Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev/Archive 2

message: The new nudge timer seems to be working well, but I think from the logs that 2 minutes as a default is a bit aggressive.
I'd propose either making the default longer, or perhaps increasing the gap between the event firing by, say, 1 minute increments each time, until it maxes out at 10 minutes.
Thoughts? --kingboyk 17:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless I'm missing something, what's wrong with having it at 2 minutes? It's just restarting AWB if it stalls. Is it doing anything else? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 17:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's adding a line to the log which gets uploaded by my plugin. It's also querying a possibly overloaded server. --kingboyk 18:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh...okay. Then it probably would be a good idea. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 18:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nudge timer revisited 

message: If we could keep this fairly "generic" it would be great, as I'd like at some point to see wikifunctions be able to handle nested WikiProject templates. --kingboyk 20:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, you can use Parsers.GetTemplate already, as long as you know the template name. MaxSem 03:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And GetTemplates will be useful in ReplaceSpecial. MaxSem 06:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Something to look at at some vague time in the future, then! :) Thanks. --kingboyk 11:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "first approach to handling nested templates" 

message: Martin (bluemoose) told me that the horrible RAM usage of AWB after a few hours of tagging was due to memory leaks in IE.
I was wondering, then, if the issue might be "fixed" (or at least hacked around) by setting the webcontrol object to null, disposing of it (so it really goes), and recreating it. This could be done every 500 saves, perhaps, or if physical RAM is running low.
Thoughts? --kingboyk 18:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can try it, but... leaks are leaks, most of them will be fixed only when AWB process is terminated. MaxSem 18:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also the issue of whether event handlers attached to the webcontrol (AWB, plugin) would barf. I think Sam's gonna give it a go as it wouldn't be a lot of code. Worth a try at least. --kingboyk 18:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Its currently enabled in the debug version. It does kill the control and re-initialise it, assigning all relevant properties. I just cant seem to get it to start working again. And i havent checked if it does actually reduce the memory usage! Reedy Boy 11:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory usage 

message: The devs have added a new Mediawiki feature which may be better for automated bots than having a user-defined edit interval. Please see Wikipedia:Bot_owners%27_noticeboard#Maxlag_parameter. I will also file this as a feature request.
I think we're able to support it, as it's a parameter on index.php. --kingboyk 14:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maxlag 

message: We don't need this section anymore, because now MediaWiki sets JS variable with user groups, for example:
 var wgUserGroups = ["*", "user", "autoconfirmed", "emailconfirmed"];
If there is no objections, I'll make AWB automatically approve all admins. MaxSem 18:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. May aswell. I suppose admins just need to be in the user section...? Or are you just going to get AWB to look if they are an admin, and then they just have AWB access Reedy Boy 18:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd rather prefer the second, but would like to see more input on this. MaxSem 18:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't get rid of the support for an admins section though, as many non-Wikimedia wikis aren't running the latest build and therefore don't have that variable in the source code. —METS501 (talk) 19:39, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good Point Reedy Boy 19:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: These vars exist on 1.9 (see on Wikia), and I don't think that AWB will work on even earlier versions. MaxSem 20:00, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Hmm.. I did notice on some aroudn v1.5 it couldnt get login hooks... Mets had to mod a file for me for it to work... Reedy Boy 20:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: But that would mean all bots are approved to use AWB.. Should this be allowed? Or are they going to have to match to the userlist aswell to prove they have the rights to use it...? Reedy Boy 08:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, let's wait for more discusion on this matter, but I've just committed automatic approval for admins. MaxSem 09:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admins on  checkpage 

message: Versions that are struck out are old and unavailable version. If you want to try the alpha version, please try the version at the bottom not struck out. Please report any bugs via the usual method, and enter the correct version number!
:Updated Version to match SVN Changes. AutoWikiBrowser3902r1196.zip Reedy Boy 09:19, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated to  - AutoWikiBrowser3920r1205.zip Reedy Boy 20:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: - AutoWikiBrowser3920r1209.zip Reedy Boy 08:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

text: - AutoWikiBrowser3930r1364.zip Reedy Boy 20:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: - AutoWikiBrowser3931r1390.zip Reedy Boy 19:20, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

text: - AutoWikiBrowser3932r1395.zip Reedy Boy 20:38, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alpha Versions

message: *User:RevRagnarok - Reedy Boy 09:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Will download and test using bot tomorrow or tonight. --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 20:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The devs were included mets by default ;).  is a full set of compiles - like the release Reedy Boy 22:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, should have realized that.  It all looks great!!! —METS501 (talk) 23:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

text: That doesn't really require any svn changes I think mets? Can't you just use the project files? (I presume each .sln is made up of several project files, that was how it worked in old versions anyway). --kingboyk 22:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not neccessarily, but it is only a seperate .sln file required to exlude Wikidiff2 from the solution (the file in question can be made by messing around with the .sln file in a text editor).  I've prepared an alterante solution file for Mets, and it has been committed.  Now all we need are binaries, wihch can probably be put in SVN for Wikidiff. Martinp23 22:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

text: You get copies from SVN dont you? As if so, thats fine, feel free. The intention of this was for people who didnt want/couldnt to download from SVN and build them themselves. Therefore we made extra version/releases avaliable to them! Reedy Boy 08:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest Alpha Group

