Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 10

Error in counting edits

 * Not sure i've seen this, the edits seem to match up for me. —  Ree dy  23:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Try loading a list, apply general fixes and Normal replacement of something. Then redo the process. The second time you should have no new edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:49, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Another bug(?) in counting:



The Kingbotk counter says I did 4,011 edits and AWB says 4,008. According to my edit count I did 4,010 -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Ignored counts the same, edit isnt... —  Ree dy  13:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it misses an edit every time it starts after pausing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Pausing? —  Ree dy  19:37, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * As you see there are two "nudges". So, I think I pressed "start" two more times after the first one or not...? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:41, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I'd be inclined to treat those numbers as an indication only to be honest. Just had a look at the code (it's a long time since I wrote it) and the edit count in the plugin seems to be done here: What's happening there is that the plugin increments its counter every time the WebControl (part of WikiFunctions/AWB) says that a page has been saved. I suspect at some point your AWB process has hung, and a timer has "nudged" it to restart it. The software thinks a page was saved but it wasn't; the plugin processes the page again and this time it does get saved - and the counter goes up by one for a second time. It might be this or something else but as long as it's accurate with small edit counts/no nudges I wouldn't worry about it. --kingboyk (talk) 20:45, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, can someone try to do this thing: Load a list and in Advanced template load something stupid like replace "TitusTheFox" with "FoxTheTitus" with skip if no replacement made. In my version, when I am running with my bot at least, every article is counted i n the Save counter and not in the Ignore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Cannot reproduce (also tried debug build where bot mode enabled). Hopefully the upcoming 4.5 release will fix this for you. Rjwilmsi  18:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for trying. I have seen this only happening when I have Automated save on. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:57, 26 January 2009 (UTC)



Here I am again! This time with more evidence. Check the log file and check Special:Contributions/Yobot. Yobot didn't make any edits despite of what AWB states. I can send you the settings file by email if you like. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Will have a look tommorow.... Seems auto mode is to blame somehow —  Ree dy  22:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. The first edits are with Auto mode turned off and the counting was correct. I switched on auto mode the crazy thinks started to happen. I know this is not an important bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Woo, found it. It was actually trying to save, and no history of the save, as there was no change. Duplicatable by not enabling skip if no change. I've set it to now skip if skipifnochange or its in bot mode if there has been no change on the actual article. Needs a bit more testing and will commit in a bit. —  Ree dy  19:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool. At least now I know that I am not crazy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

- Fixed. Will upload a svn snapshot later (or do you build from SVN). This still might leave the minor discrepancies between the plugins and AWB (but could also fix them), but at least, fixes the incorrect save reports (which was more major, and wasting resources making null edits) —  Ree dy  20:15, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! I am happy that this bug report will save resources. Well done Reedy for that! -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Typo in 'Source': 'Google Search' -> 'Google search'

 * Why didnt you report this before v4.5 was released? :P —  Ree  dy  21:58, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah well, think of it as a deliberate ploy to encourage you to go open source. Then I could do a systematic review of all interface terms. Lightmouse (talk) 22:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is open source... :/ —  Ree dy  22:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Error when source is 'Wiki search': "Wikipedia does not recognize the action specified by the URL."

 * Already fixed in the 4.5 release. I made an error normalising url usage and fixed it in —  Ree  dy  21:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 22:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Error when attempting to connect to third-party site w/ .php5 extension
-- B.Rossow talk contr 22:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Didnt actually have a site to test it on (so this should help fix it) —  Ree dy  22:34, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks., SiteInfo didn't use the same paths for variables, so the php5 bit was missed out. Works fine with "gtwiki.hootus.com/w/" as the custom url. Will upload a newer svn snapshot later tonight —  Ree dy  22:51, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Marking several-category pages as "uncategorized"

 * Yeah, i made a boo-boo before the release. Already fixed in, going to have to release a follow up release soon for it to tidyup —  Ree dy  17:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

In my experience, this error seems to come up most frequently when AWB hits some kind of snafu in the conversion of pipetext to a defaultsort key, i.e. it can't make a decision because different categories have different sort keys in them. Bearcat (talk) 05:00, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

I saw this, too. FWIW, it seemed to happen only when the Auto tag option was used. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yup, and its fixed. —  Ree dy  11:28, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in DabControl.DabControl_Load

 * Happening repeatedly or one off? —  Ree dy  19:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just the once. Colonies Chris (talk) 00:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary issue

 * Cool. Would love to know how it did that. lol. —  Ree dy  21:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Here's what happened:  no 'of' between a month and a year per MOS, added uncategori using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB . Our summary trimming algorithm needs some improvements (though MW's edit summary parser teh suxx no less). Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Working on it, also filed 15745 to get MediaWiki fixed too. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:22, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Added logic that should catch above example by removing the final wikilink and replacing with '...'. Rjwilmsi  18:28, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Object reference not set to an instance of an object - WikiFunctions.Browser.WebControl.Save
To reproduce load a page, press Ctrl+S to save then immediately press Ctrl+S again. It seems the second keypress should be ignored. Rjwilmsi 18:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * prevents exception, but now the second Ctrl+S will effect a reload of the current page. Better would be to ignore the duplicate keypress while status = saving. Rjwilmsi  18:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Preferences dialog error

