Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 15

message: Since upgrading to 3.1.0.0 and using the CFD plugin, AWB has occasionally removed interlanguage links at the same time as categories e.g.    . I have general fixes turned off. the wub "?!" 13:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing interlanguage links 

message: Does one need to register here, before using AWB on another wiki (for example Dutch wiki) or is it enough to let the admins of that wiki know about the case? --huji—TALK 21:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most wiki's have their own check page; the Dutch one is at :nl:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. —Mets501 (talk) 21:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using AWB on other wikis 

message: Why is there a separate heading for Admins on the CheckPage? Do admins have extra options compared to approved users? Just curious... Niels|-nl talk (faster response)| 23:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Admins are permitted to approve themselves. --After Midnight 0001 23:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Tnx. So it's purely for aministrative purpose, already suspected it'd be something like that. Niels|-nl talk (faster response)| 00:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, admins can move a delete pages through AWB too.  There are also a couple of extra options for admins. —Mets501 (talk) 03:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admins on Checkpage 

message: Hi. I had AWB running just fine yesterday and now I can't even get it to open. Instead I get "AutoWikiBrowser has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" In a IE "Send report" problem box. Should I redownload AWB or something else. 
Thanks Jask99 06:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Start up problem 

message: Just wanted to let you all know that AWB 3.1.0.0 works flawlessly, at least for me, in Vista Ultimate. Whereas:
:"Occasionally it stalls when loading. This might well be because you have navigated to a different window: AWB needs to remain in the foreground while loading up a new page. Just click "start" again to give it a nudge."
This doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, whereas I was experiencing it quite often with XP SP2. In case it matters at all, installed framework versions include 1.0.3705, 1.1.4322, 2.0.50727, and 3.0. Hope it helps someone! thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 18:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great that it works for you; unfortunately I can't say the same.  I have to run it through Visual C# or else it crashes on startup. —Mets501 (talk) 18:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Vista? Hrm, sorry to hear that. Dumb question, but have you tried emulating it as an XP SP2 program? thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 19:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, strange, it just started working...  Vista sure is weird.  That's not the first problem that's been fixed simply by not doing anything for a couple of hours. —Mets501 (talk) 19:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  3.1.0.0 and Vista 

message: It's all very nice that AWB edits dates to match the MOS, but you need to add an exception for July 4th for editors who are using AWB on autopilot, or who are unfamiliar with American holidays. BlankVerse 10:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm…that's a REDIRECT. If you want it to point to the holiday, maybe it would help to relink to Independence Day (United States) instead. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 15:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I think I have now done this. If someone could check, we can get down to obliterating all those incorrect links. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 20:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 4th 

message: For some reason, AWB isn't working for me now. I've got the latest version (3.1.0.0), but when I do a google search that normally should produce hundreds of article names, it says "getting list" and then "list complete!" with no results. As a test, I even tried "the", with no results. What's going on? Firsfron of Ronchester 21:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry to hear that. I was hoping it was just me. As frustrating as that would be, at least I'd know it wasn't a problem with the program itself. Firsfron of Ronchester 04:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Google search not working?

message: A relevant question. Will AWB support right to left languages like Arabic or Persian? huji—TALK 18:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, AWB will support such languages to the extent that IE will, although quite how the edit-box will behave is beyond me. Maybe you could try and let us know? TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 09:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I think for IE you are right. But the text box would experience a problem. There is an option for RightToLeft - "Indicates whether the component should draw right to left for RTL languages". Set as No, with options for inherit and Yes. I think AWB would need to include something based on the system locale, and turn it on. Or just have it on that by default...? Reedy Boy 10:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Right-to-Left languages

message: The list is failing to remove duplicated entries.
If I click "Make List" to refresh the list when I'm still part-way through, duplicated entries get added and there seems to be no way to persuade AWB to strip them out.
Sorting used to do the trick: what changed?
TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 15:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you tried clicking Filter and then checking 'Remove Duplicates'? thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 20:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicated entries in list 

message: If you use the "multiple links" box to find the corresponding entries, when you finish one entry and click on a different entry you get the "no more occurances" message that you would have done had you carried on.
This also happens if you click on the "find" button in similar circumstances.
(Oh, and isn't that supposed to be "occurrences"?)
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annoying cross-talk between "multiple links" and "search" facilities 

