Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 1

message: I would love to try out the new AutoWikiBrowser and provide feedback on it. Send an email to floresg2 AT gmail.com. Thank you. Gflores Talk 22:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm interested 

message: I would like to try this out also it looks a lot friendlier than the pywiki framework --Kaiserb 00:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Me Too 

message: Anyone interested can download it here, bear in mind that it is a development version! Martin 09:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that an installer, or a self-contained executable? —Phil | Talk 12:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Self-contained executable. Gflores Talk 16:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Downloadable 

message: You auto-thingy wasn't just doing a recat in this edit . You can see that it also added a space after the initial asterisk in lists (which is unnecessary), and also doing some other changes that I couldn't figure out what they were (removing spaces?). BlankVerse 22:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed some white space, and added some spaces to the bullet points to make the wiki text more readable at the same time as re-cating, whats weird about that? Martin 23:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I'd never seen your edits before yesterday, I decided to look at one today. Instead of the expected re-cat, the dif shows a whole bunch of changes plus the re-cat. That's why it looked weird to me. BlankVerse 23:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, among other improvements I am making more descriptive edit summaries easier ;) Also I think I won't bother with the very very minor edits from now on anyway. Martin 23:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  weird edits? 

message: The bot works quite well.  The only issues I have had is when a blank page loads i.e. image with no tag.  The bot carries the information from the previous edit and trys to fill in the blank page. —  KaiserB 23:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I hadn't noticed that, I'll try and get it fixed soon. Martin 23:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works well 

message: 300px|right|Screenshot showing problem
I suspect that this is a problem I have encountered before, whereby I can't see the stuff right at the bottom of the AWB window; there's no scroll bar so I simply can't get at it.
My windows toolbar is double-height, to allow more stuff to be displayed in the "clock" area, and to allow more window buttons.
You can see a sliver of the top of my toolbar right at the bottom of the screenshot.
I suspect that AWB positions its buttons either relative to the top of the window, or based on incorrect information as to where the bottom of the window actually lies.
It's really frustrating, since this looks like an excellent tool…I'd like to see and use all of it 
In the meantime, I've a couple of questions:
* There are no access keys: "Make list" could be "Make list" maybe…
* Tools→Options does nothing for me: should it?
* There's a new tab: what does "messaging" do?
* What are the "general fixes"? Can we pick and choose?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: p.s. You'll need the newest version for it to work. Martin 12:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't see the bottom of the window 

message: I came across a user's signature which had been broken by the brief outage of HTML Tidy a while back, and I thought that it would provide an ideal exercise for me to get to know AWB.
However, AWB doesn't seem to be able to find the broken text, even here when I can see it right there in the textbox!
The text in question is:
 [[User_talk:Admrboltz|<sup>=/\=</sup>]]
and I was attempting to replace it with:
 =/\=
(note that in the wikitext I have had to double-escape the first version: the second version is actually the broken one which is rendering just fine here :-).
Are there some settings I should be tweaking?
Should I be double-escaping the HTML entities like I had to just above?
—Phil | Talk 14:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: hmmm it was because it has an \ in it, which the AWB interpreted as an escape sequence I think, so I escaped the escape sequence by sticking another \ into the "find" and it was OK. I'll work out how to fix it, hopefully it won't be a problem in the mean time. Martin 14:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, on second thought it's pretty good needing to escape some characters; it means the search can be much more advanced. Martin 16:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Yeah I found that as well, I didnt realise that it would treat it like a range, but I guess I could call it a new feature! Martin 16:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search limitations? 

message: I just discovered you have to take great care sometimes…
I was searching for:
 Box of Delights
which I had just turned into a REDIRECT, so I could short-circuit it.
I fetched the list of "links to" articles and told AWB to replace that with:
 The Box of Delights
which is the proper article.
Imagine my horrified interest when the first article appeared with every single instance of "?]]" replaced with The Box of Delights:
it was obviously treating the [ ] like a character range.
But I didn't have "Is regex" selected: should it really be doing this?
If that option is switched off, shouldn't it treat the string as completely raw?
It works fine, BTW, if you use
 \[\[Box of Delights]]
(which obviously won't work now 'cos I've been and gone and done it :-)
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I found that as well, I didnt realise that it would treat it like a range, but I guess I could call it a new feature! Martin 16:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: More escaping

message: For the option, 'Ignore if contains:', is that only for the title of the page or for anything in the article? Also, is there a way to add several entries (like User: Wikipedia: talk:), basically I just want the main article namespace. 
Secondly, I think this tool would be great for disambiguating links, but I really don't know how that would function in the program. Perhaps using the what links here option, and somehow getting a list of links from the term's disambiguation page (or the person could just create this in notepad), then the person could enter some link to disambiguate in the search field and AWB will search for it in the small textarea and perhaps highlight it. Upon which, the user will change the link to point to its appropriate location. I don't know that may be difficult to implement. If I'm not being clear, let me know. I'm way too tired right now. BTW, can't wait for the local text file support. Thanks. Gflores Talk 04:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It ignores article text, to seperate main space; sort them alphabetically then remove them from the list. Martin 08:58, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I will add regex to the "ignore if contains" as well so you can search for as much or as little as you like. I am also working on a filter to leave only main space articles, but it is easy to do it manually so its not a big priority. Martin 09:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Is it possible to preview the effect of manual changes?
I'm not that confident in my typing to be certain I always get it right first time…
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 08:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I initially had a preview, but it caused problems, I'll work on it. Martin 09:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previewing manual changes 

message: So I haven't a bot account, but I would like to have AWB sit in the background, touching a whole list of articles, fixing "links to" issues for updated templates.
Can I set it to go off at 1 minute intervals, just wandering down the list of articles?
What's the best way to make sure it just touches, doing nothing substantive at all?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 09:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: turn all the options off. Martin 15:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slow auto-touch 

message: I would like to delink solitary years e.g. 2005. But I need to avoid years if they are not solitary. I have been searching for 'in 2005' and ' of 2005' but that is laborious. Presumably I can make use of regex to avoid ']] 2005' and ']], 2005' etc.
I know that you are not a regex helpdesk but could you let me know how regex find square brackets and how it does ignore? Bobblewik 10:05, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regex 

message: I would like the option to be able to inhibit adding articles to my watchlist.
If it were possible to preserve the current situation (i.e. only "add" them if I am already watching), that would be great.
In the meantime, I'm hoping that, despite the abjurations not to click in the browser pane, if I untick "add to watchlist" it will be respected 
HTH HAND Phil | Talk 10:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Just clicking that wont cause any problems. Martin 15:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like AWB to take care of it, so that I could just set it off ticking away in the background: maybe it could be an option in the menu? Of course, this issue of side-effects in other applications might need some attentnion before I can do that :-( HTH HAND Phil | Talk 12:57, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Interacting with the webpage is difficult, no one I asked had any idea how to do it, getting text from the edit form is not to bad, "clicking" the save and diff buttons is a bit of a hack, but I have yet to master how to check and uncheck the tickboxes. Martin 13:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a while since I managed any serious VBA programming, and I stopped doing it for money shortly before VB.NET arrived, but I might be able to help (if only to make some really obvious observations and make sure every base has been covered :-). Is the source code anywhere I could take a peek? How do you get the text out of the edit form? Could that be modified to access the other "controls" on the web-page? —Phil | Talk 15:11, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Getting text from a form is quite easy when you know how; something like webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpTextbox1").InnerText. To be honest I havent looked into this issue that much, I had other priorities (such as getting the "preview" button etc. ) now that's done, I'll give it some more thought. I doubt anyone other than myself could understand the source as it needs to be tidied up a lot and noted properly ;( If there is anything specific you want to know, just ask though! I know that when I find the answer it will be simple, such as the code is above. thanks Martin 15:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, ive worked it out now ;) Martin 16:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume that it would be something along the lines of (very roughly) webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpWatchthis").Checked=False. How wrong am I? Phil | Talk 16:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Along the right lines, c# sees it as an element with properties, so you have to set the properties like webBrowser.Document.GetElementById("wpMinoredit").SetAttribute(string attributeName, string value); Martin 16:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add to Watch-list 

message: I note that there is now an option to "add to watchlist".
Actually what I need is the opposite:
I already have this option set in my Preferences.
What I want is the option that the pages I deal with through AWB not show up in my watchlist unless I specifically say so.
Sorry to be a pest, but would this be difficult now you've figured out how to control that check-box?
—Phil | Talk 10:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Inhibit adding 

message: Yikes!
I think I just discovered that the editing box doesn't use the standard "Ctrl-X = cut" shortcut:
I tried "cutting" out some text to move it down a line and AWB dropped out.
What was really disturbing is the fade effect you seem to have applied: for a significant number of seconds it gave the impression that this machine had blown several fuses.
Maybe you could put something into those "Options" you left blank, and inhibiting the fade-out could be the first…
So what is permissible for editing in that box?
—Phil | Talk 11:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll change quit to cntr-q instead, like I said I never use the keyboard shortcuts so I didnt know it was cut as well. thanks Martin 15:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Startling drop-out when attempting to cut/paste 

message: AWB seems to be affecting other applications when it's working.
If I send it off to fetch a page for processing, and switch to another application during the pause, I seem to be getting an "enter" keystroke being spontaneously generated which is making my other application do stuff.
Is this a side-effect of how AWB works?
If so, can it be stopped?
Please?
—Phil | Talk 09:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah I need to work out a better way of calling the save and diff buttons. Martin 15:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affecting other applications 

message: If you add more entries to the list of articles, AWB should check whether an entry is already there and not add it twice.
(As a side-comment, I've had some interesting phenomena when removing items from the list, but I'm unable to reproduce them: removed items staying put, selections becoming multiple, random stuff. I'll let you know if it recurs.)
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 13:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get around to it. Martin 15:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Martin 22:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't add duplicate entries to list 

message: Whenever I use this program I get a wierd bug. See the screencap. Broken S 19:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a problem with Internet Explorer (hence the error "Internet explorer script error" ;) ), there is something I can do to avoid it though (I think). thanks Martin 20:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I have disabled script errors now (v0.85), I imagine that will keep it happy, (thanks btw!) Martin 20:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep that fixed it, thanks for the quick response. Now it's even better. Broken S 20:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Actualy, it's still doing it (now it's not doing it when I generate lists)...oh well. Broken S 20:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured it out, I understand, never mind me. Broken S 20:16, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug?

message: While doing a touch run (doing null edits) to update the list of used templates in articles I noticed that AWB on redirects opens the redirect page and not the target page of the redirect (Example Plzen). For this specific kind of run I would have needed that AWB opens the target page, not the redirect page. I made the list from the "What links here" of template:if. – Adrian | Talk 13:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Martin 22:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects 

message: You should really consider releasing the source code to the AutoWikiBrowser. That way, other people can help improve it! :) --Ixfd64 10:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe one day, I need to clean up the code first. Martin 10:02, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  release the source code? 