message: To the devs who also have plugin svn access (Sam & Martin).
I was thinking that perhaps the plugin ought to be notched up to version 2 to go with AWB version 4?
*Improve the logging feature and make it more robust; this is mostly work within wikifunctions.dll now and it's already on the v4.0 todo list
*Finish off the code to get an article and determine if it's a stub, has an infobox, etc. That would allow the plugin to act more like a spider: get a flat list of talk pages, retrieve the article in the background, and then tag based on the article. That's a requested feature and probably enough to justify v2. Some code exists, I've been working on more, and roped Martin in to do the rest (no I haven't forgotten! :P)
*Bug fixes and feature requests
The big planned change for v2, rewriting most of the templating plugins as a "everything but the kitchen sink" generic template would probably have to wait until v3.
Thoughts? --kingboyk 14:38, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:Kingbotk/Plugin|Kingbotk plugin]]

message: Let me start off by saying that I'm in no way a talented graphic designer, but I wanted to take a shot at making a splash screen.  What do you think?  Any suggestions?
—METS501 (talk) 14:54, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I keep looking at it and I can't make my mind up. Not sure if it's minimalist and cool, or plain and crap :P --kingboyk 15:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed... Reedy Boy 18:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

text: LOL.  I won't be insulted either way :-) —METS501 (talk) 16:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The merits of the art aside, do we need a splash screen? Would it be pleasant eye candy, or a nuisance? (not rhetorical questions). --kingboyk 16:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, i mean, some just have it, and it means the program takes longer to start up - which isnt really needed... Reedy Boy 18:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, AWB does take a long time to start up already :).  A splash screen would be something nice to detract from the several seconds of "Initialising", and should reduce the percieved wait for our users. Martinp23 18:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dont know if any of you have actually used a splashscreen... But in VB/C#, it shows it before the program actually starts to load.... Therefore making it overally longer :/ Reedy Boy 18:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

text: How about where the web browser is before the first page loads?  Like while the user is doing the settings.  (Just looking to "prettify" the white space where the web browser will be and the diffs will show) :-) —METS501 (talk) 19:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds a better idea to me! Reedy Boy 19:28, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Better yes. I think splash screens are a bit passe, we'd be better off spending time making it load quicker. Something on the background when loading would be OK tho. --kingboyk 19:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually, it may be possible to display while loading.  See  for example. —METS501 (talk) 19:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah maybe, but i was saying with the inbuilt method :P Reedy Boy 20:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splash screen 

message: How about this for a more professional-looking splash screen?
—METS501 (talk) 02:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That better. Maybe take off "the". --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 02:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the "the" :-)  Otherwise it sounds awkward, to me at least. —METS501 (talk) 03:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Works for me :) Reedy Boy 09:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Looks nice. I think I'd prefer it if it were part of the background, where the web control goes, rather than a seperate window. As above, I think splash screens are a bit passe. What do others think? Can we at least try it and see how it looks? --kingboyk 15:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it in front.  Because then it's obvious that it's loading.  I don't know of a many common applications at all that doesn't have a splash screen.  It makes it look professional :-) —METS501 (talk) 16:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes it look like we can't get out an application that loads as quick as it should, imho :) It's a browser, and browsers don't have splash screens. OK, I'm not too fussed just so long as it doesn't obscure any buttons or controls which the user could be manipulating whilst waiting for the initialisation to finish. --kingboyk 16:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you to load AWB on your computer?  Because maybe I'm not seeing this the same way, because I only see the splash screen for about half a second. —METS501 (talk) 16:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm on an aging laptop, and it's well over 10 seconds. In that time (as I type now, in fact) the splash form is obscuring my screen. --kingboyk 17:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Circumvented by adding a close-on-click event handler. That's cool. :) --kingboyk 17:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Done, and a progress bar added too.  It looks great!  Tell me if the progress bar seems to approximate the progress; I can't really tell on mine because it moves so fast (not to brag (lol)) —METS501 (talk) 20:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like its properly tied in. Reedy Boy 20:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, looks good. I've added click handlers to all the controls, so if it's slow loading and I want to use the UI the splash screen can be got rid of. So, great, that's the important issue of the cosmetics taken care of :) --kingboyk 21:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: How about an option in the preferences that can permanently turn it off? ~EdBoy[c] 21:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another attempt 

message: OK, just to make sure I'm not missing something.  Now that we're using wikidiff2 to load the diffs, it seems as if we can remove quite a bit from the code.  Tell me if we can't remove any of the following:
*"Enhance diff?" checkbox in preference form and its corresponding settings value
**It seems the only code relating to it is its checkbox, the propertys for passing between forms, its thing in the preferences, and the xml load/save of it. Reedy Boy 09:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diffs 

message: I've observed that login details are stored in WebControl.Document.Cookie. Wouldn't it be easier and more rubust to grab the login name from there? --kingboyk 14:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Session ID could expire prematurely, so parsing HTML is a more reliable way, IMHO. MaxSem 17:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It could be very useful, however, to have the document.cookie as a backup.  I remember clearly that some custom wikis don't have the login name in the HTML, even when a user is logged in.  See for example http://www.wikihow.com/, which at present I cannot use AWB to edit without disabling the login script. —METS501 (talk) 01:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Max's concern is that the cookie might still indicate we're logged in, when in fact the server has logged us out. Since the cookie parsing code would be very simple to implement, and the logged out issue probably quite simple to test, perhaps you'd give it a go on that wiki? If you don't have the time I'll try to look into it but it'll be at the end of a long todo list :( --kingboyk 12:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WebControl.GetLogInStatus() 

