Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 13

NullReferenceException in MainForm.tabControl2_SelectedIndexChanged
I encountered the problem when started AWB and tried to open 'History' tab. All that time I wasn't logged to wiki. Patrol110 (talk) 17:45, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The same problem appeared when I tried to open 'What links here' tab. Patrol110 (talk) 17:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —  Ree  dy  17:54, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

SetPasteMoreText NullReferenceException

 * "PasteMoreItems[item].Text = PasteMoreItemsPrefixes[item] + s.Replace("&", "&&");" is at fault. Presumably the right hand side array, as the first line executed.. —  Ree dy  18:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  20:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Bot timer missing in 4901_rev5263

 * AWB had been updated not to show the bot timer for non-bot mode, but ended up never showing it. Now fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:12, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! –xenotalk 13:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Can't change between user accounts in 4901_5263

 * It just let me use my pre-saved account to login, then quick login with my bot account fine. —  Ree dy  18:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * , I guess it was a one-off. –xenotalk 19:03, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Wrong page

 * Half expected. Upon changing user, the page is reset.. So.. When this happens (change of user), we should invalidate the currently opened page for editing.. —  Ree dy  19:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed/prevented (this specific occurance) in —  Ree  dy  18:31, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

AssertionFailedException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
Happened when just saving normally, then kept on happening on every save (none went through) until I re-logged in. - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 19:42, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Removing from watchlist

 * This still isn't fixed BTW. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Waiting on 19523 to fix this in 4.9/5 —  Ree dy  16:03, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * NB for me. Remove any related options to gui based settings that we dont need in newer versions —  Ree dy  06:38, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I'm guessing that once 19090 is live (it's fixed, but not part of the current branch that is live) you can fix this without having 19523 resolved. Amalthea  20:54, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, thanks for the heads up, we have already catered for that. We still really need to be able to get the watch status of the page, so we can set the watch button appropriately, to allow pages to be watched/unwatched on demand. —  Ree dy  22:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This is still a problem currently, any idea when the fix will be live? --Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:59, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Although i forgot to post the svn revisions here, this part of the bug is actually fixed... We are still waiting on 19523 so we can properly label the watch/unwatch button. If you grab a 4.9/ApiEdit version, all will be well, and this should work as expected! Just no manual watch/unwatch button —  Ree dy  09:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just upgraded, looks like it should work fine. Thanks.  --Philosopher Let us reason together. 09:21, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as fixed after bugzilla. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:31, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

"Wiki search (text)" : problem with string of 2 words

 * - It was using \", so switched for '. Works fine now. —  Ree dy  20:53, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect delinking of article title
- Did you remove it before you saved...? —  Ree dy  21:38, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course. If you want to recreate the error, copy the text of the linked old version somewhere and run AWB on that. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Was just checking ;P. But that wouldnt work, as AWB was fixing self links. Would have to copy to test or similar! —  Ree dy  10:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's true! :) I'll leave it to the experts to figure out how to test it, then! I supposed you could revert the article temporarily if there isn't some kind of test database. I wasn't working specifically on delinking titles when I came across this error, so I don't know if it's doing the same in other cases. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:32, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem (on runecape wikia) with articles with + in the name.
Notes:
 * 1) The page title stored after using the above workaround (ie, using the add article, pre-parse, adding from logs) will be unusable again.
 * 2) Faith + Hope + Love is a worse problem on en. AWB sits there reloading the  page.
 * Rich Farmbrough, 16:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC).
 * AWB loads the wrong page for me on 5391. But it does load it fine. —  Ree dy  22:32, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Max added something regarding this in . Its what is causing the problem... —  Ree dy  22:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

- Fixed —  Ree dy  18:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

SecurityException in Program.Main
Just posting a bug I encountered, given AWB's request I post it here—my guess is that this is probably just an issue with running AWB on a school computer. It failed with this bug if run off the (network?) H: drive assigned to me, but when its folder was copied to the desktop it ran fine. { { Nihiltres | talk | log } } 15:21, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I suspect so, im sure this has been reported before... Depends on the network setup to whether running stuff works from a network drive (IIRC it works fine from my uni network drive, i just get pestered to hell with javascript script debugging) —  Ree dy  18:22, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Got this today at work too on 4.5 when running from network, but off pen drive it was fine. Rjwilmsi  21:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Suspect we should try and trap it and offer some advice... —  Ree dy  21:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Does AWB even get started up? AS im thinking its line 39 of Program.cs —  Ree dy  21:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * AWB does not start up. While trapping the error would be useful it would be nicer to understand why the error occurs (I have full read/write to the network share, Firefox runs fine from there). Rjwilmsi  08:05, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I think we have to mark this as rare. Something was/is wrong with .NET Configuration and zone security. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:37, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking it as "fixed". I've put a trap in for this error, and it notifies the user as such. Not much more we can do. —  Ree  dy  21:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Behaviour of admin tools in AWB API edit

