe how to do that? Basically I want to see what parameters are being used for articles in WikiProject United States so that I can fix any that aren't valid. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering whether it is possible with AWB to search for for certain texts in all pages of one category and then export the results in a list. For example. I would like to have a list of all Philippine municipalities and their coordinates as listed on the Italian Wikipedia. These coordinates can be found in the template at the beginning of each article, for example for it:San Jose (Romblon):
|latitudineGradi =12
|latitudinePrimi =3
|latitudineSecondi =45
|latitudineNS =N
|longitudineGradi =121
|longitudinePrimi =57
|longitudineSecondi =33
|longitudineEW =E
would be exported in the list as:
San Jose (romblon), 12, 3, 45, N, 121, 57, 33, E
Hope this makes sense? Magalhães ( talk) 20:05, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been using this for a few months now, but recently started to experience crashes. I use this as a bot to correct special characters and fix typos at Assassin's Creed Wiki (wikia), however it freezes after skipping 2000 or so pages leaving a few more pages unscanned. Does anyone know why this happens? Thank you.. -- 117.192.111.60 ( talk) 18:35, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
A few weeks back, there was a discussion of the idea that names that begin with "Mc" should be alphabetized as they are spelled, not as if they began with "Mac" (example: "John McCain" should not be alphabetized as "Maccain, John"). See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 23#Alphabetizing "Mc" as "Mac". There seemed to be a consensus that they should be alphabetized as they are spelled. Is there a bot that can change all the existing DEFAULTSORTs to fix this situation? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:55, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that the Feature request page was getting quite lengthy and though I would review my own submissions to see if there were some that could be archived now. Below are a list of Feature request sections that I think can be archived. All of the below appear to be completed, were denied, were withdrawn or have been overcome by events (such as the Template redirect/Parameter rename pages). My first impulse was just to archive them myself but since I am not one of the developers I didn't think it was my place to do so without adding a comment here first. If everyone concurs and knowone beats me to it I can do it in the next couple days.
I can't download from SourceForge due to sanctions against my country, and also can't follow the alternative link. :( Can anyone upload the software somewhere else? Thanks in advance. -- Z 06:20, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I couldn't find the whole list of keywords (like %%key%%). I only need a keyword that gives the number of pages that link to the current page. I guess it exists, as AWB sets sometimes the {{orphan}} template... I found 2 lists ( here in 4.4.1.0 and there), but are they complete and up-to-date? The keyword I expect (%%nblinks%% ??) is not there... Zetud ( talk) 19:14, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
I looked through the list of AWB Bugs and I think that these may have been resolved. I left some comments as to why I think this.
-- Kumioko ( talk) 17:02, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Revived from archive as there were no answers.
I am trying to use AWB for a private wiki running on mediawiki. We have a large number of pages (200-300 at least) that we want to move to different name spaces. This is easily achieved by simply Moving the page and putting "Namespace:" in front of the existing page name. Is there any way to accomplish this task with AWB? If not, does anyone know of any other extensions or bots that could do this based on a list of pages? -- 202.49.72.36 ( talk) 21:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
When I view edits in preview, they have no styling. I assume this is because I'm editing on a different wiki (although the wiki is using the Vector theme, I would've expected that to at least work). Is there a way to give the preview window some styling? (Or at the very least, have a default style associated if none can be loaded) – ultradude25 ( T| C) at 19:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Ever since I upgraded to SVN 7906, for every edit I try to save, I get the "Restarting in xx" message. Anyone else having a similar issue? GoingBatty ( talk) 01:29, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to whoever, however, fixed the nasty pitfall that gave me grief any number of times when editing large articles (more than about 3,000 or 5,000 words). AWB would go off and spin for 30 seconds to 30 minutes or more when I would do anything to bring its attention to the edit window, such as clicking in the difference window, typing in the edit window or clicking on the "Find" button. I once waited over a half an hour for it to recover so I could save the F&R rules—I had been testing a large bunch of newly developed (but not yet saved) F&R rules when I clicked in the edit window without looking to see how large the article was. SVN 7910 seems to have fixed this nagging (and sometimes show-stopping) problem. I never saw anyone report this behavior, and I didn't report it, as I once discussed it with GoingBatty, who claimed it didn't affect him. I felt that I was the only one, or one of a very few, who encountered this problem. Happy New Year, and maybe Happy Valentine's Day, to whoever cleaned it up. Chris the speller yack 19:39, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Sadly, I have to reverse my report. I was deliriously happy for about a day, then AWB suddenly went back to its old sluggish ways, right in the middle of a run. I still wish New Year greetings for the crew who maintains AWB, but the 2-pound box of fudge won't be coming, at least for now. If anyone has ideas about how to avoid the Big Spin, I will be happy to try anything. Chris the speller yack 20:38, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, it looks like 2012 will be a good year after all. It turns out that the problem that has plagued me for 10 months is a conflict between AWB and the Speech Recognition program that comes built into Windows Vista Home Premium. Yesterday I apparently had some burp that caused Speech Recognition to crash, and that is what allowed AWB to run at normal speed; it just happened to be at the same time that I switched to SVN 7910, so I gave the credit to the AWB developers. I use Speech Recognition from time to time, so it is always fired up at Windows start up, usually turned off, sitting in the background somewhere. That doesn't prevent the problem; I have to exit Speech Recognition, and then AWB runs fine. Again, Happy New Year to the AWB developers, but I get to keep the fudge. Chris the speller yack 03:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
1st question: According to the user manual, the feature that skips pages that do or don't contain a given string of text can look for either of two strings using (string 1|string2)
. Is there a way to make this work with two strings that contain a pipe symbol within them, like if I wanted to skip pages that contained either of {{WikiProject A |class=List}} OR {{WikiProject B |class=List}}
?
2nd question: I see that I can already make the find/replace feature not case-sensitve, but can I also make it not space-sensitive, so it will treat {{WikiProject A|class=List}} AND {{WikiProject A |class=List}}
the same way?
