Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 11

message: I'm trying to make a list from Special:Log/Newusers, but I'm not getting any users whose talk pages don't yet exist, even if I uncheck "Ignore existing pages" in the "Skip articles" section. I deduce that this is because the code added or tweaked per the request at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 4#suggested functionality addition assumes that one would only want users with live talk pages. But I want to find users without talk pages, and I suspect that the unchecked "Ignore" option never comes into play because the generated list must first include the desired pages. If so, could this be fixed so that all users in the desired portion of the log are represented? If this is done, the default behavior of skipping non-existing pages should automatically provide the current functionality, and folks in my situation will be accomodated as well. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any thoughts on this problem yet, folks? Am I being dense, perhaps? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with Special:Log/Newusers 

message: Once again, this is using AWB with en.wikinews, I've overwritten the default config .xml file with that detail, plus setting the EnableRegexTypoFix option.  Now, whenever I start up AWB I get a 404 error, my guess it is perhaps looking for a page of regexes on Wikinews.  If this is the case, can you let me know what I'd need to create on wikinews, and where I'd need to copy from?  I'd love to be able to include fixes to change quotes from MS Office into plain quotes - they break our PDF/print edition.
Steps to reproduce are, File->User and project preferences, set project to Wikinews, select make from Category, enter a recent date (eg September 1, 2006), click on the More options tag and select Enable RegexTypo Fix, uncheck Skip article, click Make list, select File->Save settings, overwrite Default.xml, quit AWB, restart and observe the error, should be: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. --Brianmc 17:35, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos now I have created the page it works ok. Martin 19:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for this, I've copied the typo list from wikipedia and added it to my watchlist so I spot updates.  I really appreciate this tool and have made some significant changes on Wikinews with its help. --Brianmc 20:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  404 on startup with nonstandard Default.xml 

message: The current version of AWB always crashes on the first or second edit. Does anyone else have this problem?--Kungfu Adam (talk) 21:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. It's quite usual, alas, for it crash after a thousand or more edits, but I've never had it crash after one or two. --kingboyk 22:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem for me either, doesn't crash after 100+ edits. Lincher 03:37, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe I had a bad download. I could reinstall...--Kungfu Adam (talk) 11:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No such luck. I guess I can wait for the next release and see what happens.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 17:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm.. I also have the same problem, I tried both 3.0.2.9 and 3.0.3.0 and they crashed on my first and second edit. Dunno why though. --WinHunter (talk) 01:25, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newest version crashes 

