Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 5

message: > users with fewer than 500 edits in the article namespace ... ' 
Do only English Wikipedia edits count here? I have 1800 edits in the German Wikipedia, 150 in the English edition, but despite me pointing that out I have been rejected. If edits are seen as an indication for the user's reliability (which is a weak measure anyway), IMHO the edits of all languages should be considered. -- H005 22:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is not the best measure, but do you really expect me to check everyones history as well as actually make the software? The fact you have experience on another wiki does count, I'll add you now. Martin 12:44, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Of course I don't expect any admin to check all Wikis worldwide for all applicants; that's why I explicitly asked to check dewiki_p, and was a bit surprised that this did not seem to be considered. Thanks for adding me! -- H005 12:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I some how missed your note about de wiki. Martin 13:02, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No worries! :-) -- H005 16:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

text: That would allow for people to hack the software to use the program, enabling them to cause a lot of damage. This seems to work well. What's the current waiting time? – Cambrant 10:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I waited less than 24 hours, was fine with me! Thank you for adding me, this program is a blessing :) --Naha|(talk) 19:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's another problem; it encourages editcountitis to have JUST a 500+ edit count as a qualification. And you can artificially inflate your edit count anyway. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew Platts (talk • contribs) . 19:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "As a rule of thumb, users with fewer than 500 edits in the article namespace will not be added to the list."  You don't need 500 edits.  In fact, when I consider whom to approve, I look at their edit count, their talk page, their block log, and their contributions.  What the phrase means is that, if you have less than 500 edits, you haven't been on Wikipedia long enough for us to see how valuable your contributions are and whether you would misuse the software.  It's easier to scan people before approving them than it is to scan every edit made using AWB and approve everyone by default.  After all, better safe than sorry! --M@thwiz2020 20:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

text: It has to be on the list of authorized users. The software checks for your name on that list when you try to use it. --GeorgeMoney T·C 23:05, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your help. --Think Fast 02:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage]]

message: A new template has been created at my request called  which automatically lists all the admins. Do you think that would be a good thing to use on the checkpage? --GeorgeMoney T·C 15:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admins 

message: OK, I've downloaded everything, I just need to know how do I activate/use it for the first time? Much obliged, --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 13:53, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Try Opening a page by adding what a Wiki-link would have into the Blank box above the word add in the (1) Make list aria and then clicking the item in the big box on the right and then going to (3) Start and Start Process.  During One of These Steps It may ask you To log in (I use Firefox so I had to go into IE and add Wikipedia to my safe sight list)--E-Bod 16:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm having a little trouble understanding what you're trying to say. Could you put into less technical terms? --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 17:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help getting started 

message: Note For FireFox Users.  If it Tells you that you Need to Allow Cookies try Setting your IE Preferences to allow Cookies.
:Or add it to your Safe Sight list--E-Bod 16:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note For FireFox Users 

message: I Think Instead of Removing Self Links AWB should Make them Bold or leave them the way they are because they already are viewed as Bold.  Some Templates to navigate pages have the page it is on in Bold because it is a link and removing the Wiki-link will just mess up the template so it will be harder to copy it to other pages.--E-Bod 23:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And this is why you should check every edit. AWB suggests some things you might want to change, but it can't possibly suggest right all of the time. Can you give me an example of a template designed for articles with a self-link? I'm not sure that they should exist - an 'edit' link to a template is useful, but I can't see a need to link to the template. SeventyThree(Talk) 10:03, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

text: For normal templates, editing a page which they are used on doesn't edit the template. The first example you gave is something which looks like a template, but really isn't. I guess there's a clever way of making a template which changes the dates like that, but I'm not a template wizard. So yeah, for that sort of article it's just checking carefuly. SeventyThree(Talk) 08:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self Links 

