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Description | Add the <references/> with section header to articles which use Extension:Cite, but lack said tag. An implementation currently exists in DumZiBot. For more background see User talk:NicDumZ#Question. — Dispenser 13:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC) |
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Description | While working on my external links script I came across some broken link which were only caused by syntax. the format of the links are [http://...index.html''title text'']. [1] The reason why they show up correctly is because the mediaWiki parser changes ''text'' to <i>text</i> and the link does not included <> eg *[http:// www.stickycarpet.com/dam/dam194X.htm Complete 194X series] . Please a general rule that'll fix this. — Dispenser 22:25, 14 July 2007 (UTC) |
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\[\w://[^][<>"\s]*?''[^][]*\]
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Dispenser 18:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Rule: Add space to external links separated by a HTML entity and double-quote Replace: \[(\w://[^][<>" ]*)([<>"][^][]*)\] With: [$1 $2] Rule: Add space to external links separated by wikimarkup converted into HTML entities Replace: \[(\w://[^][<>" ]*?)(''[^][]*)\] With: [$1 $2]
Tests:
As you can see not at full proof as I'd like, however, I'd say that the " and double don't have flaws. — Dispenser ( talk) 07:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
# Commons fixes for URLs
text = re.sub(r'(http:?/+)+', 'http://', text) # Silently correct http://http:// mistakes
text = re.sub(r"(\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)''", r"\1 ''", text) # Italics and bold misforgivings in the php render
Some code from my tools. — Dispenser 04:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
(http:?/+)\1
(replacing with http://
). Of these, about still 454 contained errors yesterday, which I've now fixed. I think this can be included as a new general fix. I'll have a look at the second one this evening.
Rjwilmsi 07:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[www.site.com''my cool site'']
is displayed and linked the same way as [www.site.com ''my cool site'']
. Still, it perhaps makes things neater (like Category: instead of category:) so can be a new general fix too. However, a related fix is (\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)\|''
to $1 ''
and this fixes [www.site.com|''my cool site'']
which links with the bar at the end of the URL (i.e. incorrectly), to [www.site.com ''my cool site'']
. So I certainly I propose this as a general fix. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 20:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)The two fixes I proposed worked without error, please now add them as general fixes. Thanks Rjwilmsi 22:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
text = re.sub(r'(http:?/+)+', 'http://', text) # Silently correct http://http:// mistakes
and
(\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)\|''
to $1 ''
? — Ree dy 09:05, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Available in 4.5.0.0 release. Rjwilmsi 19:28, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'd like to use AWB on a third-party site to simplify some mass changes I have planned (template removal) but the site relies on the ".php5" extension to function properly. This is a hosted site and unfortunately this cannot be changed. As a result, I get the "Error connecting to wiki" error message. I know the custom site info is set properly in the AWB preferences. Is there somewhere I can tweak the AWB settings to look for the ".php5" extension instead of ".php" or am I just SOL on this? Thanks! -- B.Rossow talk contr 20:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
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For my info, just entry points - index.php, api.php — Ree dy 17:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Often times, multiples references are not sorted in order. For example you might have a text like this:
I propose that AWB orders the refs so they always appear in order (i.e. like this):
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:42, 29 December 2008 (UTC) |
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rev 3986 Added logic to handle three or more consecutive references. Done. Rjwilmsi 23:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Could (as part of the "apply general fixes" feature) AWB add non breaking spaces? Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Non-breaking spaces there should be a between a measurement and a unit so that it doesn't wrap onto the next line leaving 4 on one line and kg on the next.
User:AndyZ/peerreviewer picks up on this so perhaps there would be a hint in the code there? Thanks,
James086
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Email 12:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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If we ask nicely, i suppose, we can probably use the regex's/whatever and add via a similar method... Reedy Boy 22:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes and no. You could probably do it manually via that method, but to include it automatically in the general fixes, i presume, it would be a set of regular expressions looking for certain matches, and then replacing the space in it with a non-break space Reedy Boy 09:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Not really in this case. A linebreak between a measurement and the unit is more difficult to read than the same without the linebreak, and measurement + unit is often so short it does not matter when it comes to small screens. Denying this feature because of screen real estate would be kind of similar to restricting usage of long words. Plrk ( talk) 21:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Just incase anyone's unclear on this, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Non-breaking spaces states that nbsp's are only needed for abbreviations and symbols, so spelled-out unit won't need them. Epbr123 ( talk) 23:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
<find>\b(\d?\.?\d+)\s*((?:c|m|k|n)(?:m|g)|A|K|mol|cd)\b</find>
<replace>$1 $2</replace>
<Comment>add a non-breaking space between amount and unit such as 3.54mm, 50km, 5 cm, 3.2mol etc.</Comment>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
How does it look? Thanks Rjwilmsi 01:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
rev 3851 Logic similar to the above added to cover the most common base units (but not plain 'm' and 's' due to '50m people' and '1980s' etc.). Rjwilmsi 19:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | According to MoS ( WP:ACCESS templates as {{ for}}, {{ otheruses}}, etc. should be placed at the very first line of the article before other tags of article content. Can AWB move these templates on the very top? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | That's an easy one. If there is at least one <ref></ref> replace {{ nofootnotes}} with {{ Morefootnotes}}. I would also suggest if there "many", let's say five, to get a warning, in the same box that indicated that no categories were found, like "consider removing morefootnotes" -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:34, 3 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates: "Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes or articles". Could removal of ordinal indicators be automated? As far as I can determine, the only instance where straightforward removal of an ordinal suffix would result in an error is for dates in "the Xth of May" format (e.g. "the 14th of February"). Perhaps AWB could check for the presence of an "of" after the ordinal suffix and skip these cases... Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC) |
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rev 3874 New ('significant') general fixes to remove ordinals from American/International dates, and to remove 'of' between a month and a year per WP:MOS standards. Text in quotes, external links, templates etc. excluded. Rjwilmsi 00:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC) rev 3892 Don't catch "the Xth Month" or "the Month Xth" as changing such sentences makes them read badly. Rjwilmsi 15:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Split 'Auto tag' into 'Auto tag (add)' and 'Auto tag (remove)'. I think there are far too many tags on articles and I would like to be able to remove them automatically. I have no interest in adding more so I don't use the current 'Auto tag' feature because it adds them. We discussed this before. I hope you don't mind me asking again. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:27, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
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The 'Auto tag' feature says that it does two things:
I would be delighted to be able to remove excessive tags but I do not want to add tags. Can this feature be split? Lightmouse ( talk) 12:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
It will be nice if you can get it working. Lightmouse ( talk) 09:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
I have seen pages with:
I am sure there are more examples of tag use that I wouldn't like. Excessive tagging is probably due to misplaced enthusiasm by editors, rather than AWB. I have used 'merge' tags on a few occasions but in general I would like to see a net decrease in tags. Consequently, the remove tags part of the feature is something I welcome. Lightmouse ( talk) 12:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. It currently has one checkbox with the label: 'Auto tag'. I imagine two checkboxes with labels 'Auto add tags' and 'Auto remove tags'. Or something like that. I look forward to seeing it on the gui when you have time. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thinking it through: I would class removing tags as a 'general fix'. So it should probably be added to that. The existing 'Auto tag' checkbox would be reduced in scope to adding tags only, but the label would not need to change. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I look forward to getting it. I don't propose any tests but will run some if you want. Lightmouse ( talk) 17:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There have been a number of good new additions to the AWB general fixes just recently. Some of these general fixes are more than just trivial changes, and in fact make a visible or significant change to the article (e.g. correcting a malformatted external link). Therefore I would like to differentiate between trivial and visible general fixes, and then introduce a third skip option which would say "skip if only trivial general fixes". Of course, we would need to agree which general fixes are trivial, and which make a visible difference. Thanks. Rjwilmsi 09:54, 21 September 2008 (UTC) |
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General fixes are by definition trivial, although that doesn't stop us from including them as a test in the DB scanner. — Dispenser 01:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
rev 3857 Initial implementation of the above. FixSyntax and AddMissingReflist are marked as 'significant' general fixes. Other fixes need to be reviewed to see if they are significant too. Rjwilmsi 18:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Module to have similar 'Ignore...' settings as in 'Normal settings', 'Find & Replace' dialog. Can you make it so that module users can ignore certain things like 'inside links', 'inside quotes'? Some of the existing code for that dialog may be useful. In any case, can you make the regex visible so I can add it to my code? Lightmouse ( talk) 13:54, 17 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Yes, I like the flexibility to do it all myself. I believe that I have the hide text object in User:Lightmouse/AWB/scripts/add metric units, somebody kindly helped me with that. I am really now focussing on hiding quotes using my AWB scripts and in my monobook script. I just thought the Find and Replace dialog was a good example but I would prefer to do it myself. Regards Lightmouse ( talk) 14:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
The request was to allow the same functionality for modules. You have persuaded me that module writers should code for themselves and it isn't necessary so I suppose the answer to the request is 'Won't do'. I would be grateful if you could tell me how to code for hiding quotes, I know this isn't a regex help page but I don't know where else to go. My 'ArticleText = ht.Hide(ArticleText); doesn't protect quotes. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. I added ht.HideMore at the top and ht.AddBackMore at the bottom. I am half way there, it knew that the quote is different but it replaced it with something else:
Any suggestions? Lightmouse ( talk) 15:03, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
I had AddBackMore after AddBack. I put AddBackMore first and it works now. Thanks! Your other comment noted. Can you suggest a solution to protect quotes when using my monobook script? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Somebody gave me some code that involves these lines: var linkmap=[]; txt.value=txt.value.replace(/Image:[^|]+/gi, function(img){ linkmap.push(img); return "\x02"+(linkmap.length-1)+"\x03"; }); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\x02([0-9]+)\x03/g, function(x, n){ return linkmap[n]; I don't understand what it does but perhaps quote and cquote templates would need similar code. Lightmouse ( talk) 17:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:20, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | In the list comparer, "make from", it would be nice to have, next to the "links on page" also an option "blue links on page". As an application example, all the blue links in the article List of chess grandmasters should coincide with the articles in the category Category:Chess grandmasters. Obviously the listcomparer is ideal for checking this. Currently, it only works to check whether all articles from Category:Chess grandmasters are in the List of chess grandmasters, but not the other way around. Voorlandt ( talk) 13:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC) |
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[3] - Put in bug for developers to comment as to whether its feasible (its doable), just whether its too DB friendly — Ree dy 22:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
MaxSem: Any suggestions on the best way to implement this. Just needs to work through it and look for the attribute if its there... — Ree dy 18:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
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Description | In general fixes, I hope add replace {{ commons|Category:XXX}} > {{ commonscat|XXX}}.-- OsamaK 18:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC) |
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I think that could work. {{commonscat}} will work if the commons cat is the same as the name as the wiki page. Snowman ( talk) 00:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
rev 4025 Done. Rjwilmsi 18:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Per
WP:DASH, can we add the following replacements? I'm adding these from my prefs file; I've tested them extensively and they have minimal (if any) false positives.
<Replacements>
<Replacement>
<Find>(pages\ ?=\ ?|pp\.?\ )([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)</Find>
<Replace>$1$2&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([1-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?([1-9]?[0-9])(\ |\&nbsp;)(years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|seconds|kg|mg|kb|km|GHz|Hz|kHz|miles|mi\.|%)\b</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$2$3$4</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>(\[?\[?(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\ [1-3]?[0-9]\]?\]?,\ \[?\[?[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]\]?\]?)\ ?-\ ?(\[?\[?(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\ [1-3]?[0-9]\]?\]?,\ \[?\[?[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]\]?\]?)</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>(\$[1-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?(\$?[1-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9])</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$2</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([0-1]?[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\ ?([AaPp][Mm])?)\ ?-\ ?([0-1]?[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\ ?([AaPp][Mm])?)</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([Aa]ge[sd])\ ([1-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?([1-9]?[0-9])</Find>
<Replace>$1 $2&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
</Replacements>
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I often find em-dashes used erroneously in these situations. Why not generalize the above to find and correct them (to en-dashes) too?-- BillFlis ( talk) 13:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
rev 4029 Initial implementation of this. Still room for expansion, but let's see how we go first. Rjwilmsi 22:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | If an editor replaces "foo" with nothing instead of stating "Replaced foo ->", AWB could output "Removed foo". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | When AWB makes changes which only affect a single section, it should use the /* */ syntax in the edit summary to indicate this. |
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Hopefully not too complicated to implement, and I think it would be very helpful for people tracking certain parts of an article being able to disregard certain edits by AWB. BigBlueFish ( talk) 10:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
This was a complicated problem to work out, but I think I've got it. You have a regular expression that splits sections out like (^|(?<=\n))==([^\n]+)== *\n([^\n]|\n(?!==[^\n]+== *\n))*
which breaks the article up into a list of level two sections. You search each new section in the original text, if it exist/stays the same you remove it the from the list. If you are left with one you can use either the heading of the section or repeat the search with level 3 headings. If the list is empty you restart the search comparing the old text to the new, checking if sections were removed. —
Dispenser 07:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | As a general fix include a fix to correct misspellings of accessdate as accesdate or acessdate, and fix dates formatted as YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY_MM_DD.
