Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 17

Wrong count in multi-wikilink list

 * Also broken by and now fixed by .  Rjwilmsi  08:52, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

No upper case in default sort

 * Broken by, so not in 5.0.3 release. Rjwilmsi  07:35, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Temporary fix. Rjwilmsi  08:14, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Aside on 'defaultsort location'

 * Also noted cases where DEFAULTSORT was put after the categories. If not related I'll try and raise a bug next tie I see t. Rich Farmbrough, 08:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC). 08:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably article will have noinclude/includeonly in it. Rjwilmsi  08:14, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Aside on 'multiple issues'
I think this issue is also affecting other things as well. It also looks like it might be changing the multiple issues template to lower case. See Bioenvironmental Engineering as an example. --Kumioko (talk) 01:58, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No. This is not related but I think I 'll change it to uppercase anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:29, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * avoid changing case of Multiple issues when removing nneeded date parameter. Rjwilmsi  08:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 13:10, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Another possible bug
I just bumped into another thing with defaultsort that has come up before but I thought I would mention it again. When people have Cadency's like II, III, or IV AWB changes them to Ii, Iii, and Iv. I don't think that it should be doing this and wanted to bring it up for discussion. An example is Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV. When AWB processes the article it tries to modify the defaultsort to be Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, Iv. --Kumioko (talk) 14:31, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That is correct behavior for AWB. First the surname, then given names, then other things like junior or a number, etc. The standard is that each word in the default sort should begin with an upper case letter, then the remaining letters should be lower case. It does look funny, but it never displays anywhere and it's just to get the entry to sort correctly within categories. Actually, a better value for the default sort there might be "Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 04" -- that would make sure that entries stayed in numerical order if there were also articles for senior, junior, III, etc. --Auntof6 (talk) 14:44, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * You can read more about that at WP:MCSTJR. --Auntof6 (talk) 14:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That sorta makes sense know that you explained it that way but yes it does look rather strange. --Kumioko (talk) 14:56, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It is strange. I was thinking to propose that this numbers change to 01, 02, 03, 04, etc. in DEFAULTSORT but I am a bit lazy. This is not the subject of AWB of course. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:10, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It is generally a good thing to use the 01 02 etc.. (same for 1st, 2nd ...) but some things, German Panzergruppe spring to mind (?), go into the hundreds. So 001 would be better and cover pretty much everything except the minor planets, but of course would break the existing numbers on rulers. In the same way, but with less problem, Snr and Jr could become 01 and 02 (or 001 and 002). ..the Elder and ... the Younger are already in the "right" order. Rich Farmbrough, 16:29, 7 June 2010 (UTC).

password not saved

 * Works fine for me. — Ree dy  17:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you exit from the program after saving? Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 18:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No, as you didn't say that. Tested now, and it's fine on Windows 7. Using quick login, enter username, password, check both boxes, click login. Account is saved. — Ree dy  18:04, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * If you go back to log in without exiting, it has the password. If I exit and restart the program, the password is gone. Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 18:08, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, but it's saved in the list above. Double click on it. — Ree dy  18:09, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, I was expecting it to fill in the password but it doesn't. But double-clicking does work.  (It is also showing 10 identical profiles in the list.)  Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 18:21, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * for the multiple accounts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

AWB would put an orphan template on a disambig page
That's why. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ... and it is a cue to watch these sort of pages in an organised way. Might need special script to monitor pages hard written into AWB code. Snowman (talk) 17:39, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Need to enable vertical scrolling for alerts

 * Will need to switch it for a list box. — Ree dy  13:35, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Alerts not cleared when re-parsing

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  08:33, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

More small problems
probably fixed it since genfixes makes no changes for me on The Vines discography. Rjwilmsi 00:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Wrong count in multiple wiki-link list, redux

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  17:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Wrong removal of small tags

 * Articles with unclosed 'small' tags. Rjwilmsi  07:23, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Extend UnclosedTags to cover &lt;small&gt;; do not apply FixSmallTags if there are unclosed tags in the article. Rjwilmsi  08:29, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

IOException in Updater.KillTempDir
You have an old version of AWBUpdater (2.0.0.6). Current version is 2.0.0.7. Go to http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ and download a new version of AWB along with a new updater and make a clean install, please. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 23:39, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

and its contents removed inside

 * fixes. Obviously I didn't run all the unit tests last time. Rjwilmsi  06:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

doubled single quotes in Image/File tags

 * Is this a mediawiki bug (that multiple consecutive single quotes are not supported properly?). Rjwilmsi  08:41, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There's bug 20213, but it won't be fixed mainly because the Neapolitan language legitimately uses multiple consecutive single quotes. --Joshua Scott (LiberalFascist) 18:22, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops, 8932 is actually the bug I meant to point to. There's also 8871. 20213 is actually a request to prevent those sorts of names.  --Joshua Scott (LiberalFascist) 23:29, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * , . Done Rjwilmsi  13:01, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Portal cleanup logic missing some portals

 * As I put in the documentation you need an existing portal box, and/or a see also section. Rjwilmsi  08:33, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. I saw that but it didn't really make sense to me because I didn't understand why we would limit it that way. --Kumioko (talk) 13:13, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Here's a suggestion: We could merge in the case of two or more portals in the section, too. (But, are these cases are really rare?) -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:20, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thats fine with me, not sure how many there are but I am seeing quite a few going through the portalpar articles. --Kumioko (talk) 15:45, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  11:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Database scanner

 * on exception in db scanner perform stop actions so that user can fix invalid regexes etc.

Check for unclosed ref tag

 * This is due to a bug in MediaWiki. The general workaround for SB's main task is to explicitly substitute year and month: this won't work with a general template subst of course, nor is it ideal, since it means the ruleset need to be regenerated every month change.  Rich Farmbrough, 19:31, 19 June 2010 (UTC).
 * Vote for bug number... 2700. Rich Farmbrough, 19:31, 19 June 2010 (UTC).
 * In this case, there was a &lt;/ref> tag missing, and half the article was hidden because the reflist template ended up inside the giant footnote. That's what AWB could detect, apart from issues with SmackBot. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 19:35, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * unclosed tags alert to include check for unclosed tags. Rjwilmsi  19:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

DirectoryNotFoundException in Updater.CopyFiles
This is quite serious, since AWB aborts after this. Workaround is to delete AWBUpdater.exe. This causes AWB to think it is offline, but it starts and can be used. --WolfgangRieger (talk) 16:14, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I get the same bug on Windows XP SP3. AWB version 5.0.2.0, AWB updater 2.0.0.5, ASP Frameworks: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5. When starting AWB, the AWB updater starts and reports "there is an update to the AWB updater", asks me to exit AWB, then downloads something and says
 * "Problem replacing file: Could not find file 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\$AWB$UPDATER$TEMP$\AWBUpdater.exe'. Please close all applications that may use it and press 'Retry' to try again or 'Cancel' to cancel the upgrade."

