Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 2

message: * Remove categories.
* Add spell checker. (waiting for next release of WinFX)
* Ability to create list from searching the database dump. (done - see User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool)
* Disambiguation tools
* HTML entities to unicode No point in duplicating User:Curpsbot-unicodify done anyway.
* Integrate the diff engine - long term goal (probably difficult).
* Make compatible with other wikimedia projects/languages - long term goal (not very difficult, but too much complication for now)
What does remove categories mean?  Do you mean, remove deleted categories from a page?  In addition, what is a "database dump"?  I am currently working on a spell checker, though. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 23:49, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that is what I mean about categories, the database dump can be found here, it is the entire wikipedia database in XML format. How are you going about the spell checker? I have a plan to implement one fairly simply, but am waiting on Microsoft to release the next beta of WinFX. Martin 09:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I started a script to fix misspellings with navigation popups autoedits, but haven't worked on it in a while.  I recently was thinking I could change the script to make an array of words from Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/For machines and correct them using the AWB - I just need more C# training.  Why are you waiting for the next WinFX beta?  I know it's the new Vista programming API, but how will that help you spell check? — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 20:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it has an extension to allow spell checking in textboxes and richtextboxes, so it would be really simple, and a lot better as it suggests the correct spelling just like a word processor does, which would be really cool. Martin 22:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow... there goes my project.  (Does it have an "add" function to add words such as Wikipedia to the dictionary?)  Even if you do get your hands on a copy of WinFX beta, how will you extend its benefits to all users?  Microsoft is usually very protective. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WinFX will be freely available, in the same way .NET is, I already have a beta, but AFAIK they havent released the beta with this functionality yet. I can't remember when it will be released properly, but I'll certainly be ready! Martin 22:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out how to use Word's spellchecker from a C# application - without WinFX. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Word must be installed on your computer for the above to work - what a pity. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:30, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Or maybe we should wait for WinFX - read about how much easier that option is - and it doesn't require Word. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: In the website above, people left comments about testing the spellchecker - it seems as if it is already out. — MATHWIZ2020 TALK | CONTRIBS 22:33, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have already made it interact with word, but is not very satisfactory. I dont think the public beta has the spell checker, but I'll have another look. thanks Martin 22:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Things to do

message: Why does it display that message? Fetofs Hello! 22:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Download the latest version, 1.89, and see if that works. --M@thwiz2020 22:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  You are not enabled to use this 

message: While editing with the AWB, after I clicked save, I received some notice about "spam protection" but the AWB navigated to the next page on the list before I could read the page.  When I went to my contribs, the edit I just made had not been saved.  Does anyone know what happened?  My best guess is that the MediaWiki software blocked my edit, possibly because I was editing too quickly.  Any other guesses? --M@thwiz2020 22:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And four edits per minute maximum is, in my opinion, not enough to get me blocked out by MediaWiki. --M@thwiz2020 22:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the devs are testing out some anti-spam measure. Martin 23:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam protection? 

message: I found that if the AWB is out of focus when it finds an article with no changes, it will remove the article from the list in the bottom right but the browser will not navigate to the next article on the list - to do so, I have to select start again.  Is this problem similar to the one with the save button and, if so, can you fix it using the invoke member script?  Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 23:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasnt a focus issue, thankfully (to you) that was completely elimated. It was because of the measures to stop links being clicked in the browser, I have fixed it now, will upload soon, along with other minor tweaks and fixes. Martin 23:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skip articles with no changes 

message: I'm sorry to be writing here so much, but I found that a lot of people write:  (or the same thing with one bracket on each side).  Could you add regexs to the bad link repair section that removes the "image:"?  (I would write this could, actually, before the bad link repair so that the AWB could remove the double brackets in the bad link repair section, if necessary.)  Thanks! --M@thwiz2020 23:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External images 

message: Hi again AWB team. I'm just messaging in the hope of getting a progress report into the development of AWB on Windows 98. I was told a months or so ago that oyu'd work on it - any news? --Celestianpower háblame 23:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, no success. Martin 11:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 98 ... again 

