Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 12

Edit page load Failure

 * What did you do to encounter this error? Thanks Rjwilmsi  13:42, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * IIRC we've had this before, its something in the .NET FW... Not a huge amount we can do about it... —  Ree dy  11:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed in v4.9/5 (no WebBrowser) —  Ree dy  20:11, 18 July 2009 (UTC)== Edit page load Failure ==


 * What did you do to encounter this error? Thanks Rjwilmsi  13:42, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * IIRC we've had this before, its something in the .NET FW... Not a huge amount we can do about it... —  Ree dy  11:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed in v4.9/5 (no WebBrowser) —  Ree dy  20:11, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Needless space

 * Steps to duplicate? —  Ree dy  16:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * . Fixed! :P -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:31, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

ObjectDisposedException from Help

 * Do you have a way to reproduce this error? Rjwilmsi  09:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

, —  Ree  dy  21:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Failing to "check we are logged in" on Wikia.

 * Seems to only be a problem after logging in explicitly. Rich Farmbrough, 19:05 13 February 2009 (UTC).


 * Fixed for 4.9.0.1/v5 —  Ree dy  20:09, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Timeout preference ignored

 * Those are different functionality. The timeout is related to the web request timeout (ie how long the web browser will wait for a response from the server before giving up). —  Ree dy  19:45, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Suggestions:
 * Make the difference evident to the user (it's reasonable to assume that “wait XX seconds” refers to the one and only visible seconds timer).
 * —  Ree dy  23:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Add a preference to change the visible timeout (for me, at least 1 in 8 pages stalls, and it waits for the full 60 seconds every time – the delay serves no purpose except to keep my edits/minute down at 1 or 2).
 * Thanks. —Michael Z. 2009-03-17 20:10 z 
 * Marking as fixed. AWB as of v5 doesn't have (or need) this option. So it has been removed. —  Ree dy  09:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Timeout preference silently wipes out values below 30

 * The numeric up down control is set to take a minimum of 30.. So if you set less, it'll give 30 as its answer. I suspect, though, you're not leaving the control or similar... Want the limit lowering? —  Ree dy  23:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't need a lower value (wrong timeout, see previous bug), it's just that the control is misleading. Here's what I notice upon closer examination:


 * Type in a number lower than 30. Click OK.  The number resets to 30, but this is only visible for a fraction of a second before the dialogue disappears.  In effect, your input is silently rejected.  You think you've set the timeout to 15, but you haven't.


 * Fix:
 * Include text in the dialogue letting the user know the legal range (like “min. 30”, or “30+”).
 * If user enters an illegal figure and hits OK:
 * Don't dismiss the dialogue.
 * Beep to notify of error.
 * Reset the figure to the nearest legal value (30).
 * Select the figure, so the user can just start typing and hit enter.


 * —Michael Z. 2009-03-25 16:30 z 
 * As above. —  Ree dy  09:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Blanking, Incorrect Tagging, and Incorrect Display
 - down  load  |   sign!  20:23, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems like its a bugged edit. My version doesn't want to make change changes at all.. Are you using anything custom in your config? —  Ree dy  20:28, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I haven't edited anything, other than the skip and general settings...  - down  load  |   sign!  20:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

No main namespace in Prefixindex

 * & —  Ree  dy  17:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you! 24.234.156.46 (talk) 17:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

involuntary autosave with pre-parse

 * Its not quite involuntary, and I did suggest slightly alternative behaviour on implementation. During pre-parse it automatically saves the current settings file every 10 edits or whatever. There is a checkbox to do this in normal mode. IMHO, AWB should honour this checkbox state in pre-parse mode too (not everyone really cares losing work on a preparsed list). The "workaround" is to save your settings once, and then save them again to a new file, and you'll still have a saved set. —  Ree dy  17:43, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I considered it helpful to automatically save the settings file in pre-parse mode as AWB/PC/entire world may crash, and work could be lost. We could do as you suggest though Reedy. Rjwilmsi  20:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Though the existing auto save option is per edit not per article skipped. Rjwilmsi  20:08, 13 July 2009 (
 * The other option is we save to something like "CurrentSettingsFile.xml.preparse" or "CurrentSettingsFile.preparse.xml" —  Ree dy  17:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Saving the settings during pre-parse is a very bad idea. How can someone disable it? It messed all my settings files. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The menu option now controls whether the settings file is automatically saved in pre-pass mode as well, so that users can avoid all automatic saving of the settings files if that's the way they like it. Rjwilmsi  19:31, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Remove uncat tag with GF

 * This was requested behaviour. Well, to remove tags if GF was enabled (still going to do so under auto tag). Though, i sorta agree that it shouldnt be removing it as its just a stub tag reating the category. Whats the actual bug that you're reporting? —  Ree dy  11:20, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It was reported beforeWikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_10
 * According to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs, uncat is added if there just a stub template. IMHO, it should also be added if there are only maintenance categories. -- User:Docu
 * How would AWB define a maintenance category? Rjwilmsi  09:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't, but it could tag articles as uncategorized that only use reference, coord missing, or article issue templates. The later generally apply maintenance categories. -- User:Docu
 * Hm, to not add uncat is OK, but to remove it on an assumption? Also seems to be happening to Orphan.

Marking as fixed. AWB doesn't remove tags in GF now. —  Ree dy  22:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Unbalanced brackets msg doesn't go away

 * It wouldn't, as its not reparsing the text, its just redisplaying it.. —  Ree dy  19:15, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, but just as when you "delink" a multiple wikilink that message goes away, it would be nice if this did too. If you have a really long article, and you remove a set of unbalanced brackets, how do you know there aren't more in the article?  shirulashem     (talk)   01:10, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I used to save it and have it checked it once more (I think the bug that reloaded the page has been fixed now though). If you are working on one of the WP:CheckWiki reports (e.g. #43, #47), it doesn't matter that much if one is missed, as the next day, the report would list additional occurrences. -- User:Docu

I will investigate whether AWB can be made to recheck for unbalanced brackets and remove the alert if appropriate when the user invokes the 're-parse' option. Rjwilmsi 14:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * When re-parsing, recalculate the article statistics. Alerts should also be re-done, but that's going to be more effort: alerts are based on article properties, which the ArticleEX object created on re-parse doesn't have. Rjwilmsi  15:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * When re-parsing, correctly update any article alerts too. Question remains whether pressing preview should trigger a re-parse – I think probably not. Rjwilmsi  16:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

