Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 15

Orphan tags part IV
Premier Kelso Hurlde is an orphan then. It must have at least 3 non-redirect links. Don't worry for an article being tagged as an orphan. This doesn't mean it'll be deleted. It means that editors have to link it with more articles. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:08, 24 September 2009 (UTC) From WP:ORPHAN: Orphan: An article with fewer than three incoming links which meet the criteria for linking below. For the purposes of the strict definition, the following pages do not count toward the three incoming links: Disambiguation pages, Redirects, Soft redirects, Discussion pages of articles, Wikipedia pages outside of article space. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, the "Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area" article is a better example. After AWB added the orphan template JL-Bot removed it. This article has a few redirects, but more than about 20 links go to one of the redirects. Snowman (talk) 21:23, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. This IS a bug. This article is not orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Per WP:ORPHAN as cited above, the article is an orphan. So... no, this is not a bug. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 21:28, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * So, the definition has to change to "when an article, or its redirects, have less than 3 incoming links... -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The definition seems fine to me; the redirects themselves don't count (there could be 20 redirects and no other links, and the article would be an orphan), but if there were no direct links to the article but redirects to it were linked 20 times, then it wouldn't be orphaned. The links to redirects are still links to that article, there's just one more step in the process. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 21:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * So, we don't disagree. This article has only one redirect linking to it but this redirect is linked by 20 articles. Thus, it's not orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:33, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Here is another article to think about "Verreaux's Monal-Partridge" - I have not wikilinked it here in case it affects the link count. At the present time AWB will add an orphan template, and I expect JL-Bot will remove it again, as it has already done twice. It seems that JL-Bot is doing something different to AWB 5438. Snowman (talk) 21:42, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Same case as above. I'll ask JL-Bot to see. Seems it handles orphans better. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * JL-Bot has been busy recently; see JL-Bot's contributions. Snowman (talk) 22:02, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * (@ Magioladitis, a few posts ago)... but the redirect isn't linked to from any articles. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:07, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Obviously, we are talking for different articles. The first one (Premier Kelso Hurlde) is orphan, the second one (Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area) is not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:59, 25 September 2009 (UTC) you are right. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * J-L states that "it uses the Adopted Orphans toolserver report to determine which tags to remove". I don't know if AWB could use this. This would slow things down. At least right now the "remove tag" can be ~100% accurate (if we adopt my disamb check). The "add tag" is highly inaccurate. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:08, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It still has problems with orphans using SVN 5918 on "Eared-nightjar". Snowman (talk) 12:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * We haven't still done anything to fix this bug. We limited the bug bu not fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Adds unneeded orphan tag to this article and other articles with plenty of links, when a find and replace edit has taken place. Weirdly, I copied the article to my sandbox and it works fine, no tag added. :^S Mattg82 (talk) 01:25, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagger works only in article space. A supage of user space is not an orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:04, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

. Now AWB counts the number of incoming links to the article and its redirects excluding the number of redirects! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * 6088 & 6092 adds tag to Greatest Hits – Volumen 1993–2003. Mattg82 (talk) 00:33, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The current list provider filters off redirects, including the redirect page. Currently meaning we then strip anything that links to those redirects... Not sure if this is right/intended behaviour on MW's part (i thought it worked before..?). Investigating. —  Ree dy  01:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know what or how but something changed to the provider and not inside AWB's code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, so. 22245 is fixed, mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/61447. Gotta wait for that to be scapped out. That's stops redirects being filtered out at the top level by MW, and therefore we still get direct pages that redirect to it. We still then filter pages that are redirects that link to those.. makes awb strip the top level redirects.  fully offloads it onto AWB for the time being, with a comment to revert it when r61447 is live on wmf wiki's. —  Ree  dy  23:56, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

"fixed" a bug preventing the last commit to work correctly. Awaiting for a change in MediaWiki code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

reverts 6113 as the change has now gone live. See —  Ree  dy  11:49, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Redirects and Orphan tags
AWB added an orphan tag to the article SOCKS. t seems that the article had ~50 inbound links, however they were all through a redirect from SOCKS_(Protocol). Another user left me a a note on my talk page to notify me of this. After reviewing the criteria for an orphaned article It states: "For the purposes of the strict definition, the following pages do not count toward the three incoming links: ...Redirects (but the links to the redirects count)" To be honest, I don't understand this fully. If was counting all the links to the SOCKS_(Protocol) redirect, there were ~50 links, so it's not an orphan. Else, if the redirect itself counts for being linked, there was 1. I am not 100% sure there is a problem, but I figures I would let someone with a better understanding know of this. Thanks! Update: Another example - going to the Sándor Radó article, and seeing what links there from article space and hiding redirects shows only two - this must be what AWB saw for the less than three links when it prompted me to add the orphan tag. The Sándor Radó article has 14 incoming links.


 * I don't use AWB so I didn't know about this but if AWB is prompting users to add the orphan tag and not counting incoming links from redirects this definitely needs to be fixed. We could have many articles with an unwarranted orphan tag already. -- &oelig; &trade; 22:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I would like to suggest that AWB be changed to only prompt users to add an orphan tag if there are no incoming links; as the orphan criteria also recommends to "only place the tag if the article has ZERO incoming links from other articles." --  &oelig; &trade; 22:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Please check archives. This is fixed in 5.0.0.1. --Magioladitis (talk) 23:01, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Great. Is there a way to stop 5.0.0.0 from adding only these tags in the meantime? (And I did search the archives, although apparently not well enough.) Avic enna sis @ 01:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Download a snapshot of 5.0.0.1. I ll ask Reedy to release 5.0.1.0 asap. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. (Verified now using new version - Help>About V.5.0.0.1 SVN 6269) Ran a few articles, and it seemed ok. However, on article Admission on motion I checked Pages that link to "Admission on motion" from article space and got four. two of them links, and the other two redirects. It seems there may still be some refinement needed. Avic enna sis @ 03:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe only articles that link to that article or its redirects are counted, not the redirects themselves. So Admission on motion has two direct incoming links (Admission to the bar in the United States and Reciprocity (international relations)) but no incoming links through its two redirects. Svick (talk) 11:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * True. Where should it be the best place to make a list of examples? It seems to be necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:05, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Summary:
 * Here is the bug fix Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_15
 * Here is Yobot's approval to auto/tag articles located in orphans categories: Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 11. Yobot will use the original definition of orphan but since it will be running through articles already tagged only the only outcome can be either leave the article unchanged or remove its orphan tag. I am waiting for AWB's next release before running it because at the moment editors may accidentally readd the tag because of still using AWB 5.0.0.0
 * here is the Feature request discussed above: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests

Question: We can add an option to add orphan to article with NO incoming links ONLY. But we will still be removing existing orphan tags ONLY if they have THREE incoming links or more. Right? Articles that are already tagged and have 1 or 2 links will remain unchanged. I think this was the consensus. Please confirm. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, this sounds perfect. Thank you. -- &oelig; &trade; 12:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Added in -. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Cannot remove "Canada – Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement" from ListMaker by skipping

 * Space after - on the Article.Equals is not the same. —  Ree dy  16:17, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It works now. I will mark as fixed in version 5. Rjwilmsi  09:23, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK plugin AWB botches certain MiszaBot settings
What happens if you do genfixes without kingbotk? Does it still happen? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope, only with KingbotK –xenotalk 14:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Confirmed. KingbotK should not be messing with talkheader anymore. It's part of AWB's genfixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:21, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Note: KingbotK does something nice. It reports when it moves talk header on the top. We should do the same for AWB in the edit summary. Edit summaries for talk pages are fairly poor right now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