I say 'cancel' and am back in the AWB Updater window, and 'Close' gives me nothing. Workaround: when AWB asks "Are you sure to want to exit" click on "Go back" and ignore the updater. AxelBoldt (talk) 19:20, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I've also been having this bug for the past few updates. If I go to the Temp folder, I see that the AWB$UPDATER$TEMP$ folder is present, but empty. I think another workaround that worked for me was to kill the AWBUpdater program and proceed with AWB, but the better approach is to download the new version manually until this bug is resolved. —Ost (talk) 18:07, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I am also having the same problem on one of the computers I use. When starting AWB 5.0.2.0 I get "There is an update to the AWB updater" message and the program launches AWB Updater 2.0.0.5 which "successfully" updates the software. However when I start AWB again the same thing happens. Renaming "AWBUpdater.exe" to something else prior to starting AutoWikiBrowser.exe gives some strange errors but seems to work. --Jarekt (talk) 15:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

The updater is very old. Please update both AWB and AWBUpdater by downloading from http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/ -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

List comparer

 * Copying by what method? — Ree dy  20:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * By "Add to list" presumably. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, copy and paste even works better, although I have only used that for relatively small lists. Rich Farmbrough, 10:04, 21 June 2010 (UTC).
 * may help, I haven't profiled it, but it's hopefully reducing the article constructor calls during the movement of the articles. — Ree dy  16:09, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * gives a major preformance increase in that operation. — Ree dy  06:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

general fixes are not recongizing in pt.wiki
I still wonder why various projects keep making their own templates for those standard stuff. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Fixed in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:36, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Inaccurate syntax highlighting when image description contains internal links

 * . Done. Rjwilmsi  07:18, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Error accessing log.txt
Snapshots now have profiling turned on so we can gather more info on AWB's performance. This error doesn't occur in the official release. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:31, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok no problem, thanks for the info. --Kumioko (talk) 15:54, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Ref tags with slash in name parameter are considered unclosed

 * . Rjwilmsi  06:59, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in TraceManager.AddListener
An item with the same key has already been added

Running database scanner to pick up articles with diacritics in the titles, that need defaultsorts. Rich Farmbrough, 07:45, 23 June 2010 (UTC).
 * by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:51, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Kingbotk in not handling blp parameter in WPB but only in WPBS?
Moreover... it crashed before this edit (if 1 exists then there is no problem). (The return of the nightmare!) In the past was crashing if 1 as missing now if blp is present and 1 is missing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Here are the rules that should be applied:


 * If 1 is missing from WPBS then add it.
 * If livingyes in WPBiography then add blpyes to WPBS
 * If livingno in WPBiography then remove blp (whether yes or no) from WPBS

-- Magioladitis (talk) 09:59, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joshua_Uzoigwe&diff=prev&oldid=299086473 blp=no is not replaced by blp=yes. Plugin adds blp=yes instead]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:46, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

BannerShells.vb needs adjustment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:37, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Regexes for WPBS and WPB differ. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:10, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Partially fixed. Now we handle everything with a new build-in function called WikiProjectBannerShells. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK doesn't remove duplicated blp entries
Probably related to the bug reported above and how KingbotK doesn't handle blp parameters inside WPB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:12, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Partially fixed. Now we handle everything with a new build-in function called WikiProjectBannerShells. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

blp= and collapsed=yes moved to wrong location



 * Plugin issue not genfixes. Rjwilmsi  20:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Path of least resistance would be to stop moving it to the bottom - it's not necessary - frankly I kindof prefer it at the top next to the template name anyway. – xeno talk 17:10, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Since this removes the BLP banner, can we get it fixed as a matter of import? Again, there is no reason for the blp=yes to be moved to the end of the shell template, it's fine up at the beginning. – xeno talk 17:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Same thing with collapsed=yes . – xeno talk 19:10, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The same happens with activepol. The problem is in the regex. We have located. We ll fix it soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:07, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Still not sure why it needs to be 'fixed' - the template should just be left as is. It makes much more sense (to me, anyway) for the parameters to go up at the top with the template name rather than at the bottom after all the banners where someone might not know what it's all about. – xeno talk 21:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * This is what is gonna be fixed. This "feature" will be disactivated. But this is not the big problem. The problem that for every action on WPBS the whole page is scanned and not only the template. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:12, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Excellent. As for the second... can't you get it to stop scanning at the first == or something? – xeno talk 21:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The plugin is written in Visual Basic (VB). I don't know anything on VB. Rewriting is better than patching. Our approach to start nuking stuff and updating other just created a lot of leftovers and produced bugs. Please be a bit patient. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm just glad things are moving =) – xeno talk 00:15, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Partially fixed. Now we handle everything with a new build-in function called WikiProjectBannerShells. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:05, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Orphan tags and given name

 * . Add given name to SIAs list so pages using it aren't tagged as orphan. Rjwilmsi  07:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Alert "DAB page with ref(s)" on non-dab page

 * We list surname as a disambiguation template, which seems consistent with the documentation page of Disambig. Rjwilmsi  08:55, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * is a set index article (SIA) tag. The rules for those are different -- they are allowed to have references and external links, whereas regular dab pages are not. Personally, I don't see the need for the SIA pages, except to allow things that aren't allowed on dab pages. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:40, 30 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Not sure if you're waiting for more info from me, but some pertinent info is here in the DAB MOS. I quote (emphasis mine):
 * Pages only listing persons with a certain given name or surname (unless they are very frequently referred to by that name alone) are not disambiguation pages, and this Manual of Style does not apply to them. In such cases, do not use disambig or hndis, but given name or surname instead.
 * Some pages are mixed, with both name and non-name data, and those could have both one of the name templates (given name or surname) and one of the non-name templates (such as disambig).--Auntof6 (talk) 17:59, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Rules:
 * Both DABs and SIAs can be orphan
 * SIAs allow refs
 * DABs don't allow refs.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 10:57, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

