Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 2

message: The best new feature for version 4 would be releasing it. Therefore I implore testers to give the alpha version a good going over this week, and as long as there's no serious bugs in article editing we should release v4.0 beta to the general user base asap. Trivial and cosmetic bugs, if any, can wait, as can feature requests. My tests with v4 (mostly with my plugin) have been pretty positive so I hope we can get this out soon! --kingboyk 23:25, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Featured implemented 27 July 2007. --kingboyk 22:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release 

message: :Im sure this had been added before, but it may have been removed (I havent seen it recently myself). I'll poke Mets about it for you Reedy Boy 15:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if it's already there or not; if it is I haven't seen it. Either way, I would strongly caution against an "all the way down to the bottom" approach. The category system isn't really a tree, there are loops and all sorts of peculiarities. A feature which did "select all categories in the list, get their contents, and remove the categories" in one click would be useful though. --kingboyk 15:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. A set distance downwards, then. That will at least improve matters. It is the need to expand the tree that is the killer. A recent example involved a definite tree structure (and many parts of the category system are trees), and involved 935 articles distributed over 661 categories, 9 of which were empty. It really shouldn't be necessary to click the "expand" toggle 661 time to get a list of 935 articles. Carcharoth 16:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: You can just highlight them all, then right click, make list from category. Click the first item you want, then scroll down, press shift, and then click on the last category for multiple selections - There are workarounds!! Reedy Boy 17:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: OK, I'll use the workaround. But some limited functionality should be possible by cutting off loops and infinitely long expansions. Maybe something to come back to later? Carcharoth 22:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, we can keep it on this page. —METS501 (talk) 23:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: So thats Reedy, don't archive me? =D Reedy Boy 08:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't see what difference it makes to the servers if it's done by the user manually, or by AWB programatically? --kingboyk 11:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Basically what I'm having to do manually, with a lot less keypresses and hassle.
--kingboyk 16:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've commited a potential fix to stop it visiting categories it already has visited (ie, if the category is already in the list of categories visited, it wont load from that category... - /. Not sure which... Ideally needs testing... Wasnt sure of a category at the time to try it on... Reedy Boy 16:42, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand all for category trees 

message: Added in . —METS501 (talk) 23:58, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Complete the easy ones now wont you mets ;) Reedy Boy 08:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Thanks anyway for the quick modification :) --Oxymoron83 21:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  de.wikipedia - persondata placement 

message: :Hi, could you possible expand a bit more to as it is what you want. As "Append/prepend from text file." could mean anything, and therefore would be difficult for us to act upon it. Thanks, Reedy Boy 11:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Crossed out. ~ Wikihermit 05:03, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Append from text file 

message: :Having it do it if there is 2 exactly the same is fine. Its if theres 2 for the same language under different names. I suppose this couldnt be done automatically... Reedy Boy 13:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This actually already exists where the Interwiki links are exactly the same... Removing them if they are the same language, but different pages is a no no. AWB cant tell which is right. See  Reedy Boy 19:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove double interwiki 

message: : - Moved the code that gives the message box to AFTER the skip if contains/skip if doesnt contain. Good idea! Reedy Boy 19:16, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't show a message about {{tl|inuse}} pages for pages which AWB is skipping anyway 

message: :What sort of format do you want this saving in...? Is it for re-loading the settings or something? Reedy Boy 14:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Both of their. "Find", "Replace with" and settings --OsamaK 15:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You do realise that these settings are (or at least are supposed to be) saved with the normal settings file..? Reedy Boy 17:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean save that the table in the text file, whether the "Find", "Replace with" and "Settings" (Multiline, Enabled ,....) --OsamaK 08:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

text: It already saved in the settings xml. Reedy Boy 22:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Save this list.." in "Find & Replace" table 

message: :Added -  Reedy Boy 22:25, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating trivia tags 

message: De.wikipedia sorting order fixed for the next release.  If by template you mean the infoboxes, then I think that they should count for duplicates, but that's just my opinion.  If you mean something else by "templates", let us know :-) —METS501 (talk) 21:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have i missed a commit Mets? Reedy Boy 21:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  special handling for Personendaten template 

message: Yes, but it would be way too taxing on the servers to do it for each page. —METS501 (talk) 21:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I feared as much. Thanks anyway! bd2412 T 00:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List links to disambig pages. 

