Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 3

message: I just noticed that if you get a "uneable to process due to loss of session data" (or whatever it says) message, AWB will remove the page from the list and move on as if the save had been sucessfull. The correct behaviour in this case would be to restart the edit as if a server error had ocured. --Sherool (talk) 12:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: good point. Martin 12:55, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor bug regarding "loss of session data" 

message: Would it be possible to have AWB generate a list based on File links on image pages too? That would be usefull. Currently I'm copy and pasting them into a text editor, using a macro to "wikify" them, save as a text file and then import the text file, wich works, but it's a bit of work, would be nice to just input a Image: page name and have AWB automaticaly pick up all pages the image is used on. Also a "remove duplicates" option would be nice. After copy and pasting file links for a dozen or so images I was left with quite a few duplicates, wich I ended up having to use Excell to filter out. --Sherool (talk) 19:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple of List related wishes 

message: I would be wonderful to be able to import/export the find/replace list (or at the very least copy/paste it). Since the list is wiped every time the program closes, doing large tasks is extremely cumbersome. - Emt147 Burninate! 23:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just save it, with the save option in the "File" menu. Martin 23:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I didn't realize it saved the find/replace list as well... I was actually about to check out the settings file. :) Thanks! - Emt147 Burninate! 23:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find/replace feature request 

message: It would be great to specify AWB to only make edits within a certain subsection of a page. (e.g. reformatting aircraft specs is cumbersome since many of the formatting elements (bold, lists, etc.) are present elsewhere on the page). - Emt147 Burninate! 23:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Within-section editing 

message: I have logged in and out and cleared my cache several times, but I still keep on getting the "You are not enabled to use this" message, even though I am on the list (the very, very last one on the list). Please note that I have not used the AWB for more than two weeks and thus previously had the older version that is now disabled (1.96). I have also uploaded and tried every version that is currently enabled, but still no luck. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, silly bug, should work now. Martin 17:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am now getting the 'You are not enabled to use this' error 

message: I am running 2.0.0.0 from an Win XP machine, IE 6.0 (not my primary browser). Trying to build a list from this cat, I get but a single entry of the form "# ". I tried clearing my cache. I made sure IE can access the page OK. I can use AWB to perform edits OK. Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 07:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That category loads fine for me, try version 2.0.2.0 Martin 08:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tried it. Now I get nothing at all instead of one dummy empty entry. To be sure it's not a clueshortage issue, I should type in "The Beatles singles" into the category name box, not lead with "Category:" and not use underscores, right? I tried it for another category ("Cats") and also get nothing... Thanks for your support, great tool! ++Lar: t/c 15:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now fixed. See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Blank_lists Thanks for your support! ++Lar: t/c 19:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:The Beatles singles]]

message: Please read through Wikipedia talk:Template substitution and Wikipedia talk:Avoid using meta-templates before deciding to substitute every template in sight.  Blanket substitution of everything is (arguably) very harmful.  The server load argument in favor of substitution, for instance, has been refuted by Wikipedia's lead developer.  Think about it.  Is using a psuedo-bot to edit hundreds of articles without adding any content really of benefit to the servers?  
It's certainly ok or beneficial to substitute some things, but before you decide to do it, keep in mind that substitution is effectively permanent, and in many cases clutters up markup, making it more difficult for newcomers to edit, with marginal or no benefit.  Keep an eye on the list of templates that should always be substituted, as it changes every day. — Omegatron 00:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you ask the people doing it? they probably don't read this page. Martin 00:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've started to. — Omegatron 00:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop using this to substitute templates 

message: I can get the make list from What links here to work for some terms, for example Tree. But most, such as Test, Oscar Women's rights (disambiguation) generate no list. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I type Oscar into the "What links to" box under the box where I selected "What links here". I then press "Make list". The number of articles display(number next to the "Make list" button) changes to 1, but no article names appear in the list. What is wrong?
Prodego talk 13:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearing your internet explorer cache has solved this problem for some people. Martin 13:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that fixed it. Prodego talk 13:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What links here? 