message: Is Their a built in Warning if you edit too fast.  Is the time it takes to check each edit long enough of a waiting time between edits (Sorry for so many Questions)--E-Bod 17:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a built-in timer. Menu bar at the top, General --> Show timer. The counter appears just below the 'Save' button, and counts the time since you last pressed save. SeventyThree(Talk) 10:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yah I Saw the timer but it would be nice to have a popup if you go too much over.  I realized I miss read the page.  It say a few edits a minuet not an hour so I’m not as worried about editing to fast any more because the time I spend checking a few pages is more than a minuet.  And I third are lodes of non AWB edits to make in the meantime if you go over and want to stoop to make up.--E-Bod 23:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I aim for an edit every 20 seconds, or 3 edits a minute. --mboverload@ 08:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't edit too fast 

message: This relates to the Find button - the cursor moves to where the find text was when the edit box was first opened - even if the text has since been moved by a manual edit. If one is doing a number of manual edits, things soon get all out of sync. This did not happen with earlier versions. Gaius Cornelius 10:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, will be fixed next release. thanks. Martin 16:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New bug in version 2501

message: With 5 columns instead of 2... I think it would improve a lot AWB :-)
*Column 1; Boolean; active? If no, ignore the replacement until new order...
*Column 2; Boolean; Regular expression? instead of a switch for the whole list.
*Column 3; Boolean; Case sensitive? instead of a switch for the whole list.
*Column 4; Text, Find
*Column 5; Text, Replace with
It should work also delete an item with 'del' key... --Joanjoc 16:18, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool.  Like that.  I take it the 1 2 & 3 columns are check boxs. It would be nice to be able to change the order of the rows.  what I have been doing is adding a space to the bottom one and deleting it got get a new row and then copy, delete, past the "find replace" I want to go last to the bottom.--E-Bod 20:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Improved Find & Replace list

message: To create the pipe ("|") character press (SHIFT + BACKSLASH) on English-layout and other keyboards. 
Piped link
I just found this out (I'm that out of it).  Well I know this will save me lots of time now Expecially for AWB becoe it doesn't have the little insert bar on the bottom (i used to coppy and past the pipet in).  Am I the only one who disn't know this? (I already new about "[" & "]" & "{" & "}")--E-Bod 01:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Piped link|Piped link]] 

message: I recently got a message inquiring about one of my AWB edits and I thought it would be a good idea to make a page where people could find out commonly asked questions about my edits.  Well, they weren't common yet but I thought that if people saw a whole page dedicated to their concerns making what I do a transparent process people would be more comfortable with me.  Thus, User:Mboverload/AWB.  It's VERY much a work in progress.  Any comment welcome. --Mboverload 07:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Documenting what you are doing is a good idea. --Ligulem 07:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helping to explain your AWB edits 

message: This function doesen't work in the catalan wikipedia. I would really appreciate if you could solve it. Thanks!--Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 21:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google wikipedia in ca 

message: Will AWB or some other program allow me to create a username distribution list, create a talk page notice with it, and automatically post said message to each user talk page in that distro list? Rlevse 01:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it has ana option to append a message to a talk page. Martin 08:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think in general though (and this also applies to manually done talk page postings) you should consider whether you have to have people on a spamlist and post it on their talk page or whether it's easier to just make a subpage of your userspace to update with the new info and have all interested users just add that to their watchlist since spam postings fill up talk pages and make them harder to read even if the person who's talk page it is requested the notice, and it is also considered better practice to avoid leaving bulk messages in general if at all possible. Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 19:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would presuppose they bother to watch and/or read the announcement page, whether it is a user talk page or WikiProject page, etc. Rlevse 17:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mass talk page edits

message: Not sure about how AWB works but it has altered several pages where I had entered "a RAF" to "an RAF".  This is incorrect and can be easily checked by looking on the RAF website where they use the correct "a RAF".  Not sure if this is built into the spelling checker or what? jmb 21:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is not built in at all, there is no spell checker. Plus, the user made the edit, not "it". Martin 21:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