message: Well, I made a setup binary. Some of you devs know this already. You can find it here. ~EdBoy[c] 21:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool! —METS501 (talk) 01:18, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Setup Binary 

message: Does anyone else think we still need this?
Surely the settings will have been migrated...?
Im not sure when the settings change over was, but it was a while ago.
What does anyone else think?
I know it causes no problems, im just asking, Do we still need it...?
Reedy Boy 20:45, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, we could really get rid of this now. MaxSem 14:07, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. MaxSem 14:52, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Obsolete] private void loadSettings(Stream stream) - Still needed 

message: How about a new logo and icon? MaxSem 20:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *Just throwing it out there. My image: ~ Wikihermit (HermesBot) 04:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * And another:   ~ Wikihermit (HermesBot) 05:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * (reduced indent) Here's a simple flat design I thought might be nice. I can modify it per any requests for slight changes. (Ironically, I can't use AWB in general - I run Mac OS, which is unsupported.)   Nihiltres(t.c.s) 16:03, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New logo 

message: IT'S BROKEEEEEEN! How much more rewriting is needed? I can't do bugfixes when it does not compile. MaxSem 17:12, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It compiles now, but you'd be better off using the last revision before we started (marked as last known good) if you need a guaranteed working copy, sorry. Changes can be merged back in later if you go that route. The logging code worked fine in the plugin, but AWB doesn't such have a good object model to slot it into; Sam's also working on AWBProfiles, so there's a lot of changes still afoot. It'll be worth it in the end I'm sure :) --kingboyk 23:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Don't worry Kingboyk, we're just having fun.  You're code rewrites and stuff are working great, and we're just anxious to get to work on them :-)  No rush, though. —METS501 (talk) 13:57, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BROKEEEEEEN 

message: I was look at the bug I filed and realized that the better fix would probably be to not Unicodify the lower 128 "pure ASCII" character.  The reasoning behind this would be that no sane person would type out a 4 digit code unless they need to work around a parsing problem.  This in my eyes is the more elegant solution. —Dispenser 04:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicodify bug fix 

message: I'm guessing this is a pretty urgent bug. Look at my conrtibutions from today. Some of them include "substing user messages." This should've been done by my bot, as I use it to do with with that edit summary. However, it says at bottom right corner "RBot", and I was running in bot mode. This is strange because the edit was made under my name. --R ParlateContribs@ (Red Sux!) 21:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Did it show RBot or R at the top right hand corner of the web browser - ie how you know which account you are running on when just normally browsing wikipedia? Did you use some other account changing method? Reedy Boy 07:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't look at the top right. I was however, trying to log on with VandalProof as R, which also uses components of IE. Could VandalProof have hijacked AWB to make it think RBot is still logged in, but it's really me. That would explain how I was using auto-save, but it was being logged on a non bot account. --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 11:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever account is currently logged in on Internet Explorer will be the same for what account is editing on AWB, so that may be the exact reason. It's no error, it's just conflicting with your use of VandalProof. Extranet is now  E talk 11:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, sounds like the exact problem to me! Reedy Boy 13:48, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: E, it is an error, because AWB was allowing my main account to run in automatic mode. --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps clean out your internet cache and cookies on IE? Extranet is now  E talk 06:40, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Maybe, but to get it to do that, you'd have to have a bot account to get to that anyway. And the only other way would be to say check login status every time it starts to process a page, which IMHO, is stupid as it would increase the processing time a long way.  Use IE for your bot, use FF for your normal account. Reedy Boy 09:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what I do. However, I was trying to log into vandalproof, which uses IE. --R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 20:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Couldn't AWB look for the username in the HTML source when the page is loaded and throw up a message if it changed from the authenticated one? Similar to what you do with new messages?  —Dispenser 00:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urgent Bug! 

message: Has been deleted
What are we going to do instead?
Reedy Boy 17:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can fetch the transclusions to  —METS501 (talk) 19:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Soo...  Reedy Boy 20:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

text: All done -  Reedy Boy 15:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Articles with an underscore in their title]] 

message: I was wondering if there's documentation somewhere for this dll. I run a pywikipedia bot (User:WatchlistBot) which seems to load categories and perform other tasks much more slowly than AWB. I'd like to convert it to use the AWB.dll, but don't know how to begin. Is this the right place to ask? Ingrid 02:16, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably the main talk page would be the best place to ask, or IRC. You mean wikifunctions.dll? There's plenty of reusable stuff there. The easiest way to proceed if you know C# is to download the source, I think, as it's not well documented at the moment. --kingboyk 17:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoWikiBrowser.dll 

message: Apologies for leaving you all in the lurch; the good news is that my new PC is now built and mostly configured. Once I've sorted out a backlog of personal tasks, I'll be back to help fix up the code and test for version 4. I daresay our younger contributors - which is most of them! - will be back soon too, now that exams are over or almost over, and we can get the show back on the road :) --kingboyk 17:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'll be back soon 

message: Too late for this year, but perhaps we ought to be looking for some Google funding next year from the Google Summer of Code? If the Mediawiki folks aren't currently involved, we might want to involve them too. If they are, it might make our application easier since presumably we can nominate the Wikimedia Foundation as the sponsoring organisation.
Anyrode, just some food for thought, there's plenty of time to think about it. --kingboyk 17:45, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Summer of Code 