message: Since I can't run AWB outside the ZIP file, I can't actually get to the settings file. This means, among other things, that things like this are of no use to me.
I would like AWB to provide a dialog to allow me to choose one of several settings files, please.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 10:15, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't run AWB outside the ZIP file? Strange. Is this a security restriction imposed by your employer which provides your Windows box? I can extract the exe from the zip file and save that in a folder, with the settings file saved to the same folder. I can then copy the settings files to different names and copy them back to the standard name. So I have several settings files. To my knowledge, if I doubleclick onto something inside a zip-archive, winzip (or whatever you use) extracts that file to a temp folder and opens/runs it from there. If you can do that, then I guess you should be able to run exe's from the temp folder. Puzzled. --Adrian Buehlmann 10:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's totally bizarre, I have no idea what is causing it, and I would be very surprised if our admin people had imposed this. If I extract the executable from the ZIP file and attempt to execute it, I simply get the error I reported above. I can run it from inside the ZIP file perfectly well, except that it cannot—obviously—see the XML settings file. In any case, wouldn't it be much more convenient if you could pick a file from a dialogue, rather than all that messy copying (which runs the obvious risk of copying in the wrong direction, overwriting stuff and the usual garbage)? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 13:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem with the save under a name. But you should definitely nail down your bizarre run from a zip file problem. --Adrian Buehlmann 15:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature request: load/save settings from/to named files 

message: Yesterday when I was delivering Esperanza news using AWB, I noticed when you had a new message, it comes up with a message box saying something along the lines of "You have a new message. Please answer it before continuing." This confused me, seeing as when I went to look at the message in my other browser, there wasn't one. Then I realised that the page in question that I was trying to save (User talk:SWD316) had a fake "You have new messages" banner at the top. Because AWB thought I had new messages, it refused to save so I had to deliver that message manually. It's not a huge deal, but I was wondering if you could stop the browser from preventing you to save a page if you have new messages (...or not). Is it just an issue with stopping people putting fake messages at the top of their userpage/talk pages? — FireFox • T • 11:00, 14 February 2006
:It will distinguish between real and fake messages in next version. thanks Martin 11:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The point of this feature is, if you're making controversial edits, an admin can remove you from the checkpage and leave you a message.  The AWB then stops, and, when you restart the AWB, it will see you are not enabled and not let you edit.  (This precaution is due to the controversy surrounding User:Bobblewik's date removing script.) --M@thwiz2020 23:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "You have new messages" 

message: I downloaded the new version 1.92, but somehow am unable to connect properly. I'm sure it's the right version, I'm listed and I definitely am logged in at IE, but it still gives me the usual "Not enabled" message. I hope v1.93 will solve my troubles. It also made me think whether, seeing as from now on, you intend to label the versions differently, it might make sense to provide the second-newest edition as well. E.g. in my case v1.91 might work, but I can't get it (and my old version is far outdated, didn't use AWB for two weeks or so) -- Genesis 13:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem stays with v1.93. The tool says I'm using IE 6.0.2800.1106, Windows version 5.1 and .NET 2.0.50727.42. I am using Windows XP and my standard browser is Firefox 1.5.0.1. I'm using a router to connect to the internet -- Genesis 18:20, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did it ask you if you wanted to send an error report. Martin 19:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope. It says "This version is not enabled, please download the newest version. If you have the newest version, check that Wikipedia is online." -- Genesis 20:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought you meant that it said you weren't registered. The servers have been intermitant recently, it's possible that that is the reason, try again when they are properly online. Martin 22:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For me they are quite stable now, but I still get the same error (now with v1.94). Am I the only one having this problem? It worked well when I was using v1.8x (1.82 or something, not sure). Did you change anything at the login process? Or might there have been any changes with Wikipedia? -- Genesis 15:20, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Error message has changed for v1.95. Now it's "Check page failed to load" -- Genesis 14:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For some reason it's just not loading the page properly for you, I don't know why. Martin 15:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The weird thing is that it did work at older versions... I can't understand why it won't work anymore, all of a sudden -- Genesis 15:55, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thought I'd mention that, somehow, AWB is working again. I believe it to be connected to other problems when trying to access login pages, as both were solved by a change of my Internet Security tool. - Genesis 23:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version 1.92 not working? 

message: Is it not about time to clear up some of the resolved issues and put them in an archive? This page is really getting long. Thanks. Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. if not I won't care either way, this is just an observation.
Archive: Not that it's really votable, but yup, definately! The page size now exceeds the reasonable 50kb size and it takes some time to load on my PDA now. :( --Dan (Talk)|@ 22:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving?? 