message: Loading these settings (make list from category) I get an error at
if (reader.MoveToAttribute("index"))
   listMaker1.SelectedSource = (WikiFunctions.Lists.SourceType)int.Parse(reader.Value);
in UserSettings.cs.
Settings (tested with plugin deleted, it's not a plugin issue) -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Settings program="AWB" schema="2">
  <Project>
    <projectlang proj="wikipedia" lang="en" />
  </Project>
  <Options>
    <selectsource index="Category" text="Mexican politician stubs" />
    <general general="True" tagger="True" unicodifyer="True" />
    <categorisation index="0" text="" />
    <skip does="False" doesnot="False" regex="False" casesensitive="False" doestext="" doesnottext="" moreindex="0" />
    <message enabled="False" text="" append="True" />
    <automode delay="15" quicksave="False" suppresstag="True" />
    <imager index="0" replace="" with="" />
  </Options>
  <regextypofix>
    <regextypofixproperties enabled="False" skipnofixed="False" />
  </regextypofix>
  <FindAndReplaceSettings>
    <findandreplacesettings enabled="False" ignorenofar="True" ignoretext="False" appendsummary="True" afterotherfixes="False" />
  </FindAndReplaceSettings>
  <FindAndReplace>
    <replacerules enabled="False">
      <rule name="Rule" type="0" enabled="True" />
    </replacerules>
  </FindAndReplace>
  <startoptions>
    <summary text="clean up" />
    <summaryindex index="clean up" />
    <find text="" regex="False" casesensitive="False" />
    <menu>
      <wordwrap enabled="True" />
      <toolbar enabled="False" />
      <bypass enabled="True" />
      <ingnorenonexistent enabled="True" />
      <noautochanges enabled="False" />
      <skipnochanges enabled="False" />
      <preview enabled="False" />
      <minor enabled="False" />
      <watch enabled="False" />
      <timer enabled="False" />
      <sortinterwiki enabled="True" />
      <addignoredtolog enabled="False" />
    </menu>
    <plugins />
  </startoptions>
  <pastemore>
    <pastemore1 text="" />
    <pastemore2 text="" />
    <pastemore3 text="" />
    <pastemore4 text="" />
    <pastemore5 text="" />
    <pastemore6 text="" />
    <pastemore7 text="" />
    <pastemore8 text="" />
    <pastemore9 text="" />
    <pastemore10 text="" />
  </pastemore>
  <preferences>
    <preferencevalues enhancediff="True" scrolldown="True" difffontsize="150" textboxfontsize="10" textboxfont="Courier New" lowthreadpriority="False" flashandbeep="True" />
  </preferences>
</Settings>
--kingboyk 14:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On further inspection I think the settings are getting saved incorrectly, and "selectsource index" should be "0", not "category"? --kingboyk 14:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is only in SVN, I've changed it now. Martin 15:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  XML settings bug? 

message: Martin, any chance we could get these?
*Make list from category - first 200 articles. Sometimes I want to sample the category and not get the entire thing (especially if contains 100,000 articles!). Links on page for a category page doesn't currently work; an alternative to my request might be to makle links on page for a category page work i.e. it returns the listing on the first page.
*What redirects here.
--kingboyk 14:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose I can put an optional limit in the category, but the other things would need a change in User:Yurik/Query API. Martin 15:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Blimey. I didn't know about that. Never heard of it. (rolls eyes). --kingboyk 17:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making lists 

message: My Auto Wiki Browser refuses to believe that I'm logged in, even though I very obviously am.  As you can see at the screenshot to the left, I had logged in successfully, yet it was still prompting me to log in again.  What on earth is the matter?  Ingoolemo talk 04:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely that you are not using the monobook skin. Martin 10:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll look into making it work though. Martin 15:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Drop me a line when you figure it out.  Thanks, Ingoolemo talk 00:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Login problem 

message: when this option is set, regex:
([^a-z].*?( \(.*?\))?) ?[-–]? ?(jest )?to(^:| ) 
won't catch: Bielefeld to
[it's in the main article]
in pl:Bielefeld
– everything it's ok when I unset that option, regex checker tells it's true anyway, so it might be bug gregul
:It was a problem with an internal regex being too greedy, I've fixed it. Martin 15:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  find and replace - ignore external/interwiki links, images, nowiki ... 

message: I'm finding that when I create a list of articles from multiple large categories, AWB omits a substantial number of the articles. Specifically, the subcats of :Category:Orphaned articles, there are about 17,000 articles listed, and when I create a list from them, many articles are left out of the list (several hundred at least), even if I try it twice. So um... any ideas? If this is a known bug, is there any reliable tool to generate a list of all articles in a large category? --W.marsh 14:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah I'd glad you posted this. When I build a listing of :Category:Living people I get 120,000 or so articles. If I build a list of :Category:Biography articles of living people (talk pages tagged with living=yes) I only get 101,000. I do a bot run and discover that thousands of my remaining 20,000 or so articles already have living=yes. Mediawiki hasn't updated the category properly (unlikely, because the job queue runs often enough on WPBiography); the list comparer is broken (possible but I don't think it's this); or there's something wrong with the list grabbing from large cats. --kingboyk 14:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

text: I've noticed this, as it only occurs on very large categories, I half suspect it is the queri API rather than AWB, but I'll find out for sure soon. Martin 15:21, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of large categories 

message: Hi, is it possible to add a wikiproject banner to the talk pages of articles using AWB? I clicked on more options, clicked on append message and wrote down the banner of the project . And then I saved. But nothing happened. Please suggest -- Lost 19:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You have to set all the settings, then start the process. Martin 21:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I did set all settings as far as I could gather. But not able to do it. Help would be greatly appreciated. -- Lost 04:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding wikiproject banner to talk pages 

message: I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is the actual purpose of AWB and/or what is the main function of it that makes it superior to simply going around in IE and editing pages? The article doesn't exactly make it clear (to me). I tend to see mainly spelling and grammar errors corrected with AWB tags in the change-log. What exactly does AWB allow you to do? TheHYPO 00:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB can be used for repeating the same task over and over and over and over again.  Like adding a template to every page in a category, (even hundreds of them). It can also be used to do tasks like update a link or image on pages.  It is not designed to replace your normal browser, or to be your primary editor.  Some bots run solely using the find and replace utility of AWB. — xaosflux Talk 02:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of AWB? 

message: Hi, I'm using AWB on Swedish Wikipedia, and it works well. To my knowledge, I have not entered my username in AWB or its config files, still AWB is logging in with my standard login. How can it work? Magic? I'm clogging down the RC with my edits though, how do I make AWB login as my bot account? //Knuckles 06:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's magic :) Actually, no, it's because AWB uses the Internet Explorer engine. You'll have to log out of Wikipedia in IE and log back in as your bot. If you want to run AWB and do manual edits at the same time using 2 different accounts, use IE for your bot and do your manual edits in another browser like Firefox or Opera. --kingboyk 09:13, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha! I added this in the User manual on the front AWB page. Thanks! //Knuckles 11:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  User login 

message: Hi there. Occasionally, people will come across the Black Mesa (game mod) page using AWB and "correct" the spelling of a person being quoted, even when the spelling is in their exact words. Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks. Viewer 06:28, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Put "(sic)" or "[sic]" next to the intentional spelling mistake, and any AWB user with any wits about them will know it's as quoted and leave it? --kingboyk 09:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Correcting the misspelling" of a direct quote 

message: I have just downloaded and been registered for AWB and looked at the Terms and Conditions. Does spell-checking - the task I plan to complete with it - class as unecessarily minor edits? Thanks. Ck lostsword|queta!|Suggestions? 17:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, spell checking is not minor. thanks Martin 17:37, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Are you sure?  I'd been under the impression from Wikipedia:Minor edits that simple spelling corrections were minor edits.  Where I'm still fuzzy though, is whether the addition of a  template counts as minor or not. --Elonka 18:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Err... no, this is a seperate issue. You're talking about "do I tick the Wikipedia 'minor edit' box or not?". The original question was about the terms and conditions of AWB and not making "unneccessary minor edits". --kingboyk 18:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition to Kingboyk, the way I see it, an unneccessary minor edit is one that doesn't change the presentation, how the page looks to end-users, like the examples listed under Rules of Use and many of the ones under General fixes. Spelling is not an unneccessary edit, because it improves the quality of the article. Harryboyles 12:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to do, what to do? 