Thanks for your help, — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 03:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+(Alabama|Alaska|Florida|etc)[ ]*\|[ ]*class[ ]*=[ ]*list[ ]*}}
{{\s*WikiProject $1|class=list}}
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+(Alabama|Alaska|Florida|etc)(.*?)class[ ]*=[ ]*(FA|FL|B|C|List|etc)(.*?)}}
{{\s*WikiProject $1$2class=$3$4}}
{{\s*WikiProject[ _]+Toronto(.*?)importance[ ]*=[ ]*(Low|low|Mid|mid|High|high|Top|top)(.*?)}}
will look for any WikiProject Toronto banners that already have an importance rating. So I understand it better, in your line, what is the difference between \s and [ ]*, aren't they both looking for white spaces? What is the question mark adding to (.*?) that is not accomplished by (.*) alone? —
Arctic Gnome (
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19:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Toronto|importance=High}}{{Another template here}}
.Why does AWB replace {{subst: → {{ ( example)? In the example and on the {{ Afdrescue}} documentation, the subst is within nowiki tags so that a user can copy and paste. This particular template should be subst'd and not transcluded. Flatscan ( talk) 05:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Does AWB automatically change from the Cite web template to the Cite book template if the domain name is books.google.com, as in this edit? If so, it shouldn't because not all content from that domain name is a book. Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I want to use AWB to help correct exit lists on road pages, but I don't even understand how to use the program. The User Manual is like Greek to me. Can someone help? Allen ( talk) 11:11, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Feedback at Wikipedia talk:Persondata#Diacritics, special characters regarding AWB general fixes would be appreciated. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:53, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone, just had a quick question: Is it generally advised to skip an article if only minor genfixes are made? Thanks, - down load ׀ talk 20:00, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Could I get some clarification on what will trigger the Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters page logic. Does this logic work for non article pages such as talk pages, categories and the like or just main articles space. There are things on here that apply only to non article space that don't seem to be working. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:36, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
I want to use AWB on another wiki. I need to make copies of a whole bunch of different pages, with slight differences. For example, I have a bunch of pages named "XXX (Foo)", and I want to make a copy of each of them at "XXX (Bar)", at the same time replacing all instances of "Foo" actually on the page with "Bar" - in a sense, a find/replace that also includes the page title. I can figure out the find/replace for the page body - that's easy - what I can't work out is how to mass-copy all the pages. I don't want to move them (that's easy too =P) because I still need to retain the originals.
Help, anyone? Is it even possible? -- Belthazar451 ( talk) 10:42, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
I am also interested in this, but simply for moving/renaming pages, rather than copying them. No one answered my question either. 202.49.72.36 ( talk) 02:41, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there any reason why AWB (Ver 7916) does not save on Commons recently? Older version work. Snowman ( talk) 22:59, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
The AWB "preview" button shows a fairly basic preview without much formatting, but as recently as 14th January it did manage to show red links in red. Today all the links are showing blue, whether or not the target page exists. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour? I'm using AWB 5.3.1.0 and Windows 7. -- John of Reading ( talk) 17:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
When I about to delete an article, I have to choose from one of the WP:CSD reasons. But I use AWB for Wikia and the delete reasons are listed on MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown page.
Can I change the list of those reasons? I want to remove all the present items and add the new ones? Teyandee ( talk) 07:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a long list of users on the AWB users page that have been inactive for a long time. As we all know, things change rapidly in Wikipedia and what was common practice only a few months or weeks ago could be against the rules today. I recommend, especially for the bot list if no others, that we trim the list of AWB users to eremove those that haven't edited in the last year. Some haven't edited in 3-5 years and I think if they come back, which seems rather unlikely at this point, they should probably get their bearings first before they start doing mass edits again. One example is User:Blood Oath Bot which hasn't edited since sometime in 2008. I would note that some of them may be used on other Wiki's besides Wikipedia and IMO, if this is the case, we should mark them appropriately. Perhaps in a separate section or page. -- Kumioko ( talk) 15:09, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this might be a dumb question but how can I include redirects into the results of the database scanner? I can't find such an option. — Ark25 ( talk) 09:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
The Persondata template has been listed for deletion or modification at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 30#Template:Persondata. As an application that would need to be modified if the template is deleted or modifed I am leaving this notice. -- Kumioko ( talk) 16:32, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Is there an program I could use (I've heard people use AWB for editing Wikipedia (possibly other sister projects)) that could give me a list of articles which use the prefixes:
?
(You'll see that on my user page I mention that these "prefixes" usually are used to indicate some sort of pov (usually, these words are added by inexperienced editors.).)
I've resorted to using CTRL+F to find these words on articles, but is there a program that can do this for me when I click on "Random article"? Curb Chain ( talk) 03:11, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
\b(fam|great|well|know|best)\w*\b(?<!\b(family|families)\b)
. Someone there may be able to find a browser add-on for you - you'll need to tell them which browser you use.Greetings everyone. I made a list of some talk pages using AutoWikiBrowser, and i need to know how to exclude the non blank pages from the list, or extract the completely blank pages from the list. How can i do this please?-- M.Gedawy Talk 01:19, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed the memory usage of AWB has doubled since December. I've got two AWBs running all the time. The one that deals with talk pages is running around 120M while the one that deals with articles is running around 260M. It also coincided with me getting a new laptop and going from Vista to 7. So, I don't know if it is me hallucinating, AWB or the windows update. (If it is hallucinations, why can't I also stop hallucinating that I'm married?) Has anybody else seen this or is it an OS issue? Bgwhite ( talk) 07:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to set the edit comment when used in a non-English wiki? An AWB user in huwiki states he cannot do it because summaries are wired in code. Bináris ( talk) 08:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Here you find some: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9sei/B.Zsoltbot Bináris ( talk) 14:42, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, and "replaced"? Bináris ( talk) 09:54, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
For reference please see: Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Kumi-Taskbot_and_collapse_parameters. I'm crossing this over to here because Kumioko ( talk · contribs)'s AWB abuse is also done without bot privileges Kumi-Taskbot ( talk · contribs). I recently posted this on the bot owners noticeboard:
I won't even bother pointing out how many edits are made that don't match the edit summary. Oftentimes it's nothing more than white space or template positioning. Brad ( talk) 19:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has AWB's "Google search" stopped working? -- John of Reading ( talk) 20:37, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
rev 7962 Reedy: Killing Yahoo plugin, service was apparently shut down in April 2011. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Please revoke AWB access for Kumioko and Kumi-Taskbot. All tasks related to the bot have been revoked, which negates need for AWB and I no longer feel inclinded to use the software or perform any but the most sporadic and trivial of tasks. If an when I need access to the software again I will rerequest access. I have already deleted all code, both completed and uncompleted (such as the roughly 3200 line module I wrote to auto add Infoboxes (only person, military person and Politician though). These tasks are not needed or desired by the community and at a roughly 1 in 250 article error rate (which I was working on reducing before using) the chance of making a mistake is too high for community approval or interest. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