My suggestion: -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:55, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Enable AWB to move talk header (and skiptotalk) on the top in v5.0
 * 2) Remove the function from KingbotK in v5.0
 * 3) Keep the trace thing in v5.0
 * 4) Add something in the edit summary in v5.0

Updated per 5.0.0.0 -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Talkheader Regex updated not to match "" . Rjwilmsi  08:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB adding trailing comma to edit summaries

 * Suppressed AWB banner i bet... I'll have a poke. —  Ree dy  14:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually. With that trailing )... That doesn't seem like AWB directly.. —  Ree dy  15:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

xeno, how do you produce this edit summary? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The final closing bracket is actually from mediawiki. –xenotalk 15:35, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Replication criteria plox? —  Ree dy  19:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I noticed this today as well; see here. Using rev5956; edit summary was entered as normal on the start tab. –  T M F 09:12, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Probably fixed now (5990). Please check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:34, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Still there in v5 (5996) - –  T  M F 01:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Confirmed, still there. I assume the comma is meant to separate the edit summary from the "using AWB" - but when bots suppress the advert, it looks strange. –xenotalk  14:37, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Am i right in thinking, that that is ONLY the user entered summary? There isn't anything generated by anything else —  Ree dy  14:44, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Affirmative. –xenotalk 16:09, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * if it is. —  Ree dy  16:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed then. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

UnauthorizedAccessException in Updater.DeleteIfExists

 * Okay, so your current user doesn't have write access to the AWB directory, probably due to Windows UAC control issues. The updater is not going to work for you. adds better error handling for this situation.  Rjwilmsi  21:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * OK. Anyway, I managed to perform succesfully the manual installation. Zetud (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Ads OR (inline tag) to articleissues - maybe multiple times

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  00:36, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Article is not moved on the top of article list if another article with the same exists there
Not a biggie. Interesting: Try to move at the bottom the 1st A, it works.-- Magioladitis (talk) 21:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably it checks if the articlename is in position 0. Instead it has to check if article's index is 0. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:47, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Mixture of methods... We consider articles to be the "same" if the reference is the same, or the title is the same... —  Ree dy  22:01, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes this results in strange behaviour if the article name is duplicated. Tip: to run a multi-pass algorithm, create a multi-copy list (aaabbbccc) and start at the end of the list. Rich Farmbrough, 17:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC).
 * , Fixed. We will remove by index.  Rjwilmsi  23:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Article issues + orphan

 * We do the article issues stuff before calling the sorter. Do we really need to call this stuff twice? Rjwilmsi  14:35, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hm... we have to find a way to do it at once or just call this bug rare. We still to have to fix the case that orphan is moved above unrefenced and other maintance templates since it shouldn't. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * will fix it. Rjwilmsi  15:05, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Endless cycle of loading and skipping

 * URLEncoded version of article name has "%e2%80%8e" at the end of it, which it shouldn't. I suspect the article title has a non-printing Unicode character at the end. Rjwilmsi  11:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If I add that article to the list manually, or remove the character (if I understand it correctly, it's U+200E, Left-to-right mark) from the settings file, it works correctly. Svick (talk) 12:49, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. I could reproduce by copying the text above, which must also have the character at the end. But, as you say, if you copy the article title from the page then AWB works fine. Therefore, I conclude not an AWB error on the skip behaviour. Question is how the character got into Mandarax's settings file? Rjwilmsi  13:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that it is a bug in AWB, that it should never enter an endless loop. The problem is that Wikipedia recognizes or ignores the character and the API response doesn't contain it. So, when AWB skips or saves the article, it tries to remove the title without the character from the list of articles, which it doesn't contain, so it tries to load it again. Svick (talk) 16:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My original search no longer works, but here's a way to reproduce it (at least right now). Do a Google search for "Lycian Alliance" including the quotes. It shows three pages, none of which is the one in question. Then Start (with Follow redirects enabled and Skip if No changes are made). The first page gets skipped, then the second one, Roy (Fire Emblem), get redirected to List of characters in Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi‎ and the loop begins. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  19:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I changed the redirect Roy (Fire Emblem), so that it no longer causes this problem. Svick (talk) 20:24, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, so we just need error handling in AWB to prevent an infinite skip cycle. [Note for self: override ListMaker.Remove have out bool argument to indicate whether article removed or not.] Rjwilmsi  08:10, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If AWB fails to remove page from list during skipping, stop process, show error message to user asking them to remove it manually. This will cover page redirects with nonprinting Unicode characters within the redirect target. Now, who can scann the database for redirects containing nonprinting Unicode characters? Rjwilmsi  16:18, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Delete key doesn't work in FaR dialog

 * Seems it conflicted with it being set to delete whole row... —  Ree dy 

You have new messages

 * When it opens it in your browser, are you logged in as the same user as awb? —  Ree dy  21:43, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't believe so (not every time), but I just solved the problem by logging in as the same user without AWB, and reading the message. I'll try sending myself a message to recreate the problem ... Art LaPella (talk) 00:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I just recreated the problem, without being logged in on a browser window. Art LaPella (talk) 00:38, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That's the problem. You have to be logged in in your browser with the same account. I ll be in IRC for the next 10 minutes. If you want come to discuss it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Verified. Thank you! Art LaPella (talk) 00:55, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Parameters authorlinkn are reported as invalid

 * .Fixed. cite web documentation should be covering this.  Rjwilmsi  15:50, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Regex for surname needs tuning to distinguish surname from surname-stub

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  00:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Disambig errors
I tried to change only the 3rd link, awb tried to fix 2nd too. I tried to change only the 2rd link, awb tried to fix 1st too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Confirmed also. It is noted, in the "correction" box on the right hand side, that the problem can also be seen. —  Ree dy  00:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

should've fixed it. Needs a bit more poking at though probably. —  Ree dy  14:45, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Typo fixing doesn't ignore URLs

 * Fix breakage from 5983 – forward slash is valid within a URL. Rjwilmsi  18:40, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Inappropriate tone isn't added to Article issues
This is because the parameter in Article issues is called "tone" and not "Inappropriate tone". I could add it on both Article issues and AWB if you like. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:20, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Step 1: Added to Article issues. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:25, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Step 2: Updated regexes to catch Inappropriate tone. . -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in MainForm.MainForm_FormClosing
Duplicate. Check archives. We won't fix that. Just don't play with the filenames. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)


 * OK no problem, though I believe if AWB left the file open after reading it then the file cannot be renamed/deleted while AWB is open. Mattg82 (talk) 00:38, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Orphan moved above otheruses

 * . Rjwilmsi  02:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in HideText.AddBackMore
This occured when I was using the svwiki dump from January, 3 to look for articles that had a title that AWB would bolden. I don't understand what it means, but I was advised by AWB to post this here. Translation of the message: The index was outside of the interval. It cannot be negative, and must be smaller than the size of the amount. Name of parameter: index. tetraedycal, tetraedycal 12:21, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, svwiki dump is only 300 MB so I'll download it and take a look. Rjwilmsi  13:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Alter logic in BoldTitle to declare and use own HideText, since use of the ones in Parsers caused exceptions in database scanner (but not when running genfixes on article). The matches for your scan are here, I think AWB will edit those articles normally – this bug seems to affect the database scanner only. Rjwilmsi  17:08, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Hyphen isn't recognized as part of URL
This is because  contains hyphens unescaped. Svick (talk) 00:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Fixed as described. The decison to blindly drop in a positive match group of characters instead of the previous negative-match one hasn't gone very well. Rjwilmsi  00:52, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Parameter at of is reported as invalid