message: I've been trying to persuade AWB to run on Windows XP running on my PowerMac by Virtual PC. I can open the program fine, can log in and get the green light, but when I try to set AWB running I get an edit window appearing at the top, the text appearing in the box on the bottom-right, and the message "Loading changes" appears in the bottom left. However, that message doesn't go away, and the process then restarts (I get the "restarting in 6..5..4..etc, and a "Page cannot be displayed" message in the top window). Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this running properly? Thanks. Mike Peel 17:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since you have my plugin installed, I'd suggest starting by exiting AWB and deleting the file "Kingbotk AWB Plugin.dll" from the AWB folder. Then try again, and report back here. Let's keep things simple by finding out if vanilla AWB works. --kingboyk 17:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Tried again with a fresh copy of AWB, version 3030. All preferences should be as standard. Exact same problem. In case it matters, it's located in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\AutoWikiBrowser. I'm running Windows XP SP2, with .NET framework 2.0, under Virtual PC for Mac 7.01 on Mac OS X 10.4.7. The only other application installed on XP is Virtual Machine Additions. I've not installed any XP updates past SP2. Mike Peel 18:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you able to open a Wikipedia page in Internet Explorer within the virtual machine? --kingboyk 19:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes. I have no problem accessing the internet from the virtual machine in general. Nor have I experienced any unusual delays in loading pages. AWB gets the contents of categories, and the initial page contents, without a problem. It then seems to stall when applying changes to the content. Mike Peel 19:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a question for Martin, then, sorry. --kingboyk 19:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Though it would be interesting if it did work on that platform, as I have no way of testing/debugging, it is almost impossible for me to work out what is going wrong. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that the IE control doesn't work 100% on that platform. Martin 10:11, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Great, though I have to admit, it must have been more luck than judgement on my part. thanks! Martin 19:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems w/ running AWB under VirtualPC 

message: I received the following request on my talk page:
Probablky you don't want to be asked about plugins, but I'll try anyway.
Here's the situation. On WP:CFD we deal with lots of moves daily. Currently some of we have pywikipedia wrappers to do the task. For instance at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working we have listings with some fixed structure. For instance today I would copy and paste the webpage into notepad to get
 # Category:Fictional aerokineticists to Category:Fictional wind manipulators
 # Category:Fictional atmokineticists to Category:Fictional weather manipulators
 # Category:Fictional chronokineticists to Category:Fictional time manipulators
 # Category:Fictional cryokineticists to Category:Fictional ice manipulators
 # Category:Fictional biokineticists to Category:Fictional characters with healing powers
and then a python script uses a regex to extract the category and process them in batch with pywikipedia.
Caveat. Pywikipedia category script isn't very good. It doesn't handle well catgories included as

[[category:category name|some parameter]]

and it dies on categories added to redirect pages. Thus, things can't be really handled automaticlaly anyway. But AWB seem to be able, so I'm humbly asking for you helping CFD, and consider writing a plugin that does basically the same. Takes that structured listing, extract the category names and then.. either move or remove the category (could be 2 plugins) with AWB. --  Drini 18:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recategorising articles per CFD 

message: I noticed that if I drag and drop an XML file onto the browser control in AWB, AWB tries to start processing. Presumably this is an affect of IE raising an event or is it actually intentional?
On a related note, the behaviour I was looking for is being able to drop an XML settings file (perhaps onto the options tabs) and have AWB load those settings. Might be cool. Yay or nay? --kingboyk 15:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drag and drop 

message: I added a bunch of Wikipedia pages to a new category using AWB, and somebody has complained that they weren't sorted. This has led me to thinking that if AWB is adding non-mainspace pages to categories maybe it ought to add the PAGENAME variable as a sort key automatically? --kingboyk 09:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can specify a key already, just enter the category with the key, e.g. "new cateory|" Martin 10:11, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I see. Cheers. --kingboyk 10:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding articles to categories 

message: This is probably a futile hope, but I was wondering if there's any (reasonably simple) way to adapt the AWB program to use on another (outside) wiki (using mediawiki software). It's rather time consuming to propagate a new wiki, and I thought some sort of at least partially automated editing system, would make the task a bit easier, and programming bots seems like far too complex an endeavour... TheHYPO 03:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can use m:MWiki-Browser (MWB). Just enter the url of the wiki into the wiki field. Please note that MWB is a stripped down version of AWB. --Ligulem 12:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much for the point-out. TheHYPO 22:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other wikis? 