message: I think it is letting me edit even if my username isn't on the approved list (I checked it using another one of my accounts). Broken S 22:04, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems ok to me, It only checks on start up. Martin 22:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: oh, yeah I switched it to another user account in the middle. Broken S 22:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: User approved list

message: This is an awesome tool. I have one request for isntruction (or a feature request...): I tried setting the "New category" to a blank box, but it's too clever. Is there a way I can carry out a blanket category removal without replace? -Splashtalk 22:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal cats altogether? 

message: AWB just failed to load Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland:
it wants to load Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland instead (I've made the latter REDIRECT to the former).
I copied that first link from the text-box having removed the entry from the list.
There is obviously some translation problem between the list-box and the browser control.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Its an annoying problem, so far I havent been able to narrow down the problem, or reproduce it at all in such a way as to make the problem visible. Thankfully it only affects very few articles. Martin 19:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Not in my version of IE (IE6.0.2900.2180) it doesn't. I shift-clicked on that first edit URL and the correct page came up just fine: interestingly the URL in the address bar remains the same. The second URL does the same (although obviously showing the different URL in the address bar). So there's obviously something cronky going down :-( Phil | Talk 13:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Try typing the URLs into the browser (or copy and pasting at least), that has a different result to clicking on the link, which further indicates that something fishy is going on. It doesnt affect all pages with unusual fonts in the title so it isnt a massive problem. Martin 13:42, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BUG: Unicode limitations? 

message: The date delinking regex has a lot of 'misses'. It is difficult to distinguish between 11 January 2005 and January 2005, so I simply avoid consecutive links. Thus it will delink the January but it leaves the 2005 intact. There are many other permutations that I miss with the huge regex. Unless I do all articles twice, there are lots of misses.
If it operated sequentially, I could do a lot more. For example, it could tackle day, month, decade, century links first. I do not have to check for consecutive links in those cases. Then if it did another search of the same article, a search for year links could be more focussed and effective.
I expect that it AutoWikiBrowser simply has a huge regex. But I don't actually know what it does. Does it, or could it, go through the article more than once? Bobblewik 23:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no huge regex, the one I copied from you is the biggest one. It can a run through an article as many times as you want. If you create the regexes you want to use then I can implement them resonably easily. Martin 23:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fantastic! Thanks. Bobblewik 00:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am not sure how AutoWikiBrowser works. Can you advise? 

message: Would it be a bad idea to make a "lite" version (with limited features) for people without authorization? --Ixfd64 02:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can cycle through articles quickly it is a good tool to vandalise with, and if I disabled that then it wouldnt really have any benefit. thanks Martin 09:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  another suggestion: AWB "lite" 

message: The article In The End: Live & Rare just came up for processing, but AWB can't deal with it.
It keeps trying to load the article In The End: Live which obviously gives it gyp.
The list contains "In The End: Live & Rare" which doesn't necessarily help: fixing it did nothing.
Another encoding problem?
HTH HAND Phil | Talk 15:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Same bug as above, I've done a brute force fix, so it will work in the next release. Martin 16:20, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BUG: another limitation 

message: How difficult would it be to arrange that we could search/replace more than one thing at a time?
I'm thinking that it would be nice if we could do these at the same time, maybe as a side-effect of other stuff:
* — → "—"
* – → "–"
* … → "…"
* → → "→"
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 18:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Can those changes always be made? if so I'll add it to general fixes or maybe as another option. Martin 19:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what would be nice would be if the "general fixes" could be presented as an option list, available from the "Options" menu, so that we could pick/choose which we wanted to apply at any given time: I've been wondering exactly what was involved in this, and I gerenally simply switch it off. You could have a little table of "entity replacements" like the above to which we could add our favourites: it should be a snip to include a tick-box for each saying "yes, do this one". HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea of the general fixes is that they are minor things that can always be applied to main namespace articles, being able to turn them off individually would just add coding and usability complications. I have added the above conversions in now. Martin 10:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple search/replace 

message: When i first started to use AWB yesterday, it soemhow operated as User:205.210.232.62 (my usual IP whn not logged in) until i realized this, and clicked on the log-in link in the AWB browser window. Must one normally log-in separately from AWB even if already logged in on another browser? Your demo video does not show this. Or did I do soemthing incorrect? DES (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It only checks that you are logged in when you first start it, so if it became logged out it would carry on working, I'll change this at some point in the future. Also, it uses the Internet Explorer core, so if you are logged in in that then you will remain logged in in this program. Martin 20:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I use IE. I was logged in on an instance of IE, when i started the program. as far as i know (but I did not verify absolutely) I did not become logged out in my regualr IE sessions. But the first edit done using  AWB was done logged out. it is posisble that while I figured out how to do things my cookie expired, but when i switched back to an IE window i still seemed to be loged in -- it was an absence of the AWB edits in "My contibutions" that prompted mne to check for non-logged-in-ness of AWB. I report this for what it is worth, if anything. If it recurs repeatably I will let you know -- i know how hard an unrepeatable issue is to address, and i know we are all volunteers. Again, MANY thanks for AWB -- just downloded ver 0.99 and i'm about to try it. DES (talk) 21:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: At the moment the verification for logging in is pretty basic, I'll change it soon so it checks cookies, possibly on every edit. thanks. Martin 21:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I am getting problems with login. I am not at my usual computer. I was logged in to Wikipedia in my normal browser, then I started AutoWikiBrowser and tried to process a page. It complained that I was not logged in and showed the Wikipedia login page. I went to Wikipedia in my normal browser, logged out then logged in again. I closed AutoWikiBrowser and launched it again. But it gave the same symptoms. Bobblewik 11:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What is your normal browser? when it showed the wikipedia login page, were you actually logged in then (i.e. did it have all the "Sign in / create account")?  and did you try entering your login details in the wndow it loaded for you? thanks Martin 11:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I use Firefox. When AutoWikiBrowser showed the login page, I was not logged in and it showed the "Sign in/create account" page. I entered my login details in AutoWikiBrowser and it worked. Bobblewik 12:36, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That is what should happen, it is totally unrelated to any settings/ cookies in firefox. thanks Martin 12:41, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Really? It is the first time I have had to do it. It had me fooled for a while because I have followed the instructions not to click in the window. Well, at least I know the exception to the rule now. Thanks. Bobblewik 13:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I'll make the messages more descriptive. Martin 13:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logging in 

message: When trying out AWB for the first time yyesterday (I made a date-delink run on ) I attempted to make a manual change on one article (correcting an incorrect category) in the AWB browser. It appeared as if this chage was undone when i saved the articel, but I am not sure. Are manual changes supposed to be saved? I gather that there is no way to do a diff or preview for manual changes at the moment, is this correct? DES (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Mind you, evne with these limitations this is a wonderful tool. DES (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It saves all manual changes, if you click the "Diff" button (or "preview") it will show you the extra changes you have made, but it will always save them. Martin 20:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I assume you mean "It will not show you..." above? DES (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it does show the extra changes you have made. Martin 22:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I was confused by the "but" in your wording. I now realize that I incorrectly made changes via the browseer window above, not the edit box on the right, and that is why they were not saved. Sorry for the false alarm. DES (talk) 23:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manual changes 

message: I noticed that B/AWB recently made the earth-shattering change from 
== Municipalities ==  
to
==Municipalities==  in one article.
Just wondering... Why?
Picapica 23:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It does a lot more than that, it is up to the user as to whether to save or not. Martin 00:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It removes the spaces to make other changes easier, not specifically because it is directly a good thing to do. It is just as easy to click ignore as it is save. Martin 00:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The person running the script should tell the program to skip a page (click ignore) if the only change is somthing as minor as you described. Stadnard style is not to use the spaces so if the program is doing somthing on the page it might as well fix small nitpicky things that aren't really woth making edits for. Have you even used the program? I think you are being a bit unfair, the program is really quite good. Broken S 05:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was it worth it? 

message: "Ignore if contains" does not appear to work if the text is in the title.
It would be nice to have the ability to have two fields: one to match the title text; and another field (as now) to match body text. [unsigned comment by Bobblewik]
:OK, but surely all articles have title text in the article. Martin 00:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A reasonable assumption but not true for all articles. This page contains User talk:Bluemoose in the title but not the body. Not a very good example, but it disproves the assumption. The "ignore if contains" field is a way of avoiding false positives. Processing a page that has relevant text in the title would be a false positive. It would be rare though.  Bobblewik 00:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Martin, for adding this feature. Yet another notch on your 'great guy' stick. Bobblewik 14:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ignore if contains" 

message: I asked User:Bobblewik about this on his talk page, and he directed me here.  In removing standalone year links, there are some which should not be removed because the article on the year contains a factoid about the original article, and (especially in earlier years) it helps frame the current article with other events of the same year (century links would apply, also).  The example I cited is the link to 1117 from Mii-dera.
So, since the Special:Whatlinkshere/Mii-dera shows the reverse link from 1117, if AWB can limit its date regexp matches to anything NOT found in the Whatlinkshere pages, it would prevent the wrongful removal of years.  If it can't, then anyone using AWB for date link removal needs to be careful not to remove anything important.  
Can the author clarify whether the above is possible or not?? Neier 08:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is possible, but overly complicated and beyond the scope of this software, it would also use an enormous amount of bandwidth. sorry Martin 09:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: --William Allen Simpson 12:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This isnt a project to de-link dates. It is a piece of software that can be used to help with some tasks. Also, I dont know of any project to link dates, if there is it is going against guidlines. Martin 12:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Checking for improper year removals 

message: I'm floundering a bit for the actual name for this, but it'll probably come to me just after I click "Save" .
What I'd like is to be able to specify sub-expressions in the Search box and refer to them in the Replace box. like in MS Word. For example:
 Search for  : ([01-9]*)
 Replace with: 
where the \1 refers to the first item in (…) as shown.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Regular expressions can handle this type of thing, try;
 Search for  : ([01-9]*)
 Replace with: 
===Template replacement ===
Do you think it would ever be possible for AWB to be taught to understand templates and parameters? This would make it much easier to mass-change templates which have parameters renamed, or which have been moved or replaced.
So given a template name, it would look for
 {{template name
and then search for the matching "}}".
If you told it how many parameters and what the new name for each one should be, it could match up the number of "|" symbols.
Obviously this is a bit blue sky right now but I thought I'd set it down for consideration.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Certainly worth thinking about, problem with this type of this is reliability, I'll look into it though. Martin 11:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extend functionality of replace specification 

message: Do you think it would ever be possible for AWB to be taught to understand templates and parameters? This would make it much easier to mass-change templates which have parameters renamed, or which have been moved or replaced.
So given a template name, it would look for
 {{template name
and then search for the matching "}}".
If you told it how many parameters and what the new name for each one should be, it could match up the number of "|" symbols.
Obviously this is a bit blue sky right now but I thought I'd set it down for consideration.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly worth thinking about, problem with this type of this is reliability, I'll look into it though. Martin 11:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Template replacement 

message: Under what license is this software published? I take it from discussion on this page that the source code is not available? AxelBoldt 18:19, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What license is this type of thing normally published under? PD I would guess. Martin 18:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally, IME such things are published under some version of shareware or freeware -- that is the creator retains copyright but allows others to freely use the software. Soemthing like GPL in intent but less formal. often just "Copyright by PersonX, permisison to user is granted, proveded..." with whatever restrictions the creator wants -- non-removal of  copyright notice, non-commercial use, whatever. In thsi case I would suggest limiting use to within-policy edits by approved users on wikipedia, and make license revokable on notice. That gives you all the protection you might plausibley need. But it is up to you,m as the creator, to set your terms. DES (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to release it into the public domain, you have to actively do it (with a note to that effect somewhere on the AutoWikiBrowser page for instance); by default you retain all copyrights and nobody but you is allowed to copy the program. AxelBoldt 19:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  License, source code? 