Suggested regex: find: "acc?ess?date( )?=( )?(200[0-9])[/_]([-0-9][0-9])[/_]([0-9][0-9])" replace: "accessdate$1=$2$3-$4-$5" Also, replace acessyear and accesyear with accessyear. |
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Description | Forwarding on a request... that the {{XX Portal}} template be moved under "See also" within an article when found elsewhere (namely at the top). I'm guessing that if the "see also" doesn't exist, that the section be created with the template underneath. I wasn't aware that it was supposed to be placed there, as I've generally seen it at the top of pages, however, Template:Portal does have the mention of the correct placement. SkierRMH 15:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | Remove {{ uncategorized}}, {{ uncat}}, etc. when a category exists -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC) |
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I would also like to suggest adding template to the drop down list of sources. Although this would also be for the source drop down on the main page this would allow users to compare against templates (Military infobox template with no DEFAULTSORT template for instance).-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:55, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'm thinking this should be an easy one. It seems that the limit on how big the list of articles you can work on at any one time is set at 25,000. And while I agree most people wouldn't need to work on more than 25,000 articles at one time, I've run into an instance where I would. I'm developing a bot running under AWB, designed to help with the backlog of Biography articles without listas parameter -- a list that's currently sitting at about 312,000 articles. Any chance of having that limit turned up? Thanks, Matt ( talk) 06:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC) |
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"Category (NL, Admin & Bot)" and "Category (NL, Admin & Bot, recursive)". NL being no Limits.
rev 4070,
rev 4071, uploaded a snapshot —
Ree
dy 20:15, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Title_with_special_letters_and_no_DEFAULTSORT — Ree dy 22:14, 16 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Good. It seemed to me that it already worked ( WP:WPCHECK#Title with special letters and no DEFAULTSORT (AWB)). Sorry about that. -- User:Docu
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Description | Seems "<references>" and "<references></references>" are in use.. Should be replaced with {{ reflist}} (or <references /> as they aren't correct syntax. Also generates cite errors if not right — Ree dy 22:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4082 — Ree dy 23:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | MaxSem has added a cache, use it! — Ree dy 21:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4141, rev 4142 — Ree dy 17:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Just a couple of things that have occurred to me: |
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Description | I already have requested that but it was lost somewhere in archives: Remove {{Article ?issues}} (no parameters given. Empty articleissues makes no sense. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:33, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | DABlinks are placed on the top. Support this function for {{ otheruse}} as well. (Check here) For the latter one I would suggest to rename it as well to it original name {{ Two other uses}} (Check here) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Check this one. When counting parameters in Articleissues, "article" and "section" parameters have to be excluded. (comment Be careful because parameter "sections" exists as well and should be take into count.) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:51, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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And prepare to deal this this weird situation. There will be no "date" parameter in Articleissues. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | In pages like Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, AWB should search for instances of "Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper" and switch them to "Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper". Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 11:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Remove arbitrary number of spaces of single (or no) one after bullet as I partially did here (check the original code because the result is not visible in diff) Magioladitis ( talk) 18:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Do something like this and this to remove unnecessary html coding. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:53, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description |
WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Headlines start with three "=" (error number 7) lists articles where the first headline level doesn't start with "==".
A simple fix for these would be to remove two "=" from all sections [4], [5] while making sure that there is no headline with "==" in the article [6]. sample for user_fixes.py (
pywikipediabot) fixes'headlines3' = {
'regex': True,
'allowoverlap': True,
'msg': {
'_default':u'fix headlines ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia|WikiProject Check Wikipedia]])',
},
'replacements':
(u'(\=+)\=\=([^\=]+)\=\=(\=+)', r'\1=\2=\3'),
],
'exceptions': {
'text-contains':
'[\r\n]\=\=([^\=]+)\=\=',
}
}
--April 4, 2009 - User:Docu (sample updated April 5, 2009) |
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Description | WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Headlines end with colon "=" listed a few pages with titles ending with a colon. The colon can generally be removed. This could be included in AWB as well. -- User:Docu |
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Description | (suggested by
bender235) A new general fix to change two regular dashes into one em dash per
MOS:EMDASH. In order to avoid possible false positives, it should only match precisely two dashes and probably should be surrounded by alpha-numeric characters. I would suggest the follow regrex:
find: |
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Description | Pre-parse list to purge it of negatives such as 'no change'. The total task time is the sum of the time to process the positives and the time to process the negatives. I would like to be able to pre-parse a list to remove the negatives. This would cut down the total processing time. Since there are no edits, such pre-parsing can be done without a bot flag and without human supervision. I think somebody else asked for such a thing but I couldn't find the request. Lightmouse ( talk) 19:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Ooo. I use skip all the time but hadn't thought of using skip for preparsing. I will try it. I withdraw the request for now. Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 20:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Remove text that says Double-click on a line to undo all changes on that line, or single click to focus the edit box to that line.. This text uses up valuable space (about 10% of the 'Show changes' section). It adds no value for experienced users. It may provide a benefit to some beginners (not all - it did not help me, I found out another way) but a significant reduction in screen space for all users is a high price to pay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lightmouse ( talk • contribs) |
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We must develop a mechanism that will display this message several times at first, and then will not do it. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 05:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Further thoughts:
Seems a better idea to me. Then its there if anyone needs/wants it, but if its focused on that by default... — Ree dy 16:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
It would be very nice if we could have more 'diff' visible on the screen rather than help text. Any way of moving forward with this one? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:24, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
<link rel="stylesheet" href="AWBPath/diff.css" type="text/css">
) in the header and moving the CSS to the file. —
Dispenser 03:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)rev 4225 After user has made 10 edits, stop showing the help text at the top of the diff. Rjwilmsi 16:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Please add ṅ ẏ ḻ ṟ ṉ => n y l r n from
[7]. This should help sort the reminder of
this cat. -- User:Docu (April 24)
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Description | According to its manual {{ nofootnotes}} and {{ Morefootnotes}}, should be placed at the references section and not at the top. Can AWB move these templates in the correct place? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:46, 26 January 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4264 The template will be moved from the zeroth section to the top of the first of the 'References', 'Notes' or 'Footnotes' sections if found. Rjwilmsi 18:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | It would be awesome if I could just paste list from clipboard. Some tools, like WP:CHECK, generates plaintext lists on remote servers. Right now, if I want to use them, I have to copy them, paste into new text file, save it (and set proper encoding), choose "From text file", load it in AWB. It would be much easier, if I could just choose "From clipboard" and click "Make". Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 20:21, 3 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Works for me now. — Ree dy 20:38, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Currently there is no way to sort the summeries in AWB. This change would add a button to the summeries option allowing users to sort the summeries. |
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I think that this is already possible by going to options (the drop down menu at the top of the screen, not the tab) and selected "edit summaries" or something similar (not positive that's where it is though; I'm not using AWB at the moment). – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 00:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4311 — Ree dy 20:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | {{ expand}} reads: "{{Expand}} should not be used on articles concurrently with stub templates - a stub template is an explicit request for expansion. It should only be used on articles that are beyond stub length, in place of a stub template." If the Article issues then AWB has to remove the expand parameter from it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | I would like to suggest new logic be added to place brackets around reference links without them. This page is included as an example.-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Okay, I'll get this done in the next few days. Rjwilmsi 17:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC) rev 4387 display alert "unformatted references found" if references section of article contains bare URLs. Rjwilmsi 18:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Replace all instances of {{BASEPAGENAME}} with {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}; this came up in some general fixes where there is a very poorly done DEFAULTSORT, but it could be a nice fix in general. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4342 BASEPAGENAME treated the same as PAGENAME. Rjwilmsi 16:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Missing opening or closing brackets, table and template markup, I enumerated the various steps involved in fixing broken syntax like these. Possibly there is a way AWB could preload the sections and assist manual fixes of these. -- User:Docu |
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Description | A general fix to remove links to the current article and replace them with standard text... e.g., in the article Dog replace [[Dog]] with Dog. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 20:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Why I think there is an active discussion about that and that there was no consensus for that action? Is there anything written in the Manual of Style about that? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
AWB always used to do this, what happened? Rich Farmbrough, 13:35 11 May 2009 (UTC).
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Description | For example, in this edit AWB should have noticed it had two parameters named "update". |
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If the values of the parameters are different, only a warning can be given.-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
This may already be partially implemented. rev 4312 just automagically made this edit. Perhaps the problem with my example above is that AWB was adding a parameter without checking if it already existed (in which case this would be a bug not a feature request). -- Pascal 666 05:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4140 Added for {{ article issues}} and citation templates. Rjwilmsi 17:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Basically what it says. Even with the minimum number of links requirement, the removal of links from section headers still get a good number of false positives, especially in articles about days and years. If this could be considered a MOS fix the same way that the date ordinal fixing is so that it can be turned off easily for bot use, that would be great. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drilnoth ( talk • contribs) |
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rev 4660, rev 4661 Exceptions added: month name in title, year in title, title starts with 'List of'. Rjwilmsi 16:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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rev 4324 Provide option to not use section edit summaries. Rjwilmsi 20:01, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | The value in %%key%% (or inserted with right click / Insert tag / Human name DEFAULTSORT or Human name disambig tag) should follow the rule that the first letter of every word should be upper case and every other letter should be lower case. Currently (SVN 4340), AWB appears to correctly implement upper/lower case only for surnames. For example, it correctly does Maurice DuBois and Chris d'Lacey but gets LuAnn Ridgeway and Jan van Eyck wrong. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 06:18, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4336 Applies this logic to the defaultsort key within the MetaDataSorter (AWB automatic addition/correction of defaultsort). I'll look into whether insertion via right click calls the same logic. Rjwilmsi 07:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | AWB doesn't detect the presence of multiple DEFAULTSORTs. Multiple DEFAULTSORTs also seem to prevent AWB from detecting duplicate categories. An example is this version of the James M. Phillips page. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 07:04, 6 June 2009 (UTC) |
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If would add to this: If both DEFAULTSORT and Lifetime exist then subst Lifetime to reveal categories and remove duplicated defaultsort. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:54, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I mentioned this in passing up a ways, but I wanted to ensure that it had been seen. I'd really appreciate it if the "FixDateOrdinalsAndOf" general fix could be deactivated in the "options" drop down box the same way that "sort interwikis" can. This particular fix gets enough false positives (things like book and film names, quotations, etc.) that it can't be done reliably by bot, but this is the only general fix that I need to have disabled at this point which can only be turned off via a custom module. It would be really nice to be able to use actual gen fixes and just deactivate this one, since there are a number of AWB features (like some of the skip options) which require general fixes to be used, and custom modules aren't general fixes. Thanks! – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 17:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Still believe all such fixes should be applied by bots to maximise the value of their edits, but rev 4490 you have your option "Do not apply WP:MOS fixes". Rjwilmsi 18:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There are sections in the United States Naval Aviator article that contain brackets. I think that AWB has an edit for this but may not go down far enough in the sections. Could we fix this so that it will remove brackets down to 4 levels.-- Kumioko ( talk) 02:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Within Parsers.FixHeadings() RegexRemoveHeadingsInLinks
, (which should be named RegexRemoveLinksInHeadings) is already supposed to support headings to level 4. There are no unit tests to cover it at level 4 though. We should add
Assert.AreEqual("===hello world ===", Parsers.FixHeadings("===hello [[world]] ===", "a"));
Assert.AreEqual("====hello world ====", Parsers.FixHeadings("====hello [[world]] ====", "a"));
Assert.AreEqual("====United States Marine Corps====", Parsers.FixHeadings("====[[United States Marine Corps]]====", "a"));
and see if they pass. If they don't then RegexRemoveHeadingsInLinks
has a bug. I'm not at my PC so can't do this myself.
Rjwilmsi 17:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4390 A bug really, now fixed. Diff of AWB edit. Rjwilmsi 18:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Please remove this or provide an opt-out option. AWB shouldn't do things like this, and there are plenty of other cases where doing this automatically is a Bad Thing. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 19:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | This request actually consists of two parts:
– BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 21:43, 18 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | I have recently started working closer with featured content reviews and there are some things that have come up that I think would be good additions to AWB.
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rev 4573 Adds request 1. Request 2: 'no way'. Request 3: no consensus to always do this even though it's the majority opinion. Rjwilmsi 14:25, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | See Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Maxlag_parameter and mw:Maxlag_parameter. -- kingboyk 14:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC) |
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I suppose that it could be accomplished using the nudge timer? Does it work ok currently? MaxSem 18:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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Description | If an article has 3 or more tags, then make it easy to merge them all into a single {{ articleissues}} tag. -- Gary King ( talk) 20:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC) |
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{{cleanup|date=January 2008}} {{story|date=January 2009}} becomes {{articleissues|cleanup=January 2008|story=January 2009}}. I don't find it so important to implement. For me would be better if we could implement the following: Id Articleissues has only one issue (this means only one "|") then convert it to the original template. This means that {{articleissues|cleanup=January 2008}} has to change to {{cleanup|date=January 2008}}-- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Before the keywords that I've proposed are implemented in "stone", I would like to change them. I've realized that it would reduce the learning curve if they were the same as wikipedia's
magic words. Some maybe useful to convert hard-coded strings to variables, while others maybe used to work around bugs. I list bellow what I believe are the most useful keywords to implement
It's probably a good idea to include the "E" version as well.