message: Is it possible to insert line breaks (carriage returns) using the Find/Replace function in AWB? I've tried  in the "Replace with" field but no luck. 
Along the same lines, I would love to have a more functional parser instead of the simple find/replace tool. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to modify text using wildcards, e.g. find all words beginning with lower-case "a" and replace them with uppercase "A" (a* to A*).
- Emt147 Burninate! 04:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Carriage returns are represented by \r\n as for a more functional parser, it supports multiple regular expressions, and it doesnt get more functional than that. Martin 09:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: \r\n does not insert a carriage return during Find/Replace -- it inserts "\r\n". Here's what I meant with the parser: I'm converting aircraft specs to a template format. I have a spec like wingspan: 50 ft (15.2 m) that I need to convert to two lines: span main=50 ft and span alt=15.2 m. I can't even get AWB to insert span main= and span alt= on two separate lines, not to mention getting it to divide the 50 ft (15.2 m) into two separate entities appropriately place on separate lines (I can write regular expressions to find them but the Replace part of find/replace is rather limited in its ability). Or am I missing something? Thanks! - Emt147 Burninate! 19:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

text: * What I'm looking for is the equivalent of s/ (substitute operator in perl/sed) with the ability to use parentheses to memorize and recall parts of text. Right now, the "regular expression" checkbox appears to apply only to the "Find" but not to the "Replace" part of the Find/Replace table. - Emt147 Burninate! 19:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem was that \r\n was being interpreted literally, I have fixed this now in version 2.0.2.0, which i will release tomorrow, otherwise it functions just as any regex should. Martin 22:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Very cool. Thank you! - Emt147 Burninate! 22:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inserting line breaks using AWB 

message: I do not have more than 500 edits, however I'm working actively on disambiguation project and I'd like to use this bot to make it a bit easier. Mahanchian 22:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Registration request 

message: Basically any find/replace line having ="*", &, or # throws errors on loading a settings .xml. I'll be able to get more information when I'm back at my windows box, but in the meantime - any ideas? Happens with IE6 and 7, .NET 2.0 is updated, and User:emt147 seems to be using the same file without problems. Thanks in advance. ericg ✈ 02:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea, but I posted an updated settings file in the same location. Be sure to copy and paste the source and not what Wikipedia displays - Emt147 Burninate! 03:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

text: What error do you actually get? Martin 09:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem loading settings 

message: Martin (and other resident geniuses ;-)),
I was wondering if you know of a method to draw up, in AWB, a list of articles that utilize the new cite.php extension? I have tried google wikipedia, but that's very unsatisfactory. Regards —Encephalon 09:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to admit that I know nothing about the cite extension, am I correct in saying that an article that contains <ref> uses the cite extension? If so then it is easy to scan the data dump for it. Martin 12:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can read all about cite.php here: m:Cite/Cite.php. It basically uses <ref name=> and . Can you tell me how to scan the data dump for it? Thanks —Encephalon 14:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can scan the database dump with another tool I made, see User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool, bear in mind that < and > are represented by < and > in the xml dump. I am going to get the newest dump when it is ready, I can do the scan for you if you want. Martin 14:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, cool! I'm a pretty clueless newbie myself where many technical matters are concerned, so bags you do it ;-) —Encephalon 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's really kind, thanks a lot! I'm downloading the datadump now, so I'll look for  and see what happens. Martin 16:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cite.php 

message: Am I doing something wrong or is AWB using Regex only for Find and not for Replace? I'm especially wondering about the memory (parenthesis).
For example, when I run the following on B-32 Dominator:
* Find: \**\s*\'*[Ww]ingspan\:*\'*\:*\s(.*)\s\((\w.*)\b\) 
* Replace with:  \|wingspan main=\1\r\n\|wingspan alt=\2 
It finds the correct string but instead of recalling \1 and \2 from parentheses, it literally inserts \1 and \2. Is this related to the literal interpretation of \r\n or is AWB incapable of performing this operation altogether.
Thanks! - Emt147 Burninate! 17:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB is fully capable of all regex functions, there was a slight problem mentioned about in interpreting \r\n literally in the replace field, that is fixed now in 2.0.2.0, as for interpreting \1 and \2 literally, that is because that is incorrect regex syntax, what you should use is $1 and $2. Martin 18:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's not Perl syntax then, is it? (at least when I used to write it Perl years ago it was \1 not $1). Thanks for your help! - Emt147 Burninate! 18:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Perl regular expression examples, it is perl syntax as well. Martin 18:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

text: You can't enter < or > into an xml file, it is reserved, entering it into the find box and saving works so just use that. thanks Martin 21:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  *Yes, I figured out that whole bit as I was writing this post. I got it all working now, it's fantastic. Thanks for all your help! - Emt147 Burninate! 21:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Happy to help! Martin 22:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regex revisited 