message: (354-430) comes out as (354-430). (Roman Catholic Church)--SarekOfVulcan 08:58, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a problem with the regex used to find the dates, see the above section "Publishing the date delinking regex". thanks Martin 10:29, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you very much for the bug report. Just to be more explicit: We are aware of the problem and can replicate it easily in test articles. So we don't need those particular articles for debugging, feel free to delink them properly if you wish. The problem is solvable and we are working on it. But we have not yet solved it.  Join in the "Publishing the date delinking regex" discussion.  Bobblewik 16:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor date bug in .9.9.5 

message: Looks like it's taking out template links. When it alpha sorts during cleanups  See: 
: It didnt remove them, but put them at the bottom of the page, because it thought they were stubs, I'll get it to ignore stubs templates that are of the form . thanks Martin 09:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. thanks Martin 17:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor bug in .995 Template alpha sort 

message: In addition to the ordering and the alphebetical listing of categories and language links it would be good if the same could be done with  templates since even though a lot of articles have non or have so few that it isn't worth it there are some articles that have more than enough to make it worthwhile especially as it will fall into wider usage. JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 09:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add it to the todo list! Martin 17:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion 

message: Here are some suggestions:
* One place to choose binary options. For example "Apply general fixes" and "Remove all date links" are binary choices.
* One place to set "Search in namespace:" options. The current options would presumably be "Template" and "Main". Instead of removing unwanted articles after the search, the user would simply modify the default options before the search.
* Arrangement of widgets:
**The 'Save' and 'Ignore' buttons are like 'OK' and 'Cancel'. It might be nice to arrange the buttons so that they are aligned along the bottom *after* the 'Summary'. OK should be to the left of Cancel, so 'Save' would be to the left of 'Ignore'.
**The 'Category' field seems to me to be the first logical thing and I think it should be above the 'Make from' field (which seems to me to be the second thing).
**The 'Make list' button seems to me to be just like a 'Search' button. Perhaps that might be a more obvious label.
**The 'Diff' button seems to have the same function as the 'Show changes' button in the Wikipedia editor. The latter may be a more obvious label.
**The 'Start!' button seems to me to be just like an 'Edit' button. Perhaps that might be a more obvious label, even though it also does other things.
**The 'Messaging' bit fooled me when we first started. If it deals with the talk page, perhaps we should say that explicitly like 'Edit talk page'.
*The list can get very long, it would be nice to be able to increase its length and width, perhaps with scroll bars and/or by actually increasing the size.
*It would be nice to have a longer summary field.
Just some thoughts. Feel free to use or ignore them. Bobblewik 12:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestions, the problem with a few of them is simply not having the space (e.g. "Show changes" is just too long to put on the button). Also the list box does have scroll bars. I'll see what I can do though! Martin 12:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree there is limited space. That is partly why I suggested copying the Wikipedia edit layout and putting the buttons horizontally. The whole thing might look more immediately recognisable if it copied elements of the Wikipedia edit design. You could put search functions at the top and/or left (perhaps using the whole vertical space) and edit functions at the bottom. Bobblewik 13:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out version 1.1 thanks Martin 17:27, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Nice improvements of detail. I also just noticed the standard summaries, I was going to suggest that after somebody complained to me about using a generic summary. If we could do it all without tabs, that would be nice too. Bobblewik 17:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  More suggestions 

message: I've only tested it out when changing over lists of articles from one category to another but when using make list with a category with an ampersand(&) in it it doesn't give any results despite the fact there are articles in the category. JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 22:52, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Its that dang IE problem, I'll have it fixed for next release. Martin 22:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured it was IE handling the character wrongly. JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 23:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  another minor bug 

message: One of my favorite cleanups is to remove all occurences of a link after the first one. Is this straightforward enough to do? I could write it in VFP (and I still might), but if it were included in AWB, it would make things easier for me.
Thanks for all the hard work to date!--SarekOfVulcan 06:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: hmmm, yes I think that is easy enough, another thing to the todo list! Martin 10:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a great feature. A complication would be that it might have to avoid double links used for date preferences. Bobblewik 11:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, to start with I'll make it so it tells you where the extra links are, rather than actually removing them automatically. Martin 11:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A crude way to avoid valid configurable dates would be to avoid any link that contains either a digit or a complete month name. If you publish the regex, we could work together to make it less crude. Bobblewik 16:32, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, but I dont know when or exactly how I will do it, I'll let you know though. Martin 16:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Agreed. Martin 16:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested feature: remove redundant links 

message: The regexs do not seem to be useing "classic" basic regular expression syntax, as described in Regular expression but some extension (in particualr "(?i)" for case insensative does nbot appear in any of the versions in our article. Exactly which version of regualr expressions does AWB use, and is the syntax documeted anywhere online? DES (talk) 16:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: According to MS it is very similar to the Perl 5 implementation, I have used this page for a few tips, but I'm not really knowedgable on them. There is an extra parameter in c# that can specify the regex to be case insensitive if that helps. Martin 17:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

text: This is the documentation for the .NET regex syntax, which I believe is what AWB uses. --Mairi 04:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  regex syntax 

message: I processed Noah Wyle but it did not identify 'External Links'. I had to make the change to 'External links' manually. Bobblewik 12:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You didnt make that change in that page at all. regards Martin 12:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How odd. I was convinced that I did. Bobblewik 12:59, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I am seeing quite a few misses related to split dates like: January 18th, January 18 and 18th and 19th centuries. I may want to update the regex to cope with these if that is ok. Bobblewik 14:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a problem at all. Martin 15:11, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Martin, The regex section on this talk page is quite complicated now. Would be kind enough to confirm what is actually being used? Also, do you think that there would be any benefit in dividing the current single date delink option into multiple options (e.g. delink solitary months, delink centuries, delink solitary days etc)? Bobblewik 18:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another update to the date regex 

message: AWB's description says it will add auto template subst'ing in the future.  Using WP:SUB, I have come up with this regexp:
Replace:
{{(bio-cats)}}|{{(clear)}}|{{(clearleft)}}|{{(clearright)}}|{{(copyvio)}}|{{(lived)}}|{{(Lifetime)}}|{{(lifespan)}}|{{(Prettytable)}}|{{(sub)}}|{{(sup)}}|{{(moved)}}|{{(moved-n)}}|{{(tmfrom)}}|{{(tmto)}}|{{(unsigned)}}|{{(unsigned2)}}|{{(3RR)}}|{{(3RR2)}}|{{(3RR3)}}|{{(nn-warn)}}|{{(nothanks)}}|{{(nothanks-sd)}}|{{(obscene)}}|{{(selftest)}}|{{(test-n)}}|{test2-n)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test2a-n)}}|{{(test2b)}}|{{(test3-n)}}|{{(test4a)}}|{{(test4-n)}}|{{(test)}}|{{(test0)}}|{{(test1)}}|{{(test2)}}|{{(test2a)}}|{{(test3)}}|{{(test4)}}|{{(test5)}}|{{(test6)}}|{{(blatantvandal)}}|{{(bv)}}|{{(attack)}}|{{(No personal attacks)}}|{{(Npa)}}|{{(Npa2)}}|{{(Npa3)}}|{{(Npa4)}}|{{(blanking1)}}|{{(blanking2)}}|{{(blanking3)}}|{{(blanking4)}}|{{(drmafd)}}|{{(drmafd2)}}|{{(drmafd3)}}|{{(drmafd4)}}|{{(drmafd5)}}|{{(MIPblock)}}|{{(multipleIPs)}}|{{(spam)}}|{{(spam2)}}|{{(spam2a)}}|{{(spam3)}}|{{(spam4)}}|{{(vanity)}}|{{(vblock)}}|{{(verror)}}|{{(verror2)}}|{{(verror3)}}|{{(verror4)}}|{{(Edit summary personal)}}|{{(Editsummarynew)}}|{{(sofixit)}}|{{(Summary)}}|{{(Edit summary)}}|{{(name your images)}}|{{(image source)}}|{{(image copyright)}}|{{(subst)}}|{{(SharedIP)}}|{{(ISP)}}|{{(AOL)}}|{{(repeat vandal)}}|{{(anon vandal)}}|{{(vw)}}|{{(Award)}}|{{(newvoter)}}|{{(welcome)}}|{{(welcome2)}}|{{(welcome3)}}|{{(welcome4)}}|{{(welcomeip)}}|{{(anon)}}|{{(Album Image)}}|{{(afd)}}|{{(afd2)}}|{{(afd3)}}|{{(afd|bottom)}}|{{(afd|top)}}|{{(tfd2)}}|{{(tfdnotice)}}|{{(ifd)}}|{{(ifd2)}}|{{(idw)}}|{{(idw-uo)}}|{{(idw-pui)}}|{{(idw-cp)}}|{{(cfd)}}|{{(cfd2)}}|{{(cfdu)}}|{{(cfr)}}|{{(cfr2)}}|{{(cfru)}}|{{(cfm)}}|{{(cfd-article)}}|{{(cfr-speedy)}}|{{(tfd-keep)}}|{{(Actinium)}}|{{(Aluminum)}}|{{(Americium)}}|{{(Antimony)}}|{{(Argon)}}|{{(Arsenic)}}|{{(Astatine)}}|{{(Barium)}}|{{(Berkelium)}}|{{(Beryllium)}}|{{(Bismuth)}}|{{(Bohrium)}}|{{(Boron)}}|{{(Bromine)}}|{{(Cadmium)}}|{{(Caesium)}}|{{(Calcium)}}|{{(Californium)}}|{{(Carbon)}}|{{(Cerium)}}|{{(Chlorine)}}|{{(Chromium)}}|{{(Cobalt)}}|{{(Copper)}}|{{(Curium)}}|{{(Darmstadtium)}}|{{(Dubnium)}}|{{(Dysprosium)}}|{{(Einsteinium)}}|{{(Erbium)}}|{{(Europium)}}|{{(Fermium)}}|{{(Fluorine)}}|{{(Francium)}}|{{(Gadolinium)}}|{{(Gallium)}}|{{(Germanium)}}|{{(Gold)}}|{{(Hafnium)}}|{{(Hassium)}}|{{(Helium)}}|{{(Holmium)}}|{{(Hydrogen)}}|{{(Indium)}}|{{(Iodine)}}|{{(Iridium)}}|{{(Iron)}}|{{(Lanthanum)}}|{{(Lawrencium)}}|{{(Lead)}}|{{(Lithium)}}|{{(Lutetium)}}|{{(Magnesium)}}|{{(Manganese)}}|{{(Meitnerium)}}|{{(Mendelevium)}}|{{(Mercury)}}|{{(Molybdenum)}}|{{(Neodymium)}}|{{(Neon)}}|{{(Neptunium)}}|{{(Niobium)}}|{{(Nitrogen)}}|{{(Nobelium)}}|{{(Osmium)}}|{{(Oxygen)}}|{{(Palladium)}}|{{(Phosphorus)}}|{{(Platinum)}}|{{(Plutonium)}}|{{(Polonium)}}|{{(Potassium)}}|{{(Praseodymium)}}|{{(Promethium)}}|{{(Protactinium)}}|{{(Radium)}}|{{(Radon)}}|{{(Rhenium)}}|{{(Rhodium)}}|{{(Roentgenium)}}|{{(Rubidium)}}|{{(Ruthenium)}}|{{(Rutherfordium)}}|{{(Samarium)}}|{{(Scandium)}}|{{(Seaborgium)}}|{{(Selenium)}}|{{(Silicon)}}|{{(Silver)}}|{{(Sodium)}}|{{(Strontium)}}|{{(Sulfur)}}|{{(Tantalum)}}|{{(Technetium)}}|{{(Tellurium)}}|{{(Terbium)}}|{{(Thallium)}}|{{(Thorium)}}|{{(Thulium)}}|{{(Tin)}}|{{(Titanium)}}|{{(Tungsten)}}|{{(Ununbium)}}|{{(Ununhexium)}}|{{(Ununoctium)}}|{{(Ununpentium)}}|{{(Ununquadium)}}|{{(Ununseptium)}}|{{(Ununtrium)}}|{{(Uranium)}}|{{(Vanadium)}}|{{(Xenon)}}|{{(Ytterbium)}}|{{(Yttrium)}}|{{(Zinc)}}|{{(Zirconium)}}|{{(WP:RM)}}|{{(Move2)}}|{{(TFAfooter)}}|{{(article)}}|{{(See also)}}|{{(ll)}}|{{(language link)}}|{{(ed)}}|{{(doctl)}}
With:
{{subst:$1}}
I haven't tested it but I will soon. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I just tried it.  First, you have to use the g and i flags.  Second of all, you can't use $1.  $1 only words with the first subexpression, $2 with the second, etc.  Is there someway to do an arbitrary "$x", where x changes? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:22, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Dont worry about it, I have already made it do substing, just not on the release version, as there isnt much need for it yet, and I havent tested it completely. Martin 21:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template subst'ing 

