This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 25 | ← | Archive 28 | Archive 29 | Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | → | Archive 34 |
Hi. I am using AWB on a private wiki and it's working perfect. But now I want to create a RegEx list for typos, but I would prefer a specific page (other than WikiName:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos). Is it possible to use a different page for that list? -- 89.245.215.249 ( talk) 21:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. As an example, is this type of template parameter replacement possible in AWB? xxxx
is variable text.
Find:
| location = xxxx
Replace with::
| subdivision_type2 = Location
| subdivision_name2 = xxxx
As you can see. The change is from a one liner, to a two liner, with one of the lines consisting of variable text. Thank you, Reh man 13:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
\|\s*location\s*=\s*(xxxx)(\s*)
| subdivision_type2 = Location$2| subdivision_name2 = $1
xxxx
, is there a workaround for this?
Reh
man 13:53, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
\|\s*location\s*=\s*([\w\s]*)(\s+)
| subdivision_type2 = Location$2| subdivision_name2 = $1$2
(\s+)
capture is to get whatever character follows the 'xxxx' (whatever that is). The replacement then uses the value obtained from the (\s+)
capture to end both lines. If:
| location = xxxx
\|\s*location\s*=\s*([\[\]\|\p{L}\p{P} ]*)(\s+)
You can see my folder not have CSV. I don't know how. But older version of AWB had this in my folder. But now this is a big problem for me. Please tell me what should I do? And please add CSV in AWB exe ( sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/) NehalDaveND ( talk) 10:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
I just tried setting AWB to emulate IE11 instead of the default IE7 rendering mode. The result gives an amazing improvement to the Preview screen. I did it simply with a registry entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION but I think the exact details may vary depending on your computer configuration; there are plenty of websites out there that give all the details. The improvement was so remarkable I just had to share it! — Hebrides ( talk) 10:30, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
How do I get AutoWikiBrowser to get every page that uses a specific image? I’ve checked pretty much every single option there is to check.
“What links here” and “What transcludes here” do not work.
―
PapíDimmi (
talk |
contribs) 23:58, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Image file links
from "Source" under the "Make list" box in bottom left corner.
EvergreenFir
(talk) 00:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)I'm seeing Wiki markup instead of text on the project page. Something need fixing? Andrew 327 11:57, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
See Update to the live CS1 module weekend of 30–31 July 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trappist the monk ( talk • contribs) 10:38, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
When selecting the “Special page” source and then “User contribs,” it’ll show the same pages several times. I assume that this is because the user edited the same page several times in a row, but this is completely pointless in AWB, and AWB should remove duplicate pages when selecting “User contribs.”
― PapíDimmi ( talk | contribs) 00:30, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Comment: @ PapiDimmi: I came to this page Report this error then I found that you have already did it!Regards -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 ( talk) 13:40, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: and other developers, Please look at this request. These strings have not been localised yet, Thanks. Muhammad Shuaib ( talk) 19:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
AWB edits my bot made moved the {{
Unreferenced stub}}
template from the top of the article to the bottom.
[1] This was with "Append text" and "Sort metadata after" options, so maybe AWB is mistaking {{
Unreferenced stub}}
for a stub template? -
Evad37 [
talk 02:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Unreferenced}}
but not {{
Unreferenced stub}}
. There is a
Template redirects rule for {{
Unreferenced stub}}
to {{
Unreferenced}}
, so in this instance you would need to also run genfixes if you want the behaviour of sort meta data to retain {{
Unreferenced stub}}
in zeroth section.
Rjwilmsi 13:58, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Hello, Magioladitis. Could you explain me, please, how can I configurate the AWB so it will move some templates to a place between categories and interwiki, such as local versions of nobots or coordinates, during metadata sort? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 17:31, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Reports produced by the new tool, like
this one for {{
Infobox person}} show common errors which AWB might fix as part of its routing tasks. In this case, for instance, mis-captialising parameter names (|Awards=
instead of |awards=
) or misspelling them (|alma matter=
, and other variants, instead of |alma_mater=
).
Perhaps someone would like to start analysing the reports and adding fixes for the most common errors to AWB? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
I think it might be a good idea to add guidance on this template regarding stubs, similar to that included in Template:Refimprove. I was surprised it wasn't already there.
The template was recently added to M-2 visa, which I created yesterday, but it's use in this manner just doesn't seem at all helpful. The problem with the stub is not that it has too few WLs; the problem is that it is a stub, and there's only so much wikilinking that can be done in two sentences. TimothyJosephWood 12:14, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The XML file with all the search and replace rules I use with AWB has ballooned to over 60 mB and continues to grow. I occasionally get the error "Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown." and sometimes can't open AWB. Looking at the text of the XML file with a text editor, there's a long long list which appears to some articles I've edited, repeated hundreds of times. The list is under <Special> <remove>
.
If I delete all those lines, the file goes down to just over 1.5 mB, and works fine, but the next time I save it, the file jumps up over 60 mB again and all those article names are back. If I save the file in its small state, close AWB and restart the computer, then open the file and re-save it, it goes back up to over 60 mB again. I've tried "Reset to original default settings" and without adding any rules, next time I save, the XML file is up to 59 mB and the long list is there again.
I'm working in English Wikipedia with Windows 10 Home, Version 1607 and looking for suggestions. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:12, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Namaste! I am an admin at sa.wikipedia and I have AWB rights in hi.wikipedia. In sa.wiki I had gave AWB rights to a user (who not an admin) and without any bot flag he can use bot option in sa.wiki. But because my account has not bot flag, in hi.wiki I can't see bot option. So I want to know, what the matter is. NehalDaveND ( talk) 07:51, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I am one of the sysop in ta.wikipedia. I am in the need to know all the name of existing articles.I tried by Makelistoption by selecting All pages. of AWB. But i got 25,000 articles only. How can i get the remaining articles name?-- Info-farmer ( talk) 11:35, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
USE tawiki_p;
SELECT page_title
FROM page
WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect = 0
ORDER BY page_title
page_namespace
to 1
, so those are (article-)Talk pages; main namespace is 0
(zero). Query for the second question: SELECT page_title
FROM page
LEFT JOIN pagelinks
ON pl_title = page_title
AND pl_namespace = page_namespace
WHERE page_is_redirect = 1 AND pl_namespace IS NULL
ORDER BY page_title;
It's been a few months since I used AWB, I think April 2016. Opened it and tried to login, and it said "Login aborted". Multiple times. So, I closed AWB and used the AWB updater. Opened it and tried again. Same thing. Since then, I've gone from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and I think Microsoft just installed the Windows 10 anniversary build on my computer. What can I do to log in? Cannot update to any other version of AWB — Maile ( talk) 18:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
Currently, categories are moved automatically to the end of the pages when editing with AWB. Is there a way to avoid that? (For example, in some Wiktionaries, it's prefered to put the categories at the end of each language section -and there can be several language sections per page-.) Automatik ( talk) 23:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Can someone give a precise description of the sense in which the "Random Pages" are random? What is the space from which these pages are drawn, and how are they selected? Thanks. ----
EEng Check mw:Help:Random_page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:20, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Discussion is here.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 11:13, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
I had problems with running the new version this morning. On Windows 10, I had to tell it to run the app anyway. Avast totally choked on it and wouldn't let me run it. I had to add my app directory to its Exclusions list before it would run as normal. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:03, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Stevietheman nothing really changed since the last version. @ Reedy: to check it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
AWB stopped working tonight, saying I need to install the latest version. It then tried to do it automatically, but failed with the error message:
Access denied for copying files. Files and such are not the best place to run AWB from. Please run the updater with Administrator rights.
So I logged on to an administrator account and tried the AWB Updater, but it failed again with the same error message. How can I get AWB working again?-- Gronk Oz ( talk) 14:01, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
See here for a proposal on automatically revoking AWB access for indefinitely blocked users, inactive bots, etc. This is purely for in the interest of maintaining the ever-growing CheckPage. Your input is welcomed. Best — MusikAnimal talk 18:31, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Please see this PERM request for Pariah24. Would the addition of a template which contains machine-readable metadata (with no actual visual change on the page) constitute a non-cosmetic edit? I thought this was straight-forward at first, but given the efforts at Wikidata and recent tech shifts, maybe this is more borderline than I thought. ~ Rob13 Talk 00:14, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
There is a new adminbot request open at WP:BRFA. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot II for details. — xaosflux Talk 04:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
This edit made with AWB changed layout, and removes spaces after bulleted lists etc. If this is not a user-specific feature but a feature of AWB, please take care to turn it off. AWB should not change layout automatically, and certainly not in the direction of less clear layout. Debresser ( talk) 13:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
This is not a general fix. I add spaces after bullets exactly as it's done by other cleanup tool like AutoEd. Debresser please contact Marek to ask them not to do this kind of changes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Please note, AWB does not currently support the new two-factor authentication system. However, you can create a BotPassword for AWB purposes and still log on via the API. If creating a BotPassword for yourself, you can remove the security sensitive access you may have that you don't have a need for when using AWB. This will prevent a hack of your BotPassword to gain full access. See also meta:Help:Two-factor authentication. — xaosflux Talk 23:46, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm often working with single-character changes, and the default shade of blue for the + side of the diff viewer is difficult for me to spot easily. I've been looking for the option to customize the highlight color to something less subtle, but I'm striking out and not finding anything in the documentation. Could someone point me to the right place? Appreciatively — jameslucas ( " " / +) 21:29, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
background: #a3d3ff;
}
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange {
background: #ffe49c;
}
On a related note, I'm trying to make a "night-mode" style.css, but unable to alter the diff window in 2 areas: 1) the whitespace below and arround the changes (i.e. when you only change 1 line, there's a lot of whitespace below), and 2) the line "Double click on a line to undo all changes on that line, or single click to focus the edit box to that line" is still black text with white background. Here's a screenshot of what I have now, and what I'd like to do. Does anyone know how to change that? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 17:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
body {
color: white;
background: pink;
}
color: white;
to your code so that the "Double click on ..." text shows up at the top of the diff window. I uploaded my style.css to
User:Tom.Reding/Night-mode style.css, and you can see the changes from AWB's style.css
in this diff. It would be nice to have a non-kludgy night mode style; until then, let me know if you come up with any improvements. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 22:12, 16 November 2016 (UTC)How can I replace an entire template with content in it with another template, like in this case? Ionutzmovie ( talk) 06:44, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
private static readonly List<string> templateList = new List<string>(){
"Orașul polonez",
"Redirect"
};
private static readonly Regex regexTargetTemplate = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(templateList);
private static readonly string replacement = "{{Infocaseta Așezare}}";
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "trecut la Infocaseta Așezare";
string newArticleText = ArticleText;
foreach(Match m in regexTargetTemplate.Matches(ArticleText)) {
newArticleText = newArticleText.Replace(m.Value, replacement);
}
if (!newArticleText.Equals(ArticleText)) {
ArticleText = newArticleText;
}
else {
Skip = true;
}
return ArticleText;
}
Redirect
with the name of a redirect to
ro:Template:Orașul polonez (without the namespace). You need to list all of the redirects to
ro:Template:Orașul polonez.
Example edit. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 03:27, 17 November 2016 (UTC)Is there a way to search all pages for a query? I want to look for all pages including "Cultural references" and use the find and replace tool to quickly go through those. -- Jennica✿ Ping Me! 12:23, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
insource:/.../
searches into AWB too, especially with a larger # of results. What I normally do (and what you can do in the meantime) is take
this search for insource:/= *Cultural [Rr]eferences *=/
, which found 2,309 pages (in groups of 500, so 5 times), and paste them into 1 Excel column. Then, in a 2nd column, filter out every 3rd line from the 1st column, leaving only the page names in the 2nd column, and paste that into AWB. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 01:54, 17 November 2016 (UTC)B1
reference A1
and leave B2
& B3
blank, then copy B1-3
to cells B4-6
, then repeat until you get to the end (3 -> 6 -> 12 -> 24, etc., so you only need to do it 10x). I have a special spreadsheet I saved with 10,000 or so rows of this for exactly this reason. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 02:55, 17 November 2016 (UTC)There is a related active RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: AWB bot ref reordering. Thank you. ― Mandruss ☎ 22:44, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see this post. Yes, there actually has been a ticket on this since October. And, no, nothing has been done to resolve it. Looks to me like one of those things that will never have an answer, or fix. So, as far as I am concerned, for all my purposes, AWB is useless, dead as the proverbial door nail. Surely, I cannot be the only one this ever happened to. Useless. Useless. Useless. Useless. — Maile ( talk) 20:32, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
AWB's 'general fixes' seems to be changing e.g. <ref name="reception" group="note">
to <ref name="reception group=note">
, see for example
Syntactic Structures. Is this gen fix or me, and if the former is it expected and correct? (
Help:Footnotes is ambiguous.)
Mr Stephen (
talk) 21:29, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Mr Stephen it's a bug that has already been fixed for the next release. I can make a release soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:34, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Is there a way to grab more than 25,000 pages in a single category via "Make list"? I'm trying to run a bot task on Category:Stub message templates, but it's too large to give me the entire cat. ~ Rob13 Talk 20:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
BU Rob13 use no limits plugin. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Are there any guidelines or rules of thumb (beyond WP:CANVASS) I should consider before using AWB for targeted user messaging? Or is it considered a bad use of the tool? This is not something I would feel the need to do often, but it has dawned on me that it would be useful for sending a message to WikiProject members or users potentially interested in particular proposals. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:41, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm used to AWB changing the occasional hyphen-minus to an en dash when appropriate, so when I was making this diff I didn't immediately register anything odd, but after I hit 'save' something felt off to me, and I went back to investigate. Sure enough, AWB did the reverse operation for no reason I can determine. Any thoughts here? Thanks — jameslucas ( " " / +) 02:15, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
What can I do when after loading the first article of the list, AWB shows a dialog stating an error has occurred and it will close, "a message will be shown if a solution is available". Unfortunately, I do not get a message and I honestly don't have a clue what the problem might be. I am using AWB on Dutch Wiktionary. The same procedure worked fine a few weeks ago. Any suggestions? -- MarcoSwart ( talk) 19:53, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure AWB used to pop up a dialog to fill in parameters for a Special page, but now I select Special page and nothing happens. I need to use Linksearch and a mask as the list source. Guy ( Help!) 14:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I can't find any Skip options which prevents AWB showing alerts for pages marked with any sort of deletion template. I'm a new user, so I'm sure I've missed something obvious, despite a careful look around. Any tips? (And, while I'm here, why can I only get an audible sound to an alert when I have the Preferences dialog box open? I then have to close it before being able to save a recommended edit - that seems really weird) Parkywiki ( talk) 01:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
{{Article for deletion
\{\{(?:db|speedy|afd|article for deletion)
I get the message AutoWikiBrowser has stopped working when I try to run it, Release 5880. -- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 00:36, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
I have closed the RFC regarding AWB reordering refs. [2] There was roughly two to one opposition to these edits, with the additional factor that automated (or semi-automated) edits are expected to be either uncontroversial or supported by consensus. I believe this constitutes a clear consensus to halt these AWB edits.