message: :Would be quite easy to add. Only requires a simple regex to look for and cases of  , so something like \[\[.*?\]\], do a regex.match, and if there is no success, add the tag... It may make it into v4, being simple, but the feature list is more a less stuck atm... Reedy Boy 08:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: . Havent been able to test it as of yet... Will try and do so. Reedy Boy 22:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deadend in Auto Tags 

message: : - Added Reedy Boy 21:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collapse all option 

message: How about this for a workaround: Let's say you want to replace the word vehicle with automobile only in the Wikipedia namespace.  Set this as your rule:
Find	Replace
car 	
What do you think? That should be OK, right? —METS501 (talk) 21:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A way to filter regexp by namespace 

message: - Added by Mets Reedy Boy 22:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text editor shortcut 

message: :Its doable, just wont be simple. Would anyone else like this? Reedy Boy 18:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Easy enough, but what for? AWB is a tool for performing semi-automatic edits, not article-writing. MaxSem 19:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, But sometime we need some edit by hand. You can add this as option!--OsamaK 21:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: One thing which AWB is good for is filtering out pages which do/don't have certain text or wiki-code, and then edit the remaining pages as one would directly using Wikipedia. I don't need this tool bar for anything, but for such things, this tool bar may be useful for some people. Od Mishehu 07:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

text: - Added by Mets. Not everything, but somethings are there now! Reedy Boy 22:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit Box's Toolbar 

message: I see no use for it. AWB is not designed for things like vandalfighting and so. MaxSem 15:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search in summary 

message: Already fixed. And it was a bug, actually. MaxSem 22:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regex inside ref-tags 

message: :Yup, agreed. Reedy Boy 14:50, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - . Dont really look disabled, but clicking does nothing Reedy Boy 20:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine! thanks reedy ;)--OsamaK 10:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit toolbar is always enabled 

message: :Do you mean the level 1 page protection (ie blocked from anon and new users)? Reedy Boy 17:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he means an option to skip if the edit contains a keyword blocked by the mediawiki spam filter. --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 02:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I mean the spam filter, not page protection. The spam filter parses the whole page, not just the changes made, so blocks edits. Rjwilmsi 17:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't 'skip article when first nudge doesn't help' accomplish effectively the same (at least in bot mode)? --Seed 2.0 18:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, but I'd like this option for regular (not bot) users like me. Rjwilmsi 08:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Just noticed this request again. I put some changes to the logging depending on the spam filter
  730             else if (!BotMode && webBrowserEdit.Document.Body.InnerHtml.Contains("<A class=extiw title=m:spam_blacklist href=\"http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/spam_blacklist\">"))
  731             {//check edit wasn't blocked due to spam filter
  732                 if (MessageBox.Show("Edit has been blocked by spam blacklist. Try and edit again?", "Spam blacklist", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Warning) == DialogResult.Yes)
  733                     Start();
  734                 else
  735                     SkipPage("Edit blocked by spam protection filter");
  736 
  737                 return;
  738             }
It wouldnt be difficult to add on the else if, " && chkSkipIfBlockedBySpamFilter.Checked" - Causing it to automatically just skip it - not bugging the user with the message box...? Reedy Boy 14:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

text: - Added Reedy Boy 12:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option to skip page if edit blocked by spam filter 

message: :To display it or not do you mean? Reedy Boy 09:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, forgot to write that part.  —Dispenser 13:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Added -  Reedy Boy 18:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing toolbar 

message: :Thats quite difficult, as its a windows profile thing that has to be changed to turn it off... Reedy Boy 10:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, this cannot be done from within AWB.  Do you know how to do it yourself?  If not, I'll let you know. —METS501 (talk) 16:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Turn off clicks

message: :A very simple way to do this, would have a tooltip displaying the box content when the mouse is hovering over it? Reedy Boy 13:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done it that way -  Reedy Boy 20:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A find dialog 