message: I note that AWB is sorting stub tags to tghe very end. I thought that WP:STUB recomended stub tags after all text, but before non-stub category links. DES (talk) 22:10, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have always thought they looked best at the very bottom, out of the actual article and further from the text. It's easy to change, but I dont see how it would be any better. thanks Martin 22:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I belive the thought was that the tag was easier to edit/remove when appropriate if it came before category links. This would not change the display appearence in any way. DES (talk) 06:14, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  stub tag order 

message: There is an option to mark all edits as minor.  I have set this option as true - however, every time I close and reopen AWB, it resets my options.  Can you fix this by saving all options in a .dat file that is loaded upon opening the program?  Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have already made it so it can save settings, I just havent enabled it yet because its not completely finished. It won't use a .dat file though, a config file based on XML, just to keep you all at the forefront of technology! Martin 22:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor option 

message: A`problrem occured yesterday when my login cookie expired. Please increse the priority for re-checking the cookie more often, perhaps on every page edited. In the mean time I advise users to double check that they remain logged in -- the display will show the difference if you look. DES (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I noticed that, and I have fixed it already, it checks every edit now. I'll upload it tomorrow (will be version 1.4), as I have got a couple of other things to do as well. thanks Martin 22:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Login issues 

message: I've been asked twice now about a possible problem with AutoWikiBrowser's "general fixes" function. The AWB removes the leading and trailing spaces in headings, such as this one, but MediaWiki automatically generates the sections with one heading. I haven't seen it cause any problems, but Help:Editing has it that way too. Just so you know. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 22:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I have stopped that now, it still will for "see also" and "external links" sections, as it makes it easier to check for common problems in those headings, but hopefully I'll get round to making that better. thanks Martin 22:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: p.s. if you look at the edit screen of Help:Editing, ironically some of its on headings dont have spaces. It really doesnt matter though. thanks Martin 22:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Most of them are listed on the main page, however I'll update it with a few changes I have made, p.s. I have uploaded 1.4 now. Martin 22:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

text: this edit demonstrates all the functionality of the general fixes. Martin 23:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. DES (talk) 06:13, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headings and spacing 

message: Why has this been disabled in Windows 98? I used it before but now I can't. --Celestianpower háblame 13:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 98/me dont handle unicode fonts properly with this. sorry Martin 13:32, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can you not enable the old version for 98 users then? --Celestianpower háblame 13:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No version worked properly with windows 98 Martin 13:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes it did - I used it. --Celestianpower háblame 13:56, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not with arabic or hebrew fonts though. Martin 14:02, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  But I don't need to see hand arabic fonts... --Celestianpower háblame 15:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: But if you edit an article with any arabic fonts in it will screw them up. There is one thing I might try though that may fix it, I will let you know when its ready if that's ok. thanks Martin 16:00, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 98 

message: After downloading version 1.5, I opened the AWB and clicked on Help>About to make sure it was the right version.  It said it was version 1.5.1.0, not 1.5.  I closed the about window and then immediately got this error:
See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at AutoWikiBrowser.AboutBox.okButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
AutoWikiBrowser
    Assembly Version: 1.5.1.0
    Win32 Version: 1.5.1.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Jacob/Start%20Menu/Programs/Wikipedia/AutoWikiBrowser.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
What happened?  Thanks. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: hmmm, can you download the one I have just uploaded, 1.5.2 and see if it produces the same problem, thanks. Martin 20:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - 1.5.2 works.  What's the difference, though, between 1.5.0, 1.5.1, and 1.5.2?  The latter two are not listed under the list the changes on WP:AWB. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the "find" button and textbox to search for text in the edit box. thanks Martin 23:00, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version 1.5.1.0 error 

message: Please look at the following edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bao%27an_%28Shaanxi%29&diff=33502758&oldid=33500193
The user complained about new lines. I do not know whether new lines are good or bad, but should I worry? Bobblewik 21:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well 99.9% of articles have spaces between the text and cats, but if they want to do it their own way.... Martin 21:14, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I prefer not to have then Rich   Farmbrough. 00:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the de facto standard is to seperate the cats from the text. Martin 00:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New lines

message: There seems to be some confusin about the order of lang links.  ja is ususlaly between nl and no.  Rich   Farmbrough. 00:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It puts them in alphabetical order, as this was the most popular choice at the Wikipedia:Language order poll. Martin 00:21, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Language links

message: Would it be possible to allow AWB to convert Unicode characters from their HTML codes to their proper symbols? See Curpsbot-unicodify if you're not sure what I'm talking about. --Ixfd64 01:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would love to do that but I wouldnt really know how, maybe someone has some idea of how to go about this? Martin 01:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that Unicode conversion appears to be possible with the find-and-replace function. However, the feature only converts one string at once. Would a possible solution be to add the ability to do multiple conversions? It will still be very tedious to convert every Unicode symbol, but we could save common conversions in the find-and-replace list. --Ixfd64 01:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If we had a list of all the html and unicode symbols, we could make a simple list of find and replace routines, it wouldnt be pretty, but it would work and be reliable. p.s. I just put on note saying that I am perfectly willing to share the source with anyone who wants to help develop it ; )  01:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion - proper Unicode conversion 

message: Hi there AWB developers. I've noticed that AWB-assisted edits have a habit of reformatting wikitext in addition to the noted changes in the edit summaries. It would be nice if the reformatting were performed as a separate edit before the intended change (with an edit summary like "reformatting wikitext"). This would lead to much clearer diffs and a better reflection of what was actually done to the article. None of this applies, of course, if this behavior has changed in more recent versions or if what I have seen is a result of the AWB user's actions and not the software itself. Mike Dillon 16:34, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The edit summary is always "AWB-assisted" followed by a phrase of the user's choice.  Therefore, it is the user who wrote the incorrect edit summary, not the AWB itself. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:48, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it "incorrect" if the user doesn't know it's happening or doing it intentionally? I don't have access to AWB since I have no Windows machine to run it, so I don't know if they see a diff before saving or if they have to request it just like on the primary web interface. Does a user really know that AWB realphabetized the categories? Is that an automatic behavior, or did the editor I observed do this intentionally and neglect to note it? Not to sound like I'm on a witch hunt or something, as the diff issue is a pretty minor inconvenience. I would say that AWB should strive toward being neutral on the original wikitext formatting, as far as possible. Reformatting is an excellent functionality to expose to the user by choice, but not if they aren't aware of it. Mike Dillon 03:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Diff by default, yes.--SarekOfVulcan 04:10, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The user is 100% aware of all changes before saving, and can they can introduce any extra changes they want. Martin 09:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: It has been tweaked a bit more recently as well, so doesn't make quite as many changes. Martin 23:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How?  I know it doesn't fix dates anymore, but what other features have been removed? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I tweaked it so it didnt need to remove spaces before and after == which it did before to make other fixes easier. Martin 00:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good to hear. Mike Dillon 03:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I noticed that tweak when I was reviewing the code for the first time, but I didn't know that was new recently.  In addition, when I was reviewing the code, you seemed to use * and ? differently than listed at Regex.  The article says ? matches 0 or 1 recurrences of the character, and * 0 or more, but somewhere, you used a *?.  This leads me to believe that, in C#, * means 1 or more, the equivalent of + in most systems.  Is this correct? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The *? is a single regex atom. It means 0 or more, but it says to use stingy matching instead of the default greedy matching of *. Unfortunately, the Regex article doesn't address greediness, but basically, a greedy regex will match as match characters as possible until it fails, while a stingy regex will match only until the atom that follows can match. There is a better explanation of greediness in Chapter 4 of the canonical Mastering Regular Expressions (search for "greedy" in the text). Mike Dillon 03:23, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. Search for "laziness" and "non-greedy" to get the explanation of lazy/stingy regexes, or better yet, read the whole thing ;) Mike Dillon 03:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the link Mike! I need to read up on Regexs. Martin 11:49, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB text reformatting clutters diffs 