 * Some better notification (failure and success), and an addition of a call to Start would probably suffice in this case. Also, as per IRC, we need some logging... New logging control? —  Ree dy  11:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * seems pretty good (ie it works ;P). Need some more feedback, and logging. —  Ree dy  20:24, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * - Status label on success! —  Ree dy  20:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks Reedy, I'll check it out later today. --Closedmouth (talk) 04:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I've nearly done the logging too, just need to implement it onto the main form etc! —  Ree dy  07:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Using it now, delete works fine, thanks :) --Closedmouth (talk) 07:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk plugin loops when encountering articles including "+" character

 * see my bug report: this isn't the plugin it's either AWB or the mediaWiki software. Rich Farmbrough, 00:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Good point, cheers Rich. This is now fixed as per the other bug report —  Ree dy  07:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

InvocationException in AsyncApiEdit.InvokeFunction

 * Ok I think this is me pressing"save" while it's already saving. Rich Farmbrough, 00:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Could quite well be. Need to check button enabled state, and whether we are doing background stuff before trying to save. —  Ree dy  07:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

—  Ree dy  18:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
Source: Wikisearch (title) -> Search for foo -> Kaboom!. PS I used default settings. I was not logged in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Duplicated (helps if i select the right option) —  Ree dy  21:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

 Hmm  Why's api wiki title search disabled for anonymous'?  Is it cause its expensive?  text search is enabled...  Title search is disabled for everyone  Because we're using Lucene  Text search includes titles  (Lucene only has one search mode)  Hmm, true <Reedy> Didn't notice that

—  Ree dy  21:03, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * "Fixed". No way round it. The text search does both on WMF at least. —  Ree  dy  21:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

As per Magioladatis last night, need to tweak the error message minorly.. To suggest to use text! —  Ree dy  07:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors - watchlist

 * Easily fixed. Just need to give the user a nicer error message. —  Ree dy  07:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  19:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Orphan tags part II

 * Minor tweak to code in . Doesn't fix/change this though. In AWB, if its got more than 0 links from article pages, it is not considered an orphan.. —  Ree dy  20:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think 1 or 2 links are not enough... Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 20:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The definition is now "less than three" but when this feature was firstly introduced in AWB there was no formed rule apart from "no or very few". -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Easily changed/fixed. > or >= 3? —  Ree dy  07:25, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * >. WP:ORPHAN say "fewer than 3" not "fewer or equal" :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * . Will therefore add orphan tag if < 3 links incoming, and therefore remove if >= 3 —  Ree dy  09:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.birthdeathCatsToolStripMenuItem_Click
Just for me to remember. There are 6 cases. 3 corrected today. (Reedy knows how to fix these) -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.undoAllChangesToolStripMenuItem_Click -
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.birthdeathCatsToolStripMenuItem_Click -
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.humanNameCategoryKeyToolStripMenuItem_Click -
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.ReparseEditBox -
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.SkipPage -
 * NullReferenceException in MainForm.humanNameDisambigTagToolStripMenuItem_Click -


 * Lol, i removed the skip page one as it just made the edit button do nothing when pressed when the article was null. Needs re-instating/fixing —  Ree dy  06:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Templates moving
I've got a problem using AWB. It moves templates like this "language letters", "language letters" -> for you on en: -> ar

It seems AWB see it as a normal template, so it's moved just under portal. But this templates must be just upon the interwiki links. Example here. Perhaps you know this problem, so can you add support for Lien BA, Lien AdQ, Lien PdQ  for frwiki ?

Can you fix this ? --Archimëa (talk) 21:56, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed per request. Rjwilmsi  15:05, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Archimëa (talk) 17:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Using %%title%% in "Append/Prepend text" box

 * That should do it. Rjwilmsi  15:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.SetProject
This was archived in the past as rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:29, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Text by By Dan Mabbutt taken from http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2008/10/19/object-reference-not-set-to-an-instance-of-an-object.htm

''Since reference types are actually pointers to memory, their value can be "Nothing". That is, there is no memory address. This can happen in a variety of ways and that's why this error can be so frustrating. The possibilities include:
 * You never assigned anything to the variable.
 * You never created an instance of the value assigned to the variable.
 * You set the variable equal to Nothing, or a called function did the same thing.''