message: public static string DiffHead()
        {
            return @"<style type='text/css'>
td{
    border: 1px solid white;
}
table.diff, td.diff-otitle, td.diff-ntitle {
	background-color: white;
    border: 1px solid gray;
}
td.diff-addedline {
	background: #cfc;
	font-size: smaller;
}
td.diff-deletedline {
	background: #ffa;
	font-size: smaller;
}
td.diff-context {
	background: #eee;
	font-size: smaller;
}
.diffchange {
	color: red;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-decoration: none;
}
td.diff-deletedline span.diffchange {
    background-color: #FFD754; color:black;
}
td.diff-addedline span.diffchange {
    background-color: #73E5A1; color:black;
}
.d{
    overflow: auto;
}
</style>";
        }
Looks to be done from a CSS type style sheet... Reedy Boy 22:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was going to suggest that it could be altered by using the custom style sheets feature in Internet Explorer; however, it doesn't seem to be working for me.  Maybe this file should be externalize?  —Dispenser 21:39, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure if it should be... But it could be ;) Reedy Boy 21:41, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Added -  - Must be called style.css, and in the same format as above - With style tags and such. Reedy Boy 20:42, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indicating diffs 

message: That seems unlikely for now.  Are C#/VB modules not sufficient? —METS501 (talk) 19:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You could probably get them to pass it to an external process... And that to say write to text file or something...
                Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
                With psi
                    .WorkingDirectory = Dir
                    .FileName = "file.ext"
                    .Arguments = ""
                End With
                Dim p As Process = Process.Start(psi)
                p.WaitForExit()
Reedy Boy 20:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Just how many programing languages am I suppose to learn?  I got the idea after read a few bot request where people were combining frameworks in other languages to simple upload stuff to mediawiki.  All it really needs to do is write to a file, call the program, when the program finishes, read the file back into the editor window.  And it should probably be a plugin module for AWB.  —Dispenser 18:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

text: That was the idea of that code... Used as a plugin/module... Granted its VB, but AWB can and does compile VB mondules. Changed to C#, add a text reader, return to AWB and your done.... Reedy Boy 18:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you like me to write an AWB plugin to do this for you? Would need some input as to what would need to be processed from the text file... Reedy Boy 22:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, No, Maybe, I dont know. Can you repeat the question...? Reedy Boy 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

text: That is a C# Module that can be used as part of AWB.
                psi.WorkingDirectory = "C:\\Path";
                psi.FileName = "script.ext";
                psi.Arguments = "";
So, working directory, is where the file you want to run is. File name is obvious, arguments, is probably how you want to pass it the article text or similar. If you want me to change the module to write to a text file the article text (something like input.txt), i can do. Reedy Boy 11:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Passing output to CLI program 

message: *How would you know consistently where to add it? It would need to at the bottom, but begore any categories or succession boxes. --After Midnight 0001 00:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been trying to think of a "logical" manner to place the citation, and several test runs that gave some most unusual results, realize that although the section/heading is missing, there's simply no automated way to include the section.  Guess I'll formally withdraw this and move to a simple 'locate and evaluate' mode! SkierRMH 06:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of Reference section 

message: :Make list from "Links on page"? Reedy Boy 21:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Click to add to list 

message: It's because all general fixes are intended solely for mainspace, other pages either don't need such conversions, or these conversions would be harmful. General fixed would definitely break too many templates, that's why we use them only for articles. WONTFIX. MaxSem 05:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why I gave a trigger that would ensuring that templates wouldn't break.  We have a lot of /doc subpages that could truly benefit from some general fixes.  One of the general fixes that I've reimplemented is the underscore removal and capitalization of the namespace in wikilinks.  Couldn't we enable fixes do not change the structure?  —Dispenser 13:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added general fixes to be allowed on /doc pages.  Reedy Boy 22:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template general fixes 

message: :Added -  Reedy Boy 18:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option to skip if article tagged as 'in use'. 

message: Done in . Jogers (talk) 16:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Auto tag date paramter use new syntax

message: :This is feasible, well to an extent - Presumably for any and all text boxes everywhere...? As some would be a buggar to do, but ensuring that like the edit text box and such were done - ie the ones you would be typing in a lot. Reedy Boy 11:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make all text box from right to left 

message: Added in . Jogers (talk) 20:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  prepend text tunning 

message: :Or perhaps there is some way to distinguish whether a template parameter value is a filename or not? Jogers (talk) 12:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An option to ignore category names would be nice, too. Jogers (talk) 11:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ignore template calls 

message: :Its done from transclusions of  and . So it doesnt have to be hard coded, and means, to add them to teh list of not being changed, you just need to transclude the templates, which also fixes the article header. Already exists! Reedy Boy 08:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Underscores and "mod_"