message: Two users to watch:
*User:TTN for concerns about overtagging and mass tagging at a high rate
*User:Wizzard2k for concerns about the misunderstanding of lists and categories
—METS501 (talk) 12:32, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I originally sounded the alarm about Wizzard2k, but from this it looks like they were merely expressing themself badly: I've asked them to clarify on the request page just to make sure it's on the record. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:03, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two users 

message: The page protect function isn't working because when I commited it a while back I didn't set it to actually change the protection level, just to fill the summary in and press the protect button. If someone could fix that, it would be great. I'm on my pocket pc on a wifi connection, and I don't have access to VS or SVN commit software. Thanks! 88.14.227.127 (Mets501 not logged in) 22:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page protect 

message: IRCM's version has been changed to one
Meaning when it uses the WF UpdateWikiStatus() it says its out of date
Needs changing to work for IRCM...
Reedy Boy 20:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  IRCM 

message: If anyones having any problems reading from/writing to the AWB SVN, it could be because SF have made some changes
You can no longer connect with https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser, you must use https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser
I had to checkout a clean copy as i couldnt work out how to change the working link in TortoiseSVN
Then just put my files in and re-commited
Reedy Boy 08:41, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVN Changes 

message: I've fixed all the bugs I know about and upped the version to 4.0.0.0 as of . I'd like to invite active fellow devs  and alpha testers to seriously test this version to try and find bugs. I'm expecting some bugs to show up, but assuming there's nothing too serious we should aim to release v4 as a beta this weekend.
Features should now be frozen. Any feature requests will have to wait until the next version. --kingboyk 18:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, unless someone comes up with something really good, but as it stands, theres nothing that really needs to go in for v4 now. Reedy Boy 18:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Tweaks here and there, yes, but any major new features just puts the release date back further and further :) --kingboyk 21:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version 4 for testing 

message: The help browser is nice and all, and I've just extended it somewhat (moved base class to wf.dll and made it reusable, exposed it to plugins, various other tweaks), but is it actually any better than opening help pages in the user's default browser? Are we gonna get context sensitive help, bug report submissions, etc. etc? If not, it's arguably bloatware, and it's never gonna have the features of a standalone browser either... Thoughts? --kingboyk 17:00, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it (I made it :-)) but I wouldn't object to it being removed —METS501 (talk) 18:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help browser 

message: I tested three different types of skip, and in each case AWB skipped correctly, and added the article to the Skipped log with a correct caption. The types were: skipped by AWB ("skip on no change"), skipped by a plugin, and skipped by user hitting ignore.
--kingboyk 21:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skipping 

message: Released - 
Reedy Boy 15:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome, I just re-started my work on my own plugin (the one which will do thousands of minor edits by doing a lookup into the national register) and this version plus the CFD plugin SVN allowed me to hammer together my now functioning plugin. Great stuff from you guys! --Stalfur 01:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. Keep us updated on that please, sounds interesting. --kingboyk 21:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The list of changes made my AWB (run on a bot account due to popular demand of other users) is here, there around 3300+ entries marked as laga þjóðskrá (fixing register) are the result of doing a lookup into a mysql database for that particular name and adjusting the number of currently living people who have that name as their first or latter (second/third...) given name. It's a simple regex exercise really and a simple mysql-query but AWB gave me the platform to build it on. I am thinking of extending it to regenerate the timeline code also present in most pages (where more than 0 have the name), I will probably run this on a yearly basis from now on. --Stalfur 09:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB v4 Alpha 

message: Should we be packaging the text of the GNU General Public License along with the program executables? Especially since this message is in all of the source code:
—METS501 (talk) 18:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As per IRC. Agreed. Now added to SVN for inclusion in releases. Reedy Boy 19:45, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU General Public License 

message: IMHO, we need to try and really clear down the bug list. I know we've got a few major(ish) problems, one with the wikidiff error during most diff's, and the other being the unviewable area... Its getting quite a backlog! Wheres MaxSem when you need him. He's usually pretty good at fixing bugs :( Reedy Boy 11:14, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bugs and other problems 

message: The way the special filter is currently implemented in regard to finding difference and intersection of given lists is very inefficient. Sorting the list first and using binary search is asymptotically faster. Here is the code:
private bool BinarySearch(ListBox2.ObjectCollection list, Article article, int low, int high)
{
    if (high < low)
        return false;
    int mid = (low + high) / 2;
    // using current culture
    CompareInfo ci = new CultureInfo(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name).CompareInfo;
    if (ci.Compare(list[mid].ToString(), article.ToString(), CompareOptions.StringSort) > 0)
        return BinarySearch(list, article, low, mid - 1);
    else if (ci.Compare(list[mid].ToString(), article.ToString(), CompareOptions.StringSort) < 0)
        return BinarySearch(list, article, mid + 1, high);
    else
        return true;
}
private void FilterList()
{
    // has to be sorted so binary search can work
    lbRemove.Sorted = true;
    if (cbOpType.SelectedIndex == 0)
    {
        // find difference
        List<Article> list2 = new List<Article>();
        foreach (Article a in list)
            if (!BinarySearch(lbRemove.Items, a, 0, lbRemove.Items.Count - 1))
                list2.Add(a);
        list = list2;
    }
    else
    {
        // find intersection
        List<Article> list2 = new List<Article>();
        foreach (Article a in list)
            if (BinarySearch(lbRemove.Items, a, 0, lbRemove.Items.Count - 1))
                list2.Add(a);
        list = list2;
    }
}
Jogers (talk) 11:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers - . Must have been really old Bluemoose code. Reedy Boy 11:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tweaked it a bit - all comparisons should be culture-independent because MediaWiki does not consider titles Messner and Meßner equal, for example. MaxSem 13:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But it produces different outputs for certain characters. It is important that the comparisons are made in the same fashion as in the Sort method of ListBox class. It seems to be current culture instead of invariant one. Jogers (talk) 13:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, when I made an intersection of :Category:WikiProject Albums articles and pages transcluding  it was 55770 articles for current culture (exactly the same list as in version 4.0.0.0) but only 55730 pages for invariant culture. Jogers (talk) 14:12, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. I fixed it in . MaxSem 14:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

