Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 19

Does not merge some templates into multiple issues properly

 * Done. Rjwilmsi  12:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

AWB creates duplicate parameters in Multiple issues

 * . Fixed. Rjwilmsi  09:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Improper alert: Unknown parameter in Multiple issues: like resume, intro-tooshort, intro length, intro-toolong

 * Done. Updated Multiple issues manual too. Magioladitis (talk) 09:14, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ,, Magioladitis (talk) 03:17, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Remove multiple issues yes when only one parameter

 * MultipleIssues: remove multiple issues when only one tag, don't count section as a tag. Rjwilmsi  10:06, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Even more on Persondata template parameters

 * PersonData: when adding data convert to uppercase parameters to avoid parameter duplication. Rjwilmsi  10:34, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Issue with removing wikify from Multiple issues

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:33, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't remove Multiple issues deadend for article with many wikilinks

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  12:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Improper alert: Unknown parameter in Multiple issues: BLPsources

 * . Rjwilmsi  09:54, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Empty section and spacing

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  12:36, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Remove PAGENAME from pipes instead of replacing

 * Done. Rjwilmsi  11:54, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Break the line...

 * . Done. Rjwilmsi  11:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Partial blanking

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  12:16, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Should not merge roughtranslation into multiple issues

 * . Rjwilmsi  08:58, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Persondata and Deaths in (Month) (Year)

 * Exception added. Rjwilmsi  09:01, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Quick work, thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 09:11, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Destaque
In pt.wiki, when the general fixes is enabled, the script find the word destaque in the text and put them together with the categories and defaultsort. Please, modified to pt:Template:destaque. Fabiano Tatsch (talk) 05:19, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you're asking for. Rjwilmsi  08:35, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

I removed pt:Template:destaque from our regex (rev ). It's now deleted in pt.wiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:28, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't know if it clarifies, but here is an example of that behavior. – Opraco (talk) 19:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think I fixed it with my last commit. Let's wait for a snapshot and see if it happens again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. . Thanks for the report -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:04, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the attention. – Opraco (talk) 20:23, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Switch project and template redirects

 * . Rjwilmsi  23:19, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

FAlinks not correctly sorted in sv.wikipedia.org
This edit alerted me. The user is using 5.2.0.0, downloaded December 24. -- Lavallen (talk) 12:34, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Does not merge BLP sources into multiple issues

 * No need, the template supports both variations. Rjwilmsi  08:37, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think GoingBatty means that it isn't merged at all. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:16, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You are correct - it isn't being merged at all. Thanks for manually merging it in the example I gave, but that doesn't address the issue that AWB doesn't do the merging.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:27, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * works now. Marking as fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:53, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Don't use BLP unsourced section to determine if article is about a person

 * . Fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:38, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Reparsing doesn't remove Multiple issues dead end after adding wikilinks

 * . Rjwilmsi  19:03, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Guess birth/death categories adds defaultsort too

 * Guess birth/death cats to perform meta data sort if DEFAULTSORT added. Rjwilmsi  18:43, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Failure of history tab on secure login to Commons
We construct the url as Variables.URLIndex + "?title=" + name + "&action=history&useskin=myskin".

Variables.URLIndex needs to be redefined. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Bug 26365 Flood/Bot flag not working on simple wikipedia
Not awb bug. Per Reedy 2010-12-31 06:26:35 UTC: "AWB only polls for userinfo at user login. So, it seems the user got the right AFTER logging in, AWB would be non the wiser .Not a bug in AWB (what's the point of repeatedly polling for and parsing user info?) or in MW". -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Exclude date inside Year needed when determining year of birth
This must be the only occurrence. This template has 472 transclusions. Only 1 in the leading section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:40, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, but there's other stuff, I have fixed a number of these sorts of things manually.Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC).


 * We have to exclude anything in date like we do for guess birth/death. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Bugfix FixPeopleCategories: ignore dates in maintenance templates. Rjwilmsi  22:21, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Typo when hovering over Auto Tag option
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = When hovering over Auto Tag, text appears that says Please change to: GoingBatty (talk) 15:07, 8 January 2011 (UTC) | duplicate     = Go to the Start tab and hover over the Auto Tag option | site          = en.wikipedia.org | OS            = Windows XP | net            = 2.0.50727.1873 | version       = 5.2.0.1 SVN 7522 | workaround    = | fix_version   = {{awbsvn|7529}} }}
 * Automatically add {{orphan}}, {{deadend}}, {{wikify}}, {{ibid}, and {{stub}} whenappropriate
 * Automatically add {{orphan}}, {{deadend}}, {{wikify}}, {{ibid}}, and {{stub}} when appropriate