message: Another thing that should be added is the ability to change categories with a modifier after them, for example  The way AWB currently handles them if you tried to change them over to say  or  I'd end up with something like  which causes problems and which is an unusable category. JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 23:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will work on that with Martin.  Thanks for notifying me of the problem! — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

text: It doesnt have any logic to remove keys, but otherwise it handles that fine, see this. thanks Martin 23:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the sandbox demonstration, but what's a "key"? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 00:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The key is the bit after the pipe " | ", if a category has a key it is sorted alphabetically by its key and not by its name. Martin 00:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh - I always just referred to that as the modified page name. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 00:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  another thing 

message: FYI: There is a 1.6.2 listed under the list of changes, but the check page doesn't show this version as enabled. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS
 17:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, I'm busy at the moment, but I'll get all of the above sorted tomorrow evening, thanks for the regexs! Martin 22:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand - we're all busy at some time or another.  Thanks for all your work on the AWB, and especially for returning! — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1.6.2 

message: Note to all: a new version (1.6.3) is on its way!  I have already added the following to it:
*Heading sorter (temporarily removed until better script written)
*Bad link repair (both internal and external)
*Fixed security flaw script to see if user is logged in
*Other minor changes (e.g., updated copyright year, typos)
I e-mailed the source to Martin, who will clean up some of the regexs for various tasks.  The new version should be out today or tomorrow. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 19:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1.6.3 

message: Martin - why'd you remove "When using this software, check every single edit and try to avoid making extremely minor edits such as adding or removing a single space" from the notice? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because I put it in the "rules", it is more appropriate there. thanks Martin 23:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice 

message: Martin says (above) that AWB "is not broken, it's not even specifically designed for this task as you seem to suggest."
We have no way of knowing the intent of the author that it's specifically designed for any particular task.
Unfortunately, the actual effect of AWB is to mass de-link dates, and to mass de-alphabetize inter-wiki links. For example, see breakage of Wikipedia:Disambiguation and breakage of Israel.  That's just two very high profile examples.
Therefore, we should assume that it's misused because of poor quality control by the program author (regardless of intent), and prohibit futher use. 
:--William Allen Simpson 08:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? If you want to know the intent of the person who made those edits, since anyone using the AWB has to approve every edit they make, you could ask him (trust me, Ian is very kind and will respond to any inquries you have), and I don't see how the cited diffs could be interprated as "breaking" those pages.--Sean|Black 08:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Sean. William, there is an option in the program that I was asked to implement that removes excess date links (I didnt even make the logic behind it), users have to conciously turn this option on for it to work. Plus every edit has has to be accepted by the user. The software can be used for a range of tasks, it is designed for no individual task in particular. Martin 11:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: P.s. I made the software, not Ian!) Martin 11:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Also, if you want to know what intentions were, examples include; Me stub sorting about 50% of "Artist" stubs in just a few hours, Kbdank71 (who pretty much single handidly takes care of WP:CFD) is now able to re-categorise the articles himself and User:Gflores has been correcting typos, many others have been using it as well for a variety of things. Martin 13:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: "Mass de-alphabetize inter-wiki links" is NOT an effect of the program. Spanish has the ISO code es. Esperanto has the ISO co eo. I see nothing about the behaviour of the program that indicates that it puts eo after es in a alphabet-based sort. The fact that you don't, or won't, understand how it is sorting things is another matter entirely. David Newton 20:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the confusion is that the original poster was referring to "alphabetization" of the resulting list of languages, not the underlying codes. The examples cited (Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Israel) used a sort based on alphabetization of the Latin alphabet transliteration of the local language names, but they were changed by an editor using AWB to be alphabetical based on the ISO-esque Interwiki language code. Since there is no official policy on interwiki link ordering, it is up to the editors of an article to agree on one scheme or another. They are both culturally biased, but the faux alphabetization of local names is not really any more internationally saavy because the sort order is still derived from Western languages. There is no inherent reason that the sound "A" should come before "Z" and that isn't even the case for all the languages that actually have those sounds. Mike Dillon 21:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

text: --William Allen Simpson 23:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text: That's simply not true. The AWB does require all edits to be accepted by tose using it- Why would Martin lie about that? A couple of incorrectly alphabetized interwiki links do not "break" pages.--Sean|Black 23:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A couple of dozen bad edits and damaged alphabetization on thousands of pages -- broken by any definition! --William Allen Simpson 11:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (Thanks again Sean) William, you are simply wrong; every edit is checked by the user, if you have a problem with people removing dates then take it up with them, as long as it is a guidline it will be an option in the software. I dont know where you get these ideas from, but I hope you stop these slanderous accusations. Martin 00:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather, the user is prompted to check every edit.  This is a very different thing; you can't enforce an actual check in code.  And if someone's making a change every two or three seconds, he's spending much more time waiting for the page to load than looking at what he's actually doing.  I recall one article where an AWB-assisted edit changed "May 9th, 1955" into "May 9, 1955" , correctly fixing and linking the non-functional date, but incorrectly unlinking the year; it's hard to argue that this edit was sufficiently "checked". My own bot has a function to convert old cut-and-pasted tables into invocations of Template:Album infobox.  Because of all the crazy things folks have done with the formatting between the paste and my conversion, the function can't be 100% accurate, so I check every edit (in raw wikicode) before it's posted.  Regardless, I still run it at the normal 30-second throttle, because the bot, not me, is doing most of the work.  AWB should enforce a timeout as well. —Cryptic (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True. But if someone is sloppily checking their edits, then it's the fault of the user who's, well, sloppily checking their edits, not the software.--Sean|Black 04:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The edit you describe must have been done manually, it couldnt have suggested doing that. Martin 10:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Plus, any user abusing the software should be removed from the list so they can no longer use it. I have also disabled the date removal thing because I am tired of defending what people do with it. Martin 10:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: --William Allen Simpson 11:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been released as a development version. Plus, the only information I could find on inter language order was the Wikipedia:Language order poll, in which the alphabetical listing was the most popular choice, hence that's why it sorts like that. Martin 11:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Will you (William) please stop going on about "blanket acceptance of lots of edits". It simply is not true. Every edit has to be accepted individually by the user and it is their fault if the edit is wrong because they didn't check it. Also, I think that sorting interwikis is very worthwhile because it makes it easier to add more in the future. --Celestianpower háblame 18:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Village pump (policy) archive 

message: Just to let you know, on this page, NTL, it incorrectly moves the line to the bottom (it thinks it's a translation link? It begins with...
ntl:hell following shortly after. Devalued and struggling with debts of around $18bn NTL was forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2002 in order to organise a refinancing deal. The company did not emerge from protection until January 2003,
I'm using 1.6.5 and doing a typo fix in some other paragraph in the article. Gflores Talk 16:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, fixed! (1.66 available now). thanks Martin 17:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect edit 

message: The AutoWikiBrowser page does not answer: Are there any plans to port AutoWikiBrowser to compile on Linux? (There's the Mono C# compiler and the MonoDevelop IDE available, though this page is grim about how well WinForms apps work on Linux. It sounds like Mono's WinForms support isn't up to the same quality level as its other toolkits, like Gtk# and Qt#. --Unforgettableid | talk to me 19:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I dont know much about mono, but I highly doubt it will be portable as it uses the internet explorer core, if they manage to port that then maybe. Martin 19:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could it be ported to the Gecko engine for rendering pages, instead of the IE one? --Cyclopia 13:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldnt say if it is actually possible, though it would definately be difficult, particularly as ultimately I am going to use .NET Framework 3.0 technology. Martin 16:42, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there is a portable, free (as in beer & freedom) C#/.NET runtime (Mono), and since there are portable and free C#-graphic bindings (Gtk#, Qt#), and since there are portable and free HTML rendering engines (Gecko), shouldn't it be better to focus on them instead of going to use highly platform-restricted technologies? Even if you really only want to stay on Windows, using WinFX will make your application available only on Windows XP and Vista. I can't understand the reasons of this choice. Is there some compelling reason for this? Please note that a Linux or MacOS developer that restricts its applications to its favourite OS in the same way would get the same criticism for me. --Cyclopia 17:26, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I am a c# developer who uses VS2005 for a start, plus this highly restricted platform is the one that the vast majority of people use. I have never used mono, and quite frankly while I have more pressing issues don't intend to. As for WinFX, it will allow me to easily implement spell checking, I will provide a non-winFX version as well. Martin 17:35, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. I find it quite sad, but you're the developer. I'm sorry if I bothered you too much, I just wanted to let you know that there are ways to implement what you want to do without restricting your users to a (non-free) platform (no matter how used it is). For example, GNU Aspell can probably help you on spell checking in a multiplatform, free way. Thank you anyway for the good project -I'm just unhappy of being unable to use it. --Cyclopia 22:26, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoWikiBrowser on Linux 

message: Interwiki bots, when adding new links, routinely sort the interwiki links. Thus, it's probably preferable to disable the option in AWB as it makes diffs more difficult to read. -- User:Docu
:I disagree, it's a useful tool and diffs are meant to be informative as to what changes were made, on more complex changes they are almost never "easy" to read JtkieferT | C | @  this user is a candidate for the arbitration committee ---- 09:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It already has an option to disable interwiki sorting anyway. Martin 09:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "maybe alphabetize interwiki " clutters diffs (please disable option) 

message: Hey there. Just a quick request. Is it possible to add a date to when each new version is/was released? This just makes it easier if one has been away and they wish to see the changes that have taken place since their last version.
For example:
Version	Released        	Release notes
1.7.0  	January 16, 2006	Allows for openings into other areas of space and time.
:Okay.  I did just that!  (Well, except for the fact that I haven't yet come up with a way for the AWB to engage in hyperdimensional travel, but that's on it's way...) --M@thwiz2020 15:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. It will make it easier for people (me) to see what has changed between versions if I've been away.--Dan (Talk)|@ 15:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding datestamps to new versions? 

message: Would it be possible to make a feature that would help AfD artciles? When I'm going through the articles needing cleanup I find the need to AfD some of them, but I don't want to stop very long or switch browsers to do that. I'd imagine that it would (after pressing a button) subst in the template then take you to the next page where you could write the summary and finaly takes you to the daily page to subst in the deletion page. Broken S 15:12, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I could probably do that.  The AWB would open three hidden windows and just add the AFD template. --M@thwiz2020 15:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought Martin was coding this? Broken S 15:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He is.  WP:AWB states, "The author is perfectly willing to share the source code with anyone who wants to help in development."  When Martin left Wikipedia on 2 January, I asked him for the source code so I could take over.  However, he came back to Wikipedia so now he is doing the majority of the coding.  Every once in a while, though, I send him some code that he includes in the AWB.  For example, if look at the versions table, I contributed to 1.6.3 and 1.6.5. --M@thwiz2020 15:40, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright. I was just wondering. Broken S 15:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Interesting idea, not sure how feasable though, in the mean time there is an option on the textbox context menu to open the page in your normal browser. thanks Martin 16:38, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Auto AfD?