 * Thanks. . Rjwilmsi  17:16, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

isn't dated if it contains reason parameter
Does it change to Citation needed? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does. Svick (talk) 12:27, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Probably odd characters being treated even more oddly

 * Might relate to Rich Farmbrough, 09:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC).
 * It's Unicode Character 'Paragraph Separator' (U+2029). We could just replace it with spaces? Rjwilmsi  10:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I scanned the September 2009 database dump of mainspace pages for this character and didn't find it. I'll ask Rich if he thinks a change to AWB is worth it/needed. Rjwilmsi  14:24, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Replace with space seems safest. Rich Farmbrough, 15:47, 30 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  22:02, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

InvocationException in AsyncApiEdit.InvokeFunction
Similar bus in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 13 caused by pressing the Save button too much. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB appears to have replaced " dmy" with the current (fixed) date
In List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom by longevity revision

13:00, 31 December 2009 Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) m (34,546 bytes) (Subst away date template (up to three passes) using Project:AWB)

AWB apparently replaced the correct "dmy" with the date of the revision "31 December 2009"

I don't know if this is an unfixed AWB error or something else (I had a look through reported and fixed errors), but list it here in case it needs attention.

Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 16:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)


 * That's not an AWB bug, those are edits that User:Rich Farmbrough made on his own using AWB. –  T M F 16:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Pretty much always go to the editor first, unless you can replicate the issue yourself. Rich Farmbrough, 19:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC).

Stretched highlighting

 * Which colour from do you think is better?   Rjwilmsi  22:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * With regard to the colour stretching, we could prevent this by updating the  event handler to clear the background colour, but that would still allow one character to be typed on the end of the highlighted text in the highlighted colour. Hmm.  Rjwilmsi  23:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Some comments:
 * Which colour? Well, there are so many choices. Any light colour would be fine.
 * I have a new idea: Instead of highlighting the bracket's background, AWB could change the colour of the bracket itself (rather than keeping it black and highlighting the background). Something like syntax highlighting. Speaking of which, why dosen't AWB have syntax highlighting, I mean, Wikisyntax highlighting?
 * Before making any changes, please play with/try the highlighting feature of Microsoft Word 2007. It has a different way to deal with it: If you insert a space it is not highlighted along with the previous letters, but if after the space if you write it begins to highlight. But this is not what we want in AWB because it is a Word Processor feature while here we are dealing with highlighting errors. I think my point 2 is a good option. --Siddhant (talk) 14:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * When adding the error highlighting I looked at just changing the bracket colour, but a single bracket seems to small for that to be clearly identifiable. I'll chose a lighter colour so the text can still be seen. AWB does have syntax highlighting, though it doesn't update in real-time. Rjwilmsi  17:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Changed highlighting colour from Red to Tomato. Text readable now. Rjwilmsi  17:32, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Status bar error
It means "Loading list completed!" If the lsit is empty is stated as "No articles in list". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, at best it's wrong (no list was loaded) and at worst it's misleading (for the same reason). –  T M F 17:02, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  19:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Parsers.Conversions is never called

 * / —  Ree dy  03:13, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

"In template rule" bug
See this diff. Name any template in the rule. – droll  &#91;chat&#93;  09:03, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I this this isn't a bug but a bad use of the "Advanced settings". You have to add text in the "If" tab otherwise changes will happen in all templates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:47, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The "In template rule" has no "If" box. Behavior occurs with or without a "Find and replace" subrule. Thanks for responding. – droll  &#91;chat&#93;  11:52, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Happy to look at this bug I'm not clear on what to do to reproduce. Please post your settings file somewhere so I can be sure that I've got the set up right to see the problem. Thanks Rjwilmsi  13:51, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Setting are here warped in &lt;pre>. Thanks. – droll  &#91;chat&#93;  00:05, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Please look here. – droll  &#91;chat&#93;  00:42, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I can reproduce the problem but the code is not an area I've worked on. Rjwilmsi  11:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The bug report HTML comments cause problems for "Inside templates" rules implies that the "In template rule" works somewhat. However, it reports the use of an older version of .NET (2.0). Interesting. – droll  &#91;chat&#93;  13:30, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Has this ever worked before? (Say pre v5?) —  Ree dy  01:06, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * reverts .. It seems in refactoring, i've caused a regression. Will upload a snapshot, can you see if that fixes your issue then? Thanks 01:15, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Reflist and Listaref

 * . Rjwilmsi  17:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Breaking ab links

 * Fixed. Thanks. Rjwilmsi  15:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB skips if only minor replacements - but there are also "major" replacements in the Advanced matrix

 * Aye. Check changes by adv. If adv causes change, ignore minorness of normal FaR —  Ree dy  15:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * by Reedy -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:04, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Probably something to do with KingbotK...
Probably related to the below error that occurs immediately before:




 * Is the plugin update from the Plugins Folder? I did some NS refactoring that'd cause a bug like this. —  Ree dy  16:46, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I usually take the new plugins from the subdirs and drop them in the main AWB dir. –xenotalk 16:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm. That should appear as a compiler error when trying to build the Kingbotk plugin for me (no fancy reflection to get types). I'll have a poke. Presumably just enabling the WPBio plugin of Kingbotk? —  Ree dy  16:52, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It's using a generic KingbotK plugin for WP:PENNSYLVANIA. –xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:56, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Can't duplicate. :/ —  Ree dy  20:57, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Try using Penn-error.xml. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:57, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

This is due to connectin problems to the server. Can´t connect thus uses default redirects --Magioladitis (talk) 21:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Doubt that... Getting the same error even without KingbotK loaded enabled... –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Still think you have your settings try to load KingbotK. Before lading KingbotK tries to update the list of redirects to various projects. --Magioladitis (talk) 18:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * But clearly by virtue of me speaking to you here, I am not having connection problems? –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 18:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Seemingly. Though, that error message is defined in the Kingbotk plugin. Theres no way you could get it without the plugin loaded. The reflection error mentioned is what makes me think the versions are out of sync.. —  Ree dy  19:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I lied, you caught me ;p Nevertheless - the problem exists - I am using the plugin from the most recent SVN snapshot... Found a workaround... Don't load it on startup... –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 19:12, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol. I can't replicate it using what VS is building. Hmm —  Ree dy  19:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I already have purposed a solution: No reason to search for current redirects in the default projects. Redirects rotate seldom and we can track them manually by releasing new snapshots after requests. :P This will save calls to the server. --Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ...or have an option "Load current redirects". --Magioladitis (talk) 08:30, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

He's not using a default project. Also its loaded the redirects fine (look at the list it's got). It's having trouble loading the provider (Reflection error), hence me saying its some mismatch of plugin, awb and wf. —  Ree dy  08:32, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

This isn't happening anymore so someone must have fixed it without realizing. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 15:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * xeno, which version (svn) do you use now? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 6125 –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 15:15, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not sure that we really fixed that. Anyway, I am archiving it since it stopped occurring. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
Yboy83, can you post your settings file somewhere? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:48, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I wasn't watching this page. See here: User:Yboy83/Sandbox5. It's not exactly the same as the settings that were being used at the time of this error, but it's close. Yboy83 (talk) 10:26, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That one opens correctly for me. Rjwilmsi  12:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * As per the stack trace, the settings file is no use. The XML error is coming from parsing the response from the API —  Ree dy  07:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

DivideByZeroException – UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc
I got this message again and again, and had to restart the session. Sorry, I didn't save the exact section title. Samat (talk) 19:47, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Occurs in long tasks after every 20-30 thousands edits. Disappears after restart of AWB. Infovarius (talk) 16:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)


 * "Not a huge amount we can do about this as its in the .NET/Windows Code." -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:02, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * But what is a workaround? Infovarius (talk) 06:48, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * As it stands, not a lot. We need to duplicate, and try and find out what exactly is having the problem. I've an idea, due to you quoting that number of articles, but i'm not sure without doing some testing. —  Ree dy  07:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Article names with three or more words
&mdash;  Kaiser B  14:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The error is with your server, not AWB. Though, seems a very strange use case to get that server error. —  Ree dy  01:55, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Previous version of AWB worked just fine with the same wiki and the same server. The newer updated version of AWB has this error. &mdash;   Kaiser B  14:06, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Marking as notawb - [ http://www.eeul.com/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&prop=info|revisions&intoken=edit&titles=Project+risk+management&inprop=protection|watched&rvprop=content|timestamp&assert=user&meta=userinfo&uiprop=hasmsg] - It's quite clearly an error in your config. —  Ree dy  00:31, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB shuts down after announced an unimplemented exception

 * What are you running it on? WINE or Mono? —  Ree dy  18:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I am using Wine version 1.1.35. Supertouch (talk) 18:38, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * With winetricks ie and winetricks dotnet20? —  Ree dy  18:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not exactly sure—I believe I simply downloaded Wine, would Wine Tricks help? Supertouch (talk) 18:43, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB shouldn't work under vanilla Wine. Are you also running Mono? —  Ree dy  19:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I downloaded WineTricks with high expectations and no change. What is vanilla Wine, is that a tweaked version of Wine? The strange thing is AWB worked for one day allowing me to make several edits, but then stopped working with the aforementioned error message when I tried to run it on Category:Islamic History. I can understand it simply not working, but working and then stopping seems to indicate the programs are sound but something happened—I did fiddle with the setting before restoring them to their default setting. Supertouch (talk) 00:07, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Vanilla being plain. Default config. It can't just work under wine, it needs something to provide the .net framework.. Whether the actual .net fw, or mono... And mono doesn't support everything... —  Ree dy  00:09, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Problem solved. Apparently the problem had nothing to do with my Mac—I was running it with NET @ installed with Wine. I reset the settings on AWB and it works fine now. Thanks for your help. Supertouch (talk) 16:58, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Errors during compiling the latest SVN
Hello! Maybe it's not critical problem but when I was compiling the latest SVN version (6213) I got six errors listed below. As far as I know AWB works properly ;-) Error	1	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	4941	23	UnitTests Error	2	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	4946	23	UnitTests Error	3	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	5396	23	UnitTests Error	4	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	5417	23	UnitTests Error	5	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	5860	23	UnitTests Error	6	'WikiFunctions.Variables' does not contain a definition for 'SetProjectLangCode'	C:\AWB-svn\AWB\UnitTests\ParserTests.cs	5867	23	UnitTests And one more thing. The latest AWB works really cool and fast! Thanks a lot for your work! Best wishes, Patrol110 (talk) 22:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * For the moment switch to a debug build, and I'll sort out that error with Reedy. Rjwilmsi  22:55, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed by MaxSem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Cannot connect
Please update your MediaWiki version. It seems it's |namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics very old. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:00, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect order of general fixes?

 * . Support templates within defaultsort key to allow for use/abuse.  Rjwilmsi  21:18, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

We still have to subst PAGENAME in there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, works for me. Rjwilmsi  21:22, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Ibid is placed in a wrong place

 * I forgot to include a call to the function to move the template. Rjwilmsi  09:46, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in Boolean.CompareTo
This bug happens when I click on the Enabled column heading in normal settings in Find and replace. Mattg82 (talk) 00:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Bug Confirmed. Rjwilmsi  12:04, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Can't see the problem. Probably one for Reedy as he's worked in the area recently. Rjwilmsi  12:27, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Also confirmed. No idea to fix as of yet. —  Ree dy  13:20, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I also got ArgumentException in Int32.CompareTo. Object must be of type Int32. Random types i.e. not set. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I think the problem is caused because a blank checkbox is not the same with a checkbox that was activated and disactivated. A blank checkbox seems not to have a set (boolean) value. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:58, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

After rev6216, it seems that the problem is in the Enabled column. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate: Add two rows -> disable enabled in first row -> press Enabled to sort -> Kaboom! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:42, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Finally in. Stupid bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB adding commas to file names

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:26, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Talk heading is added when level 3 heading is already present

 * Magioladitis what do you think? Rjwilmsi  16:56, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with Svick. Per WP:TPL should start with level 2 headers and not 3. Level 3 headers in talk pages are seldom seen. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If this is not slowing us down we should fix it as Svick says, otherwise we have to do some research first if there is need for that. I expect a very small numbers of pages with this problem. --Magioladitis (talk) 17:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

HTML comments cause problems for "Inside templates" rules

 * As per the bug 2 up, can you check a snapshot >= to see if this helps/fixes it for you? —  Ree  dy  01:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay. I'll do some tests today or this weekend.— John Cardinal (talk)
 * I did a test using rev 6237 and the problem was still evident. I can provide a relatively simple settings file that demonstrates the problem. — John Cardinal (talk) 14:41, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Please. It seemed similar to the other bug, and hence wondering if that fixed it. —  Ree dy  22:50, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Should I email it to someone, or ? — John Cardinal (talk) 14:44, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * E-mail it to me please by copy pasting the settings file in the body. --Magioladitis (talk) 15:08, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 15:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter, I've diagnosed the fault and will work on a fix. Rjwilmsi  15:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Unit test to cover the error.
 * Added TODO explaining what we need to change in GetTemplates, but I don't currently see how to to it. 16:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Now we handle commented out templates AND templates with embedded comments correctly. Technical solution maybe needs review. Rjwilmsi  21:06, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

"Sorry, these options" in Bots tab

 * Reedy corrected the error message. However, that still doesn't explain why the user was unable to use their bot account. Rjwilmsi  22:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Can you post a screenshot of the bug please? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:53, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Just posted the screenshot and you are right it does say "Sorry, these options". Sorry about it. In order to reproduce it I had to start AWB (after first successful edit in bot mode I never encounter it), do a lot of test edits without auto-save and than switch to bots tab. In case of any questions I check my user page at Commons much more often than on Wikipedia, so drop me a line there. --Jarekt (talk) 20:43, 20 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I just noticed that the problem seems to be related to the use of "Preferences/On load/Show changes" option. This is usually the first thing I change after login, so I do not think much about it. But lately worked for a while without changing this option and did not have any problems until I turned it on. --Jarekt (talk) 22:32, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Show changes if the default... What are you changing it to? —  Ree dy  14:14, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * My default was "Show edit page" and I was always changing it to "Show changes" after start-up. Apparently that default was hard-wired into the XML file my AWB was using at the start-up. I resaved that xml with the new option - hopefully it will help and will save me time for sure. After changing my start-up XML I was unable to reproduce the problem. --Jarekt (talk) 16:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I am marking it as rare then. Please re-report if it reappears. --Magioladitis (talk) 02:03, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Stan may be musical, but his last name is Musial
It's not a bug. You obviously used Typoscan. AWB is not correcting this kind of stuff by default. Typoscan needs supervision in every case. --Magioladitis (talk) 16:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was using Typoscan, and obviously supervising, or I wouldn't have caught this! Thanks for looking at this anyway. Cheers! --Auntof6 (talk) 08:21, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in Boolean.CompareTo (part II)
It's recommended to put as header the one provided by the bug handler. I'll try to duplicate it.