message: I think it would be great if there were an option to set a settings file as the default settings on startup. I know you can replace the default.xml with one of your own but it would be handy if you could do it within the program. Harryboyles 09:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just load in the settings you want and then save over the default Reedy Boy 14:14, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto-load of settings 

message: I'd like a "further attention" button for making a list of articles I need to come back too later - during the couple of runs I've made I found articles with extensive problems that I can't really fix "on the fly". - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 18:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a "false positive" button, but you can't do a lot with it so far: it just dumps the name into a flat file for later retreival. It would be nice to develop this feature further. Your input would be invaluable. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 20:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature request: - "Further attention" log. 

message: Please remove &frasl from the unicodified symbols.  It is indistinguishable from the regular slash in the source code. —Mets501 (talk) 18:24, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Another important small request

message: I'm aware that one of the points say "Don't edit too fast; consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute.". I think I may be infringing on that: I am replacing album infobox ratings, i.e. (4/5) or  with (the Rating-5 template). I do a few of these a minute, is this acceptable? -- Reaper  X 01:37, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm guessing your not checking your edits, then consider opening a bot account. Read WP:BOT then visit Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval.--Andeh 01:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Bot accounts aren't as difficult as it may sound. It just means that you can make multiple edits per minute, and it isn't going to show on recent changes i believe, but will on peoples watch lists.. You can run AWB in the same way, just log into the bot account Reedy Boy 09:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Too fast?

message: I'm not being allowed to save edits to protected pages on en.wikinews, yes I'm an admin, I run cleanup on old articles as they go into the archive.  Someone has done protection on these, but missed things like multiple wiki links. I'm sure AWB has let me save edits to protected articles before, the only difference I'm aware of is I've added en.wikinews to my MSIE trusted sites so the Dynamic content on the front page works. (I'd take a fix for the dynamic content or a fix in whatever makes collapsable sections work on Wikipedia but not Wikinews (The style sheet perhaps?) --Brianmc 17:09, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected pages 

message: Hi Martin: I have an idea for the bot timer, which I don't think is too difficult.  Can you change the bot timer so that it starts counting when the previous edit finishes?  Right now it starts when AWB is ready to make the edit.  Perhaps you could do something like set a variable bottimerready = 1 when the previous edit is finished and then start the countup timer, and when the value of the timer equals the selected delay, set bottimerready = 0 and stop the timer and the program can only make an edit when bottimerready = 0. I'm sure you'll have a much better way to do this, but it's just an idea. —Mets501 (talk) 22:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you miss this suggestion? —Mets501 (talk) 13:58, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the current method makes more sense, apart from being more simple, it naturally slows down the edit rate when the servers are slow. Martin 16:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problems with it is that if AWB goes through 100 pages and skips 90 of them at the beginning, it will still wait to make the 1st edit after it hasn't edited in several minutes. —Mets501 (talk) 18:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot timer 

message: Cheers Martin! - More useful features at our fingertips
Keep up the good work!!
Reedy Boy 10:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This version doesnt seem to hog memory as much either!! And then it increases up, and then drops down to below 120Mb again =D Reedy Boy 10:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better with Every Version 

message: Hi, I would like to notify you that there has been some namespace changes on dawiki. I would therefore like you to change /AWB/WikiFunctions/Variables.cs to the following:
 149                 case LangCodeEnum.da:
 150                     Namespaces[-2] = "Media:";
 151                     Namespaces[-1] = "Speciel:";
 152                     Namespaces[1] = "Diskussion:";
 153                     Namespaces[2] = "Bruger:";
 154                     Namespaces[3] = "Brugerdiskussion:";
 155                     Namespaces[4] = "Wikipedia:";
 156                     Namespaces[5] = "Wikipedia-diskussion:";
 157                     Namespaces[6] = "Billede:";
 158                     Namespaces[7] = "Billedediskussion:";
 159                     Namespaces[8] = "MediaWiki:";
 160                     Namespaces[9] = "MediaWiki-diskussion:";
 161                     Namespaces[10] = "Skabelon:";
 162                     Namespaces[11] = "Skabelondiskussion:";
 163                     Namespaces[12] = "Hjælp:";
 164                     Namespaces[13] = "Hjælp-diskussion:";
 165                     Namespaces[14] = "Kategori:";
 166                     Namespaces[15] = "Kategoridiskussion:";
 167                     Namespaces[100] = "Portal:";
 168                     Namespaces[101] = "Portal diskussion:";
 169
 170                     strsummarytag = "ved brug af AWB";
 171                     break;
Thanks. --Maitch 14:57, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. I'll update it. Martin 14:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Namespace changes on dawiki 