message: I just started using AWB today to do some disambiguation link repair.  I don't have a lot of suggestions ye but figured I would add them here as I think of them:
* Allowing creation of a custom list of Edit Summary's that can be changed for each page without having to re-click start.  I like to include what I actually disambuated in the edit summary so that a) someone who looks at the history does not have to do a diff to see what I did and b) so I can look at the work for a single disambiuation page and get a feel for how many links are going to which articles.  I usually do something like disambiguation link repair (You can help!) United Provinces to Dutch Republic but with a diffrent target article depending on what I did.  It woudl also be good if you coudl apply the text from the dropdown then edit it for the given instance to add for example two links.  In anyevent the edit summary is I think a good first step for doing DAB work with AWB.
* A lot harder to implement would be allowing the find and replace to specify multiple replace with strings which the user woudl be prompted for each instance. Dalf | Talk 04:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation tools 

message: Can somebody check:
. Does it reveal a bug in interwiki sort? Bobblewik 19:47, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, some people like to sort them one way, some another, thats what happens when there is no policy. AWB does it the most popular way, plus it has an option in the menu to disable it. thanks Martin 19:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thanks. Bobblewik 20:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  interwiki sort 

message: AWB fails to reconize  as adding a categoy.  I suspect it does not catch them from any template as that woudl be hard to do.  Its still probbly notable as articles with only 1911 britinica categorys probly need more. Dalf | Talk 08:25, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: that's correct, it doesnt see the category inside a template, but the 1911 one deoesnt count as a proper category anyway. Martin 09:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True enough.  I was wondering though if you coudl add a feature to add a category to articles if they do not already have it.  I was using AWB today to add :Category:Cities in Romania to all of the cities listed in List of cities in Romania (alphabetical) and there did not seem to be an easy way to do it.  Some of them needed other Categories added too so just pasting over and over did not work.  FOr that task it looks like we can just at the category to Template:Romanian cities infobox but for the future it might be a worthwhile feature. Dalf | Talk 09:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  no category bug 

message: I know I'm evil (and greedy and possibly stupid :-): Could AWB be extended so that mutilple regex replace actions could be entered and executed in the same run (a list of search/replace fields)?
Maybe I'm on a totally wrong track, so I try to explain what I want to do: The underlying problem I'm thinking about to solve is changing calls to templates that need renames in parameters. Specific example job I'm about to do: template:Web reference supports an old variant that used uppercase/lowercase in parameter names. I'm thinking about changing these to the new lowercase only parameters variant.
Reason for this (sorry for my verbosity): Web reference is currently a meta template and I'm trying to convert that to using the new CSS-Trick of Netoholic. I have problems to do that supporting both kinds of parameter sets, so I'm thinking about switching calls to the lowercase only parameters variant.
Sorry for nagging with this whole chain of reasoning and many thanks for any help and ideas in advance. And thanks again to Martin for providing this great tool. (And please don't bother to tell me if I'm asking too much or the wrong thing!). --Adrian Buehlmann 12:41, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good idea, I'll get around to it one day, part of the problem is simply organising the interface. Martin 21:21, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yuha! Great. Thanks a lot. Maybe you could consider a config file with a list of exchange rules for simplicity. A menu point to load the rules (for the more experienced users) or so — Just an idea to make it as easy for you as possible. UI programming can get laborous. --Adrian Buehlmann 21:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple regex replaces in the same run? 

message: This is a great tool.  Is it possible to configure it to work with other wikis, like other languages, or meta.wikimedia.org?  Elonka 03:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the moment I am mainly working on making the code more robust, this will make using it on other sites easier, but then there are probably problems that I havent foreseen. Martin 09:51, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use with other MediaWikis 

message: My name (Eagle 101 is in the list, but AWB tells me that I am not elegible to use it? What am I doing wrong. (yes I am logged in, on windows SP v2, and have broadband internet. What is wrong. 
:It was working when I was using v1.7.1 but v1.7.2 is giving me the error message. Thanks for any insight.Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The user-checking script was changed a bit in 1.7.2.  However, as far as I know, it was only changed to make sure the cookie is not empty. --M@thwiz2020 22:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: try 1.73, thanks Martin 23:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just tried 1.73, it's not working for me either. :( --Dan (Talk)|@ 00:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Perhaps it should be 1.7.3 instead??? --Dan (Talk)|@ 00:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I have cracked it, try 1.74, problem is that I can't reproduce the problem because it works for me. Martin 01:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That works for me now, thankyou.--Dan (Talk)|@ 01:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That works for me also. I think the problem is fixed now. Thanks.Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:00, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AWB is not recognizing me

message: I used version 1.7.4.0 and had Czestochowa in the list. When "Bypass redirects" is checkmarked (default), AWB loops forever on that redirect ("Browser status is {Loading|Complete}). I had to click the ignore button (BTW a stop button might be a good idea? Don't know). Same happens on Nowy Sacz, Znin, Elblag and others (from what links here of list of Template:Infobox Poland). Low prio problem for me. Just wanted to report it. --Adrian Buehlmann 14:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its the Internet Explorer/unicode problem again, will be fixed in next release, thanks Martin 14:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with redirects

message: This one is for the wish list: it would be nice if the text edit window (lower right window) of AWB could use a fixed width font (like courier or so?). I recently noticed how helpful this edit window really is (I was a bit reluctant to edit there until recently but it works just great). But this is just a "nice to have" one (not that important, no clue how nasty to implement). Thanks! --Adrian Buehlmann 15:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Changing the font is very easy, I'll do that in next release, thanks Martin 15:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh. The new fixed width font in AWB 1.7.6 is great. Many thanks. --Adrian Buehlmann 00:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed width font for text window? 

message: Is there a way to have an option to turn off the loading of images?  Some days, like today, I notice a huge delay after I click save, and it's mainly due to waiting for the images to load in the page.  I wind up clicking Start the Process again to skip to the next article.  --Kbdank71 20:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just turned off images in IE's preferences, which isn't a problem normally as I use Mozilla for RealBrowsing (tm). Since AWB basically uses IE, that stops the loading of images. --Syrthiss 20:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose I should have figured that out on my own.  Thanks!  --Kbdank71 21:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion regarding images

message: AWB isn't letting me do any work since it keeps saying that I'm not logged in even though I'm logging in and I can even check a special page in the browser (which get pulled dynamically) and get the fact that I'm logged in.  I'm using 1.7.4.0 btw. JtkieferT | C | @  ---- 22:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: With the new version it still isn't working for me, it keeps saying that I'm not logged in. JtkieferT | C | @  ---- 23:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm, do you have internet explorer 6? Martin 23:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, how did you change the way that logins are confirmed, I never had this problem before the changes to the way login checking was changed. JtkieferT | C | @  ---- 00:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  not recognizing me being logged in 

message: The general cleanup function replaces underscores in link anchors with spaces.  This is incorrect behavior; the part of the link after the '#' character should not be altered. Kelly Martin (talk) 06:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok I'll look into it thanks Martin 09:37, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot see that it is a problem, the extra underscores are just extra clutter surely? As links work exactly the same with or without underscores. e.g. Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Directions_and_regions is exactly the same as Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Directions and regions, apart from the latter has no underscores. I am not unwilling to change the behaviour, I just need to clarify the problem before I fix it. thanks Martin 12:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm, MediaWiki replaces the spaces after the # as well.  So you're right.  Nevermind. Kelly Martin (talk) 12:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok cool. Martin 12:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Rick Block found a possibly valid reason to have an underscore in a link: it behaves like a non-breaking space, but is a bit wider than a normal space (example Leopold_I compared to Leopold I. See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#non-breaking space in links and this example. --Adrian Buehlmann 15:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug with anchored links 

message: I just registered and AWB isn't letting me do any work. It keeps telling me to log in, I keep logging in, and it keeps saying I'm not logged in. BTW, I've got version 1.7.5.0. Alr 15:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In the IE window it creates at the top of the page, does it show you logged in up there?  I was switching to my bot account earlier and thought all I had to do was open up IE and log in there, but AWB didn't have me showing in the upper panel.  Even though it says 'don't click in the top panel', you can click to do stuff like log in and look at your watchlist. --Syrthiss 16:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it does show me as being logged in. Alr 16:04, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, then I don't know.  Maybe someone else will have a suggestion. --Syrthiss 16:16, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you usually browse wikipedia using Microsoft Internet Explorer? As far as I can tell, AWB relies on MSIE being configured correctly. --Netizen 16:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Sounds like the problem I'm currently having (see my thread above). JtkieferT | C | @  ---- 20:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The newest version (1.76) may have solved the problem, if not then I can probably fix it another way. Martin 22:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah, works for me too it seems. JtkieferT | C | @  ---- 09:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not allowing me to do any work 

message: Making it so I can remove categories is a big help.  I was doing it by hand (with awb opening the articles for me).
There appears to be a bug with the category removal though...  if the category is listed like * (with the asterisk) then it wants to wipe out everything after that as well (other cats, interwiki links).  I've just been ignoring those articles where that happens and I'll do them by hand. --Syrthiss 04:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, just confirmed that it will do it no matter what the cat construction syntax is in some cases.  It just wanted to wipe out all the interwiki links in Jeremy Bentham when I was removing the child prodigy cat. --Syrthiss 04:09, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixxed now in 1.77, thanks for finding that. Martin 09:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First off, thanks :) 

message: I'm not good at filing bug reports, so I'll just describe step by step how to reproduce this bug and leave the brilliant prose for featured articles... 
#Opened AWB, started process.
#While waiting for pages to load, opened MSN messenger, started to chat.
#At the same moment when page finished loading in AWB, a carriage return ("enter") would be sent to my chat window.
#Closed MSN, but then went to IRC using XChat. The same "carriage return" event happened, cutting sentences half-way.
#If pages finished loading in AWB while Firefox was in focus, the last tab I opened with middle click would re-open in a new tab.
The above happened enough times as to lead me to believe it wasn't just something I was doing wrong. It seems that AWB just wouldn't sit quiet in the background. I'm using the latest version of AWB (just downloaded it today) and I have no memory of this error happening before, so it might be interesting to have a look at this. Thanks. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 22:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it has always been like that, I keep meaning to get around to changing it, I'll do it soon. Martin 22:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it now, in verion 1.78. thanks Martin 00:13, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet another bug 

message: AWB version 1.7.8 loops forever if I try to make list from :category:if templates. --Adrian Buehlmann 08:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Think this has nothing to do with AWB. That category is really strange. Seems never ending presenting the same entries over and over again (next is always enabled though there seems no next). --Adrian Buehlmann 09:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This happens if there are more than 200 entries in a category with the same sort key.  Known bug in MediaWiki. Kelly Martin (talk) 19:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um. Thanks for the message. Good to know. --Adrian Buehlmann 21:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make list problem 