message: AWB (ru-wiki, version 3.0.6.1) is working with of lij-iwiks incorectly. :-(
Before AWB: 
 Категория:Города Италии
 ...
 la:Mediolanum
 lij:Milan
 lmo:Milan (citaa)
After AWB:
 lij:Milan
 Категория:Города Италии
 ...
 la:Mediolanum
 lmo:Milan (citaa)
--Alex Spade 17:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks kinda strange for me to not see the Russian IWL as ru:foo. Though, yes, lij:bar appears to be sorting incorrectly. thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 20:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lij-iwiks 

message: *how to match a string that is not contained in the text? is [^'][^'] an equivalent to not  ?
*if a regex contain [a-zA-Z], should I set "case sensitive"? does A-Z expression contain also characters from other languages like ą etc.?
*sometimes changing [a-zA-Z] to [A-Za-z] causes another behavior of a regex, is it a bug or what? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.234.42.68 (talk) 15:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As a rule of thumb, I tend to always put caps first for alpha characters ([A-Za-z]) just to be safe. [A-Za-z] would not match non-English characters, as they are in an extended section of each font — some have them, others not, and often times the unicode for them is different. As far as the first question goes, I hope I understand you correctly... [^'][^'] would match anything except , though it is usually easier to write as [^']{2}. thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 20:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  in second I meant if "CaseSensitive" option should be set when case is included into [a-zA-Z] anyway? in other words, what's the difference between [a-zA-Z] with "CaseSensitive" set and without setting that? --84.234.42.68 00:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Case-sensitive applies more to non-regex replace criteria. For example, say I want to replace all instances of "US" with United States in an article or series of articles. If I do not select the case-sensitive option, I would change every instance of "us" to United States as well. Make sense now? thadius856talk|airports|neutrality 19:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABW and regexes 

message: Is there a way to make a list from a category and all of its sub-categories, and the sub-categories of the sub-catgories, and so on (i.e. propagate all the way down the category tree)? I realize this would create a huge list for a category that is high up the tree, but it would be useful for tagging all articles under a low-level category with a WikiProject banner, for example. - Jwillbur 05:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the category isn't a true hierarchical system (not a tree) there is the possibility of infinite loops, where one category is a sub-category of the other and vice-versa. I'm not too sure whether this would cause a system failure or not, but it would be a major consideration as to whether the feature goes ahead or not. Developers? Harryboyles 11:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no such function at the moment. What you need to do is to apply systematics and go through the relevant branches of the category tree. Systematics is everything. Copy-paste the name of a category and build a list from its articles, then do the same with the next etc. Remember to save the list before you begin sorting out irrelevant entries. Then right-click the list of articles and select that all duplicate entries be removed. If you plan to tag talk pages for a WikiProject, you should also use the right-click function to remove all "non-article" entries. Finish off by converting everything to talk pages (right-click again). If you plan to do large chuncks of material, create one giant list of articles first and work on it from time to time. Remember to save the list everytime you've worked on it. I tried dividing the material for WP:HV into two lists and when I went through list no. 2, 80%+ of it turned out to be duplicates from the first. Multiple lists cannot be recommended. If a stub type is associated with your wikiproject, remember to check these categories as well. In my experience, 80% of the material will already be covered by any list you've made out of the category tree, but there is always a number of articles without proper categorization. You might also want to check out User:Kingbotk/Plugin. Valentinian T / C 12:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make list from cat and all sub-cats 

message: Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports WikiFunctions
Namespace AutoWikiBrowser
    Public Class Module1
        Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IModule
        Public Function ProcessArticle(ByVal ArticleText As String, ByVal ArticleTitle As String, ByVal Namespace AS Integer, ByRef string Summary, ByRef Skip As Boolean) As String
            Skip = False
            Summary = "test"
            ArticleText = "test" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & ArticleText
            Return ArticleText
        End Function
    End Class
End Namespace
Hope that helps you non VB'ers out
Then it can be implemented into the Make Module
I know a Imports System isn't needed, not sure about Imports System.Text
Reedy Boy 17:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The plugin page needs an update aswell... As that has the old XML methods for settings on the VB .NET... But me and steve haven't solved that for his plugin... New example is there in c#... Reedy Boy 17:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Added by Myself to SVN Reedy Boy 21:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make Module - VB .NET 