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I was using this username User:Ramajois but I usurped to User:Shriram and I cannot login with my current username. Can the right be transferred or something to what I'm using now or should I have to place a new request? Shriram ( talk) 21:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to determine which articles do not have a Category:Musical groups by year of establishment. I've copied the 143 children of this category to User:Argolin/sandboxAWB1. The musical group articles list is at User:Argolin/sandboxAWB. When I use the List comparer, it places all "categories on page" in list 1 into results. "Links on page" in list 2 the same. What am I doing wrong? I'm using ver 5.3.1.1. and am brand new to AWB. Thanks Argolin ( talk) 10:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
How to create a list that has outgoing links, say from a template, to Redirect pages? (The alternate is available: skip redirects). - DePiep ( talk) 10:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I want to explore main page but editing it's talk page at the same? How can I do?-- 221.11.26.238 ( talk) 11:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
In my AWB app, Auto Save Edit Box (Which is an option in preferences>>Editing and Saving>>) is not working. I've set 30 seconds and a filename, so that it should save changes to the file (on local host). But it is not creating the file at first place. And if I create the file manually even then it is not writing to the file the contents of edit-box. Please solve this problem of mine. - Hemant wikikosh ( talk) 20:31, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just downloaded AWB (v5.3.1.0) for the first time. I'm using WinXP on a 10.5" netbook (Lenovo S10-2) at 1024x600, and I can't see the bottom of the interface in its window, either maximised, or by moving the window around so that the bottom of it is in the middle of my screen. I can't find a reference to this in these pages. Before I raise a bug, is this a known issue, perhaps with a work-around? I've put a screenshot at http://twitpic.com/8mfz6c - the edge of the window is blue, the desktop dark grey. Note how the "find" box is unviewable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a lot of pages that need to be moved into a namespace for organization purposes, how would i go about using AWB to rename so that it goes from the being called (ex. "pagename" to "player:pagename" ) I am renaming pages on a custom wiki I run for about 1,500 people. Thanks -- Darkskynet ( talk) 01:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to use a bot to search through and replace the hundreds of links to a page on my personal wiki, let's call it [[Color]] and most of the links to it are piped with an alternate text such as [[Color|Color +33]] and I've gotten a ReGex search that finds it correctly as \[\[Color\|Color \+\b[0-9]{2}\b\]\] but I can't seem to figure out what to put in the replace with box to get a result of {{Color|33}}. any help would be appreciated. -- Technical 13 ( talk) 03:44, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Am I just over analyzing this (although I would like to understand how ReGex works better)? Can I just have it search [[Color|Color %%key%%]] and replace it with {{Color|%%key%%}}? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 13:11, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a large group of C:pages similar to ( 'Charisma +1 items' on DDOwiki) that I would like AWB to read the C:Page, visit each one of the pages in that C:, pull the information from the templated section that starts with |enhancements=, and create a list on the C: page that looks like '''<Name of page>''': <List of enhancements>. One that I manually populated is located at 'Wisdom -1 items'(There are three pages that don't belong in that C: I still need to figure out. Ignore them.). Can I do this with AWB? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 18:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I've also noticed that AWB slows way down (from like 340 pages per minute to 25-30 pages per minute) the more items that are on the log tab, and clicking clear log almost instaneously speeds it back up. Is there any place to disable all logging functions or even just that log tab? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:02, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Why does Does not bind(.*?) only find Does not bind and not Does not bind on Acquire with " on Acquire" stored in $1? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:31, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
I may add some more to the list and just update the time if there is not yet a response. -- Technical 13 ( talk) 05:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Technical 13 ( talk) 06:23, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Could anyone remove the gap between the list and the title, as displayed below.
The following versions are enabled:
4.6.2.0 enabled 5.3.1.0 enabled 5.3.1.1 enabled (svn) ~ ⇒TomTom N00 @ 22:11, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
How do I set AWB to run in automatic mode (not having to click "save" for each edit)? — danhash ( talk) 15:11, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please explain what the files Log.txt and profiling.txt are for? I see they are not part of the SVN snapshot. Although I have Options > Preferences set so that logging is not enabled, these two files are updated every time I use AWB. My Log.txt is over 2 MB, and my profiling.txt is over 100 MB. What would happen if I deleted these two files? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
What is advertised as 8047 actually displays 8046 in "Menu" → "Help" → "About" and in edit summaries. This does not appear to be serious. Chris the speller yack 04:23, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I just had a custom namespace added to the wiki I'm a sysop of and there are 2K+ pages that need to get moved there. Does AWB have a function to move pages and prepend "NewNS:" to the current Page Name? -- Technical 13 ( talk) 04:03, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone, since yesterday evening I've been experiencing a problem where every time I try to save a page AWB doesn't save the page and its status changes to "Restarting in x seconds." As such I have been unable to make any edits through AWB. I have tried restarting the application, logging off my account (Windows 7), and changing my AWB list. Any solutions? Thanks in advance, - down load ׀ talk 18:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to utilize either magic words (like {{BASEPAGENAME}}) or wildcards with AWB? I use it on a wikia wiki with lots of galleries on subpages, and most of the galleries are currently categorized according to the gallery name. For instance, [[ABC/Gallery]] is categorized under [[:Category:ABC images]], [[YXZ/Gallery]] under [[:Category:YXZ images]], and so on. Community consensus is that those categories need to go, and AWB should be the easiest way to do it. If I can get it to accept a magic word (to remove [[:Category:{{BASEPAGENAME}} images]]), or a wildcard (so it will remove any category from a given subset of pages which has the word "images" in it), which I haven't figured out how to do. -- Tulipclaymore ( talk) 15:44, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm from Chinese Wikipedia, and my AWB auto generated edit summary like "clean up, assist by AutoWikiBrowser (8046)". (Original text is Chinese, I translated yet.) Now is there any way to let it generate "clean up ( AWB)"? It seems more succinct. Thanks!-- 铁铁的火大了 ( talk) 12:34, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Some notes: "assist by AWB" is part of the code and I can fix it if you want. I added the specific Chinese version with the help of a Chinese editor last year in Wikimania. The "(8046)" part is better not to be removed. IT exists in all snapshots so we can control the presence of bugs in each version. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
This shouldn't affect most of you, but AWB's search/replace logic for "in-template" check has been revised to address this issue in r8062. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:45, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
On many edits, ones where it takes me a few seconds to look through the changes to check they're OK, when I click "Save" I get an error message at the bottom of the window saying "Underlying connection closed ..." and then it restarts in X seconds. How can I get this to stop? Thanks. DrKiernan ( talk) 11:25, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Can this tool be used to scan an article to see if a certain editor has ever edited it? And if he has would it show which edits were his? Is it possible to use this tool to enter a username or an IP, or a combination of both to see which articles they overlap on? Darkness Shines ( talk) 16:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Which part of AWB is making these changes? Describing them as fixes seems to be going a bit far. Kanguole 00:21, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I want to replace:
{{SpamBot|[[User:Technical 13|ShoeMaker]] ([[User talk:Technical 13|talk]]) 01:55, April 17, 2012 (AST)|AWB=1}} simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post simple post
The first-line is a template I used in a first pass to place them all in a " Marked as spam" category. The format of this template is {{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=(options)}}. If "AWB" exists, it is set to (0|m|man|manual) for using AWB in manual-mode or (1|a|auto|automatic|b|bot) for using AWB in bot-mode. The template can be seen here and an example of the output on a page can be seen here.