Do not add stub tags if Hurricane season disambiguation exists

 * +Hurricane season disambiguation to Disambigs. Rjwilmsi  17:12, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Merge more templates into multiple issues
I Just wanted to add a comment that BLP IMDB-only refimprove is deprecated and states that BLP IMDB refimprove should be used instead with a parameter of only=yes. --Kumioko (talk) 20:36, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comment - I've changed my bug report accordingly. GoingBatty (talk) 21:33, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I already updated MI to support fanpov. Direct addition should do. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support BLP IMDB refimprove for merging into multiple issues. Rjwilmsi  18:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Do not remove or  if section has no wikilinks
Wikify section exists i.e. convert to that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:40, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Notes for self: add MatchEvaluator to Tagger removal functions to not remove when matches nested template and first argument is "section"; in Conversions define list of templates to convert {foo|section} to {foo section} and condense in existing ones. Rjwilmsi  09:05, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Tagger: if not dead end page do not remove tags; Conversions to do  to  conversion.  Rjwilmsi  21:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

FixNonBreakingSpaces doesn't insert non-breaking spaces between amount and "m"

 * Deliberate to avoid false positives for 50m as in 50 million. I'll clarify the documentation. Rjwilmsi  08:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Erroneous category comment move
Note: this issue was dealt with in May 2009 and fixed for categories other than the last one (for example, see Orovida Camille Pissarro). M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  21:37, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I specifically excluded comments after the last category to avoid pulling in unrelated comments when the categories were well out of place in the article. I will allow comments after the last category if on the same line as the category. Rjwilmsi  09:01, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  21:08, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't always change Unreferenced to Refimprove

 * Didn't work when multiple issues involved. fixes.  Rjwilmsi  08:25, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ArticleTextBox.PasteUnformatted
I tried to copy-paste a page selected by Ctrl+A. I guess the end page symbol causes the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Did you try to copy-paste? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes - Paste a new file description replacing the whole previous description. Blanking the page and than pasting, or pasting and deleting previous text - works fine. --Jarekt (talk) 21:55, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Bugfix PasteUnformatted when all text in edit box selected. Rjwilmsi  18:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

diacritics lost when importing text file
I had a list of articles drawn up with a query to toolserver here. I copied to a .txt file and reformatted so that it would be understood by AWB (that is, I changed |Abipón to #Abipón, etc.), and then imported it as a text file. However, all accented letters were dropped from the list: "Abipón", for example, came in as "Abipn". This also happened with Kanoé, Apiacá, Chané, Karajá, Masbateño, Mocoví, Äynu ("Kano, Apiac, Chan, Karaj, Masbateo, Mocov, ynu").

My OS and version of AWB have not changed from my last report on this page. — kwami (talk) 15:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably you didn't save the text file as UTF-8, so accents were lost on save. Load "links on page" from AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox instead. Rjwilmsi  15:52, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You're right, I saved it as ANSI. However, the accents were not lost on save: They are still there in the text file. So it would seem to be a bug in AWB.
 * I saved as UTF-8, and it imported correctly, but people won't normally know they need to do that when ANSI has no trouble supporting the text. — kwami (talk) 16:10, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Rename "Text file" list provider to "Text file (UTF-8)" to clarify usage. Rjwilmsi  17:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Add text file list provider for Windows 1252 (ANSI) encoded files, in addition to existing UTF-8 file list provider. Rjwilmsi  17:31, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was fast! Thanks! — kwami (talk) 21:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't fix date format in cite web accessdate

 * Only one date would be corrected per citation template per AWB parse. fixes.  Rjwilmsi  11:09, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Authentical plugin?

 * What Username are you trying to use? It sounds like you are trying to log into AWB as the Ip address you used above and if that is the case you need to create a Username and once you have met the eligibility criteria you can request an account to use AWB. AWB has been designed to not allow an IP address user...only a registered Wikipedia user who has been granted permission. --Kumioko (talk) 01:59, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I use the wikia account Bot50, which should have given access here80.126.189.13 (talk) 06:05, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Could someone please check if this account is given access somewhere, or can't you access the wikia thing for that?80.126.189.13 (talk) 11:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * PS:maybe u guys should archive this page...
 * Resolved bugs are archived very quickly - see the history. GoingBatty (talk) 14:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Still not working...=(80.126.189.13 (talk) 20:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It only seems to be you. Charwito would've been beating me up if all of wikia couldn't log in. — Ree dy  22:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * So what should i do now?80.126.189.13 (talk) 22:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I created an account:Joeytje50 (talk) 21:51, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Halp pl0x?Joeytje50 (talk) 20:25, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I would guess its to do with "an authentication plugin rather than MediaWiki itself rejected the password" - Wikia have some weird SUl with facebook. Rich Farmbrough, 00:44, 26 October 2010 (UTC).