text: My understanding (working from The Cambridge Guide to English Usage) is that it should really be "an RAF". Normally abbreviations which start with vowels and F,L,H,M,N,R,S and X are proceded by "an" whilst everything else gets "a". However, it you wrote it in full it would be "a Royal Air Force". The difference is due to the way the pronunciation of the single letters. However, as Martin points out the edit was done manually and would be down to your AutoWikiBrowser settings so it can easily be stopped.--MarkS (talk) 07:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar

message: Hi, I've been trying this program for a while and it is wonderfull! I have some possibilities to improve it:
* To add an option, such that the program corrects when there are two capital letters at the begining of a word as a typing mistake. FOr example -> For example.
* When we don't choose case sensitive in the search and replace field, it would be good (ar at least that exist the option) to leave the capital letters as they were. So, if I look for "oficial -> official" and it finds at the beginning of a sentence "Oficial", it should change to "Official" and not to "official". (if I put case sensitive, then it works but then I have to add to my list two entries: "oficial -> official" and "Oficial -> Official"... or even more, maybe the whole word is in capital letters: OFICIAL and if I put case sensitive it will not find it and if I put this intermedium-case sensitive I propose, it will change it leaving as it was...
* (this one I don't know if it already exists): when you make the elements of a category, to see if an element is in this category and, at the same time, in a subcategory (and then delete the first category).
* To see if an element is in a category, but not in another whose name is the name of the element (so, for example as if the article "music" were in "entertainment" but not in the category "music").
* To list all the elements of not only a category but also of all its subcategories (if you want to make a change related to an specific field and not having to look for all the subcategories).
* In the edit part (down-right), to add some of this buttons that there are here in the normal edit page such as the quick link to make internal links on the wiki (this one that when you press appears this: Link title. This is because if you see a page that has many links to add, you can go faster adding them.
* Add an option such that if the article doesn't have the  template, and in commons there is a page with the same title as the article we are editing, add the template . The user should then of course verifiy that this page corresponds with the article.
And now two maybe more difficult things...:
* Adapt the program for other browsers (with the log in) and also for other OS...
* Simplify the log-in process for the other wikipedias: we first have to log-in to the english, and then log in again to the regional one if we want our contribuions not to be anonymus. This probably is still not possible because of this restriction list in which we have to appear to use the program, but maybe it could exist one list in each wikipedia and then the program should check the list in the one you want to work (and then there would be no more problems of contributions in another wiki because everyone would have the permission only in the wiki he/she works). By the way, now when I want to work with the wiki in my language firs I always have to make a search in the english one, and then I already can work with mine, but if I directly choose to work with mine, does'nt appear any message telling me that I have to log in. Simply starts looking to fill the list and never stops...
Well, sorry for so many requests and english mistakes... I hope you find some of this suggestions interesting. By the way, to translate the program to the other wikipedias couldn't you ask help them (everyone makes his own work)? I don't know much about programming, so maybe this is stupid, but I think it would be less work for you and many people would collaborate with it...
Despite all my text, I want to thank your work because I really think this program is a great help for all of us. --Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 23:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some requests... 

message: The new version (2600) of AWB appears to have a non-functioning "Case sensitive" switch for regular expressions. I'm having problems obviously related to matching irrespective of the case specified in the regular expressions. This was not happening in the previous versions and I have not changed any settings since then. And yes, the "Case sensitive" box is checked. - Emt147 Burninate! 00:50, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case sensitive appears to be broken 

message: I just picked up AWB after not using it for a while so this all could be user error! I downloaded 2600 to make sure I had the latest. I noticed that  has a note asking that it be replaced with  so I decided to see if I could do a few... So I tried to do a make list from what links here for  the smiley.svg page. I got nothing from AWB. The page, being an image page, and being an image actually kept on commons, may have some special characteristics? It has a list of pages using the image, as do all image pages though. So I tried make from links on page and got nothing as well. So I made up a text file to import, selecting some pages from the list. 
 