With:
{{SpamBot|$1|AWB=$2}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D
What's missing from my ReGex search: {{SpamBot\|(.*)\|?AWB\=(.*)}}\n\n(.*)?
{{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=1}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D{{SpamBot|~~~~|AWB=1}} This page has been blanked to remove useless content and potentially dangerous links to protect YOU! :D
The template {{ expand}} is deprecated, however is still cited in the manual text. It is actually being considered for deletion at TfD. Should the manual be changed to accommodate this?-- Michaelzeng7 ( talk - contribs) 00:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to scan Category:Molecular Biology (recurse 1 level) to find See Also sections that are out of place. I already applied general fixes to all pages in that giant list, (which included auto-correction of several out-of-place See Also sections) but I'm rescanning to fix the ones that only show up as Alerts. I'd like to exclude any pages that don't display any Alerts. Under the Skip tag, I've selected "Page in Use", "Edit Blocked by Spam Filter", and of course "No alerts". I then selected Pre-parsed Mode and hit Start. Instead of removing a good portion of the pages, it kept leaving a bunch of pages in green for me to manually go through. Yet when I stopped and then went through those green pages myself without being in Pre-parsed Mode, it skipped almost all of them. I'd like to make it automatically remove pages from the list that don't generate alerts, but it only seems to work correctly when I'm not in Pre-Parsed Mode. I have restarted AWB and reloaded my settings and re-generated the list, to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Jesse V. ( talk) 17:30, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Anyone have any ideas? Jesse V. ( talk) 20:40, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Well in general, is there any way to hunt down articles that have out-out-place See Also sections? I'm rather new to AWB but I've been trying to find tasks to do, but I'm still trying to figure out how things work. Jesse V. ( talk) 01:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Just a heads up but it looks like the change talked about in this thread will affect AWB too if I understand the bug report. Here is a link Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#IRC bot operators - heads up. Kumioko ( talk) 18:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Why does AWB have to add the messy "& nbsp ;" before page numbers and measurement units? It makes wading though the wikitext that little bit harder for us humans. Can we tell AWB to stop doing it?? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 04:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
{{ Portalbox}} is a redir to {{tl:Portal}}. It is used on about 8000 pages. I feel that is is worthwhile removing the redir and use {{tl:Portal}} since it is protected. Can we add it to the list of minor fixes that AWB does? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:12, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Comment: It seems that the community agrees that some redirects should be bypassed. This is nice to remark. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:39, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
How can I separate the debug build from non-debug builds? Right now I need a non-debug one to save blank pages. Teyandee ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've downloaded Arabic Wikipedia database and i want to know how to exclude orphan pages using database scanner?-- M.Gedawy Talk 17:08, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I am using AWB with CSV Loader for uploading new words through a bot namely, TamilBOT (toolserverinfo) I am one of the sysop in ta.wiktionary.we are having few rules for the English headers. One of the rule is, the first letter of a new header word should not be in upper case.But when i am trying to upload, AWB converts all the uploading English new headers's first letter into upper case automatically. How can, i upload new words with out this automatic upper case conversion problem?-- தகவலுழவன் ( talk) 18:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
AWB writes the input/output file, and after the external process is complete and AWB has read the file back in, it deletes it.
Is there any way to make AWB not delete the file?
If so, what is it? The Transhumanist 17:05, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
(Windows7)
Is there any way to pass commands through the external processing feature?
Such as using the & or &&, | or > or >> operators after the argument?
I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 17:10, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
OS. Ubuntu 11.04 Trying to install with Wine but can not since Wine is not recognizing AWB as .exe file (have not faced such problem for any other Windows file eg. IE, MS Paint etc). Please add a {{tb}} in my talk page if anyone replies! -- Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 04:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
On the start panel (where I log in to AWB), I am using the find box. I want to use REGEX to find instances of [[1 or [[2 but REGEX objects that I have an unterminated [] set. Any idea how to do this? Hmains ( talk) 16:46, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
How could I find pages that contain some words, for example "one" and "two" using Wiki Database Scanner? What should I type to "Text" > "Contains"? Separating words with commas doesn't work. 21:06, 28 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.27.226.177 ( talk)
\b(one|two)\b
to search for articles containing the word "one" and/or the word "two". --
John of Reading (
talk)
21:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs contains about 2,400 articles. I had a try at manually fixing invalid ISBN numbers. It is reeeal painful!! Can a script be written that does the following:
The AWB operator can then see if it is a simple typo or a completely different ISBN. If the ISBN search gives robust results it could be saved without the need to double check. Is this feasible? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 02:13, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
UPDATE: it is now 5,240 article! heeelp.... -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
And here is another ISBN related task. Often citation needed a book is added between bare <ref></ref> tags rather than using {{ cite book}}. There are many advantages in using citation templates and I want to convert the bare refs into {{ cite book}} refs. Can this be done:
One tricky aspect is page numbers. They are often all over the shop. Some manual input may be needed for them.
Is this task feasible at least in part? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 07:30, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
This tool has been used several times on the Christian hip hop article. There is an artist named KJ-52. The tool correctly leaves the linked name alone but changes the one that is not linked to read "kJ-52". Is there any way to exclude that article or to warn editors who use the tool? -- Walter Görlitz ( talk) 18:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
In the "get started" section you forgot to write that users need to extract it from the zip file, else it is likely not to work.-- Deathlaser : Chat 13:37, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please advise here? Alan Liefting has started making large-scale changes to animal rights pages and categories, using HotCat and AWB. I have asked him to stop to discuss and explain, but he has continued and will not explain what he is doing. See discussion here.
Can he be required to stop using AWB without discussing his changes in advance (once challenged)? Cleaning up, if it's required, will be a lot of work because of the speed at which he is making the edits. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:41, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
I recently made a feature request and realized there are still requests from early April. As the title of this section says, when do they get looked at? Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
There are several items in both the Bugs and Feature requests pages that I think could be archived. There are several tasks that have been completed, were denied, etc. and these pages are getting rather large and untimely to load. Would anyone have a problem with me moving some of these things into the archive pages? Kumioko ( talk) 16:11, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way to get AWB to make a sound when 'ready to save' appears on the screen? As things are, with processing typically so slow, I would like to turn my eyes and attention to something else when waiting for the 'ready to save' message to appear, but I also want to be alerted so I can get right back to working in AWB when the message does appear. Windows XP. Thanks Hmains ( talk) 16:38, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to use AWB on a custom site ( UOGuide) running MediaWiki 1.16.0 and I keep getting an error.
An error occured while connecting to the server or loading project information from it. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exist. Enter the URL in the format "en.wikipedia.org/w/" (including path where index.php and api.php reside). Error description: Unexpected XML declaration. The XML declaration must be the first node in the document, and no white space characters are allowed to appear before it. Line 2, position 3.
The API is present, but I can't seem to locate the issue. -- Alianin ( talk) 12:28, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I want to use General Fixes as a service to editors, but only if there are also custom changes that I making. On the skip panel, I mark the skip if 'only genfixes' box, but I am still presented with changes such as removing the blank space in 'xxx ]]'. Same problem when I also or only check the skip if 'only cosmetic changes are made' box. Since making AWB edits with only general fixes or with only cosmetic changes seems to outrage a certain group of WP editors and leads to sactions against the offending editors, it seems to me that this feature of AWB must be absolutely correct in its operation. Is there some other box I need to check or something else I need to do? Is this a known AWB flaw? Hmains ( talk) 23:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I am working with another Mediawiki project(v1.17.0), I have downloaded the release version AWB from here and changed the site preference to our MediaWiki address. The problem that even though I have entered my account information and AWB says I am logged in and I am able to make list but everything else seem "disabled", particularly the edit box, am I missing some step or there is some kind of problem, thanks.-- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 02:14, 20 May 2012 (UTC) Sorry, solved. -- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 02:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
How do I switch two paramerts in template, for example:
{{Temlpate name | param1 = value1 | param2 = value2 }}
I want to change to:
{{Temlpate name new | param2 = value2 | param1 = value1 }}
My intution was to Search for:
{{Temlpate name\n\|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*?)\n\|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*?)\n}}
Replacing it with:
{{Temlpate name new | param2 = $2 | param1 = $1 }}
The problem that it doesnt work, anythoughts on how I can achive that and sorry if it seems like a silly question to you, I just started to learn the roopes.-- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 06:53, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Additional problem, I have setup this rule:
If not contains: <!-- language interwikis --> Find: (\[\[..:.*\]\]) Replace: <!-- language interwikis --> $1
My intention is to place the comment once before the language interwiki links, however, even though I have set it up to run only when the comment doesnt doesnt exsit in the text and the Apply number of times = 1, AWB adds this before every language interwiki link, any idea why? -- 79.183.192.85 ( talk) 08:15, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Assuming those are the only 2 parameters you could try something like this:
Find: {{\s*(Template)[ ]*\|(.*?)\|[ ]*param2(.*?)\s*([\|}{<\n]) Replace: {{$1|param2$3|$2$4
Kumioko ( talk) 15:11, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks guys, it seems that the AWB REGEX behaviour is little different then the one in the
online site posted here. Removing the ? works as well, even though it breaks on the site. But what solved the problems was placing everything in single line(rookie mistake?), this works:
{{Temlpate name\n\|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*)\n\|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*)\n}}
While this doesn't:
{{Temlpate name\n \|\s*param1\s*=\s*(.*)\n \|\s*param2\s*=\s*(.*)\n }}
Is there away to make the second, more readable version to work?
@kwami, that solution seem rater weird, isnt there a simple way to replace only the first occarance of some expression in the text?
I have figured how todo both, using the custom modules, thank for your quick help here. Btw, does anyone know a good repository of custome modules or even better is the
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes module available somewhere to learn from? --
79.183.192.85 (
talk)
19:34, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Another problem I stumbled upon. How do I capture everything bettwen '=' and '|', not nessary on the same line? for example: ( I want all the text of ParamA)
| ParamA = [[text1]] | paramB = or: | ParamA = [[text1]] [[text2]] [[textN]] | paramB =
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.243.188 ( talk • contribs)
hello,
I want to remove "19XX", whereby "x" is a random number. How to do that with AWB? Thanks.-- GoP T C N 10:55, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
If I understand correctly, you want to remove any 4-digit number that begins with "19".
One of the general fixes is "Changes {{ No footnotes}} to {{ More footnotes}} if article has at least 1 inline citation." Per the question at my bot request, how does AWB tell the difference between explanatory footnotes and genuine citations? Does it look for references with citation templates, or all references? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
<ref>
tags. I think <ref group=...>
isn't counted but would need to check.
Rjwilmsi
14:06, 23 May 2012 (UTC)What is AWB for exactly, first I thought it was a text editor but now it doesn't look like it.-- Deathlaser : Chat 16:36, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
How do I register on none wikipidea Mediawiki project? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.176.215.30 ( talk) 09:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
In the bottom status bar, it says "Admin = Status and Bot = Status", so I assume that you need to have one of those permissions. I am not sure about the Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage page, we dont have such page on our mediawiki 1.17, does AWB just auto check for the page and thus simply creating it will be enough or additional steps are required to set it up. Can we get a clarification on this from the Dev's? Also without any of the above trying to save a page returns a "Edit token is needed to edit pages" WikiFunctions.API.ApiException. -- 79.176.215.30 ( talk) 09:02, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
When I try to use AWB on another wiki, I have to scroll through a list of wikis that I used to manage under Optionts→Preferences→Site, so I want the wiki I manage today to be the only one on the list. I couldn't find an option to tell AWB to forget old wikis, so I decided to just delete AWB and re-download it. However after re-extracting it, AWB still remembers the old websites (and also my login information). Where is this information being stored by AWB, and how do I remove it before re-downloading? — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 23:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
One of the general fixes on the en-wiki is to tag empty level-2 sections with {{ Empty section}}. Just curious - why wouldn't it be appropriate to tag all empty sections on the en-wiki? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 00:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
It would be good to get some effort put into sorting out the bug that randomly stops the keyboard shortcuts from working. Interestingly. Shift-Alt-S works when all methods of saving via the keyboard don't work. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 21:50, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I noticed recently that |BLPO=
is showing as an invalid parameter of WikiProjectBannerShell. Has that template been deprecated or is this a bug I need to writeup for AWB?
Kumioko (
talk)
14:09, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
In English, it is quite short(using AWB (8046)). However, the edit summary in Chinese so long that it often can't be fully included(due to the length restriction). The problem appears only in new versions. Do you know who can change it?-- Makecat Talk 03:09, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
I look at the login info, and it shows the number of characters in the password for the account I set up to use for AWB.
Is there some way (some file?) to get the password? (I've forgotten it and am grasping at straws : ) - jc37 00:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
The saved password is stored in an encrypted form in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AutoWikiBrowser\Profiles). You might be able to recover the password by downloading the source code, creating a debug build, and running the program under a debugger. -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:06, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Incidentally, I think that a feature that should be added is one I have seen in other software: When editing the login screen, there could be a checkbox to "show hidden text" to show the hidden password.
How might this be suggested to the developers of AWB? - jc37 15:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed that AWB is very helpful in filling out persondata parameters; however, it oftentimes includes the brackets around the places. Is this appropriate or should it be modified to exclude the brackets? Ryan Vesey Review me! 22:42, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm using TypoScan and sometimes TypoScan gets it wrong, so I change it manually to the right change. However the edit summary shows the wrong thing. Is there any way I can manually change the entire edit summary (i.e. the stuff added to the end of it by AWB)? ··gracefool ☺ 17:33, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
As per this edit [4]. This is the third time I had to replace them. Is there some way to get AWB to stop doing this? Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 04:51, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I've reimaged my hard drive, reinstalled the latest AVN, copies my profiles back, and started up AWB with my bot account. After it skips a bunch of pages, I get an error stating: "The process cannot access the file 'C:\xxxx\profiling.txt' because it is being used by another process." I'm only running one instance of AWB, so I don't know what else could be using it. I've tried deleting profiling.txt and rebooting, and I get the same error. I don't seem to get the error using my regular account. Any ideas? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:56, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
hello,
if I want to replace
with
,whereby "x" means anything, how do you do that? I wrote
but it does not work. Regards.-- GoP T C N 16:10, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Match
<ref\s*name[^>]*>
Mr Stephen ( talk) 20:28, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
\<ref name=(.*?)\>
I would not search for quotes, since they are not always required. Ensure regex is checked. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
13:44, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
After I finish AWB work on an article/category, I sometimes later find that there is a bad category in the article/category text. Either a category did not exist before I worked on article/text or I made a mistake that resulted in use of a category that does not exist. In either case, I don't see where AWB is telling me about this problem. I would expect to see this info in the Alerts box. Am I missing something? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 16:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
When going through pages, it comes up with an alert, for example "Dead Links Found". Are you supposed to do anything with these alerts?-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 23:26, 8 July 2012 (UTC) And also, is something to be done with topics that come up in the "Multiple Wiki-Links" section?-- Mjs1991 ( talk) 23:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to do a "if this text is on the page, append/prepend this."? I can append/prepend to a list of set pages but all the pages may not have it on. Rcsprinter (rap) @ 19:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I've got an article that uses the EM markup command to emphasize a word. That approach (vs using italics) is recommended by Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Emphasis. The AWB tool, apparently, changes the <em> to '' italics. I've had to undo that change twice. I appreciate AWB, and think it is a fine tool, but on this issue: either the MOS should be changed to state that "em" markup is not recommended; or the AWB should just leave the "em"s alone. -- Noleander ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a question on AWB adding persondata to animals over at Wikipedia_talk:Persondata#People only?. Could a developer answer it? Bgwhite ( talk)
I have noticed quite a few false positives in regards to AWB stating a field is an invalid parameter but the template has the field. In this case I looked at Cite web. As far as I can tell the following fields are all valid in the Cite web template but are not in the logic of valid fields in AWB. Does anyone have any comments about adding them before I write this up as a bug request? Here is the list: arxiv, bibcode, doibroken, isbn, jfm, lccn, mr, oclc, ol, osti, page, pmc, pmid, rfc, ssrn, zbl Thanks again for the help. Kumioko ( talk) 13:36, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
I see information about the Logs tab at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual#Logs, but I don't see information on the Page Logs tab. The screen shots show it labelled "Article Logs" instead. Can anyone provide info on this tab, so we can update the manual? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please define what changes are excluded when the "Only cosmetic changes are made" box is checked? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 01:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
My installation of AWB indicates that the compiler is C#2.0 Where does this limitation come from? Is it AWB or some peculiarity of my PC?
Modern constructs like initialising a dictionary don't work. I am intending to update a hundred-odd articles, and a dictionary is the easy way to go. I can Add all the key-value pairs, but it's a bit of a pain. Mr Stephen ( talk) 22:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
to {{PAGENAME:}}
I just reported this as an AWB bug and turned off my use of General Fixes, But I want to use General Fixes, so is there some option of General Fixes on the AWB panels that I can turn off to avoid the above change and still get the rest of the General Fixes changes? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 17:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME:}}
back to {{PAGENAME}}
. Since Rjwilmsi has fixed so many bugs over the last few days, I hope Reedy will publish a new SVN soon.
GoingBatty (
talk)
23:09, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
I've just upgraded to 5.3.1.1 SVN 8097. At the top of the diff panel, there's the text "Double click on a..." and then "Current text / Your text". Between them, they waste one quarter of the height of the diff panel on my laptop. Any ideas for removing/shrinking either of them? -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:10, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
(More) It seems they both disappear after you've made 10 edits, and then re-appear when you restart the program. I'm sure I'll get used to it... -- John of Reading ( talk) 07:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I'm a Chinese wikipedia user and I find that sometimes AWB changed Chinese language brackets "(...)" ASCII=65288 and 65289 to English's "(...)" ASCII=40 and 41, just like this edit. In MoS of zhwp, we usually do not use English brackets except dab lks. So is there any way to stopping AWB do that? Thanks!-- 铁铁的火大了 ( talk) 08:18, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
A discussion about this took place in May 2012 (now in Archive 24). Some users, including myself, could not get the "flash" or "beep" to work. I ma happy to announce that it now works for me. Maybe SVN 8097 or another recent release fixed it. Chris the speller yack 23:48, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at the Village Pump about the auto-tagging of stubs with "wikify", and a couple of semi-related issues. Your input would be appreciated. DoctorKubla ( talk) 07:37, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I just got a complaint on my user page for tagging an "op. cit." through AWB with Template:Ibid. Looking at WP:IBID, the user has a point; WP:IBID is only a guideline to begin with, and much more wishy-washy on op. cit. than it is on "ibid." Just thought I'd pass the concern along. Cheers, Khazar2 ( talk) 03:08, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This is about the new diffs as seen in the most recent snapshot, SVN 8097 (although I think the change was actually made about two months ago).