message: :Added -  Reedy Boy 20:23, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! mattbr 20:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Save edit toolbar show/hide preference 

message: :Doesnt this exist under Template Parameter Rule? Reedy Boy 22:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we already have this. One can change the parameter name and perform find and replace on the parameter value. Jogers (talk) 12:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A new rule that only executes on a specified parameter(s)

message: :Added - . Option enabled for use IF project is wikia or custom. Reedy Boy 13:12, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  appended item in summary 

message: The current work around, i suppose, is to do multiple runs through... Not the most efficient, i know. Other than that, we could change the image and category thing to like the FAR, so you can create multiple rules... (Sounds like the way to do it IMHO) Reedy Boy 12:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: CFD plugin can remove or rename multiple categories in a single pass. MaxSem 15:04, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Suppose if it can remove/rename... We can change it to add aswell? Marking as exists Reedy Boy 15:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do we have a tool for image? I don't think!--OsamaK 15:18, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wont be hard to expand CFD out thought... Reedy Boy 15:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

text: - Done, "IFD Plugin" Reedy Boy 18:36, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More than one image or category 

message: :I'm on it.  Jogers (talk) 16:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added in . Jogers (talk) 17:41, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding tags automatically 

message: : - Added in  Reedy Boy 19:20, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why there should be no empty line under external links header? Jogers (talk) 09:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete empty line under External links 

message: :And i suppose,  to ... Which i thought AWB did already.... but i cant find it Reedy Boy 19:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am fixing many articles in the :Category:1994 births (and other years) and I noticed that AWB doesn't correct . Here, try to correct this one -- Magioladitis 19:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

text: - Added  Reedy Boy 19:43, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: :This feature is not going to be implemented. See the request below. Jogers (talk) 14:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can a number of redirect links and the fix be stored on the local machines ready for diff screens to be made? Snowman 17:46, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why change links to redirects that are not broken anyway? Jogers (talk) 13:37, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To fix redirects semi-automatically 

message: :I think AWB has to open the link first, hence my suggestion immediately above. Snowman 12:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is possible but would require loading all links on a page which means huge server load and excessive loading times. Jogers (talk) 14:47, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Showing where disambiguation needed 

message: :But surely if we start this... We then do Dead people... I dont see the point of vanilla AWB doing it. Bot runs of tagging of pages based on the categories, usually clears up these missing talk pages.. I've started going through the deceased people again with my bot. See Special:Contributions/Reedy_Bot... Reedy Boy 22:15, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the feature is usufull for many new pages created. The vast majority of the users creates a page about a person but doesn't add a tag in the talk page. We can do that for dead people as well. I had the same idea for locations like if there is a geo-stub and no coord template exists and the talk page is black we can add LocateMe. :) -- Magioladitis 22:35, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

text: =) Reedy Boy 10:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographies of living people 

message: It already was discusseb before (somewhere in WT:AWB archives), and we concluded that this may cause more problems than it can fix. MaxSem 11:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding References list 

message: Added in . Jogers (talk) 10:47, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References instead of Referenses 

message: :I do agree with you. With it being many GB it does indeed take ages... Im not sure how we'd implement it, but im sure its possible. Reedy Boy 17:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm working on it. Jogers (talk) 13:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Threading is maybe a little OTT. Maybe just a timer with a fairly low tick rate... Refreshing the Progress? Reedy Boy 20:47, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, sure. Something about few times a second would be enough. Jogers (talk) 09:02, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done -  Reedy Boy 12:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great. I've increased the frequency in . It shouldn't hurt to do few calculations twice a second. Jogers (talk) 13:33, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Database Scanner shows progress 

message: :You mean a category on a page..? Would require extra server load as it would have to do some form of query to check its presense... Reedy Boy 18:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean to check if a Category:Sample linked on a page exists of not. If not to display a warning.Well, I think, you are right. This requires extra server load. :( Magioladitis 18:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: One can work on wanted categories instead. I've marked it as "not going to be implemented". Jogers (talk) 12:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alert if a Category doens't exist 