Pinging
Rjwilmsi, per comment I will ensure AWB is updated if required to support the consensus reached
.
[3] However any available AWB maintainer should of course make the update at as convenient. Thanx.
Alsee (
talk) 18:40, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
I would like to ask if there is a central place where the community discussions leading to additions to genfixes is logged. If not, do the AWB developers think that there should be? What about template redirects? I understand that there is some overlap in developer effort with CHECKWIKI. Would it be possible to answer the same question for CHECKWIKI here? Spinning Spark 12:16, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
It's also worth remembering that the MOS is not a policy. In fact, there are ongoing discussions on the MOS talk page about the question whether the MOS alone is enough reason to change the style of a page that uses some other style. Many editors feel the MOS is only general guidance, not a rule controlling of all articles. So the mere existence of language in the MOS is not sufficient to warrant applying a style change indiscriminately to many articles. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
AWB operators who use Windows may also be interested in AutoHotkey (AHK), a free, open utility for Windows, that automates actions such as typing a particular string; or opening a programme or website. We've started to compile some example scripts for using it with Wikipedia and sister projects, at Wikipedia:AutoHotkey. If you have any AHK scripts that are useful when working on Wikimedia projects, please share them there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:47, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm new to using AWB – fantastic tool by the way. I have a bot account on Wikia and I'm trying to figure how to create new pages that redirect to existing pages. The problem I'm trying to solve relates to article names with apostrophes in them, I want to create redirects for pagenames with "fake apostrophes" \u2018
and \u2019
to the standard apostrophe \u0027
pages that already exist. Can this be done with AWB, if so, how? --
Korakys (
talk) 04:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I have tried already many days to make AWB open new articles in fiwiki ja upload there text from txt-files. I have used instructions I have read on the page Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Create new pages, but as result AWB cant load the text from my file to the AWB-editor. When it saves the "content", wiki-filter ignore it, because there are no text to save. I will use CSVLoader insead, but I have a lot of file I want to save in fiwiki first. Have anybody some clue, what went wrong? -- J Hokkanen ( talk) 09:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Obviously some folks use AWB to insert advertising links into Wikipedia articles, ie. /info/en/?search=Walnut_Green_School contained a link for www.rukket.com which I just removed. Details: Revision as of 20:53, 28 February 2016, Hmains, (copyedit,refine category structure, general fixes using AWB using AWB)
Can this any Wiki admin please check? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.135.209.64 ( talk) 22:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
I've made a proposal on the ARBCOM workshop page concerning how to deal with the Magiodilitis situation. Input by WP:BAG, bot owners, and the community at large is welcomed. Even if the proposal doesn't pass, some other ideas can be of interest, especially to WP:AWB/ WP:CHECKWIKI people. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
This is broken. AWB needs to lay off filenames (and embedded quote chars) in image links. Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:52, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
The problem is that Bgwhite loads the functions via Custom module to create skip conditions and then he runs the functions in unhidden text. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:49, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
How can I delete a list of pages with AWB and how can I make a list with pages created and edited by only one user? Ionutzmovie ( talk) 12:35, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Some convoys in WWII ended in the letters KM. AWB is deciding that this is a measurement and converting "KM" to "km", even when I post a hidden notice specifically stating that it is NOT a measurement. This is now getting tedious having to revert such edits. Can something be done about it please? Mjroots ( talk) 14:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm trying to cut down the backlog of dead-end pages. I've gone through them using the category with AWB and removed erroneously tagged ones. However, is there a way I could use AWB to add wikilinks to an article in order to un-dead-end it? Thank you! DrStrauss talk 11:56, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to list all articles containing exactly [[Aquitaine]]. I tried "Links on pages (only bluelinks)" and "Wiki search (text)", none of them give the correct list (too large). What should I use ? Jack ma ( talk) 08:15, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, In Sanskrit Wikipedia so many students created sub pages (sandbox also) I want to make a list of it. But I don't know. Please help me for this Or please make list via bot or something. other thing is I want to remove all the categories in those pages. In AWB a can only one but I want to remove those at once. So please help me for that too. Thank you. (ping me when answering) NehalDaveND ( talk) 13:24, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I put a new section on how to hide AWB at WP:BOTS (and mention it in the WP:AWB#See also), since this is often a WP:MEATBOT related issue. However, we could move it to a section of WP:AWB (and mention it in the WP:BOTS#See also) if you feel it's out of place there/would make more sense here. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:38, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm working on a large set of pages that have an infobox with bad values ( Category:Pages using infobox university with unknown parameters), one of the more significant ways in which the pages are wrong is that an infobox will have something like |Principal=John Smith rather than |principal=John Smith. I'd like to find a way to change all of these in a single replace or replace special. I'd be just fine with anything that does a find on ( *\| *)([A-Z]) and replace with $1\L$2 or something... Any ideas? Naraht ( talk) 20:03, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
{{subst:lc:$1}}
ought to transform $1 (say) to lowercase when the edit is saved. --
John of Reading (
talk) 22:14, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Naraht: Not sure if you know that this( Infobox university monthly error report) exists. I've found it useful for the Infobox that I'm working on - X201 ( talk) 16:54, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm new to talk:AutoWikiBrowser (AWB), I'm attempting to do a simple change from 'Wakefield Trinty Wildcats|Wakefield Trinity' to 'Wakefield Trinity' for articles in the Category:Wakefield Trinity Wildcats players. Within AWB I've entered the category, and pressed 'Make List', I've checked the 'Find and replace' box, and then entered the text in the 'Find' and 'Replace within either and/or both 'Normal settings, and the 'Advanced Settings', and then pressed 'Start', AWB then brings up the article, but it doesn't appear to 'automatically make any changes and then go to the diff(erence)'. However, I can manually make changes in the 'Edit box' and save the changes. How I get AWB to make the changes automatically? Best regards DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:07, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, is any AWB developer here who can look into this? i asked there two months ago but still no response. thanks in advance -- Aftabuzzaman ( talk) 22:26, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! New version of AWB can't find Indic words. Before not like this. Please make changes for this. NehalDaveND ( talk) 05:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
NehalDaveND In which Wikipedia again? in.wikipedia? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:22, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I want to check in a page two things. 1. .png and 2. .jpg. But in skip contains option I can't see both of them. Please tell me how can I check both at a time. .jpg|.png|.svg this not working I don't know why. In manual shows this option only. Please ping while answer. Thank you. NehalDaveND ( talk) 08:47, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
(\.jpg|\.png|\.svg)
-
X201 (
talk) 09:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)Hello all, would somebody mind telling me how the heck Task 16 works on AWB? (I know this should be referred to CHECKWIKI, but I thought I should bring it up here.) I've looking at a couple of edits in which Magioladitis fixes them, and it looks like the whitespace gets replaces by another whitespace. Anyways, I've looked at where the unicode characters are, and AWB does not seem to pick it up where it should be. Could somebody mind explaining CHECKWIKI Task 16 to me? Thanks! Yoshi24517 Chat Online 05:03, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
i want to use AWB in a semiautomatic way to correct the grammatical errors of ta.wiki pages after a week prior notice in the ta.wiki Village pump. how many edits i can do in a minute? May i do 2 to 3 edits in a minute?I want to know that What is your edit limits that you are following here?-- Info-farmer ( talk) 06:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
I am new to using AWB, and I am not sure what the appropriate input is for the "Checkwiki error" source URL. Can someone give me an example of what you would put in that field? Thanks, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 00:07, 6 March 2017 (UTC).
Hello! I am trying to make a list of hi.wiki's all pages. But Whenever I am doing this, I can get only 25000 articles. Moreover, again and again I get same list only. I want 1 lack article's list of hi.wikipedia. How can I get it? NehalDaveND ( talk) 11:33, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
apihighlimits
userright, which is (on enwiki) only usually granted to administrators and bots (and
researchers). If you can't get that userright, you will need to use a database dump or similar. —
crh 23 (
Talk) 12:07, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Does anyone have any ideas on the best way to use regex to differentiate between
What I'm trying to do is to delete both the unused parameter abc and its value, so I'd like the regex to delete abc=def| in the first one and abc=[[def|ghi]]| in the second one. Naraht ( talk) 16:25, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
\[\[([^\|\]]+)\|([^\]]+)\]\]
__WL1NK_O__$1__P1P3__$2__WL1NK_C__
abc=__WL1NK_O__def__P1P3__ghi__WL1NK_C__
__WL1NK_O__
with [[
__P1P3__
with |
__WL1NK_C__
with ]]
Hello, when I open AWB, I have some errors. Here a screenshot of the first error. After the logiciel open with difficulities. When I try to go to "parameters", I have this second error. Because of that, I can't select fr-wp. I already delete and redownload the latest version but it still doesn't work.
Because of the name of error, I think it come from WikiFunctions.dll.
I have Windows 10 pc. Please notify me because I contribute on french wikipedia. My pc is 64bits but the software run in 32bits.
Thanks. -- Gratus ( talk) 15:33, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Heya, I'm looking for a way to remove templates from wikia articles. Is there a way to do something like "Remove {{Template:*}}", so that everything between "{{Template:" and the next "}}" is included in this order? Or is there a general way to remove templates no matter what was entered in the article? For an example please click
here, where I want to remove the TransTitle- and the SInfo-templates, but the information entered obviously changes from article to article.
Also, is there a way to remove the information from the template SongFooter (at the bottom of the linked article), so that only the template itself remains? Again, the information that was previously added there changes from article to article. Maybe something like "|fLetter = *"?
Seelentau (
talk) 13:17, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
\|(.*)=([^(\||\}\}|\n)]*)
, replace with |$1=
(enable regex). It'll run into issues if you have templates inside that template, but other than that it should be fine.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 01:04, 18 March 2017 (UTC)\|(.*)=([^(\||\}\}|\n)]*)
, it only removes the stuff beween {{Template:
and the next }}
, not the template itself. How can I do that? I know I can f&r the {{Template
part, but if I do the same with }}
, it removes it everywhere and I don't want that, of course.
Seelentau (
talk) 18:20, 18 March 2017 (UTC)This was archived last time, so I am reposting again: I am new to using AWB, and I am not sure what the appropriate input is for the "Checkwiki error" source URL. Can someone give me an example of what you would put in that field? Thanks, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 18:13, 19 March 2017 (UTC).
Hello,
I am currently using AWB for my bot account on idwiki. It was no error occurred since then until I got a pop-up message saying "API reports this user is blocked from editing". I was wondering if my bot was blocked from editing, but CentralAuth says no. I am not using much API for edits, and set 13 seconds to delay between edits. Does it become the problem? Thank you for your time reading this query. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 13:15, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#WP:COSMETICBOT update. This will be relevant to many people here.
After (and if) this is passed, I would suggest that the AWB team review their genfixes for compliance with the update guidance. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
There is currently an effort to identify which WP:CWERRORS should be considered cosmetic/which aren't. Help and feedback would be appreciated. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I run a wiki over on wikia, and I'm looking to use this to assign categories quickly and efficiently. I read the manual, but it seems to be tad confusing, I corrected typos and did find and replace to get the hang of it, but this is still tripping me up. Can anybody help me?? -- FiveCraft ( talk) 19:24, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I am the currently-active bureaucrat on the Beatles Wiki, and am doing a major clean-up of the dead wood on that wiki (resolving redirects and disambiguations, deleting unused redirects (which for some reason AWB calls "broken" redirects) (finished that one), and so on). AWB is useful for many of these tasks (such as resolving disambiguations), but I'm wondering how (if?) AWB can find all pages which link to a certain site, for instance those which contain en.wikipedia.org. (There are a lot of pages on Wikia which link to [http(s)://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ instead of the preferred syntax, [[wikipedia:; does AWB automatically correct these if they find them?) — 2A02:C7D:462:1500:7D2A:32C8:C9E5:8F79 ( talk) 08:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC) (RobertATfm over there, though seeking to change it to evilquoll.)
I expect to update the live cs1|2 modules on the weekend of 29–30 April. Changes since the last update are:
{{
cite interview}}
parameters; (
discussion)to Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration:
to Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist
to Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 11:11, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi guys, I want to use the AWB to add two more parameters to my infobox in the articles of my wikia-wiki. This is a current article and this is an article I manually added the parameters ("previous" and "next", that is). Is it possible to make the AWB add these? I would try to replace "{{SongHeader" with "{{SongHeader |previous= |next= ", but I don't know how to add line breaks. Is there any other way (or a way to include line breaks in F&R)? Seelentau ( talk) 04:28, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
I've read through many of the regex questions in the archives, and they been useful, many confirming that what I figured out was reasonable, but now I'm trying something a little more advanced. I want to find one string and replace with another, but I want to limit the find search to within a specific template (in this case Infobox). (I know there will be templates within templates issues, but I'm trying to understand one issue at a time)
I've done a "(\{\{Infobox)" to anchor the beginning of the find, but can't figure out the proper syntax to anchor the ending }} I've tried RTFM, but can't find an example that is similar, and I've tried various combinations with both MultiLine and SingleLine. Any suggestions on where to find an example? Thanks. (BTW Thanks for the AWB Regex Tester Tool. It's invaluable) Ahwiv ( talk) 12:42, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to have permission in the eswiki-AWB (Spanish), es:AWB. However, all relevant pages are red and even blocked. Anyone has a clue on how to proceed? - DePiep ( talk) 21:02, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
How to disable the scheduling of references, for example, if a 4 to 3 he put 3 4? Please reply me on my user page on Serbian Wikipedia. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 18:58, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Anyone running AWB with general fixes turned on should take note of
phab:T166293 - the new syntax <references responsive/>
is valid, but AWB doesn't recognise it and will damage the article. --
John of Reading (
talk) 09:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I am just wondering, how do I stop AWB from suggesting certain edits? Is it possible? Thanks for your time! -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 05:16, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Sure, just about every major template has a category for if invalid parameters are used. However, as with reviewing new pages, AWB really isn't good for that sort of thing. 75% of the time a page ends up in an invalid param category because someone's trying to use a parameter that isn't a real param, and maybe 25% of the time it's a misspelling of a valid param. However, said misspellings are rarely consistent (I recently cleaned up a fair number myself), so AWB's automation won't really be helpful there either. Primefac ( talk) 00:32, 2 June 2017 (UTC) P.S. I'm watching this page so you don't have to ping me every time.