text: It doesn't work properly again since . The CompareTo method in the Article class has to have exactly the same comparison scheme as BinarySearch. Please fix it. Jogers (talk) 13:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, sorry - I've gotta study .NET harder. Reverted. MaxSem 14:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad we finally got it working. This could be improved even further but I don't want to bother you all the time. How about registering me as a developer? I could do some tweaks from time to time. Jogers (talk) 14:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, what's your Sourceforge login? MaxSem 15:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The same as here. Jogers (talk) 15:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. Should be fine to commit to SVN now. Welcome onboard! A lot of the code has been "simplified" between 3.9 and v4, but im sure there is much more that can be overhauled. Feel free to do fix bugs/add features as you want ;) Reedy Boy 15:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you :-) Jogers (talk) 15:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be good having another developer who has some time to put into AWB :). Note to all AWB Users, from the next release, all bugs are Jogers fault ;) Reedy Boy 15:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More efficient difference and intersection 

message: I'm totally stumped with Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Bottom Frame doesn't show. Anyone have any ideas? —METS501 (talk) 13:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There must be a reason behind it. There was no real changes with the designer between 3.9/3.9.1 and 4... And some of the resolutions it should work fine... /me wonders if its something to dowith the way AWB saves state and window sizes in the registry.... But then again, why would it cause problems. What did you do to duplicate it again? Reedy Boy 14:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried setting my monitor to 800x600, but it doesn't work any more (well, it works correctly, but not the way we want it to work for testing :-)) —METS501 (talk) 14:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm... We've got some other resolutions looking funny according to some users... But we really need to test the tweaks that have been made to it.... Reedy Boy 14:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bottom Frame doesn't show 

message: See . —METS501 (talk) 18:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And probably position... Not sure on the anchors.... Reedy Boy 19:33, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand edit box 

message: We're going to have the same problem of the updater causing problems and people possibly not being able to use it to update
As a work around, i'd ideally like to be able to change it so that it downloaded a .cs file from the internet, compiled it, and ran it. Meaning tweaks and changes can be implemented for the updates - Users wouldnt have problems of it having errors from changed links and such.
I'd presume this is fairly feasible... In the same sort of way that the DotNetWikiBot does it.
If we could do this for the 4.1 release, I think it would be great.
I'll look at doing it, but if anyone has any ideas/easy way to do it
Reedy Boy 17:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would need reference to the csc.exe.. But that isnt in the PATH Variable... And depending on peoples .NET patch levels, it could be in different places... Wonder if it could be done in a similar way to that of the AWB Modules...? Reedy Boy 19:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Scrap all that. The reason for the problem was that v4 Package had the "Plugin\Kingbotk" folder, not "Plugin\Kingbotk (Wikiproject tagging)". My Bad. Reedy Boy 19:55, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB Updater 

message: OK, since we started working on performance. I've added a crude profiler, here are the first results:
 Started profiling: ProcessPage("Alexandria")
   Initial skip checks: 0
   Custom module: 0
   Plugins: 0
   Unicodify: 750
   Images: 0
   Categories: 0
   F&R: 0
   Typos: 0
   Auto-tagger: 0
   HideText: 0
   FixHeaderErrors: 750
   SetDefaultSort: 46
   FixCategories: 15
   FixImages: 15
   FixSyntax: 62
   FixTemperatures: 0
   FixMainArticle: 2671
   FixEmptyLinksAndTemplates: 15
   FixLinks: 500
   BulletExternalLinks: 15
   Links: 0
   Metadata: 1515
   End of general fixes: 15
What can we say? regexMainArticle is painfully slow, metadata sorting needs some revamping, too. MaxSem 20:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So are the numbers time in milliseconds? Reedy Boy 20:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. I've already fixed the regex, but other parts also need looking at. MaxSem 20:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dev/Profiles - Reedy Boy 21:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interwiki extraction has been sped up, now we have two bottlenecks: Parsers.FixLinks and HideText.HideMoreText/UnHideMoreText. MaxSem 10:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Certainly moving in the right direction Max. :) Reedy Boy 10:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some big drops there. This may be old code that we're no longer writing that way, but if there's any lessons learnt it might be a good idea to document them perhaps on /dev. Then we won't get the inefficient ways creeping back in :) I'd always thought that IE was the bottleneck, quite surprised to see these figures... --kingboyk 11:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance 