I have all options/cleanups/changes etc turned OFF except for one find and replace , which as you might expect is Find: "image:smiley.png" Replace "image:smiley.svg" case sensitive turned off, regexes turned off. 
I got some changed just fine, but am getting odd results for some articles. It's not always finding them. I can find them by hand in the right window though and change them by hand. A page that exhibited that was Talk:Sheffield. Thoughts? Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 01:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: oh, I changed that page so you may need to go back in the history to see it as it was... ++Lar: t/c 01:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Same problem as above, I introduced this bug when I added some other features, whoops. I'll release a fixed version later today hopefully. And I'll look into the image listing thing as well. thanks Martin 12:02, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks! Will be watching. ++Lar: t/c 23:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bunch of weird errors 

message: Hi, it would be nice if someone could update the CVS version in SourceForge... the source files are old... I'm triyng to locate some errors, but with an old CVS is difficult... Another option is to include the latest source files inside the ZIP distribution of the executable... Thanks :-) --Joanjoc 01:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: CVS is up-to-date if you check the files out properly, the files it displays when you view them are out of date because sourceforge has some kind of problem. Martin 09:49, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It should be working properly now. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 03:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CVS

message: Is there any way to get AWB to recognize the links on a page like this? I might just be missing something, but so far I can't get it to pull any of the links from that page. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 01:46, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's built-in. You could view page source, and then do a search-and-replace to reformat to give wikilinks to the pages. I've just done that for the link above (see User:SeventyThree/Sandbox 1). SeventyThree(Talk) 00:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought so. I've been using a similar technique. – Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 00:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question 

message: THANK YOU CODERS!  It's so fast now!  You're gods! --mboverload 02:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: AWB is awesome, indeed. Thanks to Martin once again for giving us this tool. BTW I (finally - I'm a bit late :-) discovered how cool that "paste more" submenu in the context menu of the edit window is. And it is saved in the settings! Just great. --Ligulem 14:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest version is AWESOME 

message: Could the first paragraph pleasebe rewritten in normal English?:  For example,what does "When set to"  mean?  I have no idea what awb is, but at an article discussion, awb was mentioned as a justification for an action.  Kdammers 12:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: User:Mipadi has brought to my attention a problem with the system.  Although in theory it is doing what it should, it interferes with a "wikihack."  He said in my talk page: "The ' needs to stay, because changing it to a normal apostrophe interferes with the italics wikicoding." It is kind of hard to explain, so please see these two edits:
My edit 
reverted edit with correct formatting
--mboverload 18:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add it to the list of items not to change. thanks Martin 19:06, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious unicodify problem 

message: I'm trying to load entries from a category (for instance, Category:War films or Category:Vegetarians, etc) but then I get a error "There was a problem making the list" and no entries are loaded. this is selecting "Category" on the dropdown menu and then typing the category name below. However, "whatlinkshere" , "Links on page" etc, they all work, It's just categories which can't be loaded to be processed. Any idea why? --  ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It won't work if you are entering the "category:" prefix, i.e. enter "War films" not "Category:War films". I'll make it so it removes the prefix automatically now. Martin 19:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I was doing it properly, the problem is that I had logged in on IE with my main a ccount for a moment. And since I just wanted to make a list and save it, didn't bother to relogin the bot --  ( drini's page ☎ ) 20:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Possibly not a good idea to automaticly remove the prefix, because there are some pages with awkward names out there. :Category:Category:Official residences in Hong Kong, for example. They shouldn't exist, but they do. SeventyThree(Talk) 20:48, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories listing 

message: Hi, a few things to improve this grat software :-)
#Using AWB in catalan Wikipedia AWB always show the alert No category, but in the catalan wikis the categoris are like that; Categoria:XXXXXXX. 
#It would be nice a link to the sourceforge project page.
#What about a default settings XML, automatically loaded every time the software starts... and a warning when closing AWB about saving the preferences...?
#Tooltips on the keys with shortcuts.
#On the article list a copy command on the contextual menu.
#On the edit area, adding a Insert > Page name option on the contextual menu will be useful.
Thanks. --Joanjoc 21:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Few improvements

