User:JoeNMLC/Help JWB

Below sections provide "extra help" for the JavaScript version of AWB.

Setup

 * 1) Click on Setup tab.
 * 2) Click on Generate button. Displays popup menu
 * 3) Click on "Category" check box.
 * 4) Copy/paste category to work with.
 * 5) At very bottom of box, click on Generate button. Creates list of pages

Generate filter

 * 1) Setup tab
 * 2) Generate button
 * 3) Wiki search
 * Use a Search term of
 * incategory:"Orphaned articles from February 2013" prefix:B / or / prefix:Talk:B /
 * 1) Select (main) namespace
 * 2) Generate button, at bottom

Note - Steps 3, 4, 5 can be repeated multiple times to Append more articles.

Talk pages
After above "Generate" is completed, to switch from Articles to Talk, do the following.


 * In JWB, Click on "Editing" tab
 * In left column, "List of pages" → select all ( Ctrl-A ) → copy ( Ctrl-C )


 * In Notepad++, create new file ( Ctrl-N )
 * Click on "Edit" → "Column Editor" → Text to insert → type in "Talk:" → OK
 * Select all ( Ctrl-A ) → copy ( Ctrl-C )


 * In JWB, left column → select all ( Ctrl-A ) → Delete → Paste ( Ctrl-V ) to make new list with "Talk:" prefix

Editing

 * Top, contains "Preview" window
 * Bottom left, contains "List of pages"
 * Bottom middle, contains "Browser" action section
 * Bottom right, contains "Editing area" wikicode


 * Click on Editing tab to open Editing.


 * 1) Click on green Start button.
 * 2) Make add/change/delete in "Editing area".
 * 3) *At Summary line, un-check Minor edit
 * 4) *Optional, fill in custom "Edit summary".
 * 5) Click on blue Preview button to see page after edits.
 * 6) Click on red Skip button,
 * 7) * or green Save button.
 * 8) Click on red Stop button when done with Editing.

Skip

 * Click on Skip tab, before Editing.


 * Fill in what to skip via. Contains or doesn't contain


 * During Editing, not allowed to change. To change, first click Stop button in Editing.

How to filter
To find articles missing (or containing) a certain tag, wikilink, file, etc.

On a subpage, containing hundreds of wikilinks:
 * 1) Click on Edit source tab.
 * 2) Copy and paste wikilinks into Notepad (or other plain text editor).
 * 3) Remove any non-wikilink content, if present.
 * 4) Remove *[[ or #[[ staring wikilink brackets.
 * 5) Remove ]] ending wikilink brackets.
 * 6) Check that content is now a plain list.
 * 7) Copy and paste into JWP "List of pages" column.


 * Fill in what to skip via. Contains or doesn't contain
 * At "Editing" tab, click "Start" button
 * JWB processes page list, and displays articles (if any)

For example: When "Skip" is "page doesn't contain:" and value is "Orphan", this means only display articles with "Orphan" tag.

Links

 * Start JavaScript Wiki Browser


 * JWB Documentation