Hello there! I want to disable bot option, which available in AWB. I have AWB right in Sanskrit and Hindi Wikipedia. In Hindi Wikipedia, I can't see Bot option in AWB, because I don't have bot flag on my account. Besides that in Sanskrit Wikipedia, not only I, but all users can see & use bot option without bot flag. Please tell me how can I remove that potion from Sanskrit Wikipedia AWB? Thank you. Pink me when reply. NehalDaveND ( talk) 02:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Is there a way to read exif data with AWB? -- Hedwig in Washington (TALK) 07:56, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
I am an editor on Wikisource of a volume of the US Statutes at Large which contains endless repetitions of a specific block of boilerplate text: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of ". For those not aware of Wikisource, it is fundamentally concerned with OCR correction of out of copyright texts to provide a free, electronic library. The target text which ultimately needs to be corrected to the above, is, therefore, whatever Tesseract (the WS OCR software) has delivered - i.e. including a potentially massively variable number of errors. Is this a use case which experienced users would regard as appropriate for AWB? Thanks CharlesSpencer ( talk) 05:49, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
How to use AWB on http://wikisource.org , the old/multilingual/incubator wikisource? There is no language prefix and apparently it's not possible not to select a language nor to use the custom mode (error 403). If there is no solution, here is an idea : use mul as language prefix (which is done in some other cases.
Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 14:33, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
I was standardizing the format of newspaper names when I ran into this issue: I made a find & replace rule to clean up piped links, changing "the New York Times" to "The New York Times" ('The' is part of its name).
(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?(?:'')?\[\[(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s.ork\s.imes\|(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s+.ork\s+(?:'')?.imes(?:'')?\]\](?:'')?
It is intended to handle various situations where the piped link may or may not be preceded by "the", where italics may or may not surround the link or be contained in the right part of the link. The replacement is a simple link inside italics, whether italics were found or not:
''[[The New York Times]]''
So far, so good. Here are four lines for testing:
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times|New York times]]'' reporter that they 1
letter to the ''[[The New York Times|New York times]]'' that they 2
wrote to a [[The New York Times|New York times]] reporter that they 3
letter to the [[The New York Times|New York times]] that they 4
Go ahead, plug these into the Regex tester and have some fun. It works great. The second line is changed to
letter to ''[[The New York Times]]'' that they 2
Perfect. But in lines 1 and 3 the newspaper name modifies "reporter", so it is better to skip it than to produce the awkward
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times]]'' reporter
which has both an indefinite article and a definite article ("a The"). Just add a negative lookahead (?!\s+reporterx)
at the end of the find rule.
Same results, as you would expect, since the 'x' in 'reporterx' prevents it from matching anything. It only demonstrates that the syntax is OK. Now remove the 'x' from 'reporterx' and WOW. Line 3 is now not changed by the rule; this is what we wanted. Line 1 should also be ignored, but it gets changed and also gets two extra apostrophes.
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times]]'''' reporter that they
The lookahead should not affect the engine's current position in the string, but it appears to back the position up in front of the two apostrophes that follow the closing brackets of the link, and so the two apostrophes are now not part of the found string. I have no further insight into this. Maybe I can split this into two rules, one for cases with surrounding italics and one for cases with no italics, but I have a lot of these rules, and would much rather do it with a single rule. I would be grateful if someone could show what I have done wrong or could provide some workaround. Chris the speller yack 05:38, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?(?:'')?\[\[(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s.ork\s.imes\|(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s+.ork\s+(?:'')?.imes(?:'')?\]\](?!(?:'')?\s+reporter)(?:'')?
I am trying to use the regex below in AWB ( Regexper flowchart).
\n(\s*\|?\s*(Last (single|album)|last_(single|album))\s*=\s*)"?(''|'''|''''')?"? *(\d?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\} \t]([^"/\d'\{\}]|[^"/\d'\{\}]'?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\}])+[^"/\d'\{\} \t]\d?\d?\d?|[^"/'\{\} \t][^"/'\{\} \t]?) *"?(''|'''|''''')?"?\s*\|?\s*\n.*[Tt]his[ _].*=.*\n(\s*\|?\s*(Next (single|album)|next_(single|album))\s*=\s*)"?(''|'''|''''')?"? *(\d?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\} \t]([^"/\d'\{\}]|[^"/\d'\{\}]'?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\}])+[^"/\d'\{\} \t]\d?\d?\d?|[^"/'\{\} \t][^"/'\{\} \t]?) *"?(''|'''|''''')?"?\s*(\||\}\})?\s*\n
Unfortunately, on some pages (including some as short as this one), AWB refuses to do anything.
Is this too complex for AWB to handle, or is my regex written badly? Should I use pywikibot instead?
Jc86035 (
talk) Use {{
re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 11:33, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
As a general comment, your regex is rather inefficient in many places, if you have something like (''|'''|''''')?
, you'd really be better off doing something like '*
or (''+)?
(yes it'd match other cases, but when are you going to run into those? Likewise for \d?\d?\d?
, which could very likely be replaced with \d*
or \d{0,3}
. AWB can also ignore casing, so things like [Tt]his
could likely be replaced with this
, or (Next (single|album)|next_(single|album))
replaced with (next( |_)(single|album))
.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 13:13, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Finally, I have some spare time. I'll start preparing the new vrsion during the next week. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:34, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
I am having trouble figuring out how the advanced find/replace rules work. I have nested some regex rules (if rule 1 then (if rule 2 then (rules 3–5))), but the subrules are run regardless of whether or not their parent rules are actioned upon. Is this a bug, or am I doing this wrong? Are the rules for the entire tree ignored if there is a match in the "Not contains" panel, or does it do something else? Jc86035 ( talk) 16:52, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
I got a recent message on my Talk page telling me I should disable wikilink checking because of a disagreement with several other editors, but I don't know how to disable it. Since the warnings, I've only been ignoring the feature and only skipping articles on an alternating basis: when no changes are made OR when there's no alerts. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 20:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm not Phab-ing this because it's a hybrid request.
The bug I've detected is that as long as the talk page for my AutoWikiBrowser alt account exists, I get the "you have new messages" pop-up constantly, rendering usage impossible. Anarchyte has SALT-ed this for me.
The request I'd like to make is for the "move" function to be unlocked for page movers as well as administrators for community sanctioned mass-moves like the one currently being discussed at WP:AN.
Thanks,
DrStrauss talk 12:14, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Good day, on it.wiki we were discussing about acceptable edit/min rates according to maxlag. So the question is: is it possible to set a maxlag parameter on AWB as it is e.g. on Pywikipedia? Thanks, -- Daimona Eaytoy ( talk) 10:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
This page has 856 watchers; Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes has just 33. In the short term may I direct folk's attention there, and in the longer term perhaps it should be redirected here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm using one of the custom modules to read a field from a template and export its value to a text file. On a template that has 24000+ uses, is there any way I can get the AWB+custom module to extract from a database dump instead? and avoid having to get the data in batches from live WP requests. - X201 ( talk) 11:24, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Read the manual. Is there a better "how to" or tutorial? Cinderella157 ( talk) 10:46, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Please note that there is a discussion related to {{ Orphan}} at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Orphans, relating to possibly disacontinuing its use. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:04, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
This page has 856 watchers; Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes has just 33. In the short term may I direct folk's attention there, and in the longer term perhaps it should be redirected here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I want to update/check/add IDs in/to {{
Taxonbar}}
, which draws from WikiData, for all/most of its transclusions. How could I do this semi/automatically? ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 16:44, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
See this post. — Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:22, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
How to use AWB on FreeBSD? I once ran it through wine, but did nothing except building a list. (Make list menu was very odd.) A similar discussion regarding huggle can be found at WP:Huggle/Feedback#Huggle 3x on FreeBSD. Thanks. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:48, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
This recent patch (intentional denial of access to WMF wikis for HTTPS clients with legacy cipher support) has effectively rendered AWB useless on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server platforms, as there seems to be no way to update MS SSL/TLS client libraries to support newer ciphers and/or to update MSHTML to above IE8.
Is there any known workaround to continue using AWB on these platforms?
If it's not, than mentions of Windows XP should be removed from requirements ("AutoWikiBrowser requires Windows XP or newer. It also requires Version 3.5 or later of the .NET Framework. It still runs under 2000/XP even though they are not supported anymore by Microsoft, but users of Windows 2000 and Windows XP must download and install .NET Framework 3.5 (it is included in Windows Vista)." [5]) -- Teslaton ( talk) 18:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Next to this WP:AWB (an exe file), there exists "JS Wiki Browser" that is run by script. It is maintained by Joeytje50 ( talk · contribs).
Ever since the script version was launched, it created confusion between the two programs (or whatever I should call them). Since the "AWB" is well-established, I think the JS-version should make changes & clarifications to make clear that it is a different program.
BTW, it shares the Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage rights settings.
1. First, there should be a single, nonconfusing ID. Today I see:
2. Once a single id has been established, add a subpage to this WikiProject, say Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/JWB. This page should guide users to the true pages for documentation, maintenance, bugs, contacting, etc.
3. This subpagepage name be added to the navigation Template:AWB, added to the "Changelog" link list.
Hello fellow AWB users. I have been using AWB to fix MOS:ACCESS#Text violations where the text is inappropriately made small. This has been done by putting in two find and replaces for <small> and </small> where the replacement is blank. However {{small|*}} is also used to make text small where is * is the said text. Is it currently possible to change {{small|*}} to * with AWB, keeping in mind that is removing the template but keeping the data inside the template? Please ping when you reply. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 20:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
\{\{\s*(?:HW\-small|small)\s*\|([^\{\}]+)\}\}
, and replace with $1
. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 21:22, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
{{
small}}
(just {{
HW-small}}
) in a non-captured group via (?:)
, and restricting the captured group to exclude curly braces so as to avoid any {{
small}}
s with multiple nested templates. Single-nested templates might turn out ok, but better to small-batch those at the end, one-by-one, after having gone through the bulk of easy ones first. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 21:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
The Transhumanist 23:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Is there any way to use my bot account to null edit a list of pages?
Why would I want to do that? Because sometimes I make mistakes that can be remedied by a template fix followed by null edits to the effected pages. Today I edited {{
lang-fi}}
and left out a $2
in the replace value in my awb script. That $2
was supposed to insert a capture of the </includeonly>
. The result? More than a thousand pages transcluded the template's documentation. I also regularly want to do this when I update the
Module:Citation/CS1 suite (seven modules) that will cause Lua script errors because I can't instantly update them simultaneously.
I can use awb to null edit a list of pages manually (on the options tab, uncheck everything; on the skip tab, uncheck everything) then start and click save for every 'no changes'. Works like a charm. But, a thousand pages is a lot of clicking. Is there a way to use my bot account to accomplish the same thing?
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
a noticeable effect on the rendered page. Basically, any edit you make using AWB—whether manually or by bot—that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page will get the AWB permission stripped, and any edit you make using a bot that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page will get you blocked; since it's only been a couple of months since this principle was reconfirmed by Arbcom, the pitchfork-wielders are unlikely to be in a very lenient mood. ‑ Iridescent 17:25, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
{{
lang-fi}}
documentation including a script error.a noticeable effect on the rendered page: the error message / improperly transcluded text is removed. There are those who whine and complain about cosmetic edits cluttering up lists. AWB null edits don't seem to cause that. None of the 1000+ pages that I null edited today are, for example, listed in Special:Contributions/Trappist_the_monk nor are those edits reflected in article histories; see 1952 Summer Olympics ( history).
on the options tab, uncheck everything; on the skip tab, uncheck everything(emphasis added) that 'uncheck everything' includes all of the automatic changes including general fixes. I never run awb with those on anyway because I don't want to be responsible for fixes that I don't intend. I'd be quite happy if on the bot tab there were a 'null edit' checkbox that would automatically disable everything in all tabs and just ran through the list doing null edits.
Is it possible to generate list of all pages containing specific text? Coderzombie ( talk) 16:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is AWB slow to load and save for others?
A simple script to replace unwanted italic wiki markup. The first couple of load/save cycles are as fast as I have come to know from past experience. Then, it's like a switch gets thrown and it takes 5–7 seconds to load a page, practically no time for AWB to get to the Ready-to-save state, and then another 5–7 seconds to save after I click the Save button – every time; this is very consistent. Yesterday was Thursday so is it possible that MediaWiki is now throttling AWB edits somehow?
I have tried logging out, restarting, etc. Always the first couple of edits are normally quick and every edit after that consistently slow as I have described. En.wiki page loads and saves that I've done this morning outside of AWB are nominally the same as they were yesterday.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:49, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to handle removing line breaks for infoboxes? For example,
{{Infobox |random = John Cena |stupid = Cat flying to Haiti.png |variables = 3 |removethis = variable |example = Yes |overkill = Definitely }}
How would I go about removing the "removethis" variable along with the line that it's on, with the data that's in it's infobox, including if different pages had different data? Thanks for any help guys. 2001:5B0:2968:9128:FD35:C390:7505:C7F4 ( talk) 03:07, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
\|\s*removethis\s*=\s*variable\s*
for specific text (the \s
group contains all whitespace characters, including the
CRLF characters \r\n
), or \|\s*removethis\s*=[^\|\}\r\n]*[\r\n]+
for any parameter value on the same line (change [\r\n]+
to [\r\n]*
if you expect to find infoboxes with parameters not separated by a new line). ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 03:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi guy I was wondering if anyone could help with how to get regex for this:
{{ImageImprove|Image needs to be set at a 3:5 ratio.|Category}}
The enter below it also needs to get removed. Any ideas? The first variable covers any random message and the second one overs various categories. Thanks in advance 2001:5B0:2969:4108:551E:C08F:9EF9:39AF ( talk) 23:54, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
\{\{\s*ImageImprove\s*\|([^\|\}]*)\|([^\}]*)\}\} *[\r\n]
. Message is in $1
and category is in $2
. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 00:01, 22 December 2017 (UTC)Until several weeks ago, I could run AWB 5.9.0.0 on my system without problems. I did not change my system, but when I open AWB now, during the opening process I receive the message "The underlying connection was closed; An unexpected error occurred on a send." and I can no longer login or open a preferences file. While trying to open previously stored preferences, I receive the error message "Received an unexpected EOF or 0 bytes from the transport stream." As I did not alter my system, I suspect something changed on the server side. I'm still using Windows XP, but according to the project page, that operating system should be supported. Is this a known problem and, more important, is there a work around? Wiki klaas 13:26, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Is this the (/is there a) right venue to request all contents of a large category (~44k total, and I can retrieve the top 25k)? All of the admins I know that use AWB are either busy or have an away/on-holiday tag on their talks. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 16:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
{{ Refimprove}} has been moved to {{ More citations needed}} - what's the best way to get the AWB general fixes updated for this? Timrollpickering 21:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
{{ Convert}} ( talk) has two parameter values that are deprecated, and to be replaced with new value. They have many usages:
Talk is here. Could be seen as trivial edit. Where can we ask for inclusion in the "trivial typo" edits (that is, only edit when non-trivial edits are made)? @ Johnuniq and Quondum: - DePiep ( talk) 11:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Pleased be aware that WW2 convoy designators ending in KM (e.g. OS 77KM) are not measurements and should not be altered to indicate that they are, as was recently done to the SS Graigaur article. Mjroots ( talk) 11:00, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Do we have a maximum editing rate when using AWB? Illegitimate Barrister ( talk · contribs) is editing at the phenomenal average rate of over 20,000 in 24 hours, or one every four seconds - but is peaking at around 40 per minute or one every 1.5 seconds. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 11:44, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
merely editing quickly, particularly for a short time, is not by itself disruptive.Granted this sounds like it's not "a short time" but if they're not making any mistakes I don't see a huge issue. Granted, they probably should/could file a bot report for it, but that's their prerogative.