Apparently there been bug in with subst: in the ref tags, they maynot be all that useful since they rely on the user correctly keeping time.
Useful to convert hard-coded edit links.
— Dispenser 02:00, 18 June 2007 (UTC) |
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Well, if they were the same as the wikipedia ones, there would be nothing to do in AWB, as wikipedia would process it - Ie there would be no point doing it in AWB aswell. Reedy Boy 10:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Still wanted, presumably? — Ree dy 21:10, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
[11] - Implemented as such. Looks fine on that, just needs some tests implementing into AWB for it. — Ree dy 22:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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Description | Can you please restore the "Filter out non main space" option back to the List right-click context menu? I used it quite often while using AWB and miss it now that it's not there. Also, could you add an ellipsis to the Filter button so that it's easier to tell that when you click on the button, it brings up a dialog box? Harryboyles 16:27, 16 July 2008 (UTC) |
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Not needed as it already exists in the List menu and it's sticky there too. I'll keep the thing about ellipsis in mind as I go through the interface. — Dispenser 17:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Quite. MS doesn't always follow its own guidelines and different products have different implementations. Other corporations are similar. We can be happy if our only usability problem is choosing between a corporation's guidance and its flagship implementation. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Exception: Don't display shortcut key assignments within context menus. Context menus don't display the shortcut key assignments because they are optimized for efficiency.
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Description | Create a 'View' menu. Many applications have a 'View' menu. If AWB is similar to other applications, it is easier to learn/train and easier to design/maintain. The View menu contains things that change appearance but make no difference to the function. For example, I would suggest moving the following out of the 'Options' menu into a 'View' menu:
I would consider moving things from elsewhere in the interface into the 'View' menu e.g.:
Lightmouse ( talk) 13:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Do you have a method of searching the GUI code for the terms 'Display' or 'Show'? If you haven't, I can go through it in more detail later. I found another instance in 'Preferences' but I thought it might be best where it is (I haven't got access to AWB right now to tell you exactly). Incidentally, I usually consider verb forms of 'Display' to be inferior synonyms of 'Show'. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I now have the 'View' menu (svn 3672). Nice. Thank you. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Do what Legobot II does! See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot II 2. AWB already replaces {{ Unreferenced}} with {{unreferenced|date=CURRENTMONTH CURRENTYEAR}} so I guess we can expand this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC) |
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RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(wikify(-date)?|wfy|wiki)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Wikify|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Clean( ?up)?|CU|Tidy)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Cleanup|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Linkless|Orphan)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Orphan|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Uncategori[sz]ed|Uncat|Classify|Category needed|Catneeded|categori[zs]e|nocats?)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Uncategorized|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Unreferenced(sect)?|add references|cite[ -]sources?|cleanup-sources?|needs? references|no sources|no references?|not referenced|references|unref|unsourced)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Unreferenced|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Trivia2?|Too ?much ?trivia|Trivia section|Cleanup-trivia)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Trivia|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(deadend|DEP)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{deadend|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(copyedit|g(rammar )?check|copy-edit|cleanup-copyedit|cleanup-english)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{copyedit|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(sources|refimprove)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{refimprove|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
AWB already does all of those... Can easily be expanded — Ree dy 12:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would like support for a few templares.
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I think that automatic tagging based on expressions without reading the context is a bit dangerous to have many false positives. You can request a bot as a beginning. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Keep in mind that an editor can review the changes and remove the tags if they are unwarrented in the editbox. However, articleissues would be nice on substubs where tags can crowd content.--- Ipatrol ( talk) 13:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
When an article has two or more top-of-page templates supported by Template:Article issues (see here, these templates should be replaced by Template:Article issues, including the dates in which the original templates were added. This would aim to make articles look more tidy by consolidating maintenance templates. -- Oldak Quill 01:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The answer to the second question is yes. In the first the answer is a question: What is better? Right now it's case sensitive but if you think it's better to change it I would be very happy. This would save us from some code checks in {{ Article issues}}. I really hope you take a look at the code there and simplify it. PS Nice piece of job. Next level: Add a blank page to AWB and it will make the article for you :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Remove double "|" inside templates. This will save us from some funny situations like this one Magioladitis ( talk) 18:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Is it possible to implement it for infoboxes and WPBS? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I think the templates that contain the "=" sign can't have double | or am I wrong? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
One last solution I am proposing is to implement it as part of the KingbotK plugin only for WPBS, WPBiography and their redirects. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Counter: It would be nice to see a number next to the "multiple link" in question that would tell you how many time that link is there. Electron (2) is probably not a problem, but proton (24) is most probably a case of overlinking.
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Description | Per
Defaultsort there is some formatting cleanup that could be added to AWB. Below are a few that do not appear to currently be captured as edits in AWB.
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I don't understand why this should be in general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:30, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
One of the genfixes removes accents from defaultsort, so there is precedent. -- NE2 16:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Saint is not always an epithet. In the Saint October case, no defaulsort should be added. In general this request sounds to me more like a Bot request that will work with false positives. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
p.
or pp.
and the page number(s)?p.
or pp.
with a non-breaking space?22,27,143
to 22, 27, 143
296–299
to 296–99
1296–1302
to 1296–302
Requested of SmackBot by Finell,copied here by Rich Farmbrough, 11:39 11 May 2009 (UTC).
Done rev 4616 Implement requests 1 and 2. Rjwilmsi 13:43, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | General fix to remove all bold-text generating syntax (HTML <b></b> and wikitext ''') from section headers; this syntax is almost always unnessecary (right now AWB just removes it from the start and end). WP:CHECKWIKI #44. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4348 Part implementation: remove bold from level 3 headers and below, as it makes no visible difference. Rjwilmsi 20:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Currently AWB will notify users of "Alerts" in RED in the "Alerts" section but I would like to suggest some improvements to this. 1) Is there someplace where we can see what all the alerts are? If not I recommend making it visible, such as a page similar to the typos. 2) Allow users to add their own alerts (for example no persondata temaplate or infobox). 3) Allow users the option of stopping if a certain alert is present, for example Long article with a stub.-- Kumioko ( talk) 16:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4508 Option to skip pages if no alerts. Rjwilmsi 08:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I think that option should ignore all these configurations: Grafika:.*?\.... (sample regex maybe there are better, that's example for .pl) because images are included in tables and galleries as well (maybe this regex won't match for galleries but sth should be applied for them anyway) -- 84.234.42.68 15:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | What precisely is the point of comparing lists if I can't save the results? Didn't there used to be a "Save List" button under each results column of the List Comparer? If so, why were they rmvd? Ling.Nut ( talk— WP:3IAR) 06:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC) |
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Seems to be a resolution related problem as the buttons are there on my version... — Ree dy 19:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
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Description | The idea is to help when making maintenance edits in very large texts. We currently have more than 3000 articles that need wikifying at pt.wiki [16] . If it was possible to (right) click on a word that needs an internal link and AWB would add it, that would be great. Maybe some function that can be selected or de-selected at will. Not sure if it is easy or not, bu that would make our life a lot easier. GoEThe ( talk) 11:10, 19 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | It would help a lot to have AWB automaticlly "ignore" pages with no changes. This would especially help when 90+ percent of the articles have no change and there are is a large number of articles. In such cases, the user could start the process and check on it to verify changes and let it run when there are no changes and not have to sit there and keep clicking the "ignore" button. Bubba73 (talk), 03:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Can a new option be added to AWB to allow users to insert the Person data. As I see it this could be done automatically where there is sufficient data in the infobox or as an insert tag option similar to the DEFAULTSORT tag. I know that we can add the meta-data template but it seems like we can make that more automated. There is already a java script that does some on the Person data page.-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC) |
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Description | I think it would be great to program in some additional support for adding infoboxes and person data templates. Currently all the data must be manually input when the infobox or person data template is added by some of the info (like the name, or info from categories) could be programmed in allowing the infobox and person data templates to be added faster and more accurately.-- Kumioko ( talk) 13:07, 16 April 2008 (UTC) |
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Duplicate of #Populate_PERSONDATA_template_with_data_from_the_infobox_or_categories. Rjwilmsi 19:37, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would like to see some functionality in AWB that would add the Person data template for biographical artcles with the data populated using either categories or INFOBOX data. I have added this data to several articesl and have found it to be extremely time consuming to do manually. ---- Kumioko ( talk) 11:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC) |
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I think someone can make a module for that but it shouldn't be a built-in feature. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
If someone wants to do that, better create a bot. This needs to get through BAG team. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Per
Wikipedia:MOS#Avoid contractions, have AWB expand contractions (change can't into can not etc.) in articles when they are not between quotation marks or within a quote template. One technique to try may be if there are an even number of " before the contraction in the article then remove it, if an odd number then leave it. Would this be plausible or would there be so many exceptions that it is too difficult to implement?
James086
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Email 09:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
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It would be possible to achieve via WP:RETF, when we patch it not to touch quotes. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 20:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
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Description | Sometimes people add text at the bottom of the article UNDER categories. AWB places text about it, but it would be better IF external links section exists to put it above it. See here and here. Magioladitis 22:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | Could AWB check if there's any content before the first set of ===s – excluding templates – and if not, add {{ intro-missing}}? Or am I missing the point of this? Seegoon ( talk) 01:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC) |
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==foo== Foo was a blah blah blah
So the problem here is not that the there is an intro missing but that they should not be a header. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | When AWB encounters an article that it can't access, generally because the wiki database is locked, it deletes the article from the search list and moves on. Since this is a much faster process than actually searching the article, a minute of locked database can means dozens of articles that are never searched. Why not add an option to have such articles returned to the bottom of the search list, or maybe just left in place, so they can be searched later? kwami ( talk) 00:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC) |
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I don't see the need to change anything here – the articles log is filterable to find any inaccessible articles, and they can be added back to the list from there. Rjwilmsi 12:17, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would wish for AWB to remove links/references to deleted images/media/whatever. This is an example of what I am talking about: <!-- Deleted image removed: File:samsuiwomen.jpg|Samsui Women (undated), [[Singapore Art Museum]]. --> User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC) |
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As per IRC, i'll consider making an IFD++ to remove <!-- [[Image:DeletedImage.jpg]] --> — Ree dy 15:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Would it be possible to write a version of AWB for Mac OSX? ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 14:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Right now, there are only two "skip" options one to skip articles that contain X, the other to skip articles that don't contain X. I'd like the option of skipping articles that contain both X and Y in separate places, or that contain either X or Y, or that don't contain either X or Y. bd2412 T 07:21, 11 February 2009 (UTC) |
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All of the above can be achieved using regular expressions with the existing AWB release. If you don't know regex leave me a message with your particular needs and I can help you out. Rjwilmsi 07:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC
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Description | Please treat <poem> like a quote template. I can protect quotes using 'ht.Hide' and/or 'ht.HideMore'. Can one of these be extended to include <poem>? An example of <poem> is in And did those feet in ancient time Lightmouse ( talk) 12:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Thanks. I am using svn3950 and it doesn't appear to be in that. Which version is it in? Lightmouse ( talk) 13:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I will download and test it later. You guys do great work. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Format Infobox and Taxobox as indicated below. |
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A very high proportion of articles begin with either an Infobox or a Taxobox template. Some are tidy and easy to read, but many are a ragged mess. I have thought about how it might be possible to tidy-up these templates using regex expressions, but for various reasons this turns out to be very difficult. However, an algorithm for tidying these template should be pretty straightforward and might be built into AWB.
I would move to suggest that the best arrangment for such templates is to have each parameter on a new line immediatley preceeded by a space, the pipe (vertical bar) character and a single space. The parameter name should then apprear, followed by a variable number of spaces, an equals sign, a single space and then the parameter value. The parameter value may itself contain a template, in which case it should be reproduced exactly as it was left by the previous editor, but if it contains new line with a pipe as the first non-whitespace character, the line should be padded with preceeding spaces to align the pipe with the opening curly brackets of the template.