message: Well, IMHO, its been a fairly successful beta, yeah, bugs were found, but nothing more than is usually found during a normal AWB release cycle.
MaxSem, as we know is starting to overhaul the code again, and there has been quite a lot thats gone into the current SVN version - Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/History, bug fixes, feature requests, and such
So this would be not right IMHO, to call the next release 4.0.0.1 or 4.0.0.1, so im sorta proposing, that the next version is 4.1 - Not beta
Opinions?
Reedy Boy 16:05, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We need to test many things before new release, and fix some problems, too. Maybe, next week? MaxSem 16:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats what i was thinking. I knew it wouldnt be today, but i didnt think it would be too far off. Reedy Boy 18:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: /me begs the devs to either take out the beta message or make a "don't show this again" box. It's so annoying! :). --(Review Me) R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 19:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was there for a reason... But no serious bugs have been found yet. I'll disable it! Reedy Boy 19:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea.  I had forgotten about the message altogether :-)  And I agree, 4.1.0.0 is a good version. —METS501 (talk) 21:56, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Sounds good. Its no biggy :). Its more just trying to keep people up to date, and us know whats going on Reedy Boy 18:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rewriting done, more testing needed. MaxSem 15:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Im currently testing it. Seems fine atm Reedy Boy 17:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I think, the only thing that really needs checking/sorting out for the next release, is the Updater.. See below for more info... Reedy Boy 19:06, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next AWB Release 

message: I added an edit toolbar in  which incorporates some icons that are under the GFDL.  How should we deal with the license? (I know they're allowed to be reused, but how can we credit their authors?) —METS501 (talk) 22:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We should really make a seperate copyright list and include it... Notifying stuff like that - And that bot image for example. Ie where (site), license, etc etc Reedy Boy 23:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For simplicity we can just use something similar licensed under GPL from here, or I could try to draw something myself. MaxSem 05:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit toolbar copyright question 

message: I have a question: Lupin's navigation popups allow a "popup" to show when hovering over a link.  Can something like this be done in .NET (when hovering over a textbox, for example)?  What is it even called in the first place? :-) —METS501 (talk) 00:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a bit like tooltips.. Just like steve found, they have a text limit... :/ Reedy Boy 18:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popup on hover 

message: I think, for 4.1, we should try and migrate the rest of the things that use query.php to api.php
I'll make a start... There isnt that many uses of it, it seems.
Reedy Boy 20:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mets has done the GetLists ones - Just GetUserInfo() and GetHistory now to do :) Reedy Boy 09:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. AWB is now query.php free :) Reedy Boy 12:19, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query.php --> api.php 

message: What do you guys think? I think we're ready for another release. —METS501 (talk) 19:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. I've used the new regextypofix quite a bit, with no seen problems... Might aswell IMHO... Reedy Boy 20:53, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release? 

message: Theres one of 2 reasons for this
# AWB 4.1 is just really buggy
# The new error handler is bringing up/showing the user more exceptions than just the previously unhandled ones
Im presuming the latter, based on some of the bug reports - I wish users would just elaborate a bit!! 
Reedy Boy 08:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably because it's much easier to report an exception now. Jogers (talk) 11:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.. It seems to be - ie one of the bugs was related to being unable to load the page - Presumabably relaetd to a connection problem or similar! Reedy Boy 11:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Increased number of bugs... 

message: Just thinking, when we get a couple more of these bug fixes sorted, may be worth releasing a 4.1.1.0 or 4.1.0.2 or something to that affect. Due to a couple of broken features and such that im sure users would probably want to use! Reedy Boy 13:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug fix Release 

message: Hey Guys,
Remember to fill out the Changelog/History when you make svn commits.
Unless its very minor things. But anything of interest, please add it
Cheers!
Reedy Boy 11:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK :-) Jogers (talk) 11:18, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers! Just makes others lives easier, as its not always overly clear from edit summaries/the code changes, what it actually does. That way, its at least recorded in a fashion! Reedy Boy 12:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changelog 

message: I've just added this requested feature and set the maximum number of newlines to 10. It's completely arbitrary so feel free to change it. Jogers (talk) 20:35, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sometimes. I used to, before it got busy. Up to you :) Reedy Boy 21:52, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  prepend text tunning feature 