I agree with Primefack that the interesting new factor in the discussions is the ""watchlist" perspective". Unfortunatelly, I still see no action in the direction of finding a way to alter this factor in a way that useful edits still an be done. For intance, I hvae proposed a more clever way to watch edits of interest. I partly agree with Rjwilmsi. I think the commuity has to decide but not via ANI. It should be a wider discussion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
His edits were also contrary to the AWB rules (contrary to guidelines, controversial, and inconsequential, all per WP:NOTBROKEN). -- JHunterJ ( talk) 13:29, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Here are Illegitimate Barrister's edit counts for the last two weeks:
Time and date | Edits to date | Increase |
---|---|---|
04:06, 5 January 2018 | 137329 | 113 |
04:04, 6 January 2018 | 137618 | 289 |
04:02, 7 January 2018 | 137680 | 62 |
04:09, 8 January 2018 | 137921 | 241 |
04:04, 9 January 2018 | 138054 | 133 |
04:05, 10 January 2018 | 138152 | 98 |
04:03, 11 January 2018 | 138258 | 106 |
04:03, 12 January 2018 | 149321 | 11063 |
04:09, 13 January 2018 | 159948 | 10627 |
04:04, 14 January 2018 | 172089 | 12141 |
04:05, 15 January 2018 | 193583 | 21494 |
04:03, 16 January 2018 | 201738 | 8155 |
04:06, 17 January 2018 | 206146 | 4408 |
04:09, 18 January 2018 | 209842 | 3696 |
04:03, 19 January 2018 | 213673 | 3831 |
These are from Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/1–1000, the link in the first column goes to that specific revision. It shows that the high edit rate began about a week ago, and on the day that I started this thread it peaked at one edit every 4.02 seconds for the 24-hour period. Edits like these, most of which involve the removal of single spaces or newlines with nil effect on the rendered page; or an edit like this, suggest that their motive is to boost their edit count, nothing more. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:17, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to do this in AWB (i.e. not brute-force GetHTML'ing each wikilink on each page), or possibly in labs' Quarry tool? I don't know enough SQL yet to do anything meaningful with the latter. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:49, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
One way I was doing something similar was to:
for each article, where X is article nameIt is not the best process but it works. -- Jarekt ( talk) 03:52, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Rjwilmsi, Jarekt, and Tom.Reding: Here you go folks, it's fast and it works like a champ. Thanks to @ Jarekt: for pointing me in the right direction! I made it so it would include the wikilinks and reformat any categories it pulls in to [[:. of course it would still be better to only pull in redlinks and maybe exclude cats, but it's usable. 2601:5CC:100:697A:F936:60EF:A894:2959 ( talk) 00:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
//Create a module with the this code.
//Use AWB to pull in the list of articles you want to process
//The script exports the list of Wikilinks to a .txt file.
//From the .txt file it can be copied and saved to /sandbox and then use AWB to pull in the red links
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = true;
Summary = "test";
String outStr = ArticleTitle;
bool found = false;
Match m = Regex.Match(ArticleText, @"\[\[([^\]\|]*)\]\]");
while (m.Success) {
outStr = outStr + m.Result(";
$1");
m = m.NextMatch();
found = true;
}
if (found) {
outStr = outStr.Replace("\r","");
outStr = outStr.Replace("\n","");
outStr = outStr.Replace("[[Category:","[[:Category:");
System.IO.StreamWriter sw = System.IO.File.AppendText("C:/Project/Wikilinks.txt");
sw.WriteLine(outStr);
sw.Close();
}
return ArticleText;
}
public class LinksOnPageOnlyRedListProvider seems to contain the back-end for creating the list of redlinks on 1 page, but it's not obvious to me how it does it, nor how to apply it in a custom module (if that's even possible). Does anyone else? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 04:14, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
When will there be a Linux version of AWB instead of using the Windows version of it through Wine? LA ( T) @ 11:57, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I have a simple template in a lot of articles:
And I would like to find and replace a specific string of letters ("you") with "yō", but only in the Romanised part of the template, not anywhere else in the template/article. How can I achieve this? Seelentau ( talk) 21:59, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
|Romanised=you
with |Romanised=yō
. I suppose you could add some regex to make it more dynamic; that would turn the "find" into \|\s*Romanised\s*=\s*you
Primefac (
talk) 12:46, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
\{nihongo\s*\|\s*you
and replacing with {nihongo | yō
would suffice. However, their example doesn't match the template parameters, which makes me think it's a different template.
Primefac (
talk) 14:47, 5 February 2018 (UTC)\{\{\s*(?:[Jj]apanesename|JP|[Jj]p|[Nn]ihongi|[Nn]ihongo4|[Nn]ihongo|[Nn]ihono)\s*\|
, and check "Regular expression". This will look for
all aliases of {{
nihongo}}. In the "Find" tab put (\|\s*[Rr]omanised\s*=\s*)you(\s*[\|\}])
, and replace with $1yō$2
. Check "Regular expression". This will take care of the named parameter cases.(\{\{\s*(?:[Jj]apanesename|JP|[Jj]p|[Nn]ihongi|[Nn]ihongo4|[Nn]ihongo|[Nn]ihono)\s*\|[^\{\}\|]+\|\s*)you(\s*\|)
and "Replace with" $1yō$2
, checking "Regular expression". This will take care of the unnamed parameter cases. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:15, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Hi guys, thank you for your replies so far. To answer your questions: No, it's not that template, it's one I've written myself for my own wikia. The syntax is this. What I want to do is to replace any "you" with "yō", but only in that part of the article's text that is put in the "Romanised" part of the template. This is of course because of the English word "you" that is often found in the "Translation" part of the template (and maybe somewhere else in the articles where the template is included). So yes, I would like to avoid false positives. Seelentau ( talk) 14:01, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
(\{\{lyrics\s*\|.*?\|[^\|}]*)you
→ $1yō
Primefac (
talk) 16:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
{{lyrics|<anything>|<anything>you
and replacing the "you" with "yō" (all of the \s and brackets etc are just to specify wildcards and define the replacement parameters). All of the text before the "you" is stored as the "first match" which is then put in the end text (which is defined in regex by $1).
Primefac (
talk) 19:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
(\{\{lyrics\s*\|.*?\|[^\|}]*)you
=> Replace with $1yō
=> Regex check, done. Right? Nothing else.
Seelentau (
talk) 19:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
]* )you
Primefac (
talk) 19:34, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
That text doesn't appear to be inside of a template call, which is why it's not being picked up as a match. Primefac ( talk) 19:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
1-Hi .there is any module or plug in awb that do translate wikilink(en to pt or fa) 2-can somebody covert this file to dll file for me? https://github.com/leafnode/AWB-Translate-Plugin?files=1 -- Monorodo ( talk) 20:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I am new to AWB and needed some help in creating a list for all articles created by a single user?? Can someone help?? -- Hagennos Talk 16:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
HTML scraper (advanced regex)
as the "Source" and https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Makhamakhi
as the "URL". Click "Make list". In the dialog that pops up, enter (?<=<td class="sort-entry--page-title" data-value=")[^"]+(?=">)
as the "Regex". Leave the three checkboxes unticked and the "group" as zero. Click "OK".Since last few days, few minutes after logging in AWB, I am getting the following email:
I havent used AWB on other computer in ages, however everytime I log in now, I am getting this email. Does anybody know why? Also, anybody else in the boat with me? —usernamekiran (talk) 00:27, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Try this: log out from AWB, open Internet explorer, log in to the same account, ignore the mail if arrived, log out, log in again, log out again, get back to AWB, log in. It can help. IKhitron ( talk) 01:06, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Rule 4 says: "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit. If in doubt, or if other editors object to edits on the basis of this rule, seek consensus at an appropriate venue before making further similar edits." On the other hand, I've used AWB to cleanup infoboxes *many* times. For example, if Location=asdf is added into Template:Infobox Fraternity, then the article is placed in Category:Pages using infobox fraternity with unknown parameters. Now that is a hidden category, so a user who doesn't have an account or a logged in account without turning on hidden categories won't see a change to the article. So which of these is the way to go
Naraht ( talk) 22:40, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
|Location=
to |location=
would have a visible effect on the page, because you'd suddenly have the Headquarters line appearing in the IB. Plus, the language isn't a "must" but an "is generally considered", with the additional caveats that consensus should always be sought for potentially controversial uses (or if someone calls you out on it).
Primefac (
talk) 13:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)Greetings, I just wanted to report that it appears Ser Amantio di Nicolao is again violating AWB's terms of use edit rate rule. He is currently editing at a rate of 25-30 edits a minute without an apparent bot flag. 2601:5CC:100:697A:F55F:44A4:194F:D883 ( talk) 14:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
I tried, for example, adding Special:Redirect/page/11731559 to my page list, then checking "follow redirects", but I got an auto-skip reason of "page is a special page", with no resolving performed. I also tried adding the special wikilink to my sandbox, then trying to make-list "Links on page", but that returned nothing. I could use the API to do it, but I was hoping to find a native feature first. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&formatversion=2&pageids=11731559
, and scraping for "title"
, for anyone interested. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:37, 14 March 2018 (UTC)While I am no particular fan of the increased length of edit summaries, they're here (for now). It would probably be beneficial to increase the edit summary length of AWB posts. Primefac ( talk) 17:22, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Any chance that AutoWikiBrowser will be native for Mac one day? I know that I can run a parallel Windows, but I don't really want to go that route. Leschnei ( talk) 17:38, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Check WP:GENFIXES. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
On the page, it says to use AWB it first requires registration on Wikipedia. How would you use AWB on another wiki that is not Wikipedia? (Sorry if this is already covered in another page and I'm just being dumb; if this is the case, just let me know)-- SkyGazer 512 talk / contributions / subpages 16:13, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Anyone knows why? I'm trying to use it for the ckb project and it returns an error when i try to login.--◂ épine Ⓥ 16:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I input my database file, check Namepace > Main/Article, then check all of the boxes under Searching > "AWB specific" options, and get no results after ~an hour. I've tried 2 different dump dates and get the same result. Has this tab been turned off or am I doing something wrong? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 14:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Under what circumstances is the Bots tab shown? I am using the 350bot account on Wiktionary and I do not see it. Suzukaze-c ( talk) 02:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to access some redirects on a plaintext list I've made, but AWB seems to be redirecting to the main page, instead of directly accessing the redirect page. I'm sure there's a way to directly access the redirect, but neither Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Make list nor Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Start says how to do this. E to the Pi times i ( talk | contribs) 21:33, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Options > Follow redirects
.
E to the Pi times i (
talk |
contribs) 21:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)The short description of a Wikipedia article is intended as an annotation to the title. As such it should display as close to directly after the title as technically practicable (when the gadget is activated or css used) Moving it to below hatnotes breaks this logic. Please check at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions for more information and discussion. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:10, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I've tried running AWB through the Dushdi Mala Medal article in order to merge the duplicate references, but it fails to correct all of them ( example). Does anyone know why this is happening? Should it be filed as a bug? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 02:44, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
<ref>[http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2560/B/018/3.PDF ''Royal Thai Government Gazette''. '''134''' (18): 3.]</ref>
. --
Paul_012 (
talk) 10:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
== AAA == == DDD ==
(
Hello . how to add new section BBB between AAA and DDD via csv loader. thanks Monorodo ( talk) 22:38, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Monorodo ( talk) 13:41, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
== See also == * [[Wallachia]] == Gallery == <gallery> File:Curtea de Arges.E.jpg|St. Nicholas Princely Church File:Catedrala Curtea de Arges.jpg|Curtea de Argeș Cathedral in an 1880 engraving </gallery>
Hello. How to move galley section above see also section by regex. thanks Monorodo ( talk) 23:20, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
(==\s*See also\s*==[\S\s]*?)(==\s*Gallery\s*==[\S\s]*?</gallery>)
@ User:Primefac. OK. thanks. its work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monorodo ( talk • contribs) 13:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
{{Infobox settlement |name=Ardeoani |settlement_type=[[Communes of Romania|Commune]] |total_type= |timezone_DST=[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]|utc_offset_DST=+3 |map_caption= |subdivision_type=Country |subdivision_name={{flag|Romania}} |subdivision_type1=[[Counties of Romania|County]] |subdivision_name1=[[Bacău County]] |population_total=2563 |population_as_of=2002 '''Ardeoani''' is a [[Commune in Romania|commune]] in [[Bacău County]], [[Romania]]. It is composed of two villages, Ardeoani and Leontinești.
Hello. I use awb. what is the regex to add }} above '''Ardeoani'''. is way to find what article has this problem (have not }} in end of infobox? thanks
Aymara93 ( talk) 22:28, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
([\r\n] *\|\s*\w[\w_]+\s*=[^\r\n\{\}]*)[\r\n]+('''+\p{Lu}[\w\s]+'''+ is )
and replace with $1\n}}\n\n$2
, which will work as long as the last infobox parameter value doesn't contain a {{template}}. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:34, 24 April 2018 (UTC)I noticed Ser Amantio di Nicolao violated the AWB rules a couple times just in the last week with his edit rate and volume of edits. I left him a notice on his talk page but he does it multiple times a month, multiple people complain about it and no one does anything. I highly recommend his AWB rights be revoked if he cannot follow the rules. 2601:5CC:101:5DEB:95BA:D5C3:683C:12E ( talk) 00:26, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
For example special:Shortpages. is this possible?--◂ épine Ⓥ 20:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Naraht ( talk) 14:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
merely editing quickly, particularly for a short time, is not by itself disruptiveas well as caveats for not
sacrific[ing] quality in the pursuit of speed or quantity. It's been discussed a few times at WP:BOTN in the past, and bots are generally limited to 30epm (but again, no "official" number).
hi in auto wiki browser show new pages in 500 do way to show pages more than 500 example 1000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 12:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 25 | ← | Archive 28 | Archive 29 | Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | → | Archive 34 |
Hi. I am using AWB on a private wiki and it's working perfect. But now I want to create a RegEx list for typos, but I would prefer a specific page (other than WikiName:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos). Is it possible to use a different page for that list? -- 89.245.215.249 ( talk) 21:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. As an example, is this type of template parameter replacement possible in AWB? xxxx
is variable text.