For example:
{{Infobox_nrhp | name = Burns Cottage | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = [[Atlanta, GA]] | lat_degrees = 33 | lat_minutes = 43 | lat_seconds = 36.9 | lat_direction = N | long_degrees = 84 | long_minutes = 21 | long_seconds = 19.86 | long_direction = W | area = | built = 1911 | architect = Morgan, Thomas H.; McWhirter, Robert M. | added = [[December 1]], [[1983]] | governing_body = Private | refnum = 83003572<ref name="nris">{{cite web | url = http://www.nr.nps.gov/ | title = National Register Information System | date = 2007-01-23 | work = National Register of Historic Places | publisher = National Park Service }}</ref> }}
Just as a comment, this would need to be opt-outable. I agree it would be nice to auto-tidy some infoboxes, but non-tidy infoboxes also have their uses in helping you to identify "old" ones that need their content updating. FlagSteward ( talk) 11:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
For the reasons above we can't implement this feature request. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | AWB should probably ignore wikilinks in infoboxes and other templates and not consider them as duplicate. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 22:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | MOS:LINK advises to "Avoid placing two links next to each other in the text so that they look like one link (such as internal links)." — I believe a suggestion to correct such confusing consecutive links should be added to AWB's suggested edits. Everyme 11:23, 25 October 2008 (UTC) |
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This kind of changes should be done manually and not automatic. There can be no specific rules to do it. Linking heavily depends on the context. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
There is no clear consensus of how this is done and always depends on the context. A semi-automated bot could do this job partially. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | It would be useful to have AWB automatically replace [[Image:Some picture.jpg]] with [[File:Some picture.jpg]] but not |Image = to |File =. I realise that a simple searc and replace would do that just as well but an automatic feature would be more useful. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 05:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Seems like a good general fix that wouldn't hurt if done with substantive edits. -- NE2 22:13, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I like to do other things while AWB does its thing, but I don't know when it has found something and has stopped. Would it be possible to make the start bar flash or something similar when it has come to a stop?-- Jonru ( talk) 11:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | This change would add a function to the list of options when the mouse is right clicked on the edit text area to no wiki selected text (I recommend adding this after the comment selected option). Currently it is possible to comment out selected text but not to no wiki it so it is still visible.-- Kumioko ( talk) 13:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Now that the text editor has been upgraded in AWB I would like to ask that functionality be added to AWB to allow the users to highlight specific changes in a different color so they stand out more. For example I find it difficult to see the first highlighted unbalanced bracket found when there are other changes as well. If I could change this to a different color or if AWB changed to a different color based on the type of edit, it would make it a lot easier to see and make changes. Here is an example of what I am thinking about. |
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Description | When AWB is browsing through a list of articles, it emits some Windows default "click" sound every time it loads a new article. I think this is not very useful and becomes irritating very soon. A better scheme would be a scheme where AWB would only emit a sound when it encounters an article that needs manual inspection. — ZeroOne ( talk / @) 07:59, 23 April 2009 (UTC) |
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I think this has to do Windows and it can't be fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
AWB already has the beep for ready to save.. Its just off by default. Options --> Preferences, Editing and saving tab, When ready to save, tick beep, ok, save your settings. As for the IE click, check the FAQ on WP:AWB — Ree dy 15:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | On some long pages, empty parameters (like |coauthors = | ) can sometimes take up a lot of extra space if they aren't removed when the citation is added, which can affect loading time (I think) and can make it harder to edit the article because of all of the useless additional text. Typically, having such empty parameters in infoboxes is good, but if AWB could be programmed so that one of its general fixes was to remove empty parameters from citation templates, that would be great. Thanks! –
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Description | I'd like a feature while running a bot for it to halt on certain conditions to allow me to exam the page more closely. I would like an option to test a regex on the page after processing has completed. This could conceivably be worked in as a skip option, where I could re-run the page after the initial pass. — Dispenser 05:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC) |
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What my plugin does is open bad pages in the browser; they can be fed back into AWB later if need be*. That way the bot doesn't stop processing, a feature which would annoy more people than it would help I suspect. Would that be a better option? Either way we could certainly consider a "halt or open in browser on hitting regex x" feature I guess. -- kingboyk ( talk) 09:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC) *I use the skip log for feeding pages back in. -- kingboyk ( talk) 09:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
What I am really asking for is a if is a set of Skip if contains
and Skip if doesn't contains
that are evaluated after the regexes have finished parsing. There's been a similar request here before to have this too. It's a good idea since bot ops can ensure the saved page is correct. —
Dispenser 00:47, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
rev 4873 Option to apply Skip if contains
and Skip if doesn't contains
after processing the page.
Rjwilmsi 10:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | "Skip -> Page is redirect" and "Skip -> No alerts" lack tooltip texts. Add something like "Automatically skips articles if they are redirects" and "Automatically skips articles if they are no alerts" -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4872 used "if there are no alerts". Rjwilmsi 09:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | For some templates with many synonyms (redirects) it may be a good idea to replace one version with a better (less confusing, controversial etc.) one, or rather with the "real" template. I'm thinking especially of automatically replacing {{ fact}} with {{ citation needed}}. (Yes, that template has been renamed.) Change {{ cn}} to {{ citation needed}}. (The short version makes me think of China.) I guess there are tons of other cases. The change would be visible only in the wiki-source, not on the article page.-- ospalh ( talk) 11:22, 6 July 2009 (UTC) |
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Ospalh, I prefer {{ fact}} with {{tl|citation needed} because is sorter and used in thousands of articles. moreover, I don't think there a consensus for that. As a general advice I think it's better before adding a request in here to seek consensus in the template pages. Friendly, Magioladitis ( talk) 11:32, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
rev 4819 Implemented as requested. Rjwilmsi 15:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | The feature is good as far as it goes, but I find it a hassle to right click, click Paste More, then double click the entry I want to insert.
How about changing the menu from having 10 edit boxes to having 10 regular menu items, and a configure box (at the bottom, after a separator line) to bring up the UI to add/edit entries. Then the menu items can get keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+0..9) so inserting the text is easy. It might need an Edit menu item adding to the application menu to make that happen, I'm not sure. You might also have to limit how much of the text gets shown as menu text to prevent the menu from getting infeasibly wide, but that (and the option to allow the user to choose that limit) could come later. ClickRick ( talk) 11:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Added in rev4877 ClickRick ( talk) 01:02, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | WP recently changed the file extention from Image to File and I think that AWB should also replace these. -- Kumioko ( talk) 13:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Check this one. I would like to be able to keep the piping in the category. I would prefer if that was optional. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:34, 13 June 2009 (UTC) |
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I don't understand what you're asking for: if you remove a category its sortkey has to go with it. Rjwilmsi 18:13, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | When AWB finds {{Commons|Category:Gander International Airport|Gander International Airport}} it gets replaced with {{commons cat|Gander International Airport|Gander International Airport}} but it should give {{commons cat|Gander International Airport}} provided the wording is the same on both sides of the pipe. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 07:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Agreed, per documentation at Template:Commons_cat. I'll do this in the next few days. Rjwilmsi 13:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Add a simple list provider to take a url like " http://toolserver.org/~sk/checkwiki/enwiki/enwiki_error_list_error_047.html" and add the contents to the list. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 12:36, 7 June 2009 (UTC) |
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I had a go at doing this myself; a basic implementation (which works at the very least) is:
(Lengthy code removed.)
This should save some time for all the people using AWB for CheckWiki fixes, probably a request about it up there ^ somewhere. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 12:36, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | An idea that I think would be really cool is a tab that shows what links to an article currently being edited, what transcludes the current page, and/or (what I really want) what articles include the current image. The idea just hit me that I could use AWB to help with the image backlogs at CAT:CSD, Especially with the Category:Orphaned fairuse images, because you can see at a glance whether an image is orphaned or not. Harryboyles 11:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC) |
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yeah, i asked for something like this a while ago... don't know what happened to it... - ΖαππερΝαππερ Babel Alexandria 20:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
(Lengthy code removed.)
rev 4476/ rev 4477 — Ree dy 15:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Because it's a real pain when you get four errors every time you click on it because of IE. This patch may well do it. (Alas, you can't copy and paste that directly because it's misinterpreted @@ as "please highlight this line.) - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 17:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4440, we already had it enabled for the main web control :) — Ree dy 18:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'm listing this as a feature request rather than a typo just to make sure it gets proper exposure, and it's not as trivial a fix as taoster → toaster. Often, exponents are written as x-2 rather than x−2 [x<sup>-2</sup> vs. x<sup>−2</sup>]. I think there would be an incredibly low false positive rate if AWB recognized -(number) and changed it to −(number) [<sup>-(number)</sup> vs. <sup>−(number)</sup>]. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:33, 4 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Upon detecting any of the below in an article, it would be nice if AWB would add the article to
Category:Substituted templates and disable all other automatic changes (both user defined and general fixes). Automatic changes on articles with substituted templates just tend to make a bigger mess of things. Note the last item below is a regex.
<noinclude> </noinclude> <includeonly> </includeonly> <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> {{{[1-9]}}} |
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Mainspace only for category? And the sorting general fix will still have to be applied to get the new category in the right place.
Rjwilmsi 21:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Recently added text at Category:Substituted templates said "These keywords should never be found in the main namespace." I have removed that sentence because it is incorrect, contradicting pages such as Help:Template#Template-like constructions and WP:Transclusion#Partial transclusion. Pages containing these constructs are not necessarily the result of substituted templates and should not be added to the category just because they contain them. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There are many cases where an article's only level 2 headers are for things like "references", "see also", or "external links", since many bots correct such sections to use the proper header level. When such headers (at level 2) are present, could AWB be made to ignore them when determining when to decrease the header level for other headers? E.g., an article has two headers at level three and then "references" at level two. AWB would change them all to be level 2. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 16:19, 4 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Bug: Unforeseen problem with feature request which has been discovered since code was implemented and which should be fixed, but which does not fit the definition of "bug" :) : It shouldn't change any headers, regardless of level, that are underneath those common headers.
This is an error, for example. –
Drilnoth (
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Description | Could the summary editor be fixed to allow newlines to be added with the Enter key? I think this used to work, but now, pressing Enter while in the text area instead "activates" the OK button. (As a workaround, use Ctrl-Enter.)
Also, could a scroll bar be enabled? Most people probably don't have so many possible summaries, but it would be helpful for those of us who do. I'm using SVN 4369, but the situation was the same with 4340. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Perhaps AWB already does this, but I would be nice if duplicate refs would be merged. Aka it would change to
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:30, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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I added logic to tidy duplicate references that already have names. AWB does not yet do anything with unnamed duplicate references but I have logic to do this, and intend to add it soon-ish. Rjwilmsi 11:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Could this be added using names like "autogenerated1", "autogenerated2", etc.? There is now a truly massive list at WP:CHECKWIKI (39638 times right now), and combining them with undescriptive names would make more sense to me than leaving them separated. That list is too big for any human to do without an über automated tool, so having AWBots able to do this would be very useful. The specific names could then be made more descriptive by a human editor at some later date (which is still easier than doing the whole merge, IMO). – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 21:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
rev 4437 and rev 4442 Work in progress. Rjwilmsi 11:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
rev 4535 Promoted to live. New function DuplicateUnnamedReferences within Parsers. Test it carefully before running in bot mode. Rjwilmsi 18:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates contains a table which lists several incorrect date styles. Based on the results of
this test, AWB currently corrects only four of these incorrect styles. I believe that an additional two could be added to AWB without significantly affecting the likelihood for false positives:
I do not believe that the other corrections ( |
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//Replace 1 January XXXX date style with January 1, XXXX
ArticleText = Regex.Replace(ArticleText, @"(?i)([0-3][\d]|[\d])(?:st|nd|rd|th|)\s(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)", "$2 $1,");
-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:24, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Black Falcon's two requests are reasonable. However, fro Kumioko's request, I don't think AWB should be converting between valid date formats. There is too much contention in this area, and too many users who would find reasons to complain. Rjwilmsi 10:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
This should implemented as a typo fixing rule so that users could see and ignore false positives. Consider:
I think the existing AWB logic goes as far as can be done with high accuracy and low controversy. Rjwilmsi 15:39, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Named references should almost always have quote marks in the name, so code like <ref name=myname /> should be <ref name="myname" /> and <ref name=myname>(citation)</ref> should be <ref name="myname">(citation)</ref>. See Wikipedia:Footnotes#Naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once for details. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 22:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC) |
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No for the moment - AWB already adds quotes to named refs where they are indeed neeeded. Rjwilmsi 14:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
(Request template removed; fix below works fine) I'm hoping this can be added because I'd like to be able to go through a list of pages and remove a certain template, regardless of its parameters. The closest option currently is just to use Find and Replace to get rid of the template, but this really only works if the template is the exact same each time. With the template I'm trying to remove, {{ AFC submission}}, the parameters change with each use of the template, since it has a timestamp parameter and a creator parameter. If there's some way to do this using RegEx then I apoloize for my ignorance and would appreciate being told how to do this. Thanks much, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 23:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Add the <references/> with section header to articles which use Extension:Cite, but lack said tag. An implementation currently exists in DumZiBot. For more background see User talk:NicDumZ#Question. — Dispenser 13:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC) |
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Description | While working on my external links script I came across some broken link which were only caused by syntax. the format of the links are [http://...index.html''title text'']. [1] The reason why they show up correctly is because the mediaWiki parser changes ''text'' to <i>text</i> and the link does not included <> eg *[http:// www.stickycarpet.com/dam/dam194X.htm Complete 194X series] . Please a general rule that'll fix this. — Dispenser 22:25, 14 July 2007 (UTC) |
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\[\w://[^][<>"\s]*?''[^][]*\]
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Dispenser 18:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Rule: Add space to external links separated by a HTML entity and double-quote Replace: \[(\w://[^][<>" ]*)([<>"][^][]*)\] With: [$1 $2] Rule: Add space to external links separated by wikimarkup converted into HTML entities Replace: \[(\w://[^][<>" ]*?)(''[^][]*)\] With: [$1 $2]
Tests:
As you can see not at full proof as I'd like, however, I'd say that the " and double don't have flaws. — Dispenser ( talk) 07:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
# Commons fixes for URLs
text = re.sub(r'(http:?/+)+', 'http://', text) # Silently correct http://http:// mistakes
text = re.sub(r"(\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)''", r"\1 ''", text) # Italics and bold misforgivings in the php render
Some code from my tools. — Dispenser 04:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
(http:?/+)\1
(replacing with http://
). Of these, about still 454 contained errors yesterday, which I've now fixed. I think this can be included as a new general fix. I'll have a look at the second one this evening.