message: :There is the special filter where you can filter Main space, user, category, template, mediawiki and talk for each... Does this not satisfy? Click filter at the bottom of the list maker... If so, this already exists... Reedy Boy 14:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's exactly' what I was after. I feel silly never having seen it before, but it's great. Thanks for pointing it out to me!  --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:28, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem :) Reedy Boy 18:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended "filter out namespace" facility on list menu 

message: :The special filter (filter button at bottom of the list maker) has the ability to filter by some cases... I cant remember if it does regex, but if not, this should be add-able. Reedy Boy 14:12, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's exactly what I was after. I feel silly never having seen it before, but it's great. Thanks for pointing it out to me!  --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  =) Reedy Boy 18:30, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regex list filter 

message: :Marking this as a no.. As its quite a lot of work on the servers - loading either the edit text, then parsing the IW links, or doing it via the actual display page... And i cant see it being that useful Reedy Boy 11:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List translation 

message: :Already added in SVN, wait for next release. MaxSem 08:35, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Again for the references 

message: Use general skip options. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 12:48, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra conditions in Category handling 

message: This isn't the type of thing that AWB is designed to do.  Other tools (mostly vandal-fighting ones) allow you to revert edits in bulk. —METS501 (talk) 19:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easy undo 

message: :You can. Just uncheck "bypass redirects" in "general" menu. Jogers (talk) 14:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How embarassing :/ Seems the problem was a minor issue with the regex I was using :( You're right, it does work... SQLQuery me! 14:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit redirects 

message: Too narrow for general fixes, can be easily (and flexibly) done using the CFD plugin. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 10:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth missing (living people) 

message: Implemented in . MaxSem(Han shot first!) 16:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooh good! That will be very useful. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 18:32, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text find facility in Find/Replace list 

message: From User talk:Reedy Boy - Reedy Boy 21:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would recommend keeping the special pages thing the same, but adding Log (user) and Log (page). The only issue is on the user rights log, the user is either the account being created or the user creating a new account, on that log it would have to put the value of user into page if page isnt there. Changing the current special page method would cause problems, as it's only the log pages that contain both fields. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 21:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make special pages from logs use Page parameter 

message: Absolutely useless, as MediaWiki automatically does this. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 18:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, alright. <DREAMAFTER> <TALK> 21:02, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Break Fixer 

message: Implemented in . MaxSem(Han shot first!) 19:09, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  White space diff 

message: : - Bit of an assumptiont hat the URL is of the local wiki. If it is, remove the prefix - Only currently works on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page type links... —Reedy Boy 19:11, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic URL to pagename convertion in Make list view 

message: refactored from WT:AWB
:Row Insert/Add -  —Reedy Boy
::Oh, and no, no current way of re-ordering. Should be fairly simple to do.. Just need to see if there is a better way than the way i just thought of. —Reedy Boy 19:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gets the move up/down done using the menu.. —Reedy Boy 22:57, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, —MJCdetroit 01:10, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing the row order of the "Normal" "Find & Replace" 

message: :You can do the "Do NOT skip if contains" by using skip if doesnt contain. Its reverse logic. Therefore, if its not there, it will skip. Doing esentially the same as not skipping if its the same. And surely "Do NOT skip if does NOT contain" is just double negative? —Reedy Boy 10:44, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, as above.. —Reedy Boy 00:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do NOT skip if... 

message: :Whats it supposed to be saving/doing? Reedy Boy 19:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some regular expression that can cause the program to lock up in an infinite loop. —Dispenser 19:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't experienced this problem since paying closer attention to the recursion.  —Dispenser (talk) 04:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watchdog Timer 

message: Done in . MaxSem(Han shot first!) 21:29, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Araibc edit summary 

message: Fair use rationales should not we written this way. Also, this request is too narrow to be implemented in AWB. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 17:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot Like New Feature 

message: : —Reedy Boy 13:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic Namespace 11 

message: :Added - . Will create a file called (name of settings file).xml.old. Deletes it only if it hasnt encountered an error during saving settings —Reedy Boy 17:10, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smarter save 

message: :You can do like "Word1|Word2.....|Word14". Im not exactly sure what you are asking for... —Reedy Boy 17:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll give that a try.  I wasnt to be able to take along list of misspellings and load it through AWB so taht it searches google for all articles that contain one or more of those words. Mbisanz (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google List Searchability 