 * I don't do anything with facebook, and what is a SUl?Joeytje50 (talk) 23:28, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Single User Interface? You share credentials. So for some reason it went off to look for you f/b account. I don't face either, though I suppose I should. Is it still broken? Rich Farmbrough, 01:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC).


 * Yes it is, but i'll comment on your talk page(or maybe chat in RuneScape) because that is faster.Joeytje50 (talk) 20:36, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Any1 else know what the problem is?Joeytje50 (talk) 18:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I helped him fix it. He had it set to edit EN Wikipedia instead of the RuneScape Wiki. 198.236.58.30 (talk) 02:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Keywords should be scaped when used with regex

 * Escape title for %%title%% and %%fullpagename%% when calling ApplyKeywords from F&R or advanced F&R. Rjwilmsi  09:00, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

More on unbalanced brackets (various cases)
{{AWB bug | status        = partial | description   = New cases:
 * I guess we can't fix this one
 * cite web having } instead of |
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_wind_farms_in_Canada&diff=prev&oldid=398450257 File: starting with
 * FixUnbalancedBrackets to catch unclosed category/interwiki links. Rjwilmsi  13:50, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * FixUnbalancedBrackets: Catch {{File: links. Rjwilmsi  14:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

FixNonBreakingSpaces fixes "mm", even though documentation says it shouldn't

 * Only unspaced mm excluded, when spaced we can safely add non-breaking spaces whether firearms-related or not. Rjwilmsi  08:44, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

AWB tries to "correct" 2010-12 to 2012-10-20

 * The Cite web documentation states that accessdate should have the "Full date when item was accessed". I agree that this fix was needed so AWB doesn't incorrectly change the value.  Should AWB give an alert when the accessdate is not correct, so a human editor can fix it?  GoingBatty (talk) 03:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Special graphemes on :sl
The problem is with sl.wiki. The stickylicks aren't activated. I think we can fix this. I fixed it for the el.wiki in the past. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed, we want to fix the root cause of this, rather than work around it. I've had a look at the language codes you listed, and SL and HR were missing any sort of linktrail (bar the original english fallback). I've added the basic link trail you mentioned in mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/82547. The rest of the languages look to have the right sets of characters. If you want to look at the SVN copies, and for the languages you care about/understand/whatever, check the $linkTrail variable. (More, the stuff in the too square braces). If there is anything that needs updating, in those languages, please leave me a detailed talk message (on my talk page), listing missing characters from each, or updated examples for each, I can update them in the MW SVN. They should then become live, by localisation update. If not, I will get them scapped out. As it's an improvement for the community, it's much better to update MediaWiki, rather than making AWB work around these! Reedy (talk) 13:44, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you both for your effort. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 13:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Typos/save ratio not correct
Our formula is: (TotalTypos - SelfMatches - FalsePositives)/Saves -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:08, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response, but what's the definition of "TotalTypos", "SelfMatches", and "FalsePositives"? GoingBatty (talk) 03:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * TotalTypos = The typos found in total.
 * SelfMatches = typos that much the page title. These aren't fixed.
 * FalsePositives = typos the editor choose not to correct.
 * Magioladitis (talk) 09:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the definitions - I'll try some tests and let you know what I get. GoingBatty (talk) 19:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. We were always converting to the nearest integer. It will now be to two decimal places. Rjwilmsi 20:06, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors 2011-03-02
This error are for saving with any changes and in the any pages. This error dosn't was before and started on the working proccess and after full restart it becames too. Vpovilaitis (talk) 16:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I am experiencing this as well. 24.41.47.147 (talk) 03:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Also happening on RuneScape Wiki. 198.236.58.30 (talk) 03:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Add the Phineas and Ferb Wiki to the list of wikis where this error is occurring. -RRabbit42 05:53, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I guess it's happening all over Wikia, not only those wikis. Joeytje50 (talk) 15:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Seems they've broken the Editing api at some point.  "MediaWiki internal error. \n \nOriginal exception: exception 'MWException' with message 'FauxRequest::getRequestURL not implemented' in /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/includes/WebRequest.php:740 \nStack trace: \n#0 /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/includes/WebRequest.php(761): FauxRequest-&gt;notImplemented('FauxRequest::ge...') \n#1 /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/includes/Exception.php(138): FauxRequest-&gt;getRequestURL \n#2 /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/includes/api/ApiMain.php(343): MWException-&gt;getLogMessage \n#3 /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/includes/api/ApiMain.php(323): ApiMain-&gt;executeActionWithErrorHandling \n#4 /usr/wikia/source/wiki.current/api.php(121): ApiMain-&gt;execute \n#5 {main} \n \nException caught inside exception handler \n\n" 