message: I had a discussion with FireFox on this matter. I believe AWB is a great tool, but one should not use it for edits of  this kind. Such edits just clog one's watchlist, without providing any tangible benefit.  
Another idea would be to provide a specific edit summary when changing something, just saying "cleanup" is too generic I think. Comments? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the edit summaries are editable by the person using AWB. It is up to them to accurately describe what they are doing.  For example, this is my bot account's explanation of what it is doing. --Syrthiss 21:24, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: This is exactly why it says "Avoid making extremely minor edits such as adding or removing a single space or replacing an underscore in a template call with a space." as a rule for using this software. Martin 22:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using the AWB framework for trivial edits 

message: Noticed that AWB isn't opening articles with certain characters - examples are Jason "Jay Dawg" Arsenault and The Body Soul & Spirit Expo.  I was working my way through a list and it told me that both of those articles were redlinks. --Syrthiss 00:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed in 1.95, thanks. Martin 23:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article skipping... 

message: About the dialog window for setting up "Find & Replace":
* There should be spaces in the window title, which is currently FindandReplace.
* The contents should auto-resize with the window. I wanted to make it bigger to work on a long regex, but the list control stays the same size.
* It should be possible to re-order the items in the list. I am assuming here, based on the sample Adrian gave for migrating , that the list is traversed top-to-bottom and each regex applied to the whole article in turn. in this case, it would be helpful if it were possible to:
*# insert a new row in the middle of the list;
*# move existing rows up and down.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 15:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: First two done, may get around to third at some point. Martin 23:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at it and I thought "you cunning bugger, you've connived around the problem by simply taking away the maximise button". Then I thought to actually try it, and it works! Yay! —Phil | Talk 15:28, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UI tweak 

message: Even though I have this marked as on in the menu, it doesn't seem to activate unless I have the "general fixes" switched on as well, and I don't necessarily want to fiddle about with adding/removing odd lines.
Is it possible that we could have finer-grained control over these rather nice features, please?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 15:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I never quite figured out what this meant.  Doesn't AWB sort interwikis by default (or at least, I know it used to, but it could have change without me noticing)? --M@thwiz2020 22:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, previously it did it automatically. It would be difficult to seperate out all the different processes, as some rely on others having been done, otherwise it is difficult to handle every possible situation. Martin 22:43, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alpha sort interwiki links 

message: Apropos of above, I also noticed that AWB had trouble with an article ("If This Goes On—").
What I used to be able to do was to remove the name from the list into the edit box, adjust the title and re-add the name back into the list.
However when you remove the name, it no longer goes into the box: I had to hunt the article down and add it by hand.
Cold we have this back, please?
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It works better now (1.95). thanks Martin 23:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Remove from list" works differently now 

message: Wikipedia just had a brief period where the servers were unavailable. I was using AWB at the time and when it tried to load an article it got the error page. It looked like it just kept trying to load the page over and over. The only way I could get it to stop was to exit the app. I would have liked to have been able to save my progress, but it didn't seem like I could interupt it & I didn't want to let it keep trying to re-load the article if the servers were having troubles. -- JLaTondre 02:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Server Error 

message: Make list: Make from: What links here. In case of templates, it would be good if we could pickup only lines with  "(inclusion)". A new option "What links here (inclusion)"? This would be very helpful for template orphaning. Phil also made a request on wikitech-l . --Adrian Buehlmann 19:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have an example of a template with both inclusion and non inclusion, so I can test if it works. thanks Martin 21:00, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dont worry, found one, it seems to work fine. Martin 21:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What links here (inclusion) 

message: Could you add another check-button to "What links here", making it possible to only add pages that link to the page via a redirect? It would make cleaning up pages like White Wolf, Inc. easier, I think. -- Genesis 12:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, that's a good idea. I assume you are able to run the program properly now? Martin 12:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope ^_^ That was just a thing I had thought about earlier. -- Genesis 14:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What links here: Redirects 