message: I updated to the latest version of AWB (4.1.1) (sorry i had updated and forgot that it was 4.1.1), and the GUI is still a little off. I can see the status bar now, but I still can't see below the line of 'skip if contains' dputig07 17:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was having a similar problem with 4.0, and updating to 4.1.1.0 did not help. Here is a screenshot.  Plasticup T/C 17:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 4.1.1.0 was a bugfix release, but wasnt a bugfix to fix that - Just some other code related issues. The cause of it is still weird... Reedy Boy 17:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I had asked a couple people who had been having the problem in 4.0 to upgrade to at least 4.1.0.0 and test it out; I did get rid of the split-container in 4.1.0.0. If you were wondering why the seemingly randomly posted here :-) —METS501 (talk) 18:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's also weird, because in the screenshot it looks like everything is zoomed in or something.  Except the icons about the edit box, they seem to be the only thing not zoomed in so they no longer touch each other.  Dputig07 or Plasticup: do either of you know how to grab the latest SVN version and compile it?  If you do, can you compile it yourselves and then tell us if you have the same problem?  Also if you could check out the display in VC# (when you open main.cs before compiling) and tell us if it has the problem too that would be great. Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 18:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the svn, how do i actually grab it? dputig07 18:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a bit complex.  We've put instructions on the main AWB page at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#Getting the sources. Thanks so much for helping, even if you can't do it in the end. —METS501 (talk) 18:38, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  working on it... dputig07 18:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Title text looks larger... Its either Resolution or something to do with people's themes... Reedy Boy 18:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: still working on it, i do know that previous to awb 4.0, i didn't have the cutoff problem and i haven't done anything to my resolution or theme dputig07 18:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know that in 3.9 i added the split container (there was some reasoning for doing so, just cant remember what - . Then 3.9.1 was released to fix a bug related to it... But that doesnt explain why v4 was funny when 3.9 wasnt Reedy Boy 19:04, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: i technically have 4.1.1.1, I double clicked on main.cs and i get the big error i get is 
Object of type 'WikiFunctions.AWBSettings.LoggingPrefs' cannot be converted to type 'WikiFunctions.AWBSettings.LoggingPrefs'. 
Hide     
at System.ComponentModel.ReflectPropertyDescriptor.SetValue(Object component, Object value)
at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomSerializerBase.DeserializeAssignStatement(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, CodeAssignStatement statement)
at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomSerializerBase.DeserializeStatement(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, CodeStatement statement)
so i cant load the designer  - dputig07 19:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Lol, we get that too. Not overly sure. Closing and reopening it at times helps! Reedy Boy 20:03, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: this is why i decided not to go into development for a living, but i am working on a theory, i am not sure , but here's what i seem to be experiencing, i would assume that all the features do not locate relative to each other, they stay locked even though the window is resized, so hence the overlap when awb gui is contracted, and the height of the overall application is over 800, which i think is taller than most laptop/normal desktop computer screens. could this be it, or am i full of it???? -dputig07 20:08, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: after messing with the overall size a bit (down to 606), the white area in the IDE is very skinny and the options at the bottom overtake the screen but the display look normal again when executed -dputig07 20:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: The minimum size was set so, that for example, on my machine, at least, at the smallest size, the bottom area is fully viewable, and the web browser shrinks and contracts. Reedy Boy 20:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a widescreen laptop so theoretically, shouldn't the current version not cut off the bottom? o well, at least i know how to manipulate parts of awb, thanks-dputig07 20:56, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesnt help other people. Now that you've got it working for yourself, can you save it, and then visit the AWB directory. If you look, you should see some files with exclamation marks on them in red. Most likely, it will be called Main.Designer.cs. Right click on it, press SVN commit. A new window should come up, with the file checked in the bottom window. Right click it, and select "Show differences as unified diff". It should open a text file. Post the contents of that on here for us please. Reedy Boy 21:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Damn, that was big.  I've removed it because it was seriously kill loading times; if you're curious what it was, check out this revision.  I don't think it can do much help though, because I can't go through all of those millions of changes :-) Reedy? —METS501 (talk) 03:29, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dontya just love the VS Designer - Its got a habit of doing that at times. You make minor changes, and it moves loads of code round. You can get it to use taht diff.... Errm Reedy Boy 08:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

text: the changes i made to it was to make the height of the overall gui around 600 instead of 800, sorry for the length, there, less than 5 lines instead of 3000 -dputig07 04:46, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

text: - I made a few tweaks to fix the truncated bottom (just increased panel size). Can you just checkout that revision for me, and tell me if it still looks alright? Thanks! Reedy Boy 08:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's strange. Any time I make a change in the Main in design mode (even changing a single label in the properties tab) many changes from rev 1964 are automatically reverted when I click save. Jogers (talk) 11:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Theres got to be something that is causing it all to move about strangely.... /me wonders if its loggingsettings....? Reedy Boy 19:29, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My thinking being, it seems to cause various other problems aswell... Reedy Boy 19:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Do you experience it too? Jogers (talk) 14:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not when i tried last night. But i have many times before today, in versions > 3.9... Reedy Boy 14:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See . Jogers (talk) 15:01, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. At least its just position movers... Rather than it moving around huge blocks of code for no reason! Reedy Boy 15:07, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Now reporting as fixed! Reedy Boy 11:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GUI Display

message: Hi Guys,
Just to let you all know, i've done a lot of automated code refactoring using 
Its not really changing the code, just changing things to match coding guidelines and such
I'll do a few different commits to bring it all up to scratch!
Reedy Boy 16:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{awbsvn|1702}} 

message: ErrorHandler.cs is great but we don't really want users to submit bug reports when they just typed invalid regex like here. How do you think this should be handled? Something like MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Invalid regular expression");? Jogers (talk) 18:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably some of them do need changing, that is true. I think Max just changed them all to the error handler to standardise it a bit Reedy Boy 19:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about ? Jogers (talk) 19:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Im sure there are a few other similar cases that should be catered for similarily - Just need to watch out for them on the bug page. Reedy Boy 23:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error handling in case of invalid regexes 

message: I think we should probably be thinking about putting this out soon. Most of the bugs have been cleared up, and potentially, the designer bug has been fixed
Anyone else?
Reedy Boy 23:11, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure. The progress bar in the database scanner doesn't work as it ought to yet but it's a minor issue. Jogers (talk) 12:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, its marked as in progress, not finished anyway ;) Reedy Boy 12:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Im just grabbing a dump now, so i can help with this, and that special filter bug thingymabob Reedy Boy 13:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is why a blank line appears in search results. Jogers (talk) 13:20, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We can hack round it... if (article.Name.Trim() != "") AddToResults(article); Or something ;). You should visit IRC jogers if you can :) Reedy Boy 13:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK :-) Jogers (talk) 13:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next bugfix Release - 4.1.2.0 