message: Martin - I remember you commenting once about waiting for the next WinFX beta.  It looks like a beta was released on 21 Feb 2006.  You can download it here.  I'm not sure if it has spellcheck, but you can check to see if it does.  Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 18:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this page beta 2 is expected to have the spell checking enabled. thanks Martin 18:57, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WinFX 

message: "According to Microsoft, regular expressions are handled much as in Perl 5."
::So Microsoft has actually commented on this Wikipedia tool???! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.129.152.189 (talk • contribs) .
:::They commented on their own implementation of reular expressions in c#. Martin 17:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was also amused by this piece of copy.  I dont see how it belongs in the intro for AutoWikiBrowser, as the previous sentance has already indicated that it supports regex; those familiar with sed & awk KNOW no two implementations of regexen are fully (copy&paste) compatible.  I suggest writing this as: ... (either simple or Perl Compatible Regular_expressions). -- Jayvdb 06:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "According to Microsoft"? 

message: I haven't used it in a couple of weeks and it appears that any of the 2.x versions will not make list from "category" or "what links here". Both "links on page" and "user contributions" produce a list. I tried this both at home and work computers with the same results. Any suggestions? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Category:The_Beatles_singles. Same problem for me. it's not happening for Martin, apparently. So some sleuthing into differences may be appropriate. Any ideas on what stuff matters? version of .net framework? Browser? OS? which skin we use? ideas? ++Lar: t/c 11:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB reports - AWB version 2.0.3.0, IE 6.0.2900.2802, Windows 5.1 and .NET 2.0.50727.42. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:19, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

text: It's fine for most people, still a very annoying problem though. I really need to be able to see the html it is looking at, i'll make a version that records it. Martin 12:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

text: AWB reports -  AWB version 2.0.2.0, IE 6.0.2900.2802, Windows 5.1 and .NET 2.0.50727.42.  ... (but it was happening on 2.0.0.0 as well.. I'll upgrade again when a HTML dumping version is available. Thanks for the support.  (disregard comments about firefox version above, not relevant) ++Lar: t/c 13:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just uploaded a version (2.0.4.0) that offers to dump the html in the textbox if the category loaded 1 or less results, please copy and save this html into a file and email it to me, martinrichards23 at gmail dot com   thanks Martin 13:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: —-- That Guy, From That Show! (talk) 2006-03-07 13:41Z
ok, I think I have fixed it now, try 2.0.5.0 it won't work for "what links here" yet though, I just want to make sure it works first. thanks for the email CBW. Martin 14:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I tried That Guy, From That Show! suggestion on 2.0.4.0 by removing the last edits to the monobook.js and it worked on the "What Links Here" once and only once. I then tried 2.0.5.0 and still got nothing. I then blanked the monobook.js and both of the latest versions work. Thanks guys. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just restored and deleted the monobook.js it's something in there that causes the problem. A blank monobook and everything in AWB works fine. Thanks again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Blank my monobook.js? Ack. That price may be too high, I can't live without that stuff... (it is true that it includes stuff from a bazillion different people). I can do it to help debug if it's necessary but it's not a long term plan. ++Lar: t/c 15:10, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great. That's seems to have have fixed the problem even with the monobooj.js loaded as well. Thanks again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I confirm, it's fixed for me as well. Thanks VERY much! ++Lar: t/c 19:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Blank lists

message: ===Auto-load at background===
Currently, AWB loads a page, then the changes and then stops. What I'd like to see it do is to keep loading the other pages in the list. It would save them in some cache where from they would be immediately available after the current page has been saved. Of course modem users or users paying per transferred data might want to uncheck this option but it would greatly improve the editing speed for broadband users. --ZeroOne 21:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This would require a complete redesign, therefore is not going to happen. Martin 22:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Do you mean allow the find and replace regexes access to the page title? if so then it could achieved reasonably easily. Martin 22:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, so that the results of those regexes could be carried to the article content. Something to make, for example, the title List of mathematics related topics into the string Mathematics related topics that could be used as a sort key. Also might need to convert Firstname Lastname into Lastname, Firstname. --ZeroOne 22:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But you would never need to put a category key List of mathematics related topics in that article, as articles are sorted by their name by default, also note that their is an option that guesses the birth and death categories, this guesses the category keys as well. Martin 23:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, but I need to put Mathematics related topics in that article, with the "List of" part removed, as otherwise it will be sorted by "L", which in the category Lists is a rather common first letter. --ZeroOne 12:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