message: AWB 1.9.6.0. I have loaded some regexes and AWB shows me a non-empty diff. Now I go and make some additional edits in the edit window on the lower right. Then I click on "Show changes" in order to update the diff. At the moment - don't ask me why - I mostly get an error from the server (this must be a server issue) for example I get a html page with an error message containing:
:Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1421_hypothesis&action=submit from 0.0.0.0 via srv10.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5 STABLE12) to en.wikipedia.org ([unknown])
:Error: ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT, errno [No Error] at Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16.10:09 GMT
My problem now is: I'm stuck in this state. I can click "Preview" or "Show changes", but nothing happens.  I can click on "Start the process" and AWB redoes the regexes, but my edits are thrown away then. BTW can it be that I get more server errors if I work with AWB compared to normal editing with Firefox? I know this is an odd question, but at the moment I feel I have a lot more server errors when working with AWB compared to normal editing with Firefox. Strange world. --Adrian Buehlmann 16:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Before you click "start", go to the edit window: right-click →"select all" & right-click →"copy"; optionally paste it into Notepad for safety. Click "start", go to the edit window: right-click →"select all" & right-click →"paste". HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The Wikipedia Servers don't run that stable right now. I'm using Firefox, too, and I experience errors and timeouts quite often when applying edits. Sometimes the servers are more stable, sometimes less. Maybe you just edited in one of those less stable periods. But maybe a back-button for AWB would be good. I just don't know how much trouble this could cause with the way the programm works (as it gets confused when you click in the browser window) -- Genesis 16:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To answer the question about AWB vs Firefox, AWB is built using the IE framework, so however many errors AWB receives should be how many IE receives which may or may not be more than Firefox (I can't answer whether or not IE has more errors since I use only Firefox). --M@thwiz2020 22:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Server errors and lost edits 

message: It seems auto-wiki browser doesn't check for nowiki tags before changing and removes underscores from the second part of a piped link even when it would leave the link text totally blank. This can be damaging to pages describing character sets e.g.  Plugwash 16:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That second problem is already known; the first one is not something I've encountered, thankfully. Unfortunately, it would appear that the intrepid user failed to check his changes: bad user, no biscuit! —Phil | Talk 16:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah i contacted the user too, but frankly i think that if you are going to promote a semi-automated tool to wikipedians its actions had better be well debugged! Plugwash 17:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right, which is why it hasn't been deliberately promoted anywhere, and there is bold text next to the download link saying it is in development ;) Martin 17:11, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pages describing character sets 

message: I just noticed these minor things while I was updating the user manual.  They're petty and most people might not care, so you don't have to change them.
#On General menu, change "WordWrap" to "Word wrap".
#On General menu, change "Show preview instead of diff" to "Show preview instead of changes" (because "diff" button has since been renamed "show changes").
#Don't begin file and help menus with a horizontal line (click on them to see what I mean).
#On About menu, make a link to the online user manual.
#Don't make the About box fade if the mouse isn't moved for three seconds - it sometimes gets annoying.
#Make "stop" button same width as all other buttons.
Thanks again! --M@thwiz2020 23:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, instead of making the "stop" button the full width, maybe add a "pause" button next to it that pauses the counter during bot mode.  Since Wikipedians must monitor (or at least should monitor) their bots, they might notice changes that need to be made.  By pausing the bot counter, they can make the changes and then click "pause" again (maybe have the text change to "unpause" once clicked?) to restart the timer.  This is more efficient than stopping and starting since then any edits made to the edit box are undone and must be remade. --M@thwiz2020 23:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor requests 

message: I recently saw an AWB edit that changed childrens to children's in an external link () which broke the link. I realise that this is the responsibility of the user and so on, but would it be possible to stop the program making these types of changes to hyperlinks? Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 00:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was my mistake, didn't look closely enough at the diffs... But yes, it would help to have an option to turn off the 'find and replace' feature for "http://" entities in external links. -- Marcika 01:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the user was doing a typo fix for children's. --M@thwiz2020 03:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah. I was just suggesting that if it's possible to stop the program suggesting putting apostrophes into links then it might be a good idea to stop mistakes like this happening again.--Cherry blossom tree 23:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I dunno of this is just an unfortunate "feature" caused by using .NET, but AWB seems to be a major memory hog. It just never release any memory, after editing 500+ pages with it I literaly run out of system memory and is forced to shut it down and start it back up because my system starts glitching on acount of insifficient memory (I have 1Gb RAM and 2Gb swap file space). How about doing some explicit garbage collection, or whatever it is called in .NET, once in a while. --Sherool (talk) 02:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also it doesn't respect Internet Explorers cache settings. I have set IE to use no more than 20Mb for temp files (becuse the darn thing gets unstable after the cache grows beyond a scertain size and then takes forever to clean out), but after running AWB for a while my C drive filled up with over a 100 Mb of cache files, not a huge problem, but slightly anoying. Would be nice if AWB could be set up to use the general IE settings, or at least allow such things to be configured internaly for the IE object used by AWB. --Sherool (talk) 02:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The problem is the IE control, it doesn't seem to free up the memory it uses. Martin 15:51, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory usage 