message: Im thinking should come out soon - Again as another bugfix release.
Couple of changes... Might aswell push them out to users!
Reedy Boy 21:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  4.1.3.0 

message: I'm "poking a developer" as it says I should on the approval page. Don't know know if this is the right place to do it but here it is.
*poke*
Cnbrb 15:19, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done :) Reedy Boy 19:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  *poke* 

message: I was having display issues with 4.0.0.0 (right side and bottom not showing, etc.).  I finally had some time to download the newest version, and it seems to be fixed.  Of course, in the meantime, I reformatted my HD and changed my resolution, but it's working at any rate.  Thought I'd let you know!  —  MusicMaker5376 18:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers - The latest release seemed to fix it for most people.. Seems to have possible broken it for one person. Cheers for letting us know! Reedy Boy 19:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Display issues 

message: else if (ex.GetType().ToString().Equals("System.OutOfMemoryException"))
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Out of Memory error",
                    MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            }
Can someone add that into the ErrorHandler.cs for me?
Its just an extra handler for OutOfMemoryException - Just stick before the else.
I'll add it when i get home if no one gets round to it, so if you cant, dont worry - Its more for me, so i dont have to type it again...
Reedy Boy 11:02, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Woo. Go me - , commited via unix command line from my dreamhost account =) Reedy Boy 13:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error Handler Addition 

message: I was looking at this feature request again, to do it, would be fairly simple
There are a few ways to do it
#Duplicate CFD plugin for an image one, and make it work with images
#Expand out the CFD plugin to work for images too - Just gives an extra file
#Bring the CFD plugin into AWB/WF (Why is it seperate anyway, Max? My thinking was that it was a plugin example?). Removes a seperate file... And gives easier expansion of the code into AWB. It could then work with/replace the sigular category/image add/remove/replace
What is anyone elses opinion?
Reedy Boy 13:02, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably, #2 is preferrable over #1. As of #3, I designed this feature for bots only and didn't wanted it to be available by default, fearing edit warriors and so on. MaxSem 20:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. It keeps the functionality seperate. I'll add it as an extra project then somepoint soon! A duplicate and replace/update should be enough Reedy Boy 20:27, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

text: - Done Reedy Boy 18:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#More_than_one_image_or_category|Multi Image delete/Replace...]] 

message: Wondering if it would be worth including startup parameters
So users can have shortcuts, then have like AutoWikiBrowser.exe -f "project.xml" - And AWB would load that xml file, instead of default.xml...?
Opinions?
Reedy Boy 12:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, definitely. This would allow users to have several shortcuts for different tasks. Very good idea! Jogers (talk) 12:53, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does give the future potential to also tell it to login with profile x... Reedy Boy 15:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would also be very convenient. Jogers (talk) 16:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nearly done... Will commit in a bit and report back here :) Reedy Boy 18:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

text: - Done both settings file AND user profile. Seems to work fine. Needs testing before next release. Will document in User manual so people can test it. Reedy Boy 19:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual#Startup_Parameters Reedy Boy 19:11, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Startup Parameters 

message: It sometimes does, if its had a while... I think it must be related to some page it hasnt updated/loaded...
It should be simplish to fix.. Im just having a hard time doing so...
Any ideas?
Reedy Boy 15:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Logged_in_user_at_bottom_right_still_not_updating|Logged in user at bottom right still not updating]] 

message: :From my talk page: —METS501 (talk) 20:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: is the commit to supposedly fix it... Reedy Boy 20:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting 

message: This little thingie detects possible flaws in code. Of course, it's reports are full of bullshit such as "don't expose fields" or "don't use underscores in identifiers" which even M$ doesn't follow, but some checks are quite useful. I started to work on these suggestions in  and could even put the FxCop project into SVN (though it's over a megabyte). MaxSem 20:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: May be interesting to see what it does. I did start doing something like this a while back with CodeIt.Right -  Reedy Boy 20:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[FxCop]] 

message: Hi guys.  Just letting you know that I'm sorry I haven't been able to help out with AWB recently, but in a month or so I'll have much more free time so I can help again.  There is good news though: part of my course load at school is a programming course, so hopefully when I return to help I'll be better than ever! :-) (Granted, the course is in java, but most of it carries over very nicely except for a few syntax changes and various other differences) —METS501 (talk) 04:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, C# and java are very syntax similar. I'd hedge bets that you werent learn much anything than a new language ;). I'm 4 weeks into my Uni course, i've not learnt anything programming wise... Reedy Boy 08:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Me 

message: Just want to make a point, that im doing a huge tagging run with AWB.
Done nearly 300 edits so far, and over 1100 skips, 45Mb of memory, and 77Mb of VM
Quite a bit better than it was before =)
Reedy Boy 11:41, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Didnt realise before, some of the memory usage was included in VS, as i was running it via that. After running most of the afternoon, using 100mb total memory, and 300mb VM. Reedy Boy 17:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that bad? MaxSem 17:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. Would seem a hell of alot better than it was before :) Reedy Boy 18:14, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well done MaxSem :D 

message: Next bugfix to be released this weekend? As 4.1.4.0? As its more bug fixes, than new stuff... Hmm...
Quite a lot of tweaks, improvements (code from FXCop), etc etc
Oh, and whoever does it, make sure you full disable the "Watch" button to use the Ajaxy method - It is broken!
Reedy Boy 22:22, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to see the bracket bug fixed first, though I don't know how to do it efficiently. MaxSem 15:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Next Release