message: :Using OpenSSL shouldn't be necessary... It should be, in theory, fairly simple to have an option box to select http/https... Reedy Boy 09:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I would appreciate it, since as a bureaucrat I wouldn't want some crackers stealing my password... Thanks. --62.226.188.37 19:46, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I missed out Open from the first bit. Should be do able though! Reedy Boy 20:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you plan to be doing this in the near future? --Rschen7754 (T C) 22:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dont really know. Depends how much re-working is needed, or it can just be changing the link.. If your bothered about security of your main account so much, how about having a Sock for AWB use...? —Reedy Boy 22:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My PC has issues and can only access secure wikipedia... --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah... Ok! —Reedy Boy 00:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SSL support 

message: :Although not tested, it should just work from whatever the loaded project/language was... Reedy Boy 10:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same nick name in multi wikis 

message: Maybe an option to launch the Windows/IE Internet Properties from the Advanced menu?  —Dispenser 02:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just told it to follow IE settings via the code... - ... I'll try it later (works fine with no proxy settings, i just need to setup a proxy to try it on :)) —Reedy Boy 23:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Its working via Squid for me... —Reedy Boy 23:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Just thought.. I dont think the actual web controls are following it... But im not sure.. I didnt tell them too, just the requests in code... Needs some more investigation tonight! —Reedy Boy 11:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems from googling it.. The web control just follows IE.. So fixing the code based webrequests to use the proxy.. So it should work fully... —Reedy Boy 16:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and with it following the IE settings.. I see no use for AWB to have a seperate way to change proxy settings too.. —Reedy Boy 16:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: MaxSem has tweaked and improved this too —Reedy Boy 13:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proxy support 

message: Do the following: Make your List and then form the Menu pick up List -> Convert from Talk pages. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 09:07, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You guys are great!  Thanks a bunch!  - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 06:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option to redirect to check main article if Make list returns a talk page 

message: :Fixed -  —Reedy Boy 19:51, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advanced/Replace special 

message: :/ —Reedy Boy 21:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quickly add a new category 

message: :Hmm. Just need to find the actual code where this is and disable it for pl for you —Reedy Boy 16:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Already KIA everywhere. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 11:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  refs and punctuation 

message: :Added -  —Reedy Boy 16:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! Gwguffey (talk) 19:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ability to flip reversed piping of wikilink as part of disambiguation functionality 

message: Use IFD plugin. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 11:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add/remove multiple categories 

message: :In the advanced FaR (if that is what you mean), the items can be dragged and dropped to change position, and also highlighted, and the up and down arrow move the rules up and down... So it exists... —Reedy Boy 17:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allow rules under the advanced tab to be sortable 

message: Such things shouldn't be done automatically, there are too many instances when alphasort may be inappropriate. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 14:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sort bulleted lists (alphabetically) 

message: How are we supposed to get the number of the needed section? The only way is to retrieve whole page content. And if we have it all - why change only one particular section? This proposal makes no sense. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 21:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a good idea. The media wiki has a capacity up upload sections only, so it is possible.  How does mediawiki know what sections to upload? The software could count the number of headings and work out what sections need updating. Or it could work out the line numbers of the headings and work out the sections that need uploading with the line number of the edits made on AWB. Surely, this will made the AWB uploads quicker, and use up less media wiki capacity. Snowman (talk) 22:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're suggesting to replace "load page→modify it→save page" with "get page text→determine which section we should modify→open that section for editing→modify it→save it". That is, 1 full-size request and two potentially smaller ones instead of two full-sized. This is not going to improve performance. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 09:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought editing one section may fill less database space --84.234.42.68 (talk) 12:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 12:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  editing section, not whole article 

message: You already can call regex tester from norman find & replace in 4.3.0.2, same feature has been added to advanced replacements in . MaxSem(Han shot first!) 17:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy regex from tester to settings

message: There's a [Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#Progress|big] disambig repair backlog still to be done on Wikipedia.  Imagine if AWB had a feature like this:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 AI-assisted Disambig Repair Dialog Box                     [_][X]
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 AWB found 3 links to race which should probably be modified  
 to point to Race (classification of human beings).  Please 
 select the links to modify.
 