message: Now I only use I.E. for AWB related purposes, on this machine, but I have for some time had a situation where AWB can get stuck on "Loading page to check we are logged in...." After this IE seems unable to access enWP, although other sites seem fine (including ang.wp).
Sometimes clearing the cache/cookies appears to help,  sometimes rebooting.  I have just cleared everything, installed the latest AWB and re-installed I.E..  nothing seems to work, so I'm reinstalling the dontnet framework.  Has anyone else had this problem? Rich Farmbrough, 21:36 29  September 2006 (GMT).
:Oh yes, and sometimes when it clears I get stacked "You are not logged in" dialogue boxen. Rich Farmbrough, 21:45 29  September 2006 (GMT).
:I've not seen this before, but the next verison will have an improved mechanism for detecting loggin status etc. so hopefully it will be fixed anyway. Martin 14:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If that includes recognising that a "please login" winforms messagebox is already up and doesn't pop up that would be great (and fix a bug of mine where the plugin nudges AWB to restart and AWB pops up another login box, leaving me with 10+ of em  when I get up ;)) --kingboyk 10:55, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with AWB/I.E.

message: A recent edit of Arsenal F.C. using AWB  exposed what is probably a bug. AWB looked to wikify all dates in the article; two of the article titles used in the  templates had dates within them, so the code changed from:
{{cite web
 | title=Arsenal Holdings plc Results for the year ended 31 May 2006
to:
{{cite web
 | title=Arsenal Holdings plc Results for the year ended [[31 May]] 2006
This broke the links when they were displayed. I have since reverted these two specific changes, thought I kept the rest.  Could this bug please be fixed? Thanks. Qwghlm 18:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB does not wikify dates, the user operating the software did this, there is no bug. Martin 19:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, sorry for the bother. Thanks for clearing that up - I was misled by the edit summary. Qwghlm 19:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date wikifying bug 

message: Based on the Typos going in Wikinews:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, I assumed that if I set up wikinews:Wikinews:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage I'd get blocked from editing.  Can this be introduced without too much trouble, or is it another page name I need to use to restrict access? --Brianmc 12:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By chance I have just (yesturday) implemented the checkpage to work on other projects, it will be in the next version. Martin 14:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

text: *Thank you very much! Did I guess right on the checkpage placement? --Brianmc 15:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Yup. Martin 15:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restricting access on en.wikinews 

message: Hello, On this edit, AWB tried to move the "Category:Days in 2004" to the bottom, outside of the . --After Midnight 0001 02:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  noinclude 

message: I made this change yesterday with AWB.  As you can see in the diff, the div tag was moved when it shouldn't have been.  Is this an easy fix?  If it makes a difference, I was not using "apply general fixes".  --Kbdank71 10:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  div tag move 

message: Check it out for yourself: . Unicoding, general fixes, and all the other options were disabled. Alphachimp 12:47, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a very rare bug, will only occur with maths tags inside image links using certain settings, but I have fixed it now anyway in the version I just released. thanks Martin 13:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks. I really hope the error wasn't proliferated any further than that one article. (If you check the article, you'll see that the first pass by Alphachimpbot had no difficulties) Alphachimp 14:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's going on in this edit? 