Rjwilmsi 07:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[www.site.com''my cool site'']
is displayed and linked the same way as [www.site.com ''my cool site'']
. Still, it perhaps makes things neater (like Category: instead of category:) so can be a new general fix too. However, a related fix is (\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)\|''
to $1 ''
and this fixes [www.site.com|''my cool site'']
which links with the bar at the end of the URL (i.e. incorrectly), to [www.site.com ''my cool site'']
. So I certainly I propose this as a general fix. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 20:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)The two fixes I proposed worked without error, please now add them as general fixes. Thanks Rjwilmsi 22:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
text = re.sub(r'(http:?/+)+', 'http://', text) # Silently correct http://http:// mistakes
and
(\[\w+://[^][<>\"\s]*?)\|''
to $1 ''
? — Ree dy 09:05, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Available in 4.5.0.0 release. Rjwilmsi 19:28, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'd like to use AWB on a third-party site to simplify some mass changes I have planned (template removal) but the site relies on the ".php5" extension to function properly. This is a hosted site and unfortunately this cannot be changed. As a result, I get the "Error connecting to wiki" error message. I know the custom site info is set properly in the AWB preferences. Is there somewhere I can tweak the AWB settings to look for the ".php5" extension instead of ".php" or am I just SOL on this? Thanks! -- B.Rossow talk contr 20:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
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For my info, just entry points - index.php, api.php — Ree dy 17:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Often times, multiples references are not sorted in order. For example you might have a text like this:
I propose that AWB orders the refs so they always appear in order (i.e. like this):
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:42, 29 December 2008 (UTC) |
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rev 3986 Added logic to handle three or more consecutive references. Done. Rjwilmsi 23:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Could (as part of the "apply general fixes" feature) AWB add non breaking spaces? Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Non-breaking spaces there should be a between a measurement and a unit so that it doesn't wrap onto the next line leaving 4 on one line and kg on the next.
User:AndyZ/peerreviewer picks up on this so perhaps there would be a hint in the code there? Thanks,
James086
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Email 12:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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If we ask nicely, i suppose, we can probably use the regex's/whatever and add via a similar method... Reedy Boy 22:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Yes and no. You could probably do it manually via that method, but to include it automatically in the general fixes, i presume, it would be a set of regular expressions looking for certain matches, and then replacing the space in it with a non-break space Reedy Boy 09:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Not really in this case. A linebreak between a measurement and the unit is more difficult to read than the same without the linebreak, and measurement + unit is often so short it does not matter when it comes to small screens. Denying this feature because of screen real estate would be kind of similar to restricting usage of long words. Plrk ( talk) 21:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Just incase anyone's unclear on this, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Non-breaking spaces states that nbsp's are only needed for abbreviations and symbols, so spelled-out unit won't need them. Epbr123 ( talk) 23:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
<find>\b(\d?\.?\d+)\s*((?:c|m|k|n)(?:m|g)|A|K|mol|cd)\b</find>
<replace>$1 $2</replace>
<Comment>add a non-breaking space between amount and unit such as 3.54mm, 50km, 5 cm, 3.2mol etc.</Comment>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
How does it look? Thanks Rjwilmsi 01:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
rev 3851 Logic similar to the above added to cover the most common base units (but not plain 'm' and 's' due to '50m people' and '1980s' etc.). Rjwilmsi 19:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | According to MoS ( WP:ACCESS templates as {{ for}}, {{ otheruses}}, etc. should be placed at the very first line of the article before other tags of article content. Can AWB move these templates on the very top? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | That's an easy one. If there is at least one <ref></ref> replace {{ nofootnotes}} with {{ Morefootnotes}}. I would also suggest if there "many", let's say five, to get a warning, in the same box that indicated that no categories were found, like "consider removing morefootnotes" -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:34, 3 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates: "Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes or articles". Could removal of ordinal indicators be automated? As far as I can determine, the only instance where straightforward removal of an ordinal suffix would result in an error is for dates in "the Xth of May" format (e.g. "the 14th of February"). Perhaps AWB could check for the presence of an "of" after the ordinal suffix and skip these cases... Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC) |
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rev 3874 New ('significant') general fixes to remove ordinals from American/International dates, and to remove 'of' between a month and a year per WP:MOS standards. Text in quotes, external links, templates etc. excluded. Rjwilmsi 00:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC) rev 3892 Don't catch "the Xth Month" or "the Month Xth" as changing such sentences makes them read badly. Rjwilmsi 15:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Split 'Auto tag' into 'Auto tag (add)' and 'Auto tag (remove)'. I think there are far too many tags on articles and I would like to be able to remove them automatically. I have no interest in adding more so I don't use the current 'Auto tag' feature because it adds them. We discussed this before. I hope you don't mind me asking again. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:27, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
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The 'Auto tag' feature says that it does two things:
I would be delighted to be able to remove excessive tags but I do not want to add tags. Can this feature be split? Lightmouse ( talk) 12:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
It will be nice if you can get it working. Lightmouse ( talk) 09:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
I have seen pages with:
I am sure there are more examples of tag use that I wouldn't like. Excessive tagging is probably due to misplaced enthusiasm by editors, rather than AWB. I have used 'merge' tags on a few occasions but in general I would like to see a net decrease in tags. Consequently, the remove tags part of the feature is something I welcome. Lightmouse ( talk) 12:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. It currently has one checkbox with the label: 'Auto tag'. I imagine two checkboxes with labels 'Auto add tags' and 'Auto remove tags'. Or something like that. I look forward to seeing it on the gui when you have time. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thinking it through: I would class removing tags as a 'general fix'. So it should probably be added to that. The existing 'Auto tag' checkbox would be reduced in scope to adding tags only, but the label would not need to change. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I look forward to getting it. I don't propose any tests but will run some if you want. Lightmouse ( talk) 17:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There have been a number of good new additions to the AWB general fixes just recently. Some of these general fixes are more than just trivial changes, and in fact make a visible or significant change to the article (e.g. correcting a malformatted external link). Therefore I would like to differentiate between trivial and visible general fixes, and then introduce a third skip option which would say "skip if only trivial general fixes". Of course, we would need to agree which general fixes are trivial, and which make a visible difference. Thanks. Rjwilmsi 09:54, 21 September 2008 (UTC) |
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General fixes are by definition trivial, although that doesn't stop us from including them as a test in the DB scanner. — Dispenser 01:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
rev 3857 Initial implementation of the above. FixSyntax and AddMissingReflist are marked as 'significant' general fixes. Other fixes need to be reviewed to see if they are significant too. Rjwilmsi 18:59, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Module to have similar 'Ignore...' settings as in 'Normal settings', 'Find & Replace' dialog. Can you make it so that module users can ignore certain things like 'inside links', 'inside quotes'? Some of the existing code for that dialog may be useful. In any case, can you make the regex visible so I can add it to my code? Lightmouse ( talk) 13:54, 17 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Yes, I like the flexibility to do it all myself. I believe that I have the hide text object in User:Lightmouse/AWB/scripts/add metric units, somebody kindly helped me with that. I am really now focussing on hiding quotes using my AWB scripts and in my monobook script. I just thought the Find and Replace dialog was a good example but I would prefer to do it myself. Regards Lightmouse ( talk) 14:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
The request was to allow the same functionality for modules. You have persuaded me that module writers should code for themselves and it isn't necessary so I suppose the answer to the request is 'Won't do'. I would be grateful if you could tell me how to code for hiding quotes, I know this isn't a regex help page but I don't know where else to go. My 'ArticleText = ht.Hide(ArticleText); doesn't protect quotes. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. I added ht.HideMore at the top and ht.AddBackMore at the bottom. I am half way there, it knew that the quote is different but it replaced it with something else:
Any suggestions? Lightmouse ( talk) 15:03, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
I had AddBackMore after AddBack. I put AddBackMore first and it works now. Thanks! Your other comment noted. Can you suggest a solution to protect quotes when using my monobook script? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Somebody gave me some code that involves these lines: var linkmap=[]; txt.value=txt.value.replace(/Image:[^|]+/gi, function(img){ linkmap.push(img); return "\x02"+(linkmap.length-1)+"\x03"; }); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\x02([0-9]+)\x03/g, function(x, n){ return linkmap[n]; I don't understand what it does but perhaps quote and cquote templates would need similar code. Lightmouse ( talk) 17:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 10:20, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | In the list comparer, "make from", it would be nice to have, next to the "links on page" also an option "blue links on page". As an application example, all the blue links in the article List of chess grandmasters should coincide with the articles in the category Category:Chess grandmasters. Obviously the listcomparer is ideal for checking this. Currently, it only works to check whether all articles from Category:Chess grandmasters are in the List of chess grandmasters, but not the other way around. Voorlandt ( talk) 13:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC) |
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[3] - Put in bug for developers to comment as to whether its feasible (its doable), just whether its too DB friendly — Ree dy 22:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
MaxSem: Any suggestions on the best way to implement this. Just needs to work through it and look for the attribute if its there... — Ree dy 18:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
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Description | In general fixes, I hope add replace {{ commons|Category:XXX}} > {{ commonscat|XXX}}.-- OsamaK 18:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC) |
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I think that could work. {{commonscat}} will work if the commons cat is the same as the name as the wiki page. Snowman ( talk) 00:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
rev 4025 Done. Rjwilmsi 18:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Per
WP:DASH, can we add the following replacements? I'm adding these from my prefs file; I've tested them extensively and they have minimal (if any) false positives.
<Replacements>
<Replacement>
<Find>(pages\ ?=\ ?|pp\.?\ )([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)</Find>
<Replace>$1$2&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([1-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?([1-9]?[0-9])(\ |\&nbsp;)(years|months|weeks|days|hours|minutes|seconds|kg|mg|kb|km|GHz|Hz|kHz|miles|mi\.|%)\b</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$2$3$4</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>(\[?\[?(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\ [1-3]?[0-9]\]?\]?,\ \[?\[?[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]\]?\]?)\ ?-\ ?(\[?\[?(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\ [1-3]?[0-9]\]?\]?,\ \[?\[?[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]\]?\]?)</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>(\$[1-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?(\$?[1-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9])</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$2</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([0-1]?[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\ ?([AaPp][Mm])?)\ ?-\ ?([0-1]?[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]\ ?([AaPp][Mm])?)</Find>
<Replace>$1&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
<Replacement>
<Find>([Aa]ge[sd])\ ([1-9]?[0-9])\ ?-\ ?([1-9]?[0-9])</Find>
<Replace>$1 $2&ndash;$3</Replace>
<IsRegex>true</IsRegex>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<RegularExpressionOptions>IgnoreCase</RegularExpressionOptions>
</Replacement>
</Replacements>
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I often find em-dashes used erroneously in these situations. Why not generalize the above to find and correct them (to en-dashes) too?-- BillFlis ( talk) 13:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
rev 4029 Initial implementation of this. Still room for expansion, but let's see how we go first. Rjwilmsi 22:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | If an editor replaces "foo" with nothing instead of stating "Replaced foo ->", AWB could output "Removed foo". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | When AWB makes changes which only affect a single section, it should use the /* */ syntax in the edit summary to indicate this. |
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Hopefully not too complicated to implement, and I think it would be very helpful for people tracking certain parts of an article being able to disregard certain edits by AWB. BigBlueFish ( talk) 10:55, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
This was a complicated problem to work out, but I think I've got it. You have a regular expression that splits sections out like (^|(?<=\n))==([^\n]+)== *\n([^\n]|\n(?!==[^\n]+== *\n))*
which breaks the article up into a list of level two sections. You search each new section in the original text, if it exist/stays the same you remove it the from the list. If you are left with one you can use either the heading of the section or repeat the search with level 3 headings. If the list is empty you restart the search comparing the old text to the new, checking if sections were removed. —
Dispenser 07:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | As a general fix include a fix to correct misspellings of accessdate as accesdate or acessdate, and fix dates formatted as YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY_MM_DD.
