Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 9

message: I noticed this feature in the latest version and wanted to comment on it.  I edit primarily ship articles, and a feature like this would be extremely useful for me.  Is there a way to configure it to do things other than reversing names?  If it's not configurable I'd like to suggest that in future versions, it recognize and format common ship article names.
For example, HMS Quadrant (G11) should be categorized as |Quadrant (G11) and  USS Enterprise (CVN-65) should be categorized as |Enterprise (CVN-65).  For countries other than the US and UK, ship articles generally have titles like this: French battleship Dunkerque.  In those cases, they should be categorized as |Dunkerque, French battleship or simply |Dunkerque.
I imagine the latter would be harder to implement, but if a future version of AWB could format HMS and USS in categories, that would be very helpful! TomTheHand 14:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  %%key%% in Add New Category 

message: I apologize if this has been reported before but clicking on the import watchlist on the IRC watcher app causes an unhandled exception (albeit one that can be ignored) and does not do anything else.  Error message only happens when not logged in using IE but a better way for it to be handled would be with a standard error box saying pleae login.  The error message is copied below. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 21:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thanks for the report. Martin 08:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  unhandled exception problem in IRC watcher 

message: Can we get an option to make find/replace skip wikilinks? It's sort of messing up with people who have unconventionally spelled last names. Alphachimp talk 02:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually that was my bad - I removed Grammer before but when I got to adding the "g" section I forgot to remove it again.  It's supposed to be 100% accurate, so it shouldn't fix people's names. --mboverload@ 02:05, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But still, we should not be replacing any wiki-links. (Unless they are red, I guess). Alphachimp talk 02:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature Request 

message: I know that memory leaks have been raised before, but just thought I should mention that they are still there.
I am in the process of doing a big AWB run to tweak the succession boxes on :Category:British MPs, and started watching task-manager as it skipped or ignored lots of pages (it's changing less than one in ten).  It's rather alarming watching AWB's memory usage increasing by over 1MB per article; there are still 2700 articles left in its list, so I'll have to restart it several times before it's finished :(
I guess it may be no harm to put a brake on huge AWB runs like this one, but it'd still be nice if the leak could be controlled a bit!  --BrownHairedGirl 16:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its not a leak, the IE control is seems to cache all the pages it has visited, and as far as I can see there is no way of controlling it. That said, I have made runs of thousands of edits and memory usage never went above 150 MBs, so I don't exactly know how it is working. Martin 16:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Martin.  I monitored it for the rest of the run, and what seemed to happen was that it went up to 650MB mem usage, then purged some of its cache or whatever and settled back to about 500MB.  When it reached 650 again, it purged again, and so on.  Still horrendously greedy, but at least it wasn't growing forever!  (I have 1GB of RAM on this PC, so the cacheing thresholds/limits may be related to available memory). --BrownHairedGirl 20:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I've had this huge memory consumtion problem before too (>256MB within 2000 pages), would it be feasible to have a routine run to clear this somehow every 500 edits or so? (An automated pause, flush, resume?) נxaosflux Talk 23:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The difficulty is that the IE control doesn't seem to have any way to flush it. Martin 23:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory leak 

message: After googling some bad spellings from WP:RETF using google wikipedia in AWB, i did some edits to some user pages. The user then asked if i could do this for them on all their userpages.
It made me think that an User:Reedy Boy/AWB Desk would be useful - People can request tasks/scans on Articles, categories and similar. If people who are interested in doing this create a desk, can we list it on the AWB Page?
Cheers
Reedy Boy 09:54, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually this has already been suggested and I have already written part of the page, want me to implement it once I'm done? --mboverload@ 09:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would :D Reedy Boy 10:02, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Ok, I'm going to sleep.  Feel free to throw one up at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Jobdesk or whatever name you come up with.  I'll add on my stuff later. --mboverload@ 10:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Going to use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User Desks Reedy Boy 10:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely using a single shared desk would be a better idea? That way it would be much easier to see what's going on, and discuss various issues/problems to solve. It would also be easier to find for someone who wants some help with something. Martin 10:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Hmm, i suppose it could/would be... This can always be renamed to account for this. Where does it want adding on the main AWB page? Reedy Boy 10:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Perhaps this idea should be integrated with Wikipedia:Bot requests? נxaosflux Talk 23:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB Desks 

message: Just wanted to point out that the shortcut keys aren't working for me unless the cursor is in the editable text box. —Mets501 (talk) 22:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortcut 

message: How add other channels to IRCMonitor (e.g. other lang's)? --Swix 23:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other lang's for IRCMonitor 

message: I wonder if somebody could help with me settings and regular expressions? (Not necessarily Martin who no doubt is very busy working on this fine piece of software :))
I want to tag talk pages with WikiProject templates so that the articles will be listed in the unassessed categories for Wikipedia 1.0. An example run is on :Category:Living people:
*If the talk page has no  template, or is currently a redlink, add 
*If the page contains  or  but not "living=yes", add the "living=yes" parameter
*If the page contains  remove that template, because  is a replacement for it
The net result would be all Living People articles would have the  warning and would be in :Category:Unassessed biography articles from where Mathbot can pick them up. This would be a great help to WikiProject Biography. Can anyone suggest some settings/regexps I could try? Thanks in advance. --kingboyk 19:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the same was as RegExTypo Fix
find="" replacewith="" />
find="" replacewith="" />
find="" replacewith="" />
Reedy Boy 16:16, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with settings and regular expressions 

message: I just noticed that articles that I use AWB on (doing a simple replace using "What links here"), the ones that are on my watchlist get removed if I edit them with AWB. Is this a recognized bug? Do I have a setting (I use default) listed on that I shouldn't? It's never happened before, but the last couple times it's removed like 20 to 30 articles all of which were ones that I had just edited with AWB ?? K1Bond007 03:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thanks for the report, will be fixed in soon to be released version. The reason for the recent run of bugs is that there have been some major internal changes, but these are mostly done now, so after the next release all should be good. Martin 10:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ETA on next release? --kingboyk 10:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a bit busy at the moment, probably release later today (~ 8 hours). Martin 10:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Excellente monsieur! Thank you. --kingboyk 16:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Watchlist issues

message: Any possibility of getting AWB to filter duplicate articles in a checking list? As sometimes when you add more categories, it may end up with the same article multiple times
Cheers
Reedy Boy 16:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Already reported multiple times. See above. alphaChimp laudare 16:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, this appears to be fixed in the newest release. alphaChimp laudare 16:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filter: Duplicate Articles 

message: As Above
If not, could it be added?
Reedy Boy 16:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Make From --> Text File alphaChimp laudare 16:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Ah! Thanks Reedy Boy 16:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Save List to a File - Is there a load list from File? 