Reedy (talk) 16:03, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi all. This should be working again now on Wikia. The API issue has been fixed. Cheers, Grunny  ( talk ) 00:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Confirmed as working on the Phineas and Ferb Wiki. -RRabbit42 (talk) 15:20, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Improper "stub" tag removal
Ideally, AWB should assume all stub tags end in, unless there is a reason not to. Avicennasis |undefined @ 00:48, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It would be better if AWB changed it to  -  GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope. Still thinks there are stubtags there. Avicennasis |undefined @ 04:13, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that you discovered that AWB also has a problem with "stub" being at the end of the main template. Please note that I was trying to support your bug report by suggesting how I thought AWB should have handled the initial edit you reported. I wasn't trying to suggest that you should change the article to conform with AWB. GoingBatty (talk) 04:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh I know you were offering support. :) Thanks for that, sorry if it seemed otherwise. I only edited the article to see if that would have any effect on how AWB was seeing the tags. Avicennasis |undefined @ 04:50, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Rjwilmsi 08:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Incorrect addition of births and Living People categories
Fixed. Problem was C. in uppercase rather than normal c. in lowercase. Rjwilmsi 19:37, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Two empty lines before stub-templates
Can you make same changes to :sl as for :ru (only one empty line before stub instead of 2)? Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 16:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you have a link to the sl manual of style? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It was in MOS:LAYOUT until it was removed, for some reason, last month in this edit. Keith D (talk) 19:06, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I meant in sl.wiki nut still this is nice to see. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:37, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * sl:Wikipedija:Slogovni priročnik. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 20:36, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * For sl wiki only one blank line before stubs. Rjwilmsi  18:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

unreferenced
Check my fix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's great. But AWB doesn't do that. Either AWB should perform that fix, or leave these particular tags alone. Avicennasis |undefined @ 02:05, 24 Adar I 5771 / 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with Avicennasis. I looked at Template:Unreferenced, and it has an example showing a section in the description like the one AWB tried to fix.  On the template talk page, I requested a better example for the description parameter, as I think it would be better to use Unreferenced section per Magioladitis' fix.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:36, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * These "section" versions are quite new. I can probably run a bot and fix the current instances. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed over 2,000 Refimprove|section things. Next version will convert Refimprove|section to the section version of the template. This resolves the problem in the case of parameter 1=section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * section template conversion to handle |Section| as well as |section|. I also fixed more with "|sect|", "|section called ..." and some more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:55, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

DivideByZeroException in UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc
"Not a huge amount we can do about this as its in the .NET/Windows Code." How many edits have you done, when you got this message? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The funny thing was that I wasn't actually editing at all, but using the Pre-parse mode to sort through about 50,000 pages before actually editing them. I believe the problem started at about the 20,000's.
 * Peteparker (talk) 15:46, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * As I expected. It is a divide by zero bug caused of the huge number of pages processed. There might be a way to avoid it. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 15:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I just came here to report the same thing. Here's my report (which I removed after seeing this one). Rocket000 (talk) 02:50, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Fixes typos/save ratio (cast issue) and after, we have less divisions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Duplicated Persondata has funny results II

 * Different problem. It's the order of the two templates being reversed. Rjwilmsi  16:22, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Sometimes improperly removes non-matching double-quotes
What should it do? (Btw, please upgrade to version 5.2.0.1). -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:14, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Suggestion: if the left end symbol is &ldquo;, and the right end symbol is " or &ldquo;, change it to &rdquo;; if the right end symbol is &rdquo; and the left end symbol is " or &rdquo;, change it to &ldquo;; if only one end of the string has a double quote of any kind, remove it. AxelBoldt (talk) 12:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * MOS:PUNCT recommends use of straight quotes only, so probably we should just convert all of the above to straight quotes, then let the existing logic apply. Rjwilmsi  14:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's fine too. We also need to be on the lookout for ″. AxelBoldt (talk) 16:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Clean up curly quotes to straight quotes in citation template title field per MOS:PUNCT. Rjwilmsi  17:49, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