On re-parse of article, the next set of unbalanced brackets are then highlighted if found. Rjwilmsi 15:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki links moved out of comment

 * MetaDataSorter.RemoveInterWikis needs to do HideText.Hide (with hideimages and hidexternallinks false) and then apply the interwiki changes, then unhide. I can fix at the weekend. Rjwilmsi  14:37, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Rjwilmsi 16:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Tags moved to wrong place
I noticed myself too. Not actually a bug since AWB still doesn't move orphan tags on the top (after DAB links and Afd tags). Check feature requests. What actually happens is that DEFAULTSORT/categories are moved to the bottom. I agree that orphan tags should move. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for pointing out what's really happening. MANdARAX  •  XAЯAbИAM  00:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Article Issues
Diff. The problem is in expert. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This is easy to fix. AWB has to enter date to undated expert before merging into Article issues. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:55, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Expert takes a subject not a date. I'll fix AWB to ignore the expert template without a second argument. Rjwilmsi  13:15, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Ignore expert when no second parameter (the subject the expertise is needed in) is provided. Rjwilmsi 14:21, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Parsers.GetTemplates is case-sensitive

 * GetTemplates and GetTemplate are case insensitive on the first character of the template name. Rjwilmsi  13:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * That was quick! 14:08, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

enWS, fails to find locate pages in Page: namespace

 * It works fine, its just the dynamic page list thats used to add those links to the page.. The API/DPL itself doesnt actually return that list —  Ree  dy  14:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 19443 - Not a bug in AWB or the API. Bug logged against the Extension that provides the functionality. —  Ree dy  14:25, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay. I chatted with ThomasV and he says that he has implemented a fix. All is (or will be) sweet. THANKS. -- billinghurst (talk) 14:39, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yup, just noticed that. Be fixed after code review and scap. —  Ree dy  14:40, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Unwanted general fixes

 * If you are adding categories the AWB sorting logic has to be called to ensure the new category is placed correctly. The sorting logic will involve some whitespace and stub placement correction too. Rjwilmsi  07:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in WebControl.Login
Could you elaborate what exactly did you do to encounter this bug? Can you reproduce it? Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd love to know what causes this. It happens now and again, randomly.. And theres a null check on the web browser, but its gotta be something in the Login method —  Reedy  Boy  14:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Suppose this will be redundant post API edit changeover.. —  Ree dy  19:37, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Wont occur in 4.9/5 —  Ree dy  21:23, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in Tools.ConvertToTalk
This happened while trying to convert Links on page -> List of German monarchs to talk pages. It was supposed to be fixed in /Archive 5. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:59, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

The problem is caused because one of the links on this page appears to be: "Special:Search/List of German monarchs". All the other files are converted with no problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Should be fixed in —  Ree  dy  18:19, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Do you know why this link appears in the list? I can't find where it came from. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:15, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 19814 —  Ree dy  19:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

defaultsort adding namespace

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:13, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Wiki search not working

 * Working fine for me now. Seems it was a site error at the time. —  Ree dy  22:31, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Working for most strings now but for some reason not for "based off". Returns empty list with "List complete!" message. Compare . OrangeDog (talk • edits) 20:17, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I just got 1,000 pages for that fine. —  Ree dy  21:19, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Then why is it just failing for me on this one query? Most mysterious. OrangeDog (talk • edits) 01:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In the link you provided, you included the quotes ("based off"). Are you doing the same for AWB? If so, try it without the quotes. Like Reedy, I get 1000 pages when doing it without the quotes. MANdARAX  •  XAЯAbИAM  02:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am including the quotes, exactly as in the wiki search I linked. It works without the quotes, but obviously these results are useless when searching for the whole phrase. Other queries that include quotes still work as expected, "based on" for example. OrangeDog (talk • edits) 03:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

AWB would seem to be using the wrong escaping.

|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|100|101 works, and so does |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|100|101 this, but off\"&srlimit=max&format=xml&srnamespace=0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|100|101 doesn't, and |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|100|101 also doesn't, and neither does |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|100|101 this.

—  Ree dy  09:13, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * —  Ree dy  21:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Pre Parse Skip if contains no links
On a similar subject, I'm having a problem getting the pre-parse mode to work correctly. One of my skip conditions is "page contains no links", but it does not skip pages without links in pre-parse mode. It does seem to honor my other conditions (ie a regex to skip prods and skipping deleted articles). Is this a known issue?-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  22:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * , . Skip check might still need moving earlier (as its done after GF skip checks...) —  Ree dy  17:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't have access to those (gave up on compiling long ago), but 4889 is a definite improvement. After pre-parse, the no link pages are still on the list, but on the second run through AWB is on steroids and skips them lickity split. Will try the other versions as they become available. Thanks!-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  19:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I'll get a snapshot up later today, and then we can confirm its sorted :). —  Ree dy  21:18, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * 4930 is a step forward and two steps back. On my run through Dead-end pages/D-F, it eliminated 170 pages with no links. But it didn't eliminate several hundred more without links. The steps back are that when I go through the list a second time (not on preparse, but still having skip pages with no links checked), it's stopping at every page, even ones AWB gives a link count of 0 for.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  18:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Quite possible i've messed it up.. On mine, i'd just done the basic link regex, but AWB had done links - interlinks, - categories and - images. Needs something else doing.. Rjwilmsi.. Any ideas if we could do a regex that specifically wouldnt match Categories, IW, and images. WikiRegexes.WikiLinksOnly doesn't just match WikiLinks, obviously, so the comment needs updating, as does its name, probably.., —  Ree  dy  19:11, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I just went back to 4.6.0.0 and it's working "normally" there (sometimes it comes up with a total of -1 links and says to itself "hey, that's not 0, so I won't skip this." Whenever it comes up with -1, it's really 0 links, but it's rare.)-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  19:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And since you'll probably ask, Darrin Maharaj is an example of a page with -1 links. :) -- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  19:35, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi updated the regex in. In, i made the changes so it wouldnt need to do the offsetting based on cats/images/iw. —  Ree dy  22:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I'll give it another whirl as soon as something compiled is available.-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  22:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Looks good IMHO. Only change, might be, the skip still needs moving earlier (incase you want to then skip if no changes.. rather than that taking precedences before..) Darrin Maharaj doesn't show with -1 links ;). —  Ree dy  22:45, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * New snapshots are uploading now. —  Ree dy  23:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is slow at the moment, so AWB is chugging slowly, but looking at the first dozen pages it parsed, rev 4974 is spot on. Thanks!!!!-- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  00:07, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Minor typo fix
In NoLimits plugin: What transludes page (All NS) (NL, Admin & Bot) -> What transludes page (all NS) (NL, Admin & Bot). -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  14:23, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in Parsers.FixCategories
Can't reproduce. Rjwilmsi 19:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought that might happen, since it occured right after the last error and the custom module is used for gen fixes. I wouldn't worry about it too much; it seems to be working OK now. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 20:18, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The previous error means that at this point the  dictionary hasn't been populated correctly. If we fix the previous one (cancel background request error), this error shouldn't happen.  Rjwilmsi  09:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hopefully now fixed by Reedy's work under CancelBackgroundRequests bug. Rjwilmsi 15:23, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: Empty results for "What links here" and "What transcludes page"
Pulled this from the archives. It was said to be fixed in late March, but in AWB 4.5.2.0 using:
 * Source: What links here (all NS)
 * What links to: Template:Snooker project