and. Separated DABs from SIAs. This will enable us to treat them differently. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Question: what happens if a page has both an SIA-type tag and a dab-type tag (that does happen). Which overrides? --Auntof6 (talk) 19:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The dab. Since it's a dab no references are expected. No big deal anyway, it's just an alert. I think we lost more energy on that than we should. We could just remove the alert altogether. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:06, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Adds living people category erroneously
replace public static readonly Regex DeathsOrLivingCategory = new Regex(@"\[\[\s*Category *:[ _]?(\d{1,2}\w{0,2}[- _]century(?: BC)?[ _]deaths|[0-9s]{3,5}(?: BC)?[ _]deaths|Disappeared[ _]people|Living[ _]people|Year[ _]of[ _]death[ _](?:missing|unknown)|Possibly[ _]living[ _]people)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);

with public static readonly Regex DeathsOrLivingCategory = new Regex(@"\[\[\s*Category *:[ _]?(\d{1,2}\w{0,2}[- _]century(?: BC)?[ _]deaths|[0-9s]{3,5}(?: BC)?[ _]deaths|Disappeared[ _]people|Living[ _]people|(?:Date|Year)[ _]of[ _]death[ _](?:missing|unknown)|Possibly[ _]living[ _]people)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);

at WikiRegexes.cs(661)

Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 30 June 2010 (UTC).

Some things on that:
 * Recently the consensus for the placement of "Date of..." categories changed. Now "Date of..." cats are placed in mainspace
 * BUT Why there is a "Date of..." category, while any Year of death information is missing?

No, it's not AWB's bug. It is user error who put wrong categories in the article. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:03, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It is AWB's job not to be wrong. Any "..death.." category indicates that it is wise not to place the living people cat. I can see that "Date of death unknown/missing" (which misses cases where the month is known but not the day) without a "XXXX deaths" is in itself an indicator of an error, whether of omission or commission, but it is not an indicator of living.  Rich Farmbrough, 15:03, 30 June 2010 (UTC).
 * Placement of these categories has changed and AWB hasn't been updated, so I'll make the change Rich suggests. Rjwilmsi  15:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅. Rjwilmsi  15:54, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 17:08, 30 June 2010 (UTC).

Multiline defaultsort

 * Restrict WikiRegexes.DefaultSort to not match over multiple lines, to avoid incorrect matches on incorrectly terminated DEFAULTSORTS. Rjwilmsi  11:29, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

We could also close DEFAULTSORT, assuming that DEFAULTSORT can't be multiline. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:36, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We already do. Rjwilmsi

Re-parse highlights most of article as though it's all "image"

 * HighlightSyntax: reset background colour to avoid issues on re-parse. Rjwilmsi  15:14, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Replacing braces with square brackets
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = In this edit, AWB replaced some curly braces that were part of set notation with square brackets. For example, it turned "{[0], [1], [2]}" into "{[0], [1], [2]]". &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 12:09, 10 July 2010 (UTC) | duplicate     = | site          = en.wiki | OS            = | version       = | workaround    = | fix_version   =6824 }} First bracket is in nowiki tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:15, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know what that means. There are several methods to generate output like "{ { 0,1},2}", including the use of nowiki tags. But the last change in the diff I posted above does not involve nowiki tags. In any case, AWB needs to work with the same syntax that the parser accepts. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 13:22, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * My mistake. I was referring to the first substitution. The one you are referring doesn't involve any nowiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Is it reasonable to expect that this set notation will be within &lt;math&gt; tags or not? Rjwilmsi  15:49, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think yes. The way this article is written is very poor. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:54, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We can't assume that this is in math mode or has any other special markup. A lot of math is formatted using plain wikitext rather than math mode. Actually, many editors prefer to use plain wikitext when possible, because math mode can display poorly. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 16:01, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We need an estimate of how many pages could produce potential errors with the existing AWB logic. :P -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:07, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Why? I don't know what the current logic is, and I don't have any desire to run it against a database dump, but I don't see why it's needed to fix this bug. Rjwilmsi committed a change to a regex; hopefully that will resolve it. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 16:14, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Avoid fixing unbalanced brackets on math set notation. Rjwilmsi  15:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK plugin duplicating task forces
Which KingbotK version? Was that already happening in the past? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:18, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The plugin version is 2.2.4.0 (its the one in the last version that was just released) and yes it has been doing it for a while. I only recently started to use that plugin it so I am not sure how long its been going on.--Kumioko (talk) 14:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I need a diff. I can't duplicate it. Kumioko, please confirm if this bug still occurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:13, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Im not sure I stopped using the plugin cause I was having so many issues with it. I will find out and let you know in a little while. Last time I tried it a couple days ago I got an error stating "Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.". --Kumioko (talk) 14:40, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

I am marking this as "Works for me". Please update to Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.2.5.0. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:04, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent

 * May have been cause by me entering Chaosdruid (talk) 20:39, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you reproduce the bug by not having all these plugins loaded? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:12, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The only differnece is that I tried out the IFD today which I don't normally have loaded. I will try and repeat it tomorrow. I think the message came up saying that [1 was not expected as it had a missing bracket or operand Chaosdruid (talk) 04:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You must have the regex option checked beside the find button, which you don't want. Rjwilmsi  13:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

unbalanced brackets report inside name="text" field of ref

 * The example is  . This is still an unbalanced bracket. If it's trivial then ignore the alert. Rjwilmsi  11:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Very well, I thought alerts have a deeper meaning, but I have no problem simply ignoring this alert. --Muhandes (talk) 12:15, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * They mean nothing more than "It may be a problem. Please check". -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Problem with unicodify

 * For me only "minus" is not converted: see here. minus, ndash, mdash etc. are specifically excluded from unicodifying after previous discussion with editors. Rjwilmsi  07:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

"sic" template doesn't prevent removal of "tm" symbol
This is a continuing problem with AWB. See this diff and four or five times previously. That Phil Bolger article includes a quotation from the author which uses sarcasm to make a point about outrageous waste of fuel in the industrial boating sector. The quotation from the author involves using the words "Suburban&trade;", with the trade mark symbol meant to convey a sense of sarcasm. AWV keeps coming around and removing this 'tm' symbol from the quotation which inappropriately distorts what the author (Phil Bolger) was trying to communicate. We tried to hide the symbol, using &trade [sic] but AWB keeps improperly deleting the symbol. How can this be fixed? It is tiring to keep watchlisting this article to protect it from the AWB bot. The timeline is that I asked about the "tm" problem July 2009, and the "sic" template was added then to fix the problem. Except the problem happened again in Jan 2010. (Which I just discovered today). My concern is that repeatedly, the "tm" gets improperly removed from that quotation in the article. SaltyBoatr get wet 19:26, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The use of sic prevents AWB from changing the "tm" with its default settings (general fixes and typo fixes). In the January 2010 case the user must have manually removed it. There's nothing the AWB authors can do about that. If the same user repeatedly makes the error you can report them for inappropriate use of AWB. Rjwilmsi  07:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You can use  &trade; [sic] ... Rich Farmbrough, 14:55, 9 July 2010 (UTC).

Error when skipping a page
I found the problem, in the text file from which I imported the list, after every line there was a Unicode "LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK" character. (I created this text file from Excel, and it left this character in the text file.) – Hunyadym Talk 18:27, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in ApiEdit.Login

 * Can you provide some steps to reproduce? Thanks Rjwilmsi  22:02, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

There were changes in API recently. Archiving this one. Please re-report if bug re-occurs in version 5.0.3.0+ -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

UnauthorizedAccessException in Profiler..ctor
After running snapshots in debug mode, the bug above will occur if trying to run 2 sessions at the same time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Can guess why it's happening, not sure why it's saving files there though — Ree dy  01:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Must have copied the AWB executable to win32 dir. So don't run two instances of debug builds from the same directory. Rjwilmsi  13:26, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
I was loading random pages with a bot account when a box with this info came up, so i copied it here. tetraedycal, tetraedycal 23:14, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The last time we encountered that: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_14. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:51, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate: While processing a page try to switch accounts! Same way as last time! I managed to do it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:41, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Archiving. Login system changed in 5.0.3.0 after API changes and it's impossible to duplicate the bugs anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Multiple substitution in talk pages

 * Fix ExpandTemplate to avoid matching on previously commented out calls. Rjwilmsi  12:35, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Exception in MainForm.Save -- Attempted to save page with zero length ArticleText
Just to add some additional background I got this error when I attempted to save some banners and assessment info data to a talk page that was blank. So to recreate this error you could go to any blank talk page and try to save a banner or something. Although I think that its good to generate something to the user if they are trying to write to a blank page I think a better error (maybe more like the one that warns of a sic template) might be more useful. --Kumioko (talk) 13:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I managed to duplicate it. Bug doesn't occur to article space! -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:38, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Bug occurs in any attempt to create a talk page. Weird because I am sure I could do it in the past! -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:46, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Duplicate: Try to save a new talk page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:53, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Issue only in debug builds. It doesn't bug in version 5.0.3.0. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Not a bug. It won't happen in normal versions. Issue it's only in debug versions. We have extra stuff in the debug builds to identify the page blanking issue. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Exception in MainForm.Save -- Attempted to save page with zero length txtEditText

 * If you blank a page and try to save this is the expected behaviour. Rjwilmsi  17:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Issue only in debug builds. It doesn't bug in version 5.0.3.0. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Not a bug. It won't happen in normal versions. Issue it's only in debug versions. We have extra stuff in the debug builds to identify the page blanking issue. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:28, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetic order @ sv.wikisource

 * I guess this isn't a bug in the AWB software, rather in the setup of the wiki, but I do not know where. -- Lavallen (talk) 07:58, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * We sort alphabetically in the listmaker using the ListBox sorted property. What language is your Windows computer in? I think this is a question of the Windows PC language being picked up by .NET rather than the wiki. Rjwilmsi  08:02, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Swedish (sv:). But, that does not explain why it works correctly on sv.wikipedia but not on sv.wikisource. -- Lavallen (talk) 10:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Does wikisource use a different version of MediaWiki? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:04, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * is the same: "1.16wmf4 (r66620)" -- Lavallen (talk) 11:30, 6 June 2010 (UTC)


 * What is this bug? Are you trying to save something? Or is this from getting a list of links on the target pages? — Ree dy  23:27, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

ThreadAbortException in TyposDownloader.GetTypos
Please upgrade to 5.0.3.0 -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Bug didn't occur in AWB but in Kissle. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

I contacted Kissle's creator and they will be shipping latest WikiFunctions.dll with the program. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:28, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

will help us determine if the bug is actually caused by AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:39, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

"Find and replace": impossible to check both 2 options together
On tab "Options", "Find and Replace", button "Normal settings", impossible to check both option 1 (ignore external/internal links, images, nowiki...) and option 2 (ignore  templates, ref, ...). If I check one, AWB automatically unchecks the other one. Strange. Bug? Zetud (talk) 23:38, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The second option (HideMoreText) includes the first (HideText). I also would like if we separate them but it's still very slow to do that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I have clarified the user manual on the ignore options. Rjwilmsi  07:03, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

InvocationException in AsyncApiEdit.InvokeFunction
It was supposed to have been fixed in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:11, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Choosing IE to open new message opens in default browser

 * Which IE option/where? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  06:41, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The pop-up window. My suggestion: Replace everything with a single button: "View". -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Main.cs WeHaveNewMessages, both paths eventually call same thing: open in default browser. Magioladitis is right, let's condense TalkMessage to a single view button. Rjwilmsi  14:39, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * . Please check if I did it right. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Two browsers is a feature for me. Default browser for my edits, IE for SmackBot. Rich Farmbrough, 17:44, 29 July 2010 (UTC).

Exception in MainForm.Save
--Muhandes (talk) 21:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean by "watch a page"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Pressing the watch button? Rjwilmsi  12:57, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No. I tried that and nothing happened. I tried unwatching too. I tried spam clicking too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:01, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It used to occur whenever I pressed the watch button and then saved. Since then I stopped pressing that button, simply setting AWB to always watch. I tried it now after I upgraded a few versions and it no longer occurs, so I think this can be closed.--Muhandes (talk) 07:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Marked as resolved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:40, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * I think this is a problem with the wikipedia servers and not AWB but I am also getting this error and I am using SVN 6872. --Kumioko (talk) 03:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a problem with MediaWiki API (an example, the problem is with gbllimit=max). This problem also breaks parts of my own tool Wiki Cleaner. I have sent a mail to the MediaWiki API mailing list. --NicoV (talk) 09:57, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 24564 —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:28, 28 July 2010 (UTC)


 * To all using AWB while this issue remains: note that ESC dismisses the dialog, which some may find easier than extra mouse movement. PL290 (talk) 12:42, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Apparently, the fix has been deployed on Wikipedia servers. --NicoV (talk) 07:08, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Tip: If you want to keep using AWB while the bug remains, you have to disactive auto0tagger. Backlinks is used for checking whether the page is orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:55, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

"correcting" use of cite ngall and similar
--Muhandes (talk) 13:50, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:28, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Newspaperror
This is not an AWB bug. The first use of the ref name already has the misspelling, and AWB changes the other two identical references to have that same name. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  17:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Moving punctuation before leaves space before it

 * . Fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:33, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

General fixes in Spanish Wikipedia

 * So you want article general fixes to be run on namespace 0 or 104 on es-wiki? Rjwilmsi  16:36, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I want them to work in both, 0 (as it does today) and 104, thanks -- Màñüé£†¹5 talk 17:41, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * As requested. Rjwilmsi  17:59, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Activating auto-mode disactivates N/C im Plugin

 * That code hasn't changed in ages. So something related has. No idea what though —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:44, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Defaultsort and apostrophes

 * You want it capitalised or not? I suppose not. Rjwilmsi  10:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:44, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Corner case. St Peter's page was using curly apostrophe. Rjwilmsi  10:57, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * . Handled. Rjwilmsi  11:11, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Orphan tag placed outside Multiple issues

 * Known tag list updated, fixes this one. Rjwilmsi  11:22, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect removal of expand section tags

 * Okay, nobody told us. I'll extend the Parsers.Conversions logic to perform that tidy up, then the auto tagger won't get involved. Rjwilmsi  10:40, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * . Done Rjwilmsi  11:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Deleted subrules are retained when saving settings

 * Nice catch. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  20:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

User profiles cannot be edited

 * —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:13, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in CultureTableRecord.GetCultureTableRecord
This problem occurs for "bn-BD" locale only.... Because "bn-BD" is not available in System.Globalization.GetCultureTableRecord. Change your default locale for Bengali to Bengali (India). Please write if you keep getting the error message after that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:57, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

will throw a nice message. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:49, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open (invalid title)
Problem occurred while trying to load: "Awesome"	"B" Is for Burglar -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:01, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Again in: "Crocodile" Dundee	"Crocodile" Dundee II

Both titles seem to have special characters (tab). Trying to open with browser, Wikipedia outputs "Bad title". -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:15, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

It was my mistake to try copy-pasting from two columns and the tab in between was copied as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * So there's a possible bug here or not? Can you wikilink to the articles AWB won't open? Rjwilmsi  11:03, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The only thing I can think of is to throw a nicer message if the pagename is not acceptable. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Catch and deal with invalid title returned by API. Rather than random spurious error. Invalid titles are skipped. Thanks to Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

AWB shouldn't always remove italics from parameter in Template:cite web

 * Don't remove italics from work field in citation templates when parameter value contains a dot (to match site.com) i.e. work is website. Rjwilmsi  14:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Parsers.GetTemplateName doesn't work

 * to support template calls with Template namespace. Rjwilmsi  08:38, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Remove  and use   instead.  Rjwilmsi  08:46, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Remove  – unused. Tools function is now the only one and works correctly.  Rjwilmsi  08:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in PluginManager.ManuallyAssessCheckBox_CheckChanged
with plugin version 2.3.0.0 can't catch the bug anymore. This is the result of code refactoring and removing crap. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Page removal from list failed

 * Fine for me on SVN. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:54, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Its a strange error to me cause this is the only page I get the error on and I do a lot of edits with AWB. But everytime I come to this page, I get the error. I wonder if its because the article link redirects to a category? --Kumioko (talk) 14:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, confirmed. You need to have "Remove non-main space" enabled to get it. I'll look at a fix, but I thought cross-namespace redirects weren't allowed? Rjwilmsi  18:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks and I dont think they are either. --Kumioko (talk) 18:17, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix skip logic when skipping non-mainspace redirect. Rjwilmsi  18:21, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Sort keys of categories and general fixes on ru-wiki

 * We implement the rules of WP:SORTKEY so convert diacritical characters in sort keys to the Latin equivalent (due to Help:Category). We could disable this for ru-wiki if your sorting rules are different on ru-wiki. Just let me know. Rjwilmsi  22:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it would be great if it could be disabled on ru.wiki. Rubin16 (talk) 07:11, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * no diacritic removal in sortkeys on ru-wiki. Rjwilmsi  07:27, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Is anything relevant written in ru:Википедия:Категоризация? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:29, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * ru:Справка:Механизм категорий. Thanks for svn-commit Rubin16 (talk) 07:35, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Break in external link wasn't fixed

 * . Done Rjwilmsi  08:10, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

rev 7060 didn't fix this one (check last section). -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:18, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done that too. Rjwilmsi  09:59, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

handles cases like this one. --Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

fixes breaks like what I did here (line 83). -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:43, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Unclosed brackets
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = Two bugs? Check this one in the External links section. The already incorrectly placed } is replaced with a bracket but the link remains broken. Under that the next externa link wasn't closed. Check manual fix too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC) | duplicate     = | site          = en.wiki | OS            = 7 | net           = | version       = rev 7060 | workaround    = | fix_version   = 7064 }}
 * Fixed logic such that no change made here. Rjwilmsi  10:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Persondata didn't obtain information from infobox
Updated regex to catch "Birthdate and age" (~1000 transclusions). -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Your change was fine, but is what actually fixes it.  adds the other redirects.  Rjwilmsi  07:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Adding bullets AND removing break lines

 * Call BulletExternalLinks before FixSyntax. Rjwilmsi  17:22, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Person data glitch
Suggestion: skip articles with multiple person-type infoboxes anyway. Rich Farmbrough, 22:28, 5 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Article is not about a person if there are multiple person-type infoboxes. Existing logic looked for one in zeroth section, didn't check for others in rest of text. Rjwilmsi  11:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I have cases where a single person has two different infoboxes. For example Infobox actor and Infobox male model. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * March 2010 database dump had about 50 bio articles with two person infoboxes, so I've done them manually. Only 50 hits is not a big problem. Rjwilmsi  18:27, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Persondata redux
In C:\AWB\AWB\WikiFunctions\WikiRegexes.cs use the updated list.

Dumping some collective infoboxes (e,g, choir) and a discography box, changing others to updated names. Rich Farmbrough, 19:59, 6 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Done Magioladitis (talk) 20:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

AWB adding persondata to Lists
What triggered PERSONDATA in this case? I don't see any infobox. Did you just press "Add PERSONDATA" in the context menu? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Persondata is not added automatically. If you add it manually in error, it's user error. Rjwilmsi  20:36, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No I didnt add it, not sure what AWB looked at when it added it. If I had to guess I would say that its triggering off a template or from the categories that are making AWB think the list is a bio. I deleted all the custom filters I had that did Persondata replacement. It tried to add it in the case of a couple of the other Medal of Honor recipient lists as well I just removed them manually. And to comment to your comment RJ yes I am aware that AWB doesnt add it automatically and the only reason I let it process at all was to show you. Then I deleted it. --Kumioko (talk) 21:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, you were on 7069. It was accidentally fixed by an incorrect change as part of . fixes properly and excludes "list of" articles as you suggested. Apologies for the confusion.  Rjwilmsi  21:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * My fault for not being more clear. thanks again. --Kumioko (talk) 21:58, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

When adding category, remove Uncategorized

 * Also Uncategorized stub and the relevant entry in Multiple issues? Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Add Uncategorized stub to the Uncat list. Rjwilmsi  19:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Change unreferenced to BLPunreferenced before consolidating to Multiple issues

 * Tweaked existing logic to ensure param is always renamed when needed first time round. Rjwilmsi  18:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Rev 7102 needs adjustment

 * . Rjwilmsi  18:41, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

AWB thinks stadiums are Living people
Page was using Birth date and age which is meant to be used for articles about persons. Fixed that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:50, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for finding and fixing this! GoingBatty (talk) 16:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Replace uncategorized when automatically adding categories

 * . Done Rjwilmsi  19:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Mishandling of en.wp interwiki links on Commons

 * Exception added for Commons. Rjwilmsi  20:12, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Minor issues with multiple issues
I think the second edit is OK, as  is a valid parameter of Multiple issues   GoingBatty (talk) 01:51, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It is OK but I did it manually. AWB left "context date" unchanged. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:19, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix for multiple issues date cleaning when "out of date" parameter present. Rjwilmsi  08:56, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * multiple issues minimum tag length is two not three – fixes single tag conversion issue. Rjwilmsi  09:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

More disambig templates tagged as orphans
-- Magioladitis (talk) 07:32, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Letter-NumberCombDisambig: added
 * school-dis: recently created, orphan, now deleted
 * Hndisambig: always converted to Hndis
 * Hndis added

MOS fixes rename files

 * . Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Persondata in disamb pages

 * IsArticleAboutAPerson: false for disambig pages. Rjwilmsi  10:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Re-parsing was needed
too and I think it's for the same reason. Template curly brackets were closed in the first run and then brackets in the second run. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:12, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * For first one: fix for DuplicateNamedReferences reparse issue. Rjwilmsi  15:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixes second one (logic reordered). Rjwilmsi  15:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

And this one from my talk page, reported by Rich: consolidate ReferenceA the next edit consolidates ReferenceB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed too. Rjwilmsi  17:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Character overruns field in 'Number of levels' dialog

 * Yes, "Number of levels" is the recurse box being re-used, I noticed that but it's cosmetic. Changing

to will avoid this.
 * \WikiFunctions\Controls\LevelNumber.Designer.cs(106):           this.Text = "Number of Levels";
 * this.Text = "Number";

And a quick fix for the other problem to
 * \WikiFunctions\Controls\LevelNumber.cs(14):               label1.Text = "Enter number of user contribs:";
 * label1.Text = "Number of contribs:";

But these may be created by some visual interface. Rich Farmbrough, 16:24, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Changes made following Rich's suggestions. Rjwilmsi  17:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

&lt;small> removed in Books of the Bible
Regression. Rich Farmbrough, 09:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC).

Is it inside a reference? In 6709 we expanded check for unclosed tags in references too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:24, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

It was removed from inside a reference. The question is: Should small be inside references? The letter size is already small in references. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Also from inside a gallery here. I'm not in favour of small text anywhere (including in AWB's interface!) - it seems less accessible, but I'm not convinced AWB should be removing it. Rich Farmbrough, 05:02, 30 June 2010 (UTC).
 * Inside the gallery is correct. Descriptions should not be in small. CHECKWIKI asks these to be corrected. I 'll give a look at the Manual of Style. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:19, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Is the use in Gaza War correct? I couldn't find the reason. --Muhandes (talk) 09:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We need a diff. After 3 weeks the page isn't the same anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:47, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

I believe this happened with this edit(?), too, inside a table. It appears to eat one ... with every pass of AWB (though I can't test this now) with detection of an unmatched pair. --LilHelpa (talk) 15:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Are there any unclosed tags in the page? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, there were. Current version is closed back up by last edit. LilHelpa (talk) 15:45, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If all tags are closed, no bug occurs. Right? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Haven't tested that, but guess that is correct. AWB is not available to me for a few hours. LilHelpa (talk) 17:51, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If AWB will now correctly handle unclosed tags in table cells, then you have probably fixed the Ives incarnation of this problem. However, users should be aware that when AWB finds such an unclosed tag, the rest of the table needs manual inspection: an earlier AWB may have wrongly removed tag pairs. --LCE(LCE talk contribs) 08:59, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a "Found unclosed tags" warning. Moreover, (most of) the removals aren't done if unclosed tags are found. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I ran across this problem too when editing List of Wizards of Waverly Place characters - AWB noticed that there were two unclosed tags, and then wanted to remove two good pairs instead. (I didn't save the change, so you could try it out.)  Instead of trying to get AWB to figure out which unclosed tag to delete, should it just give a warning and highlight the tag in red, like it does for unclosed brackets and parentheses?  GoingBatty (talk) 17:09, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, the tags are shown as warnings for me, so this will be available in the next AWB release. Rjwilmsi  17:46, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Great news, Rjwilmsi! Any release date announced?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * End of the month maximum. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:09, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

→

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  07:34, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Scroll bar slider does not work correctly with a large list

 * Presumably thats a problem with the actual control that MS make.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Appears to be a Vista issue. Listed workaround is to use DataGridView instead of Listbox.  --Pascal666 18:34, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers for doing the research. Typical MS saying we cant help, even though its one of their products also.. I use vista, so can duplicate it.. And look at fixing it.. ListView or DataGridView... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:26, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Since the last official release of AWB I noticed that when I use in the editfield the scrollbar, to drag the thumb downwards to see a lower part of the article, the dragging suddenly stops, takes a few seconds, and then continues. All other functions seems to work normal. It mostly occurs with longer pages. Romaine (talk) 20:45, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This user is also using Vista; the bug might coincide with the use of the rich edit control. ClickRick (talk) 20:49, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Don't tag orphan tag if contains wi
As far as I can tell adding a new regex like;

+

and declaration to wikiregexes, then calling from parsers.cs

- +

should do the trick.


 * Rich Farmbrough, 23:30, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Yes it does - I can write c# me! Rich Farmbrough, 23:43, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Fixed in . I didn't add any tests and probably needs some polishing. For example, to work only in en.wiki. We have to consider reducing the number of redirects too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:15, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Tidied up, tests added. Rjwilmsi  10:42, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Orphan tags part V
Summary:
 * Don't tag disamb articles as orphan  too.  Rjwilmsi  00:24, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * IF >= 3 incoming links (excluding redirects, only mainspace, not dabs), then article is not an orphan for sure and AWB should remove the tag if found
 * Orphans have less than 3 incoming links to themselves or their redirects. These links should not be redirects or dabs.