Find:
| location = xxxx
Replace with::
| subdivision_type2 = Location
| subdivision_name2 = xxxx
As you can see. The change is from a one liner, to a two liner, with one of the lines consisting of variable text. Thank you, Reh man 13:15, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
\|\s*location\s*=\s*(xxxx)(\s*)
| subdivision_type2 = Location$2| subdivision_name2 = $1
xxxx
, is there a workaround for this?
Reh
man 13:53, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
\|\s*location\s*=\s*([\w\s]*)(\s+)
| subdivision_type2 = Location$2| subdivision_name2 = $1$2
(\s+)
capture is to get whatever character follows the 'xxxx' (whatever that is). The replacement then uses the value obtained from the (\s+)
capture to end both lines. If:
| location = xxxx
\|\s*location\s*=\s*([\[\]\|\p{L}\p{P} ]*)(\s+)
You can see my folder not have CSV. I don't know how. But older version of AWB had this in my folder. But now this is a big problem for me. Please tell me what should I do? And please add CSV in AWB exe ( sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/) NehalDaveND ( talk) 10:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
I just tried setting AWB to emulate IE11 instead of the default IE7 rendering mode. The result gives an amazing improvement to the Preview screen. I did it simply with a registry entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION but I think the exact details may vary depending on your computer configuration; there are plenty of websites out there that give all the details. The improvement was so remarkable I just had to share it! — Hebrides ( talk) 10:30, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
How do I get AutoWikiBrowser to get every page that uses a specific image? I’ve checked pretty much every single option there is to check.
“What links here” and “What transcludes here” do not work.
―
PapíDimmi (
talk |
contribs) 23:58, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Image file links
from "Source" under the "Make list" box in bottom left corner.
EvergreenFir
(talk) 00:05, 12 September 2016 (UTC)I'm seeing Wiki markup instead of text on the project page. Something need fixing? Andrew 327 11:57, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
See Update to the live CS1 module weekend of 30–31 July 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trappist the monk ( talk • contribs) 10:38, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
When selecting the “Special page” source and then “User contribs,” it’ll show the same pages several times. I assume that this is because the user edited the same page several times in a row, but this is completely pointless in AWB, and AWB should remove duplicate pages when selecting “User contribs.”
― PapíDimmi ( talk | contribs) 00:30, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Comment: @ PapiDimmi: I came to this page Report this error then I found that you have already did it!Regards -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 ( talk) 13:40, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: and other developers, Please look at this request. These strings have not been localised yet, Thanks. Muhammad Shuaib ( talk) 19:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
AWB edits my bot made moved the {{
Unreferenced stub}}
template from the top of the article to the bottom.
[1] This was with "Append text" and "Sort metadata after" options, so maybe AWB is mistaking {{
Unreferenced stub}}
for a stub template? -
Evad37 [
talk 02:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Unreferenced}}
but not {{
Unreferenced stub}}
. There is a
Template redirects rule for {{
Unreferenced stub}}
to {{
Unreferenced}}
, so in this instance you would need to also run genfixes if you want the behaviour of sort meta data to retain {{
Unreferenced stub}}
in zeroth section.
Rjwilmsi 13:58, 26 September 2016 (UTC)Hello, Magioladitis. Could you explain me, please, how can I configurate the AWB so it will move some templates to a place between categories and interwiki, such as local versions of nobots or coordinates, during metadata sort? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 17:31, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Reports produced by the new tool, like
this one for {{
Infobox person}} show common errors which AWB might fix as part of its routing tasks. In this case, for instance, mis-captialising parameter names (|Awards=
instead of |awards=
) or misspelling them (|alma matter=
, and other variants, instead of |alma_mater=
).
Perhaps someone would like to start analysing the reports and adding fixes for the most common errors to AWB? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
I think it might be a good idea to add guidance on this template regarding stubs, similar to that included in Template:Refimprove. I was surprised it wasn't already there.
The template was recently added to M-2 visa, which I created yesterday, but it's use in this manner just doesn't seem at all helpful. The problem with the stub is not that it has too few WLs; the problem is that it is a stub, and there's only so much wikilinking that can be done in two sentences. TimothyJosephWood 12:14, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The XML file with all the search and replace rules I use with AWB has ballooned to over 60 mB and continues to grow. I occasionally get the error "Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown." and sometimes can't open AWB. Looking at the text of the XML file with a text editor, there's a long long list which appears to some articles I've edited, repeated hundreds of times. The list is under <Special> <remove>
.
If I delete all those lines, the file goes down to just over 1.5 mB, and works fine, but the next time I save it, the file jumps up over 60 mB again and all those article names are back. If I save the file in its small state, close AWB and restart the computer, then open the file and re-save it, it goes back up to over 60 mB again. I've tried "Reset to original default settings" and without adding any rules, next time I save, the XML file is up to 59 mB and the long list is there again.
I'm working in English Wikipedia with Windows 10 Home, Version 1607 and looking for suggestions. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:12, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Namaste! I am an admin at sa.wikipedia and I have AWB rights in hi.wikipedia. In sa.wiki I had gave AWB rights to a user (who not an admin) and without any bot flag he can use bot option in sa.wiki. But because my account has not bot flag, in hi.wiki I can't see bot option. So I want to know, what the matter is. NehalDaveND ( talk) 07:51, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
I am one of the sysop in ta.wikipedia. I am in the need to know all the name of existing articles.I tried by Makelistoption by selecting All pages. of AWB. But i got 25,000 articles only. How can i get the remaining articles name?-- Info-farmer ( talk) 11:35, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
USE tawiki_p;
SELECT page_title
FROM page
WHERE page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect = 0
ORDER BY page_title
page_namespace
to 1
, so those are (article-)Talk pages; main namespace is 0
(zero). Query for the second question: SELECT page_title
FROM page
LEFT JOIN pagelinks
ON pl_title = page_title
AND pl_namespace = page_namespace
WHERE page_is_redirect = 1 AND pl_namespace IS NULL
ORDER BY page_title;
It's been a few months since I used AWB, I think April 2016. Opened it and tried to login, and it said "Login aborted". Multiple times. So, I closed AWB and used the AWB updater. Opened it and tried again. Same thing. Since then, I've gone from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and I think Microsoft just installed the Windows 10 anniversary build on my computer. What can I do to log in? Cannot update to any other version of AWB — Maile ( talk) 18:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
Currently, categories are moved automatically to the end of the pages when editing with AWB. Is there a way to avoid that? (For example, in some Wiktionaries, it's prefered to put the categories at the end of each language section -and there can be several language sections per page-.) Automatik ( talk) 23:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Can someone give a precise description of the sense in which the "Random Pages" are random? What is the space from which these pages are drawn, and how are they selected? Thanks. ----
EEng Check mw:Help:Random_page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:20, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Discussion is here.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 11:13, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
I had problems with running the new version this morning. On Windows 10, I had to tell it to run the app anyway. Avast totally choked on it and wouldn't let me run it. I had to add my app directory to its Exclusions list before it would run as normal. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 11:03, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Stevietheman nothing really changed since the last version. @ Reedy: to check it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
AWB stopped working tonight, saying I need to install the latest version. It then tried to do it automatically, but failed with the error message:
Access denied for copying files. Files and such are not the best place to run AWB from. Please run the updater with Administrator rights.
So I logged on to an administrator account and tried the AWB Updater, but it failed again with the same error message. How can I get AWB working again?-- Gronk Oz ( talk) 14:01, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
See here for a proposal on automatically revoking AWB access for indefinitely blocked users, inactive bots, etc. This is purely for in the interest of maintaining the ever-growing CheckPage. Your input is welcomed. Best — MusikAnimal talk 18:31, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Please see this PERM request for Pariah24. Would the addition of a template which contains machine-readable metadata (with no actual visual change on the page) constitute a non-cosmetic edit? I thought this was straight-forward at first, but given the efforts at Wikidata and recent tech shifts, maybe this is more borderline than I thought. ~ Rob13 Talk 00:14, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
There is a new adminbot request open at WP:BRFA. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot II for details. — xaosflux Talk 04:19, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
This edit made with AWB changed layout, and removes spaces after bulleted lists etc. If this is not a user-specific feature but a feature of AWB, please take care to turn it off. AWB should not change layout automatically, and certainly not in the direction of less clear layout. Debresser ( talk) 13:51, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
This is not a general fix. I add spaces after bullets exactly as it's done by other cleanup tool like AutoEd. Debresser please contact Marek to ask them not to do this kind of changes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Please note, AWB does not currently support the new two-factor authentication system. However, you can create a BotPassword for AWB purposes and still log on via the API. If creating a BotPassword for yourself, you can remove the security sensitive access you may have that you don't have a need for when using AWB. This will prevent a hack of your BotPassword to gain full access. See also meta:Help:Two-factor authentication. — xaosflux Talk 23:46, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
I'm often working with single-character changes, and the default shade of blue for the + side of the diff viewer is difficult for me to spot easily. I've been looking for the option to customize the highlight color to something less subtle, but I'm striking out and not finding anything in the documentation. Could someone point me to the right place? Appreciatively — jameslucas ( " " / +) 21:29, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
background: #a3d3ff;
}
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange {
background: #ffe49c;
}
On a related note, I'm trying to make a "night-mode" style.css, but unable to alter the diff window in 2 areas: 1) the whitespace below and arround the changes (i.e. when you only change 1 line, there's a lot of whitespace below), and 2) the line "Double click on a line to undo all changes on that line, or single click to focus the edit box to that line" is still black text with white background. Here's a screenshot of what I have now, and what I'd like to do. Does anyone know how to change that? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 17:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
body {
color: white;
background: pink;
}
color: white;
to your code so that the "Double click on ..." text shows up at the top of the diff window. I uploaded my style.css to
User:Tom.Reding/Night-mode style.css, and you can see the changes from AWB's style.css
in this diff. It would be nice to have a non-kludgy night mode style; until then, let me know if you come up with any improvements. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 22:12, 16 November 2016 (UTC)How can I replace an entire template with content in it with another template, like in this case? Ionutzmovie ( talk) 06:44, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
private static readonly List<string> templateList = new List<string>(){
"Orașul polonez",
"Redirect"
};
private static readonly Regex regexTargetTemplate = Tools.NestedTemplateRegex(templateList);
private static readonly string replacement = "{{Infocaseta Așezare}}";
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = false;
Summary = "trecut la Infocaseta Așezare";
string newArticleText = ArticleText;
foreach(Match m in regexTargetTemplate.Matches(ArticleText)) {
newArticleText = newArticleText.Replace(m.Value, replacement);
}
if (!newArticleText.Equals(ArticleText)) {
ArticleText = newArticleText;
}
else {
Skip = true;
}
return ArticleText;
}
Redirect
with the name of a redirect to
ro:Template:Orașul polonez (without the namespace). You need to list all of the redirects to
ro:Template:Orașul polonez.
Example edit. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 03:27, 17 November 2016 (UTC)Is there a way to search all pages for a query? I want to look for all pages including "Cultural references" and use the find and replace tool to quickly go through those. -- Jennica✿ Ping Me! 12:23, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
insource:/.../
searches into AWB too, especially with a larger # of results. What I normally do (and what you can do in the meantime) is take
this search for insource:/= *Cultural [Rr]eferences *=/
, which found 2,309 pages (in groups of 500, so 5 times), and paste them into 1 Excel column. Then, in a 2nd column, filter out every 3rd line from the 1st column, leaving only the page names in the 2nd column, and paste that into AWB. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 01:54, 17 November 2016 (UTC)B1
reference A1
and leave B2
& B3
blank, then copy B1-3
to cells B4-6
, then repeat until you get to the end (3 -> 6 -> 12 -> 24, etc., so you only need to do it 10x). I have a special spreadsheet I saved with 10,000 or so rows of this for exactly this reason. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 02:55, 17 November 2016 (UTC)There is a related active RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RfC: AWB bot ref reordering. Thank you. ― Mandruss ☎ 22:44, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see this post. Yes, there actually has been a ticket on this since October. And, no, nothing has been done to resolve it. Looks to me like one of those things that will never have an answer, or fix. So, as far as I am concerned, for all my purposes, AWB is useless, dead as the proverbial door nail. Surely, I cannot be the only one this ever happened to. Useless. Useless. Useless. Useless. — Maile ( talk) 20:32, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
AWB's 'general fixes' seems to be changing e.g. <ref name="reception" group="note">
to <ref name="reception group=note">
, see for example
Syntactic Structures. Is this gen fix or me, and if the former is it expected and correct? (
Help:Footnotes is ambiguous.)
Mr Stephen (
talk) 21:29, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Mr Stephen it's a bug that has already been fixed for the next release. I can make a release soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:34, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Is there a way to grab more than 25,000 pages in a single category via "Make list"? I'm trying to run a bot task on Category:Stub message templates, but it's too large to give me the entire cat. ~ Rob13 Talk 20:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
BU Rob13 use no limits plugin. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Are there any guidelines or rules of thumb (beyond WP:CANVASS) I should consider before using AWB for targeted user messaging? Or is it considered a bad use of the tool? This is not something I would feel the need to do often, but it has dawned on me that it would be useful for sending a message to WikiProject members or users potentially interested in particular proposals. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 19:41, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm used to AWB changing the occasional hyphen-minus to an en dash when appropriate, so when I was making this diff I didn't immediately register anything odd, but after I hit 'save' something felt off to me, and I went back to investigate. Sure enough, AWB did the reverse operation for no reason I can determine. Any thoughts here? Thanks — jameslucas ( " " / +) 02:15, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
What can I do when after loading the first article of the list, AWB shows a dialog stating an error has occurred and it will close, "a message will be shown if a solution is available". Unfortunately, I do not get a message and I honestly don't have a clue what the problem might be. I am using AWB on Dutch Wiktionary. The same procedure worked fine a few weeks ago. Any suggestions? -- MarcoSwart ( talk) 19:53, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure AWB used to pop up a dialog to fill in parameters for a Special page, but now I select Special page and nothing happens. I need to use Linksearch and a mask as the list source. Guy ( Help!) 14:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I can't find any Skip options which prevents AWB showing alerts for pages marked with any sort of deletion template. I'm a new user, so I'm sure I've missed something obvious, despite a careful look around. Any tips? (And, while I'm here, why can I only get an audible sound to an alert when I have the Preferences dialog box open? I then have to close it before being able to save a recommended edit - that seems really weird) Parkywiki ( talk) 01:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
{{Article for deletion
\{\{(?:db|speedy|afd|article for deletion)
I get the message AutoWikiBrowser has stopped working when I try to run it, Release 5880. -- Dthomsen8 ( talk) 00:36, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
I have closed the RFC regarding AWB reordering refs. [2] There was roughly two to one opposition to these edits, with the additional factor that automated (or semi-automated) edits are expected to be either uncontroversial or supported by consensus. I believe this constitutes a clear consensus to halt these AWB edits.