I get 0 pages. Changing source to "What links here", "What links here (inc. Redirects)", "What links here (all NS) (inc. Redirects)", and "What transcludes page", I still get 0 results, despite over 500 pages using that template redir, which needs to be replaced with Template:WikiProject Snooker proper, or WP:AALERTS won't work properly with the project in question. Also tried removing the "Template:" from it, and none of those options worked either. I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do about this, since I'm not going to edit hundreds of these things manually. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 19:53, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I confirm this. I got the same for WPBiography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * NB: If you were going to do an AWB run similar to mine, but for bio articles, you'll probably want to do it in the opposite direction. While Template:WikiProject Biography exists as a redir to Template:WPBiography, the latter is used orders of magnitude more frequently. I'd prefer it if all projects used the "Template:WikiProject Whatever" convention, but changing that one in particular would be an enormous job. It does not have to be changed to work with AALERTs (the AALERTs template has a flag for specifying the banner name), it just has to be consistent, so the few  instances around would simply need to be changed to . —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 20:14, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Was after the last release AFAIK.. So should be fine in the SVN snapshots —  Ree dy  19:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have rev.4183 and still no results. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:08, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmph. I can't even check to see if that is current; as of the last half-hour or so, http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/ is a "500 - Internal Server Error" if anything comes up at all. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 20:22, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You should be looking in http://toolserver.org/~reedy/awbsnapshots/ -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:36, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * So, yeah, it is current, and ergo this is still broken. D'oh. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 21:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * For me, it works for some templates and for some not! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:13, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That's weird. I can't get it to work for any templates at all. This is obviously pretty serious.  I would have to think that tracking down and modifying template inclusions has long been one of the top-10 uses of AWB, before this functionality was broken. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 22:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

- Is what it should be loading... Does it work on some of the older versions? Or has there been an API change..? —  Ree dy  23:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nothing actually links to that page.. Hence no results. What transcludes page (All NS) should give you what you want... —  Ree dy  23:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Having similar problems. 0 results when trying to get transclusions of Featured article tools or Featured article candidates. No permutation of what links here is returning transcluding pages for me, either. Maralia (talk) 03:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * What transcludes page (All NS), using "Template:Featured article candidates" gives 52 results. What links here (All NS), using "Wikipedia:Featured article tools", gives 12 pages —  Ree dy  18:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Case 1: not for me; in AWB I get 0 results.
 * Case 2: in AWB I do get 12 results, but onwiki there are 600+ results.
 * Neither method—not 'what transcludes page' nor 'what links here (all NS)'—is yielding a result that includes what transcludes the page. I am on 4.5.2.0/SVN 4100. Maralia (talk) 18:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

No comment on the bug, but if the article alerts bot doesn't work with redirects, shouldn't it be fixed? --NE2 22:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll contact B. Wolterding for some insight. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 07:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ArticleAlertbot does work with template redirects... It's just that in the subscription, you need to specify the main template (rather than a redirect). For the pages tagged with a project banner, template redirects are fine. --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:18, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Where are we with this bug? —  Ree dy  21:21, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

- Most are transclusions. As expected, AWB pulls the links/transclusions. Closing —  Ree dy  15:50, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs

 * Seems to have either caused or reacted to a corrupted default.xml file. Started a new file and all is fine now. -- billinghurst (talk) 10:28, 27 February 2009 (UTC) Still happening {sigh} -- billinghurst (talk) 10:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Would seem like your settings file asnre't being saved correctly. Going to drop you an email, can you send me back your settings file? —  Ree dy  18:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

DivideByZeroException in UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc

 * Not a huge amount we can do about this as its in the .NET/Windows Code.. —  Ree dy  22:02, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in SpecialPageListProvider.MakeList
How to replicate this bug:

- Start AWB

- Login

- Set "Special page" as list source

- Click the "Make list" button

- select "Random Pages" as source

- Press the Enter key

- Click the "Make list" button

- Press the Enter key

Repeat these last two steps a couple of times, rather quickly (I mean buttonbash), and soon you'll see an errormessage pop up.

The errormessage in Dutch roughly translates to:

A form that is already displayed as a modal, can not be displayed as a modal dialog form. Close the form before calling showDialog.

This probably means that AWB calls the function "showDialog" while the form "Special Pages" is open. It might be possible to solve this by checking if the form is already open before calling the "showDialog" function.

JiT error message: InvalidOperationException in SpecialPageListProvider.MakeList

System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: De thread is afgebroken.

bij System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IntCreateWindowEx(Int32 dwExStyle, String lpszClassName, String lpszWindowName, Int32 style, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, HandleRef hWndParent, HandleRef hMenu, HandleRef hInst, Object pvParam)

bij System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CreateWindowEx(Int32 dwExStyle, String lpszClassName, String lpszWindowName, Int32 style, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, HandleRef hWndParent, HandleRef hMenu, HandleRef hInst, Object pvParam)

bij System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

bij System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


 * Maybe fixed in . Can you try a snapshot >= 4901, and see if it fixes it for you? —  Ree dy  17:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

FormatException in NamespacesControl.SetListTags

 * I've overhauled that code... So we shouldnt be seeing that 4.9/5 —  Ree dy  00:34, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Deletion?