text: The current stop button does this. Martin 23:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current Stop button is on the third tab, which is not always visible, particularly if the first thing you do is load up the list: maybe the Stop button could be moved somewhere which is always visible. Also, will the code which enables/disables various buttons need adjusting to make sure that the Stop button is always enabled when it can be used to halt something? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 14:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I was talking about a button to stop the Make list -command. The button would appear next to Add/Remove/Clear. --ZeroOne 20:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature requests 

message: Currently, AWB loads a page, then the changes and then stops. What I'd like to see it do is to keep loading the other pages in the list. It would save them in some cache where from they would be immediately available after the current page has been saved. Of course modem users or users paying per transferred data might want to uncheck this option but it would greatly improve the editing speed for broadband users. --ZeroOne 21:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This would require a complete redesign, therefore is not going to happen. Martin 22:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Auto-load at background

message: Currently I cannot figure a way to extract words from the page title. This would be crucial, however, if I was to use AWB to assist in setting category sort keys. There are dozens of categories where articles should have but do not have category sort keys. I've been working through :Category:Lists and its subcategories manually now. Allowing regexes to access the titles somehow would be sufficient. --ZeroOne 21:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean allow the find and replace regexes access to the page title? if so then it could achieved reasonably easily. Martin 22:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, so that the results of those regexes could be carried to the article content. Something to make, for example, the title List of mathematics related topics into the string Mathematics related topics that could be used as a sort key. Also might need to convert Firstname Lastname into Lastname, Firstname. --ZeroOne 22:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But you would never need to put a category key List of mathematics related topics in that article, as articles are sorted by their name by default, also note that their is an option that guesses the birth and death categories, this guesses the category keys as well. Martin 23:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, but I need to put Mathematics related topics in that article, with the "List of" part removed, as otherwise it will be sorted by "L", which in the category Lists is a rather common first letter. --ZeroOne 12:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Access to page title

message: Feature request: a button to stop loading whatever list it currently is loading. --ZeroOne 22:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current stop button does this. Martin 23:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current Stop button is on the third tab, which is not always visible, particularly if the first thing you do is load up the list: maybe the Stop button could be moved somewhere which is always visible. Also, will the code which enables/disables various buttons need adjusting to make sure that the Stop button is always enabled when it can be used to halt something? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 14:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I was talking about a button to stop the Make list -command. The button would appear next to Add/Remove/Clear. --ZeroOne 20:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stop-button

message: I know you can filter out non main namespace articles from the list, but it would be nice if this could be extended to allow you to choose namespaces to filter out. When pruning links to disambig pages, you generally don't want to edit any talk pages, but still edit image, category, portal and project pages if there are any. BigBlueFish 18:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Namespace filtering

message: Sometimes AWB makes a mistake, such as when wikisyntax square brackets are mixed with contextual ones. It's easy to identify these from the diffs, but with long articles it can be tough finding where it is. Since the diffs state the line number, line numbering down the side of the edit box like an IDE or a "go to line..." button would greatly simplify this task. BigBlueFish 18:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Line numbering

message: In this edit, AWB removed the spaces in the section headings and after each "*" (bullet point). I feel like those spaces help the readability of the article source... and they're presence doesn't affect how the page renders. Please don't change them. -- Netoholic @ 17:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with Netoholic. Further to his point, editing is also easier because those spaces make precise selection easier. I would also point out that other list syntax (* # : ;) suffers the same problem: AWB should actually add a space after a combination of these at the start of a paragraph. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 22:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's true, it is much easier to select text if there's a space between them. I think spaces also help with eye strain, and when you're trying to see how many levels of indent there is.  Having AWB add spaces would be a nice feature. -- Netoholic @ 23:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe I'll change the "remove excess whitespace" feature to "fix whitespace", not that I imagine people use this feature that much anyway. Martin 23:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitespace in headings and bullet lists 

message: Got V 2.0.8.0, thanks.
Two little problems, on pages like August 8 we have had the title self linked, because it displays the right way round according to the user's preferences.  Of course AWB cleverly unlinks it...
Secondly on pages with "otheruses" it can  bold the title in another link breaking it.
All the best, Rich   Farmbrough 23:06 8  March 2006 (UTC).
P.S. Who said programming is almost all about exceptions? Rich   Farmbrough 23:07 8  March 2006 (UTC).
:2.0.9.0 should fix the bolding issue. thanks Martin 23:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-reference and bolding PAGENAME

message: Any chance this app will be ported to Linux and OSX using mono? Htaccess 18:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I'm certainly not going to attempt it, I suspect it would also be extremely difficult, as the program makes much use of the web browser control also used by internet explorer. Martin 23:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Porting with mono? 

message: I have been told by User:Ian Pitchford that the reason he has been shifting year of birth categories to the top of the selection of categories with this piece of software is that it is a feature of the software (and that makes it official Wikipedia policy in his opinion). Reading the project page, I think he may well be mistaken, but could the software be reviewed in any case please to ensure that this doesn't happen en masse? I don't think it is even possible to make any sort of sensible case that years of birth and death are the most important or useful categories for a person, so they should not go at the top of the list. The most relevant categories should come first, eg for a President of France, it would be :category:Presidents of France, not :Category:1837 births or :category:1902 deaths. Thank you. Osomec 22:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This would likely be the "Alpha sort categories" option, so any category which began with a digit would likely suffer the same fate. As to whether the birth/death categories are most relevant for a person, simple logic would indicate that these would be the categories most likely to be common to all biographical articles; it would therefore make sense that they appeared in the same place for each article, which implies sorting them to the head of the list. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 22:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does being common make them the most important? That just makes absolutely zero sense to me. Osomec 22:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Why don't you look at the articles in :Category:Presidents of France, birth / death categories first clearly is the de facto standard. Martin 22:47, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps that is because people have been using this piece of software? The whole idea of putting them in alphabetical order is ridiculous and this software totally distorts the editorial effort. People put great effort into sorting categories in the way that will be most useful for the reader, but your software allows all this effort to be casually wiped out without a thought or a care. But reversing it again is then more effort. Whether you are right or wrong, this feature is iniquitious and it should be removed. It stands to reason that the people on here are users of this software, so may support this absurd approach even if the majority of users are actually opposed to it. Osomec 22:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are wrong, I can prove you are wrong, just look at the histories of those articles, clearly people have been putting editorial effort into sorting categories with birth/death cats first. You are acting against common practice. Martin 23:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Either way building it into automated software loads things against people who want things in a different order. I am yet to see any reasons for this bizarre preference. Do you have any? Osomec 00:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is the de facto standard. Plus, from a more technical point of view, being in alphabetical order makes it easier to find a category, means that category order will appear more similar between different articles, and isnt susceptible to people re-ordering to give different ones a higher priority. I think these reasons are all individually more important than the reason you give, and common practice across Wikipedia evidently agrees. Martin 00:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Placement of year of birth (and death) categories

message: I checked through the archive but I can't see if this was reported before but I would be surprised if nobody else spotted it. When making a list from a category that has over 200 entries (e.g. :Category:Airports in Ontario) it drops the first entry from the second page. I should have got Orilla/Lake St John Water Aerodrome but it was missing.
Second, when you save the list to a text file articles with accents like Alma (Rivière La Grande Décharge) Water Aerodrome turn out as Alma (RiviÃ¨re La Grande DÃ©charge) Water Aerodrome.
Ignore that. It loads back fine from the text file. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It works fine for me, does anyone else have this problem? Martin 12:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just tried :Category:Communities in Ontario. It should have 537 in the list but gives 535. On the first 200 it gets everything. On the second 200 it drops the first article (Fenelon Falls, Ontario). On the last 200 it drops the second article (Portland, Ontario) but gets the first (Port Weller, Ontario). In all cases it picks up the subcategories. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2 minor bugs

message: I've compiled the newest sources and loaded these settings. AWB shows me the diff with correctly replaced templates on Big Brother UK series 6. When I click on save, AWB moves on and it looks as if it had saved. But when I look at the article it is not saved. I see no error message. I have made thousands of edits with AWB but I have never seen such a behaviour. I also have done a few hundred edits today (GMT+1) without problems. What the hell is going on here? This is repeatable on that article with these settings. --Adrian Buehlmann 17:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The spam filter appears to be blocking all edits to that page, it must have some spammy link on it. This is unrelated to AWB. Martin 17:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Martin. You're right. I should have tried a manual edit before posting here. Apologies. But this makes me thinking: What about (yet) another button "next" (don't beat me :-) and a "auto next" mode? If "auto next" mode is off, AWB would wait until the user has seen and checked the page after the save. The user could acknowledge the move to the next article with a click on "next". "auto next" would be enabled by default (current behaviour). Instead of having a new button, we could rename the "Ignore" button to "next" and reuse that button. The current "auto mode" (bot mode = automatic save after timer) would also imply "auto next". --Adrian Buehlmann 18:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Big Brother UK series 6]]

message: Was wondering if anyone knew this:  I'm working mainly with the Olympics, and there are a bunch of pages with event results, which have lots and lots of athlete names.  Many of these have special characters with accents, but for the most part, the links on the results pages do not.  So I'll have lists,
where this          	redirects right to this
Anja Parson         	Anja Pärson
Franzi Aufdenblatten	Fränzi Aufdenblatten
And the thing is, I'd like to change the name on the result page, so that it's more accurate.  Is there any way of doing this currently with AWB?  tiZom(2¢) 06:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects 

message: howdy, I have my 500 edits(by a few:))and would like to use this software to edit wikipedia. gracias. Nmpenguin 15:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting permission to use 

message: I have had 500 edits and would like to use AWB. DarrenRay 08:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should list your name on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage instead. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 09:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Permission to come aboard 

message: There is no consensus that I am aware of for sorting categories alphabetically.  There is a discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:Categorization.  Unless someone can point to where this has been discussed previously, I would like to add a comment on the AutoWikiBrowser page requesting that this feature NOT be used unless there is some discussion first.  Thanks. -- Samuel Wantman 01:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could this be an option? I have use for having the info sorted alpha in some cases... Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 02:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alphabetical sorting is an option, off by default. Martin 09:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If keeping the feature, noting that it should not be used without discussing the changes on the article talk page would be helpful. --Dystopos 18:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting Categories Alphabetically 

message: I have downloaded .NET framework, but if i click on the AutoWikiBrowser icon, i get a message that says ".NET Framework Initialization Error To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .Net Framework: v2.0.50727 Contact your application publisher for instructions about obtaining the appropriate versions of the .Net Framework.". What is wrong? --Off! 17:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is the message you get when the framework is not istalled. Martin 23:44, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I has a problem 

message: Replacing %20 with a true space in external links breaks wikimarkup.  Cleanup functions should probably not substitute %xx expansions in external link URLs with the underlying character.  Kelly Martin (talk) 14:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This will only happen when you unicodify the whole article, it will be fixed anyway in next release. Martin 16:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible problem 

message: I often use AWB, but ever since the loss of contrib links in diff pages, it has brought up Just-In-Time Debugging. This happens basically for everything such as making lists and going through processes. This has, in effect, stopped be been able to use AWB. Computerjoe's talk 18:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still working for me (version 2.1.3.0). Are you using an older version? -- JLaTondre 18:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm running that version. Perhaps could it be a userscript? Computerjoe's talk 18:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that would be my guess. Especially since you state "ever since the loss of contrib links in diff pages" as I haven't noticed a change. For example, diffing your page still shows "JLaTondre (Talk | contribs)" and "Computerjoe (Talk | contribs)" for me (if that's the contrib links you're talking about). I'd suggest disabling your scripts and putting them back on at a time to find the culprit. Rather painfull, but should let you isolate it. -- JLaTondre 19:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The fix is visible here. Computerjoe's talk 19:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This did not fix it. Computerjoe's talk 20:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Bug 

message: I was making some minor edits when I came across a page that required some more extensive changes. I unchecked "Mark all as minor" and saved, but the edit was still marked as minor. I double checked that the option was unchecked. It appears (I'm guessing more than anything else as I didn't comprehensively test) that the input form is only updated on a page load and not when the option is toggled? Thanks. -- JLaTondre 18:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to Special:Preferences and then click on "Editing" at the top.  If "Mark all edits minor by default" is checked, then all edits made using the AWB will also be minor, regardless of AWB settings. --M@thwiz2020 20:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't use that setting.  -- JLaTondre 21:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Edit Flag Issue 

message: Howdy, I was wondering if a future version would be released for the Tiger OS, I have limited access to Windows based machines and thus would be awfully appreciative of use on a Mac. thanks. Nmpenguin 15:32, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  version for Mac OS 

message: I've temporarily removed User:Pegasus1138 from the list. I need time to evaluate his edits. All I can say is, he made a questionable edit to Apple Records discography which said "AWB assisted cleanup" but which was actually a destubbing; and has a whole batch of these see e.g. . He's recently been reverted for a Popups edit here . I suspect it may be a case of "have new toys, will play with them". --kingboyk 03:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Temporary Removal