-- Magioladitis (talk) 20:05, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.UpdateButtons
The same method gives "NullReferenceException in MainForm.UpdateButtons" as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentNullException in SaveInfo..ctor
The same to me. I tried to save using the toolbar. I think I know what happens: AWB prevents null edits but the Save button in Toolbar is enabled -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * should help with the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:44, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Inserts Reflist when article contains &lt;references> tags
See User talk:Rich Farmbrough, User talk:Uncle G, and indeed the wikitext of English Defence League, for why sorting the elements within is a bad idea, and why elements that are within  should be just left alone in the order that they are written by human editors. Uncle G (talk) 02:51, 24 September 2009 (UTC) It was talked about, I was vaguely aware. People get to exercised over ref styles. I am to busy with WP to read my email. I meant a feature for AWB to gather the ref-cruft automatically. I added a new workaround to the bug now I am awake. Rich Farmbrough, 11:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC). Prevents the incorrect reflist insertion. Rjwilmsi 16:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note that this would be a potential feature, gathering the refs in the references section leads to much cleaner wikicode.
 * That's why it was introduced. ☺  Future possibilities for improvement apparently include allowing a <tt>style</tt> attribute directly on &lt;references&gt;, so that CSS styles for multi-columnar layout and the like can simply be specified directly. Uncle G (talk) 02:51, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, there are two issues here. First is that reflist is inserted, that will be simple to fix. Second is that the refs are reordered in the, which I can also fix. If we'd be advised of this new MW feature in advance I could have made the changes in preparation.  Rjwilmsi  08:18, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You were. There was a big poll, now at Wikipedia talk:Citing_sources/Archive 26, back in July.  Uncle G (talk) 08:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I just found out as well. Was that advertice in centralised discussions? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've no idea. You could check the history of Template:Cent to find out.  It's certainly advertised now.  ☺  These particular problems, and some links (including to that poll), can be found at Village pump (technical)/Archive 65.  For what it's worth, I found out about this from the wikien-l mailing list.  The mailing lists are your friends.  ☺ Uncle G (talk) 09:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh I still don't see the harm on sorting the references. But I see the benefit. They occur in four contexts,
 * The body of the article
 * The footnotes to the article
 * The body of the code
 * The footnotes to the code
 * Why should 4 be in a arbitrary order? Rich Farmbrough, 11:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC).
 * OK I looked again you sorted by source, for articles with many ref.s this would be useful. Opens up the whole "page number" and ibid debates though. Rich Farmbrough, 11:13, 24 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Exactly! It's useful.  This new syntax is purely for editor convenience.  That's why it exists at all.  See strategy:Proposal:Move references out of article text.  It doesn't change what the reader sees, but it does provide more flexibility in how the editor can write.  As noted, one of the things that it provides new flexibility for is having references listed in some order that is actually useful for editors, such as (in this case) grouped by publication, without that order being as a consequence imposed upon readers (as would happen, say, when doing the same thing with ref/note).  This isn't the page for any referencing style choice discussions, or really for an extended discussion of what tradeoffs the use of this new syntax involves.  (We can do that at the Technical Village Pump if needs be.)  The major point here is that AWB scrambles any wikitext ordering that editors, for their editorial convenience (the very raison d'être of the syntax), have used this new tool to achieve. Uncle G (talk) 11:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly! It's useful.  This new syntax is purely for editor convenience.  That's why it exists at all.  See strategy:Proposal:Move references out of article text.  It doesn't change what the reader sees, but it does provide more flexibility in how the editor can write.  As noted, one of the things that it provides new flexibility for is having references listed in some order that is actually useful for editors, such as (in this case) grouped by publication, without that order being as a consequence imposed upon readers (as would happen, say, when doing the same thing with ref/note).  This isn't the page for any referencing style choice discussions, or really for an extended discussion of what tradeoffs the use of this new syntax involves.  (We can do that at the Technical Village Pump if needs be.)  The major point here is that AWB scrambles any wikitext ordering that editors, for their editorial convenience (the very raison d'être of the syntax), have used this new tool to achieve. Uncle G (talk) 11:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Reflist now has a refs parameter to support list-defined reference system (LDR). LDRs must have a name, so sorting by name and separating them with a blank line does not break anything and certainly makes it easier to find a particular reference. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 17:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't reorder references in the . This can be changed in due course if that's the consensus when we all get used to the new MW functionality.  Rjwilmsi  17:45, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Reflist regression
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = Apparent regression when article contains {{Reflist\s*| Rich Farmbrough, 14:49, 3 October 2009 (UTC). | duplicate     = http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Awards_and_nominations_of_William_Gibson&diff=317611749&oldid=317072851 | site          = en.wp | OS             = V | version        = svn 5481 | workaround    = skip such artcles or turn off GF | fix_version    = {{AWBSVN|5506}} }}
 * Not a regression – AWB never supported such use of {{tl|reflist}}. {{AWBSVN|5506}} fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Correcting references

 * Fixed. Though I bet it's a rare error. Rjwilmsi  14:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Handling of nobots, doesn't look for the whole name so bots that share a prefix might get unnecessarily restricted

 * Too much wildcardness in the regex. Thanks —  Ree  dy  16:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you I never got my WP VG newsletter, I hope urs happy! –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 18:00, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

AWB auto changes xx/xx/xxxx dates
I really liked this feature, as I fix a lot of these dates myself
 * 1) The problem with the AWB auto-changes is 2-fold:
 * 2) They don't fix any of the dates that are ambiguous
 * 3) They remove hints on how to fix ambiguous dates.