We fixed that in Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_15. (6235). Are you sure still occurs in 6269? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah Im afraid so I downloaded the newest change this morning. --Kumioko (talk) 17:11, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't reproduce it. Can you on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep it does it for me every time. I even closed the app and restarted it. --Kumioko (talk) 21:23, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I suspect incomplete update. Can you reinstall the latest snapshot an retry, please? -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:08, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I did it but I am still haveing the problem. I notice that if I don't have anything checked for the columns it doesn't generate an error. Instead of saying "Object must be of type Boolean" know its sawing "Object must be of type String". Strange --Kumioko (talk) 03:02, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I have an explanation for that but not for why you still catch this bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:14, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * did some progress but not fixed completely. Problem still occurs if Check all/uncheck all is used before sorting some column (It bugs for all!) -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Great thanks --Kumioko (talk) 04:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . There was a mixture between variables. Some were defined as integer and some as boolean. Boolean won. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:44, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK counts pages skipped by AWB as tagged
Current situation: Tagged in KingbotK statistics = Skipped by AWB + real tags, Skipped = Skipped by KingbotK plugin.

Aim: Tagged in KingbotK statistics = Tagged by plugin, Skipped = Skipped by plugin + Skipped by AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:56, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Resolved in 6275 bz just updatiing the tooltip. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK and talkheader

 * Magioladitis decided the plugin shouldn't do general fixes or something. Blame him =D —  Ree dy  16:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It should still place the banner under the header tho...! =) –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:09, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Banners where never going under the header, header was going above banners :P Now we have customised genfixes for talk pages a lot, so I suggest that you activate them. We want to move all genfixes from the Plugin to the main program. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Gen fixes are OK to run for a bot in auto mode? –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Why does it place a blank space in between talk header and rest of banners? –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk  16:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * There are only a couple of genfixes, all taken from the plugin :). Check WP:GENFIXES. For the second question: We have to fix that along with the bug Svick reported above. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Marking as notbug - thanks. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 16:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Let me summarise just for the record: Having genfixes outside the plugin gives us better control. We can activate them in demand, they run faster, can be applied without having to load unnecessary stuff, can easier customised for other prohects, etc. They are all uncontroversial and follow WP:TPL. There are a few bugs to fix though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Heading is put on wrong place in talk page

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  09:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkheader related bugs

 * Fix for the first part. Rjwilmsi  09:43, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Keyboard language switch bugs happens again

 * The original fix was by MaxSem under . Code is still there, can't see why it would have stopped working. Rjwilmsi  10:19, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You are faster than me. I jsut came to update my comment. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Problem usually occurs after switching from bot mode to manual. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:12, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I am marking this as rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Human DEFAULTSORT (The Mc case)

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:31, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

FA interwikis messed up in ar.wiki

 * Not sure if there will be any RTL text issues, so maybe needs review.  Rjwilmsi  16:10, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It wasn't fixed and probably something broke. Check here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:53, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Unescaped pipe. Now fixed and on testing on King David Hotel seems to work fine. Rjwilmsi  18:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Bot doesn't seem to comply with bots|deny=all

 * Has that ever been valid syntax? It's not listed at bots, so I guess this is a feature request, not a bug.... --MZMcBride (talk) 16:41, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * A fair point, but even when using this syntax which is listed:  ("Ban all compliant bots not in the list"), AWB in bot mode is still willing to work. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk  17:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Tools -> Preferences -> Ignore bots/nobots. Is this disactivated? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope... –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 18:05, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I've checked and AWB incorrectly interprets, so I'll fix it later today. As for  , I don't propose to add support until the template supports it.  Rjwilmsi  08:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixes first part. Rjwilmsi  09:31, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * That's fine - marking fixed. Thank you. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 14:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

AWBUpdater 2.0.0.4 won't update 5.0.0.1 to 5.0.1.0
Extra: If there is an update to the AWBUpdater, it should NOT be asking to close AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:28, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Bug fixed in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

MissingFieldException in MainForm.LoadPrefs
Something is wrong. It looks like an incomplete update. "restrictOrphanTagging" was implemented in version 5.0.1.0. Same goes for TypeLoadException in MainForm.MakeSummary and MissingMethodException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent. Please reinstall AWB's latest version. -- 15:42, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

is moved to See also, but isn't
To fix, change  on line 726 in WikiRegexes.cs. Svick (talk) 14:08, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I also recommend adding logic to move portalbox. --Kumioko (talk) 14:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Allow portalpar as alias of portal as requested. Rjwilmsi  15:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Some dab pages are tagged as orphans

 * Probably we don't have those two road templates listed as disambig templates. Rjwilmsi  00:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * We have to update WikiRegex.Disambigs. I didn't know about roaadis. Rjwilmsi, can you do it, please? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:14, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Some dab pages are tagged as orphans II
Let's make a full list of what's missing. Check Category:Disambiguation message boxes. I sent one for TfD and one is retained for historical reasons (Hurricane disambig). -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Step 1: Someone please remove: [234]CC from the regex. It's really old! -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Step 2: Change to this one:

[Dd]isamb(?:ig(?:uation)?)?|[Dd]ab|[Mm]athdab|[Ss]urname|(?:[Nn]umber|[Rr]oad?|[Hh]ospital|[Gg]eo|[Hh]n|[Ss]chool)dis|SIA|[Ll]etter-disambig|[Ss]hipindex|[Mm]ountainindex)|[[Aa]irport disambig|[Cc]allsigndis|[Dd]isambig-cleanup

-- Magioladitis (talk) 09:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Line 102: Add |[Мm]ногозначность -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:34, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:26, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

AWB overwrites default settings when using pre-parse mode

 * . There was a missing check for the 'auto save' option. Rjwilmsi  08:09, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

GetTemplateParameterValue don't work well

 * Post a link to some actual examples of the template and parameter you want, and I will take a look. Rjwilmsi  11:52, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Nothing?--B3t (talk) 17:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I asked you to post a link to an actual example wiki page with the template you were interested in. You haven't, so based on the parameter "annoproduzione" I guess that you're after the "Film" template on the Italian wiki. I also guess that the problems were over piped wikilinks in the template. I noticed this myself and fixed it under /, so once a newer snapshot is out with that fix I expect your issue will be resolved. Thanks  Rjwilmsi  18:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I have insert an example in "Site URL" but not the template of interest. Sorry again.--B3t (talk) 11:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Great, then it's fixed in . Reedy should upload a new snapshot soon, or you can run from SVN. Thanks Rjwilmsi  13:47, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs

 * AWB doesn't like the settings file. Could you post the settings file you're trying to load to a sandbox please? Rjwilmsi  13:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I sorta figured out what went wrong, it seems like I was trying to save the setting into default when I made a list with 1000+ pages, then the xml file got too big and didn't close out the find and replace settings at the end of file. Everything seems to work fine now when I restored to default setting and made sure the new default setting saved over the corrupted default setting. Tvtr (talk) 12:54, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Random change from - to -- within article content
Can I see a diff of what you mean? Does it happen if you turn off MOS changes from the menu? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:27, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note that for Sawin-Bullen-Bullard House, the was not in the Infobox (which had "--" when the article was created), and was not from - to --. It changed " " to " ".  M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  19:42, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * This change is correct then. There is no bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, replacing with an mdash is not exactly correct in that unusual situation, but AWB did what it would be expected to do and I agree that it's not a bug. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I now understand. Thanks Hmains (talk) 20:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

linkless template ignored
Less than 50 transclusions. No transclusions. I sent it for RfD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure RFD is the way to go as there are a number of other redirects. allow linkless of alias of orphan. We should review which other redirects to orphan from  should be added to AWB.  Rjwilmsi  12:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It would be better to wait for the result of the RfD. All redirects have 0 transclusions atm. At worst, this bug is rare :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Newsflash: Linkless was deleted via RfD thus last commit was reverted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:12, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Dead end isn't recognized as synonym for deadend in

 * for the template rename. Rjwilmsi  14:05, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

can't edit Hebrew alphabet
For some reason I could not edit Hebrew alphabet. When I clicked 'save', it calculated for an extended time and then reloaded in the edit window w the same changes, over and over. It's not write protected, and I gave it several hours and came back to it, as well as editing other articles w the same kinds of changes, so I don't think it was the server. (The only changes were changing /g/ to the IPA letter and several codes to Hebrew letters; the latter was done automatically by AWB.) I eventually went in and made the changes manually (copy & paste from the AWB edit window), but thought it sufficiently bizarre to bring up here. kwami (talk) 06:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB has since worked on that article. I think it was just a temporary network problem. Rjwilmsi  13:36, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Steady restart and steady increment of time for restart

 * If the edit is blocked by the spam filter this is correct behaviour. There's an option to skip if the edit is blocked by the spam filter. Rjwilmsi  11:39, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * There is an option in AWB to skip the page if the edit is blocked by the spam filter. Rjwilmsi  13:58, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Database scanner bugs II

 * No 1 works fine on the small dump i downloaded from Category:2009 deaths —  Ree dy  21:29, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * No 2, . Made some changes, but it hasn't sorted it (on my test 2200 articles, though i was just filtering simply by ns) —  Ree dy  22:15, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I've finally got #1 sussed. Basically, if you look to scan the entire en database, but have to stop half-way through, you can't resume half-way through. Instead, the scanner summarily scans the first half of the articles looking for your given start point, but doesn't record any results until it finds it (hence my assumption that no results were ever going to be returned), so it's not a great deal quicker than just starting from scratch. Would be good if a percentage could be input maybe, to give the scanner a hand? Maybe a more informative status update? - Jarry1250 [ In the UK? Sign the petition! ] 16:30, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * might help a bit —  Ree dy  19:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If a start article is entered the DB scanner reads the XML file until it gets to the start article. If we read the 25 GB pages-latest-XML en-wiki database dump from hard drive at 50 MB/s it will take 500 seconds to read it all, plus the time to check the article text. If the start article is at the halfway point in the dump it will therefore take at least 250 seconds to reach it. Unless we can find a different way to get to the start point there's no way to make it faster. Rjwilmsi  18:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Second issue (delay in confirming completion) fixed by . Rjwilmsi  18:08, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Can't login -- "Login failed", "NeedToken"
This is caused by a change reported at WP:VPT. AWB won't work at all until this change is implemented. Svick (talk) 01:12, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I have the same problem--Jarekt (talk) 03:27, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I get a login failed, need token error when I try to login with my bot or the regular account. Need help. Ganeshk ( talk ) 01:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

We were aware of that. In facvt we were waiting for a change to MediaWiki since last week. AWB 5.0.2.0, released probably today, will fix the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Won't update to new version
Download the latest snapshot and make a clean install please. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:03, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * That works. Thank you. I thought clicking "AWBUpdater" would do the same thing, but it doesn't. Art LaPella (talk) 17:27, 15 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I am having the same problem. Please explain step by step to a not-very-technical user what I have to do. Thanks Hmains (talk) 05:01, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The updater isn't working (has been fixed for next release). Therefore use the SVN snapshots link at the top of this page to manually download the newest version of AWB. Rjwilmsi  00:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * None of these works for me. I downloaded the latest (5.0.1.1 SVN 6310) from the link at the top of the page, then did a clean unzip into a new directory, then ran AWB. When I try to login it gives me the "Problem" messagebox "This version is not enabled…". When I click the Yes button in the messagebox, it runs a new little dialog box (title "AWB Updater - 2.0.0.5") producing 4 lines of log and concluding "Nothing to update". But it still won't let me login. -- Hebrides (talk) 09:35, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Check the WikiFunctions.dll. Which version it is? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Right-click and Properties gives File Version as 5.0.1.1 — Hebrides (talk) 10:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Search failing after delink

 * Fixed. Thanks Rjwilmsi  17:03, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Section header added in wrong position

 * What's right here – no header needed at all as user signature is on same line as template? Rjwilmsi  16:13, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think yes. Is dytalk supposed to have a signature? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Issues with Template:Xxxx/doc pages (part II)

 * For {PAGENAME} issue. Not clear on why there's an issue with the DEFAULTSORT – AWB can set one? Rjwilmsi  20:57, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate 'User contribs' selection

 * Indeed. I was passing the same reference from the main list maker, and also creating an instance in the special page provider. Presumably changed over at some recent point. —  Ree  dy  06:19, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Auto-updater not working properly

 * Indeed, sorry about this guys. Seems I made a farce of the update when changing the paths to a better style. It is fixed in, though, my win 7 box won't let me overwrite the files for some daft reason (ie running the updater). —  Ree dy  06:46, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Search & replace - advanced broken

 * This is likely related to Wikipedia talk:AWB. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 14:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * GetTemplates doesn't find any templates on the current AWB Sandbox.. —  Ree dy  23:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed now. A change of mine from two weeks ago that fixed something else accidentally broke this. Now both are fixed. Rjwilmsi  01:17, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Not skipping pages when no changes are made

 * It works fine for me. Have you definitely got "apply changes automatically" enabled under the options menu? Rjwilmsi  01:21, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is checked. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:27, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, if you would post your XML settings file to a sandbox I'll take a look. Thanks Rjwilmsi  01:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, it's here. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  09:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Still not skipping in ar.wiki which I tried. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:15, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Works for me on the Arabic article for Moon. Rjwilmsi  17:54, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Adding stray characters "\r\n\r\n" when adding orphan tag
Update: these characters are also being added when other tags are added at the beginning, such as "wikify". --Auntof6 (talk) 07:13, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Broken in 6391, now fixed. Thanks Rjwilmsi  07:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. When might that be available on the SVN page? --Auntof6 (talk) 10:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 'tis upnow. —  Ree dy  14:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Error with an update for the updater
Updater was broken. Now fixed in Updater 2.0.0.6. Please check archived before reporting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:50, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It wasn't clear to me that the archived bug was identical to this one... –  T M F 19:34, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Need token
This (the missing token) was a bug caused due to a change of MediaWiki. Updater had problems too. A clean update fixes all. Check archived for similar reports. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:52, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Copying Template:Portalpar instead of moving it

 * Whitespace at end of line after template. AWB isn't handling it. Rjwilmsi  22:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Apply No. of times was broken in Advanced F&R

 * What it means is how many times to recurse: on each recursion all matches are replaced, so it's not 'how many matches to replace'. I suppose we can add tooltips to the Rule designer to explain it better. Rjwilmsi  00:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hm... I would like to add something only in the first occurrence in the article. How can I do that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:34, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Use a regex and match on "[whatever you want](.*)" making it single line and replace with "[whatever you now want]$1" i.e. force the first match to match to the end of the article, preventing any further matches. This find & replace might be a bit slow (2 seconds?) on a large article. Rjwilmsi  07:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Genfixes for talk pages are not skipped when option is set to skip