message: When saving and then loading settings, the Messaging append/prepend option on the "more options" tab doesn't get set.
A really minor thing, and my personal preference may differ from others: could the bot timer count down rather than up?
Cheers. --kingboyk 21:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed loading/saving thing in 3.0.1.9 Martin 21:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple of minor issues 

message: I just noticed someone using AWB to replace a British spelling with an American one. Is this normal? Ardric47 20:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As per the wikipedia policies, no it shouldn't. Please provide the evidence, or the word change. Thanks Reedy Boy 20:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, this was my problem! I thought I knew everything about spelling, but it turns out that "humourous" is considered obsolete. To quote the OED: "The English formations, humoured, humourless, humoursome, are here spelt like the n. and vb.; but the derivatives formed on a Latin type, as humoral, humorist, humorous, are spelt humor-..." Ardric47 20:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed one of those edits too, and came to the same (second) conclusion. :) --kingboyk 21:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is another instance where AWB wants to replace an American spelling with a British one. Practiced>>> practised.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 14:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: Is this possible or requestable? --Kunzite 02:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an option to alphabetise the list in the list context menu. Martin 09:03, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I know about that. I want to alphabetize the list of categories inside an article. --Kunzite 12:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: oh right, that is of course possible, but lots of people don't like categories being alphabetised, so I can't really implement it. Martin 12:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a shame, really.  I liked that.  --Kbdank71 17:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Could it be done as an optional setting? And alphabetization is helpful in other instances with lists within articles. Perhaps if there was a feature to alphabetize a selected section?  I will often copy a section, paste it into Excel and sort the list.  I added a lot of categories to articles this weekend (clearing some backlog from :Category:Manga) and I noticed that someone went behind me and re-alphabetized all of the lists. I felt a little guilty for making him do all of that work.   Thanks the program though, it makes re-categorization a bit easier. --Kunzite 13:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetize category list? 

message: Even though I am logged in using IE6, it keeps telling me to login. I do login succesfully again, and it counts down and asks again. I've ensured the .NetFramework is up to date, I did a repair on it, still no luck. --Brat32 05:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keeps telling me to login

message: Another feature request please Martin: ought to be extremely simple to implement and save a lot of clicking: the ability to select multiple categories in the article list and have the "add selected to list from category" menu item available. :Category:Dead people has literally thousands of subcategories and adding their contents to the list manually one at a time is going to give me RSI! --kingboyk 17:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If my eyes do not deceive me, the new version has this feature? Now to get it downloaded and see, but if it has you are truly a saint! --kingboyk 11:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, indeed, absolutely tremendous, thanks mate. There's one slight issue (probably more of a design feature than a bug) - when selecting multiple categories and then running "Add selected to list from category" the operation gets aborted if one of the selected categories is empty. It would be helpful if AWB could distinguish between an empty category and an unpopulated category, and simply ignore the latter. It's not really an error and it's a bit annoying having to cancel the make list operation and deselect the offending category, then run the operation again. Thanks. --kingboyk 12:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Making lists from categories

message: When I use AWB on the Spanish wikipedia, and have articles like Jaroslav Hašek and José Antonio Pascual in the text file, they don't import properly when I try to create the list.  Instead, I get Jaroslav Haek and Jos Antonio Pascual, which obviously don't work.  Is this a known bug, and can it be fixed? --Spangineeres (háblame) 01:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you edit the text file with another program? That is the only known reason for this to happen. Martin 08:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure all I did was copy/paste the text from CatScan into notepad, delete the irrelevant content, and save the file. Is that acceptable? --Spangineeres (háblame) 17:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-English characters in text files 

message: It would totally rock if you had a /build directory in the subversion repo. Extra bonus goodie points if you had an svn:external pointing to Typos.xml . ;) I just hate having the svn capability at my fingertips, but still need to pull up sf.net to download new versions of AWB... the source is useless to me unfortunately. Thanx, keep it up! — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 03:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have decided to put the typos on a wiki page, which will be loaded up when that option is enabled, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, so svn access is not needed for that any more. Also, I would not recommend using the dev versions to actually edit with, so it is probably best to get the release version off sorceforge anyway. Martin 08:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any chance of non-dev builds then? A release branch/tag? It it such a PITA to go thru the 3 or so pages to get the latest every time I want to use it, doubly so when when it's a new release so I have to track down which mirrors actually have the file. :( — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 11:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure I understand, why can't you just download the release package? If you want to fiddle with the code then it's probably best to just checkout the whole lot. I used to tag the release versions with CVS, but SVN doesn't seem to do it in the same way, and I haven't had the time to work it out yet. Martin 12:08, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry about it. I'm just being lazy. ;) But what I meant is, this is the current process I need to follow: 1. Open web browser and type into my address bar w WP:AWB 2. Click download TOC 3. Click download link 4. Click green "download button" 5. Click actual ZIP file. 6. Try another mirror when it's a really new version and the mirror chosen don't work. If it were in the svn repository, it is 1. Open folder with AWB in it 2. Right-click and choose "SVN Update". — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 13:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVN access 