It's really the second point that's the problem. When I do an AWB run fixing these dates (manual) I skip any pages with both xx/XX/xxxx and XX/xx/xxxx (where XX>12) or neither.


 * Rich Farmbrough, 17:53, 28 September 2009 (UTC).
 * What change are you requesting to AWB then? Rjwilmsi  13:28, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Let's first wait for Mosnum/proposal on YYYY-MM-DD numerical dates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:39, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Either Or Or
 * Stop doing it.
 * Only do it if you can address every xx/xx/xx date in the article (they are all unambiguous).
 * The above and an option to force ambiguous dates to follow the unambiguous ones when there is no contradictory date on the page. (Not allowed for bots?)
 * Rich Farmbrough, 12:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC).
 * Option 2: only change xx/xx/xxxx dates when there are no ambiguous ones. Rjwilmsi  19:12, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Warning to user if these are found. Rjwilmsi 13:59, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Rich Farmbrough, 22:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC).

Source not persistent between releases

 * Suggest that key for ordering the sources for display should be distinct from the persistent value stored. Rich Farmbrough, 18:24 5 February 2009 (UTC).
 * Its not between versions per se, ie its not the version change that breaks it, its the adding of new list providers... —  Ree dy  19:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I get that. That's why I'm suggesting that the index number stored in the XML be constant for a given source. The order the list is displayed in the select drop down can be independent of that - driven off a separate sort-key. Rich Farmbrough, 21:20 12 February 2009 (UTC).
 * Yeah... Its working out what this sort key should be.. Or how we generate it.. —  Ree dy  15:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok so what we have is like this
 * 1 cat
 * 2 links
 * 3 text

If we make the list of links the number 2 is stored in the XML. If another method is added (or indeed we simply re-ordered the list of methods) thus


 * 1 cat
 * 2 cat recursive
 * 3 links
 * 4 text

the XML now points to a different method

If instead we had a list sort order and a unique id:
 * 1 1 cat
 * 2 2 links
 * 3 3 text

and we add a new method


 * 1 1 cat
 * 2 4 cat recursive
 * 3 2 links
 * 4 3 text

the XML now points to the same method.


 * Rich Farmbrough, 13:22 21 May 2009 (UTC).

, i've added a comment about this for my future reference. —  Ree dy  21:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Note when you load "nolimits" plugin the same sort of effect happens. Rich Farmbrough, 10:29, 22 September 2009 (UTC).


 * Yeah.. I've no idea how we're gonna be able to handle this effectively. If we do something based on the name, if we change it, it causes problems. Plugins we cant verify there will be a uniquely incremented number, well, not at least for ones in the awb svn repo's. Doing it by text would be better than by index as we're doing it currently, but still not perfect. —  Ree dy  11:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Marking as fixed, MaxSem changed it in some version to do it via text. —  Ree dy  16:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

AWB doesn't think I'm logged in.
There is a discussion in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. Obviously not an AWB bug since till yesterday it was working for all of us. I updated to version 4.9.0.0 (rev 5386) and works fine -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

AWB worked fine yesterday, but not today. Tried v 4.9.0.0. I get in, it works for a few minutes and then unlogs me. Hmains (talk) 19:26, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I got this to temporarily and now it works ok. I guess that the new wikimedia software had some teething problems initially. Snowman (talk) 13:00, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * No further problems for me. Hmains (talk) 04:44, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Impossible to log in
Get a new version from http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/. 4.6.0.0 is dead. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException This occurred when I got a message on my talk page

 * Did this come up after it had already told you that you had new messages? —  Ree dy  11:19, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was as if the error box and the notification box were fighting but perhaps that was just me desperately clicking to make them go away. Rich Farmbrough, 22:23, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

/ —  Ree dy  11:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

"Add selected to list from" drop menu missing in List comparer

 * Are you meaning from the lists on the right? The only 1, only 2, common right click menu? They copy to the clipboard to be pasted... —  Ree dy  11:47, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * See image... –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 23:30, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Is this the same with Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests or not? -- Magioladitis (talk)
 * No, it's different. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 14:08, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Cheers. Will poke at it later —  Ree dy  14:09, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  20:10, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You're the king. Thanks! –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 20:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

WP:LDR problems

 * Already fixed/handled better in newer snapshots of AWB. —  Ree dy  23:36, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk's list of redirects is really old

 * updates the defaults. Do you want me to remove this functionality for the hardcoded plugins then? —  Ree dy  19:08, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I would like AWB not to check for the newest redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:25, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. It actually seems like it doesn't do this for the default inbuilt ones... Have you any custom providers setup? —  Ree dy  18:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No. I'm working with WPBiography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Musician was deleted as a redirect of WPBiography. My cleanup process is over. Please remove it from AWB/Plugins/Kingbotk/AWB Plugin/WPBiography.vb. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:16, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Commas in dates

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  07:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 17:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

References consolidation problem
See the diffs (name="ecomodder.com") and   (name="ReferenceA"). Rich Farmbrough, 15:12, 18 October 2009 (UTC).
 * Fixed – bug introduced during recent performance refactor I think. Rjwilmsi  11:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Good stuff. Rich Farmbrough, 04:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC).

Bold names
I thought that was what AWB was doing. Moreover, in the edit you show us the uncategorised tag wasn't moved to the bottom as it should. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:06, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I just tried this again at AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox and the same thing happened; it just delinked the title without bolding it. Please note that for that edit I deactivated my custom gen fixes module and just applied the normal built-in general fixes. As for the uncategorized tag, I suspect that that wasn't moved either because my bot is set not to auto tag articles or because it doesn't sort meta data. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 18:37, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It's always worked for me, like here. It should only do it for articles, so AWB was correct in not doing it for your Sandbox example, but the Andrew Mwangura one is puzzling. M<SMALL>AN</SMALL>d<SMALL>ARAX</SMALL>  •  <SMALL>XAЯA</SMALL>b<SMALL>ИA</SMALL>M  19:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Please try giving diffs instead of links. Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:17, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * (re: Mandrax) I'll do some more article testing... I have another idea.
 * (re: Magioladitis) My bad; I'll provide diffs for the next example. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Report: With identical AWB configuration, it fixes the error on Finder Wyvernspur (see and ), but not on Andrew Mwangura. Weird. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

There was a bug for this (or something very similar) somewhere —  Ree dy  20:12, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * In updating the logic for the bolding of the first use of the article title I've inadvertently removed the 'first self link to bold' logic, so I'll reinstate it. Rjwilmsi  08:18, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Any progress on this? My bot is waiting on it before it can make a 3000+ page run. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 13:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay new database dump. 36798 articles. :) But now I have plenty of other things to do. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm busy off wiki at the moment. I'm unlikely to have time to look at this for a week. Rjwilmsi  19:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay; thanks for the info. As I said, I have plenty of pages to work on for now. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:26, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Partial fix: self links in lead section are converted to bold (if no bold title in lead section already). Self links in the rest of the article are later delinked. Custom modules must call EmboldenTitles before Fixlinks for this to work, I've updated the example on the Custom Modules page. However, I'm not sure if this is going to be 100% the desired behaviour as some articles seem to use self linking when they want bolding in other parts of the text. Before running any bot against pages with self links using this logic we need to see if this new behaviour reliably the correct thing to do. Rjwilmsi 11:01, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems fair; I'll bring up a discussion at the CHECKWIKI talk page. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 12:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Are we ok with this now? Can I archive it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Extra comma in deafultsort

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:47, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Ctrl+H

 * Could be manual out of date, removed shortcut, or detached events... Will look later. —  Ree dy  12:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Now it's done with F11. Manual is out of date. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Bad category and stub capitalization

 * I thought I'd already added a fix to put a missing '}}' on the end of a DEFAULTSORT line. I'll have another look. Rjwilmsi  07:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * and . Fixed. I'll scan for the same error in other articles. Rjwilmsi  14:57, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk plugin is reporting "Red link (article deleted)" often when this is actually not the case

 * Also if anyone has spare time, I've left many requests for enhancement at WT:Plugin++ (puppy dog eyes). –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 23:12, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Jees, you could've put it in the right section. ;P —  Ree dy  06:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And make it easier for you to ignore it? I think not, compadre ! –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 14:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * seems to have sorted itself out. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:52, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

names often spelled differently

 * Given AWB will not fix a wikilink as it's deemed to be spelled accurately (point 1), that AWB does not check for the typo matching against such links is a contradiction (point 4). Therefore, don't apply the typo if it matches on a wikilink target. Points 2 and 3: user must take care.  Rjwilmsi  22:40, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Could you please at least add a warning not to treat names like words? Even experienced and careful editors apparently make this mistake, as shown by this example. Would it be easy to have AWB simply recognize all uppercase changes and produce a simple dialog box pop? This could remind the user that all names, and not only of people, very often have different correct spellings for different users of the name. --Espoo (talk) 07:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That's not a route I want to go down. Typo fix users are already advised to check each change and look out for exceptions. If a typo fix has too many exceptions it can be removed from the list. If a particular user makes lots of errors then a discussion is needed with them. Rjwilmsi  10:44, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Would you agree that there's a fundamental difference between automatic searches for typos in uppercase and lowercase words due to the fundamental difference between strong spelling standardisation for lowercase words and the opposite situation for many uppercase words? --Espoo (talk) 11:02, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Login problems in Windows 7

 * AWB version 4.6 no longer works on Wikipedia following a mediawiki update. Nothing to do with Windows 7. Please download a snapshot. Rjwilmsi  17:28, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You might want to update AutoWikiBrowser/CurrentVersion? I tried, but was told I was wrong, so maybe someone who really knows the score could do it? Hiding T 17:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

46** is broken. WMF changes. 4.9 is recommended, but isn't under general release. Should work fine on win 7, havent tried yet though. —  Ree dy  12:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I am marking as "fixed" since in 4.9 is ok. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:08, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentNullException at WikiFunctions.API.SaveInfo..ctor

 * My watchlist setting is 'leave unchanged' (if that's relevant). Rjwilmsi  07:40, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No, it won't be. Just that specific bug, with the way we were building options up. —  Ree dy  12:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * When I reverted the watchlist fix locally I don't get the error though. Rjwilmsi  13:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Bypass all redirects failure

 * Certainly a 4.9 regression. —  Ree dy  06:36, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems to be a regex regression in the simple wikilinks... See if i can sort it... —  Ree dy  12:59, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy and I have worked it out and fixed it. I'm not sure it was 100% working before though. Rjwilmsi  14:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

AWB always restarts on save.

 * It's failing because the MW servers are timing out or reporting an excessive maxlag. Rjwilmsi  13:19, 26 September 2009 (UTC)


 * What does that mean and what can be done about it? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 14:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * We can wait for the servers to recover. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:51, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ..and they are back. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Alas, it is not back for me. I still have the problem just as before. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 07:23, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm experiencing the same issue currently. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Similar issue on Wikimedia Commons. Bot will process bunch of images and than will get stuck on some it can not save and it will go into "saving" followed by "restarting in 60" followed by "stopped" mode. In bot mode it rarely finishes processing a given list, since it ilways get stuck on something. One file I can not save with AWB is File:UzbrojonyUpiórPółnocy.JPG. --Jarekt (talk) 15:15, 3 October 2009 (UTC)


 * This problem has locked me out of AWB for weeks now. I wish I understood what the problem is. If it is not AWB, then where is the problem and who can fix it? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 18:12, 14 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Well- I had the same problem with the restarts, it seems that the add all to watchlist is the culprit - at least for me, when I changed it to MW preferences, it works fine trakesht (talk) 06:55, 17 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That does indeed seem to be the answer. When I turned off add all to watchlist AWB started working again! So, what was all that about the servers? Perhaps this is an easy fix now? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 21:14, 28 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Awesome guys, thanks. Thats certainly a narrowed down test case, presumably being the server at fault (or at least, the way AWB is handling it). I shall have a poke later on.. Changing it in the MW preferences helped? (Or was it AWB's option) That's a bit strange, as AWB's options *should* AFAIK override those of MW, and therefore they not matter. Marking as new again, will look at verifying it later on. —  Ree  dy  12:31, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * For me, it was changing AWB's option that did the trick. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 12:53, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Really good catch guys, easily found problem in code, MaxSem fixed. Thankyou! —  Ree dy  23:57, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.SetPasteMoreText
I don't know if it's related: While it was loading I double-clicked on the tray icon. Moreover, I experience some connection problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC) I can't find it in the archives but google tells me that this was reported in the past (4.9.0.1, revision 5303) and Reedy tried something in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:12, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

This should be fixed by now. The problems occurs in the following cases:
 * You never assigned anything to the variable.
 * You never created an instance of the value assigned to the variable.
 * You set the variable equal to Nothing, or a called function did the same thing.

Now th tray icon loads after all variables are set. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

PasteMoreItems[item].Tag = s;

PasteMoreItems[item].Text = PasteMoreItemsPrefixes[item] +(string.IsNullOrEmpty(s) ? "" : s.Replace("&", "&&"));

I think in AWB/AWB/UserSettings.cs the pointer s still has the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * We do know what an NRE is ;). —  Ree dy  23:51, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Marked as fixed, since, as I write above, the tray icon is now loaded later and there is not way to reproduce the bug again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Can't find difference in list filter
I don't know when it was fixed but works fine now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:40, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

The protection templates should be above the Otheruses template

 * No, per DISAMBIG the disambig templates are at the top. Rjwilmsi  21:27, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In fact, the protection template should be rendered first. The Manual of Style is not so detailed. It's not AWB's bug but we could add in the manual of style that protection templates should be above DAB links. From my experience the correct order is: Protection templates, DAB links, xfD templates, the rest. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:34, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Wasn't it your feature request Magioladitis that had the Dablinks moved to the top? Rjwilmsi  06:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Since the hatnote itself is also protected, it makes sense from an ordering perspective to have the protection template at the very top. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 16:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If DISAMBIG is updated then I'll update AWB. Rjwilmsi  17:24, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I made a section at Wikipedia talk:Lead section. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 17:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Stylistically, when there are maintenance templates it looks better below the protection template. Notwithstanding my comment that the protection applies also to the hatnote, the hatnote should be the first thing seen just in case the user landed at the wrong article. The discussion I opened is leaning this way as well (though it is very lightly trafficked). –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black; font-family:verdana;">talk 15:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Same names to different references

 * Thought I had already logged a very similar bug with urls, but cant find it. Rich Farmbrough, 00:07, 3 November 2009 (UTC).
 * was fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No not that one. Rich Farmbrough, 08:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC).
 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_13. fixed that. Rich, grab a new snaphsot.  Rjwilmsi  10:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Incomplete fix of brackets
. Rjwilmsi  12:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I knew it was something you could do ;) -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Culture ID 1093 (0x0445) is not a supported culture. Parameter name: culture

 * Hmm. It doesnt seem to like your language... Bangala? —  Ree dy  11:09, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This problem occurs for "bn-BD" locale only.... Because "bn-BD" is not availabe in System.Globalization.GetCultureTableRecord. Change your default locale for bengali to Bengali (India) -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Blank ref handling problem

 * update ref fixes to remove empty   tags

Log in fails
Copying from the top of this page: ''AWB 4.6 is broken due to MW Changes. We cannot roll out a fix yet, due to other blocking bugs due to IE. Feel free to download a SVN snapshots, and use 4.9.0.2. This will also help us with testing, and help us release it to you quicker!'' -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:37, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that I overlooked the top of the page, and thank you for the helpful advice, it works fine now. :-) --Ukko (talk) 22:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

MissingFieldException in TypoScanAWBPlugin.UploadFinishedArticlesToServer

 * New typoscan doesn't have this problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open

 * On which page? How to reproduce? 62.140.253.6 (talk) 14:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Pages starting with Î such as Île Marc or Île Vanier. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 15:32, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * And it needs to be from a text file. When taken from a category it works fine. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 17:35, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't reproduce myself by either method. Rjwilmsi  13:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Marking as site error. Presumably if we get a one off that is blank, it's probably not us. —  Ree dy  14:51, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in AWBProfilesForm.AWBProfilesForm_Load
Description: I've just opened AWB and tried to log in by clicking "Login In/Profiles". Then I got the message above and AWB stopped working :/ I cannot show profiles window and log in to Wikipedia. Patrol110 (talk) 15:27, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * In some cases (only after the first crash) profiles windows appeared and there was a chance to log in. Else AWB didn't respond. Patrol110 (talk) 15:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The freshest SVN 5369 doesn't have problem in that field :) Patrol110 (talk) 15:53, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Even though not occuring, prevented NRE in —  Ree  dy  15:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException – interwikis
We need some error handling on this, and to allow the user to edit without interwiki sorting. Rjwilmsi 22:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Reordering refs in Reflist again

 * Dunno if this is a regression or an OSINTOT. The example uses rflist|3|refs= Rich Farmbrough, 15:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC).
 * I don't think I ever fixed for such use of reflist. Rjwilmsi  15:57, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

AWB auto-changes YYYY-MM-DD dates

 * Not an AWB bug, this is what my regexes were was doing. Discussion on my talk page. Rich Farmbrough, 19:51, 16 November 2009 (UTC).
 * Thanks for explaining this. I've changed the bug's status from "new" to "notbug". Eubulides (talk) 20:05, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Merging refs with invalid names

 * AWB will fix the quotes on such reference names. I expect it's a rare error though. Rjwilmsi  13:37, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in Parsers.FixCategories
I read in a forum that "This error caused by incorrect webservice configuration.". MaxSem thinks that "most likely, intermittent problems with loading namespaces". -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:11, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in CategoryProviderBase.get_UserInputTextBoxText
Save as above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

AWB gets stuck while saving
Sumurai8 on nl-wp 19:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I am having this same problem. AWB gets stuck trying to save. Only solution seems to be restarting AWB, but it gets stuck again after a couple of dozen edits. I have no idea what causes the problem, but it has happened to me many times in a row. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 19:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Probably server's problem and not AWB's. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:35, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Section AWB always restarts on save below. Does that answer this question too? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 12:55, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I am archiving this one. Feel free to re-report if happens to 4903+. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:49, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.SavePrefs
From support.citrix.com:

CAUSE: ASP.NET Web Services sometimes use the system Temp folder when they process WebMethods. If the thread that is processing the request uses an identity that does not have read/write access to that folder, you receive the error message.

RESOLUTION: Give read/write privileges for the Temp folder to the ASPNET account. When ASP.NET Web Services process WebMethods, the identity that is used most frequently to gain access to the system Temp folder is the local ASPNET account, which is the default account under which ASP.NET applications run. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:12, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I marking it as "rare". Normally, Wikifunctions.dll is accessable. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:27, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs
Fabiano Tatsch (talk) 15:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Could you post that settings file somewhere? 62.140.253.6 (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "wontfix". Please download the latest snapshot and if problem persists re-report by settings for settings file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.SkipPage
I was logged in as Yobot. While processing an article I switch to Magioladitis and press save. The result was the MainForm bug "tried to save the wrong page". I press keep working and then ignore. The result was this bug. I pressed stop and start and then the article was save correctly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
Update to 4903 please. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:04, 19 November 2009 (UTC) " I haven't experienced any problems in 4.9.0.3, but I don't know what circumstances tripped it either. I'm afraid I didn't bail out of the edit and upgrade and then try again. As for catching it, AWB just threw up an error window and I copied and pasted. Not much help, I'm afraid. --AndrewHowse (talk) 19:48, 30 November 2009 (UTC)".
 * I am marking it as rare. Please fell free to rereport if occurs to any version 4903+. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk has problem with statistics

 * On a test page, i've just got it to add 1 showing 1 new tagging. Errr? —  Ree dy  22:17, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagging yes. But "newpages"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Wheres that? :/ —  Ree dy  00:05, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * In the "Plugin" tab there is a box called "Statistics". Tagged, Skipped work fine. "New" which is supposed to count the number of red links turned to blue remains 0. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thats what i was meaning. That works fine for me... —  Ree dy  10:31, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Here you are. I just took the screenshot. Check Yobot's last edits. They are certainly new pages created.



I didn't have this problem in version 4.5.3.2 -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I only tried one page... So i'll have another look then. —  Ree dy  10:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I just noticed that the first number is wrong as well. I tagged only 115 articles in this session. What maybe important: I have Normal substitution turned on. Usually, this was causing problems in the past. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:58, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Normal substitution? Think i need a test category.... —  Ree dy  10:59, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed that Tagged = Skipped by AWB + real tags, Skipped = Skipped by KingbotK plugin. The counter is in the wrong place. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Newpages are counted correctly in 4.9.0.1. (rev 5386) + KingbotK plugin 2.2.0.0 -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

XmlException in TypoScanListMakerPlugin.MakeList
Using the 64-bit version of Windows 7. FYI. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:46, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe this was caused by a temporary fault with the AWB TypoScan statistics page, which was fixed a couple of weeks ago. Is this still a problem for you? Rjwilmsi  23:58, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Aha! Works now. Didn't even bother to check, figuring it was a problem at my end. Ta. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Win32Exception in NativeWindow.CreateHandle
Sorry, but we won't fix that. "Its a wontfix, seemingly outside our code". (Reedy, 7 November 2009). Please download the latest snapshot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:56, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Bug while disambiguating / NotImplementedException

 * Thats a WINE bug... Is it using Mono? —  Ree dy  12:33, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in Go3636
This is a Microsoft .NET bug. Please update and probably the bug won't occur. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * But if it starts happening continuously, by many users, theres presumably a regex on a specific page thats causing it to barf. —  Ree dy  11:52, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This error only happens when I try to edit pages that link to "Pro Wrestling NOAH". I have edited hundreds of pages in the last few days using AWB, but I didn't get an error until I started editing some that link to Pro Wrestling NOAH. I don't even get the error with every page that links to it, just some.  TJ   Spyke   17:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't manage to crash AWB (in neither rev 4902_5609 nor 4903_5636) with the following settings: general cleanup, autotagging, replacement of Pro Wrestling NOAH with Pro Wrestling Noah and Regex typo scan turned on. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional info: Editor was using normal substitution to change "KENTA" to "Kenta". -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:33, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
Can you reproduce it on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

ApiBlankException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * Hmm, we should really report URL's in api errors tbh... —  Ree dy  12:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This happens if you lose your internet connection. I think we should just go into the restart timer rather than throwing the exception. Rjwilmsi  07:32, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Marking as rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in FindandReplace.RowToReplacement

 * Can you tell us what you were doing at the time please? Maintaining your find and replace entries? Thanks Rjwilmsi  14:16, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm. 5228. So it wasn't any of my "minor" changes. —  Ree dy  07:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I ll try to duplicate it tomorrow. --Magioladitis (talk) 11:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Why the 2nd ignore condition (ignore templates,...) is activated only when the 1st (ignore external...) is? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I am marking this as "rare" waiting for newer feedback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:33, 11 January 2010 (UTC)