 * I assume you mean that AWB applies the logic, but then does not skip? Rjwilmsi  22:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is related to User talk:Yobot, where the bot was happily doing simply general fixes on talk pages even though no other work was being done. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 22:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It should skip page if "skip if only genfixes" is turned on and only talkpage fixes are done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:36, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * As requested. Rjwilmsi  07:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

"Tl" used in edit summary, looks peculiar

 * Change to then?  Rjwilmsi  13:17, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. Same for skip to talk. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:18, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Cheers mates. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 14:16, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Typo fixing in name parameter of
...and I would expect quotes to be added. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix logic to handle grouped refs. Rjwilmsi  15:12, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Ignore external links has too much scope.
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = Ignore external links appears to ignore " | url=" before a URL (if the URL doesn't contain an = ?)Rich Farmbrough, 04:56, 19 April 2010 (UTC). | duplicate     = edit User:Rich Farmbrough/temp72 with s/date=([^\|}]+)(\||}})/<1=$1><2=$2>/ with and without "ignore external/interwiki links.." checked | site          = en wp | OS             = V | net            = | version       = 5.0.2.1 (6435) | workaround    = | fix_version   = 6438 }}
 * First part of the fix: don't hide parameter name when hiding an image as a parameter in a template. Second part I will do later: hide external links before hiding images. Rjwilmsi  11:08, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 13:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC).
 * done. Rjwilmsi  16:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Re-parse re-adds tags

 * Doesn't happen for me on a range of new pages whether one, two or three tags are added: re-parse never adds duplicates. Rjwilmsi  13:42, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It's still doing it for me. I just tried it on Route panorama. My XML settings file is still here if you would like to look at it. Just to be clear, I'm talking about the re-parse option that's available when I right-click in the edit box. --Auntof6 (talk) 13:54, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for providing your settings but with your file, that article and snaphsot 6405 I still don't get any duplicate tags issues on re-parse. Rjwilmsi  14:40, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, it's not doing it every time now, but I just got it to happen again on Purshottam maas. It could be when the tags are added as parms in "multiple issues". Here is what AWB added:
 * I also just updated my settings file on my sandbox page, just in case anything had changed. Maybe the "multiple issues" thing is relevant? --Auntof6 (talk) 00:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If it's over multiple issues then should have fixed it.  Rjwilmsi  11:13, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I look forward to that SVN being available. The most recent one I see on the SVN page is the one I'm using, 6405. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I look forward to that SVN being available. The most recent one I see on the SVN page is the one I'm using, 6405. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Re-opening this one. I just downloaded SVN 6446, and this is still happening -- it happened on High Bypass Turbofan Engine.--Auntof6 (talk) 02:07, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That page has been redirected. Do you have another example? Rjwilmsi  07:32, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Lee, Tsai & Partners --Auntof6 (talk) 09:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * In case it helps, here's the exact string of tags that AWB added:
 * --Auntof6 (talk) 09:16, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Found the problem and now fixed. Rjwilmsi  09:52, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hooray! I was beginning to think I might be crazy! --Auntof6 (talk) 09:57, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hooray! I was beginning to think I might be crazy! --Auntof6 (talk) 09:57, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Adding in only some non-breaking spaces

 * Okay, so 4 issues here:


 * 1700 m (5600 ft) – Fixed in this limited case only.  Rjwilmsi  15:01, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 340 gm – not a valid unit. Should AWB correct it, I don't know.
 * weight 80 g – don't believe AWB should do this one due to false positives with "Oracle 10g server" etc.
 * (22-24 in) – Fixed that one  Rjwilmsi  15:21, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Other similar problems:


 * 40 g (1.4 oz) not recognized; see Corvidae. Snowman (talk) 15:32, 7 October 2009 (UTC) for the (1.4 oz) part.  Rjwilmsi  09:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * "8-20 g in weight" not recognized. Also "19-20 days" only changes the hyphen without adding nbsp; see Sittella. Snowman (talk) 15:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * [WP:NBSP doesn't mention the use of non-breaking spaces for units of days, only abbreviated units. Rjwilmsi  12:13, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Should "14-22g" be changed? see "New Zealand wren". Snowman (talk) 15:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Should (16-19") be changed? see "Oilbird". Snowman (talk) 15:49, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "5-6 meters" not recognized; see Pelagornithidae. Snowman (talk) 15:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  12:20, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * "120 grams" not recognized; see Grebe. Snowman (talk) 15:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC) For gram/grams/gramme/grammes.  Rjwilmsi  11:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * "Pp. 350-377" which is quite a common error with page numbers. I think AWB could change it to "pp. 350-377" and also fix the hypen; see Gnatcatcher Snowman (talk) 16:00, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  09:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Not all hyphens converted to endashes; see Shoebill. Snowman (talk) 16:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Terms where a numeral is adjacent to a non-whitespace character ("22g") should not be changed. In case of a false positive on something like "50 m", no real harm is done because all that changes is where a line ends. Changing "22g" to "22 g" potentially changes the meaning, or at least creates incorrect punctuation.


 * Also, it may be unwise to use non-breaking spaces when unit names are spelled out, because compound unit names can be long enough to create awkward line endings. --Jc3s5h (talk) 16:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough for a unit with many letters. Perhaps I have indicated some things that can be changed when these regexes are reviewed. I think I will stop adding to the list and wait for the new version to test. Snowman (talk) 16:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that a check that AWB also completes the partial fixed that AWB has made is needed. I think that some improvements are still needed - I have left enough examples to work on for now. Snowman (talk) 20:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

People in fr.wiki seems to agree with me that we need to use convert. Check "Espace insécable" section in fr:Discussion_utilisateur:Magioladitis. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB not loading page content of protected pages
Confirmed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Rich mentioned this as an API bug. We need to talk to the MW guys. Rjwilmsi  07:27, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I was guessing to some extent. I will try to test that. Rich Farmbrough, 21:40, 23 April 2010 (UTC).
 * . Technically, ATM, I am the API guy ;) —  Ree dy  21:45, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Incorrectly ordering references

 * Hmm, ref with a  in it is causing confusion due to the .  Rjwilmsi  00:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Got it. . Rjwilmsi  00:51, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

"Add non-human-name default sort for musical groups" not working

 * Wasn't handling templates with a comment at the end of the template name (works in other cases). Though I had AWB set up to handle this I didn't have it set up to handle the comment already being hidden by general fixes logic. fixes.  Rjwilmsi  07:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

AWB warns for inuse even if it is in between nowiki tags
I think you found the only case among 3 million talk pages! -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:31, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Default sort changed to one with upper case in middle of word

 * The existing DEFAULTSORT has a non-printing character in it, so AWB treats Leeming as two words. (paste it into URL encoder page then check HTML encoding reference). Rjwilmsi  07:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Link simplification too greedy - eating spaces
Hmm, does anyone have an example of inappropriate change using that feature? Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I've left a message on Rich's talk page asking for more information. Rjwilmsi  20:10, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't. It seems to me that if the editor explicitly wants to link only part of the phrase they should be able to. For example "Henry IV and James I of England. " Rich Farmbrough, 20:34 14 February 2009 (UTC).