message: The title says it all. I'd like it if my bot timing settings were retained when I reloaded the settings file. alphaChimp laudare 05:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added this now. Martin 12:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature Suggestion: Retain Auto Mode Settings 

message: For the edit summary 'stub sorting', I think it should link to WP:WSS since most of the other edit summaries link to a WikiProject.  ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 14:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, i'll add the link. Martin 14:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 'stub sorting' link to [[WP:WSS]]

message: OK, maybe I'm just being dense, but can someone tell me how to copy text from the "diff"/"preview" pane?  If this is not currently available, is it something that can be added? --Brian G (Talk) 14:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't…this is deliberate, the only thing that can affect that pane is AWB itself. If it were possible to lock it down completely to avoid random clicks and stuff, that would likely be even better. What text do you want to copy that is not available from the edit box? —Phil | Talk 15:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sometimes, it would be convenient to copy text from the "current revision" side that has been changed by automated processing and isn't in the edit box any longer.  Example: I saw a typo fix suggested and it looked like the word that was going to be replaced might be correct in British vs. American, so I was going to copy it and paste it into a dictionary to check.  (Of course, I was wrong anyway.)  The other thing is just me being lazy, if I want to copy the name of the article to paste into my regular (non-AWB) session, it is just tempting to grab it from the top of the preview, but yes, I could get that another way. --Brian G (Talk) 15:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I wish, if it weren't likely nearly impossible, to have the changes easier to find in the little edit box. Sometimes it will change 5 things in the article, but I want to hand-revert one and then have to go searching for it. It can be a real pain on some pages... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 16:44, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The webbrowser is locked most of the time, so clicking on links in it doesnt do anything anyway. Martin 13:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, but when you rollover the links they change, and when you click a button they change.  That implies you can use them.  mboverload is anal. =D --mboverload@ 13:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

text:  Also it is possible to "shift-click" the links to fire up a new browser window…which has the unfortunate side-effect of allowing the greedy IEControl to grab the focus, about which I have been whinging unreasonably at Martin . HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 12:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll be pleased with the next version then, hopefully. Martin 14:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been pleased with every version so far…professional software-whinging dies hard . HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 19:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stupid? question 

message: Please could we have:
# a "Start" button on the tool-bar to allow restarting after one of those strange stalling incidents
# a notification of the number of items remaining in the list on the status bar at the bottom
# a copy of the timer on the status bar (or simply move it there)
# Also, could we have "access keys" for the "Preview" and "Show Changes" actions, please?
I spend a lot of time with the panel hidden, chugging through long lists of articles, and it would be great if I could have these available without having to reveal the panel.
TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 15:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As of this post the dev version has #2 implemented in the toolbar, is that what you meant?  --mboverload@ 13:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its not exactly what he meant, but I have lots of other things to consider when implementing these things. Martin 13:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Couple of little UI tweaks 

message: I have made a skin that makes awb browsing easier. It is at User:GeorgeMoney/AWB.css. It removes a bunch of useless links and stuff (why have navigation links, etc.. if you can't click them? ). To use it put the following in your monobook.js (if IE isn't your default browser):
var isIE=((self.navigator.appName).indexOf("Microsoft"));
if (!isIE) {
document.write('<style type="text/css">@import "/w/index.php?title=User:GeorgeMoney/AWB.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";</style>');
document.write('<body onselectstart="return false" ondragstart="return false"');
}
.
I would like to make this skin a public AWB project to make developing it easier.
Also, there brings up the problem of people who actually use IE, because they will have the AWB skin as default. I think AWB should modify the info into something like "AutoWikiBrowser" and then for the code we can have "((self.navigator.appName).indexOf("AutoWikiBrowser"))" instead.
GeorgeMoney  (talk) 23:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome! Tnx! — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 00:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Doesn't work for me. --mboverload@ 07:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason it doesn't work for you is because you added it to your css file instead of js. GeorgeMoney  (talk) 14:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm liking it in both VP and AWB. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 01:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I think the default monobook skin that is there is kind of "obtrusive" in AWB. There are so many things with useless stuff like links you can't even click. GeorgeMoney  (talk) 03:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skin 

message: What are anyone's thoughts on the matter of using a skin for awb and making it publically developable? Any thoughts are welcome. GeorgeMoney  (talk) 00:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm liking it in both VP and AWB. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 01:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I think the default monobook skin that is there is kind of "obtrusive" in AWB. There are so many things with useless stuff like links you can't even click. GeorgeMoney  (talk) 03:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thoughts?

message: Why? /Grillo 19:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wastes resources and clogs up watchlists. Martin 19:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I'll add that to the project page. /Grillo 23:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Avoid making insignificant minor edits" 

message: On that preferences thing, you haven't put a close event on the close button
:D
Cheers
Reedy Boy 19:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  File --> User & Project Prefereances 

message: Any ideas?
Cheers
Reedy Boy 19:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, i made lots more big internal changes, these little things are really annoying. thanks. Martin 19:58, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On the other hand, when I create a list using the "Links on page" option, the list is presented sorted alphabetically even when I haven't asked for (and don't want) it to be sorted. --Russ Blau (talk) 00:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They are presented in the order given by Query API. Martin 08:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Feh. Not your fault, of course, but the Query API doesn't give you any choice in how the list is ordered.  I'll have to take it up with Yurik, I guess.  Thanks for your labors! --Russ Blau (talk) 14:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you save the article into a text file, then open it up in AWB, the order of the links will be kept. Martin 14:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  3.0.2.1 - Sort Alphabetically doesn't work.... 

message: The new shortcut keys don't work if you loaded the page while you were in another window.
For example: My list of pages is a, b, c, d.
Page A loads fine, I use ctrl + s to save. I am still in the awb window.
Page B loads, ctrl + s.
I go to another window.
Page C loads while I am in another window, then it beeps, so I go to the awb window. ctrl + s doesn't work.
I am still in the awb window, and page D loads. ctrl + s works.
The end.
GeorgeMoney  (talk) 23:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  shortcut keys 

message: Would it be possible to add OrthodoxWiki into the next release?
Also, what is the possibility of the next release being modified so that it can be pointed at any MediaWiki project?
Thanks!  —Preost talk contribs 03:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You might use m:MWiki-Browser (download), which is a stripped down version of AWB that has generic wiki support (enter the domain name of the wiki into the wiki field ). --Ligulem 08:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks!  Just what I needed.  —Preost talk contribs 14:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The reason it won't/can't be enabled for any mediawiki project is that to work properly you need to know some details about things such as namespace names etc. I suppose i could let the user enter all the details, but that isn't high on my priority list. Martin 09:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to be able to use AWB for several repetitive tasks, such as archiving on Wikinews.  I'll take a look at the stripped version in the meantime, but can this be added to the to-do list please? --Brianmc 08:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a feeling that there was something unusual about the wikinews which meant AWB didnt work properly with it, i'll look into it again later though. Martin 12:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

text: This is actually (noramlly) really easy to do now, I have added support already, I'll release the version later today. thanks Martin 16:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other MediaWiki project request 

message: Can AWB's new version be released weekly, rather than every few days? I find it annoying having to download new ones all the time, of course large bugs could nessitate daily releases.-Ravedave 17:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Noramlly versions are left enabled for at least a week, there was an exception recently due to some breaking changes in the format of the typo page. Martin 17:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  weekly release? 

message: AWB tried to replace  with  on Alaska, but it just added it underneath it. -Ravedave 17:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The LinkFA tag was duplicated, AWB removed one of them. Martin 18:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops we are both wrong, the article had both, and AWB just put them next to eachother, I manually removed the duplicate. -Ravedave 18:34, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug  - replacing with Uppercase 

message: Is this me or in the latest version, the edit summary does not get saved in the settings??? -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 20:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably something that has been 'broken' during the upgrade of the internals. Thanks for reporting, Martin will let you know Reedy Boy 23:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just tried it in 3.0.21a and its fine.... Reedy Boy 09:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug? 

message: I'm using the new version (3.0.2.1) under XP and IE for search-and-replacement purposes, but the editing window in the lower right part of the screen has become impossible to use. The text size is gigantic, so I can't see more than a fraction of a single letter at the time. I've tried reinstalling with the same result. Regards. Valentinian (talk) 06:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an option in the file=>preferences menu to set the text box font, or reseting the settings should put it back to normal, though i'm not sure why it changed. Martin 09:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot. It had changed the font size to 975 for whatever reason. Thanks again. Valentinian (talk) 20:31, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  One more bug (editing window) 

message: I'm still quite lost trying to use the thing.. — Prodigenous Zee - 10:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My AOL Instant Messenger screenname is mboverloadALT. --mboverload@ 11:04, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where can one get a more indepth guide to using AWB? 

message: AWB generates a "page does not exist" error when trying to make a list from articles that link to a deleted article. See for example BJAODN: lots of pages link to that deleted page, it should be orphaned but AWB refuses to create a list from it. --Zoz (t) 18:01, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'll change this. Martin 18:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What links to deleted pages 

message: I realize that this might be controversial. My AWB bot does some really basic functions that might be better achieved on a routine schedule. To be honest, it's getting a bit annoying to go through the routine series of clicks that I need in order to run my bot. That's not to say that I won't continue to run my bot, but I'd like some way to keep it running during a vacation or the like. Obviously, it could easily be blocked (or stopped via a talk page message) if it started acting up. Here's what I propose:
* The ability to click the "Start the Process" button at a scheduled time on a daily basis.
* The ability to create some sort of a macro to automate a series of routine clicks.
alphaChimp laudare 21:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This would be ultra complex to add on as a whole new feature, adapting the software as needed probably wouldnt be too difficult, but at the moment i am aiming for a stable bug free release. Martin 09:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature Request: Scheduled Bot Mode 

message: Martin, would you be willing to add a "Open page in browser" option to the right-click context menu in the file list? It would be much appreciated, thank you. --kingboyk 10:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, fixed in next release. Martin 09:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  File list context menu 

message: I've been using AWB on the Polish Wiki  and it's been working like a charm with one minor annoyance, the "clean up" option moves the  template to the bottom of the page but on pl Wiki we like to keep it on the top of the page, is there any way to switch off/customise this options?  Cheers, Яǿǿ72 ✉ 12:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambig 

message: I think I am having trouble getting a complete list of .  I am trying to see which disambiguation pages are not in  with the thought of then going through and changing some of them from disambig to hndis where it is appropriate to do so.  I tried to make a list from :Category:Disambiguation and another list from :Category:Lists of ambiguous human names.  I saved them both and launched list comparer.  I expected that there would be many names which were only in disambig and a smaller number that were in both lists, but none in hndis only, since the hndis template puts it in both.  Oddly, almost 800 of them show up as being only in hndis.  I checked some of them manually, and they show up in :Category:Disambiguation, but are not being added to the list by AWB.  Am I doing something wrong?  I can give more details or examples if you want. Thanks, --Brian G (Talk) 21:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: hhhmm, I can only imagine that the enourmous size of the disambig category is causing some problem somewhere along the line. Martin 09:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem creating list of dab pages 

message: It would  be great if there were a page on which folks could list spelling mistakes that are frequently made, e.g. paticularly ... particularly so that AWB could regularly be used to start at the top of the list and hunt them down and change them. Of course it should only list DEFINITE errors, not humour/humor etc. The list would become ever longer and would have to be subdivided every so often (eventually by first letter I imagine). - Kittybrewster 11:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos Martin 12:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling errors

message: So I click "Start the process" and the entire program freezes. Happens every time. I'm using WinXP SP2. Any ideas what's going on? --Zeno McDohl (talk) 23:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you make a list of articles first? when it had frozen, did it shut down happily? Martin 23:38, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it had a list of articles. When it froze, no it didn't shut down happily, the program stopped responding. Had to kill the process. --Zeno McDohl (talk) 00:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Okay well it works on my laptop but not my main computer. If anyone could tell me how to fix it, that'd be great. Thanks. --Zeno McDohl (talk) 23:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Won't run? 