message: Is it possible, if "Apply general fixes" is checked, to not move categories enclosed within noinclude tags to the end of the article?  I've come across a few templates that someone had edited with AWB, and the category was moved outside of the tags, causing a number of articles that had that template to be miscategorized.  --Kbdank71 19:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Will be fixed next release, thanks. Martin 19:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, thank you.  :)  --Kbdank71 20:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Noinclude

message: Can we get an option to populate the article work list from a specified user's contributions? Kelly Martin (talk) 19:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Until such a featuee is built in, i think a copy from a contributions page to a text file would do the trick. DES (talk) 23:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Sure. Martin 00:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Not sure if I am doing this correctly so I'll just describe what I did.
*I wanted to fix all the double redirects to a page I just moved.
*I generated a list using the what links here feature and told it to replace article name with newname.
*When the program went to edit a redirect it followed the redirects to the page (the on I just moved) and did the search and replace. Oc course there was nothing to replace since the article didn't link to itself.
Is there a way to make it not follow redirects (or do what I'm trying to do)? Oh, by the way could you have it give out a warning if someone type in the category name as "Category:This category" because then it will look for "Category:Category:this category" which is almsot never what is intended. It's not that important though. BrokenSegue 20:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, uncheck the "bypass redirects" option in the "general" menu. thanks Martin 20:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: wow, alright I'm dumb. Thanks. BrokenSegue 20:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect problem

message: I have an unenabled version but the download seems to be broken. Dalf | Talk 07:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm. It works for me. Just downloaded the newest version. --Adrian Buehlmann 12:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The download link also works for me. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 13:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It downloads ok but it appears to be corropted "noi files to extract" when I try and extract it (even though it shows the files in the manafest). Dalf | Talk 02:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  download broken 

message: I wouldn't call this high up on the priority list, but I think it would be nice if there was an option to turn off the "List Complete" and the "No articles in list, you need to use the make list" messages.  --Kbdank71 14:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? Martin 14:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be easy to put the messages in the status bar, I'll just do that instead. thanks Martin 14:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The status bar would be fine, thanks.  I was just thinking it would be two less things to click on (I'm extremely lazy).  --Kbdank71 14:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Option request

message: Changes I make in the editing pane are not being reflected when I click "Preview" or "Show changes" again, although they are passed through when I click "Save".
This makes it all too easy to make mistakes, I fear: could someone fix it fast, please.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:26, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I introduced this bug recently by accident, it should have been fixed in 1.8, do you have this version? thanks Martin 16:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not updating after manual edit 

message: Is there a reason we can't save or load our settings? Secifically our regex and comment field settings? This would be a nice feature. ThanksEagle (talk) (desk) 22:16, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get around to it one day. Martin 23:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saving and Loading 

message: When I run AWB on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, the preview shows that it is trying to empty out the contents of 2  sections (<nowiki>{{wikify}} and {{stub}}). Please point AWB at that page and take a look. --kingboyk 23:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: doesnt do that for me, what version are you using? Martin 23:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1.8, freshly downloaded. IE6. At second attempt it didn't do it for me either :~ --kingboyk 00:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The AWB adds and removes empty lines just to "clean up" the page.  If the only edits are adding or removing one line, then don't save. --M@thwiz2020 21:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, of course :-) But if AWB kept a count of how many changes it has made, and how many were 'trivial', it could skip to the next page if those numbers are low and equal - thereby saving me the time it takes to review. --kingboyk 00:33, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Same with subst'd CFD tags too, if possible.  --Kbdank71 21:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, fixed this in 1.83. Martin 22:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was quick! Thanks. --kingboyk 00:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug?

message: It seems to be common usage to annotate an Oscar category with the name of the actor involved, in an HTML comment, and I assume this happens for other categories also.
However AWB unhooks these comments and leaves them dangling in mid-air.
Could the category-sorting code be fixed so as preserve these comments?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTML comments lost when sorting categories 

message: Possible minor bug: AWB 1.8.1 wanted to do this edit to Australian Electoral Commission (Apply general fixes:yes, Auto tag:yes). I believe I did not set such a replace (I was doing things like this). BTW: really great the new multi-regex replace! --Adrian Buehlmann 23:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because it bullets external links on a new line after the ==External links== header. This was an unusual situation as the was inside a template and on a new line. Martin 23:34, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. That's a very arcane case. Seems probably not worth to bother much about. Never mind. --Adrian Buehlmann 23:40, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB 1.8.1: inserts * before a URL 

message: AWB 1.8.1: If I have set "Bypass redirects" AWB does not edit the redirect page, it instead edits the target page of the redirect (superb so far). I have now set in "Skip articles" (on the "Set options tab") a regex expression in "Skip if doesn't contain". It seems to me that the skip expression is applied on the redirect page. I would rather expect that the skip expression is applied on the page that AWB edits, i.e. the target of the redirect if "Bypass redirects" is set. BTW an option that would "click ignore for me" if it is a null edit would be fine ("skip null edits"?). (Sorry for not using the newest version, I have just loaded a bunch of multi-regexes right now into a 1.8.1 instance of AWB and I am too lazy to reenter them into the newest version :-). And sorry for being so greedy on features. AWB is just such an wonderful thing :-) --Adrian Buehlmann 19:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It does check the article it is redirected to to see if it should "ignore if does/doesnt contain", and this seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. I'll add add the skip null edits thing to list of things I will do. thanks Martin 20:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. Sorry for nagging. I'm an idiot. I was distracted by the short blink of the redirect page in the browser window. Thanks for picking up the "skip null edits". BTW do you have an example settings xml file somewhere (or a doc)? The version note for 1.82 says that AWB can load it (not yet save). --Adrian Buehlmann 21:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem, I have just uploaded version 1.84, this can save the settings as well. Hopefully you will be able to keep the same settings.xml file for any future versions, meaning you wont need to keep re-entering your settings. thanks Martin 23:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahhh. 1.84 is amazing. I have edited my regexes into the xml. Thanks! --Adrian Buehlmann 10:52, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bypass redirects and Skip articles 

message: Um, me again (don't beat me :-). Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni is a redirect to Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni. I believe my AWB 1.84 loops forever on this. --Adrian Buehlmann 13:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's that problem IE has with certain unicode fonts in the URL, I am fixing them as I find them, so it is useful to know which ones it has a problem with. I have also added the option to skip pages that it hasn't made an edit on. (version 1.85). thanks Martin 13:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, that's bad. This must be a real pain for developing. I had no clue about that font problem. Would it be helpful to start a list of these problem redirects somewhere? I could then add them there without noising up this page here. Or I could simply email them to you. Or we could just make a special section here. Just some ideas. Re 1.85: Many thanks, I'm hurrying to download... --Adrian Buehlmann 14:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, dear. The new "skip articles with no changes" works like a rocket. Incredible. So far for reducing my wiki editing.... BTW a pause button (or ESC key?) would be something nice to have (very very low prio this). I'm a bit ashamed for constantly asking new stuff and frankly baffled by your responsiveness. Many thanks. I'll try to shut up my chatter a bit now. --Adrian Buehlmann 14:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Calm down, our kid! If it's skipping articles, then it isn't making edits. If you're blasting through your list at a rate of knots not changing anything, nothing is lost except your opportunity to make a cup of tea . HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 09:15, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  OH. Just to make this clear: "skip articles with no changes" is an extremely helpful feature to me. It's great to see AWB rush automatically to the stuff I want to change. The idea behind having a stop/pause button is that I do not want to go away from my computer while AWB is running. But sometimes, I do have to do so :-). --Adrian Buehlmann 09:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

text: *thanks Adrian, btw if you want to reproduce the problem for yourself try copying and pasting http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xagħra_Stone_Circle&action=edit into internet explorer, it doesnt load up properly. If you click the link it works, if you paste it into firefox it works. therefore i am certain it is simply a bug in ie. Martin 22:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thanks. Really sad that bug. --Adrian Buehlmann 22:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL Unicode fonts 

message: *Poşta Română --Adrian Buehlmann 19:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *thanks Adrian, btw if you want to reproduce the problem for yourself try copying and pasting http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xagħra_Stone_Circle&action=edit into internet explorer, it doesnt load up properly. If you click the link it works, if you paste it into firefox it works. therefore i am certain it is simply a bug in ie. Martin 22:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thanks. Really sad that bug. --Adrian Buehlmann 22:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Font problems on

message: If you have "Skip articles with no changes" set, then the "Preview" button acts like "Ignore".
I can only assume that the dingus which checks for "no changes" is failing to spot any changes because these are not displayed when you do a "Preview".
I note that this feature is disabled when you set "Preview instead of diff".
Might I suggest that the "Skip articles with no changes" should only actually perform the skip when you first land on the article and thereafter be disabled until the next article?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thanks, I knew I would miss something. Martin 19:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It also skips incorrectly if you suffer a failure loading the article up. This is not so helpful when you then have to go back and figure out which article you just skipped so you can try it again. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 09:12, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug when skipping unaltered articles 

message: When making a list, article titles containing HTML entities such as an ampersand (&) appear in the list as the HTML code for them (&). Simple fix I guess... BigBlueFish 10:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I never bothered fixing it because it works just the same either way, just looks a bit ugly. Martin 10:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTML entities bug 

message: Due to only the most recent version of the software being enabled, and being updated every few days, is it possible to enable multiple versions of the software, so that a particular download of the program lasts more than a few days, and then only require an update when a "major" update is made?  The constant un-enabling of the different versions makes things quite difficult, as using AWB seems to require a new download practically every single time I use it.
A self-update feature in the program whereby it updates itself to the most recent version might make things less difficult as well.
SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that I would want to speak for Martin, but you might consider that AWB is still a development version and as such we – as early users – help to develop it by using it. As such I think the process that Martin uses (release often, release early) fits quite well. This also includes the early deprecation of older versions (it is good to use and test the new versions as they come out, as this helps improve the software too). This helps to make AWB strong and keep the workload for Martin as low as possible. I understand that this is a bit ugly for the users (me included!), but given the fact that the installation of AWB is trivial (just copy it in a directory) and that the settings can now be saved/loaded, I think we do Martin (and thus ourselves and Wikipedia) a favor if we do take the time to download the newer version before letting it go over articles. A new release each day is not that bad. --Adrian Buehlmann 07:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right, but I accept the original point and will leave older versions enabled for longer. thanks Martin 09:56, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enabling of different versions 

message: See these edits made with the AWB (general fixes and autotag on, nothing else on):    .  Why did the AWB do this? --M@thwiz2020 19:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because it bolds the first occurance of the title if it is near the very beginning of the article, other bold text does not occur at the beginning and the title is not bolded anywhere else in the article. The problems you point out are because I made a silly error in the code, I have uploaded 1.881 now, which fixes this. thanks Martin 19:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding unnecessary bold tags? 