message: In Main.cs in code
                        else
                        {
                            MessageBox.Show(UserName + " is not enabled to use this.", "Problem", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
                            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Variables.URLShort + "/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage");
                            return false;
                        }
"/wiki/Wikipedia:" should be replaced with "/wiki/Project:", or it will send non-enwiki users to the non-existant page on en:. MaxSem 17:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll change that, thanks. Martin 13:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with CheckPage 

message: I don't know if it's due to changes you've made in the latest version, whether it's because I cleared my IE cache manually again, or because I turned off image display, but I've just had an AWB run tag 4,400 pages without crashing. That's the best I've managed for a long time. I'll give you the credit Martin, so - thanks very much! :) --kingboyk 13:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a timeout function when loading/saving, that may have been it (as well as a quite bit of tweaking), I think the servers have been quick recently as well. Thanks! Martin 13:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does that mean AWB is pretty much guaranteed not to stall now? My "nudge" feature no longer needed?? --kingboyk 23:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest version 

message: Problem reported here could be fixed by the following patch:
Index: C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Variables.cs
===================================================================
--- C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Variables.cs	(revision 396)
+++ C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Variables.cs	(working copy)
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
         public static Dictionary<int, string> NamespacesCaseInsensitive = new Dictionary<int, string>(24);
         /// <summary>
+        /// Contains unlocalized names of namespaces
+        /// </summary>
+        public static Dictionary<int, string> GenericNamespaces = new Dictionary<int, string>(24);
+
+        /// <summary>
         /// Gets a URL of the site, e.g. "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/".
         /// </summary>
         public static string URL
@@ -656,10 +661,34 @@
                     break;
             }
+            GenericNamespaces[-2] = "Media:";
+            GenericNamespaces[-1] = "Special:";
+            GenericNamespaces[1] = "Talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[2] = "User:";
+            GenericNamespaces[3] = "User talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[4] = "Project:";
+            GenericNamespaces[5] = "Project talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[6] = "Image:";
+            GenericNamespaces[7] = "Image talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[8] = "MediaWiki:";
+            GenericNamespaces[9] = "MediaWiki talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[10] = "Template:";
+            GenericNamespaces[11] = "Template talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[12] = "Help:";
+            GenericNamespaces[13] = "Help talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[14] = "Category:";
+            GenericNamespaces[15] = "Category talk:";
+            GenericNamespaces[100] = "Portal:";
+            GenericNamespaces[101] = "Portal talk:";
+
             NamespacesCaseInsensitive.Clear();
             foreach (KeyValuePair<int, string> k in Namespaces)
             {
-                NamespacesCaseInsensitive.Add(k.Key, Tools.CaseInsensitive(k.Value));
+                string s = Tools.CaseInsensitive(k.Value);
+                if (GenericNamespaces.ContainsKey(k.Key) && GenericNamespaces[k.Key] != k.Value)
+                    s = "(" + s.TrimEnd(':') + "|" + Tools.CaseInsensitive(GenericNamespaces[k.Key].TrimEnd(':')) + "):";
+
+                NamespacesCaseInsensitive.Add(k.Key, s);
             }
         }
     }
Index: C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Parsers.cs
===================================================================
--- C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Parsers.cs	(revision 396)
+++ C:/Projects/AWB/AWB/WikiFunctions/Parsers.cs	(working copy)
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
             foreach (Match m in catregex.Matches(ArticleText))
             {
-                x = cat + m.Groups[1].Value.Replace("_", " ") + "]]";
+                x = cat + m.Groups[m.Groups.Count-1].Value.Replace("_", " ") + "]]";
                 ArticleText = ArticleText.Replace(m.Value, x);
             }
Hope it helps. MaxSem 14:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Martin 19:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: International issue 

message: User:Tobias Conradi is disrupting the checkpage, please can someone else comment Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage#AWB_out_of_WP_policy. Martin 19:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request comment 