message: Unless I'm mistaken, in the past when I asked AWB to replace cat A with cat B, and the article was already in both A and B, it would just remove the article from A.  Now it seems to just do the replace, leaving two instances of cat B.  Is this a change, or am I doing something wrong?  --Kbdank71 15:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't changed this code for a while, possibly the problem is because the duplicate category is only removed when you have general fixes enabled. I'll have a look at it anyway. Martin 16:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem when replacing categories 

message: It seems that in the latest version the font size in the textbox on the lower right is so large that it's completely impossible to use the box to make any changes to the edits... --Fritz S. (Talk) 18:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I just noticed the bug has already been adressed above. Sorry. --Fritz S. (Talk) 18:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a way this problem can be reproduced, as otherwise it is difficult to know why it happens. Martin 08:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As mentioned above, the font size was set to 975 when first using the new version. Not sure why... --Fritz S. (Talk) 08:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug: Font size in textbox 

message: Hi,
Would it be possible to implement a mode in AWB, that you can leave it to check articles for changes automatically, then save it into a second list that the user can go through and check the edits? (Not to make the changes - this would be 'BOT Mode')
As it would be useful for it to go through and do all the relevant checks, and then be presented with a list to work through. this would be good for when you want to leave your pc to say check 2000 articles
Would it be possible?
I think from a coding point of view, that it must only be a case of having a second list box thing, and that if a change is detected, then the article name is added to the 2nd list. This list could be hidden, and then at the end of the process, this be added to the main list for the user to go through
Cheers
Reedy Boy 10:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This might be asking for trouble - I would think you would have a lot more conflicts this way because who knows how long it will be until you return and actually apply the change? — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 11:57, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I was meaning, using it to create a list of articles that need changing, then it can reload them and check for changes again... I thought i had put that down, but it seems not! Reedy Boy 13:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this could be very useful. --Fritz S. (Talk) 13:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: This would be a massive drain on server resources, it would probably end up DoS'ing Wikipedia. If you are having trouble finding articles that need to be changed, and all the normal searching methods do not help, then the last resort should be scanning the database. Martin 13:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Running the database scanner on my computer for the full database takes 12 minutes to search for articles containing a text string so it is certainly a very useful tool. Can the RegexTypoFix checking capability in AutoWikiBrowser be put into the Database Scanner to find articles that FIRST match other criteria but then fail RegexTypoFix?  The list can then be imported into AutoWikiBrowser.  Also, it would be useful if articles can be identified in Database Scanner that can be corrected by the "General" section in the (2) Set Options tag  (in "or" mode, not "and" mode).  I know that AutoWikiBrowser is not supposed to be used for simple fixes on articles that can be cleaned up by the "General" section only.  However, it is usually the same articles that require that  automated cleanup that require a lot of other work and it would be useful if Database Scanner can be upgraded to find those articles.   Skapur 20:14, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: One more request:  In the Database Scanner, in the Special Filter pop up window there is a section "Special Filter" to remove articles.  Can another section be added that does the opposite and include only those articles that are in that list? If this is done one addition to the request above, most of the work of locating articles that need attention can be done offline.  This would be to some extent integrating ListComparer functionality in Database scanner Skapur 20:33, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self Checking Mode 

message: If you leave AWB sitting waiting for a while, when you try to save the current article it is not uncommon for the session to expire.
AWB fails to detect this, however, and moves on to the next article in the list.
It would be helpful if AWB were to detect this, and allow a retry.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Something must have changed in the mediawiki software, do you know where that list of messages (e.g. "This page is protected" kind of message) is, I'm pretty sure it is in the MediaWiki namespace, but I always forget where. Martin 13:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe Special:Allmessages, "protectedpage", which on en.wikipedia.org is "Protected page", MediaWiki:Protectedpage --Ligulem 14:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The appropriate message is MediaWiki:Session fail preview. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 20:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB not detecting loss of session 

message: The warning Long article with a stub tag. is useful but doesn't make sense when the stub tag is actually . I think there are a few variants of that stub... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 05:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub warning 

message: I don't know where i should write, but here may be a good place, 'cause i'm using AWB ;] (if it isn't – please move it to a proper place). I'm changing " - " to " – ", and I need a regex (or advise, tip – how I should do this) to be sure that I'm not changing "-"'s into internal links, also need the opposite regex, to revert those possibly existing "–"'s --pl:gregul talk 22:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  regex

message: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2006 August 16 has a discussion on removing the AutoWikiBrowser → Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser -- Skapur 22:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoWikiBrowser redirect discussion

message: I'm looking at Major League right now which has about 130 articles linking to it, about half of them are linking directly to that article but the other half are redirecting from Major league.  However, in AWB, only the 60 or so  that links directly to the disambig page is shown.  Obviously I can just make two lists, but is there any way to make it so that both direct and redirect links can display?  Metros232 12:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What links here redirects 

message: Hi Martin: Here's what I discovered about your image commenting out/replacement:
#It works great for all images with no or one wikilink in the caption, and images with no captions.
#It only replaces the first instance of a picture on the page.
#Once you try to comment out or remove an image with two or more wikilinks in the caption, you can't use the image feature ever again, even after reinstalling AWB, as every time you try to comment out or remove an image a message pops up saying "startIndex must be less than length of string. Parameter name: startIndex".
I'm going to restart my computer now and try again to get the image feature working again, and then test images in infoboxes and galleries. —Mets501 (talk) 01:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, even after restarting my computer, I can't use the image feature. I wonder what happened. —Mets501 (talk) 01:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've uploaded 3.0.2.2a now, hopefully it fixes these issues. Martin 20:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Downloading now...will let you know. —Mets501 (talk) 13:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're a genious, Martin ;-).  It works great! —Mets501 (talk) 13:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Image Feature Bugs 

message: When "Auto tag" is enabled and AWB adds  to an article, even if I manually delete  in the edit window, "and added stub tag" still gets appended to the edit summary.  example  --Pascal666 10:13, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I got that too, when it added  to a 70 kb article mostly consisting of tables (List of oldest companies). I'm not sure which is the bigger problem - the message or the decision to add the tag to that article. --Scott Davis Talk 15:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto tag bug 

message: Does AWB support proxy servers that require authentication? I am behind an HTTP proxy. ViridaeTalk 11:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB relies on IE and its settings. With my own proxy, the auth is automated (meaning pass is remembered) and I have no trouble using AWB with these settings... -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 13:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The proxy settings in IE are right, but it requires authentication each session. I am getting a proxy requires authenticaion error when I try and use it. ViridaeTalk 13:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone got any ideas? 10:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proxy

message: Is there a way to include an exclusion for this?
As that is its name
Reedy Boy 12:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just always go back and fix it by hand. With AWB, the user is always supposed to review their changes. mod_perl is an exception. The problem is, if AWB added support for that, then what about all the others, eg FILE_ID.DIZ (the other I run into whenever I AWB over my watchlist)? At a minimum, here and here are a list of exceptions. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 13:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I know. With there being more, im sure they can be added to an exclusion list or something? Ie it wont be impossible Reedy Boy 14:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[mod_perl]] should not become [[mod perl]] 

message: Is AWB able to search for “...” and replace it with „...“? The problem is that there is of course very different text between the apostrophes. Thanks in advance & greetings, Pill- 07:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, using regular expressions, search for “(.*?)” and replace with „$1“ Martin 08:57, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  can this be useful also for  ? 193.219.28.144 14:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  “question” 

message: I see in the instructions that I can convert a list to their Talk page versions, but when I click on List in the File Menu that option isn't available. I just downloaded the software tonight plange 04:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Right click within the list, and select convert to talk pages. Come back if that doesn't work. --kingboyk 08:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

text: In the context menu of the list there is an option called "Convert to talk pages" Martin 08:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the manual to reflect that this is not on the list menu, and I have added a section on the list box menu. mattbr30 09:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List>Convert to Talk pages not available? 

message: On the main page, it says that AWB does not check for typos. This is now possible. Please change the description on the main page (in the first paragraph). Harryboyles 13:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo feature description 

message: I've noticed that when AWB is "cleaning up" a page it places stub templates last, after categories. To my mind this is incorrect. Stub templates place text into the article, so should come before categories and interwiki links which only affect the footer/sidebar. I'm quite sure this behaviour isn't a peculiarity of AWB and is documented in some guideline somewhere, so if you'd point me in the right direction I shall go argue my case! :) Cheers. --kingboyk 16:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Last time I checked the guide it just said something like "at the end". Putting stubs at the very end has a number of advantages; It means the stub category is listed last (least important categories should go last), it means the stub tag is less likely to become adjoined to the preceding text (as stubs need a double space before them, not sure why), it is a good idea to put maintenance tags either at the very beginning or very end of an article (i.e. out of the permanent text/meta data), and stub tags are meant to be unobtrusive, after all, they are on over half of all articles, I think they are most unobtrusive at the very end of an article. Martin 16:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: how about {disambig}? why at the end ? could this be chosen (beginning/end) ? 84.234.42.68 22:05, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB clean-up 

message: Martin, I was wondering - since you're apparently undertaking a major rewrite of AWB internals anyway - how much work would be involved in exposing AWB functionality as a library and if you'd be willing to do it? Or is it already done?
I was thinking that if I could write my own bot around an AWB framework I could do such cool things as place properly parameterised WikiProject templates on article talk pages based on what categories the article is in. , for example, has parameters for workgroup (royalty, politics, etc), whether the person is living or not (:Category:Living people), and the class of the article (i.e. stub categories). Thoughts? --kingboyk 14:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The WikiFunctions.dll file exposes a lot of the functionality I have made. Though rather than writing your own bot, it would probably be easier to write a method/class to do the job you want and then insert it into the existing code, it would be pretty simple to do, I do it quite often to do a complicated task. Martin 18:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks. You mean I have to get the CVS working?! Gulp! --kingboyk 18:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, SVN, but it is really not too difficult! Martin 18:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We'll see! :) I've downloaded the SVN software, once I've rebooted I'll let you know how I get on. I'm am MCP in dotnet but I get mental blocks too you know! --kingboyk 16:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB library? 

message: Sorry, me again, but as my bot () has now done over 130,000 edits with AWB I guess it's inevitable I should have a few things to say :)
Scenario:
#I want to add parameterised  templates to talk pages
#Some talk pages won't have the template, or will be redlinked
#Some talk pages will have the template with no parameters at all
#Some will have it with empty parameters only
#Some will have set parameters
I can probably handle cases 3-5 with regular expressions. The difficulty I'm having is in case 2. There's no conditional statement for the append/prepend feature, is there? I can skip articles, of course, if they contain a certain regexp, but that necessitates a second run.
So, I'm thinking, we need one or more of the following:
*Conditional code for the append/prepend feature (append/prepend if contains/doesn't contain a regexp) -- probably best
*The ability to manipulate the append/prepend text using the find/replace feature and tokens -- e.g. if the talk page already contains WPBiography|living=yes, add living=yes to the prepend text)
Thoughts? Am I missing a should-be-obvious way to achieve my goal? --kingboyk 16:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The advanced find and replace does selective ignore if does/deosn't contain as well as other stuff, combined with regexes it could possibly be done using that. Martin 16:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, cheers, I'll take a look at that. Have a think about the conditionals for append/prepend though, might do the same thing in a simpler fashion and I'm guessing would be extremely easy to code since you'd be reusing existing procedures. --kingboyk 17:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prepending to talk pages 

message: Hi.  I just reverted an edit by AWB that I think was detrimental to the article.  I'm guessing that AWB thought it was removing redundant links when such links already existed earlier in the article.  However, the links it removed were the first occurrence of these words outside of an infobox.  --Doradus 16:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB only removes self referencing links. The user is free to do what they like with it of course. Martin 16:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links in infobox and image captions shouldn't count as the first occurrence of a word 

message: Kingbotk has had a few false positives, where I've tagged talk pages for articles deleted since I built my list. Looking at the message displayed above the edit box for new talk pages, I think AWB could very easily trap and avoid this.
This is a currently redlink talk page and redlink article HTML: please verify that a page called <a href="/w/index.php?title=There%27s_nothing_to_see_here%2C_move_along&action=edit" class="new" title="There's nothing to see here, move along">There's nothing to see here, move along</a> exists.
This at the time of writing is a blue link article but red link talk page HTML: "please verify that a page called <a href="/wiki/About_a_Book_Club_%28Hope_%26_Faith_episode%29" title="About a Book Club (Hope & Faith episode)">About a Book Club (Hope & Faith episode)</a> exists"
It's a silly message really, because Mediawiki has had to look up whether the article exists or not!!! Anyway, it seems that class="new" is responsible for making the link red.
Presuming that the message comes from the Mediawiki namespace somewhere and not from the PHP code directly, we can also leave a message on the Mediawiki talk page asking to be alerted of changes or of course just watchlist it :) --kingboyk 12:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stupid me... much easier way is to just check if the "article" tab is red or not. --kingboyk 10:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging talk pages of red-link articles 

message: I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but is there a version of Mac OS X? Geoking66 02:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For there to be such a version the OS would need to support the .NET framework version 2 and have Internet Explorer. In other words, I doubt it. --kingboyk 09:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OS X? 

message: Possibly Japanese settlers in New Guinea during 1919-1940 times "comunity → community (12), regulary → regularly, autorities → authorities (2), autority → authority, belived → believed (2), colaborators → collaborators (3), condemmed → cond" then the edit summary fins out of space.  Approx 32 replacements.
Rich Farmbrough 08:51 27  August 2006 (GMT).
:Wow, that's mighty impressive, shame the article is probably going to get deleted! Martin 10:15, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Most (Mboverload) typos in one article?

message: The new version seems to be enabling "add replacements to edit summary" even though I have this option disabled in the settings. It's just doing it anyway. Am I missing something or is this a bug? --W.marsh 13:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a new bug, I improved the edit summary system and missed something, the older version is ok. thanks Martin 13:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New version ignoring option?

message: here  it only added a summary with no change, link [USA] should be changed like in here  pl:gregul 06:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is most likely a bug in what ever find and replace strings were used, AWB has an option to ignore articles when no replacement was made anyway. Martin 10:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  changing link bug 

message: There's a small bug if a URL is embedded in a image description link where AWB messes up the brackets: for example , you have  ... [url...], and awb removes one of the right square brackets and adds a left square bracket before the url. Tim! 10:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed in newest release. Martin 08:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  small bug 

message: I have a weird bug with AWB when prepending information to talk pages. When I want to prepend a msg to a list of talk pages, the diff blanks the whole page with just a "Modified" word. Here is the screenshot: (clicky).
Is it me or is there something weird?
Thanks, Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 11:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm trying to release a new version at the moment that cleans up a few issues, but sourceforge is giving me an "internal server error", I'm sure it will work soon. Martin 11:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Done it now, hopefully that will be the last release for a while. Martin 11:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Woot, thanks!!! :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 12:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird bug with talk pages 

message: How about a one button "upload new version" to make re-installing a snap when an existing version is superseded? bd2412 T 15:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really possible while it is hosted at sourceforge, hopefully the frequency of releases will slow down now anyway. Martin 08:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto-update? 

message: 300px|right
While testing my bot that currently delivers newsletters, I encountered a weird thing. While prepending to an un-existing page, well, nothing gets prepended. The diff is loaded but is not saved. And of course, the option "Ignore non-existing pages" is unchecked, as can be seen. And it works for a blank article talk page too. Obviously, it is only true for auto-mode.
Is it a bug or a feature?
Thanks, Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 16:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hhhhmm, I tihnk it's fixed now, hopefully this really will be the last release for a while. Martin 08:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prepending to talk pages reloaded 

message: Hi Martin: can you create a way to add the contents of first-level subcategories to the article list?  For example: when you make a list from a category, you get all the pages in the category plus the subcategories as part of the list.  Do you think it would be possible to be able to double-click on the category in the list of articles to add the contents of that category to the list?  Or something of the like...?  It would be much easier than copy/paste, especially if you wanted the pages in all the subcategories of something with a huge amount of subcategories, such as :Category:Saints by country. —Mets501 (talk) 21:24, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you highlight the categories in the list and then open the context menu "Add selected to list..." and then "from category", this will get all the articles from those categories. Martin 21:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: /me slaps himself in the head.  Thanks :-) —Mets501 (talk) 21:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Hopefully very easy) feature request 

message: When I was operating WinBot in 3.0.2.3 I was told that the unicodify in this edit was a bad one. So I am wondering if there is a bug in here? Many thanks. --WinHunter (talk) 03:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: IOW, the bug discussed at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_8#AWB_bots_are_breaking_non-BMP_articles appears to be back. EdC 07:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Ok, fixed in the newest verison. Martin 08:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode bug 

message: Can I run it on Linux, using Mono and Wine. --Mihael Simonič 07:13, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Afraid not. Martin 08:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: You like to make things complicated, I see :)) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 13:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Lol. It's not reasonable to expect Martin to support, erm, "esoteric" configurations like that. If you can get it to work, great - please report back - but the official line I suspect will remain the same :) --kingboyk 15:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Linux?

message: ===Feature requests===
*(Being looked into) Access to XML settings. (If this isn't available I might try to go in the opposite direction, having the plugin control AWB's settings)
*HasChanged boolean byval argument to ProcessArticle(), so that the plugin doesn't tell AWB to skip when AWB has made a change; or (easier) ignore the plugin's Skip value if AWB made a change
*If the plugin has set a valid edit summary, have AWB not complain about empty edit summary box (but if in point above the Skip value is ignored and plugin returns an empty summary, AWB must use it's own summary)
--kingboyk 15:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading and writing AML settings is a possibility, actually changing the AWB settings in a definite no. Having the "HasChanged" variable would be tricky, I know things like that look easy but they are not, largely because it is fundamentally against how AWB works, i.e. if you are doing job x, then the article either needs job x doing (so save it) or it doesn't (so ignore it), also, anything that is done with find+replace wuithin AWB can be done easily in the plugin anyway. Martin 16:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, true. Thanks. My plugin is working now anyway and hopefully will go into service later today - I have a backlog to catch up on! :) --kingboyk 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, you're the only person making a plugin, so i don't see the harm in moving it back. Also, I have added 3 methods to the interface for reading/writing XML and reseting the settings. It is a bit limited because of the complexity in dealing with plugins, I'll update my example when I have released the newest version. Martin 12:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Got the newest version, thanks. WriteXML() fires when saving settings (as expected), but ReadXML() doesn't seem to fire when loading settings. Bug? Also, under what circumstances is Reset() called? --kingboyk 18:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The read only fires when the XML node actually has some attributes. reset it called when the user clicks "reset" in the file menu. Martin 18:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. I shall now have a play with that, thanks Martin. --kingboyk 18:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plugins 

message: *(Being looked into) Access to XML settings. (If this isn't available I might try to go in the opposite direction, having the plugin control AWB's settings)
*HasChanged boolean byval argument to ProcessArticle(), so that the plugin doesn't tell AWB to skip when AWB has made a change; or (easier) ignore the plugin's Skip value if AWB made a change
*If the plugin has set a valid edit summary, have AWB not complain about empty edit summary box (but if in point above the Skip value is ignored and plugin returns an empty summary, AWB must use it's own summary)
--kingboyk 15:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading and writing AML settings is a possibility, actually changing the AWB settings in a definite no. Having the "HasChanged" variable would be tricky, I know things like that look easy but they are not, largely because it is fundamentally against how AWB works, i.e. if you are doing job x, then the article either needs job x doing (so save it) or it doesn't (so ignore it), also, anything that is done with find+replace wuithin AWB can be done easily in the plugin anyway. Martin 16:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, true. Thanks. My plugin is working now anyway and hopefully will go into service later today - I have a backlog to catch up on! :) --kingboyk 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, you're the only person making a plugin, so i don't see the harm in moving it back. Also, I have added 3 methods to the interface for reading/writing XML and reseting the settings. It is a bit limited because of the complexity in dealing with plugins, I'll update my example when I have released the newest version. Martin 12:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Got the newest version, thanks. WriteXML() fires when saving settings (as expected), but ReadXML() doesn't seem to fire when loading settings. Bug? Also, under what circumstances is Reset() called? --kingboyk 18:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The read only fires when the XML node actually has some attributes. reset it called when the user clicks "reset" in the file menu. Martin 18:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. I shall now have a play with that, thanks Martin. --kingboyk 18:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Feature requests

message: I have a plugin ready (User:Kingbotk/Living persons biography plugin) and am testing it, should anybody be interested :) --kingboyk 15:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plugins in testing

message: I thought my plugin had a bug, because it was skipping red-link talk pages. However, in debugging mode I found nothing wrong... then noticed that when I click "Auto save" AWB then automatically checks "Skip articles when no change made", which for some reason is causing those pages to skip.
I've no idea why AWB would auto-check "Skip articles when no change made" but if there's no vital reason for doing so could you turn that off pse Martin? :) --kingboyk 13:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately it's not a bug, it's a defensive feature, otherwise some people have a nasty habit of setting a bot loose without it on and making a series of trivial edits. Martin 13:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: lol, OK. Do any of the objects I get passed in Initialise() give me access to that checkbox? --kingboyk 13:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Answer to self, they ought to now I have access to the tabcontrol. --kingboyk 20:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buglet 

message: I just downloaded the new version and it seems to be skipping nearly everything, without regard to any setting as far as I can tell...  Anyone know what I could be doing wrong, or if this could be a bug? --Galaxiaad 01:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably you have "skip articles when no change made" selected? --kingboyk 10:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope... argh! --Galaxiaad 14:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Try the latest vesion. thanks Martin 14:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Working.  Thank you! --Galaxiaad 16:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Skipping bug?

message: Hi, I juse AWB on nl.wikipedia. It used to be possible to use my AWB on autonomous mode (bot-mode) on my bot-account there, but in the newer versions of the software it's not possible anymore, which is a problem for me. I see that someone else has the same problem (see here). Can anyone help and fix this, or is it not possible? NielsFTalk to me.. 19:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The automode only becomes available when it has logged in (there is a log in button on the file menu, or it does it automatically when you start editing). Also make sure you have the newest version. Martin 19:38, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah thanks, upgrading to the latest version did the trick! Thanks for your quick response. NielsFTalk to me.. 20:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autonomous mode on other projects 

message: Besides getting notification of start/stop/exit, could the plugin get access to txtEdit please Martin? The ContextMenuStrip isn't very useful if I can't put text into the box (or, is there a routine to call to do that?) --kingboyk 20:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plugin stuff 

message: I'm using 3.0.2.8 and I can't seem to get the timer to appear.  I have tried turning it off and on again with no success.  --After Midnight 0001 22:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timer