Suggested regex: find: "acc?ess?date( )?=( )?(200[0-9])[/_]([-0-9][0-9])[/_]([0-9][0-9])" replace: "accessdate$1=$2$3-$4-$5" Also, replace acessyear and accesyear with accessyear. |
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Description | Forwarding on a request... that the {{XX Portal}} template be moved under "See also" within an article when found elsewhere (namely at the top). I'm guessing that if the "see also" doesn't exist, that the section be created with the template underneath. I wasn't aware that it was supposed to be placed there, as I've generally seen it at the top of pages, however, Template:Portal does have the mention of the correct placement. SkierRMH 15:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | Remove {{ uncategorized}}, {{ uncat}}, etc. when a category exists -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC) |
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I would also like to suggest adding template to the drop down list of sources. Although this would also be for the source drop down on the main page this would allow users to compare against templates (Military infobox template with no DEFAULTSORT template for instance).-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:55, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'm thinking this should be an easy one. It seems that the limit on how big the list of articles you can work on at any one time is set at 25,000. And while I agree most people wouldn't need to work on more than 25,000 articles at one time, I've run into an instance where I would. I'm developing a bot running under AWB, designed to help with the backlog of Biography articles without listas parameter -- a list that's currently sitting at about 312,000 articles. Any chance of having that limit turned up? Thanks, Matt ( talk) 06:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC) |
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"Category (NL, Admin & Bot)" and "Category (NL, Admin & Bot, recursive)". NL being no Limits.
rev 4070,
rev 4071, uploaded a snapshot —
Ree
dy 20:15, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Title_with_special_letters_and_no_DEFAULTSORT — Ree dy 22:14, 16 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Good. It seemed to me that it already worked ( WP:WPCHECK#Title with special letters and no DEFAULTSORT (AWB)). Sorry about that. -- User:Docu
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Description | Seems "<references>" and "<references></references>" are in use.. Should be replaced with {{ reflist}} (or <references /> as they aren't correct syntax. Also generates cite errors if not right — Ree dy 22:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4082 — Ree dy 23:47, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | MaxSem has added a cache, use it! — Ree dy 21:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4141, rev 4142 — Ree dy 17:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Just a couple of things that have occurred to me: |
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Description | I already have requested that but it was lost somewhere in archives: Remove {{Article ?issues}} (no parameters given. Empty articleissues makes no sense. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:33, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | DABlinks are placed on the top. Support this function for {{ otheruse}} as well. (Check here) For the latter one I would suggest to rename it as well to it original name {{ Two other uses}} (Check here) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Check this one. When counting parameters in Articleissues, "article" and "section" parameters have to be excluded. (comment Be careful because parameter "sections" exists as well and should be take into count.) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:51, 2 April 2009 (UTC) |
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And prepare to deal this this weird situation. There will be no "date" parameter in Articleissues. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | In pages like Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, AWB should search for instances of "Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper" and switch them to "Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper". Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 11:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Remove arbitrary number of spaces of single (or no) one after bullet as I partially did here (check the original code because the result is not visible in diff) Magioladitis ( talk) 18:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Do something like this and this to remove unnecessary html coding. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:53, 3 April 2009 (UTC) |
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Description |
WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Headlines start with three "=" (error number 7) lists articles where the first headline level doesn't start with "==".
A simple fix for these would be to remove two "=" from all sections [4], [5] while making sure that there is no headline with "==" in the article [6]. sample for user_fixes.py (
pywikipediabot) fixes'headlines3' = {
'regex': True,
'allowoverlap': True,
'msg': {
'_default':u'fix headlines ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia|WikiProject Check Wikipedia]])',
},
'replacements':
(u'(\=+)\=\=([^\=]+)\=\=(\=+)', r'\1=\2=\3'),
],
'exceptions': {
'text-contains':
'[\r\n]\=\=([^\=]+)\=\=',
}
}
--April 4, 2009 - User:Docu (sample updated April 5, 2009) |
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Description | WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Headlines end with colon "=" listed a few pages with titles ending with a colon. The colon can generally be removed. This could be included in AWB as well. -- User:Docu |
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Description | (suggested by
bender235) A new general fix to change two regular dashes into one em dash per
MOS:EMDASH. In order to avoid possible false positives, it should only match precisely two dashes and probably should be surrounded by alpha-numeric characters. I would suggest the follow regrex:
find: |
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Description | Pre-parse list to purge it of negatives such as 'no change'. The total task time is the sum of the time to process the positives and the time to process the negatives. I would like to be able to pre-parse a list to remove the negatives. This would cut down the total processing time. Since there are no edits, such pre-parsing can be done without a bot flag and without human supervision. I think somebody else asked for such a thing but I couldn't find the request. Lightmouse ( talk) 19:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Ooo. I use skip all the time but hadn't thought of using skip for preparsing. I will try it. I withdraw the request for now. Thanks. Lightmouse ( talk) 20:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Remove text that says Double-click on a line to undo all changes on that line, or single click to focus the edit box to that line.. This text uses up valuable space (about 10% of the 'Show changes' section). It adds no value for experienced users. It may provide a benefit to some beginners (not all - it did not help me, I found out another way) but a significant reduction in screen space for all users is a high price to pay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lightmouse ( talk • contribs) |
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We must develop a mechanism that will display this message several times at first, and then will not do it. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 05:18, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Further thoughts:
Seems a better idea to me. Then its there if anyone needs/wants it, but if its focused on that by default... — Ree dy 16:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
It would be very nice if we could have more 'diff' visible on the screen rather than help text. Any way of moving forward with this one? Lightmouse ( talk) 16:24, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
<link rel="stylesheet" href="AWBPath/diff.css" type="text/css">
) in the header and moving the CSS to the file. —
Dispenser 03:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)rev 4225 After user has made 10 edits, stop showing the help text at the top of the diff. Rjwilmsi 16:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Please add ṅ ẏ ḻ ṟ ṉ => n y l r n from
[7]. This should help sort the reminder of
this cat. -- User:Docu (April 24)
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Description | According to its manual {{ nofootnotes}} and {{ Morefootnotes}}, should be placed at the references section and not at the top. Can AWB move these templates in the correct place? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:46, 26 January 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4264 The template will be moved from the zeroth section to the top of the first of the 'References', 'Notes' or 'Footnotes' sections if found. Rjwilmsi 18:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | It would be awesome if I could just paste list from clipboard. Some tools, like WP:CHECK, generates plaintext lists on remote servers. Right now, if I want to use them, I have to copy them, paste into new text file, save it (and set proper encoding), choose "From text file", load it in AWB. It would be much easier, if I could just choose "From clipboard" and click "Make". Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 20:21, 3 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Works for me now. — Ree dy 20:38, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Currently there is no way to sort the summeries in AWB. This change would add a button to the summeries option allowing users to sort the summeries. |
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I think that this is already possible by going to options (the drop down menu at the top of the screen, not the tab) and selected "edit summaries" or something similar (not positive that's where it is though; I'm not using AWB at the moment). – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 00:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4311 — Ree dy 20:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | {{ expand}} reads: "{{Expand}} should not be used on articles concurrently with stub templates - a stub template is an explicit request for expansion. It should only be used on articles that are beyond stub length, in place of a stub template." If the Article issues then AWB has to remove the expand parameter from it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 01:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | I would like to suggest new logic be added to place brackets around reference links without them. This page is included as an example.-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Okay, I'll get this done in the next few days. Rjwilmsi 17:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC) rev 4387 display alert "unformatted references found" if references section of article contains bare URLs. Rjwilmsi 18:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Replace all instances of {{BASEPAGENAME}} with {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}; this came up in some general fixes where there is a very poorly done DEFAULTSORT, but it could be a nice fix in general. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4342 BASEPAGENAME treated the same as PAGENAME. Rjwilmsi 16:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia#Missing opening or closing brackets, table and template markup, I enumerated the various steps involved in fixing broken syntax like these. Possibly there is a way AWB could preload the sections and assist manual fixes of these. -- User:Docu |
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Description | A general fix to remove links to the current article and replace them with standard text... e.g., in the article Dog replace [[Dog]] with Dog. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 20:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Why I think there is an active discussion about that and that there was no consensus for that action? Is there anything written in the Manual of Style about that? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
AWB always used to do this, what happened? Rich Farmbrough, 13:35 11 May 2009 (UTC).
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Description | For example, in this edit AWB should have noticed it had two parameters named "update". |
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If the values of the parameters are different, only a warning can be given.-- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
This may already be partially implemented. rev 4312 just automagically made this edit. Perhaps the problem with my example above is that AWB was adding a parameter without checking if it already existed (in which case this would be a bug not a feature request). -- Pascal 666 05:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4140 Added for {{ article issues}} and citation templates. Rjwilmsi 17:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Basically what it says. Even with the minimum number of links requirement, the removal of links from section headers still get a good number of false positives, especially in articles about days and years. If this could be considered a MOS fix the same way that the date ordinal fixing is so that it can be turned off easily for bot use, that would be great. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drilnoth ( talk • contribs) |
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rev 4660, rev 4661 Exceptions added: month name in title, year in title, title starts with 'List of'. Rjwilmsi 16:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | |
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rev 4324 Provide option to not use section edit summaries. Rjwilmsi 20:01, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | The value in %%key%% (or inserted with right click / Insert tag / Human name DEFAULTSORT or Human name disambig tag) should follow the rule that the first letter of every word should be upper case and every other letter should be lower case. Currently (SVN 4340), AWB appears to correctly implement upper/lower case only for surnames. For example, it correctly does Maurice DuBois and Chris d'Lacey but gets LuAnn Ridgeway and Jan van Eyck wrong. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 06:18, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4336 Applies this logic to the defaultsort key within the MetaDataSorter (AWB automatic addition/correction of defaultsort). I'll look into whether insertion via right click calls the same logic. Rjwilmsi 07:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | AWB doesn't detect the presence of multiple DEFAULTSORTs. Multiple DEFAULTSORTs also seem to prevent AWB from detecting duplicate categories. An example is this version of the James M. Phillips page. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 07:04, 6 June 2009 (UTC) |
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If would add to this: If both DEFAULTSORT and Lifetime exist then subst Lifetime to reveal categories and remove duplicated defaultsort. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:54, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I mentioned this in passing up a ways, but I wanted to ensure that it had been seen. I'd really appreciate it if the "FixDateOrdinalsAndOf" general fix could be deactivated in the "options" drop down box the same way that "sort interwikis" can. This particular fix gets enough false positives (things like book and film names, quotations, etc.) that it can't be done reliably by bot, but this is the only general fix that I need to have disabled at this point which can only be turned off via a custom module. It would be really nice to be able to use actual gen fixes and just deactivate this one, since there are a number of AWB features (like some of the skip options) which require general fixes to be used, and custom modules aren't general fixes. Thanks! – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 17:03, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Still believe all such fixes should be applied by bots to maximise the value of their edits, but rev 4490 you have your option "Do not apply WP:MOS fixes". Rjwilmsi 18:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There are sections in the United States Naval Aviator article that contain brackets. I think that AWB has an edit for this but may not go down far enough in the sections. Could we fix this so that it will remove brackets down to 4 levels.-- Kumioko ( talk) 02:36, 27 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Within Parsers.FixHeadings() RegexRemoveHeadingsInLinks
, (which should be named RegexRemoveLinksInHeadings) is already supposed to support headings to level 4. There are no unit tests to cover it at level 4 though. We should add
Assert.AreEqual("===hello world ===", Parsers.FixHeadings("===hello [[world]] ===", "a"));
Assert.AreEqual("====hello world ====", Parsers.FixHeadings("====hello [[world]] ====", "a"));
Assert.AreEqual("====United States Marine Corps====", Parsers.FixHeadings("====[[United States Marine Corps]]====", "a"));
and see if they pass. If they don't then RegexRemoveHeadingsInLinks
has a bug. I'm not at my PC so can't do this myself.
Rjwilmsi 17:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
rev 4390 A bug really, now fixed. Diff of AWB edit. Rjwilmsi 18:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Please remove this or provide an opt-out option. AWB shouldn't do things like this, and there are plenty of other cases where doing this automatically is a Bad Thing. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 19:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | This request actually consists of two parts:
– BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 21:43, 18 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | I have recently started working closer with featured content reviews and there are some things that have come up that I think would be good additions to AWB.
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rev 4573 Adds request 1. Request 2: 'no way'. Request 3: no consensus to always do this even though it's the majority opinion. Rjwilmsi 14:25, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | See Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Maxlag_parameter and mw:Maxlag_parameter. -- kingboyk 14:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC) |
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I suppose that it could be accomplished using the nudge timer? Does it work ok currently? MaxSem 18:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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Description | If an article has 3 or more tags, then make it easy to merge them all into a single {{ articleissues}} tag. -- Gary King ( talk) 20:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC) |
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{{cleanup|date=January 2008}} {{story|date=January 2009}} becomes {{articleissues|cleanup=January 2008|story=January 2009}}. I don't find it so important to implement. For me would be better if we could implement the following: Id Articleissues has only one issue (this means only one "|") then convert it to the original template. This means that {{articleissues|cleanup=January 2008}} has to change to {{cleanup|date=January 2008}}-- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:08, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Before the keywords that I've proposed are implemented in "stone", I would like to change them. I've realized that it would reduce the learning curve if they were the same as wikipedia's
magic words. Some maybe useful to convert hard-coded strings to variables, while others maybe used to work around bugs. I list bellow what I believe are the most useful keywords to implement
It's probably a good idea to include the "E" version as well.