message: I just starting work on Wikipedia:Bad links with AWB.  AWB is such a great tool for this project and saves quite a bit of time.  However, for some reason, the setting "mark all edits as minor" isn't working.  All my edits are being marked as major edits even though the setting is checked.  I've also tried closing AWB and opening it again with no luck.  Is this a bug or user error? PS2pcGAMER (talk) 22:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, it is working now.  If you want to investigate this further, let me know.  Otherwise I will just mark this as a goof by me. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 22:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll tweak it so it sets the checkbox on load as well, at the moment it only sets it on save, but I can't see anything wrong with it. Martin 22:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's probably why I was confused.  Thanks! --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 23:03, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor edit setting not working? 

message: While going through Wikipedia:Bad links, I've been getting some weird results every 1/20 pages that I (luckily) catch in the "show diff" and fix manually.  I'll review the code and let you know if I make any progress as to the cause of this.  I can't give you a sample edit, though, since I fix them manually. --M@thwiz2020 00:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See, for example, this edit, which I let go and then later fixed manually. --M@thwiz2020 00:43, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its because the regexes to fix them were being greedy, I've fixed it now. Martin 00:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  I'm going to stop going through the bad links for the night pretty soon, so just upload it whenever you can, and I'll download it tomorrow.  I have other work to do now (although whether or not I'll do it now is another question - I'm a bit of a procrastinator.) --M@thwiz2020 00:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've uploaded 1.89 now, with the above fixes and numerous others, including stopping links being clicked in the browser window. I probably did other stuff too, I'm just to tired to remember now. Martin 01:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you.  I'm working on the D's with no problems so far! --M@thwiz2020 23:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad link repair 

message: Does one need to have a bot flag on their account to use "bot mode" - I'm listed in the access as a bot. I have a 8000 entry list to do and I rather automate over clicking 8000 times :) Tawker 12:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't say if you need a bot flag or not, but the auto mode is virtually untested at the moment, once it is reliable then I have no problem with you using it. Martin 12:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  From testing, it doesn't work if I have my bot username in the bots field, it still won't give me the field.  Not sure if I want to use Auto on adding subst: anyways, I don't know if I'd trust the python bot to do it.) Tawker 23:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding it to the bots isnt meant to enable the automode, When it is more thoroughly tested I will enable it for some users. Martin 23:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Martin, just as you have the "enabledusersbeginshere" tag, you could have a "botslistbeginshere" tag that tells the AWB if a user is a bot. --M@thwiz2020 23:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto mode 

message: Martin - can you add a preset edit summary to the drop down box such as: "bad link repair.  You can help!"?  Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 22:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad link repair 

message: I used to be able to use the "In Template Rule" to replace parameters and/or text within nested params (e.g.  is inside of , and I need to change something in ). However, recently I can only affect the top-level template (e.g. I can edit stuff in A but not B). Is this something implemented in the most recent version, or am I doing something stupid? Primefac (talk) 19:07, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Going to archive this shortly, but this is phab:T159958 I believe. --Izno (talk) 17:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible ID 10T error 

message: What did I do wrong to get this? Also, there is a faint green glow surrounding the program. Artix Kreiger (talk) 15:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I filed an admin task on this but then saw this user is CU-blocked so I closed as invalid. Task for anyone interested is :phab:T257146 in case they want to chase it for some reason. Archiving otherwise. --Izno (talk) 17:27, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Win32Exception in ListMaker.SelectAll 

message: When I used Autowikibrowser to adding Category:Module to Module page,it looked like a bug(because it show a red text,and the pages can't add to the category,so what should I do(Is it Autowikibrowser bug,i'm a Wikia aka Fandom administrators.)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HansJie (talk • contribs) 11:12, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I am going to archive this shortly. This is not a bug. Module pages cannot have wikitext. --Izno (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Module bug 

message: **description**: 
**workaround**: 
--------------------------
Exception:`UriFormatException`
Message:`无效的 URI: 无法分析主机名。`
Call stack:   在 System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
   在 System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
   在 WikiFunctions.Variables.RefreshProxy()
   在 WikiFunctions.Variables.SetProject(String langCode, ProjectEnum projectName, String customProject, String protocol)
   在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(String code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject, String protocol)
   在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.OpenPreferences(Boolean focusSiteTab)
   在 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   在 System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
**OS**: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
**version**: AutoWikiBrowser (5.10.0.0), WikiFunctions (5.10.0.0), revision 12218 (2018-08-17 02:56:38)
**net**: 2.0.50727.8922
**duplicate**: 
**site**: http://zh.wikia.com
::What's wrong?And I hope you can fix it.
For posterity, this is :phab:T203327. Archiving. --Izno (talk) 17:31, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem 

message: In MOS:ORDER, Short description comes above hatnotes but general fixes puts hats first. Consequentially, some edits are reverted because of this. Sun Creator(talk) 14:30, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: OK,  Meta data sorter:  above dablink per MOS:ORDER. Rjwilmsi 19:21, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That update doesn't seem to be being pushed is there something more that can be done to have it live?  Sun Creator(talk) 21:33, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You would need to agree with  to create a new release of AWB, which we'd only normally do soon after a previous release if the fix is for a severe/significant issue. Rjwilmsi 23:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it release-able yet? I tripped into it. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:07, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

text: This is :phab:T247694. Archiving this shortly even though it is not currently in a release version in an effort to consolidate bug reporting. --Izno (talk) 17:34, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[MOS:ORDER]] 

message: I am getting this following error on AWB:
TypeInitializationException
Exception:TypeInitializationException
Message:O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers' accionou uma excepção.
Call stack:   em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..ctor(Int32 stubWordCount, Boolean addHumanKey)
   em AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm..ctor()
Inner exception:TypeInitializationException
Message:O inicializador de tipo para 'WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix' accionou uma excepção.
Call stack:   em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.GetProjectLanguages(ProjectEnum project)
   em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter.set_InterWikiOrder(InterWikiOrderEnum value)
   em WikiFunctions.Parse.MetaDataSorter..ctor()
   em WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers..cctor()
Inner exception:XmlException
Message:A tag de início 'img' na linha 21, posição 38, não corresponde à tag de fim de 'a'. Linha 22, posição 3.
Call stack:   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowTagMismatch(NodeData startTag)
   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEndElement()
   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
   em System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
   em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
   em System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
   em System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
   em System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
   em System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
   em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix.LoadFromNetwork()
   em WikiFunctions.Parse.SiteMatrix..cctor()
*OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
*version: AutoWikiBrowser (6.1.0.1), WikiFunctions (6.1.0.1), revision 12353 (2019-09-17 21:16:42)
*net: 4.0.30319.34209
*duplicate: 
*site: https://en.wikipedia.org
-----
NOTE: I'am using an old version of Windows Vista --JotaCartas (talk) 12:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  TypeInitializationException 

message: Using Win10, AWB 6.1.0.1, when I preview an article being edited, it appears that it does so using an IE11 browser object (Internet Explorer version: 11.0.18362.836 / .NET version: 4.0.30319.42000 / Windows version: 6.2). I'm seeing a number of problems using it. Perhaps someone can tell me if these are reported yet (and if they are, what I should search for on phab since I couldn't find anything relevant ):
# Previewing 2018 VP1, in the infobox,  uses  to create a bullet-separated list. In the browser, this renders "ApolloNEO", with no space or bullet between the two. There are other styles that don't render quite right either. It renders correctly in Firefox and also when I browse the page from a separate instance of IE11 (though see below).
# Clicking on links to sections from the table of contents does nothing, nor do links to references.
# If I scroll down to the reference list and (left-)click on a linked reference, the link turns purple as though it has been visited, but nothing happens. If I right-click on the link and choose "Open", nothing happens. If I right-click and choose "Open in new window", it opens a large IE11 window (~ 1700×900 px almost the full size of my 1920×1080 px display). The website being browsed, though, ends up in a separate, borderless (1000×460 px) window near the upper left with extremely small text. The image map for its menus is also confused. I get the "DATA" menu highlighted when the mouse pointer is down/over by "Read MPEC 2018-V41". The vertical scroll bar doesn't work if you try to grab it where it appears. It  work, though, if you grab what would be the original (large) browser window's scroll bar (near the right edge of the screen). If I reduce the size of the "large" browser window, the smaller window reduces in size also. The place you have to grab the scrollbar moves also, remaining at the right side of the large browser window. Here's a (cropped) image of the original (before I resized it): 
Does any of this sound familiar? —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 04:27, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the webbrowser implementation we use in AWB that's part of C# WinForms has a number of limitations that I don't think we can do much about. Rjwilmsi 18:32, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with IE11 

message: The option shown above when ticked still applies the MOS:ORDER fixes which itself is bug on the current release. If this option was working it would be a workaround, but it doesn't work with MOS:ORDER either.  Sun Creator(talk) 17:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have filed this as :phab:T257148 in preparation shortly for redirect this page to WT:AWB. I will archive this section shortly. Please feel free to follow the Phab task. --Izno (talk) 17:55, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option: Do not apply WP:MOS fixes 

message: This general fix for the incorrect accessdate parameter is a false positive as the accessdate for that reference was not "2016-10-08". It could have been "2016-10-18" or "2016-10-28" but in this case, it was none of them so I reverted it. However, why is AWB putting a random number in front of "2016-10-8" without knowing what the real accessdate is? Pkbwcgs (talk) 13:13, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to be another strange edit. Why is AWB assuming that if the date parameter is set at "2017-8-3", it means "2017-08-03"? Pkbwcgs (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the issue; if it was supposed to be -18, then regardless of whether it's -08 or -8 it's wrong. However, the accessdate param requries it to be in full YYYY-MM-DD form, so -8 is definitely incorrect. I'd rather be wrong and formatted correctly than wrong and formatted incorrectly. Primefac (talk) 16:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date fixing false positive on AWB 

message: AWB wants to insert  on 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic despite the code already containing  and . --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 19:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a bug. The editors of that page deliberately substituted templates. Archiving shortly. --Izno (talk) 17:57, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genfixes wants to insert Reflist when references tag is already on the page 

message: If, in the diff section, I double click on a line to revert a change that was made automatically (by general fixes, custom regex, etc.), all the text in the edit window changes to be highlighted in dark gray (#D3D3D3) instead of the normal syntax coloring. Is this an existing reported bug (I couldn't find it in phab)?
Also, is there an existing feature (or feature request) to show the line number the cursor is on in the edit window? When trying to find in the edit window an edit shown in the diff window as being on line number nnn, it would be far easier if I could see those line numbers in the edit window. Or is there perhaps a better way to get to a place in the edit window relevant to a change in the diff window? Thanks. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 01:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have filed :phab:T257149 for the second and :phab:T257150 for the first. I am archiving this section per discussion on WT:AWB in preparation to redirect this page. Please feel free to follow the phab tasks. --Izno (talk) 18:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit window syntax coloring all gray after reverting a suggested edit