 * Any more information on this? I still can't delete files, which would be awfully helpful with some of the backlogs. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't delete any article with AWB. It go to the screen that the article was deleted but it's not really deleted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:38, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * [[File:ReedyAWBTEST.PNG]] - Just deleted using AWB 4.9. Therefore fixed for next major release (If you need delete now, grab a 4.9 snapshot) :D —  Ree dy  15:56, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in Variables.SetProject

 * Invalid/should be fixed. —  Ree dy  16:00, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Negative number of tagged files in Kingbotk plugin
Proof:



Magioladitis (talk) 09:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I think where this is coming from. Today I started with -34 and skipped 34. I think every time the plugin is loaded has to set Number of edits to 0. I think it's grabbing some value from somewhere. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Way to duplicate: Make some edits before loading the plugin. Then load the plugin. It will start with negative number of edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I still cant duplicate it. What do you mean by load the plugin? Actually load the assembly in on the fly? Or just select a "plugin" from it? —  Ree dy  16:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I am selecting it and the Biography tab appears. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Observation: It subtracts the pre-existing number of ignored articles. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I dont get that exactly, but have got a minus. One is "Clicked Ignore", one "User clicked Ignore", rest are only GF changes. —  Ree dy  16:12, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

- Seems it was handling stuff when there were no plugins active.. Found by a different ignore string. Seemingly fixed, i'm sure you will confirm for me ;) —  Ree dy  16:22, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Three-letter interwiki links

 * There's no problem with three letter (or longer language codes), but AWB requests the supported language codes from the mediawiki page. Perhaps that's out of date? Rjwilmsi  06:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It had been recently updated by someone. Canne remember what they actually added though. —  Ree dy  09:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just tried on latest SVN. Skipped with no changes. —  Ree dy  18:18, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Link FA tags are sorted weirdly

 * I did notice that yesterday. —  Ree  dy  20:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs
--Jarekt (talk) 01:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

there is a problem with your settings file. Is it empty probably? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Add specific error message for attempts to laod empty settings files. Rjwilmsi  18:48, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Freeze wit malformatted regex in skip if contains window

 * I think this has already been fixed. Rjwilmsi  18:11, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Was fixed in . Rjwilmsi  18:30, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Unnecessary and arguably counterproductive newline removal in image syntax

 * Agreed, unnecessary change. The intention is to convert double spaces within links. I've tidied up the logic. Rjwilmsi  22:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Not merging all references

 * Yes, I see the problem... Rjwilmsi  17:13, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's better Fixed.
 * In the meantime you can just run AWB again on the article. Rjwilmsi  17:18, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Thank you very much. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 17:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Default sort problem with capitals and correctly sorting

 * Followup comment from a second user: I try to remember to remove or correct the defaultsort tag when AWB's judgment is off, but particularly for long articles I don't always remember. I know this would likely take a while to program and implement, but I think a more useful system of automating the addition of defaultsort tags would entail asking the user to manually fill in what the sortkey should be — and also giving the user the option to say "exclude this fix from my current job". Bearcat (talk) 15:55, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems there are many different standards over the defaultsort. AWB can't support all of them. in AWB 4.6+ On the options menu you can stop AWB deriving its own defaultsort if it doesn't fit the particular standard you work from. As such, this is already fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:19, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * While I don't really expect AWB to support all the standards for sorting I would have thought that it would at least try and support the capitalisation standards set out at WP:MOS. Changing "List of airports by IATA code: Y" to "List Of Airports By Iata Code: Y" (that was supposed to have been the original link but post wrong one in error). Of course that doesn't affect the sorting but it would look better if it capitalised correctly. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 16:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the standard is to Use Title Case Whatever It's Called When All Words Have The First Letter Capitalized in sortkeys, so IATA is between Iaeger and Ibid. See Categorization. --NE2 17:02, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No, there is no standard. What you're calling the "standard" was proposed and rejected. Hesperian 13:39, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * To be honest, defaultsort is such a nuanced issue ("lastname firstname" on people, the fact that the same article might need different sortkeys in different categories, the fact that a "List of Thing X: Foo" needs to be sorted on "Foo" in a category for "Lists of Thing X" but on "Thing" in a category for "Lists of Thing's-parent-class", etc.) that AWB probably shouldn't be automating it at all if there isn't a way to accomodate all the varying issues. It really isn't about the differing standards of individual users. And CambridgeBayWeather is right that AWB shouldn't impose its own alternative capitalization, either — Title Case does not preclude an acronym like IATA being all-capitalized, and it doesn't support capitalizing words like "of" and "the", so it doesn't constitute proof that there isn't a problem here. Bearcat (talk) 17:07, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think though the default should be to use the title of the article. What I don't get is why AWB would take the title of the article and then change it, adjust the capitalisation, to a non-Wikipedia standard. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 17:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Because cat sorting is case sensitive, which breaks a number of sorts. I support the way AWB does it though it would not have been my first choice. I am trying to collect some of the discussions on this matter centrally.  Rich Farmbrough, 15:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC).

'Find' sometimes fails to use the search key

 * All i find is after it does the last one on the page, it just puts the caret back before the first character and seems to continue fine after... Any more detailed steps? —  Ree dy  23:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I've encountered both these quirks too. But I can't pin down what cirumstances cause them to happen. Colonies Chris (talk) 11:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

It is one of those tricky intermittent issues. I will try to see if I detect more context, I hope that Colonies Chris and other users will also add detail if they can. Lightmouse (talk) 12:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Still happening in. --Pascal666 20:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Bump. I'm having this happen alot to me (more than 50% of the time). I'm using version 4.6.0.0. Wizard191 (talk) 23:49, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, no developer has been able to duplicate it... Making life harder to even try and debug. What OS is anyone using with this problem? —  Ree dy  06:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm running XP SP3. It seems that the program retains the text from the previous article edited and goes to the same points in the article for the first scan through the article data, but then after it reaches the end of the article it properly scans the new article data. I'm thinking its reading the last article data still because I'll scan through one article with the find button and find ~10 instances of the given word, but then on the next article it screws up and finds the same number for the first scan, but then on the second scan through the article it will properly find the word and in that article there will be only one instance of it. Hope that makes sense. Wizard191 (talk) 17:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

- Possibly fixed based on described behaviour... —  Ree dy  20:31, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * OK...I'm still real new at this so sorry for the stupid question, but how do I test this new code? Wizard191 (talk) 21:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ~awb/snapshots —  Ree dy  21:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow you are good. That fixed the problem, but I found a new one now...for certain articles that have a medium amount of the given search term (say 5 to 10 or 15) it will not find all of the terms on the first search. It will find 3 or 4 of them and then jump back to the beginning of the article (signaling that its found all of the terms), but if you search through the article again it will find all of them the second time. For instance, made a list of what links to "green sand" and then searched for the term "green". On the sand casting article it did the above problem both times I tried it. Wizard191 (talk) 22:16, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Redirect between nowiki-tags
While doing maintenace I came on a page where was explained how redirects work. On that page was a redirect between nowiki-tags like: #REDIRECT naam van andere pagina, but AWB redirected me to "naam van andere pagina", the fictious page that was used as an example. This bug would seldom occur so no urgency, but for the record. Romaine (talk) 11:53, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have noticed that myself but looking if string #REDIRECT exists is the easiest way to check if the page is a redirect. There are of course some few false positives as the one above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:47, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Rjwilmsi 15:41, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Pre-parse + disambig tool = waste of time
^ Yeah, that. There is the "skip if no disambig solved" option, but god knows why it would be used in pre-parse mode, essentially as a wonderful waste of time. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 20:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * - Now it wont do disambiguaion at all during pre-parse. —  Ree dy  21:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Moving DEFAULTSORT in HTML comments
Fixed. Rjwilmsi 11:13, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Commonscat is now Commons category

 * Suppose we only really need to change any new conversions... Seeing as its a redirect, there is no benefit from now changing one to another. —  Ree dy  21:04, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This is not a bug . Let's move it to requests. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Use {Commons category} over {commons cat} when converting {Commons|Category...}. Rjwilmsi 23:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I don't expect AWB to change existing, but the benefits of doing so are: clarity, culture and couture. Sorry I couldn't think of a third "C". Rich Farmbrough, 08:00, 1 September 2009 (UTC).

Turn off DEFAULTSORT title case conversions

 * AWB already has an option to disable its defaultsort logic. I'll change that to be enabled by default, so users have to explicitly allow defaultsort changes. I'm not going to change the title case logic as it will just contravene policy in some other area (e.g. person names). Rjwilmsi  06:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a reasonable solution. Thanks. Hesperian 07:13, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  11:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentException in Variables.ParseLanguage

 * Cheers. Less unmaintainable code now =). —  Ree  dy  19:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

needs improvement

 * How do you determine 121 to be "correct". AWB is taking a more conservative approach. Rjwilmsi  23:10, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps becuase of this. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 23:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Because of instructions to Category:Living people. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:26, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  08:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Don't auto add removes from watchlist

 * I think there should be a three-way option: (1) add to watchlist (2) remove from watchlist, (3) leave watchlist unchanged. Bubba73 (talk), 16:28, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * (no changes will be made in the current version), but i like the way this is presented for 4.9/5. We just need to get the damned Bugzilla request sorted... —  Ree dy  18:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Is 4.9/5 a new version of AWB? Bubba73 (talk), 18:29, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's the next major release and you can use the beta by downloading the snapshot. It has blazing speed. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 18:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Although, this is a dupe, i need to make the minor changes request ;) —  Ree dy  18:36, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Is 4.9/5 stable enough for general use? Bubba73 (talk), 19:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * If you're using it for manual editing, definitely. Bot-use, you should be cautious of the bug above "replaces entire page..." –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 19:24, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I better wait then, thanks. Bubba73 (talk), 21:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Fact → Citation needed
This is true for all templates: their names are capitalised. Debresser (talk) 02:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk about pointlessness... --NE2 04:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be ok (read: happy) with AWB making sure it changed to the upper case version IF it was dating/converting the template. There is no way we're going make it change all templates to uppercase first letter, especially when the first letter is case insensitive in MW. —  Ree dy  06:22, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't accept this as a bug. The template works the same whether as citation needed or Citation needed. Rjwilmsi  06:47, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Bug, or not - if you do something, do it well. The correct way is capitalised. I agree though, that we should do that only when dating/converting the template. Should I post this somewhere else, or is this post enough? Debresser (talk) 09:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed that it is not a bug per se, but would it make more sense in feature requests? I mean, it isn't requesting a new feature. I just couldn't think of a better place to put this. Anyway, yes... it should only change it only when dating/converting the template. I definetely do not support having AWB automatically change all templates to use capitalized first letters (the HTML coder in me doesn't like uppercase letters in tags :) ). –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 20:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

. Changed. Rjwilmsi 08:26, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

"Remove duplicates" as a saved setting becomes impotent while remaining checked (4901_rev5263) (for e.g. user contribs makelist)

 * was: Failure to remove duplicates (4901_rev5263) with Source "User contribs (user defined number)" 


 * Not sure if this means anything, but I placed some duplicate links on a page, made sure "Removed duplicates" was turned off, and made list from links on page, it removed duplicates anyway. *shrug*. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 14:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This could be AWB, or could be the Api (it may not have returned the dupes). But there is a setting in the list menu to auto remove dupes (is it just remove dupes?).. —  Ree dy  15:14, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably the API. Anyways, this is a red herring to the bug report, Jeff wants the dupes removed. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 15:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * , . Api doesn't return dupe links :). Presumably only 1 page link entry per page (which makes sense). —  Ree dy  15:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It also returns them in alphabetical order which might be suboptimal, but oh well =) –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 15:21, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Lead section Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs File:Philadelphia Phillies Insignia.PNG User talk:JaMikePA Philadelphia Phillies Lakewood BlueClaws File:LakewoodBlueClaws.PNG User talk:Jeff G.
 * And, as for the bug report,, duplicates were removed when it was checked. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk
 * Hmm. What articles did you have in your list Jeff? —  Ree dy  15:14, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed, please do not forget to include the "To duplicate:" instructions. When I built a list of user contribs for Xeno, 15 contribs, without "Remove duplicates checked", I got 15. When I checked it, I got 8. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 15:21, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy, I don't remember, but retrying using Xeno's parameters and my username and "Remove duplicates checked", I just got four articles, the first two (Lakewood BlueClaws) being duplicates of each other. Substituting Xeno's username, I got 0 articles, but expanded to 50 contribs I got three articles, all Bejeweled 2.  I have all of the top three menu items checked under menu "List", so I was only getting mainspace contribs.    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 09:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This isn't happening for me at all. 15 contribs for Jeff G. with checked returns 8. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 18:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I unchecked "Remove non-main space", unchecked and rechecked "Remove duplicates", and rechecked "Remove non-main space", testing at each step. 'unchecked and rechecked "Remove duplicates"' appears to have done the trick.    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 20:27, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Basically, what is happening is the setting is becoming impotent while remaining checked. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 21:15, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * My minds fried/dying. Is the checkbox just working on click etc? Not working when its checked etc. —  Ree dy  21:17, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * On load, if the settings files includes "Remove duplicates" as a checked value, it will show as checked, but not actually work until you uncheck and check it. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 21:54, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

(unindent). - Much appreciated if you could check that for me Xeno (should be the fix based on what you've described). Thanks! (Off to bed, gotta be up in ~6 hours) —  Ree dy  22:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I can check tonight when I get home, will have to make a build =] –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 13:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose you could say this is fixed, in that it no longer allows you to save "Remove duplicates" in the default settings . . . –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 20:11, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Blah. What? It is saved though. Come on IRC and explain :P —  Ree dy  20:16, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course it works after I get on IRC... –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 20:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

NBSP not added
I think making what Lightbot was doing is much better. No spaces but convert. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * , Updated logic to catch the above. Some units such as "in" cannot be fixed all the time due to false positives such as "5 in 10 people..." etc.
 * The convert would not work on other language wikis. Rjwilmsi  18:28, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Similar formats to 10-12.5 cm (4-5 in) should be recognizable as a single expression with various use of white space. Make sure it makes the changes with different use of white space. 10cm and 10 cm. Snowman (talk) 16:57, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk biography matches skip-if-found regular expression "WPBeatles"

 * Nuked this. —  Ree  dy  18:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Substitution of template doesn't seem to be ok
I have the same issue running off the most recent snapshot and it's been like this for awhile (not sure what release).


 * Yes, this template has to be handled differently. We need some kind of exception. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:40, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * In addition to that one, I meant just subst'ing templates in general. I used to be able to make it work and now nothing.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  12:48, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * general case fixed. I think we just have to add some exception for BD and Lifetime. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

General case is fixed, BD is now orphan, I'll mark this as notbug since it's no worth to change the template substitution coding for Lifetime. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation is grabbing the word "Wictionary"

 * Presumably your meaning links from transcluded templates? —  Ree dy  21:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Disambiguation -> Enable Disambiguation -> I entered the word "Lost" and pressed "Load links" -> "Variants" include "Wiktionary". -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It's because there's a link to Wiktionary in the wiktionarypar template. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, it should be omitted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:01, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * is the API query that gets used (same as in the list maker).. So, your saying, it shouldn't give links from transcluded templates, just links on the actual page? —  Ree dy  20:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Opened a MW Bug —  Ree dy  20:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. We could omit "Wictionary" and "Disambiguation link". -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:43, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

The bug has already been declined, will think about making a per-project exclusion lists. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs
This bus has been reported in the past. Mine is "XML document (2, 2)". I don't know what (2,2) means. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Btw, I am using svn 5237 but in the Help->About it's written 5133. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:10, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Seriously, do you really expect the Wikipedia page HTML to work as a config file? You'll need page source for that. And even then, you shouldn't be loading configs from anywhere on the net without reviewing it for security issues - remember that custom modules can do ANYTHING to your poor PC. Therefore, such misfeature has been disabled in. Coincidentally, it also prevents this exception from occuring. 62.140.253.6 (talk) 16:04, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I forced this bug on purpose. I don't how is fixed. I 'll be expecting a message than a dialog box to report the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * svn 5374 seems to bypass the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in Tools.RemoveSyntax
I selected text file as a source and I "accidentally" put a random url instead of a text file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  20:57, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Replacing underscores in image file names

 * I have no strong feelings one way or the other, and I wouldn't consider this to be a "bug", but I'd like to give an additional reason not listed above, which I personally think is the most important. File names with spaces instead of underscores are much more likely to be corrupted by careless non-AWB users editing them. With underscores it looks more like a single unit which should not be edited. M<SMALL>AN</SMALL>d<SMALL>ARAX</SMALL>  •  <SMALL>XAЯA</SMALL>b<SMALL>ИA</SMALL>M  01:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

(undent; long post): My feeling is that the underscores should be removed, for the following reasons: (in response to Mandrax's comment): Most people who edit Wikipedia understand link syntax, and know that changing things between double brackets can cause links to break. This doesn't seem any more likely with images than with other links. Besides, how often do you see someone make this kind of error where having underscores would have prevented it?
 * 1) In my opinion, the edit page is easier to read without underscores than with. This would seem to be a general consensus since this is the first time that it has ever been brought up to my knowledge.
 * 2) Don't worry about performance. This has never caused trouble for how many years? Unless a developer says something or there is an obvious problem, this performance change seems neglibible. It's like changing &amp;amp; to &.
 * 3) See #2.
 * 4) AWB's adding or removal of whitespace, movement of interwiki links, etc., also make such changes... no real change, but they add to the diff. However, they do serve to standardize page formatting and layout. Honestly, it isn't hard to tell if an edit is inconsequential.
 * 5) I really don't understand what you're saying on this one (not technically-minded enough yet), but this seems like something that would affect only a fraction of a fraction of users.
 * 6) I think that most people here aren't "old school coders". I'm pretty new to things like JavaScript and CSS, and in those, yes, you use underscores for many things related to URLs. But you also use &lt;h2> for section headers. This isn't HTML or C++ or JavaScript; it's wikitext, and to a non-coder spaces make more sense, just like bullets to create lists make more sense than &lt;li> tags (since I just got really interested in coding stuff a few months ago, I can assure you that this is true from personal experience).

Additionally, using underscores causes longer image names to create goofy line wraps in the edit box... another minor point, but it can come up.