Apparently there been bug in with subst: in the ref tags, they maynot be all that useful since they rely on the user correctly keeping time.
Useful to convert hard-coded edit links.
— Dispenser 02:00, 18 June 2007 (UTC) |
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Well, if they were the same as the wikipedia ones, there would be nothing to do in AWB, as wikipedia would process it - Ie there would be no point doing it in AWB aswell. Reedy Boy 10:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Still wanted, presumably? — Ree dy 21:10, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
[11] - Implemented as such. Looks fine on that, just needs some tests implementing into AWB for it. — Ree dy 22:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
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Description | Can you please restore the "Filter out non main space" option back to the List right-click context menu? I used it quite often while using AWB and miss it now that it's not there. Also, could you add an ellipsis to the Filter button so that it's easier to tell that when you click on the button, it brings up a dialog box? Harryboyles 16:27, 16 July 2008 (UTC) |
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Not needed as it already exists in the List menu and it's sticky there too. I'll keep the thing about ellipsis in mind as I go through the interface. — Dispenser 17:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Quite. MS doesn't always follow its own guidelines and different products have different implementations. Other corporations are similar. We can be happy if our only usability problem is choosing between a corporation's guidance and its flagship implementation. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Exception: Don't display shortcut key assignments within context menus. Context menus don't display the shortcut key assignments because they are optimized for efficiency.
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Description | Create a 'View' menu. Many applications have a 'View' menu. If AWB is similar to other applications, it is easier to learn/train and easier to design/maintain. The View menu contains things that change appearance but make no difference to the function. For example, I would suggest moving the following out of the 'Options' menu into a 'View' menu:
I would consider moving things from elsewhere in the interface into the 'View' menu e.g.:
Lightmouse ( talk) 13:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Do you have a method of searching the GUI code for the terms 'Display' or 'Show'? If you haven't, I can go through it in more detail later. I found another instance in 'Preferences' but I thought it might be best where it is (I haven't got access to AWB right now to tell you exactly). Incidentally, I usually consider verb forms of 'Display' to be inferior synonyms of 'Show'. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I now have the 'View' menu (svn 3672). Nice. Thank you. Lightmouse ( talk) 14:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Do what Legobot II does! See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot II 2. AWB already replaces {{ Unreferenced}} with {{unreferenced|date=CURRENTMONTH CURRENTYEAR}} so I guess we can expand this. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC) |
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RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(wikify(-date)?|wfy|wiki)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Wikify|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Clean( ?up)?|CU|Tidy)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Cleanup|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Linkless|Orphan)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Orphan|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Uncategori[sz]ed|Uncat|Classify|Category needed|Catneeded|categori[zs]e|nocats?)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Uncategorized|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Unreferenced(sect)?|add references|cite[ -]sources?|cleanup-sources?|needs? references|no sources|no references?|not referenced|references|unref|unsourced)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Unreferenced|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(Trivia2?|Too ?much ?trivia|Trivia section|Cleanup-trivia)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{Trivia|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(deadend|DEP)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{deadend|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(copyedit|g(rammar )?check|copy-edit|cleanup-copyedit|cleanup-english)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{copyedit|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
RegexTagger.Add(new Regex("\\{\\{(template:)?(sources|refimprove)\\}\\}", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled), "{{refimprove|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}");
AWB already does all of those... Can easily be expanded — Ree dy 12:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would like support for a few templares.
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I think that automatic tagging based on expressions without reading the context is a bit dangerous to have many false positives. You can request a bot as a beginning. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Keep in mind that an editor can review the changes and remove the tags if they are unwarrented in the editbox. However, articleissues would be nice on substubs where tags can crowd content.--- Ipatrol ( talk) 13:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
When an article has two or more top-of-page templates supported by Template:Article issues (see here, these templates should be replaced by Template:Article issues, including the dates in which the original templates were added. This would aim to make articles look more tidy by consolidating maintenance templates. -- Oldak Quill 01:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
The answer to the second question is yes. In the first the answer is a question: What is better? Right now it's case sensitive but if you think it's better to change it I would be very happy. This would save us from some code checks in {{ Article issues}}. I really hope you take a look at the code there and simplify it. PS Nice piece of job. Next level: Add a blank page to AWB and it will make the article for you :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Remove double "|" inside templates. This will save us from some funny situations like this one Magioladitis ( talk) 18:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Is it possible to implement it for infoboxes and WPBS? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I think the templates that contain the "=" sign can't have double | or am I wrong? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
One last solution I am proposing is to implement it as part of the KingbotK plugin only for WPBS, WPBiography and their redirects. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Counter: It would be nice to see a number next to the "multiple link" in question that would tell you how many time that link is there. Electron (2) is probably not a problem, but proton (24) is most probably a case of overlinking.
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Description | Per
Defaultsort there is some formatting cleanup that could be added to AWB. Below are a few that do not appear to currently be captured as edits in AWB.
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I don't understand why this should be in general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:30, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
One of the genfixes removes accents from defaultsort, so there is precedent. -- NE2 16:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Saint is not always an epithet. In the Saint October case, no defaulsort should be added. In general this request sounds to me more like a Bot request that will work with false positives. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:51, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
p.
or pp.
and the page number(s)?p.
or pp.
with a non-breaking space?22,27,143
to 22, 27, 143
296–299
to 296–99
1296–1302
to 1296–302
Requested of SmackBot by Finell,copied here by Rich Farmbrough, 11:39 11 May 2009 (UTC).
Done rev 4616 Implement requests 1 and 2. Rjwilmsi 13:43, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | General fix to remove all bold-text generating syntax (HTML <b></b> and wikitext ''') from section headers; this syntax is almost always unnessecary (right now AWB just removes it from the start and end). WP:CHECKWIKI #44. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4348 Part implementation: remove bold from level 3 headers and below, as it makes no visible difference. Rjwilmsi 20:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Currently AWB will notify users of "Alerts" in RED in the "Alerts" section but I would like to suggest some improvements to this. 1) Is there someplace where we can see what all the alerts are? If not I recommend making it visible, such as a page similar to the typos. 2) Allow users to add their own alerts (for example no persondata temaplate or infobox). 3) Allow users the option of stopping if a certain alert is present, for example Long article with a stub.-- Kumioko ( talk) 16:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4508 Option to skip pages if no alerts. Rjwilmsi 08:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I think that option should ignore all these configurations: Grafika:.*?\.... (sample regex maybe there are better, that's example for .pl) because images are included in tables and galleries as well (maybe this regex won't match for galleries but sth should be applied for them anyway) -- 84.234.42.68 15:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | What precisely is the point of comparing lists if I can't save the results? Didn't there used to be a "Save List" button under each results column of the List Comparer? If so, why were they rmvd? Ling.Nut ( talk— WP:3IAR) 06:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC) |
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Seems to be a resolution related problem as the buttons are there on my version... — Ree dy 19:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
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Description | The idea is to help when making maintenance edits in very large texts. We currently have more than 3000 articles that need wikifying at pt.wiki [16] . If it was possible to (right) click on a word that needs an internal link and AWB would add it, that would be great. Maybe some function that can be selected or de-selected at will. Not sure if it is easy or not, bu that would make our life a lot easier. GoEThe ( talk) 11:10, 19 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | It would help a lot to have AWB automaticlly "ignore" pages with no changes. This would especially help when 90+ percent of the articles have no change and there are is a large number of articles. In such cases, the user could start the process and check on it to verify changes and let it run when there are no changes and not have to sit there and keep clicking the "ignore" button. Bubba73 (talk), 03:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Can a new option be added to AWB to allow users to insert the Person data. As I see it this could be done automatically where there is sufficient data in the infobox or as an insert tag option similar to the DEFAULTSORT tag. I know that we can add the meta-data template but it seems like we can make that more automated. There is already a java script that does some on the Person data page.-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC) |
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Description | I think it would be great to program in some additional support for adding infoboxes and person data templates. Currently all the data must be manually input when the infobox or person data template is added by some of the info (like the name, or info from categories) could be programmed in allowing the infobox and person data templates to be added faster and more accurately.-- Kumioko ( talk) 13:07, 16 April 2008 (UTC) |
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Duplicate of #Populate_PERSONDATA_template_with_data_from_the_infobox_or_categories. Rjwilmsi 19:37, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would like to see some functionality in AWB that would add the Person data template for biographical artcles with the data populated using either categories or INFOBOX data. I have added this data to several articesl and have found it to be extremely time consuming to do manually. ---- Kumioko ( talk) 11:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC) |
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I think someone can make a module for that but it shouldn't be a built-in feature. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
If someone wants to do that, better create a bot. This needs to get through BAG team. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Per
Wikipedia:MOS#Avoid contractions, have AWB expand contractions (change can't into can not etc.) in articles when they are not between quotation marks or within a quote template. One technique to try may be if there are an even number of " before the contraction in the article then remove it, if an odd number then leave it. Would this be plausible or would there be so many exceptions that it is too difficult to implement?
James086
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Email 09:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
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It would be possible to achieve via WP:RETF, when we patch it not to touch quotes. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 20:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
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Description | Sometimes people add text at the bottom of the article UNDER categories. AWB places text about it, but it would be better IF external links section exists to put it above it. See here and here. Magioladitis 22:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | Could AWB check if there's any content before the first set of ===s – excluding templates – and if not, add {{ intro-missing}}? Or am I missing the point of this? Seegoon ( talk) 01:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC) |
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==foo== Foo was a blah blah blah
So the problem here is not that the there is an intro missing but that they should not be a header. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | When AWB encounters an article that it can't access, generally because the wiki database is locked, it deletes the article from the search list and moves on. Since this is a much faster process than actually searching the article, a minute of locked database can means dozens of articles that are never searched. Why not add an option to have such articles returned to the bottom of the search list, or maybe just left in place, so they can be searched later? kwami ( talk) 00:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC) |
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I don't see the need to change anything here – the articles log is filterable to find any inaccessible articles, and they can be added back to the list from there. Rjwilmsi 12:17, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I would wish for AWB to remove links/references to deleted images/media/whatever. This is an example of what I am talking about: <!-- Deleted image removed: File:samsuiwomen.jpg|Samsui Women (undated), [[Singapore Art Museum]]. --> User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC) |
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As per IRC, i'll consider making an IFD++ to remove <!-- [[Image:DeletedImage.jpg]] --> — Ree dy 15:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Would it be possible to write a version of AWB for Mac OSX? ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 14:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Right now, there are only two "skip" options one to skip articles that contain X, the other to skip articles that don't contain X. I'd like the option of skipping articles that contain both X and Y in separate places, or that contain either X or Y, or that don't contain either X or Y. bd2412 T 07:21, 11 February 2009 (UTC) |
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All of the above can be achieved using regular expressions with the existing AWB release. If you don't know regex leave me a message with your particular needs and I can help you out. Rjwilmsi 07:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC
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Description | Please treat <poem> like a quote template. I can protect quotes using 'ht.Hide' and/or 'ht.HideMore'. Can one of these be extended to include <poem>? An example of <poem> is in And did those feet in ancient time Lightmouse ( talk) 12:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Thanks. I am using svn3950 and it doesn't appear to be in that. Which version is it in? Lightmouse ( talk) 13:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I will download and test it later. You guys do great work. Lightmouse ( talk) 13:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Format Infobox and Taxobox as indicated below. |
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A very high proportion of articles begin with either an Infobox or a Taxobox template. Some are tidy and easy to read, but many are a ragged mess. I have thought about how it might be possible to tidy-up these templates using regex expressions, but for various reasons this turns out to be very difficult. However, an algorithm for tidying these template should be pretty straightforward and might be built into AWB.
I would move to suggest that the best arrangment for such templates is to have each parameter on a new line immediatley preceeded by a space, the pipe (vertical bar) character and a single space. The parameter name should then apprear, followed by a variable number of spaces, an equals sign, a single space and then the parameter value. The parameter value may itself contain a template, in which case it should be reproduced exactly as it was left by the previous editor, but if it contains new line with a pipe as the first non-whitespace character, the line should be padded with preceeding spaces to align the pipe with the opening curly brackets of the template.