message: Using the "Remove category:" drop-down box, an underscore in a category name is treated as a different character to a space. AFAIK they are the same in links, so they should be treated the same. It looks like a space in the AWB text will match a space or underscore in the article source, but an underscore in the AWB text only matches an underscore in the article source. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:08, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underscores in "Remove category:" 

message: Whenever I try to open it, I get a message "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application." I have downloaded it from many different places, and I still get the same message. I am listed on the check page. Does anybody know what's wrong?--GeorgeMoney T·C 08:02, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have the .NET framework version 2 installed? Martin 20:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Where can I install it? Duh! I should have just read the page. --GeorgeMoney T·C 21:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem 

message: When using the unicodify option, some changes will result in IE showing boxes.  I am compiling a list of these as I go and I will be posting updates here when I find more. User:Mboverload/AWB#Codes_found_that_do_not_translate_for_viewing_in_IE Thanks! --mboverload@ 17:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ok thanks, should be useful. I just tried them, the first 2 on that list both work in my IE6 ok (and all in FF of course). thanks Martin 17:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm, that's strange.  I know I have my settings right.  Oh well, good thing you checked them! Glad I could help --mboverload@ 18:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode that should not be changed 

message: <mboverload> I see you improved the difference-finding code ALOT
<mboverload> It used to be such a complete bitch when it would prompt me to change an article by removing 2 lines
<mboverload> or not even change an article at all! --mboverload@ 03:58, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  w00t! 

message: Do I post them here or something?
#Tatian
#Risk 2210 A.D.
#Slapper
#Freefall (Wildstorm)
#Schenck v. United States
 --mboverload@ 17:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the false positive thing is for your own use, for example, so you don't repeatedly check the same articles for typos, as some articles have typos for genuine reasons. Martin 19:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: False Positives

message: Another demonstration of the power of open source projects. Nice work guys, keep it up. --Roy Laurie 22:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you 

message: AWB 2.9.01 loads fine. I can create a list (e.g. Googe "very unique"), and set Options (e.g. Search/Replace). I then Start Process and the first page from the List loads in the top panel, but nothing appears in the bottom right edit text pane. The bot timer counts down and restarts. I'm using IE 6.0.29. Any suggestions? Rillian 11:28, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No text in edit box

message: I cannot find a place to request a person be removed for violating the rules!  Please list this prominently on the project page!
Kashk just 
#made hundreds of edits, 
#at a few seconds a piece, 
#in the middle of a busy server period, 
#with edit summary "(clean up using AWB)", 
#that consisted of nothing but moving blank lines and spaces around, and 
#claims "They don't make changes to layout when you view it, but when you edit it, it all looks nicer and tidier. --K a s h Talk | email 13:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: --William Allen Simpson 14:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not need to be suspended, I had stopped before this user even messaged me. All it takes a civil notice; I said I will take what you said on board --K a s h  Talk | email 14:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but I don't think you need to use this software, I have removed your user name from the list. Martin 15:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  delisting 

message: Lets say if I wanted to remove the quote sections of all the articles for a particular TV series, add a link to wikiquote in the external links section, and create a wikiquote article consisting of all the quotes with the link redirecting to the section about that article, would there be any way to do that? savidan(talk) (e@) 05:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki AWB 

message: I'm using the latest version of AWB, and I'm currently replacing "Bill Lawrence" with " on all of the Scrubs episode pages. The problem is that the program seems to add a space between the | and the end ]], meaning that the entire wikilink disappears.
In Set and replace I have  so there's no space there, it appears that the program is adding it. --Doug (talk) 07:24, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't check if AWB behaves as you said, but why don't you just insert Bill Lawrence?  is converted to Bill Lawrence by the MediaWiki software anyway when saving the page (example: ). --Ligulem 08:15, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I'll tweak it so it doesn't do this, but like Ligulem says Bill Lawrence is probably a better replacement anyway. thanks Martin 09:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh, I didn't realise it did that. And all this time I've been occasionally 'correcting' x to ! Thanks! --Doug (talk) 12:36, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piped links and brackets don't seem to be working 