message: Hi,
Could i have Write access for SVN/be added as a developer?
Then i can help Mets501 and MaxSem out?
Sourceforge username: reedy_boy
Cheers
Reedy Boy 20:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yay!  You're a developer :-).  Good timing too, because I'm going away for a week in 2 days, and we need an active developer just in case at all times. —METS501 (talk) 20:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Wooo! Strange, SF doesnt list me as having a role/position... Reedy Boy 21:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm...well, as long as you can write to SVN, it's all good :-) —METS501 (talk) 21:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Just added to the Custom Module for VB .NET.... Commited fine =) Reedy Boy 21:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome! —METS501 (talk) 21:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVN Write Access/Adding as a Developer 

message: There are two bugs in this function
# When one has completed the last link which is duplicated, that name disappears from the list.  Then when you click on the next link on the list, a message appears which reads "No more occurances".   In the previous version this message appeared when clicking on the link which was last completed and which subsequently removed from the list.  This is preferable because it confirms that no more duplicates exist.  As it stands now, it seems that the program isn't finding any duplicates of the next name on the list, but if that is clicked again the first occurance of that link is highlighted.
## To expand on this. The bug is the AWB will search too the last occurance of a word so if i have 3 multilinks in the list  Apple , Car and Boat and I hit apple first it will find the first apple link but if I hit car or boat next it will jump to the next occurance of apple and will continue to do so until its shown me every apple link . I hope i've made that clear (Gnevin 01:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any chance of a fix for this bug? (Gnevin 20:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can a developer comment on this (Gnevin 13:52, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  We got your message, no worries :-)  I'm working on fixing the bugs. —Mets501 (talk) 01:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think I have to defer to MaxSem on this one.  I can't see the problem on first glance. —Mets501 (talk) 02:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok sorry for being impatient i just wasn't sure anyone had noticed this (Gnevin 12:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Both problems . —METS501 (talk) 04:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with Multiple wiki links alert function 

message: Not sure if it's because of the new version or something else, but Google search on AWB hasn't been working (as in it gets 0 results) since I got the new version.  Any ideas?  Thank you! --Galaxiaad 04:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This was fixed in a new version a week ago, but they haven't uploaded the new version. I tried to contact the guy who is in charge of that, but got no response. :( Firsfron of Ronchester 04:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oo, thank you! --Galaxiaad 05:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Oops, I misread that.  Still, thanks for the info. --Galaxiaad 05:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Google search

message: Doesn't work for me unless I manually remove "Category:" from the categories. Rich Farmbrough, 11:02 16  February 2007 (GMT).
:Same here: I'm sure this used to work, did anything change? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: . —METS501 (talk) 19:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Add selected to list from category

message: Seems to want to replace  with ===See also===. ??? Rich Farmbrough, 11:05 16  February 2007 (GMT).
:This may have been a glitch... I'll come back if it's still a problem. Rich Farmbrough, 11:18 16  February 2007 (GMT).
::The article is Ada (programming language). Can someone test it please with general fixes. Rich Farmbrough, 11:40 16  February 2007 (GMT).
::also strangeness with [{Boxing]]. Rich Farmbrough, 15:11 16  February 2007 (GMT).
:Ada, - changes the  tag to ==see also==... Reedy Boy 20:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: . It would be great if you could file these on the /Bugs subpage.  Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 20:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Eh?

message: I just started with AWB the other day, so please forgive me if this question is too obvious. Is there a way to search the source of many articles for text that would not appear in a Wiki or Google search (for example, to correct spacing of <ref> tags)? -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 09:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To clarify a little, I mean is there a way to make a list of articles with a certain phrase in their source. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 10:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, try downloading a database dump. —METS501 (talk) 14:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Searching article source 

message: I want to use AWB to replace Category:Internet domains with Page name without dot in the catalan wikipedia. With AWB i can do it? Thanks, :ca:User:Albertsab. Sorry, i have a very little level of english
* just enter into find and replace: FIND:Category:Internet domains  REPLACE:Page name without dot, all options=empty, it just replaces the string
**I think that won't work, he means that the problem lies with the "dot"-removal Dryke 16:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help please 

message: *now whole paragraph is highlighted in preview if a small change is done there, FireFox has a nice mechanism to highlight founded text, maybe it could be applied in AWB to highlight changes that are done, to be better visible --84.234.42.68 13:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I can't really understand your first comment and the "=(a|b|c|...)" part of your second comment. Can you clarify? —METS501 (talk) 03:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he means that when showing a diff when it's ready to save, AWB highlights the entire paragraph of the diff, and it would be better if it highlighted only the change (in the manner that FireFox does when searching a page). However, it also highlights the exact change in red, so I don't see the problem. And I have no idea what his 2nd comment means. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 10:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: when I do a small change it's a problem to find this red text when WHOLE paragraph is highlighted, as you know FireFox highlights only the background of the searched text so it's clear and i dont need to get my eyes close to the screen, "=(a|b|c|...)" - I want to change =blabla= to =Blabla=, =history of USA= to =History of USA= etc., I masked first small letter in the section name, now you understand? --84.234.42.68 20:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: a little suggestion, maybe an ignoring option (in "find and replace") should ignore \[\[:?image, not only \[\[image ? and I insist to not ignore the description of the image --84.234.42.68 20:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  highlighting changes 

message: A user complained that his clever construction which (construction which ) works like that, is broken by AWB.   Should AWB allow for it, or is it "too clever", so that it will be broken by other editors and should be changed to pipe syntax? Rich Farmbrough, 16:15 12  February 2007 (GMT).
: AWB doesnt seem to do that when i use it , also that sort of pipe links are useful for  things like All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final (Gnevin 16:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting construction

message: I'm using AWB to remove some category from it.wiki. I used the command "Remove Category:" of the "More..." menu.
When there is no blank line between the category and the first interwiki, AWB remove the first interwiki too.--Moroboshi 23:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please file this in the /Bugs subpage.  Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 02:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm not having this problem.  Do you have the latest version? —METS501 (talk) 02:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Opsss. moved the discussion in the bugs subpage. I added an example - apparently I was wrong and the cause is not tre presence/absence of a blank line.--Moroboshi 12:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bug with category removal 

message: Need to make edits/changes and save them back to the XML SQL dump file.
:I cant find who posted this :/. Are you meaning, in the same way the Database Scanner loads from the XML file, you want to be able to commit changes back to it? Reedy Boy 13:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Save Changes to XML Dump File 

message: Hi. I don't know exactly how to explain my question in general terms, so I'll just say what I want to do: I'm trying to clean up usage of the  element, for example when the ref is inside a sentence instead of outside the period, like this . To do that, I have to find any instance of "<ref name="####">########." and replace it with ".########" while ignoring everything that I just represented above by a number sign. How do I do that? -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 22:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Coincidentally enough, that's enabled by default in the general fixes of the most recent version.  Try downloading 3.1.1.1 with general fixes on, and you should see it in action. —METS501 (talk) 23:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find and Replace question 

message: Why was a category removed in this diff? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@  21:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure, maybe just a glitch... Just quickly running AWB through the category that was removed, and its not wanting to remove them on any other article....
You are supposed to check edits before you commit them....
Reedy Boy 22:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes. I did check it. And I saved it just so I could show the diff. Then I added it back on, at least I thought I did. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@  22:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Yup, After Midnight, your right. I should really check stuff properly!! Reedy Boy 14:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange Removal 

message: If I wanted to use AutoWikiBrowser to go through a category of 9,000 user talks in , and use it to find and replace the cat with , how would I set it to automatically submit, and would I need bot approval for a one time thing? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@  01:35, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You need bot approval. Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk)CONCOI on  01:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. But after approval, how do I get it to autosave? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@  01:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The function is already include in AWB, but you can use it only if you're an approved bot. Happy Editing by Snowolf(talk)CONCOI on  02:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh. Then I will submit a bot request. Thanks. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@  02:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

text: And then, your bot must be in the bot section in the awb checklist. Alphachimp tends to do most of the approvals, and if its a bot, he waits forthe Bot approval group to approve, and he'll add it to the bot section for you =) Reedy Boy 09:48, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic