Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 14

Strange removal of parenthesis
--NE2 22:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Reorder logic to correctly fix article in that situation. Rjwilmsi  22:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I see - that's no parenthesis. --NE2 00:36, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

External Processing: "path's format is not supported"

 * , thanks for the detailed bug report. —  Ree dy  14:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fix confirmed in svn. Thank you. —Mrwojo (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Editors are allowed to double-click in diff window while AWB is saving
I don't know if it is related to the attempt to save to the wrong page bug, when I press save and save takes some time I still can double-click in the diff window to undo a change. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:05, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * for that. Rjwilmsi  13:02, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Commas in dates in image names

 * Blocked AWB access on that article temporarily. Image rename requests added to those images on Commons. I'll see whether we can just hide images within the Parsers.Hide functions. Rjwilmsi  13:44, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ListComparer.CompareLists
Can you send the lists my email or tell me how to generate them? I am working with larger lists with no problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:52, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've tried to reproduce the problem and failed. I've compared two new big lists successfully. Alex Spade (talk) 17:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've just hit this bug too. I was comparing a list of 57633 entries with a list of 47011. Hiding T 17:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I seem to hit it constantly. How did you escape it Alex, system reboot or it just cured itself? Hiding T 17:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I seem, the problem is not in the sizes of lists. I have seen this bug description, when I'd compared other lists. Alex Spade (talk) 19:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I still investigate problem. But, you can be right - system reboot or AWB restart can help sometimes.
 * I suppose, that problem can be in pre-filtration of list (exluding some namespaces or/and duplicates). Alex Spade (talk) 19:03, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * See if you can to reproduce it on demand. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:21, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Cannot save changes to Barnard Observatory – "The page has been deleted since you fetched its timestamp"

 * Works for me? . Maybe just the API being funny, or the slave being out of date... —  Ree dy  19:03, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Was failing consistently over a number of days for me. Weird. Rjwilmsi  08:55, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Date stamps not always added

 * For the first issue. can you further explain the second issue – I don't get it? Thanks Rjwilmsi  13:42, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that is not recognised as time stamp. I show that yesterday. AWB should correct D with d. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:21, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * SmackBot will catch these daily now it is running again. Rich Farmbrough, 16:35, 30 November 2009 (UTC).

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors -Invalid expiry time

 * —  Ree dy  00:11, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

ArgumentException in ApiEdit.Move

 * That will prevent the exception and cause the standard 'move failed' message to be shown. Rjwilmsi  19:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors - destination exists

 * / —  Ree dy  00:40, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors - missingtitles-createonly
catch (ApiErrorException ae) { if (ae.ErrorCode == "missingtitles-createonly") {   StatusLabelText = "Can't protect a non-existent article"; articleActionLogControl1.LogArticleAction(TheArticle.Name, false, ArticleAction.Protect, "Non-existent article"); } else ErrorHandler.Handle(ae);

Something like that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:28, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * - 21740 —  Ree dy  00:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

"Convert date form" should ignore album titles

 * Not a bug, just me delinking stuff (and converting some 1985-06 types to June 1985). Rich Farmbrough, 02:29, 2 December 2009 (UTC).

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors - token not set

 * Seems to be from " " probably not being a valid title..

Sandbox to ""

Sandbox to Sandbox2

Move token is there in both, just isn't picked up by AWB in the first (though, it shouldn't allow the move). But it is invalid. Aha! —  Ree dy  01:17, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  01:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Hijacking piped link in edit summary
Reported by Black Falcon.


 * AWB is trimming the edit summary as it reckons it's too long, which I will look into. In the meantime I suggest you turn off the section edit feature (via options menu) to give more space to your edit summary.  Rjwilmsi  12:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done that now. Thanks, –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 19:22, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * With Reedy's earlier work this should fix it. Rjwilmsi  20:00, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Exception in MainForm.Save / Attempted to save a wrong page / Replacing entire content of a page with the entire content of another page
This page is only semi-protected. 62.140.253.6 (talk) 15:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm... true. But AWB skipped it as though it were fully protected. Odd. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 15:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have seen this semi-prot skip as well, although I hadn't connected the two problems. Unfortunately I dumped my bugged version (in favor of 4.6)  so I can't do any testing. Rich Farmbrough, 16:00, 7 August 2009 (UTC).


 * Rich and I have run into this problem as well. See User talk:Rich Farmbrough/Archive/2009Jul, and User talk:Rich Farmbrough... Something with the threading? (The skipping due to semi-protected is fixed in 5114, see above... Maybe this was why?) –xenotalk 15:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Max has made some changes to improve that... But thats after 5112... Which isnt currently out... —  Ree dy  15:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I see some bugged edits were made with non-bot accounts. Did the diff indicate that the edit is going to be a disaster, or it was displaying a something innocent? 62.140.253.6 (talk) 15:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Depending on the task, the diff usually changes the page entirely, so it's fairly easy to notice. –xenotalk 16:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem really is with bots... humans should usually be able to see the bug and fix it, but bots are, on the whole, not that smart. :) –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 16:08, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 'Bots only issue' doesn't appear to be true . I would have noticed this, so the diff even appears fine on a borked edit. Rjwilmsi  20:28, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thats "good" then (at least, its more replicable). —  Ree dy  20:29, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dang... then it's really a problem. Any news on if the new revision fixes it? –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:05, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Not knowingly fixed, at least. And if Rjwilmsi is right (which i've got no doubt in), its gonna be harder to try and fix/reproduce. Its seemingly quite a low error rate, which is good, but doesnt help with fixing it.. Its presumably when a certain thing happens, ie a certain path through the AWB code that does it. Its certainly a show stopper for releasing 4.9/5 in any form other than svn snapshots. —  Ree dy  06:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Does this thing happen only in API version?
 * Any idea where it found the other code? I checked and in Rjwilmsi's example the other article (Crete, Indiana) is neither recently created nor edited at the same time. Was it probably in Rjwilmsi's edit list as well? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No one has reported it in the Web Browser version, so i would suspect so. From previous reports, it was the article before it in the list, which was skipped, i believe.. Rob/someone else should hopefully be able to confirm (fingers crossed). —  Ree dy  11:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * My best guess is that it's a previously skipped article that's getting picked up. Rjwilmsi  17:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's almost exclusively an article that was skipped, but I think, didn't meet the skip criteria. For example, Xenobot was working through this list. It skipped #1217 claiming it did not contain the word "article" (it did), and then saved the code meant for 1217 to #1218. 1216 did meet the skip criteria. –xenotalk 17:43, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Right, as of the 5263 snapshot up, this *should* (although unconfirmed, due to difficulty to replicate), be fixed.. Might be a few other skipping bugs or similar introduced. —  Ree dy  06:30, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just curious, why was it happening? –xenotalk 13:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dunno. Hence we couldnt fix it easily. MaxSem reworked the code to hopefully prevent all the fun and games. —  Ree dy  15:15, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

We are hopeful that this bug is now fixed in the latest snapshots. We would be grateful of any reports of the bug still occurring in newer revisions of AWB 4.9.x i.e. SVN revision > 5438. Thanks Rjwilmsi  14:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * reported at 22:05, 26 October 2009. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:53, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * User has confirmed that was on rev 5528. Rjwilmsi  19:26, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Which preview button? —  Ree dy  19:34, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The one below the stop button. Wizard191 (talk) 19:54, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It does actually, just doesnt give you much/any feedback (and takes a little while). does provide some feedback. We're still working on trying to fix these silly errors of trying to save the wrong page (hey, at least we're preventing it from happening now ;)). Thanks —  Ree  dy  20:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding a status update with the preview button. I let it sit for quite a while and still never got a preview. I've gotten previews in past versions without having to wait for too long. Is there a timeout for previews? Wizard191 (talk) 20:19, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I did not have a new message on my user talk page, unlike the previous reporter. I am going to download 4.9.0.2 now... — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 04:47, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Are you able to duplicate on demand? If so, how? —  Ree dy  06:32, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

goes one step closer to solution. It seems quick saving is what causes the bug -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:56, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I was doing a find and replace at Template talk:Megatokyo, I think, replacing class=template with class=template|importance=no  Hiding T 11:47, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * first observation: The bug is still happening. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Second observation: we're catching the error. Rjwilmsi  09:53, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Now reporting the latest false save:. We found the source of the problem. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:01, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Finally at list fix the bug where the "Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates" was replaced with some random page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

InvalidCastException in d__1.MoveNext - Bug when trying to save list from list comparer

 * FWIW only occured when I tried to save from "Unique in list 1", when I transferred unique in list 1 to listmaker1 I could save from there. I can email someone the large list that I was trying to save if that helps. –xenotalk 13:59, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The bug occurs even in the simplest case: Just compare list 1 with only item A and list 2 with only item B and try to save one of the "unique in.." lists (lb1 or lb2). According to MaxSem "a string is getting passed through ListMaker". -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC)


 * —  Ree dy  00:09, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

AWB messes up the new "list-defined references"

 * I fixed that under two weeks ago. AWB users should update their snapshots.  Rjwilmsi  21:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Talk header not moved on the top anymore

 * Have you got some examples of where it should work, and an old example of when it did? Thanks Rjwilmsi  15:26, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Until Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_6 for sure. (i.e.). -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Regex did not match on any talk page headers with parameters, which I suppose is all of them in use. Should now be fixed. I tried to find where it was broken but got back to the beginning of 2009 without finding the bad change. Rjwilmsi  12:03, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 12:19, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

deletes a parameter separating pipe when a url with unclosed [] is in the previous parameter
I understand the reason it does this, so is probably not fully fixable, maybe using " *" intead of "\s*" in the regex would return less false positives, with out too many false negatives. Rich Farmbrough, 03:58, 11 December 2009 (UTC).
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  18:12, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

List Comparer needs to be run twice for accurate unique list to be achieved

 * Seems some of the recent attempts at optimisation have messed it up. Magioladitis! ;P —  Ree dy  18:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am marking as fixed but I would like xeno to confirm it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:27, 6 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I dunno, I think this broke something else. I'm now trying to compare a list of 23528 members to one of 404 members. The results show only 300 as unique in list 1, 346 as common, and 58 as unique in list 2..,. So what happened to the other 22000+ some odd pages? =) –xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 18:06, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy, add "lb2.Items.Add(a2.Name);" after line 96. This is where the missing pages went. If after that the ListComparer is still not accurate we can rollback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:41, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * . From xeno's example they should be articles missing from list 2 only. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I made another patch to simplify the code a bit (and probably gain some speed). -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:11, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * . -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

firstn/lastn parameters marked as invalid for Template:cite web

 * updated. Rjwilmsi  19:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Issues with Template:Xxxx/doc pages

 * As usual I'm torn between this being a bug or a feature request. Since it is WP's call to behave in unpredictable ways, and ours not to break it, I've gone with bug.  But the existing behaviour is totally reasonable, just wrong. Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 26 September 2009 (UTC).
 * only apply heading level fix on mainspace pages. Rjwilmsi  17:30, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Not bolding (infobox then title case)

 * AWB decides that it cannot be sure the bold is appropriate because it's not in the first 5% of the article. I spent quite a while on the logic for bolding articles, not sure I'm willing to change it for fear of lots of false positives. Rjwilmsi  15:45, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * where there any false positives in the case the articlename was immediately after templates? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we could allow 'in first 5% of article' or 'immediately after the infobox'?  Rjwilmsi  16:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This will cover small articles as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:36, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixes 'infobox then title'. Let's hope that doesn't destroy the univerrse. Rjwilmsi  02:33, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Network access error
This is certainly in Category:Minor Pain in the Ass, rather than of real importance, unless it indicates more serious problems.. . . . Jim. . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 17:12, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure this is WMF problem. However it would be great to have the software do something  smarter than stop forever. Rich Farmbrough, 14:47, 6 December 2009 (UTC).
 * I believe I caught this error with so if AWB encounters this issue should now go into the restart timer.  Rjwilmsi  11:33, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's awesome. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in MainForm.CloseAWB
Bug occurs already in 4901_5133. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * ... Should be done as per IRC —  Ree dy  18:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Side-effect: Tick on Don't Ask again and then press Go back -> It exits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:53, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Kingbotk plugin not assessing in SVN version
. I am tagging right now. Can you enter IRC to discuss it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've just tried assessing WP:BIO articles and it isn't working for me, I still have the same issue, it won't load the talk page. Although I have never used anything but the generic template.  Has anything changed with the plugin and the way it is setup since version 4.6 of AWB? Hiding T 22:05, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah. You are tagging, not assessing.  I am referring to doing this. Where in irc do you wish to meet, I'll see if I can remember how to do it.  Hiding T 22:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * In the AWB forum. Login using the button on the header above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I should clarify that after discussion me and Magioladitis came to the conclusion that you can tag just fine, but you can't assess, so I think this bug is still open (if low in the priority queue)? Hiding T 16:18, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The WP:Plugin++ has been unfortunately underdeveloped as of late due to Kingboy's withdrawl from the project. We need to find a programmer who knows VB and can pick up the torch. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I know VB, i just don't like working with the plugin ;P —  Ree dy  19:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you mentioned it at all to Kingboyk? I only ask based on this diff, which indicates he may or may not help? My programming skills are non-existent. What's VB, and how long does it take to learn? Hiding T 20:01, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ...hence my qualifier "and can pick up the torch". You're like that guy who put out the Olympic torch! ;p –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 23:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I just want to throw in there that assessing is not working for me either, using the same SVN version as you. I'm using the generic part of the plugin to assess WikiProject Metalworking articles. Wizard191 (talk) 16:51, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand much how the plugin works, but it seems to me that  call on line 277 of   is to blame. After I commented out that line, assessing articles seemed to start working for me. Svick (talk) 03:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Can you offer up your modified plugin? I would like to try it to see if it works for me. Thanks! Wizard191 (talk) 03:33, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Here you go: . Svick (talk) 11:05, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * That worked great for me! I used it on ~40 metalworking articles in the cleanup & assessment mode. Wizard191 (talk) 17:57, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Svick, create a patch to send to Reedy. If this change doesn't break something else it can be adopted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Like I said above, all I did was to delete the line 277 in . Patch for that follows. Svick (talk) 18:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! —  Ree  dy  18:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

"Add current list to Database Scanner"
Rename: "Add current list to Database Scanner" to "Add Database Scanner results to current list" (Options->Preferences->Tools). -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed in

KeyNotFoundException
The problem in in pt.wiki. I thought MaxSem did something to avoid this bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The exception can be prevented very easily but it shouldn't been happening. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:14, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy fixed it in 5767 but it still a mystery why it happened. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Exception in MainForm.Save
A DisableButtons is missing somewhere. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy fixed it in svn 5770. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Inconsistency caused by renaming Ignore → Skip
The text in question is in AWB/AWB/Main.cs on line 1522. Svick (talk) 20:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:51, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Is CheckPage function off?
If a wiki doesn't have a CheckPage (Japanese Wikipedia doesn't have it), all users are considered registered there. ja:WP:AWB states that: “However, the Japanese version does not need to register.” (Google translation) Svick (talk) 17:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Consistency in edit summary
For consistency, the "R" in "Replaced" should be lower case. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  00:52, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Did removed too. —  Ree  dy  18:28, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Password not saved
This requires you have 1 ID only.

The boxes uncheck themselves each time as well. I think the default should be on if someone decides to save it once, they will likely want to do it each time. 陣 内 Jinnai 18:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * So on just the quick login? —  Ree dy  19:04, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * No, login/Profile as well. 陣 内 Jinnai 19:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Try to double-click the account found in ID. Does it login or asks for password? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:00, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That seemed to work. 陣 内 Jinnai 02:05, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The ID box has the list id saved logins/passwords, the box under it show the last login name used without saving the password. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Stub template removal not counted as a general fix

 * The tagger is not counted as part of the general fixes. Perhaps we need another skip option. Rjwilmsi  15:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am marking as "notbug". I'll fill out a FR. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:43, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * We already have "If not tag changed". With my FR for enhanced autotagging we are ok. No reason to fill out a different FR. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:45, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Session time count broken

 * —  Ree dy  11:16, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Or does it want removing?? —  Ree dy  11:17, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The last time I encountered a similar code was in Windows 3.1. Since we have a counter at the bottom of the main window, nobody expects to find a counter in the about window.
 * KingbotK's estimation counter is also broken. Does the fix above fixes this as well? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:12, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Wheres that one? Do you want it removing? :P —  Ree dy  12:23, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You would become an awful doctor. :P In the plugin tab, there were supposed to be some counters. None of them really works. -- Magioladitis (talk)
 * Lol. You still havent said if you want the one that i fixed originally removing :P —  Ree dy  12:46, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The one in the About window needs removing. I was to polite to say it immediatelly after you made some effort and fixed it. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:57, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Gone, . Now for the Kingbotk Stats... I really need to get IRC sorted out again. —  Ree dy  13:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Level 3 headings incorrectly changed to level 2
I can't duplicate it. I tried the verrsion prior to your edit and the version after your edit. Nothing happens to the headers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * For some reason, it doesn't do it in your sandbox but it still does it on the article itself. mattbr 14:54, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * True. After heading level fix applied only on mainspace pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed. AWB didn't catch level 2 headings of a single letter correctly. Rjwilmsi  15:08, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

List making-> User contributions -> Template:WPB gives results

 * I seem to remember looking at this one and getting an answer. Cannot remember what though. —  Ree dy  14:14, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 21966 —  Ree dy  15:10, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Mediawiki is normalising the string by removing the NS. There is a User:WPB -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Privacy option does not remain

 * , thanks! —  Ree dy  16:39, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

When trying to log in to a custom wiki: XmlException in ApiEdit.Login
I can't access the site given above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

From social.msdn.microsoft.com: ''The error occurs when the SSRS server runs out of memory. If you monitor your SSRS server performance counters during these episodes, you should see large memory consumption. '' -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:03, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

When trying to login to a "custom wiki" : KeyNotFoundException in ImageFileLinksListProvider.get_UserInputTextBoxText
Is there a work around for this problem, I was trying to login a custom server. Thanks -Will

thanks Mappc (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * - God knows where your API is, for a start... —  Ree dy  00:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Per maxsem's AWB will reset gracefully to enwiki if switching to custom project fails. Users will be unable to encounter more exceptions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:08, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
The same error for nThread: ListMaker (CategoryListProvider: User:) and probably for many more.

In the place of "User:" other strings work as well e.g. ".". -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:40, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * for the "User::" case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * . Better handling. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed - —  Ree  dy  17:03, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

UriFormatException in Variables.PrepareWebRequest
Bug similar to the other above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:54, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Use "User::" to get "Invalid URI: A port was expected because of there is a colon (':') present but the port could not be parsed.". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:23, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * - Not quite how Magioladitis requested, but the gui wouldnt play nicely in the nicer form. —  Ree dy  17:48, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Double commas in edit summary
Replaced: more then → more than (2),, added uncategorised tag as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Edit summary stuff needs refactoring. Each function should return a string/array of its own summary changes, and then it be built up. Not each trying to work out whether it needs to prefix or prepend a comma. Probably another pre 5 thing... —  Ree dy  22:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * , . Not perfect by any stretch, but certainly better. —  Ree dy  20:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

XmlException in UsageStats.ReadXML
I clicked "Exit", and AWB told me to report this. Note it says "Windows NT"; I actually use Windows XP. Art LaPella (talk) 15:09, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See Windows NT —  Ree dy  16:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed until v5. —  Ree dy  16:23, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Error stating "Attempted to save a wrong page"
--Kumioko (talk) 17:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

How??? Any directions to duplicate??? --Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * All I did was apply the new SVN of AWB and then when I tried to edit a page in AWB I get this error.--Kumioko (talk) 17:57, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * - Fixed earlier —  Ree dy  18:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Kumioko (talk) 18:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Typo in list comparer

 * —  Ree dy  20:15, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

List of "User talk:" pages change to list of "Talk:" pages when started
Ta! —  Ree dy  13:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB doesn't retain names given to advanced replace rules

 * I've just tried this, and its saved fine with a rule Name of "Lol" (granted, i just did make some minor changes, but that was just removing some unneeded crap). I do agree, that if you change the name in the left hand side list view, it doesn't affect that of the Rule on the right hand side.. (I'll put a newer snapshot up with these minor changes) —  Ree dy  00:24, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Upgraded to the latest snapshot (5918), here's what I saw: the resetting issue I mentioned above is still there, duplicated by 1) making a rule 2) naming that rule in the left side 3) making another rule and 4) clicking back to the first rule whose name was changed. The name resets to "Rule" upon clicking it. Now that I know I can change the name on the right side (somehow I didn't realize that before), this isn't as major of an issue as I thought it was; however, it would still be nice if it was resolved. –  T M F 09:37, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