message: Can someone give the above category a try. There should be 10 pages but this is what I get using 3.0.0.0:
# List of airports in Greece
# 
# Ellinikon International Airport
# Ioannina National Airport
# Kalamata International Airport
So far that's the only one that came up like that. Any ideas as to why? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, it's the airports that have " as part of the title such as Athens International Airport, "Eleftherios Venizelos". CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I get 10, try clearing your IE cache. Martin 17:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks Martin don't know why I din't think of it. 205.234.33.235 19:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh the logged out bug strikes again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Airports in Greece]]

message: I'm pretty amazed how easy it is to modify the GUI using just C# Express Edition!  Holy crap!  Anyway, I have always been mad about how I can never see much of the preview.  Well, I have a solution just for me, and maybe you too =) --mboverload@ 08:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: -) (Probably somone will come up with different skins. Oh noes! :-). Just in case this is integrated in the main code line: I need the save timer ("Show timer" in "General" menu. Was below the save button). This helps me not to go too fast with AWB. Just in case you nuked that one :] (I can't see where that could go on your screenshot...). --Ligulem 08:30, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new interface design, just for you! 

message: I created a text file from several categories and some of the articles have letters in like ö or ê. However when I feed the file back into AWB it appears not to read them correctly. As an example it save Östersund-Frösön Airport correctly from the :Category:Airports in Sweden but when fed back in I get Stersund-Frsn Airport. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't reproduce a problem, did you open the text file with another program before trying to re-load it, and if you look at the saved file (with notepad or something), does it appear correctly? Martin 11:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I need a break if I can't think of the obvious. I had merged several together with EditPad Pro and that's what caused the problem. It does look as if I can edit them with MS Word though. Thanks. Also thanks for the option to choose browsers to check the messages. 21:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there a problem with certain letters?

message: I have used AWB, and I am most certainly approved. I decided to start it up again today and find that it says I'm not approved to use the program and it sends me to the check page. I am staring at my name on the list through the AWB browser as I type this. — ßottesiηi (talk) 01:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a new release... are you sure your AWB version is still approved? Titoxd(?!? - help us) 01:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could be it. I'll check. — ßottesiηi (talk) 02:12, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "not approved" 

message: I just wondered if a new feature would be possible that would fit in with the request for a trial version asked about before. I have a list of 3500+ articles that I ran through AWB to look for a certain phrase, which wasn't there and was what I wanted to see. What I would like to see is a second option on AWB that when you choose it turns all editing capabilities off. From there you would have two other options. First you could run through your list, stop on each article and see what the results of your potential edits would be but you would be unable to save them. The second option would run through the list searching for a word or phrase. When it found the phrase AWB would not stop but continue on searching. However, it would not remove the particular article from the list. When it had finished you would have a list of articles containing that phrase (or if you preferred, not containing the phrase). This can of course be done manually with AWB but it requires that I sit and watch it to move onto the next article. The 3500+ list takes over 5 hours to process and it's perfect to do on a spare computer at work. The list I have is for airports and I want to update my User:CambridgeBayWeather/Airports with no infobox 01 lists. Of course one of the currently available bots may already be able to do this but looking through the list it's not clear if they do. or AWB can do it and I just didn't notice it. Thanks. 22:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Download the wikipedia article namespace (few gigs) and use wikipedia dump searcher. --mboverload@ 23:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

text: It is much easier to scan the database, and saves a lot of bandwidth as well, if you want I could do that for you, otherwise the program I made to do that is here. Martin 09:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get the file later at home (enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 this one I assume) and run it. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Posible new feature (or I'm missing somthing again)