message: I have added to a existing section above. Please respond there.- Ganeshk (talk) 18:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added to the section 

message: Could we get context menu items for these regularly added categories please Martin? -
*:Category:Living people
*:Category:Date of birth missing
*:Category:Year of birth missing
*:Category:Year of death missing
Thanks. --kingboyk 15:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insert or insert tag context menus 

message: I think you missed my post above. —Mets501 (talk) 15:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot timer

message: I'm a complete noob with regexes. Is it possible to do the following change with AWB:
:Interstate X.svg or Interstate_X.svg to I-X.svg, where X is a one-to-four character string
If so, how would I do this? If not, is there any workaround to achieve a variable-like effect? Thank you. --NE2 22:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, find: Interstate( |_)(.*?|).svg and replace with I-$2.svg.  This is completely untested but should work. —Mets501 (talk) 01:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the speedy reply. There's a problem though; that also finds I-495 and replaces it with I-495. I believe this is because the variable can be any length, so it finds this false positive as long as there is a .svg somewhere after it. --NE2 01:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting, try find: Interstate( |_)([0-9]|)([0-9]|)([0-9]|)([0-9]|).svg and replace with I-$2$3$4$5.svg. —Mets501 (talk) 02:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually wanted Interstate( |_)([0-9A-Z]|)([0-9A-Z]|)([0-9A-Z]|)([0-9A-Z]|).svg, since there are routes like I-H201 and I-35E. Thank you. --NE2 03:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Regex help needed

message: I'm trying to nominate a large number of images for deletion, but I can't add the "message", since it only lets me do it on talk pages. Is there any way to bypass this? --NE2 01:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll change this to work on all pages, as it is a fairly common question. Martin 11:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Messages can only be appended to talk pages"

message: Hi Bluemoose: I figure the IRCMonitor included with AWB should have an option "Only if comment matches regex:" similar to the existing "Only if title matches regex:". Perhaps you would consider that in a future release? Thanks. –Outriggr § 04:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't worked on this for a while, but it is a worthwHile suggestion. thanks Martin 18:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IRCMonitor tweak? 

message: Can AWB automatically change  tags to ? — AnemoneProjectors (talk) 13:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't really needed - MediaWiki does it automatically when translating wikitext to HTML. MaxSem 14:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  br 

message: it's definetely into "apply general fixes", because after unset, it doesn't try to do a change like this
 gregul
:I've done a load more tweaking to make things work better in other languages, so this will be fixed in next release. Martin 18:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bold bug 

message: Patch is there. MaxSem 17:49, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, just committed it. Martin 18:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of recently used configurations 

message: With the newest version, 3.0.4.1, I'm getting frequent "hangs" after I click on the "Save" button.  Sometimes, yes, it's just slow, and if I wait a minute it'll automatically move on to the next article in the list, but sometimes it's gotten stuck for several minutes, until I click on "Ignore", at which point it wakes up and moves on.  When I check the related article, the save is getting processed, such that if I instead click "Stop" and then restart the process, it skips the article as having already been handled.  The problem seems be occurring about 50% of the time today...  Is it just a problem with sluggish servers, or is there perhaps some other bug going on? --Elonka 19:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (update) Another odd behavior worth mentioning, is that it will display the correctly "saved" article in the upper panel, before it freezes.  So it's definitely getting some feedback from the server. --Elonka 19:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite possibly due to server problems, but I have fixed a few things anyway, so hopefully the problem will disappear one way or other. Martin 15:10, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hanging

message: Hi! I have a suggestion, to the 'skip' section, could a checkbox saying skip if only whitespace is removed be created, to help bots decrease the server load? ST47Talk 10:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, the "Skip when no changes" does do this to a certain extent, but to be honest, a bot should be automatically skipping articles when the change it is making is not done. The only time this may not be possible is when the change is part of the "General fixes", but that is why I made the "More" skip options. Martin 10:37, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: white space removal