 [ ] "...these flows -- such as race, gender, socioeconomic status..."
     from article Anatol Rapoport
 [ ] "...a cognizable racial group, and that the..."
     from article Batson v. Kentucky
 [ ] "...part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as..."
     from article Genocides in history
 
 [ Modify checked links ] [ Cancel ]
 
The artificial intelligence could look at one or many things:
 
* the source and suggested target pages' places in the category tree,
* nearby links (when someone writes "race or ethnic group" you know what they meant by "race"),
* nearby words in the paragraph,
* popularity of the target page (AWB should think twice before repointing a link to point to an obscure page with few inbound links like Colonel Race instead of to a popular page like Race (classification of human beings)
* context of the link (is the link in italics at the top of a page?  or in the middle of an article?  or a See Also list?  Italic links at the top of a page should probably not be changed.)
* or other things (suggestions welcome; perhaps a computer science or linguistics professor could help us out more here).
 
Does this sound like a good idea for AWB?  Any chance you could add it to a future version?  ----unforgettableid | talk 20:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does sounds like a good idea, in principle, applying it wouldnt be so easy though. Implementing more than very basic AI isnt a simple process... AWB does have its basic disambiguation program... I dont know if this is just outside the scope for AWB. As the ruleset could/would have to be VERY large to be able to get it to do more than a few cases... —Reedy Boy 20:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, this task is extremely hard to accomplish, and even when we make it, there will always be mor... id... lazy as... people who will hit 'Save' w/o actually checking what machine suggests them to do. I'm inclined to WONTFIX this. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 20:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This feature is not going to be implemented. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 16:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  AI-assisted disambiguation 

message: Somewhat implausible I think. --kingboyk (talk) 09:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, there's Regulazy and stuff like that, we can't combine everything in one package. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 09:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Was just reporting what was asked... The Regex tester, is a good idea in AWB, but agreed, this is too specific... With other tools being out there! —Reedy Boy 10:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a help feature to regex tester, which opens MSDN in browser. Don't think that anything else needs to be done. Except for tighter integration of tester with other parts, maybe. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 10:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would sound better. I believe there is a feature request, asking to be able to open the regex tester from a few various places, transferring certain text accross, allowing the user to edit it, and it be copied back automatically... —Reedy Boy 14:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regex Generator 

message: Implemented. MaxSem(Han shot first!) 15:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Test and update a regex in the tester

message: :Presumably you mean of the edit box...? Could probably do this as a menu option fairly easily - If its checked, jump to bottom? —Reedy Boy 16:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah jump to the bottom of the edit box , handdy for templates and categories as i said above Gnevin (talk) 08:29, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats fine, should be fairly easy. Just wanted to explitically clarify what you wanted =) —Reedy Boy 13:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

text: / - Added —Reedy Boy 19:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jump to bottom  

message: For no 2 - Errm... The "Talk only" button is under talk... And "Non-talk only" under non talk pages...? And for no 1 - Thats all that is on the filter button... Is "filter" —Reedy Boy 21:08, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding #2. maxsem fixed it in rev 2264. As for #1, when I open ListMaker.cs in VS, the filter button is indeed showing "Filter". However in Main.cs, and when the program runs, it only shows "Filte", truncating the "r". Same thing for the Remove Duplicates button, truncating " duplicates" and leaving "Remove". I fiddled with the Width parameter of the listMaker1 control in Main.cs, increasing it by 4 from 197 to 201 and that fixed the problem. Harryboyles 10:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, fixed in . MaxSem(Han shot first!) 10:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UI Fixes 

message: :Like the "List--> Filter non main space" one? —Reedy Boy 21:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  - Added —Reedy Boy 21:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option to prevent duplicate entries in article list 

message: Have now just seen #Hide "Bots" tab above, so I guess my request is related! Adjustable widths for the three areas as well might be nice. Sardanaphalus (talk) 19:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The resizing of the 3 area's, i am going to say no for. When you start resizing stuff, it can cause problems, and we either get things overlapping, or cant get access to them, etc. Please try a svn snapshot - Select the one with the highest number, and let us know if that is acceptable. As for the "show/hide bot tab" - that is still feasible. :) —Reedy Boy 20:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, understood about the three areas. Looks like an option to show/hide one or more of the tabs (not just or only the bot tab?) is neatest solution. Thanks for your reply. Sardanaphalus (talk) 14:49, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reduce number of tabs between the "(2) Set options" and "(3) Start" tabs?