Pinging
Rjwilmsi, per comment I will ensure AWB is updated if required to support the consensus reached
.
[3] However any available AWB maintainer should of course make the update at as convenient. Thanx.
Alsee (
talk) 18:40, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
I would like to ask if there is a central place where the community discussions leading to additions to genfixes is logged. If not, do the AWB developers think that there should be? What about template redirects? I understand that there is some overlap in developer effort with CHECKWIKI. Would it be possible to answer the same question for CHECKWIKI here? Spinning Spark 12:16, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
It's also worth remembering that the MOS is not a policy. In fact, there are ongoing discussions on the MOS talk page about the question whether the MOS alone is enough reason to change the style of a page that uses some other style. Many editors feel the MOS is only general guidance, not a rule controlling of all articles. So the mere existence of language in the MOS is not sufficient to warrant applying a style change indiscriminately to many articles. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 14:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
AWB operators who use Windows may also be interested in AutoHotkey (AHK), a free, open utility for Windows, that automates actions such as typing a particular string; or opening a programme or website. We've started to compile some example scripts for using it with Wikipedia and sister projects, at Wikipedia:AutoHotkey. If you have any AHK scripts that are useful when working on Wikimedia projects, please share them there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:47, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm new to using AWB – fantastic tool by the way. I have a bot account on Wikia and I'm trying to figure how to create new pages that redirect to existing pages. The problem I'm trying to solve relates to article names with apostrophes in them, I want to create redirects for pagenames with "fake apostrophes" \u2018
and \u2019
to the standard apostrophe \u0027
pages that already exist. Can this be done with AWB, if so, how? --
Korakys (
talk) 04:34, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
I have tried already many days to make AWB open new articles in fiwiki ja upload there text from txt-files. I have used instructions I have read on the page Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Create new pages, but as result AWB cant load the text from my file to the AWB-editor. When it saves the "content", wiki-filter ignore it, because there are no text to save. I will use CSVLoader insead, but I have a lot of file I want to save in fiwiki first. Have anybody some clue, what went wrong? -- J Hokkanen ( talk) 09:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Obviously some folks use AWB to insert advertising links into Wikipedia articles, ie. /info/en/?search=Walnut_Green_School contained a link for www.rukket.com which I just removed. Details: Revision as of 20:53, 28 February 2016, Hmains, (copyedit,refine category structure, general fixes using AWB using AWB)
Can this any Wiki admin please check? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.135.209.64 ( talk) 22:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
I've made a proposal on the ARBCOM workshop page concerning how to deal with the Magiodilitis situation. Input by WP:BAG, bot owners, and the community at large is welcomed. Even if the proposal doesn't pass, some other ideas can be of interest, especially to WP:AWB/ WP:CHECKWIKI people. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:22, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
This is broken. AWB needs to lay off filenames (and embedded quote chars) in image links. Andy Dingley ( talk) 22:52, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
The problem is that Bgwhite loads the functions via Custom module to create skip conditions and then he runs the functions in unhidden text. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:49, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
How can I delete a list of pages with AWB and how can I make a list with pages created and edited by only one user? Ionutzmovie ( talk) 12:35, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
Some convoys in WWII ended in the letters KM. AWB is deciding that this is a measurement and converting "KM" to "km", even when I post a hidden notice specifically stating that it is NOT a measurement. This is now getting tedious having to revert such edits. Can something be done about it please? Mjroots ( talk) 14:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm trying to cut down the backlog of dead-end pages. I've gone through them using the category with AWB and removed erroneously tagged ones. However, is there a way I could use AWB to add wikilinks to an article in order to un-dead-end it? Thank you! DrStrauss talk 11:56, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to list all articles containing exactly [[Aquitaine]]. I tried "Links on pages (only bluelinks)" and "Wiki search (text)", none of them give the correct list (too large). What should I use ? Jack ma ( talk) 08:15, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, In Sanskrit Wikipedia so many students created sub pages (sandbox also) I want to make a list of it. But I don't know. Please help me for this Or please make list via bot or something. other thing is I want to remove all the categories in those pages. In AWB a can only one but I want to remove those at once. So please help me for that too. Thank you. (ping me when answering) NehalDaveND ( talk) 13:24, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I put a new section on how to hide AWB at WP:BOTS (and mention it in the WP:AWB#See also), since this is often a WP:MEATBOT related issue. However, we could move it to a section of WP:AWB (and mention it in the WP:BOTS#See also) if you feel it's out of place there/would make more sense here. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:38, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm working on a large set of pages that have an infobox with bad values ( Category:Pages using infobox university with unknown parameters), one of the more significant ways in which the pages are wrong is that an infobox will have something like |Principal=John Smith rather than |principal=John Smith. I'd like to find a way to change all of these in a single replace or replace special. I'd be just fine with anything that does a find on ( *\| *)([A-Z]) and replace with $1\L$2 or something... Any ideas? Naraht ( talk) 20:03, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
{{subst:lc:$1}}
ought to transform $1 (say) to lowercase when the edit is saved. --
John of Reading (
talk) 22:14, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
@ Naraht: Not sure if you know that this( Infobox university monthly error report) exists. I've found it useful for the Infobox that I'm working on - X201 ( talk) 16:54, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm new to talk:AutoWikiBrowser (AWB), I'm attempting to do a simple change from 'Wakefield Trinty Wildcats|Wakefield Trinity' to 'Wakefield Trinity' for articles in the Category:Wakefield Trinity Wildcats players. Within AWB I've entered the category, and pressed 'Make List', I've checked the 'Find and replace' box, and then entered the text in the 'Find' and 'Replace within either and/or both 'Normal settings, and the 'Advanced Settings', and then pressed 'Start', AWB then brings up the article, but it doesn't appear to 'automatically make any changes and then go to the diff(erence)'. However, I can manually make changes in the 'Edit box' and save the changes. How I get AWB to make the changes automatically? Best regards DynamoDegsy ( talk) 19:07, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, is any AWB developer here who can look into this? i asked there two months ago but still no response. thanks in advance -- Aftabuzzaman ( talk) 22:26, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! New version of AWB can't find Indic words. Before not like this. Please make changes for this. NehalDaveND ( talk) 05:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
NehalDaveND In which Wikipedia again? in.wikipedia? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:22, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I want to check in a page two things. 1. .png and 2. .jpg. But in skip contains option I can't see both of them. Please tell me how can I check both at a time. .jpg|.png|.svg this not working I don't know why. In manual shows this option only. Please ping while answer. Thank you. NehalDaveND ( talk) 08:47, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
(\.jpg|\.png|\.svg)
-
X201 (
talk) 09:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)Hello all, would somebody mind telling me how the heck Task 16 works on AWB? (I know this should be referred to CHECKWIKI, but I thought I should bring it up here.) I've looking at a couple of edits in which Magioladitis fixes them, and it looks like the whitespace gets replaces by another whitespace. Anyways, I've looked at where the unicode characters are, and AWB does not seem to pick it up where it should be. Could somebody mind explaining CHECKWIKI Task 16 to me? Thanks! Yoshi24517 Chat Online 05:03, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
i want to use AWB in a semiautomatic way to correct the grammatical errors of ta.wiki pages after a week prior notice in the ta.wiki Village pump. how many edits i can do in a minute? May i do 2 to 3 edits in a minute?I want to know that What is your edit limits that you are following here?-- Info-farmer ( talk) 06:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
I am new to using AWB, and I am not sure what the appropriate input is for the "Checkwiki error" source URL. Can someone give me an example of what you would put in that field? Thanks, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 00:07, 6 March 2017 (UTC).
Hello! I am trying to make a list of hi.wiki's all pages. But Whenever I am doing this, I can get only 25000 articles. Moreover, again and again I get same list only. I want 1 lack article's list of hi.wikipedia. How can I get it? NehalDaveND ( talk) 11:33, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
apihighlimits
userright, which is (on enwiki) only usually granted to administrators and bots (and
researchers). If you can't get that userright, you will need to use a database dump or similar. —
crh 23 (
Talk) 12:07, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Does anyone have any ideas on the best way to use regex to differentiate between
What I'm trying to do is to delete both the unused parameter abc and its value, so I'd like the regex to delete abc=def| in the first one and abc=[[def|ghi]]| in the second one. Naraht ( talk) 16:25, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
\[\[([^\|\]]+)\|([^\]]+)\]\]
__WL1NK_O__$1__P1P3__$2__WL1NK_C__
abc=__WL1NK_O__def__P1P3__ghi__WL1NK_C__
__WL1NK_O__
with [[
__P1P3__
with |
__WL1NK_C__
with ]]
Hello, when I open AWB, I have some errors. Here a screenshot of the first error. After the logiciel open with difficulities. When I try to go to "parameters", I have this second error. Because of that, I can't select fr-wp. I already delete and redownload the latest version but it still doesn't work.
Because of the name of error, I think it come from WikiFunctions.dll.
I have Windows 10 pc. Please notify me because I contribute on french wikipedia. My pc is 64bits but the software run in 32bits.
Thanks. -- Gratus ( talk) 15:33, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Heya, I'm looking for a way to remove templates from wikia articles. Is there a way to do something like "Remove {{Template:*}}", so that everything between "{{Template:" and the next "}}" is included in this order? Or is there a general way to remove templates no matter what was entered in the article? For an example please click
here, where I want to remove the TransTitle- and the SInfo-templates, but the information entered obviously changes from article to article.
Also, is there a way to remove the information from the template SongFooter (at the bottom of the linked article), so that only the template itself remains? Again, the information that was previously added there changes from article to article. Maybe something like "|fLetter = *"?
Seelentau (
talk) 13:17, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
\|(.*)=([^(\||\}\}|\n)]*)
, replace with |$1=
(enable regex). It'll run into issues if you have templates inside that template, but other than that it should be fine.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 01:04, 18 March 2017 (UTC)\|(.*)=([^(\||\}\}|\n)]*)
, it only removes the stuff beween {{Template:
and the next }}
, not the template itself. How can I do that? I know I can f&r the {{Template
part, but if I do the same with }}
, it removes it everywhere and I don't want that, of course.
Seelentau (
talk) 18:20, 18 March 2017 (UTC)This was archived last time, so I am reposting again: I am new to using AWB, and I am not sure what the appropriate input is for the "Checkwiki error" source URL. Can someone give me an example of what you would put in that field? Thanks, Gluons12 ☢| ☕ 18:13, 19 March 2017 (UTC).
Hello,
I am currently using AWB for my bot account on idwiki. It was no error occurred since then until I got a pop-up message saying "API reports this user is blocked from editing". I was wondering if my bot was blocked from editing, but CentralAuth says no. I am not using much API for edits, and set 13 seconds to delay between edits. Does it become the problem? Thank you for your time reading this query. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 13:15, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#WP:COSMETICBOT update. This will be relevant to many people here.
After (and if) this is passed, I would suggest that the AWB team review their genfixes for compliance with the update guidance. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
There is currently an effort to identify which WP:CWERRORS should be considered cosmetic/which aren't. Help and feedback would be appreciated. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I run a wiki over on wikia, and I'm looking to use this to assign categories quickly and efficiently. I read the manual, but it seems to be tad confusing, I corrected typos and did find and replace to get the hang of it, but this is still tripping me up. Can anybody help me?? -- FiveCraft ( talk) 19:24, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I am the currently-active bureaucrat on the Beatles Wiki, and am doing a major clean-up of the dead wood on that wiki (resolving redirects and disambiguations, deleting unused redirects (which for some reason AWB calls "broken" redirects) (finished that one), and so on). AWB is useful for many of these tasks (such as resolving disambiguations), but I'm wondering how (if?) AWB can find all pages which link to a certain site, for instance those which contain en.wikipedia.org. (There are a lot of pages on Wikia which link to [http(s)://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ instead of the preferred syntax, [[wikipedia:; does AWB automatically correct these if they find them?) — 2A02:C7D:462:1500:7D2A:32C8:C9E5:8F79 ( talk) 08:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC) (RobertATfm over there, though seeking to change it to evilquoll.)
I expect to update the live cs1|2 modules on the weekend of 29–30 April. Changes since the last update are:
{{
cite interview}}
parameters; (
discussion)to Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration:
to Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist
to Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 11:11, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi guys, I want to use the AWB to add two more parameters to my infobox in the articles of my wikia-wiki. This is a current article and this is an article I manually added the parameters ("previous" and "next", that is). Is it possible to make the AWB add these? I would try to replace "{{SongHeader" with "{{SongHeader |previous= |next= ", but I don't know how to add line breaks. Is there any other way (or a way to include line breaks in F&R)? Seelentau ( talk) 04:28, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
I've read through many of the regex questions in the archives, and they been useful, many confirming that what I figured out was reasonable, but now I'm trying something a little more advanced. I want to find one string and replace with another, but I want to limit the find search to within a specific template (in this case Infobox). (I know there will be templates within templates issues, but I'm trying to understand one issue at a time)
I've done a "(\{\{Infobox)" to anchor the beginning of the find, but can't figure out the proper syntax to anchor the ending }} I've tried RTFM, but can't find an example that is similar, and I've tried various combinations with both MultiLine and SingleLine. Any suggestions on where to find an example? Thanks. (BTW Thanks for the AWB Regex Tester Tool. It's invaluable) Ahwiv ( talk) 12:42, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to have permission in the eswiki-AWB (Spanish), es:AWB. However, all relevant pages are red and even blocked. Anyone has a clue on how to proceed? - DePiep ( talk) 21:02, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
How to disable the scheduling of references, for example, if a 4 to 3 he put 3 4? Please reply me on my user page on Serbian Wikipedia. Zoranzoki21 ( talk) 18:58, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Anyone running AWB with general fixes turned on should take note of
phab:T166293 - the new syntax <references responsive/>
is valid, but AWB doesn't recognise it and will damage the article. --
John of Reading (
talk) 09:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I am just wondering, how do I stop AWB from suggesting certain edits? Is it possible? Thanks for your time! -- TheSandDoctor ( talk) 05:16, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Sure, just about every major template has a category for if invalid parameters are used. However, as with reviewing new pages, AWB really isn't good for that sort of thing. 75% of the time a page ends up in an invalid param category because someone's trying to use a parameter that isn't a real param, and maybe 25% of the time it's a misspelling of a valid param. However, said misspellings are rarely consistent (I recently cleaned up a fair number myself), so AWB's automation won't really be helpful there either. Primefac ( talk) 00:32, 2 June 2017 (UTC) P.S. I'm watching this page so you don't have to ping me every time.