For example:
{{Infobox_nrhp | name = Burns Cottage | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = [[Atlanta, GA]] | lat_degrees = 33 | lat_minutes = 43 | lat_seconds = 36.9 | lat_direction = N | long_degrees = 84 | long_minutes = 21 | long_seconds = 19.86 | long_direction = W | area = | built = 1911 | architect = Morgan, Thomas H.; McWhirter, Robert M. | added = [[December 1]], [[1983]] | governing_body = Private | refnum = 83003572<ref name="nris">{{cite web | url = http://www.nr.nps.gov/ | title = National Register Information System | date = 2007-01-23 | work = National Register of Historic Places | publisher = National Park Service }}</ref> }}
Just as a comment, this would need to be opt-outable. I agree it would be nice to auto-tidy some infoboxes, but non-tidy infoboxes also have their uses in helping you to identify "old" ones that need their content updating. FlagSteward ( talk) 11:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
For the reasons above we can't implement this feature request. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | AWB should probably ignore wikilinks in infoboxes and other templates and not consider them as duplicate. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 22:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Description | MOS:LINK advises to "Avoid placing two links next to each other in the text so that they look like one link (such as internal links)." — I believe a suggestion to correct such confusing consecutive links should be added to AWB's suggested edits. Everyme 11:23, 25 October 2008 (UTC) |
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This kind of changes should be done manually and not automatic. There can be no specific rules to do it. Linking heavily depends on the context. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
There is no clear consensus of how this is done and always depends on the context. A semi-automated bot could do this job partially. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | It would be useful to have AWB automatically replace [[Image:Some picture.jpg]] with [[File:Some picture.jpg]] but not |Image = to |File =. I realise that a simple searc and replace would do that just as well but an automatic feature would be more useful. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 05:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC) |
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Seems like a good general fix that wouldn't hurt if done with substantive edits. -- NE2 22:13, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I like to do other things while AWB does its thing, but I don't know when it has found something and has stopped. Would it be possible to make the start bar flash or something similar when it has come to a stop?-- Jonru ( talk) 11:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Status | New |
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Description | This change would add a function to the list of options when the mouse is right clicked on the edit text area to no wiki selected text (I recommend adding this after the comment selected option). Currently it is possible to comment out selected text but not to no wiki it so it is still visible.-- Kumioko ( talk) 13:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Status | New |
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Description | Now that the text editor has been upgraded in AWB I would like to ask that functionality be added to AWB to allow the users to highlight specific changes in a different color so they stand out more. For example I find it difficult to see the first highlighted unbalanced bracket found when there are other changes as well. If I could change this to a different color or if AWB changed to a different color based on the type of edit, it would make it a lot easier to see and make changes. Here is an example of what I am thinking about. |
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Description | When AWB is browsing through a list of articles, it emits some Windows default "click" sound every time it loads a new article. I think this is not very useful and becomes irritating very soon. A better scheme would be a scheme where AWB would only emit a sound when it encounters an article that needs manual inspection. — ZeroOne ( talk / @) 07:59, 23 April 2009 (UTC) |
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I think this has to do Windows and it can't be fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:16, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
AWB already has the beep for ready to save.. Its just off by default. Options --> Preferences, Editing and saving tab, When ready to save, tick beep, ok, save your settings. As for the IE click, check the FAQ on WP:AWB — Ree dy 15:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Description | On some long pages, empty parameters (like |coauthors = | ) can sometimes take up a lot of extra space if they aren't removed when the citation is added, which can affect loading time (I think) and can make it harder to edit the article because of all of the useless additional text. Typically, having such empty parameters in infoboxes is good, but if AWB could be programmed so that one of its general fixes was to remove empty parameters from citation templates, that would be great. Thanks! –
Drilnoth (
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C) 12:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'd like a feature while running a bot for it to halt on certain conditions to allow me to exam the page more closely. I would like an option to test a regex on the page after processing has completed. This could conceivably be worked in as a skip option, where I could re-run the page after the initial pass. — Dispenser 05:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC) |
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What my plugin does is open bad pages in the browser; they can be fed back into AWB later if need be*. That way the bot doesn't stop processing, a feature which would annoy more people than it would help I suspect. Would that be a better option? Either way we could certainly consider a "halt or open in browser on hitting regex x" feature I guess. -- kingboyk ( talk) 09:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC) *I use the skip log for feeding pages back in. -- kingboyk ( talk) 09:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
What I am really asking for is a if is a set of Skip if contains
and Skip if doesn't contains
that are evaluated after the regexes have finished parsing. There's been a similar request here before to have this too. It's a good idea since bot ops can ensure the saved page is correct. —
Dispenser 00:47, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
rev 4873 Option to apply Skip if contains
and Skip if doesn't contains
after processing the page.
Rjwilmsi 10:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | "Skip -> Page is redirect" and "Skip -> No alerts" lack tooltip texts. Add something like "Automatically skips articles if they are redirects" and "Automatically skips articles if they are no alerts" -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4872 used "if there are no alerts". Rjwilmsi 09:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | For some templates with many synonyms (redirects) it may be a good idea to replace one version with a better (less confusing, controversial etc.) one, or rather with the "real" template. I'm thinking especially of automatically replacing {{ fact}} with {{ citation needed}}. (Yes, that template has been renamed.) Change {{ cn}} to {{ citation needed}}. (The short version makes me think of China.) I guess there are tons of other cases. The change would be visible only in the wiki-source, not on the article page.-- ospalh ( talk) 11:22, 6 July 2009 (UTC) |
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Ospalh, I prefer {{ fact}} with {{tl|citation needed} because is sorter and used in thousands of articles. moreover, I don't think there a consensus for that. As a general advice I think it's better before adding a request in here to seek consensus in the template pages. Friendly, Magioladitis ( talk) 11:32, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
rev 4819 Implemented as requested. Rjwilmsi 15:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | The feature is good as far as it goes, but I find it a hassle to right click, click Paste More, then double click the entry I want to insert.
How about changing the menu from having 10 edit boxes to having 10 regular menu items, and a configure box (at the bottom, after a separator line) to bring up the UI to add/edit entries. Then the menu items can get keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+0..9) so inserting the text is easy. It might need an Edit menu item adding to the application menu to make that happen, I'm not sure. You might also have to limit how much of the text gets shown as menu text to prevent the menu from getting infeasibly wide, but that (and the option to allow the user to choose that limit) could come later. ClickRick ( talk) 11:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Added in rev4877 ClickRick ( talk) 01:02, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
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Description | WP recently changed the file extention from Image to File and I think that AWB should also replace these. -- Kumioko ( talk) 13:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Check this one. I would like to be able to keep the piping in the category. I would prefer if that was optional. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:34, 13 June 2009 (UTC) |
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I don't understand what you're asking for: if you remove a category its sortkey has to go with it. Rjwilmsi 18:13, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | When AWB finds {{Commons|Category:Gander International Airport|Gander International Airport}} it gets replaced with {{commons cat|Gander International Airport|Gander International Airport}} but it should give {{commons cat|Gander International Airport}} provided the wording is the same on both sides of the pipe. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 07:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Agreed, per documentation at Template:Commons_cat. I'll do this in the next few days. Rjwilmsi 13:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Add a simple list provider to take a url like " http://toolserver.org/~sk/checkwiki/enwiki/enwiki_error_list_error_047.html" and add the contents to the list. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 12:36, 7 June 2009 (UTC) |
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I had a go at doing this myself; a basic implementation (which works at the very least) is:
(Lengthy code removed.)
This should save some time for all the people using AWB for CheckWiki fixes, probably a request about it up there ^ somewhere. - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 12:36, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | An idea that I think would be really cool is a tab that shows what links to an article currently being edited, what transcludes the current page, and/or (what I really want) what articles include the current image. The idea just hit me that I could use AWB to help with the image backlogs at CAT:CSD, Especially with the Category:Orphaned fairuse images, because you can see at a glance whether an image is orphaned or not. Harryboyles 11:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC) |
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yeah, i asked for something like this a while ago... don't know what happened to it... - ΖαππερΝαππερ Babel Alexandria 20:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
(Lengthy code removed.)
rev 4476/ rev 4477 — Ree dy 15:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Because it's a real pain when you get four errors every time you click on it because of IE. This patch may well do it. (Alas, you can't copy and paste that directly because it's misinterpreted @@ as "please highlight this line.) - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 17:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC) |
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rev 4440, we already had it enabled for the main web control :) — Ree dy 18:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | I'm listing this as a feature request rather than a typo just to make sure it gets proper exposure, and it's not as trivial a fix as taoster → toaster. Often, exponents are written as x-2 rather than x−2 [x<sup>-2</sup> vs. x<sup>−2</sup>]. I think there would be an incredibly low false positive rate if AWB recognized -(number) and changed it to −(number) [<sup>-(number)</sup> vs. <sup>−(number)</sup>]. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:33, 4 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Upon detecting any of the below in an article, it would be nice if AWB would add the article to
Category:Substituted templates and disable all other automatic changes (both user defined and general fixes). Automatic changes on articles with substituted templates just tend to make a bigger mess of things. Note the last item below is a regex.
<noinclude> </noinclude> <includeonly> </includeonly> <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> {{{[1-9]}}} |
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Mainspace only for category? And the sorting general fix will still have to be applied to get the new category in the right place.
Rjwilmsi 21:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Recently added text at Category:Substituted templates said "These keywords should never be found in the main namespace." I have removed that sentence because it is incorrect, contradicting pages such as Help:Template#Template-like constructions and WP:Transclusion#Partial transclusion. Pages containing these constructs are not necessarily the result of substituted templates and should not be added to the category just because they contain them. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | There are many cases where an article's only level 2 headers are for things like "references", "see also", or "external links", since many bots correct such sections to use the proper header level. When such headers (at level 2) are present, could AWB be made to ignore them when determining when to decrease the header level for other headers? E.g., an article has two headers at level three and then "references" at level two. AWB would change them all to be level 2. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 16:19, 4 June 2009 (UTC) |
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Bug: Unforeseen problem with feature request which has been discovered since code was implemented and which should be fixed, but which does not fit the definition of "bug" :) : It shouldn't change any headers, regardless of level, that are underneath those common headers.
This is an error, for example. –
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Description | Could the summary editor be fixed to allow newlines to be added with the Enter key? I think this used to work, but now, pressing Enter while in the text area instead "activates" the OK button. (As a workaround, use Ctrl-Enter.)
Also, could a scroll bar be enabled? Most people probably don't have so many possible summaries, but it would be helpful for those of us who do. I'm using SVN 4369, but the situation was the same with 4340. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC) |
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Description | Perhaps AWB already does this, but I would be nice if duplicate refs would be merged. Aka it would change to
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:30, 20 May 2009 (UTC) |
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I added logic to tidy duplicate references that already have names. AWB does not yet do anything with unnamed duplicate references but I have logic to do this, and intend to add it soon-ish. Rjwilmsi 11:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Could this be added using names like "autogenerated1", "autogenerated2", etc.? There is now a truly massive list at WP:CHECKWIKI (39638 times right now), and combining them with undescriptive names would make more sense to me than leaving them separated. That list is too big for any human to do without an über automated tool, so having AWBots able to do this would be very useful. The specific names could then be made more descriptive by a human editor at some later date (which is still easier than doing the whole merge, IMO). – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 21:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
rev 4437 and rev 4442 Work in progress. Rjwilmsi 11:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
rev 4535 Promoted to live. New function DuplicateUnnamedReferences within Parsers. Test it carefully before running in bot mode. Rjwilmsi 18:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates contains a table which lists several incorrect date styles. Based on the results of
this test, AWB currently corrects only four of these incorrect styles. I believe that an additional two could be added to AWB without significantly affecting the likelihood for false positives:
I do not believe that the other corrections ( |
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//Replace 1 January XXXX date style with January 1, XXXX
ArticleText = Regex.Replace(ArticleText, @"(?i)([0-3][\d]|[\d])(?:st|nd|rd|th|)\s(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)", "$2 $1,");
-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:24, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Black Falcon's two requests are reasonable. However, fro Kumioko's request, I don't think AWB should be converting between valid date formats. There is too much contention in this area, and too many users who would find reasons to complain. Rjwilmsi 10:37, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
This should implemented as a typo fixing rule so that users could see and ignore false positives. Consider:
I think the existing AWB logic goes as far as can be done with high accuracy and low controversy. Rjwilmsi 15:39, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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Description | Named references should almost always have quote marks in the name, so code like <ref name=myname /> should be <ref name="myname" /> and <ref name=myname>(citation)</ref> should be <ref name="myname">(citation)</ref>. See Wikipedia:Footnotes#Naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once for details. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 22:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC) |
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No for the moment - AWB already adds quotes to named refs where they are indeed neeeded. Rjwilmsi 14:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
(Request template removed; fix below works fine) I'm hoping this can be added because I'd like to be able to go through a list of pages and remove a certain template, regardless of its parameters. The closest option currently is just to use Find and Replace to get rid of the template, but this really only works if the template is the exact same each time. With the template I'm trying to remove, {{ AFC submission}}, the parameters change with each use of the template, since it has a timestamp parameter and a creator parameter. If there's some way to do this using RegEx then I apoloize for my ignorance and would appreciate being told how to do this. Thanks much, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 23:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)