message: You know what would be nice (if you have a spare evening with nothing to do that is)? A feature in AWB that would help archive talk pages. You'd specify how many days old a section must have been without comment before moving it to an archive page. Another bot is already doing this at the VP. BrokenSegue 03:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: CrypticBot has a very nice tutorial on how it archives pages at User:Crypticbot#Archival. --M@thwiz2020 19:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Archive feature?

message: When I'm editing using the AWB, a lot of times, I make a change and then want to reparse the article based on the change I just made.  For example, if "alpha sort interwikis" is selected, and I add a new interwiki link but don't want to sort it manually, I would like to have a "reparse" button that takes the text in the edit box, including my new interwiki link, and puts it through the parsing process once again.  Thanks! --M@thwiz2020 19:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reparse button? 

message: *--M@thwiz2020 00:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes 

message: Perhaps an instance counter of sorts? If I am going through looking for misspellings of "February" (often spelled incorrectly as 'Febuary'), could there be a little box showing if there is more than one instance?  Helpful so I know I should be proofing for multiple instances or not. JoeSmack Talk 06:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion 

message: I was looking at Context-free grammar and noticed an abundance of Unicode entities.
When I tried unicodifying them, I discovered that AWB's tool removed a perfectly innocent "+" in the process.
Unicodifying the following line:
 :S → x | y | z | S + S | S - S | S * S | S/S | (S)
produces
 :S → x | y | z | S   S | S - S | S * S | S/S | (S)
                   ^^^^^
which is obviously not appropriate.
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 14:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug: AWB unicodify removes plus sign 

message: In my first attempt at using the software I generated a list for :Category:Jewish liberals which was recently deleted. That went fine, and after selecting Remove Category from the set options and setting my summary I start the process. The first one goes fine, I save. The article is removed from the list and the next lines up, but nothing happens and when I hit start the process again I get:
:See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
:Exception Text
:System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
   ::at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IHTMLDocument2.Open(String mimeExtension, Object name, Object features, Object replace)
   ::at System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument.OpenNew(Boolean replaceInHistory)
   ::at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.Start()
   ::at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.btnStart_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)''
Any idea what's up? Staxringold 23:16, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello? I can do single edits with this thing before it breaks apart, which isn't exactly useful... Staxringold 23:33, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide an example of an article that you are trying to remove the category from that doesnt work? Martin 23:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the odd thing, it's not dependant on what I'm removing (I've since tried a find/replace with the same result). I generate a list of things (first I tried the Jewish liberals thing, then What Links Here for Avalokiteshvara. When I start the process for fixing, the first one works fine, but when I try to move onto the next item I get that error (and it doesn't move on). Staxringold 02:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, what version are you using? thanks Martin 09:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug: Category removal

message: I'm finding that quite often when I move on to a new page, the "find" button switches itself off: I have to append a space to the find criteria and delete to reactivate the button.
Whats with that?
—Phil | Talk 10:29, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd bug with "find" button 

message: I have just attempted to run AWB from within my university network and after logging in it tells me I am not enabled even though I am in the list.
The uni routes all traffic through a set of web proxies. Could this be the issue? -Localzuk (talk) 13:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... Quitting and logging in again seems to have done it. -Localzuk (talk) 13:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was probably a problem with your log-in cookie - logging out and in usually does fix this. --M@thwiz2020 21:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem 'You are not enabled to use this' 

message: Could someone who uses AWB get rid of double links in Rapping? Thanks, --Urthogie 08:31, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  request for someone who uses AWB 