Hello there! I want to disable bot option, which available in AWB. I have AWB right in Sanskrit and Hindi Wikipedia. In Hindi Wikipedia, I can't see Bot option in AWB, because I don't have bot flag on my account. Besides that in Sanskrit Wikipedia, not only I, but all users can see & use bot option without bot flag. Please tell me how can I remove that potion from Sanskrit Wikipedia AWB? Thank you. Pink me when reply. NehalDaveND ( talk) 02:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Is there a way to read exif data with AWB? -- Hedwig in Washington (TALK) 07:56, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
I am an editor on Wikisource of a volume of the US Statutes at Large which contains endless repetitions of a specific block of boilerplate text: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of ". For those not aware of Wikisource, it is fundamentally concerned with OCR correction of out of copyright texts to provide a free, electronic library. The target text which ultimately needs to be corrected to the above, is, therefore, whatever Tesseract (the WS OCR software) has delivered - i.e. including a potentially massively variable number of errors. Is this a use case which experienced users would regard as appropriate for AWB? Thanks CharlesSpencer ( talk) 05:49, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
How to use AWB on http://wikisource.org , the old/multilingual/incubator wikisource? There is no language prefix and apparently it's not possible not to select a language nor to use the custom mode (error 403). If there is no solution, here is an idea : use mul as language prefix (which is done in some other cases.
Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 14:33, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
I was standardizing the format of newspaper names when I ran into this issue: I made a find & replace rule to clean up piped links, changing "the New York Times" to "The New York Times" ('The' is part of its name).
(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?(?:'')?\[\[(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s.ork\s.imes\|(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s+.ork\s+(?:'')?.imes(?:'')?\]\](?:'')?
It is intended to handle various situations where the piped link may or may not be preceded by "the", where italics may or may not surround the link or be contained in the right part of the link. The replacement is a simple link inside italics, whether italics were found or not:
''[[The New York Times]]''
So far, so good. Here are four lines for testing:
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times|New York times]]'' reporter that they 1
letter to the ''[[The New York Times|New York times]]'' that they 2
wrote to a [[The New York Times|New York times]] reporter that they 3
letter to the [[The New York Times|New York times]] that they 4
Go ahead, plug these into the Regex tester and have some fun. It works great. The second line is changed to
letter to ''[[The New York Times]]'' that they 2
Perfect. But in lines 1 and 3 the newspaper name modifies "reporter", so it is better to skip it than to produce the awkward
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times]]'' reporter
which has both an indefinite article and a definite article ("a The"). Just add a negative lookahead (?!\s+reporterx)
at the end of the find rule.
Same results, as you would expect, since the 'x' in 'reporterx' prevents it from matching anything. It only demonstrates that the syntax is OK. Now remove the 'x' from 'reporterx' and WOW. Line 3 is now not changed by the rule; this is what we wanted. Line 1 should also be ignored, but it gets changed and also gets two extra apostrophes.
wrote to a ''[[The New York Times]]'''' reporter that they
The lookahead should not affect the engine's current position in the string, but it appears to back the position up in front of the two apostrophes that follow the closing brackets of the link, and so the two apostrophes are now not part of the found string. I have no further insight into this. Maybe I can split this into two rules, one for cases with surrounding italics and one for cases with no italics, but I have a lot of these rules, and would much rather do it with a single rule. I would be grateful if someone could show what I have done wrong or could provide some workaround. Chris the speller yack 05:38, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?(?:'')?\[\[(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s.ork\s.imes\|(?:'')?(?:[Tt]he\s+)?.ew\s+.ork\s+(?:'')?.imes(?:'')?\]\](?!(?:'')?\s+reporter)(?:'')?
I am trying to use the regex below in AWB ( Regexper flowchart).
\n(\s*\|?\s*(Last (single|album)|last_(single|album))\s*=\s*)"?(''|'''|''''')?"? *(\d?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\} \t]([^"/\d'\{\}]|[^"/\d'\{\}]'?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\}])+[^"/\d'\{\} \t]\d?\d?\d?|[^"/'\{\} \t][^"/'\{\} \t]?) *"?(''|'''|''''')?"?\s*\|?\s*\n.*[Tt]his[ _].*=.*\n(\s*\|?\s*(Next (single|album)|next_(single|album))\s*=\s*)"?(''|'''|''''')?"? *(\d?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\} \t]([^"/\d'\{\}]|[^"/\d'\{\}]'?\d?\d?[^"/\d'\{\}])+[^"/\d'\{\} \t]\d?\d?\d?|[^"/'\{\} \t][^"/'\{\} \t]?) *"?(''|'''|''''')?"?\s*(\||\}\})?\s*\n
Unfortunately, on some pages (including some as short as this one), AWB refuses to do anything.
Is this too complex for AWB to handle, or is my regex written badly? Should I use pywikibot instead?
Jc86035 (
talk) Use {{
re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 11:33, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
As a general comment, your regex is rather inefficient in many places, if you have something like (''|'''|''''')?
, you'd really be better off doing something like '*
or (''+)?
(yes it'd match other cases, but when are you going to run into those? Likewise for \d?\d?\d?
, which could very likely be replaced with \d*
or \d{0,3}
. AWB can also ignore casing, so things like [Tt]his
could likely be replaced with this
, or (Next (single|album)|next_(single|album))
replaced with (next( |_)(single|album))
.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 13:13, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Finally, I have some spare time. I'll start preparing the new vrsion during the next week. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:34, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
I am having trouble figuring out how the advanced find/replace rules work. I have nested some regex rules (if rule 1 then (if rule 2 then (rules 3–5))), but the subrules are run regardless of whether or not their parent rules are actioned upon. Is this a bug, or am I doing this wrong? Are the rules for the entire tree ignored if there is a match in the "Not contains" panel, or does it do something else? Jc86035 ( talk) 16:52, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
I got a recent message on my Talk page telling me I should disable wikilink checking because of a disagreement with several other editors, but I don't know how to disable it. Since the warnings, I've only been ignoring the feature and only skipping articles on an alternating basis: when no changes are made OR when there's no alerts. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 20:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm not Phab-ing this because it's a hybrid request.
The bug I've detected is that as long as the talk page for my AutoWikiBrowser alt account exists, I get the "you have new messages" pop-up constantly, rendering usage impossible. Anarchyte has SALT-ed this for me.
The request I'd like to make is for the "move" function to be unlocked for page movers as well as administrators for community sanctioned mass-moves like the one currently being discussed at WP:AN.
Thanks,
DrStrauss talk 12:14, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Good day, on it.wiki we were discussing about acceptable edit/min rates according to maxlag. So the question is: is it possible to set a maxlag parameter on AWB as it is e.g. on Pywikipedia? Thanks, -- Daimona Eaytoy ( talk) 10:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
This page has 856 watchers; Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes has just 33. In the short term may I direct folk's attention there, and in the longer term perhaps it should be redirected here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm using one of the custom modules to read a field from a template and export its value to a text file. On a template that has 24000+ uses, is there any way I can get the AWB+custom module to extract from a database dump instead? and avoid having to get the data in batches from live WP requests. - X201 ( talk) 11:24, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Read the manual. Is there a better "how to" or tutorial? Cinderella157 ( talk) 10:46, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
Please note that there is a discussion related to {{ Orphan}} at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Orphans, relating to possibly disacontinuing its use. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:04, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
This page has 856 watchers; Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes has just 33. In the short term may I direct folk's attention there, and in the longer term perhaps it should be redirected here? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
I want to update/check/add IDs in/to {{
Taxonbar}}
, which draws from WikiData, for all/most of its transclusions. How could I do this semi/automatically? ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 16:44, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
See this post. — Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:22, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
How to use AWB on FreeBSD? I once ran it through wine, but did nothing except building a list. (Make list menu was very odd.) A similar discussion regarding huggle can be found at WP:Huggle/Feedback#Huggle 3x on FreeBSD. Thanks. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:48, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
This recent patch (intentional denial of access to WMF wikis for HTTPS clients with legacy cipher support) has effectively rendered AWB useless on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server platforms, as there seems to be no way to update MS SSL/TLS client libraries to support newer ciphers and/or to update MSHTML to above IE8.
Is there any known workaround to continue using AWB on these platforms?
If it's not, than mentions of Windows XP should be removed from requirements ("AutoWikiBrowser requires Windows XP or newer. It also requires Version 3.5 or later of the .NET Framework. It still runs under 2000/XP even though they are not supported anymore by Microsoft, but users of Windows 2000 and Windows XP must download and install .NET Framework 3.5 (it is included in Windows Vista)." [5]) -- Teslaton ( talk) 18:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Next to this WP:AWB (an exe file), there exists "JS Wiki Browser" that is run by script. It is maintained by Joeytje50 ( talk · contribs).
Ever since the script version was launched, it created confusion between the two programs (or whatever I should call them). Since the "AWB" is well-established, I think the JS-version should make changes & clarifications to make clear that it is a different program.
BTW, it shares the Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage rights settings.
1. First, there should be a single, nonconfusing ID. Today I see:
2. Once a single id has been established, add a subpage to this WikiProject, say Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/JWB. This page should guide users to the true pages for documentation, maintenance, bugs, contacting, etc.
3. This subpagepage name be added to the navigation Template:AWB, added to the "Changelog" link list.
Hello fellow AWB users. I have been using AWB to fix MOS:ACCESS#Text violations where the text is inappropriately made small. This has been done by putting in two find and replaces for <small> and </small> where the replacement is blank. However {{small|*}} is also used to make text small where is * is the said text. Is it currently possible to change {{small|*}} to * with AWB, keeping in mind that is removing the template but keeping the data inside the template? Please ping when you reply. Emir of Wikipedia ( talk) 20:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
\{\{\s*(?:HW\-small|small)\s*\|([^\{\}]+)\}\}
, and replace with $1
. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 21:22, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
{{
small}}
(just {{
HW-small}}
) in a non-captured group via (?:)
, and restricting the captured group to exclude curly braces so as to avoid any {{
small}}
s with multiple nested templates. Single-nested templates might turn out ok, but better to small-batch those at the end, one-by-one, after having gone through the bulk of easy ones first. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 21:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
The Transhumanist 23:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Is there any way to use my bot account to null edit a list of pages?
Why would I want to do that? Because sometimes I make mistakes that can be remedied by a template fix followed by null edits to the effected pages. Today I edited {{
lang-fi}}
and left out a $2
in the replace value in my awb script. That $2
was supposed to insert a capture of the </includeonly>
. The result? More than a thousand pages transcluded the template's documentation. I also regularly want to do this when I update the
Module:Citation/CS1 suite (seven modules) that will cause Lua script errors because I can't instantly update them simultaneously.
I can use awb to null edit a list of pages manually (on the options tab, uncheck everything; on the skip tab, uncheck everything) then start and click save for every 'no changes'. Works like a charm. But, a thousand pages is a lot of clicking. Is there a way to use my bot account to accomplish the same thing?
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 17:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
a noticeable effect on the rendered page. Basically, any edit you make using AWB—whether manually or by bot—that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page will get the AWB permission stripped, and any edit you make using a bot that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page will get you blocked; since it's only been a couple of months since this principle was reconfirmed by Arbcom, the pitchfork-wielders are unlikely to be in a very lenient mood. ‑ Iridescent 17:25, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
{{
lang-fi}}
documentation including a script error.a noticeable effect on the rendered page: the error message / improperly transcluded text is removed. There are those who whine and complain about cosmetic edits cluttering up lists. AWB null edits don't seem to cause that. None of the 1000+ pages that I null edited today are, for example, listed in Special:Contributions/Trappist_the_monk nor are those edits reflected in article histories; see 1952 Summer Olympics ( history).
on the options tab, uncheck everything; on the skip tab, uncheck everything(emphasis added) that 'uncheck everything' includes all of the automatic changes including general fixes. I never run awb with those on anyway because I don't want to be responsible for fixes that I don't intend. I'd be quite happy if on the bot tab there were a 'null edit' checkbox that would automatically disable everything in all tabs and just ran through the list doing null edits.
Is it possible to generate list of all pages containing specific text? Coderzombie ( talk) 16:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is AWB slow to load and save for others?
A simple script to replace unwanted italic wiki markup. The first couple of load/save cycles are as fast as I have come to know from past experience. Then, it's like a switch gets thrown and it takes 5–7 seconds to load a page, practically no time for AWB to get to the Ready-to-save state, and then another 5–7 seconds to save after I click the Save button – every time; this is very consistent. Yesterday was Thursday so is it possible that MediaWiki is now throttling AWB edits somehow?
I have tried logging out, restarting, etc. Always the first couple of edits are normally quick and every edit after that consistently slow as I have described. En.wiki page loads and saves that I've done this morning outside of AWB are nominally the same as they were yesterday.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:49, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to handle removing line breaks for infoboxes? For example,
{{Infobox |random = John Cena |stupid = Cat flying to Haiti.png |variables = 3 |removethis = variable |example = Yes |overkill = Definitely }}
How would I go about removing the "removethis" variable along with the line that it's on, with the data that's in it's infobox, including if different pages had different data? Thanks for any help guys. 2001:5B0:2968:9128:FD35:C390:7505:C7F4 ( talk) 03:07, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
\|\s*removethis\s*=\s*variable\s*
for specific text (the \s
group contains all whitespace characters, including the
CRLF characters \r\n
), or \|\s*removethis\s*=[^\|\}\r\n]*[\r\n]+
for any parameter value on the same line (change [\r\n]+
to [\r\n]*
if you expect to find infoboxes with parameters not separated by a new line). ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 03:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi guy I was wondering if anyone could help with how to get regex for this:
{{ImageImprove|Image needs to be set at a 3:5 ratio.|Category}}
The enter below it also needs to get removed. Any ideas? The first variable covers any random message and the second one overs various categories. Thanks in advance 2001:5B0:2969:4108:551E:C08F:9EF9:39AF ( talk) 23:54, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
\{\{\s*ImageImprove\s*\|([^\|\}]*)\|([^\}]*)\}\} *[\r\n]
. Message is in $1
and category is in $2
. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 00:01, 22 December 2017 (UTC)Until several weeks ago, I could run AWB 5.9.0.0 on my system without problems. I did not change my system, but when I open AWB now, during the opening process I receive the message "The underlying connection was closed; An unexpected error occurred on a send." and I can no longer login or open a preferences file. While trying to open previously stored preferences, I receive the error message "Received an unexpected EOF or 0 bytes from the transport stream." As I did not alter my system, I suspect something changed on the server side. I'm still using Windows XP, but according to the project page, that operating system should be supported. Is this a known problem and, more important, is there a work around? Wiki klaas 13:26, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Is this the (/is there a) right venue to request all contents of a large category (~44k total, and I can retrieve the top 25k)? All of the admins I know that use AWB are either busy or have an away/on-holiday tag on their talks. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 16:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
{{ Refimprove}} has been moved to {{ More citations needed}} - what's the best way to get the AWB general fixes updated for this? Timrollpickering 21:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
{{ Convert}} ( talk) has two parameter values that are deprecated, and to be replaced with new value. They have many usages:
Talk is here. Could be seen as trivial edit. Where can we ask for inclusion in the "trivial typo" edits (that is, only edit when non-trivial edits are made)? @ Johnuniq and Quondum: - DePiep ( talk) 11:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Pleased be aware that WW2 convoy designators ending in KM (e.g. OS 77KM) are not measurements and should not be altered to indicate that they are, as was recently done to the SS Graigaur article. Mjroots ( talk) 11:00, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Do we have a maximum editing rate when using AWB? Illegitimate Barrister ( talk · contribs) is editing at the phenomenal average rate of over 20,000 in 24 hours, or one every four seconds - but is peaking at around 40 per minute or one every 1.5 seconds. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 11:44, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
merely editing quickly, particularly for a short time, is not by itself disruptive.Granted this sounds like it's not "a short time" but if they're not making any mistakes I don't see a huge issue. Granted, they probably should/could file a bot report for it, but that's their prerogative.