Current status:
 * Tagger will tag as an orphan an article that has less than 3 incoming links to itself or its redirects that there are not redirects.
 * Tagger will untag an article from being orphan if it has 3 or more incoming links to itself or its redirects that there not redirects.
 * Tagger can be restricted to linkless pages by an option to the Options menu.

Conclusion:
 * Tagging is 100% accurate. If an article is tagged as an orphan, it is an orphan.
 * More articles can be orphans. This is the case that some of the incoming links are dab pages.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 20:46, 29 December 2009 (UTC) / 01:31, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Anything more to be done in AWB then? Rjwilmsi  15:46, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Not really. Just leave it here to have it recorded as a potential situation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Duplicated Persondata has funny results

 * PersonData to ignore articles with multiple existing PersonData templates. Rjwilmsi  09:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Extra whitespace fix

 * HeadingsWhitespaceBefore to handle br in place of newline. Rjwilmsi  09:48, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Bold tags logic and headlines

 * FixHeadings: handle (i.e. remove) HTML or wiki syntax for bold. Rjwilmsi  09:59, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

More on break line tags

 * First one done. Rjwilmsi  10:49, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed third one. 7176 did second. Rjwilmsi  11:13, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Shouldn't remove uncategorized if only categories are stubs
We do that for the general "Stub" tag. Where is the rule for the rest of the stubs written? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:24, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes this is correct, except that there is a space in the template name Uncategorized stub. Actually it should not remove Uncategorized if the only cats are maintenance cats: which for the purposes of this exercise include all hidden cats, stub cats, living people and birth and death date cats. Rich Farmbrough, 02:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Rich - thanks for pointing out my typo in the template name Uncategorized stub. I've fixed my request above.  GoingBatty (talk) 03:10, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagger: category count is all non-hidden categories excluding those ending with " stubs"
 * rename Uncategorized to Uncategorized stub if stub with zero categories. Rjwilmsi  09:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Tries placing profiling.txt in wrong area

 * if profiling.txt can't be created in awb.exe dir, fallback to default settings dir. Rjwilmsi  18:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Reference consolidation and fix dates

 * Ensure correct date format used in derived ref name. Rjwilmsi  11:05, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Removes underscore the next edit removes the self link

 * Line 3464 "clean up wikilinks: replace underscores, percentages and URL encoded accents etc."
 * Line 4036: "Emboldens the first occurrence of the article title, if not already bold"

Hm... -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:32, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * . Fixed. Rjwilmsi  13:38, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments on interwikis
IMO, all these comments ("interwikis go here", "categories go here", etc.) serve no purpose and they should be removed. Does anyone know, how many pages have this stuff? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:31, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * The purpose there was pretty clear: to explain the purpose of each interwiki link, since there were two of them (and maybe not everyone speaks Swedish). If editors want to use comments like that, AWB needs to accommodate them. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 13:35, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Is it the case that AWB simply reads the interwikis and then re-writes their wikitext at the end? If so, it could add the comments after each link to the per-interwiki data structure and use that info to recreate the comments. It's a pretty routine thing to do in parsing. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 13:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah.. I was referring to the "interwikis" comment. I haven't noticed these ones. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:39, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't unnecessarily reorder multiple interwikis to same language. Rjwilmsi  13:40, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Allow for comments beside interwikis. Rjwilmsi  17:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

More disambig templates tagged as orphans

 * They are all in the appropriate template cat. HOwever they are all also expressible using one of the two main templates if I recall correctly. Rich Farmbrough, 04:50, 16 September 2010 (UTC).

-- Magioladitis (talk) 06:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * namedab : Had only 9 transclusions. Deleted.
 * ✅ Roadindex : It's a SIA. We already have it.
 * *church disambig : Templates_for_deletion/Log/2009_May_2. Are we supposed to keep it or not? It's orphan now (2010-09-24) and probably won't be used in the future again.
 * ✅Taxonomy disambiguation: Created 4 days ago. 6 transclusions. Sent to TfD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:29, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅Genus disambiguation: Created 20 days ago. I don't see the reason for all these creations!
 * ✅ Species Latin name abbreviation disambiguation: Renamed a couple of months ago. Many transclusions. I guess we have to add it.
 * *CycloneSIA : Recently created. Sent to TfD and deleted.


 * Good grief, where did all these new ones come from? Where is the consensus for creating them? As for, was that supposed to be the same as ? --Auntof6 (talk) 07:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was a redirect. I disagree with this overcategorisation done by templates like Taxonomy disambiguation, Genus disambiguation, etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:48, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open (self-redirect)
I got it on page Gawker Stalker. It was a redirect to itself (now fixed). -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Same for Muhammad I of Great Seljuq. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:38, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Notability was added in Multiple issues without a date parameter
In contrary it worked fine in this one -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

...but not in this one. -- 10:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 10:41, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

General fixes on :sl

 * Current order for sl is what you have asked for, which is not the same as en. Please link to some diffs where the order is incorrect so we can see why. Rjwilmsi  07:31, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * More important: We need a link to the sl Manual of Style. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:32, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm the only one on :sl to be using AWB on mass scale, but I'm not using it, when AWB suggests re-sorting order. The problem is with articles with template lifetime; then AWB wants to change order to (templates -> lifetime -> stubs -> ctgr); it should be (templates -> stubs -> lifetime/default -> ctgr). So I don't allow such changes (and so for can't show you any). Link: sl:Wikipedija:Slogovni priročnik (biografije). Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Had you specifically told us the problem was over lifetime we'd have sorted it out sooner. I'll add support for lifetime on sl-wiki. Rjwilmsi  19:30, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * He also says that stubs go above DEFAULTSORT. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:37, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there any chance that I convince people in :sl not to use lifetime? :) English wikipedia virtually deprecated Lifetime. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's the wrong approach. Rjwilmsi  19:30, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Support lifetime on sl-wiki: place it like a DEFAULTSORT (above categories). Rjwilmsi 19:43, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for quick fix. I made some bad changes to show you. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 19:46, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

:sl - Replacing special characters

 * no diacritic removal in category sort keys on sl-wiki. Rjwilmsi  22:09, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Complete [] replacement inside URLS by replacing [ with &amp;#91;

 * Presumably the same code that replaces the "]" can replace the "["? Rich Farmbrough, 23:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC).