message: For each version of AWB, would it be possible to commit to its being enabled for at least X amount of time (or perhaps disabling the enabling by version altogether)?  For those of us who are not helping to develop the program and just using it as necessary, the constant re-downloading is bothersome.
If enabling by version is to continue, could we commit to versions of the program being enabled for at least two weeks or a month?  In light of the fact that most of the revisions are minor, I don't think that's much to ask.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 17:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are forced to upgrade, then the minimum number of new revisions you will upgrade by is 3-4, this is perfectly acceptable as there are often important fixes and improvements. Martin 21:53, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1.96 (which is the version I upgraded from) and the current version were released four days apart.  That is a really short period, and the changes were simple bug fixes, which most users could probably pass over until there is a big revision.  Please consider changing to a method where users are notified of new versions being in place, but not completely shutting off access to older versions.  Or, as I've mentioned before, you may want to consider something that will make the program update itself.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sometimes I have released more than one revision in a single day, but in such cases old versins are left active for substantial periods of time, often until there was a very important change. When you say "the changes were simple bug fixes" consider that I made the changes, so am in a considerably better postition to say how important they were. As for automatically updating itself, it is a good idea, but probably beyond the scope of a free piece of software used by just a small number of users, I will look into how it could be achieved though. Also remember that part of the reason it is so strict is that the program is being developed, if the versions were release versions, then they would no doubt be left enabled for much longer. thanks Martin 22:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bluemoose - If you right click on the sandbox, choose CVS, and then "Make patch...", couldn't you theoretically just release a patch without a new version number?  That way, users would only have to download the patch if they so wished.  Then, the next time a major upgrade is made to the code, a complete version (not just a patch, but the program) would be made available (and required by the checkpage), including all patches, in case the user didn't install them earlier. --M@thwiz2020 01:01, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we commit to a longer enabling time? 

message: Do you think it would be possible to make the browser usable for users of Wikis other than Wikipedia? It already supports most of the MediaWiki 1.5+ features, and I think it would be interesting to see how it would work if not based around Wikipedia, but around MediaWiki. --Lugiatm (talk • contribs) 21:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It could be adapted, but that will only happen when it is much further developed. Martin 21:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki? 

message: By most part the AWB assist did a fine job in catching formatting errors and spelling errors, then correcting them.  However, there was an uninteded change that occured on the Ojibwe language page that should have not happened, and this type of formatting should have been more carefully screened.  The problem was the , which in most cases do mean italics and changing all instances of  to  would have made sense, but in the Ojibwe language case, the  was used to mean the "i-character" and should not have been corrected to the incorrect . CJLippert 23:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, but will only be available when the open source project is running properly. Martin 00:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! CJLippert 01:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uninteded change 

message: I'm doing some image replacement, and a lot of the pages I hit turn out only contain "ghost links" to the image due to previos use in transcluded templates, so a null edit would clean it up, but if I have general fixes eneabled it will move stub tags and clear exessive whitespace and such, so I can't do "clean" null edits with it eneabled. However once in a while I run into a page where I would like to run the general fixes on, but in order to do so I have to go to the set options tab, turn it on and then click the "start" button all over again. Would be nice if I could just right click in the edit textarea and click "apply general fixes" or something like that without the hassle of swaping tabs, and re-starting the edit process. --Sherool (talk) 17:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I recently added a "re-parse" item to the textbox context menu, this runs all the selected functions again, it's not quite what you want because if you dont have general fixes enabled then it doesn't apply them (and if you did have it enabled it would auotmatically do it). I'll add a menu item to disable automatically applying anything. thanks Martin 17:49, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the "re-parse" item!  I look forward to using it once we transition to SourceForge. --M@thwiz2020 20:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about selective application of "general fixes"? 

message: Just out of curiosity, why do we have these (# something here ) in the source code?? I was looking at the code out of curiosity, as I do not know C# (I code in C++/CLI). Thanks if someone can give me an answear. P.S. Where should future code related questions go?? Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know whether future comments should go here or at SourceForge's forums.  Martin, any comments? --M@thwiz2020 00:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mathwiz... do you have any idea on the regions? This is really bugging me!!! :-)Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They are used by the Visual C# IDE to group sections of code. They don't have any effect on the actual program. Rhobite 00:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, now I know what you mean!  Before, I didn't understand.  Yeah, those just divide the code into sections for readability.  You can click the + or - next to such a section to show or hide it from view. --M@thwiz2020 00:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

text: P.S. Thanks for the explanation. I am going to begin using this in my code!!. (Different synatx I found out, #pragma region and #pragma endregion). I learned something new!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:43, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regions (in the code)