I agree with Primefack that the interesting new factor in the discussions is the ""watchlist" perspective". Unfortunatelly, I still see no action in the direction of finding a way to alter this factor in a way that useful edits still an be done. For intance, I hvae proposed a more clever way to watch edits of interest. I partly agree with Rjwilmsi. I think the commuity has to decide but not via ANI. It should be a wider discussion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
His edits were also contrary to the AWB rules (contrary to guidelines, controversial, and inconsequential, all per WP:NOTBROKEN). -- JHunterJ ( talk) 13:29, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Here are Illegitimate Barrister's edit counts for the last two weeks:
Time and date | Edits to date | Increase |
---|---|---|
04:06, 5 January 2018 | 137329 | 113 |
04:04, 6 January 2018 | 137618 | 289 |
04:02, 7 January 2018 | 137680 | 62 |
04:09, 8 January 2018 | 137921 | 241 |
04:04, 9 January 2018 | 138054 | 133 |
04:05, 10 January 2018 | 138152 | 98 |
04:03, 11 January 2018 | 138258 | 106 |
04:03, 12 January 2018 | 149321 | 11063 |
04:09, 13 January 2018 | 159948 | 10627 |
04:04, 14 January 2018 | 172089 | 12141 |
04:05, 15 January 2018 | 193583 | 21494 |
04:03, 16 January 2018 | 201738 | 8155 |
04:06, 17 January 2018 | 206146 | 4408 |
04:09, 18 January 2018 | 209842 | 3696 |
04:03, 19 January 2018 | 213673 | 3831 |
These are from Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits/1–1000, the link in the first column goes to that specific revision. It shows that the high edit rate began about a week ago, and on the day that I started this thread it peaked at one edit every 4.02 seconds for the 24-hour period. Edits like these, most of which involve the removal of single spaces or newlines with nil effect on the rendered page; or an edit like this, suggest that their motive is to boost their edit count, nothing more. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 00:17, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
Is there an easy way to do this in AWB (i.e. not brute-force GetHTML'ing each wikilink on each page), or possibly in labs' Quarry tool? I don't know enough SQL yet to do anything meaningful with the latter. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:49, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
One way I was doing something similar was to:
for each article, where X is article nameIt is not the best process but it works. -- Jarekt ( talk) 03:52, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Rjwilmsi, Jarekt, and Tom.Reding: Here you go folks, it's fast and it works like a champ. Thanks to @ Jarekt: for pointing me in the right direction! I made it so it would include the wikilinks and reformat any categories it pulls in to [[:. of course it would still be better to only pull in redlinks and maybe exclude cats, but it's usable. 2601:5CC:100:697A:F936:60EF:A894:2959 ( talk) 00:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
//Create a module with the this code.
//Use AWB to pull in the list of articles you want to process
//The script exports the list of Wikilinks to a .txt file.
//From the .txt file it can be copied and saved to /sandbox and then use AWB to pull in the red links
public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip)
{
Skip = true;
Summary = "test";
String outStr = ArticleTitle;
bool found = false;
Match m = Regex.Match(ArticleText, @"\[\[([^\]\|]*)\]\]");
while (m.Success) {
outStr = outStr + m.Result(";
$1");
m = m.NextMatch();
found = true;
}
if (found) {
outStr = outStr.Replace("\r","");
outStr = outStr.Replace("\n","");
outStr = outStr.Replace("[[Category:","[[:Category:");
System.IO.StreamWriter sw = System.IO.File.AppendText("C:/Project/Wikilinks.txt");
sw.WriteLine(outStr);
sw.Close();
}
return ArticleText;
}
public class LinksOnPageOnlyRedListProvider seems to contain the back-end for creating the list of redlinks on 1 page, but it's not obvious to me how it does it, nor how to apply it in a custom module (if that's even possible). Does anyone else? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 04:14, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
When will there be a Linux version of AWB instead of using the Windows version of it through Wine? LA ( T) @ 11:57, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I have a simple template in a lot of articles:
And I would like to find and replace a specific string of letters ("you") with "yō", but only in the Romanised part of the template, not anywhere else in the template/article. How can I achieve this? Seelentau ( talk) 21:59, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
|Romanised=you
with |Romanised=yō
. I suppose you could add some regex to make it more dynamic; that would turn the "find" into \|\s*Romanised\s*=\s*you
Primefac (
talk) 12:46, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
\{nihongo\s*\|\s*you
and replacing with {nihongo | yō
would suffice. However, their example doesn't match the template parameters, which makes me think it's a different template.
Primefac (
talk) 14:47, 5 February 2018 (UTC)\{\{\s*(?:[Jj]apanesename|JP|[Jj]p|[Nn]ihongi|[Nn]ihongo4|[Nn]ihongo|[Nn]ihono)\s*\|
, and check "Regular expression". This will look for
all aliases of {{
nihongo}}. In the "Find" tab put (\|\s*[Rr]omanised\s*=\s*)you(\s*[\|\}])
, and replace with $1yō$2
. Check "Regular expression". This will take care of the named parameter cases.(\{\{\s*(?:[Jj]apanesename|JP|[Jj]p|[Nn]ihongi|[Nn]ihongo4|[Nn]ihongo|[Nn]ihono)\s*\|[^\{\}\|]+\|\s*)you(\s*\|)
and "Replace with" $1yō$2
, checking "Regular expression". This will take care of the unnamed parameter cases. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:15, 5 February 2018 (UTC)Hi guys, thank you for your replies so far. To answer your questions: No, it's not that template, it's one I've written myself for my own wikia. The syntax is this. What I want to do is to replace any "you" with "yō", but only in that part of the article's text that is put in the "Romanised" part of the template. This is of course because of the English word "you" that is often found in the "Translation" part of the template (and maybe somewhere else in the articles where the template is included). So yes, I would like to avoid false positives. Seelentau ( talk) 14:01, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
(\{\{lyrics\s*\|.*?\|[^\|}]*)you
→ $1yō
Primefac (
talk) 16:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
{{lyrics|<anything>|<anything>you
and replacing the "you" with "yō" (all of the \s and brackets etc are just to specify wildcards and define the replacement parameters). All of the text before the "you" is stored as the "first match" which is then put in the end text (which is defined in regex by $1).
Primefac (
talk) 19:05, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
(\{\{lyrics\s*\|.*?\|[^\|}]*)you
=> Replace with $1yō
=> Regex check, done. Right? Nothing else.
Seelentau (
talk) 19:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
]* )you
Primefac (
talk) 19:34, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
That text doesn't appear to be inside of a template call, which is why it's not being picked up as a match. Primefac ( talk) 19:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
1-Hi .there is any module or plug in awb that do translate wikilink(en to pt or fa) 2-can somebody covert this file to dll file for me? https://github.com/leafnode/AWB-Translate-Plugin?files=1 -- Monorodo ( talk) 20:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I am new to AWB and needed some help in creating a list for all articles created by a single user?? Can someone help?? -- Hagennos Talk 16:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
HTML scraper (advanced regex)
as the "Source" and https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Makhamakhi
as the "URL". Click "Make list". In the dialog that pops up, enter (?<=<td class="sort-entry--page-title" data-value=")[^"]+(?=">)
as the "Regex". Leave the three checkboxes unticked and the "group" as zero. Click "OK".Since last few days, few minutes after logging in AWB, I am getting the following email:
I havent used AWB on other computer in ages, however everytime I log in now, I am getting this email. Does anybody know why? Also, anybody else in the boat with me? —usernamekiran (talk) 00:27, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Try this: log out from AWB, open Internet explorer, log in to the same account, ignore the mail if arrived, log out, log in again, log out again, get back to AWB, log in. It can help. IKhitron ( talk) 01:06, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Rule 4 says: "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit. If in doubt, or if other editors object to edits on the basis of this rule, seek consensus at an appropriate venue before making further similar edits." On the other hand, I've used AWB to cleanup infoboxes *many* times. For example, if Location=asdf is added into Template:Infobox Fraternity, then the article is placed in Category:Pages using infobox fraternity with unknown parameters. Now that is a hidden category, so a user who doesn't have an account or a logged in account without turning on hidden categories won't see a change to the article. So which of these is the way to go
Naraht ( talk) 22:40, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
|Location=
to |location=
would have a visible effect on the page, because you'd suddenly have the Headquarters line appearing in the IB. Plus, the language isn't a "must" but an "is generally considered", with the additional caveats that consensus should always be sought for potentially controversial uses (or if someone calls you out on it).
Primefac (
talk) 13:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)Greetings, I just wanted to report that it appears Ser Amantio di Nicolao is again violating AWB's terms of use edit rate rule. He is currently editing at a rate of 25-30 edits a minute without an apparent bot flag. 2601:5CC:100:697A:F55F:44A4:194F:D883 ( talk) 14:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
I tried, for example, adding Special:Redirect/page/11731559 to my page list, then checking "follow redirects", but I got an auto-skip reason of "page is a special page", with no resolving performed. I also tried adding the special wikilink to my sandbox, then trying to make-list "Links on page", but that returned nothing. I could use the API to do it, but I was hoping to find a native feature first. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 00:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&formatversion=2&pageids=11731559
, and scraping for "title"
, for anyone interested. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:37, 14 March 2018 (UTC)While I am no particular fan of the increased length of edit summaries, they're here (for now). It would probably be beneficial to increase the edit summary length of AWB posts. Primefac ( talk) 17:22, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Any chance that AutoWikiBrowser will be native for Mac one day? I know that I can run a parallel Windows, but I don't really want to go that route. Leschnei ( talk) 17:38, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Check WP:GENFIXES. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
On the page, it says to use AWB it first requires registration on Wikipedia. How would you use AWB on another wiki that is not Wikipedia? (Sorry if this is already covered in another page and I'm just being dumb; if this is the case, just let me know)-- SkyGazer 512 talk / contributions / subpages 16:13, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Anyone knows why? I'm trying to use it for the ckb project and it returns an error when i try to login.--◂ épine Ⓥ 16:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I input my database file, check Namepace > Main/Article, then check all of the boxes under Searching > "AWB specific" options, and get no results after ~an hour. I've tried 2 different dump dates and get the same result. Has this tab been turned off or am I doing something wrong? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 14:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Under what circumstances is the Bots tab shown? I am using the 350bot account on Wiktionary and I do not see it. Suzukaze-c ( talk) 02:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to access some redirects on a plaintext list I've made, but AWB seems to be redirecting to the main page, instead of directly accessing the redirect page. I'm sure there's a way to directly access the redirect, but neither Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Make list nor Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Start says how to do this. E to the Pi times i ( talk | contribs) 21:33, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Options > Follow redirects
.
E to the Pi times i (
talk |
contribs) 21:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)The short description of a Wikipedia article is intended as an annotation to the title. As such it should display as close to directly after the title as technically practicable (when the gadget is activated or css used) Moving it to below hatnotes breaks this logic. Please check at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions for more information and discussion. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:10, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I've tried running AWB through the Dushdi Mala Medal article in order to merge the duplicate references, but it fails to correct all of them ( example). Does anyone know why this is happening? Should it be filed as a bug? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 02:44, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
<ref>[http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2560/B/018/3.PDF ''Royal Thai Government Gazette''. '''134''' (18): 3.]</ref>
. --
Paul_012 (
talk) 10:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
== AAA == == DDD ==
(
Hello . how to add new section BBB between AAA and DDD via csv loader. thanks Monorodo ( talk) 22:38, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Monorodo ( talk) 13:41, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
== See also == * [[Wallachia]] == Gallery == <gallery> File:Curtea de Arges.E.jpg|St. Nicholas Princely Church File:Catedrala Curtea de Arges.jpg|Curtea de Argeș Cathedral in an 1880 engraving </gallery>
Hello. How to move galley section above see also section by regex. thanks Monorodo ( talk) 23:20, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
(==\s*See also\s*==[\S\s]*?)(==\s*Gallery\s*==[\S\s]*?</gallery>)
@ User:Primefac. OK. thanks. its work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monorodo ( talk • contribs) 13:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
{{Infobox settlement |name=Ardeoani |settlement_type=[[Communes of Romania|Commune]] |total_type= |timezone_DST=[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]|utc_offset_DST=+3 |map_caption= |subdivision_type=Country |subdivision_name={{flag|Romania}} |subdivision_type1=[[Counties of Romania|County]] |subdivision_name1=[[Bacău County]] |population_total=2563 |population_as_of=2002 '''Ardeoani''' is a [[Commune in Romania|commune]] in [[Bacău County]], [[Romania]]. It is composed of two villages, Ardeoani and Leontinești.
Hello. I use awb. what is the regex to add }} above '''Ardeoani'''. is way to find what article has this problem (have not }} in end of infobox? thanks
Aymara93 ( talk) 22:28, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
([\r\n] *\|\s*\w[\w_]+\s*=[^\r\n\{\}]*)[\r\n]+('''+\p{Lu}[\w\s]+'''+ is )
and replace with $1\n}}\n\n$2
, which will work as long as the last infobox parameter value doesn't contain a {{template}}. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 15:34, 24 April 2018 (UTC)I noticed Ser Amantio di Nicolao violated the AWB rules a couple times just in the last week with his edit rate and volume of edits. I left him a notice on his talk page but he does it multiple times a month, multiple people complain about it and no one does anything. I highly recommend his AWB rights be revoked if he cannot follow the rules. 2601:5CC:101:5DEB:95BA:D5C3:683C:12E ( talk) 00:26, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
For example special:Shortpages. is this possible?--◂ épine Ⓥ 20:45, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Naraht ( talk) 14:06, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
merely editing quickly, particularly for a short time, is not by itself disruptiveas well as caveats for not
sacrific[ing] quality in the pursuit of speed or quantity. It's been discussed a few times at WP:BOTN in the past, and bots are generally limited to 30epm (but again, no "official" number).
hi in auto wiki browser show new pages in 500 do way to show pages more than 500 example 1000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 12:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)