 * . Rjwilmsi  09:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Dating tags before fixing "Date=" => "date="
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = For example Date=May 2010} => Date=May 2010|date=June 2010} => date=May 2010|date=June 2010} Rich Farmbrough, 23:28, 5 October 2010 (UTC).

| duplicate     = Run full GF's (with tagging) on a copy of this example | site          = en | OS             = V | net            = | version       = 5.0.3.1 | workaround    = Run GF's after SB's (currently ditched) rulebase! | fix_version   = 7220 }}


 * . Rjwilmsi  09:06, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

More on headers

 * . Rjwilmsi  14:09, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Need a /b for Present

 * 1935 - Presentation of the world's first tape ...
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  20:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

More on unbalanced brackets (bracket and parentheses)

 * fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:30, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Minor bug in Multipleissues

 * . Rjwilmsi  14:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Persondata wrongly added

 * Article is not about a person if there's an infobox named "...organization". Rjwilmsi  13:46, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Minor bug in xxxx- -> born xxx fix

 * Fix to FixLivingThingsRelatedDates: don't apply (1990–) --> (born 1990) fix to infobox fields. Rjwilmsi  14:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Double-clicking a page in the list box in wikias doesn't have the wanted result
Double-clicking in the Logs tab works fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably one calls SiteInfo.OpenPageInBrowser and the other Tools.OpenURLInBrowser. Can you use the debugger to pick out the two URLs called? Rjwilmsi  16:23, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * "http://runescape.wikia.com" . ArticleUrl is wrong (no $1 for replacement). Reason being Wikia (!?) or at least, the runescape wiki doesn't return the articlepath on the api call in LoadSiteInfo —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:14, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * So if no $1 in ArticleUrl we fall back to Tools.OpenArticleInBrowser/Tools.OpenArticleHistoryInBrowser then? Rjwilmsi  09:26, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:Plugin++ strips blank living parameter from WPBiography template when Biography plugin enabled
And wasn't priority parameter added? I am pretty sure the plugin adds the priority parameter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I've been stripping it with F/R since it's deprecated. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 14:17, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

KingbotK issues

 * The whole thing is a little messed up actually. I'm using the older snapshot now. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 06:07, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The older snapshot is a little funky too. Why is it putting the banners on multilines (only a select few projects do that)? – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 06:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

I know what's wrong. I 'll discuss it wirh Reedy in 1-2 weeks. First priority is the code rewriting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:56, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

The plugin shipped with the snapshot isn't recommended for use at the moment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:58, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Alternate names works on rev 6968. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:25, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd guess this is fixed now? – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 23:30, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Try rev7229 and tell me if it works, please. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Still not working. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:21, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * updated the tooltip. It works but not the way it used. You have to enter the name including brackets. For instance  -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:57, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

References before and after punctuation

 * How can AWB decide what to remove when the punctuation is different? Rjwilmsi  15:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comma and point = point wins. The rest cases aren't that clear. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:58, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well there's sixteen cases, they dominate .>:>;>, - however if the first punctuation mark is not used as a stop, it should be left.  Apart from "." as an abbreviation terminator, any other cases would probably  be pathological - for example, "the track was written after Note To Self:."  and should likely include italicisation. Rich Farmbrough, 16:53, 7 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Here's another case: the clew here is the lower case after the ref. It seems reasonable here to remove the stop, since we are already a little pathological but we might want to take a sample of 100 and see if that rule actually comes across problems. I'll make another note... Rich Farmbrough, 23:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC).


 * OK. I am convinced that we can't make clear rules for that. Maybe we could ask for a bot to detect and fix some cases. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:42, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Exception in MainForm.Save
Did you have KingbotK installed? Or in your AWB directory? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Like Krinkle, above, I'm afraid I don't know what was different about this particular save compared to all the others before and after it which worked without any problem. I do remember that it was near the end of a list of about 40-45 pages, but wasn't the last one in the list - I think it was 3 or 4 from the end.

-- DMS (talk) 05:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Some more info added to the error message, which may help us to understand what causes the error when it happens again. Rjwilmsi  13:56, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Now, I got "Attempted to save a wrong page (the article was null)" (5001_6092) -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

 Schwede 66  20:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Did you have KingbtoK plugin activated? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:58, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

copied from Schwede's talk page:
 * I have activated it subsequent to the suggestion, but I haven't undertaken this particular edit since. Sorry, it appears that I was supposed to reply to the suggestion - I merely posted the feedback as the error message suggested that I do.  Schwede 66  18:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * We are almost sure the bug is connected to the the plugin. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Archived. Please rereport if this appears in version 5.1.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:11, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in Assessments.Reset
Related to the ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent bug above. If we fix the KingbotK statistics bug, this one won't occur. -- Magioladitis 14:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

ApiException in ApiEdit.Save
Archived. Please rereport if this appears in version 5.1.0.0 or later. -- 12:46, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.Save
What were you doing when this occurred? -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:54, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AWBProfilesForm.Login
Cit helper (talk) 22:21, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Can you duplicate it on demand? Any hint of what have you been doing when it occurred? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Bug fixed! -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:19, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
First reported in 5.0.2.2, revision 6496 (2010-05-06 10:45:13) (net:2.0.50727.4200) -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:14, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in BufferedGraphicsContext.Dispose

 * This is the first time I have seen this one and just for additional evidence when I hot continue AWB moved on without a problem. I was looking at the August Willich article when I got the error. --Kumioko (talk) 16:51, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * I got this error on the Howard S. McDonald article but then when I hit continue it processed it fine. --Kumioko (talk) 16:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException
<font face="Verdana"><font color="black" face="Verdana">Christian msg  20:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ... <font face="Verdana"><font color="black" face="Verdana">Christian msg  01:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In which page does this occur? Do you use any modified settings? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Does not merge all supported tags into Multiple Issues

 * It seems like there is a very large list of fields for the multiple issues template. Just a suggestion but maybe a page like the Template rename and parameter rename lists could be used. Even if its edit restricted I think it might make things a little easier. --Kumioko (talk) 17:36, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

all tags above now are known parameters of Multiple issues. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:07, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but it looks like the code has "morere footnotes" instead of "more footnotes". GoingBatty (talk) 22:20, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Putting aside Kumioko's idea for the moment, I analyzed a similar bug fix and mocked up what I think the fix for this bug would be at User:GoingBatty/Multiple issues bug. Would you mind taking a look at this to see if this is on the right track?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 03:40, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 7953 fixes the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:15, 11 February 2012 (UTC)