- I've made changes to allow the changing of the label to propogate back to the control. Though, from a quick test, seems slightly buggy on the update. I've therefore also disabled label edit on the tree view. Changing it in the rule propogates it back to the tree view. I'll look at fixing it properly both ways later, though, it doesn't seem so major if it can be done one way or another. I think, this resolves the issue for the moment? —  Ree dy  10:56, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's good enough for me for now since the issue doesn't exist if you can't change it in the left pane in the first place. =) –  T M F 12:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome. —  Ree dy  12:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in MainForm.MainForm_FormClosing
It happened again. I think the config file was unaccessible and AWB couldn't write on it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.launchListSplitterToolStripMenuItem_Click
Any idea how did that happen? I tried a lot of stuff to duplicate it but without success. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Reedy marked that as rare. --Magioladitis (talk) 08:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK's timers are broken

 * Fix or remove? Seems ApiEdit changes broke this —  Ree dy  09:07, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  10:07, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Category "Living people"

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  00:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

WAIT! Year of death unknown, Date of death missing are NOT categories that are supposed to be in article space. Please read instructions. Only Year of death missing is acceptable. AWB should not expect to find YOB unknown in article space. Moreover, yob unknown is for ancient people. A person died in the last 123 years should NOT be tagged with this category. The instructions are clear. I would suggest to be tagged as 20th century deaths or YOB missing if we are not sure about the century. --Magioladitis (talk) 10:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

If it is something to be done: Ad a warning that this category was found in article space. Yobot is cleaning this (not) regurarly. I ll do a run in a week or so. --Magioladitis (talk) 10:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There don't seem to be any mainspace articles (incorrectly) using this category at the moment – is this warning really worth the effort? Rjwilmsi  18:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it´s not. :) Yobot is fixing this every month. I just meant that the logic above shouldn´t be added to AWB. --Magioladitis (talk) 20:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * So this can be closed then? Rjwilmsi  10:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, let´s close it. --Magioladitis (talk) 11:21, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

NRE in TimerStats

 * —  Ree dy  14:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Cannot paste on new article
陣 内 Jinnai 18:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Works fine for me. I tried all possible ways. I copied the text by both Ctrl+C and Right-click->Copy and pasted with Ctrl+V, Right-click->Paste in both unhighlighted and highlighted area. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Huh. Tried it again and it still doesn't work. I was using right-click when copying at the time. 陣 内 Jinnai 02:07, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Try if you can copy-paste in general. Then try to copy something from AWB's edit box anf paste it to an empty text file. Then let us know. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:26, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Most of the time it seems to work. I can copy/cut & paste inside the same article i'm editing and also paste outside AWB. Sometimes i can do the same when i save and start editing a new article, but not always. If I can, then it works for the entire session i have AWB open and if not it won't for that entire time. 陣 内 Jinnai 19:52, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am unable to c/p when clipboard is not accessible or some reason, for example, MS Word is waiting for some approval. But this has nothing to do with AWB explicitly. I suspcect that when you have problems to c/p in AWB this is global. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Orphan tags part III
A comment not to forget: If articles has the any disamb template then it should not be tagged as orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:59, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Test to prove that orphan not added if a disambig template is present. Rjwilmsi  21:58, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Disamb(ig|iguation)|Dab . These are the four cases. At least for start. We of course have human disamb, etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:24, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * fixed one more related bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * AWB didn't tag Iosif Daskalakis as orphan. Only 2 links from mainspace. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:50, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * AWB was only applying the orphan tagging if there were no "unknown" templates that prevented the uncategorised tagging from being applied. I have change the logic so that the orphan tagging is applied regardless of the uncategorised tagging. That will resolve the non-tagging of articles such as Iosif Daskalakis. Rjwilmsi  00:04, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * AWB 5918 would incorrectly place an orphan tag on Tangara, a dab page. Snowman (talk) 13:43, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Disambigs template matching to allow for disambig templates to have parameters. That should do it. Rjwilmsi  14:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

"Skip if no typo fixed" won't disactivate if RegexTypoFix is disabled

 * Does it cause AWB to skip? Don't think so, so not a big deal. Maybe just need to uncheck it as a trigger on uncheck of typo fix. Rjwilmsi  11:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Only designing problem. AWB won't skip. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. I've corrected the "Skip if no typo fixed" enablement and check status. Rjwilmsi  11:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Minor Find&Replace Issues

 * "Minor" row should be implemented the same way with "Multiline" to allow sorting
 * Right-click menu needs update to include Check all minor / Uncheck all minor.

InvalidOperationException in FindandReplace.moveToTopToolStripMenuItem_Click
Other similar bugs: etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * InvalidOperationException in FindandReplace.moveToBottomToolStripMenuItem_Click
 * InvalidOperationException in FindandReplace.moveDownToolStripMenuItem_Click
 * InvalidOperationException in FindandReplace.moveUpToolStripMenuItem_Click

Find doesn't always find all of the terms the first scan through

 * Did you have the 'highlight unbalanced brackets if found' option set – on that article an unbalanced bracket is found, so a search begins at that point in the article. After finding all those matches and returning to the top, the new search starts from the top of the article. Rjwilmsi  21:29, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * To be honest I don't know. I went through and tried to make it screw up again without the 'highlight unbalanced brackets if found'. I would expect that the find function would always start the search at the top and go from there, no matter what options I have selected, so can we fix that? Perhaps that was the problem from the beginning. Wizard191 (talk) 22:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I would expect that the find function would always start the search at the top: We'd better keep the option to allow the user to start the search some way through the text. Rjwilmsi  23:07, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Really? I always assumed that it started at the top until I accidentally hit the search button one too many times and found that it went to the top and I found more hits than I saw the first time around. That's just my take on it...if others think it's reasonable to start in the middle then this bug can be closed. Wizard191 (talk) 13:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I am marking this as notbug. Changes on current AWB's bevahiour can be discussed at the FR page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent

 * The first report in English: "The value of "-1" is unacceptable for the "index"". -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:32, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay, my actions:
 * Created a list with "Wikisearch (text)" parameter. picture
 * Wiki searched the phrase "Date of birth unknown", then made list and filtered by Content (only included pages in the main space).
 * Filled "add category" parameter with auto-adding category "Date of birth unknown". picture
 * Used "Skip" parameter to skip all pages, which already contain this category. picture
 * Started the process. picture. The message I get periodically: picture -- deerstop. 14:59, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Note: The way the list is constructed is irrelevant to the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:44, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9977/reeetaaarded.png -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:09, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I have no problems until the article Nagato (Naruto) when that error appear, so I report it. I'm try to do the same article a second time (with and without close the AWB) and the same error appear again. Interestingly, when the user Thiago Ruiz used the same script in that article, nothing happened (You can see that here).

Of programs opened only the AWB, WLM, and my browser.-- Lépton &#x2709; 13:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I forgot to mention I was editing the Joe Gores article when i got this error. --Kumioko (talk) 23:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Reedy normalised EditSummary tag between unit tests and not in.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Tools.TrimEditSummary
Do you have a diff to show? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:09, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate: After catching "ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent" place mouse over (unlocked) Edit summary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)


 * ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent and ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Tools.TrimEditSummary

Going through unreferenced articles, I came to The Essence of Bobby Vinton and came up with this bug. I have find and replace enabled with 20 approx items in normal settings. The second bug seems to come at random times (sometimes straight after) after the first bug has occurred. Mattg82 (talk) 01:44, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Both have been reported but your report confirms by suspicions that these 2 bugs are related. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:46, 9 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Looking into this further, turning off Add replacements to edit summary stops the bugs from happening. When it is turned on the second bug occurs every time I hover the mouse over the summary drop down box. Also both bugs only occur when an 9th unique edit & replace has taken place. I hope this helps. Mattg82 (talk) 02:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Is it really the 9th or it depends on the size of the edit summary? -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * After further playing the 9th edit doesn't seem important but rather my particular edits. My find and replace edits added a | (a pipe?) to the beginning of every line of the infobox parameters. Mattg82 (talk) 03:17, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Could you post your settings file somewhere? (Rapidshare for example). -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If it helps, I was getting what appears to be the same error on 541st Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States). I manually corrected 4 typos, then AWB was able to fix 15 more without error. I've copied the state of the page which produces the error to User:Mandarax/AWB Sandbox 2. I don't think there's a need to post settings for this. A minimalist configuration with everything disabled except RegexTypoFix produces the error. (I'm using SVN 5918.) M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  10:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Did you have your edit summary locked or not? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Not locked. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  11:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have any plugins enabled or copied to AWB's directory? (i.e. Kingbotk) -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Also no modules, external processing, find & replace, or anything other than RegexTypoFix. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  11:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Upon further investigation, I discovered that AWB processes User:Mandarax/AWB Sandbox 2 with RegexTypoFix fine as long as my supplied Summary is 13 characters or less. The errors occur when my Summary consists of 14 or more characters. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  12:06, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you maybe have any svn prior to 5874 installed too? Could you please try it with it as well. I would like to check if this is caused after Reedy changed the edit summary creation in 5874. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:14, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, sorry, I don't. I even checked my Recycle Bin for old zip files, but I don't have any. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  12:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I managed to duplicate it in 5768 following Mandarax's instructions!!! Well done to all of you. I ll do some more tests. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

clean upclean upclean up, typos fixed: dissapointment → disappointment (2), attatched → attached (2), begining → beginning, Expiditionary → Expeditionary, manuever → maneuver (5), thier → their (7), independant → independent

224 chars, 241 bytes. 1 char != 1 byte... —  Ree dy  19:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Reedy normalised EditSummary tag between unit tests and not in. -- 19:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
In answer to MaxSem's question, I think it popped up when I changed profiles (or possibly on pressing Start or Save shortly thereafter). - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 18:51, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I think it was to do with problems in connecting to server. I got it after failing connecting to server to get redirects of WPBiography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate: While processing a page try to switch accounts! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Message:  Call stack:    at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args) at WikiFunctions.API.AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent(Delegate method, Object[] args) at WikiFunctions.API.AsyncApiEdit.InvokerThread(Object genericArgs) Magioladitis (talk) 11:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentNullException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
Same method with the NRE. Duplicate: While processing a page try to switch accounts! -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Regex problem
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = The cliche ([^}]*) should not match any string eith a "}" in but it seems to.Rich Farmbrough, 18:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC). 18:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC) | duplicate     = Run User:Rich Farmbrough/temp68 | site          = en | OS             = Windows 6.0 | net           = 2.0.50727.3603 | version       = 5956 | workaround    = | fix_version   = 5984 }}
 * I have checked this for my usual OSINTOTs but either I'm staring at something I don't see or there's a bug. Regardless, more eyes are good.Rich Farmbrough, 18:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC).
 * I can replicate this, but using "^([^}]*)$" gives the intended behaviour...

Not a Brace

([^}]*)

Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1 «([^}]*)» Match any character that is NOT a “}” «[^}]*» Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) «*»

Not a Brace String Boundary

^([^}]*)$

Assert position at the beginning of the string «^» Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1 «([^}]*)» Match any character that is NOT a “}” «[^}]*» Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) «*» Assert position at the end of the string (or before the line break at the end of the string, if any) «$»
 * —  Ree dy  18:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ofcourse, using, it should just match  is an external link, so it ignores it and your regex doesn't find the braces. Svick (talk) 22:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ahhhh! Rich Farmbrough, 05:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC).

So replace in wikifunctions.wikiregexes (line 302?) - with something that works. The change would be What say you? Rich Farmbrough, 16:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC).
 * (?:[Hh]ttp|[Hh]ttps|[Ff]tp|[Mm]ailto)://[^\ \n<>]*|\[(?:[Hh]ttp|[Hh]ttps|[Ff]tp|[Mm]ailto):.*?\]", RegexOptions.Compiled);
 * [^\ \n<>] becomes
 * [\w\._-~!\*"'\(\):;@&=+$,\\\?%#\[\]]

What's that gonna do for AWB? I'm getting rather confused. Ta —  Ree dy  22:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix it so that it understands URLs properly. At the moment it takes http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx where x is anything but a space,<> or newline. So in the above example it includes the }} - would also include other stuff such as non-breaking spaces and whatever came after them, including pipes and parameter streams.  Rich Farmbrough, 02:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC).


 * /. It still fails the unit tests on the below. —  Ree dy  08:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)


 * To pass first test. Second one is not valid, removed. Bug fixed. Rjwilmsi  10:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

defaultsort capitalization
An example? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:08, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If I make another change to AWB's defaultsort capitalisation logic it will be to remove it entirely, and only correct spacing and diacritics errors in the defaultsort. There are 101 different policies in Wikipedia on the defaultsort and AWB cannot meet all of them, let alone most of them. Do we think that is the best way forward? Rjwilmsi  23:54, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I would expect that anyone doing defaultsort would just type the article name 'as it exists' and not alter it. What reason would there be for alteration?  It is the 'default' after all. Hmains (talk) 00:12, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It's the default for sorting. So it should have not diacritics and not capitals in the middle because these things change the expected order. For more information check WP:SORTKEY. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:15, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * So what is the resolution? Continue to have AWB capitalize the first letter of each word in the name and lower case all other letters even if they are an initialism of some kind?  If so, it is not a resolution, just a perpetuation of error Hmains (talk) 06:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This is not for AWB to decide. Read the rules in WP:SORTKEY please.


 * Do not begin a sort key with a lower case letter unless you want the article to appear on the category page separate from articles sorted with an upper case letter, under a lower case letter heading.
 * A case-insensitive sort can be achieved by following the convention that initial letters of words are capitalized in the sort key, but other letters are lower case. For example, use "Dubois" in sort keys rather than "DuBois".
 * If you disagree please start a discussion there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)


 * You misunderstand.  If the name of the article is 'Infantry divisions in WWII by country', AWB creates a defaultsort template with 'Infantry Divisions In Wwii By Country'.  It is AWB that is in wrong; there is nothing wrong or in question with WP:SORTKEY. Hmains (talk) 22:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Defaultsort

 * The defaultsort added in the example uses Title Case per the agreed conventions, so is not the same as the page title. Rjwilmsi  10:27, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * But the page would still be sorted just the same, no matter which letters are capitalized. Where are these agreed conventions, so that I could better understand? 117Avenue (talk) 20:44, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * See WP:SORTKEY. Rjwilmsi  19:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I see now, it explains how different capitalization can affect the order. But it will only matter for articles that have a very similar name. Is this line added by default, and AWB users have to opt out of it? If that is the case I suggest that this line only be added when the user sees the need for it. 117Avenue (talk) 23:40, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * There is an option to restrict the addition of defaultsort. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:39, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

References section inserted in incorrect position

 * Fixed. Ensure references inserted is after any tracklists. Rjwilmsi  11:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Unwilling exchange: hyphen (-) to en dash (–)
Hi! Are there any possibility to turn off (skip) this exchange while I use "apply general fixes" option and do all the other changing? This function makes mistakes in Hungarian language (example, and there are many others!) Thank you, Samat (talk) 21:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * How is that a mistake? Rjwilmsi  21:51, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe they don't bother with an en dash? –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * From the looks of hu:–, en-dash should be used in ranges in Hungarian too (I don't know Hungarian). Svick (talk) 00:46, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It is used for exact ranges (such as time intervals), but not for estimates. Probably impossible to decide by an algorythm which one to use. --Tgr (talk) 09:44, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly :) Samat (talk) 15:59, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You can use AutoWikiBrowser/Custom_Modules and disable Mdashes. Rjwilmsi  10:32, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I will try it! Samat (talk) 15:59, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I've tried it, and if I used this code as custom modul, the interwiki ordering is false. I think it would be better if you implement disabling Mdashes into the program as default settings (if the bot working on huwiki), because this custom configuration should be used by all AWB bots on huwiki. Samat (talk) 11:37, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Mdashes marked as a MOS compliance fix, which you can disable via the Options menu ('Do not apply WP:MOS fixes').  Rjwilmsi  11:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB doesn't recognize bot status from CheckPage

 * You sure don't smell like a bot. Jmho. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * That's weird... because I know an admin who listed himself under bots with no problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:03, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know I used to be able to do it. I think it's a regression. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:32, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Since I'm not an admin I think this will have to be one for Reedy. Rjwilmsi  11:05, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not a bug. Accounts with bot status should be bots. The previous feature was a bug. It seems someone fixed the code, probably Reedy.-- Magioladitis (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's definitely a bug, and having talked with Reedy, I'm not sure he was the one to break this feature. Admins can be trusted to do things like remove the nasty AWB spam from their edit summaries. Not to mention this would prevent even "legitimate" adminbots from operating properly. The CheckPage lists the user as a bot. The software should recognize this, regardless of other flags. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:41, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I should also note that it appears that AWB half-recognizes the bot status by allowing access to the bot-only tab, but the login bar lists Admin=True Bot=False and the features of the bot-only tab do not appear to work. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed, this is very peculiar. When putting a flagged bot in "users", it says "Bot=true" but no bot tab. Per MZM, it looks like it's doing it half and half. I would also like to vote for regressing to the days of 'ole whereby a rouge admin could list themself as a bot for auto-saving and non-"Project:AWB" goodness. (On a side note, if we have to advertise, I much preferred the piped "using AWB" note to the one being displayed now). With the current implementation, bots that have been granted approval to run without a flag (so users can scrutinize their changes) won't be able to operate. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 18:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

If the edits are automatic and not overviewed by the editor doing them, this should be visible. Semi-automatic edits with AWB should be stated as those. Admins are trusted to use the extra tools. Xeno, I think, has proposed the creation of a new group of rights called AWBaccount. Editors who are allowed to use AWB. This would probably solve a lot of problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:00, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I made an off-hand remark that a userright might be preferable to a checkpage - but it wasn't discussed in depth and I didn't bother filing a bugzilla on it. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 13:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Requiring the use of edit summary spam is my main issue here. There used to be a way to disable it. Now there isn't. There's absolutely no reason at all to announce every script or program you're using when making an edit, esp. one that's not automated. While it could be an issue everyone didn't announce their AWB usage, allowing admins to turn off the annoyance seems completely reasonable. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC), using Safari, Mac OS X, my two hands, and some love
 * To decide the bot flga AWB checks the actual bot flag of the user account rather than the bot section of the CheckPage. I expect if we changed the first line of UpdateBotStatus in Main.cs from "bool bot = TheSession.IsBot;" to "bool bot = (TheSession.IsBot || TheSession.IsSysop);" then admins would be treated as bots again, though I can't personally test this. However, I'm not sure that's appropriate as that would potentially subvert WP:BAG? I think this requires a discussion there to see if it's acceptable to the BAG. Rjwilmsi  18:30, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Sidebar about "using Project:AWB"
Project:AWB is used in order ot save characters in the edit summary. We lose 4 characters to pipe it. It's good that editors are not allowed to remove the label anymore because this enables reviewers to check whether the edit was semi-automated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:30, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Should allow option to pipe it, "using Project:AWB" looks ghastly. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 19:31, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Why don't we use  ? It's one character shorter than  . Svick (talk) 19:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Because "Project" works for projects that don't use a "WP:" prefix. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 19:41, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably we have to make a centralised discussion about bot assisted edits. In a recent ArbCom (about date delinking) they almost ban semi-automated edits completely. We have to see what other people think. A bugs' page is not the right place to do that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am a little confused how that relates to the edit summary? –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I mean whether the use of semi-automated tools should be stated clearly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:49, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * One solution would be after we reorganise the edit summary generation to use . -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:50, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Resolved -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Replacing underscores in URLs

 * I suggest you move the comment to be outside of the category, and all will be well. Rjwilmsi  06:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No it won't; AWB then tries to move it above the categories. --NE2 16:18, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It used to do that. I fixed that for the 4.6.0.0 release.
 * underscores in comments beside a category will now be left alone. More unit tests.
 * If the comment is moved beside the category all will be well. Rjwilmsi  18:54, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Was fixed by . Rjwilmsi  21:15, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in ApiEdit.Save
It followed the bug above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I had one of these today, I also had a blank page saved a couple days back, luckily it was manual so I caught it. Rich Farmbrough, 08:27, 24 May 2010 (UTC).

Marked as rare. Please rereport if this appears in version 5.1.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 14 October 2010 (UTC)