 * The ok button is never greyed out... :S —  Ree dy  23:27, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Screenshot §hep   •  Talk  01:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * WTF. Can you duplicate on demand? —  Ree dy  17:19, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Had you been doing anything with a custom project?

is what it was.. Meaning that if you had selected a custom project and not entered anything into the combo box, it wouldnt let you leave... —  Ree dy  17:23, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as notbug - Cant have a wikia/custom project without a url, therefore, from my tests, the behaviour is as would be expected —  Ree dy  20:01, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I only use AWB with enwiki. Maybe this image will explain things better? §hep   •  Talk  02:26, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as a bug – I can reproduce on current SVN version: OK button cannot get enabled in preferences dialogue. Reedy, one of us must have broken something. Rjwilmsi  08:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems like OK can only get enabled if custom project and URL and Php5 all set... Rjwilmsi  08:25, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Seems to differ between release and debug mode... —  Ree dy  14:42, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Rob, does fix it up for you? —  Ree  dy  14:45, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes thanks, marking as fixed. Rjwilmsi 18:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Snapshot (3888) is working here. Thanks! §hep  • Talk  06:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiListProviderBase.ApiMakeList

 * No project given... No problems on en.wp.. —  Ree dy  11:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Tweaked the ErrorHandler to log the site... —  Ree dy  16:05, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

MissingMethodException in CfdAWBPlugin.ProcessArticle
In SVN 3859 (according to zip file because it states in SVN 3843 in About box!) the bug doesn't occur. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Update the CFD plugin, some changes were made in the AWB code as to how the parser methods are used —  Ree dy  18:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Behavior of 'make a list' changed

 * We're aware of the colour change issue, but not sure how to solve it (an unintentional change). I'll have a look at the remove item behaviour. Rjwilmsi  09:31, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Behaviour of removing articles back to how it was (unintentional change between 4.4.2.0 and 4.5.0.0). Rjwilmsi  11:17, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * We should be able to improve the colour usage... Just it didnt always want to play ball when testing. Will re-review and look at improving it later on today —  Ree dy  11:23, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I've found out that the problem is that in 4.4.2.0 the font colour of any selected articles was white, while the font colour was black when the article wasn't selected. In 4.5 it's always black. Rjwilmsi  11:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * / fixes up the black background on the items. —  Ree dy  19:12, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Bot Tab Removed

 * I've noticed it sometimes doesn't appear, but logging in again (you dont have to enter your details), seems to make it. The above change to the if IsBot will have little/no effect on whether its displayed or not, due to if (Variables.User.IsBot && !MainTab.TabPages.Contains(tpBots)) being the same code. Removing the if (BotMode) check would only stop auto mode being disabled if the user is found not to be a bot... —  Ree dy  22:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I simply forgot to add the line "BotMode = false;" to correct it. The above proposed solution now work the same way the old code worked, correcting the abusive tab removal and your solution doesn't seem very user-friendly, requiring multiples log in/out to use AWB in bot mode. Chico75 (talk) 23:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, i do agree there (i was offering it as a temporary workaround). Tweaked above (no point having seperate if's). Will check and commit later —  Ree  dy  23:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Reverted above. I see now. /me smacks head —  Ree dy  23:55, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, fixed now, thanks. —  Ree  dy  23:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Watchlist

 * Im pretty sure it was fixed (as it then worked), but i suspect, its quite a seldomly used feature, and with the changes that go in, its possible, in 18 months a regression is possible, due to both awb and mw changes. Tbh though, im not sure why people would want all edited on their watchlists (but thats just me) —  Ree  dy  08:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Aye, seems it had regressed (probably my fault) - —  Ree  dy  12:15, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * When I make a manual edit I do normally want the page added to my watchlist. When I'm using AWB there are often many changes to pages that I don't want to watch.  Bubba73 (talk), 16:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Index and length..... a replacement string replacing the while string as $1foo often causes this error on save

 * article Red River Trails s/(\[\\*\|[^\]]*{{lang-*[\w-]*\|[^\|]*\|[^}]*}}[^]]*\]\])/$1/
 * Hmm, can't reproduce the exception but I think I see the cause of it. Looks like a change I introduced to fix another bug introduced this one. should sort it out.  Rjwilmsi  21:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

General fix appearing apparently when not requested

 * Hmm. It was semi-intended. But i agree, its a "general fix", so shouldnt really. Now will only update dates if adding or removing tags —  Ree  dy  19:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 19:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

My substitution happened after checking for duplicate categories and more problems occured

 * I can provide you with a couple of find & replace regexes to move the DEFAULTSORT up and remove duplicate categories. Rjwilmsi  08:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * AWB is already removing duplicate directories categoriesRich Farmbrough, but it seems the change happened after the check and AWB wasn't triggered. I am not sure we can fix it so it can be done automatically but I think we must have it in mind. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:53, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a "Apply after general fixes" checkbox in the normal replacements checkbox. It's off by default, which should suit your needs. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:23, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

My substitution is done by Find&Replace->Advanced Settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:25, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Then this is the expected behaviour. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it was a mistake: My normal settings menu is blank. I haven't touch it. I though you meant "Apply general fixes". -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Here it is as well. I can send you my settings file if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, send it please. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:34, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I fail to ses how AWB is supposed to deduce duplicate categories out of  1484 . Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:56, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's suppose that the article has  1484  and Category:1484 births. What would we expect to do? First do the substitution and then check that Category:1484 births appears twice and remove one of them. Or not? Moreover, we would expect that the two categories are moved with the others and sorted alphabetically. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Today I got this message to my Talk page.