The issue with this now is that long strings appear truncated in the diff. If this can't be easily fixed, I think the benefit of unstretched diffs outweighs the occasional truncation inconvenience. (Is this related to IE? I never use it; my version is 8.)
Up to SVN 8097, if "add replacements to edit summary" was checked, details of the replacements would be added to the edit summary, but would then be removed from the edit summary if any manual changes were made in the edit box. With SVN 8207, the replacement details stay in the edit summary even after making manual edits. This results in misleading and confusing edit summaries. I feel this so serious that I am compelled to reinstall the earlier SVN 8097 until this is ironed out. Chris the speller yack 02:05, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am using my bot to edit on my two wikias, it has admin rights on both those sites. But the button on the toolbar to delete a page is unclickable.
How do I delete pages as a bot, I want to delete pages that have the template to delete on them.
Thank you so much, Wilc0NL ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Does delete work in admin non-bot status? I think we disable delte for bot status and we don't have a feature for admin bot to prevent mass deletion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
How do I set AWB to search through and edit the wiki that I want it to? I edit Nukapedia, and I would like to use this bot to assist. If possible, could you respond to me via my linked talk page? If not, then this talk page will suffice. Thanks!
- Tocinoman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.32.206.46 ( talk) 09:58, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to get AWB to recognise that a link to a redirect to a disambiguation page needs disambiguation? For example Particulates is a disambiguation page and AWB deals fine with links to that. However, if you examine Special:WhatLinksHere/Particulates you can see that almost all the links to this page are via redirects. However, when using AWB to try and fix these, it does not recognise that they need to be disambiguated. I can't find any solution to this - is there one or am I back to manually dealing with these?-- NHSavage ( talk) 08:48, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
There was a previous discussion Archive 22#Find and replace: Replace only once, which did not answer the question.
I want to surround some text patten in a page with double square brackets so that the text becomes a link to another article. But I do not want to do that for more than the first instance of the pattern in the page. Is it possible to do this with AWB and if so how?
-- PBS ( talk) 20:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I just downloaded AWB today, and I ran it a few times. However, when it stopped on a page that it showed needed an edit, I clicked "Save", but my watchlist (which has the page added to it) showed no changes. Is there some problem, or was there something else that I was supposed to do to have the edit actually performed? Also, I think that for the newcomers to AWB, there should be a basic English layout of how to actually use the program. I have looked at the user manual, but that did not make it clearer. Thank you for your help. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 23:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
i have tried running it on this one a few times now and it just says finished all pages but i know there is errors on this page so i dnt get why it is getting skipped as that what it says at the bottom of the screen.
I am using SVN 8207 but the same thing happens on the stable build to-- Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 19:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I have seen edits like this recently where commas are stripped from mdy dates when using AWB. Can a check be added to avoid that? -- Walter Görlitz ( talk) 00:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I have 434,000-some edits. I am trying to check on a mistake I made in some of them so I can fix it. I try to make a list with source User contributions. I specify no number; I get 22059 pages. I specify user defined number of 100,000; I get 22059 pages. Is there any way to obtain more of my edits? Thanks. Hmains ( talk) 02:55, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Just wondering if anyone knows how to change the default browser that AWB uses to open articles. My AWB has always defaulted to IE but I want to change it to Firefox and can't figure out how. Kumioko ( talk) 02:48, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Just trying out the edit summary improvements, and they look great so far. Thanks for your continual work to improve AWB! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:50, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I downloaded the latest version of AWB, the snapshot thing, and I've noticed that the diff looks very different than usual. It's not as colorful, and doesn't have the same blue-red-green color scheme that Wikipedia uses. I've also used STiki and there the color scheme looks normal. What's up with AWB? I liked the old color scheme but I can't figure out how to put it back! • Jesse V. (talk) 18:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I want to replace certain instances of {{
cite journal}}
and related templates with carefully-chosen sub-templates of {{
cite doi}}
and {{
cite pmid}}
.
So I need to be able to seek templates based on the value of particular parameters, and then replace the whole template with something based on that value: luckily it's a one-to-one correspondence, and only for set values, so not as complicated as it could be.
How do I go about doing this with AWB?
I have looked at the
Manual without finding much help there.
Anybody got any bright ideas?
TIA HAND —
Phil |
Talk
16:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite journal|author=Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al.|title=Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.|journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.|volume=99|issue= 26|pages= 16899–903|year= 2003|pmid= 12477932|doi= 10.1073/pnas.242603899|pmc=139241}}
{{
cite doi|10.1073/pnas.242603899}}
{{
cite journal}}
will be present, or in what order: the vital one is usually doi
although pmid
might step in when necessary. I suppose it might be possible to construct a sufficiently knarly regex but I'm somewhat out of my depth right now. There's quite a few which I have to do by hand anyway, but being able to get AWB to automate any or it would ease the strain. Thanks for the help. —
Phil |
Talk
20:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Following some discussion last December, there seemed to be consensus that AWB should not be adding non-breaking spaces before unabbreviated units. See:
for the rationale and the fix applied. It seems that it is still inserting these non-breaking spaces and as Mogism points out, it remains one of the vanilla settings, according to the documentation. Did something change since December last, or did the fix not work? -- RexxS ( talk) 18:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
why not introduce a autodate so when a release build is made replacing the old one everyoner will be updated burt it doesnt update to svn solve this type of problem, Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 19:16, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at WP:VPP#Reframing the policy for having access to AWB that involves AWB. David 1217 What I've done 18:23, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for making sort keys case-insensitive! Up til now, I've been using a set of 26 regex replacements to take care of the situations I'm dealing with, so this will really help to simplify my settings.
All of the improvements to AWB are greatly appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:57, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm on a Mac. Could someone please take AWB to Birth control and see what it comes up with? I'm hoping you can move refs to the end of sentences in particular (there are a lot of them in the middle of sentences, which I think looks terrible and is against the style guide.) Any other improvements are also most welcome, especially eliminating redirects that look like they would clarify the text, unicodification, typo fixes, and general fixes. Thanks! — Cupco 23:17, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Mid-sentence refs are not "against the style guide". As a matter of fact, it specifically says they may be used, although it's "usually sufficient to add the citation to the end of the sentence or paragraph, so long as it's clear which source supports which part of the text." The MOS even includes an example. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:54, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I add a site to the site menu? I have tried to use custom but cannot get it to load properly when starting AWB. Tired saving settings and saving default settings. Still will not automatically load my site. Also Tried using the switches /s "settings.xml" /u "UserName" to no avail. Thx DHC DarkShadow ( talk) 16:04, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Is it just me or does the new update to AWB seem to be a bit slower than the old one. I don't want to seem like I am criticizing, just wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. Kumioko ( talk) 01:09, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I've been using AWB for a while now. I was then notified I was using an old version - my edit summaries wouldn't list the version, just "updated with AWB," which meant I was using an old version.
I was given a link to download the new one here. I deleted my old version (simply deleted the folder to the recycle bin), and installed the first file on that link (AutoWikiBrowser5312_rev8323.zip). I saved it, and unzipped the file. I then double clicked the file to open it, and double clicked AutoWikiBrowser to run it.
When I went to click "save" to make my first edit on it, "Restarting in..." appeared on the bottom with a countdown. Based on the page, the number would change - sometimes "Restarting in 10" or "Restarting in 20" etc. It'd then go to 19, 18, 17, etc. When it reached 0, the page would just load again. I'm unable to save any edits.
NOTE: When I first opened it, it already knew my username and password... Which is weird, since I deleted the other folder. I also use Windows 7.
Can you please help out?
Thanks. -- Activism 1234 01:14, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser
.
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM
08:33, 4 September 2012 (UTC)I've exact the same problem (also Windows 7 (64-bit). regards -- Pitlane02 talk 14:25, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
When I try and preparse with a list of articles that are sorted reverse alphabetically, AWB forces the list back into alphabetical order when it hits a redirect. When it does this is also removes any articles that have been preparsed from the list. Has anyone else had this problem? Kumioko ( talk) 10:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I was using AWB today, and was having issues logging into my account on AWB. So, I tried to do the recommended step on AWB, which was to download a new version of AWB. However, the AutoUpdater did not find any new versions. So, after searching around for a while, I find that version 5.4 was released, so thus I downloaded it. However, when I try to open the .zip file for the download, I get "access denied." Is anyone else having similar issues? Steel1943 ( talk) 04:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Options -> Preference -> General tab -> Enable logging. Any more info on this? I was wondering if this was profiling.txt and if so where the file maybe found because it's not in the normal AWB folders. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 22:52, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Using AWB in certain cases, I wish to skip all disambiguation pages so as not to work on them. In the skip field, I tried to do this with |{{disambig}}|{{disambiguation}}| but that does not cover every disambiguation page. Noticing that every such page seems to have {{foodis}} where foo could be anything including multiple words such as {{xxx xxx xxxdis}}, I then tried to add |{{dis}}, but that syntax is ignored by skip. Any idea what works? Thanks Hmains ( talk) 20:28, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm getting the standard error stating: "The process cannot access the file 'C:\xxxx\profiling.txt' because it is being used by another process." I am running two AWBs at the same time. I used to get this every once in a great while. However, since updating to SVN8399 from SVN8348, I'm now getting it every five minutes. When it happens, it skips the next article in the queue. It is driving me crazy. Was the problem introduced in the recent update? Something else? Bgwhite ( talk) 22:48, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to skip a page without any alerts (other than Multiple wiki-links) only if there are also no genfixes? For example, is it possible to make AWB to stop on a page where there are typos where there are no alerts? Inks.LWC ( talk) 07:08, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Where are the default settings saved? I would like to back up the file in case my computer explodes or something. Thanks, ~ Bobogoobo ( talk) 21:17, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\AutoWikiBrowser\Default.xml
--
John of Reading (
talk)
21:31, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser
.
MANdARAX •
XAЯAbИAM
22:11, 14 September 2012 (UTC)As it was discussed here current version of AWB does not work properly under 64-bit Windows 7. The problem is that under that operation system GUI is quite distorted, many key buttons and sliders are missing and many GUI text is truncated or unreadable. See this image and the image annotations for some examples. Does anybody know if there is a separate x64 Windows 7 version available somewhere? Or is there some way to correct the problem? -- Jarekt ( talk) 16:31, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Can we please turn off the logic to tag articles with Wikify now that the template is deprecated? I know that we are waiting to get some refined criteria of what to tag these articles with but in the mean time its continuing to add these tags and either adding them against the current desire to deprecate its use or requiring it to be manually removed from the edit. Kumioko ( talk) 16:32, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
AWB continues to show the Wikify was added in the description eventhough that edit was not performed. As you can see by this edit I manually removed the addition of the Wikify tag but AWB continued to show this in the edit summary giving the impression to the viewer that edit was performed when it actually wasn't. Kumioko ( talk) 22:03, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you edit the edit summary for portions that AWB adds to the Default summary. For instance, if you go to an article that AWB thinks needs a {{wikify}} tag, but you do not put the tag on the page, how do you change the edit summary to not say "added wikify tag" after whatever you have selected as the default summary? Inks.LWC ( talk) 20:56, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know who wrote the NoLimits plugin, or how it works? There is a concern that its use will 'tax the system' and cause Wikipedia performance issues. Regards, Sun Creator( talk) 00:47, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I use AWB to make new categories? For example, I just started the new category Category:Future-Class Wyoming road transport articles using the following code: {{AbQ|topic=Wyoming road transport|project=U.S. Roads/Wyoming}} [[Category:Wyoming road transport articles by quality]] [[Category:Future-Class articles|Wyoming road transport articles]]. How can I do this with AWB? Also, how do I add these new categories to my watchlist? Thank you. Allen (Morriswa) ( talk) 00:36, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
I can't access preferences right now to switch the site I'm using it on. It's giving me an error message:
Status |
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Description |
System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.String WikiFunctions.Variables.get_Protocol()'. at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.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) | ||||||
To duplicate: | Unknown | ||||||
Site URL: | http://en.wikipedia.org | ||||||
Operating system | Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 | ||||||
.NET FW Version | 2.0.50727.3603 | ||||||
AWB version | AutoWikiBrowser (5.4.0.0), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.0), revision 7792 (2011-07-23 16:53:25) | ||||||
Workaround | |||||||
Fixed in version |
So, what should I do? --
69.115.19.117 (
talk)
02:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)