AWB unicodifies pages even if option is disactivated
This is part of the "Unicodify the whole page". Did you have this on? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * All automatic changes were off.
 * I've understood, that user had been using  instead of ɪ (IPA) and ∫ (integal) instead of ʃ (IPA). Alex Spade (talk) 15:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * "Unicodify whole Page" is not part of general fixes. It has it's own box. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:26, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I know. When I say that "All automatic changes were off", I mean that all three boxes in Automatic changes section (Auto tag / Apply general fixes / Unicodify whole page) were off.
 * I've tried some other ways (all automatic changes were still off).
 * If section "Find and replace" (or "File"/"Replace file") is empty, the unauthorized change doesn't occur.
 * If section "Find and replace" (or "File"/"Replace file") isn't empty, the unauthorized change occurs.
 * As you can see, page ru:User:Alex_Spade/4Tests is very non-unicoded. Alex Spade (talk) 15:44, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I can't reproduce it: . -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

seems to be similar... — Ree dy  14:56, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Update 17:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

The bug is still happens. See this diff. My setting file is here. Alex Spade (talk) 17:26, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The Private Use Area characters are being modified by the RichTextBox we use, presumably it has not been designed to support these unassigned Unicode characters. So, to avoid AWB changing the characters we will automatically skip pages containing such characters. Rjwilmsi  18:30, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Unicode characters in Private Use Area corrupted
Did you have "unicodify the whole page" activated? --Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I did. Samat (talk) 17:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Wild guess then. Having that enabled could've quite easily been responsible :P — Ree dy  13:07, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Tried it in sandbox without unicodify enabled and it still happened. Since this is an invalid Unicode character: 1) can't see it being a major/widespread issue and 2) maybe something done by .NET rich text box? Rjwilmsi  14:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't see that character anywhere. Need to check what it is when it's read from the api, after process (ie before it goes into the text box), what it comes out of the textbox as, and what it is just before the API submits it... — Ree dy  14:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I did notice, however, the "®" become as is when it is in the Rich Text box... — Ree dy  14:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Maybe problem in Parsers lines 60-71? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:04, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The Private Use Area characters are being modified by the RichTextBox we use, presumably it has not been designed to support these unassigned Unicode characters. So, to avoid AWB changing the characters we will automatically skip pages containing such characters. Rjwilmsi  18:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Search doesn't collect all articles

 * It's related to the category collation changes on the WMF wikis. It will be fixed in the next few days, and all should work fine. Reedy (talk) 18:56, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 28013 Reedy (talk) 18:59, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Still more incorrect characters underlined on button/checkbox labels
However, Alt+R does the same thing as the Remove button! When a letter is underlined, how can you tell whether you should use Ctrl or Alt? GoingBatty (talk) 03:18, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

"$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;" makes AWB on custom sites impossible to use

 * It's due to the fact we try and load some project information at site change point. It's fixable, just won't be in the next couple of weeks I'd guess. Reedy (talk) 00:03, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Stub cat with parameters is moved above categories

 * We didn't allow for stub tags to include parameters. fixes.  Rjwilmsi  22:03, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Should not remove full cite information in duplicate cites
Someone just used AWB on the Multiregional evolution page, which I'm currently cleaning up. I noticed that the full cite information was removed in one case, leaving just a cite by name. This can be problematic because someone may remove the only remaining cite in a reorganization or rewrite, leaving an orphaned name cite, which may not be that easy to catch. In my opinion best practice is to leave the full cite information with every occurrence, leaving the name feature as a way of merging cites in display for the benefit of readers. This should at any rate be a conscious decision on the part of editors, so it shouldn't be done in an automated tool. Please have AWB leave full cites alone. If this is a feature request rather than a bug, please move it there. Diff here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans&action=historysubmit&diff=406110873&oldid=406110598 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Warren Dew (talk • contribs)
 * ❌ The use of condensed named references is common practice at Wikipedia per WP:REFNAME. If you disagree with this policy then please post at WP:REFNAME. Rjwilmsi  19:35, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not what he's asking, though -- he's asking that cites be left in, but that dup cites be given the name of the first one, so that any one can be deleted without orphaning the refs. Correct? While it's not a bad idea, it could lead to confusion, because if you change one without changing the name, it will still combine the named refs, even though they no longer match. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:45, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Correct. WP:REFNAME says that whether to keep the bodies of multiple duplicate cites is a matter for editorial judgement, so it shouldn't be automated.  With respect the the possibility of the bodies no longer matching, they should still both refer to the same document, so while they may contain different data the data they both contain should always match.  Hopefully people who use refnames change the name when they change the document it refers to - I always try to use a unique refname, such as a DOI if available. Warren Dew (talk) 19:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Replacing template RE with Reflist
. Already fixed. I ran genfixes on that page. Nothing happened. I ran genfixes in more pages transcluding this template and nothing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Sometimes changes hyphens/dashes in citation templates

 * MOS:QUOTE makes specific allowance for the changing of hyphens and dashes to meet the MOS. Wouldn't that apply here? Rjwilmsi  10:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I defer to your superior knowledge of the MOS. So for Shaun Whalley why does AWB change "title=DROYLSDEN 5 – 0" but not "title=DROYLSDEN 2 - 0" in the previous cite web template?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Fix unintended changes to endash ranges in cites. Rjwilmsi  09:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Text lost after unicodify of HTML characters for Unicode Extension B characters ( Greedy regex for unicode characters )

 * I'd describe this problem more accurately as "Text lost after unicodify of HTML characters for Unicode Extension B characters". adds exceptions to the Unicodify character list.  Rjwilmsi  09:40, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

'SongsEnabled' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '='. Line 1, position 2914.
Do you use an old version of KingbotK plugin? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:06, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Not using the plugin at all. I tried to open another instance of AWB and I get this when I hit the login button. I never got it before though and I run multiple instances frequently. --Kumioko (talk) 13:11, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

probably will fix it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:38, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

407 error
I receive next error, when trying to use AWB. "An error occured while connecting to the server or loading project information from it. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exist.

Enter the URL in the format "en.wikipedia.org/w/" (including path where index.php and api.php reside).

Error description: The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required. "

I am using proxy on work, but my IE works grate. What can I do? But somehow awb connected to server and said my awb version is out of date. Please help. --Alex Blokha (talk) 19:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Which version do you have? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:53, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * ver 5.2.0.0. Proxy authentification is needed, but it is set up automatically, as I understand, using windows domain rules. Ie ver - 8.0.6001 --Alex Blokha (talk) 09:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've added such line at line 93, file apiedit.cs ProxySettings.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(@"user", "mypass"); and everything started working. --Alex Blokha (talk) 18:45, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Hardcoding it fully is a no no. The current way is supposed to work . Do you have to enter the user/password manually when you try and visit a webpage for the first time? I'm wondering if just using http://username:password@host:port for the proxy would work... Reedy (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No, I don't do this in IE, Chrome and FF, but I have to do this in Opera. My own bot, based on dotnetwikibot also works good without any password.--Alex Blokha (talk) 12:46, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * So, will this bug be fixed?--Alex Blokha (talk) 13:38, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It's in the main to-do list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Probably fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:23, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Most probably fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:40, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

UriFormatException in Variables.RefreshProxy
I get this problem every time I open up AWB, and I get this error on both of my computers that I've been running it on. This puts me always configured to connect to http://en.wikipedia.org/, even though I've configured the customized URL to http://www.wowpedia.org/. There's no error or anything when I close the window. Reach me at http://www.wowpedia.org/User_talk:Gourra. --Gourra (talk) 06:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you post the proxy settings you are using, or link to a screenshot of them? Thanks Rjwilmsi  11:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I have no specified proxy settings. --Gourra (talk) 13:55, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB fetches proxy settings from your Internet Explorer settings. What do you have specified there? Rjwilmsi  14:32, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Also: what text are you entering, I think it needs to be .  Rjwilmsi  14:36, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There are no specified proxy settings in IE. The URL keep resetting to  after I restart it, and when I type in   I just get the same error and there is no change. --Gourra (talk) 14:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I might have an idea why it acts up, and that might be that the work place has a proxy setting that conflicts with connecting with AWB. If that's the case, I'm just simply out of luck. --Gourra (talk) 06:39, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I managed to bypass the workplace's firewall/proxy block by using a proxy server, but there's still no luck. --Gourra (talk) 09:11, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Personal Note: The web is "es.gta.wikia.com", but the program stills saving as "es,gta.wikia.com".

Please update to latest awb's release and rereport if bug insists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 17 March 2012 (UTC)