Hello, Magioladitis! Your bot is working uncorrect: it brokes orders into the categories. ,, , , and numerous others examples.

It follows my answer:

Hi. This bug is not due to my bot. I am just using AWB to to substitute BD. I can send you the my AWB settings if you want. The only things is done is to substitute BD according to the procedure described in Template:Lifetime. I noticed a couple of bus myself and I reported them to AWB. Please, if possible just fix the pipes in the categories and don't re-add BD. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 13:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 13:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * OK. It seems the order things happen is this: First AWB checks if the name in the pipe is the ARTICLENAME ignoring the DEFAULTSORT in BD, then checks for duplicate categories (this check is already in the general fixes) and then does the substitution. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MyPreferences.get_Language
Happens whenever I try to save custom site prefs, even if no changes have been made. -- B.Rossow talk contr 20:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * At least we have a semi-source now —  Ree dy  20:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * This happened with an auto-updated version of the previous package. I just downloaded the full package from SF and running a clean version I get no such error. FWIW. -- B.Rossow talk contr 20:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * With a clean config also? —  Ree dy  20:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, with a clean config. Didn't try with the old config file; wasn't enough in it to bother saving. -- B.Rossow talk contr 19:13, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I have been able to reproduce this bug, and I don't believe it's anything to do with the settings file. However, I don't yet know how to fix it. Rjwilmsi 18:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed, —  Ree  dy  19:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in HideText.AddBackMore

 * Works for me... —  Ree dy  11:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * fixed by Max —  Ree dy  17:22, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

(1) unicode substitutions mangle Typographic articles (2) workaround will mangle multi-paragraph Blockquotes in future
i've just been informed that a key problem a bot (User:SmackBot) has with typographically-significant unicode-representing html codes (specifically: replacing them with raw unicode chars and thereby, in some small but important areas of wikipedia, seriously and significantly reducing the ability of editors to use wikipedia usefully) is likely to recur due to AWB.

i hadn't heard of AWB before and frankly i'm not clear on its relationship with this bot (or vice versa) but the assertion by the bot's writer that "Be aware, however that the next AWB gen fixes to hit that page will probably remove those &lt;p>s you have put in the blockquotes" suggests that this devel community should be aware of the problem sooner rather than later.

rather than risk clouding the issue by trying to paraphrase the problem, i will simply re-post below my initial flagging of the problem to the bot's writer and his response: (emphasis added)

SmackBot: conversion of HTML char-codes to raw Unicode: issue & consequent suggestion
greetings rich. first off, although you've probably heard it many times before, congrats and thanks for smackbot. it does good work, with few errors.

but (you knew there was going to be a but, didn't you), there's an exception:

it passed through French spacing and mungled the examples of different-width spacing in the unicode section. see the 2nd mod block HERE -- note the html charcodes &amp;#8201; and &amp;#8239; have been converted to their raw unicode equivalents, and in the latter example user-content becomes effectively invisible. even given my own knowledge of what should have been there (i created this section (by the miracle of copy-paste)), i thought the code had been completely deleted until i went to replace it and discovered by accident that there was an invisible essentially-zero-width character still between the last word and the exclamation mark.

now i'm in 2 minds as to doing this sort of thing anyway.
 * PRO: it's technically slightly purer for those on perfectly updated systems using standards-aware (typically paid-for) tools.
 * CON: it makes the article uneditable offline for anyone without access to unicode-compliant tools, which are much less common than most people think.
 * CON: some of the unicode codes' characters are not directly creatable on our current keyboards/OSs —that is, they CAN NOT be manually entered, and in some cases can not even be clearly or even visibly observed –can YOU determine at a glance in an edit-window that a gap in the text is not a normal space but actually a non-breaking space?— '' and in some key cases are not even visible: once they've been forced from being display-time characters to also being edit-time characters, most people lose the ability to directly enter them, and in some cases (eg varying-width spaces) may lose the ability to even see they are there.

but clearly i need to keep SmackBot away from the typographic examples.

i looked at {nobots}, and was about to exclude poor ole smackbot despite his sterling service and well-meaning edits. then i stopped and thought.

i do NOT want to forever exclude smackbot from hoving to with dustpan and brush, monkeywrench and oilcan, tidying up and improving common errors that may be inserted in future by later editors (none of us will be here forever {existential angst} )

but i DO need him not to munge my spacing examples.

then a penny dropped.

SUGGESTION: modify SmackBot to have a context-sensitive ruleset. CASE: where an article is tagged Category:Typography, he does NOT execute the html-code-->unicode-char conversion rules.

"simple as that", he says, secure in the knowledge that it's not him that would have to be making them changes...

LESS ARCHITECTURALLY-ARDUOUS SUGGESTION (which in many ways is superior to the above) : you the developer do one single personal manual pass through the code's config data for the unicode chars smackbot will seek to convert, and remove at devel-time any character with typographic significance (perhaps best defined as: invisible behaviour different from a typewriter font; in particular: spaces).

for now, i'm going to {nobotno,badbot,down!} the article. but it'd be nice not to have to.


 * i remain,
 * yours in mutual futile pursuit of perfection,
 * Sal
 * Saltation (talk) 11:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, I have a solution, but it's not perfect.


 * First realise that SB is almost exclusively run on WP:AWB, so excluding SB's "general fixes" will likely only buy you time (as another AWB bot will arrive).


 * There is however an option to ignore nowiki'd text, and a bunch of other stuff. SB is supposed to have this turned on, but sometimes I turn it off to get to picture captions - and forget to turn it back on.


 * So I've nowiki'd the unicode, which will probably keep most AWB bots away from them, including SB, provided I don't forget an leave the switch off.


 * Be aware, however that the next AWB gen fixes to hit that page will probably remove those &lt;p>s you have put in the blockquotes.


 * Rich Farmbrough, 13:49 31 March 2008 (GMT). (tweaked 14:54)


 * It's not the workaround that "mangles" the paragraph tags, they should in theory go, but they are themselves a workaround to a browser problem, as I understand it. Rich Farmbrough, 19:21 31 March 2008 (GMT).


 * fair enough -- the need for raw html within blockquotes to mark paragraph breaks did always strike me as a workaround itself.


 * regardless: i have no problem with a bot or editor altering the markup syntax -- i DO care that multi-paragraph blockquotes continue to be presented to readers in their original (quoted) format: multi-paragraph


 * Saltation (talk) 23:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

See related and earlier bug &amp;emsp; From w3schools - HTML Symbol Entities

Preferable AWB convert &amp;#8201; into &amp;thinsp;. Table of spaces for the complete list of space marks. System should be able to handle &amp;#x and &amp;#X ways of writing HTML entities. — Dispenser 00:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Suggestion on fixing:
 * Change  to escape all character codes bellow 128 (plain ASCII) [&amp;#32; wasn't on the list]
 * After Unicodify, change all non-print characters about 128 to their HTML equivalents (named preferred) [fix pages to be more readable in the text editor window, would have fixed Template:Italian Military eventually]
 * BTW, Saltation could you provide the diff of the other edit in question? — Dispenser 02:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * oops, sorry Dispenser -- didn't see your comment till just now. the diff for SmackBot's change is here. Saltation (talk) 00:55, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I was actually referring to the blockquote issue. If you could provide an example it would make it a lot easier to solve the problem.  — Dispenser 03:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I was only passing on the considered advice of SmackBot's writer, Rich Farmborough. You can see my (bolded) copypaste of his message in the line immediately above here. Saltation (talk) 22:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

What needs doing to be able to try and fix this bug? —  Ree dy  15:32, 9 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm well there is a new template "typo" which is a variant of sic, may be that will help? Rich Farmbrough, 05:59 14 January 2009 (UTC).
 * As of AWB 4.5.0.0 (and possibly earlier) the  and   HTML characters are not removed from within blockquotes by the AWB general fixes. I have added unit tests to prove this . Thanks  Rjwilmsi  19:05, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I will investigate what, if anything, AWB does to html charcodes &amp;#8201; and &amp;#8239;. If they are changed then I'll look to add an exception to leave them alone. Rjwilmsi  18:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The above two HTML character codes are not left alone by AWB genfixes. I'll mark this bug as fixed. Rjwilmsi  20:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Autotagging and Articleissues

 * Note Articleissues now redirects to Article issues. Rich Farmbrough, 18:18 5 February 2009 (UTC).
 * That should fix the error. Rjwilmsi  18:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

underscores in template names
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = I use s/({{[^\|}_]+)_/$1 / to pull underscores out of template names (yes I know gen fixes does this too)  which I have never had a problem with before AFAIK, now seems to be picking up underscores in arguments IFF ignore external/interwiki links ... is on Rich Farmbrough, 18:30 6 February 2009 (UTC). | duplicate     = Created new config as above, tested on Rick Ross (rapper) | site          = | OS            = | version       = 4.5.1.0 | workaround    = Disable rule, or disable ignore external/interwiki.... | fix_version   = }} In the above example the enhanced image matching logic in AWB 4.5.0.0 matches on the image in the template (it didn't before) so your find & replace is presented with (snippet): {{Infobox Musical artist\n Img_size            = Rick Ross in Performance Hence as both pipes are removed it doesn't work how you intend. Better to let the genfix do the work then. Rjwilmsi 21:56, 8 February 2009 (UTC) {{awbsvn|3987}} Suddenly realised that I could fix this, so I have: the second pipe is no longer hidden. Rjwilmsi 00:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Template is improperly substed
For some bizarre reason, AWB converts the text pt to &#123;{subst:Prettytable}}. I had never seen this happen before, and I'm not sure why it is converting a language template into a table template. I checked the bug report archive, and I didn't see this mentioned in there. -- Eastlaw  talk ⁄ contribs 07:31, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Per template history its usage was changed on 19 September 2008, but nobody told us. Rjwilmsi  13:49, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just need to amend logic in tagger. I'll do it later today. Rjwilmsi  13:51, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ . Rjwilmsi  21:44, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Polish characters in categories
Do you mean in the category name or the sort key? Please give some examples. Replacement of non-Latin characters in the sort key is desirable per Categorization. Rjwilmsi 21:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * For example: changes to  . Kauczuk (talk) 09:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's as expected. The category is not changed ("Biskupi tarnowscy") but the sort key ("Bobowski, Wladyslaw") is changed to allow correct alphabetical sorting within the category by the mediawiki software, which does not work with non-Latin characters. Rjwilmsi  12:17, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. Kauczuk (talk) 14:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Dn moved to top
Had already seen this myself and corrected it. Rjwilmsi 22:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

"Add category" is broken in recent SVN pulls
I confirm this. Replace category works but add doesn't. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * - For some reason, it was using the overload without noChange. —  Ree dy  20:06, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Verified fixed for me. Thanks. Hesperian 22:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

[sic] warning when article automatically skipped

 * Agreed... It does the check before it processes it.. With how its done, and mainly being on regextypo fix, like you say, user only needs notifying if its going to be a possible save (ie not skipped by other means). Will evaulate and move —  Ree dy  15:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * , thanks! —  Ree dy  15:22, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, thanks. mattbr 15:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Link GA
AWB does not recognise GA-links in iw-links and treats them as normal templates. I would be nice to have Template:Link GA work the same way as Link FA. Lab-oratory (talk) 16:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Which wiki use it? Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Many different language version, for example fi.wikipedia.org. Lab-oratory (talk) 17:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I need some examples of incorrect edits to be able to fix this. Rjwilmsi 18:29, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Example from Ru-wiki Alex Spade (talk) 22:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I see what to do now. I'm working on a patch, though it will be the weekend before I can finalise it. Rjwilmsi  12:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ That should do it – Link FA and Link GA are treated the same.  Rjwilmsi  22:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Should auto stop if can't parse regg-ex

 * Agreed. Easy fix. Rjwilmsi  23:09, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Preview fails
98.31.12.146 (talk) 04:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC) (Stepshep logged out)
 * Mhmmm.. —  Ree  dy  16:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, §hep  Talk  01:04, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Google search not working correctly in latest AWB

 * Other google searching seems to work fine, so thats one thing, at least —  Ree dy  11:49, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note sure why it was WikiEncoding for a google search... —  Ree  dy  11:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! :) Any ETA on the updated AWB release? Firsfron of Ronchester  20:59, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Last weekend... Well, we were going to... Soon i suspect.. Although, im currently in the midst of completly messing up my visual studio install... See how that goes.. I'll get an updated SVN snapshot out soon also —  Ree dy  23:53, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it... So thats all alright —  Ree dy  10:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

"Link Search" option missing from "Make List" source choice

 * Check under special pages, it was in before 4.5. Do you want it in the main list too? —  Ree dy  09:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * - Yeah, only listed under the sub special page list provider —  Ree dy  10:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I just didn't know where to look. Thanks for the assistance. --ThaddeusB (talk) 01:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

ReflectionTypeLoadException in Plugin.LoadPlugins

 * Make sure all your plugins are up to date from the latest version in the plugin folder —  Ree dy  23:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I overwrote the whole folder with a new download, since the auto-update didn't go through properly, so I don't see there being any out-of-date issues. - Dudesleeper / Talk  03:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The plugins are loaded from the root AWB folder... These dont get overwritten manually, they need copying from the Plugin folder, which the updater should've done —  Ree dy  11:04, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The updater has yet to work properly for me. I deleted the AWB folder and reinstalled. It is launching fine now. - Dudesleeper / Talk  01:12, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Which updater version? We've had no complaints about it recently (but theres people running various versions still i suspect... Due to there not being any compulsory releases recently) —  Ree dy  01:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.0.0.2. - Dudesleeper / Talk  01:48, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

will give us more information in future. —  Ree dy  10:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

UnauthorizedAccessException in UserPrefs.SavePrefs
Error message after changing site to Commons then attempting to save settings as default. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * As it says. Windows reckons the current user doesnt have the permissions to save files there —  Ree dy  22:54, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I am on Vista, so perhaps elevated permissions are needed to save to C:\Program Files\AWB?  Most programs ask for permission rather than just throwing a wobbly :) --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:57, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB tends to demand the permissions on startup.. (not sure how we trigger UAC on the fly) Try setting the exe to be started as an administrator (right click, properties, compatability, run as administrator), and try and save again —  Ree dy  23:01, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That does it. I can now save the settings. Thank you very much. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.LoadSuccessAPI
Get this on first attempt to parse a page in pre-parse mode. Rjwilmsi 11:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * /, fixed! —  Ree dy  20:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Stopping
Runs appear to be stopping for no apparent reason. Both on Wikia and WP. This every few hundreds, not every few. Rich Farmbrough, 04:18 3 February 2009 (UTC).
 * Have seen this myself on occasion but assumed it was my dodgy internet connection. Rjwilmsi  08:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem while tagging with kingbotk plugin (maybe it has nothing to do with the plugin I 've been using). -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Pretty sure this is on pages that need a nudge. Rich Farmbrough, 18:35 5 February 2009 (UTC).
 * Note this is so bad for me its quicker for me to not pre-parse and just ignore pages where no change is made Gnevin (talk) 19:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Just uploaded a 3590 snapshot, can you let me know if thats any better? As i made a tweak to make it not check logged in status if preparsing (kept giving me not logged in messages)... —  Ree dy  19:55, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Where do I get that ? Gnevin (talk) 20:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think Reedy means 3950: here and here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:36, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Running it now, will give you some feed back in 30 min or so Gnevin (talk) 20:42, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * : No joy ,still stopping 5 stops in as many minutes Gnevin (talk) 20:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * When I am running with Auto save off I am asked to login again. When I am in Auto mode I get a "Restarting in... seconds" situation. (svn 3911) -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Could this be wiki itself? I'm finding it slow too respond at the momentGnevin (talk) 20:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It could be. I didn't cross the problem in the next days. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:11, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Notbug, as per probable site problems —  Ree dy  15:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

High CPU usage and non-responsive

 * What computer spec? —  Ree dy  20:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 Build 6001

Thats all I got. manadude2 (talk) 20:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2370 1.73GHz
 * 1GB RAM
 * 120GB HDD
 * Optical Drive - DVD+/-RW
 * 4 x USB 2.0
 * VGA - Out
 * Headphone Out, Mic In
 * 10/100 Mbit LAN
 * Wireless LAn b/g
 * Manufacturer: EI Systems
 * 32 bit Operating
 * Laptop then. Should be fine though... Gonna see how it runs on my eee - 1.6Ghz Atom with 2GB Ram —  Ree dy  22:46, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB will use 100% CPU while processing changes to pages and submitting them for saving. On my laptop this is about a second or two for each action for a small/medium page. If the times are longer for you it's probably due to your older CPU model. If you have a problem with a specific page please specify it, otherwise I don't think we can help. Rjwilmsi  12:23, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed a performance issue in general fixes introduced by me in last release, won't have affected page save time though. Rjwilmsi  12:26, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have a worse PC and everything works fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

My eeepc 901, with 2GB Ram on XP SP3 works comfortably on my laptop. Its not as fast as my quad core desktop, but thats more than understandable. Considering XP runs quite slowly on my laptop (in comparison to ubunutu)... Im inclined to believe its something with how your pc is setup, or your internet connection. —  Ree dy  17:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Startup Errors

 * Have you got the .NET Framework? —  Ree dy  01:18, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Hanging on substitution
OK sorry this is vague, but it's a pain to track down because every test effectively crashes AWB. More details when I can. Rich Farmbrough, 04:56 22 February 2009 (UTC).

s/(((.*?\n*)*?(\d+)[ /-]+0*([1-9]|1[0-2])[ /-]+(200\d|0\d))/X/ Options regex multi single ((20:49, 22 February 2009 (UTC))) on File:RFA Sir Lancelot.San Carlos Water.1982.jpg

For example.
 * Rich Farmbrough, 10:03 22 February 2009 (UTC).
 * Not AWB. Try that regex using any regex tester on the text content of the image and the regex engine will hang for seconds, possibly days until it finally decides there's no match. The problem is having the asterisk wildcard on a bracket group, of which you have two. Rjwilmsi  21:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * }(.*?\n*)*\d is a simpler exmple,  yet the mystery is not resolved - although I think you are substantially correct it's the combination of the maximal and minimal matching that causes the problem.  It runs on some pages and not others, so there is still a mystery, but I guess I'll have to code around the problem. Rich Farmbrough, 13:00 23 February 2009 (UTC).

Crash on startup
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Speednat (talk • contribs) 22 February 2009
 * To help you resolve the error we need the exact error message and steps you take to get the error please. Rjwilmsi  21:12, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I suspect its the couple of items of the FAQ —  Ree dy  22:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

When I hit file -> Login, Message ''An Exception occurred. Process will be terminated. (Exception address is 00413e6c)'' Once it has happened once, it will keep happening over and over again, unless I end the program. Ther error box is a MS Visual Studio box speednat (talk) 23:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I have this

''importScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js');

importScript('User:Ioeth/friendly.js');''

in my monobook.js page, I use firefox, although I tried it with IE, and I tried blanking my monobook page speednat (talk) 23:46, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I have an idea, what if I tried a different account to see if my account is the problem. Since I have already tried two seperate computers and get identical problems with both. speednat (talk) 23:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Using my new account I was able to use the program problem free speednat (talk) 19:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably putting the IE wrapper would help... —  Ree dy  23:19, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Startup Crash
Whenever I try to start up the program, I go to log in and the program crashes. I have never been able to use the program.Cssiitcic (talk) 18:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you got the .NET Framework? As if its just crashing, its most likely something like that —  Ree dy  18:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * How do I get the .NET framework?Cssiitcic (talk) 22:20, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  23:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Plugin-provided edit summary is blanked after editing the text in the edit window

 * I think we purposely coded it like this due to false positive summaries when people had reverted various things... —  Ree dy  10:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, Reedy's comment is correct, this is the desired functionality. It may not be perfect but seems to be the best we can do. Rjwilmsi  20:41, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Bot tab disappears

 * Grab an updated SVN snapshot. —  Ree dy  18:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This happens to me too, but it only happens when I run under my admin account (which isn't flagged, but it is on the approved bot list for AWB). I do get a 'Bot = True' but there must be something else going on. I'll try the latest. 71.155.243.189 (talk) 00:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Defaultsort / category sort bug: ÅåÄäÖö should not be fixed in defaultsort (fi/sv/no, possibly others)

 * Errm.. AWB doesnt do anything with defaultsort, except on english language projects... (same goes for categories) —  Ree dy  19:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Just tested. It doesnt, its only on en.wp. Its the english wikipedia policy to use plaintext keys. —  Ree dy  19:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * AWB 4.5.0.0 tried to change cat sorting in fi:Luettelo tunnetuista kasvissyöjistä from "Luokka:Luettelot henkilöistä|Kasvissyöjistä" to "Luokka:Luettelot henkilöistä|Kasvissyojista". Tve4 (talk) 19:18, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, you're right.. Lets find out where its doing it (and are we only talking about those specific characters?) —  Ree dy  19:21, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I have not paid attention to other characters, since other than A-Z + ÅÄÖ should be in plaintext in fi.wikipedia too. Tve4 (talk) 19:27, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Show/hide

are all the ones that are done —  Ree dy  20:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)


 * So it does change Ä→A, ö→o etc. Will it be fixed? Tve4 (talk) 20:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose, this should really just be enabled (as is, at least) for en.wp.. —  Ree dy  20:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Those characters won't work properly/as expected in default sort. Just FYI (MySQL problem) —  Ree dy  23:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as notbug due to being a MySQL issue (we can "fix" awb later) —  Ree dy  15:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Piped self-link delinking bug

 * In such cases the target will be left, unlinked. Rjwilmsi  20:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Tagger - removing uncat

 * Western_Heights_College/Temp - Cant duplicate it on there with the current SVN release... So its "fixed" as a result of some change i've made, or it was a bugged category list get action —  Ree dy  21:02, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Does not respect Category:Articles with underscores in the title

 * Not a bug par se, i never moved it over to using the category after the templates were degraded and removed... Pending the MW bug being fixed (no such luck!) Will change awb to use this category though —  Ree dy  11:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  18:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * FANTASTIC! 79.71.123.77 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:50, 20 March 2009 (UTC).

Template Movement
 - down  load  |   sign!  04:20, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This has already been fixed in version 4.5.2.0. Please update your AWB. Rjwilmsi  09:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Enabled versions have to be limited to > 4500. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

AWB skipping pages.
Never mind, I just found that the pages all have the "deny AWB" tag. bd2412 T 05:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

AWB fails to convert bold html tags

 * It's  on that article... —  Ree dy  18:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Dodgy article code, I don't think AWB should be trying to change such incorrect tags, so suggest no action taken. Rjwilmsi  14:46, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Empty results for "What links here" and "What transcludes page"
Additional info: For En-Wikipedia results are similar. "What links here" for Template:PD-self en:Template:PD-self gives 0 pages. "What transcludes page" gives 2 pages - Mike Beebe and Mountain Education Centre of New Zealand. Alex Spade (talk) 18:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think theres been an api change.. —  Ree dy  19:16, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, scrap that. That is the intended behaviour. Plain "What links here", is just for NS 0 - ie "articles". Use "What links here (all NS)". Same for "What transcludes page", except, there isnt an all NS option... Would you like one? —  Ree dy  19:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. "What links here (all NS)" is good substitution for "What links here".
 * But it is not substitution for "What transcludes page" - "What links here (all NS)/(inc/Redirs)" gives only links (and redirects). Alex Spade (talk) 19:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It is transclusion. But again, its only for NS 0 (which in most cases is fine). As above, would you like an All namespaces version for What transcludes page also? —  Ree dy  19:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. I would like to receive the list of transclusions of some page in all namespaces also.
 * I can do this task with AWB 4.5.0.0/4.5.1.0 (luckily, I have not deleted them from HDD) - the function "What transcludes page" gives 11365 pages.
 * But I receive 0 page with AWB 4.5.2.0. I'm image/file observer - the NS 0 is second NS for me. The changes in function "What transcludes page" in 4.5.2.0 broken many of my instruments. Alex Spade (talk) 21:33, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There have been no changes (i dont think). You can still download those versions anyway. What transclude page (all NS) added in . Will upload a svn snapshot later —  Ree dy  21:35, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have the same problems on Wiki Commons yesterday "What transcludes page" for "template:Location dms" was giving about 8k files and now (after update) there are none. At the same time Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Location_dms finds 100's transclusions. Something is broken. --Jarekt (talk) 02:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * As above, grab an updated snapshot if you need this functionality. —  Ree dy  11:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I just instaled rev 4112 and it is still broken. It does list Pages     but no files     . And on Wiki Commons I am only interested in files. --Jarekt (talk) 01:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Not tested on commons (but should be the same on any wiki for the files..) I suspect, its the way the API is handling the files —  Ree dy  12:14, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Can we change the status to pending. This part was working in the last version. --Jarekt (talk) 01:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Just done some testing, and not sure what the problem is. If you do "what links here (all ns)", you get the links to the page. You dont "transclude images", so that wont work, and then using "Image File Links" gives you what pages have that image displayed on them... —  Ree dy  13:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I would like to find all the images (aka files) on Commons that Transclude Template:Location_dms (this set). In the past I was doing it by using: "What transcludes page" option with "Template:Location_dms" and it worked. Now the search does not return anything.--Jarekt (talk) 02:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * (unindent). Again, as above, use "What transcludes page (all NS)", you will get the list as per —  Ree  dy  10:24, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Tagging
Done. Rjwilmsi 11:24, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

"New pages" not new
New pages aren't generated by AWB. They are generated using the MediaWiki API - —  Ree  dy  13:48, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, that can't be right, since most of the "new pages" I made were created sometime in 2008 and deleted afterwards.  Math Cool  10  Sign here! 00:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB is loading 25000 (which i will probably change, as its a bit high for this use, and a slow query). Its just loading the RC logs.. I dont know if it includes pages that have been deleted (it may be the case, and therefore, is probably a bug in MW..). If you can elaborate more, and provide some proper examples, it'd help. Thanks, —  Ree dy  00:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't load more than 100 in newpages, please -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:28, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I did think 25k was far too many. I changed it to 10k last night, but i do agree, thats still too high —  Ree dy  10:17, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed to 100 - —  Ree  dy  14:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as fixed —  Ree dy  14:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

DABlinks into sections should not move on the top

 * I took the info for these templates from Template_messages/General. Both redirect and dablink are marked as to be used in the top of articles only. If the documentation is wrong then please fix that first, then I can fix AWB (by not touching these two templates). Thanks Rjwilmsi  11:27, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe the problem is in the specific use in the article above then. Let's hold it until I have more feedback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:09, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll fix the documentation. Many dablinks should be in sections if they are incoming links of redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:16, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Do I remove dablink and redirect from the list to move to the top, or just dablink? Thanks Rjwilmsi  14:47, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Let's put a "no" on this one. What WP:DABLINK writes is that "disambiguation links should be placed at the very top of an article, where they are most visible." and WP:HNP writes "Hatnotes are placed at the very top of the article, before any other items such as images, navigational templates and maintenance templates (like the "cleanup", "unreferenced", and "POV" templates)." I think this is not correct in the case the redirects links to a section, because it won't be visible to people redirected in the section. IMO both hatnotes have to stay in sections (in fact to move on the top of the section they are). I have to admit I didn't find any discussion of this problem and I was a bit lazy to start with discussion in WP:LAYOUT and WP:DABLINK. The important for me is that we keep moving on the top dablinks found on the leading section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Right. I'll keep this simple. Dablinks will only be moved if they are in the zeroth section of the article (or the whole article if it has no sections). That way we won't have to deal with use and abuse of links into sections.  Rjwilmsi  22:55, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think this is reasonable. I think it's common practise what we are discussing here but it seems it was never well documented. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Blank lines after Lifetime
Not really a bug, rather a feature request, as AWB doesn't do much with lifetime at the moment. The documentation for the template says to place it after categories. If we do that the spacing you refer to above will then become correct. Do you want me to make that change? Rjwilmsi 14:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB already does place it after categories, and it leaves incorrect spacing after the categories and lifetime. It removes a blank line whether lifetime was already at the end of the categories or was moved there by AWB. MAN</SMALL>d<SMALL>ARAX</SMALL>  •  <SMALL>XAЯA</SMALL>b<SMALL>ИA</SMALL>M  18:49, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have a bad memory. fixes the bug. Thanks  Rjwilmsi  21:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

AWB failing to load
Not sure what is going wrong on my PC, however, after trying to restart AWB for some more hard work, it starts fine though when it gets to the login phase, it visually logs in though the application fails, saying it has been failing to load, then applications dies. Event Viewer shows me. EventType clr20r3, P1 autowikibrowser.exe, P2 4.5.2.0, P3 49c3f6a5, P4 autowikibrowser, P5 4.5.2.0, P6 49c3f6a5, P7 2ac, P8 63, P9 system.outofmemoryexception, P10 NIL. The only way that I have found to resolve the problem is to reboot. IE and FF work fine and so are other applications without apparent issues. -- billinghurst (talk) 12:21, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * system.outofmemoryexception probably gives it away. Before loading AWB, how many programs do you have open and what does task manager show your computer's memory usage to be? Rjwilmsi  22:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentException in MainForm.SectionEditSummary

 * Already noticed this myself and fixed earlier under . If using the SVN version I suggest you update to the latest revision and rebuild before reporting any issues on the newest features. Thanks Rjwilmsi  22:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. BTW I just noticed that AutoWikiBrowser_rev4183.zip identifies as being SVN 4176 in Help/About. At some point yesterday, I updated from AutoWikiBrowser_rev4176.zip -- User:Docu

Article issues needs refining

 * What should happen to the copyedit 'for=' bit? Rjwilmsi  23:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Re notable vs notability: the list of supported templates is from the front page of Articleissues. All redirects of those haven't been included; I'm not going to spend several hours going through them all. If you want to then I can tell you the format of output I need for inclusion in AWB. Rjwilmsi  00:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * "Copyedit|for=grammar|date=April 2009" goes to "grammar=April 2009" -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:27, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

You can't have that because 'for=some reason blah' would require 'some reason blah' to be a template known to article issues. I've done "copyedit=April 2009" so the reason is lost. Rjwilmsi 00:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I can do the rest if you tell the format. (I think I can read it from the "text changed") More important for me is to have a documentation of which templates are supported. I am not expecting all to be supported. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:31, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's the list, case sensitive: Rjwilmsi  00:56, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I ll give it a look tomorrow and update it a bit. I am off now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I found an easy way and have updated the list. Rjwilmsi  12:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)