So yes, I think that this is perfectly good and positive functionality for AWB. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 02:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Mandarax – Hard to call it a bug, but I couldn't call it a feature request so I put it here. I agree with your single unit file name point, in the example above it could appear the file name is "geography.png" after AWB, but no question it is really "Quincy_MA_geography.png" before AWB indiscriminately changed it.
 * Drilnoth – Here I go, and I hope this helps:


 * OK, that's an opinion, I expressed mine as well. But the name of the file is being changed. That's a fact. At any rate, with all the brackets, pipes, braces, infoboxes, cite templates and so on, removing those underscores really doesn't do much to relieve any readability issues in the edit box. For me and others, underscores enhance readability because they keep the file name in one piece.
 * 1) WP:DWAP was assumed. I do worry about wasted time, rather than performance. Changing the file name does nothing, so why do it? I am not asking for a fix to decrease load, that's absurd. It's the pointlessness that bothers me.
 * OK
 * 1) You've won me over on that one.
 * 2) I spend a lot of time using copy-paste to save time when browsing and working with text. This AWB edit throws a workflow off, since I am accustomed to copying the file name from anywhere – edit boxes, URLs or my own system, and having them remain the same. Although the name with either spaces or underscores is equivalent in wikicode, it isn't elsewhere. I won't go into details, but it is very convenient to be able to assume that the name of the file I copy-paste is the actual name everywhere. Probably a larger fraction of editors than you suggest work this way, but we will probably not be able to know so just concentrate on what I said about copy-paste convenience.
 * 3) That "old school coder" thing was meant to be a self-deprecating remark. For background, I started coding on a Commodore PET at a neighbors house before getting my own TI_99/4A. It is incredibly cool to be able to save my work through a wireless home network onto a server disk in San Francisco in less than a second, much better than waiting 10 seconds to write 2000 bytes on a cassette tape. I like having wikicode make a lot of the CSS, HTML and parser functions work with a lot less typing, too. I embrace any technology that makes things easier for people. I admire AWB for most of what it does, but don't use it because it requires Windows and that technology unfortunately makes things more difficult –  again, opinion, but I usually only use my XP machine only when testing IE rendering.
 * File name causes strange wraps, like long URLs, not a big problem. But breaking the file name goes back to my first point here, answering Mandarax. It increases the possibility that an editor might accidentally screw up the file name as well. To conclude, the edit done here by AWB in my eyes is silly and disruptive. Like I said, I embrace the improvements of technology but something about this particular behavior really bothers me, and it could be fixed very easily in AWB code by a little parsing of the text inside double brackets to have it avoid changing file names and go on changing all the other underscores. Congrats on getting into coding, I really appreciate a detailed response, and clicking the edit link beside the section header is better too (inside joke from VP). Sswonk (talk) 03:44, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I am still inclined to disagree with you position on this, but I will not oppose the removal of the change. Thank you for taking the time to expand on your reasoning. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:43, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

This is not a bug, as such it won't be "fixed": 1) and 2) are completely irrelevant, 3) is microseconds, see WP:PERF, 4) is fully compensated with improved readability, 5) most (=99,9%) users don't use command line anyway, and finally, 6) this feature is intended to help an average user, not an "old school coders" or anyone else in particular. In general, filenames with spaces instead of underscores have better readability (no surprise MediaWiki displays this form on thier desc pages) and have broad support within the community. 62.140.253.6 (talk) 16:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Line break insertion

 * I think there must be some sort of zero-width space being replaced with a newline or something? Rjwilmsi  18:53, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * U+2028 is a line-separator char, and is interpreted as simple newline by RichEdit. The question is whether it is correct: in theory, we're editing text at paragraph level, while converting of line separator to <tt>\r\n</tt> leads to formation of new paragraph. 62.140.253.9 (talk) 08:11, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * From Unicode spec:


 * Converting to Other Character Code Sets: R3 If the intended target is known, map NLF, LS, and PS appropriately, depending on the target conventions. For example, when mapping to Microsoft Word’s internal conventions for documents, LS would be mapped to VT, and PS and any NLF would be mapped to CRLF.
 * R3a If the intended target is unknown, map NLF, LS, and PS to the platform newline convention (CR, LF, CRLF, or NEL).


 * so this transformation could be correct or not. 62.140.253.9 (talk) 08:21, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

OK so there is a hidden character in here? Can I search a database dump for occurrences? Rich Farmbrough, 22:20, 2 September 2009 (UTC).
 * The dump from last week has 352 mainspace matches, so I'll go through and tidy them up. Rjwilmsi  10:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * MaxSem fixed this about a month ago – such line separators are now replaced with spaces. Rjwilmsi  13:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

AWB does not recognize usernames with brackets
Please see this page. Thank you. Kwj2772 (talk) 11:19, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Works fine. I can login fine with my Bot "Reedy Bot", which has whitespace.. —  Ree dy  13:26, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What's the username that bugs? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It's me. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 07:26, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It certainly isnt a whitespace problem (My bot account works), it could be a bracket problem though.. As i think we make a regex of it, and it probably isnt escaped —  Ree dy  09:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

suspect we should change it for

to account for the brackets.. —  Ree dy  09:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Would it be a fix to use an underscore in the list of users (not in the user name)? --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 17:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No. Fixed in —  Ree  dy  19:00, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Can't save empty page.

 * Seems the program allows it in some routes through.. Was this in BotMode? makes some changes... Need to make one more change to finish this. —  Ree  dy  21:25, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

We neeed a warning anyway. "You are saving an empty page. Are you sure?" -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It does, hence me asking if it was in bot mode. As it doesnt there —  Ree dy  21:41, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes there was a warning, which was a cool surprise - guess I never tried to save an empty page before. And it was manual. Rich Farmbrough, 22:24, 2 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Marking as fixed.. As this bug case is.. Just one tweak (with a TODO) needs doing. —  Ree dy  20:22, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

AWB creating unnecessary defaultsort parameters for capital letters

 * The answer is that you haven't vandalized anything, as you should know. --NE2 05:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I reported this a couple of weeks ago, after people were capitalising specific epithets in scientific names. I was told that this feature would be turned off by default in future releases. You probably just need to wait a while, then upgrade your AWB. Hesperian 05:59, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB cannot meet all of the policies on defaultsorts, so I added an option to turn off defaultsort insertion/changing under . You will find it on the Options menu. Rjwilmsi  08:12, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Your response to me was "AWB already has an option to disable its defaultsort logic. I'll change that to be enabled by default, so users have to explicitly allow defaultsort changes." That hasn't changed, right? Hesperian 23:57, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That hasn't changed. Rjwilmsi  06:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

General fixes skip options
I had one set, changed profiles, this general fixes skip option (unbeknownst to me) still remained. Not what I was expecting, I can tell you. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 14:11, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  15:07, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in
Don't ask me what it means! I'm just copying what it said to copy. Art LaPella (talk) 00:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * . -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiListProviderBase.ApiMakeList
MediaWiki 1.13 is not supported both by its developers and AWB. 62.140.253.6 (talk) 14:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

ReflectionTypeLoadException in Plugin.LoadPlugins

 * Sounds like the plugin is out of date.. Grab an updated version from the plugins folder —  Ree dy  15:05, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy, can you add some tests in the code to prevent the use of old plugins? Something like version check and if the version is old to pop up a message instead of crashing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy, I am getting the same error with Category creation plugin by User:Ganeshk and Kingboy ( not a standard plugin shipped with AWB). I have left a note here for Ganeshk. Any pointers to help him will be gr8 -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu  <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian  - 09:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems he's on a wikibreak. I believe the source is about for this plugin somewhere...? —  Ree dy  11:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * here -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu  <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian  - 07:32, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've emailed him, as the source isnt complete so i cant update the plugin. —  Ree dy  01:21, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have fixed the bug per Reedy's instructions. I had to add an "i" to some procedure names. I have uploaded a new source code zip file. Reedy, can you check if this one is complete? Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

- Nicer error handling... Could do with some better handling still as per Magioladitis... —  Ree dy  13:29, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried to load an older version of a plugin and AWB prevented me. This means this is completely fixed, or? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:56, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in InterWikiComparer..ctor
4.6.0.0? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Marking as rare. If it happens again in 4.9+ please report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:07, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.
What version of AWB are you using (Help -> About, SVN number) and how much RAM do you have? Rjwilmsi 10:34, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Uhm, if you look at the bug I just posted, you'd see what version of AWB I'm using (it was the latest snapshot at the tim of report). And I have 2GB of RAM, I have not experienced this issue before I was forced to update. --Charitwo (talk) 04:26, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In my XP SP2, AWB 4.9.0.2 starts with 45.296K. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I marked it as wfm. If it happens again in 4.9+ please rereport. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:37, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

RegexTypoFix doesn't work on indented text

 * Verified. Never seen that before tbh... Will take a look later on today (see if i can grab the source whilst still at uni, god knows why i dont have it on my memory stick) —  Ree dy  11:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * HideText is hiding it.


 * So, now its a case of, why is it hiding it? (there is presumably a reason for it doing so) —  Ree dy  22:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

RegexTypoFix hides quotes and sic. Maybe this is a similar case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:26, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * There must be a reason for it.. I'm leaning towards wontfix/notbug. —  Ree dy  20:59, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it was asked not to check indented text. We could make it optional. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:30, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I marked it as notbug since it's not a bug but a feature, at least right now. Maybe Mandarax can fill in a new FR if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:23, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Error creating window handle.
"Error Creating Window Handle" is not a .NET error, but is coming from Win32. As I found in a forum: "First thing to look for: Anything that might be related to unmanaged code - streams, bitmaps, ink, etc." -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

"Its a wontfix, seemingly outside our code". (Reedy, today) -- 17:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in MainForm.exitToolStripMenuItem_Click
Searching in internet: ''The error means that you run the risk of stepping over items in the list if some items are removed or added. It's safer to use a for loop in this case, also if flush actually removes an item from the list it's better to traverse the list in reverse order.''

I found similar reports in .NET forums-- Magioladitis (talk) 11:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Aye, that would seemingly be the case, but it seems to be somewhere down in the actual .NET FW.. So a little hard to try and debug. —  Ree dy  13:25, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I never encountered it after 4.9. So, I think it's rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:43, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AWBLogListener.AddAndDateStamp
Fixed in. Please grab a snapshot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:26, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * My fix didn't work, and you'll notice that the fix revision 4624 is earlier than the revision of the 4.6.0.0 release (rev 4662). I'll take another look. Rjwilmsi  13:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I have added logic to catch this exception, though I still don't understand why it is produced, so further work is required to properly prevent the exception. Rjwilmsi 19:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately I am unable to reliably reproduce the bug, so am having difficulty fixing it, although I have seen it myself. I will add logic to catch the exception, though this will not prevent it occurring (my earlier fix was supposed to do that, though it didn't work). Rjwilmsi  19:10, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Did someone catch that bug in 4.9+ ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in Variables.LoadProjectOptions

 * What MW version etc? —  Ree dy  17:43, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Versions are:
 * MediaWiki 1.13.5
 * PHP 5.2.1 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL 5.0.37-log

--213.71.18.168 (talk) 10:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Curiously I do see the same error twice, to start the program (not that happens) and when the URL of the site in which you want to use the program is poorly configured in Options -> Preferences -> Site (the correct format of the URL is www.example.org/wiki/index.php) and if this field is www.example.org/wiki//index.php or www.example.org/wiki/index.php/ (notice the final bar) is generated exactly the same error.--201.252.169.139 (talk) 20:13, 12 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Any ideas how to fix that?--213.71.18.168 (talk) 13:00, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

4.6/older MW/etc —  Ree dy  17:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

213.71.18.168, update to latest AWB and latest MediWiki and report if the bug still happens. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:51, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Opening an XML dump across a n./w where I have full rights.

 * Not a biggie. Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 12 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Still happening in 4.9+? Can you reproduce it on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:10, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Archived. If still happening in 4.9 please re-report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:55, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

DivideByZeroException in UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc
I have reported this in 4.5+. Reedy's answer was "Not a huge amount we can do about this as its in the .NET/Windows Code." -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Rare bug, it's possible that 4.9 won;t have it. Please update to version 4.9.0.3+ and re-report if reappears. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException
4.6.0.0 should not be working in e.wiki at the first place. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Could you post your settings file somewhere or send them by email? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:03, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB unable to retrieve links to secure sites?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&euquery=www.nysdot.gov/portal/page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&euquery=https://www.nysdot.gov/portal/page

The API returns nothing with the https, and nothing for the rest of the url. There is some discrepancy, will log on bugzilla. —  Ree dy  15:23, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&euquery=www.nysdot.gov/portal/page&euprotocol=https
 * Seems we just need to do the URL properly. —  Ree dy  15:26, 20 January 2010 (UTC)