For info, the logic is in Parers.StickyLinks. Rjwilmsi 20:36, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Logic removed from genfixes. Rjwilmsi  20:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it was a rare bug and the good done was more than the bad. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:45, 6 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Does this mean that AWB will no longer do any link simplification (it seems not to be doing it in SVN 6405)? I'd consider that a bad thing. If an editor doesn't like a change that AWB makes, they can double-click the line in the diffs display to undo it. --Auntof6 (talk) 13:02, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, per Rich's comment (and others elsewhere), AWB can't tell if simplification is right or not. You can run the logic by custom module if you want it. Rjwilmsi  13:30, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Um, not that I'm complaining, but the logic seems to still be there. When editing ...And Justice for All (album), AWB changed " thrash metal " to " thrash metal ". I use 5.0.2.1, SVN 6446. --Auntof6 (talk) 13:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This is not the sticky links logic. This is simple wikilinks simplification. Sticky links was graping text outside the wikilink. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:51, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server

 * If the ru-wiki server forcibly closes the connection after 20 seconds is there anything AWB can do about it? This problem doesn't happen for me on the en-wiki (may occur if page is left for several minutes only). Rjwilmsi  13:18, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Tooltips not displaying properly

 * Other tooltips work for me. There may be a problem with the edit summary one. Rjwilmsi  08:07, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, what I meant to say was that the tooltips in the central tabbed areas don't display. In previous versions, there are various tooltips in the Options, More..., Disambig (when enabled with a link entered), Skip, and Start tabbed sections. In 6446, the only one of those that marginally (hehe) works is the Summary as noted above. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  09:16, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Tooltips are still there for me on start, stop, skip buttons etc. Is that what you mean? Rjwilmsi  15:38, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's what I mean. The other tooltips work, such as in the Make list area and the toolbar at the top of the page. But none of the ones in any of the tabbed areas in the central panel work. And I just discovered an additional, strange tidbit about the Summary. When I first start AWB, the Summary tooltip does not display at all. It only begins semi-working as described above after I go to the Options tab, point to an area which should have a tooltip, then return to the Start tab. For comparison, I tried versions 6401 and 6405 again, and all tooltips work perfectly. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It's doing something similar for me, although I'm not getting any tooltip at all for the summary. I don't consider it a big problem since I don't usually use the tooltips, but let me know if I can provide any info. I'm using SVN 6446. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:44, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. It seems one of the two tooltips I added for the new bot max edits feature broke tooltips for non-bots. Rjwilmsi  16:34, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

disambig function adding between single quotes instead of on one side or the other

 * Fixed such that dn is added after all punctuation after link rather than simply after first punctuation character after link. Rjwilmsi  17:52, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Why is Orphan tag appended even in pages having 1 to 3 links?

 * Activate "Restrict orphan tagging to linkless pages". It's written on the tip (with bold) in AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual. Currently we add orphan tags only to linkless pages but this is not the strict definition of orphans. Read again both pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, Magioladitis, Thanks for the tip. Yes. I do agree that its written. I feel if it was given as a default setting, it would be easier for any new user who forgets to check it even by mistake. No worries. I am happy with the workaround also, at least after 1 mistake. — Thaejas (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException

 * fixes, but FYI the StickyLinks function has in the meantime been disabled from genfixes due to false positives. Rjwilmsi  22:47, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

More - append seems to use crlfs instead of newlines

 * We need to use \r\n since that's what the RichTextBox works with. Rjwilmsi  07:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)


 * OK I don't understand. I can apply a fix in the normal way in standard search and replace and \n works fine.  If its the appended text it doesn't.  Therefore I am inclined to say that we can use \n as all that happens before the conversion to RTB display format. Rich Farmbrough, 11:04, 3 May 2010 (UTC).
 * Changed insertion to use "\n" over "\r\n". In the regex tester inserted and existing text had the same line endings for me i.e. I couldn't exactly reproduce your problem, but I expect it's now fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:58, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

is moved to the top of the article

 * fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Custom module Failed Match
--Jarekt (talk) 22:54, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It's an error on your Custom Module. Paste your code, and i'll advise how to fix. —  Ree dy  23:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I know how to fix Custom Module. I thought this automatically generated bug report was not about how to fix my code but how AWB handles errors in user Custom Modules. After this error AWB allow me to continue, but was not usable and had to be restarted. --Jarekt (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably worth taking note of the stack trace and changing the error to match.... —  Ree dy  23:57, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect date change

 * Tighten date format fixing logic to avoid such ambiguous cases. Rjwilmsi  17:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

UriFormatException in DatabaseScanner.btnOpen

 * It is an error. The file you're attempting to open in the database scanner isn't the correct one. You should be importing an XML dump, or something from Special:Export, not an article list, and not an AWB settings file. See URI —  Ree dy  10:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  10:39, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, I see now. It's a list splitter not an article splitter. Will request a article split/save option elsewhere. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 21:37, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Category adding bug

 * I suppose by "general fixes" you mean the metadata sort function. If a new category is added this needs to be called so that the newly added category ends up in the right place, otherwise it's another task to put it in the right place. If Wiktionary has different metadata ordering to Wikipedia we can probably have AWB handle it, if you explain what that ordering is. Rjwilmsi  10:57, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not just that, it also removes whitespace even though it shouldn't. Preferably, it should simply add the category at the end (before the interwikis, that is) and leave the other categories alone. -- Prince Kassad (talk) 11:05, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. when adding a category do not change cosmetic (i.e. no visible difference whether there or not) whitespace as part of metadata sorting. Rjwilmsi  11:38, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect simplification

 * Fixed. Broken by a recent fix of mine over ref reordering. Rjwilmsi  11:21, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

AWB + "kingbotplugin + WP:India tagging" hangs

 * I can provide many more examples of pages that hang the plugin if someone ever shows up to work with it =] –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 21:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It just takes ages to parse the template. But it's not AWB's fault... it's editors' fault who add all these empty parameters! -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The regex gets stuck AFAIK. —  Ree dy  18:22, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am having the same issue with basic assessments on generic templates. Other project templates seem to be the culprit. Is Kingbot pluggin parsing all the project templates on a page, even when I am only trying to assess for one project? &mdash;Charles Edward (Talk 13:59, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Error while manual edit: AWB quit
PS: AWB made updates 5 times. --Wikidienst (talk) 18:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you using Mono or something? As i know it isn't implemented in that :/ —  Ree dy  23:13, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


 * No emulation with mono, standard WinXP. Wikidienst (talk) 11:51, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Marking as rare. Let's see if this happens in 5.0.3.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:43, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in DabControl.DabControl_Load
Any hint of how to duplicate? How did that occur? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:27, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Encountered while working with links to disambiguate. Diff provided. — Qweedsa (talk) 16:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_10. It was first reported in version 4.4.2.0! -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:37, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting. However, it doesn't seem to have been fixed. :-( So what? — Qweedsa (talk) 16:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This observation may help us locate the bug. Nothing more. Which word were you disambiguating? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:44, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Драма. — Qweedsa (talk) 16:48, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Unrealeted question :Are Dab links are piped in ru.wiki? (i.e. Драма instead of Драма (происшествие) -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:56, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Usually yes. Some users pipe the links even in disambiguation pages. The correct replacement in ths case is Драма, if you need this. — Qweedsa (talk) 17:18, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Saving-problems

 * AWB works fine on large pages e.g. here but AWB can't guarantee that the Wikipedia servers are always going to be working without lag. Rjwilmsi  14:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Strange, I used AWB in past in some cases because my browsers couldn't handle a heavy page, but AWB could do it. Nowadays AWB can't save large pages while my browsers do it easy. Romaine (talk) 23:05, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Those pages don't look large. It could be an API problem, and with AWB now using that... —  Ree dy  23:14, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
 * If you use a nested regex in your search and replace it can take a long time to process. After a certain time WM (several minutes at least - probably set for each wiki) WM will no longer accept the page. Maybe a combination of these factors? Rich Farmbrough, 16:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC).