Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 20

Year of death missing not replaced when year of death found

 * Category:Year of death missing is removed when category:XXX deaths is present, which it wasn't in your example. Rjwilmsi  11:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The year of death was detected. In fact, the whole death date was detected and added to Persondata. -- Magioladitis (talk)

Find & Replace "skip" options are now slow

 * Confirmed. Broken by changes to support 'after genfixes' option at replace level rather than global flag. I'll see about a fix. Rjwilmsi  15:23, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed, to keep new 'after genfixes' functionality and restore the faster skipping of the old way too. Rjwilmsi  19:44, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thank you. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Don't replace unmatched guillemets in web page titles

 * I'd already excluded the case of » as separator, exception for « added too. These sorts of title need some cleanup, but not replacement with a straight quote.  Rjwilmsi  12:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * While I agree that converting a « separator to a straight quote isn't good, in most cases some of the title text actually belongs in the work or publisher field, and this genfix highlighted those to be changed. GoingBatty (talk) 17:15, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

replace text is being added twice

 * why are subrules no longer subordinate?

I noticed this a couple weeks ago and forgot to bring it up: why are regex subrules (advanced settings window) no longer called upon only when the main rule operates? Am I missing the point? This used to be quite straightforward. — kwami (talk) 11:10, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:15, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

bug or feature?
If I have 'ignore templates' checked in find&replace, AWB ignores all lines indented with a colon. Is this intentional?

For example, at Akatek language, if I search for IPA symbols, AWB won't pick them up in the examples (as in the line Examples: pom [pom] copal, xopan [ʃopan] hollow, sip [sipʰ] tick) unless I have that template/ref/link box unchecked. — kwami (talk) 05:17, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, intentional, it's in the F&R manual. Rjwilmsi  11:51, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

\s includes \n. Is this intentional?

For instance, here i had a regex rule \s-\s → [space]–[space] (that is, change a spaced/tabbed hyphen to an en dash), and it deleted the line break in those tables where lines ended in a space-hyphen. I fixed (for the version I saved) by using (\s)-(\s) → $1–$2 instead. That's fine, but I would never expect a line return to count as white space. — kwami (talk) 02:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * This is the C# regex engine's behaviour. Use something like ( |\t) if you only want spaces or tabs. Rjwilmsi  07:17, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I didn't know about \t; it's not listed at AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression. — kwami (talk) 11:44, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

iw order
Very minor point: Gagauz iw is moved after Galician. — kwami (talk) 23:52, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - added "gag" to AutoWikiBrowser/IW and reran Tatar language to confirm. (Note that I had to log out of AWB - refreshing status/typos doesn't also refresh the IW order.)  GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
. It seems you don't run Mediawiki! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:01, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * will help us to gather more information on xml bugs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:37, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Add extra information to ErrorHandler when we're catching an XML exception from the api. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

minor problem in sorting with letter ặ
I've come across some Vietnamese names with the letter ặ. Đặng Thị Huệ was the latest name. Both DEFAULTSORT and listas kept the letter ặ in the sort instead of changing it to just a. Bgwhite (talk) 18:41, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * fixes this bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:16, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Contains
Not bug exactly. If the field it's empty it means "Skip if page contains something". -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm. That sounds like the machine is using different logic to the human. Lightmouse (talk) 11:09, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Dunno. It make sense to me. Check "Contains" means that you want to skip if the given string exists in the page. Empty string means find empty string and if exists skip page. Empty string is always there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:35, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Here's why I find it difficult: if I want to skip pages containing 'foobar', I write 'foobar'. If I no longer want to it to skip page with 'foobar' I delete 'foobar' from the field. I see what you're saying but the function 'skip all' and the implementation is difficult for me to understand. To me, deleting the skip string should stop it skipping. Lightmouse (talk) 12:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Uncheck the box is easier I think :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:32, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes. Unchecking is what I've been doing. Please delete this as 'Not a bug', 'Will not fix', 'Withdrawn' or whatever you want. Thanks for talking it through with me. Lightmouse (talk) 13:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

%%pagename%% & %%basepagename%% match failing in titles with parantheses
At Wikisource, I am undertaking some simple match and replace and while %%pagename%% and %%basepagename%% work for the bulk of the replacements, there is a quirk in the match process.

I have the page United States v. Moore (53 U.S. 209)/Opinion of the Court where I am looking to replace title   = United States v. Moore (53 U.S. 209) with title   = ../ script that I am using is (title\s*\=\s*)%%pagename%%  →  $1 ../ with regex turned on. I now it isn't the neatest regex, however for the task at hand it is adequate and caters for the alternatives in formatting within templates. Anyway, that replacement fails. Yet, in the same regex, if I have United States v. Morehead/Opinion of the Court the replacement worked fine. If I try with basepagename it similarly fails and works in the examples given.
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  17:44, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

ConfigurationErrorsException in Settings.get_WindowLocation
I have the NET Frameworks from 1 to 3.5. I thought my recent XP updates brought the bug (general or to the NET Frameworks), but reverting them didn't change anything. That's extremely annoying, I just can't launch the program! I have wiki stuff to do! Klow (talk) 09:54, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok I deleted the config files in \Local Settings\Application Data and that fixed it. Klow (talk) 10:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't detect redirect to Persondata
I added Persondata to AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects, and this seems to have resolved the problem. GoingBatty (talk) 03:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Miscounts user edits
Confirmed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * partially fixed. "Without a huge amount of work, it can't be full fixed". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:29, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Bot max edits limit

 * The limit is 0 to 5000, 0 being unlimited. The design of the field was for supporting a bot trial mode of a specified number of edits. What is your need for a higher limit? Rjwilmsi  14:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

wontfix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:08, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Can't exit AWB if storage device is removed

 * Does not occur for me using the steps you've described. Would you be able to post the exact error message please. Rjwilmsi  18:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

We need the exact error message. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:37, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Archived. Waiting for new feedback if this occurs again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Bad OrigYear/Year cleanup

 * . Rjwilmsi  18:55, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

incorrect dash in page ranges
Some people use ⟨--⟩ for an en dash and ⟨---⟩ for an em dash. Others perhaps simply don't know the difference. I've come across dozens of articles with em dashes in page ranges, and always assumed it was the editor, but perhaps some were AWB fixes. Perhaps AWB should not fix double hyphens when they occur between digits?

I always thought it would be nice if AWB gave a choice in the case of ambiguous problems like this, though I suppose that's too radical to implement. — kwami (talk) 20:45, 26 July 2011 (UTC)


 * If "--" is between numbers, it's certainly an en dash. This is common because people rework their bibTeX entries into wiki cites; bibTeX uses the TeX markup in which "--" is en dash (and "---" is em dash; it's TeX, not "some people").  In other contexts, "--" is often the typewriter convention for em dash.  But since it's ambiguous, it should never be changed to em dash without the editor's review and approval.  A choice is needed.  Dicklyon (talk) 22:23, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Two dashes between numbers to endash, otherwise to emdash as before. Rjwilmsi  09:54, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki sorting order@sv.wikisource.org
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = The policy has changed to {http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interwiki_sorting_order&action=historysubmit&diff=2786524&oldid=2733979 By order of alphabet, based on local language]. -- Lavallen (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2011 (UTC) | duplicate     = | site          = sv.wikisource.org | OS            = | net           = | version       = | workaround    = | fix_version   = {{awbsvn|7806}} }}

advanced replace adds "$1" to text when there is no string

 * You need to use ${1}8801$2 in your first replace. This is a standard behaviour of regular expressions – see regular-expressions.info. Rjwilmsi  06:40, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

AWB trying to add a persondata template to a non Person article

 * Rjwilmsi 16:59, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Tags non-orphans as orphans
I bet that you accidentally disactivated "Tag only linkless pages as orphan" in the menu.-- Magioladitis (talk) 08:38, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Could it be that default settings have changed with the update to 5.3.1.0? I never knew this even was an option. Anyway closed as fixed/notabug/resolved. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:23, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

No scroll bar in article list

 * Probably a Vista issue – see related bug report above. Rjwilmsi  09:34, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

List filter keeps talk pages beginning with ʼʻʿʾ

 * Correctly handle namespace determination of pages with spacing modifier Unicode characters at start of name. Rjwilmsi  12:49, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

AWB adds duplicate Reflist

 * Article fixed. Rjwilmsi  05:06, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

ArgumentException in MetaDataSorter.RemoveCats
[encountered while processing page ]
 * RemoveCats to return empty string rather than throw exception when multiple defaultsorts. Rjwilmsi  11:41, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Improper alert: Invalid citiation parameter found for Allmusic template as url

 * Its doing this for PDFlink as well. --Kumioko (talk) 17:53, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Small bug with diff underneath
Not quite sure how to properly report these bugs, but this is just a suggestion for improvement, as you can see in this diff:, AWB corrected the link, but kept the non-capitalized state of the word because the script is just to find links and then move on. To solve this, if a link is corrected there should be a call to a script to run a sweep on the word to see if it needs capitalization (probably just call a function that has already been made in AWB to check for it). Okay, thanks. That Ole Cheesy Dude  (Talk to the hand! ) 11:52, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * You can do this bu activating Typo fixing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:18, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Typo fixing was enabled at the time (still is). That Ole Cheesy Dude  (Talk to the hand! ) 15:24, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * From AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, "Typo fixing is automatically prevented on ... wikilink targets". -- John of Reading (talk) 16:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thus, it's not a bug but a feature. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:29, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Auto save edits not listed in 'Successfully saved' log and not counted by the 'Edits' counter.

 * Save interval is more than API timout, so AWB will often go into restart loop and not any edit that was successful. Rjwilmsi  05:15, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Solutions would be: or Regards Lightmouse (talk) 12:40, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Prevent user from setting an interval longer than API max time.
 * 1) If user sets an interval longer than API max time, reset save interval to acceptable API max time. Let user know this has been done.
 * Restrict maximum bot save delay to 99 seconds. Rjwilmsi  19:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Divide by zero
How many edits have you done when you got this bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:50, 20 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Probably over 20,000. Lightmouse (talk) 21:25, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

It's too rare to worry about. Please remove this bug report as 'will not fix' or something like that. Lightmouse (talk) 12:34, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Apostrophes

 * Remove apostrophes from DEFAULTSORTs on bio articles. Rjwilmsi  08:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Preparse doesn't log 'no change' articles

 * Pre-parsed articles that are skipped show up for me in the Logs tab in the Skipped section (bottom half). Rjwilmsi  18:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I can't replicate this either. Please remove it as 'works for me' or whatever. If it happens again, I'll resubmit. Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 23:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Improper alert: Invalid citiation parameter found for dateformat in cite web

 * Deprecated parameter, see Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. Rjwilmsi  08:19, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Interesting that Lead isn't included in that category - I'll discuss it on Template talk:Cite web. GoingBatty (talk) 16:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Erroneous Persondata tagging

 * Maybe because it contains Infobox Officeholder? GoingBatty (talk) 01:10, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah maybe thats a good point. --Kumioko (talk) 01:16, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I notice that you put resolved but I don't agree its resolved. AWB should not be tagging the pages for non person articles. --Kumioko (talk) 01:37, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I set the status back to new while we continue to discuss this, but I think the issue is that non-person articles should not use people infobox templates. GoingBatty (talk) 01:42, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Please fix this page and all similar to use a different infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:45, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, not as familiar with all the infoboxes as you are. Any recommendations? --Kumioko (talk) 13:17, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, no idea :( Maybe GoingBatty or WOSlinker know? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:46, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly uses Infobox Legislative Session, while 59th Utah State Legislature uses Infobox Legislature. GoingBatty (talk) 17:20, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, that narrows it down to 2. Not sure why we have 2 like templates but I'll take a look at cleaning those up when I get the chance. --Kumioko (talk) 17:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Does not generate alert for all deprecated parameters in cite web

 * Improved existing logic to show alert for invalid parameter with any length value (rather than > 3). Rjwilmsi  18:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

The 'Delay x seconds between edits' feature starts counting at the wrong time

 * I'll see if we can move the start of the timer to be earlier as you describe. If not I'll rename the label to be 'delay x seconds after processing' or something. If you set it as high as 2 minutes you'll probably find that you exceed an API timout limit, so the page will never save. Rjwilmsi  13:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Is it possible to find out the maximum delay and prevent the user from making an invalid setting? I'd like to discuss labels but after we find out more. Lightmouse (talk) 19:36, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

The timer works much better now. Thanks for your work. However, it still seems to get stuck in an endless loop at values above a minute. Is there anything that can be done about this? Lightmouse (talk) 18:32, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Bug has been fixed. Please remove this. I'll file a feature request for the max timer issue. Lightmouse (talk) 14:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Capitalization on sorts

 * Do not change article's DEFAULTSORT only to change casing. Rjwilmsi  10:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Missing spaces and breaks when pasting into the edit-field of AWB

 * Don't forcibly trim spaces when pasting into edit box. Rjwilmsi  10:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not entirely satisfied with the AWB paste behaviour either. I had to change it since we had a problem reported that text could be pasted in a different font to that used in the edit box. That's now fixed but the cursor now jumps around, if and when I work out how to fix that I will do. Rjwilmsi  09:45, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

InvalidTitleException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * You can't put a URL in the "links on page" box, is that what you're trying to do? Rjwilmsi  06:42, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Overenthusiastic ndash conversion affecting template parameters

 * Can you reproduce this with AWB genfixes only and not your own settings/logic? Rjwilmsi  16:01, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Improper alerts: Unknown parameters in Multiple issues

 * updated to include overly detailed GoingBatty (talk) 03:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * updated to include NOT GoingBatty (talk) 04:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

AWB incorrectly idenitifies valid cite web parameters as invalid

 * day is deprecated, see Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters.
 * editor is valid cite web parameter. Rjwilmsi  19:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

List filter keeps talk pages beginning with an okina
Same problem then this one but with the modifier letter turned comma U+02BB (ʻ) found on fr:witk:Discussion:ʻupaʻupa. — A2 (talk) 14:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Reading the previous diff, it should be corrected (global fix with \p{IsSpacingModifierLetters}). Sorry. — A2 (talk) 14:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Unable to save changes to Valeriy Khmelko
I was able to reproduce your issue with SVN 7852. I turned off the "Unicodify whole page" option, and was able to save successfully with this edit. When I turned on the "Unicodify whole page" option, I get the "Restarting" issue again. GoingBatty (talk) 20:51, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. It seems the MediaWiki API does not accept Unicode version of 'COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT' (U+0301) so API returned exception on save. Rjwilmsi  10:44, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Should not compress date ranges in web page titles

 * Hide title or trans_title in citations when using Hide with hide images, such that FixDates does not change dates in titles. Rjwilmsi  22:56, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Persondata fooled by "Missing people organizations" category

 * Fixes over the last few weeks to the logic have already fixed this one, adds another test to confirm.  Rjwilmsi  18:39, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

AWB error when trying to load kingbotk
Most probably it has been fixed. Please rereport if it occurs again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:43, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Slightly over-enthusiastic with "born"

 * Various heuristics present themselves: article name will be good, first bolded text outside templates, maybe allow 10-20 chars between bolded chunks, excluding date like entities to allow for alternative names etc. Rich Farmbrough, 21:28, 3 November 2010 (UTC).


 * I propose no change since the correct format is "May 2007–present". Rjwilmsi  22:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The correct format is "May 2007 – present".  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  07:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Page blanking still (or againily) occurring

 * Lol. If we can't duplicate on demand, it's hard to know if it's AWB or the API.. :/ — Ree dy  15:59, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed. And I can imagine situations where blank pages might validly exist. However a (default on) skip check box "if page blank" would cover the API side? (Although some cases where a blank page has been given by the API I suspect, it gets tagged "Wikify" "Uncat" and possibly something else. (In which case, of course the workaround needs to be more selective and you start to pick up redirects and "sub-stubs"... )) Rich Farmbrough, 09:55, 8 June 2010 (UTC).
 * AWB loading a page as blank page was an AWB bug that we fixed. I don't think the problem is in loading, rather in saving. Perhaps in the Main.cs Save method when in debug we should throw an exception if the article text is blank? That would presumably catch the error if it's on the AWB side? Rjwilmsi  11:07, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * In manual mode we have a "Are you sure you want to save a blank page?" warning. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:24, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * More logic to try to catch this error in debug mode. SVN users, please run a debug build in the hope of diagnosing this problem. Rjwilmsi  16:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've run a few debug mode sessions. Nothing so far. Rich Farmbrough, 05:11, 30 June 2010 (UTC).
 * Happened to my bot today – on a stupidly large article so I'll link to the history only. Rjwilmsi  22:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's happened again - . &mdash; Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 15:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

We now have more tools to detect this bug. Please re-report if it appears in version 5.3.0.0 or newer. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Data loss on save attempt
On multiple occasions, I have lost edits to an article made in the AWB edit box after attempting to save the changes. I find this very discouraging and at this point I am considering not using AWB to edit but copy robotic changes into a foxfire edit box. See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests but I'm not certain if it is due to a timeout, lose of session data or something else.&#32;–droll &#91;chat&#93; 06:51, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * A long-standing annoyance. Whenever I make extensive manual adjustments, I copy the text into Notepad in case of session failure—until I forget, which is quite annoying. If it could recover the text the way FF recovers after a crash, that would be fantastic, but I suspect that this would require a lot of overhead. — kwami (talk) 10:41, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * See documentation at AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual, "Replace text with last edit". Rjwilmsi  18:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

"No redirect" option doesn`t work
AWB always creates redirects even if the "No redirect" option is activated. Teyandee (talk) 18:59, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "creates redirects"? Can you please give us an example of an edit with AWB where it does that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It ignores "No redirect" option when moving a page thus redirect creation is not suppressed. Testing was moved to Testing1 by AWB with this option checked. As you can see, the redirect creation was not suppressed. Teyandee (talk) 21:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I am nt quite sure what do you mean by "No redirect" option. The "Skip page if it is a redirect" in the "Skip" tab perhaps? This is for preventing a page from being processed. Page creation is not prevented by any means. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * According to the manual the admin-only "Move" button leads to a dialog with a "No redirect" checkbox. Isn't this what Teyandee is asking about? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ignoring AWB for the moment, when you click the "move" tab at the top of a page, you get to a dialog with two text entry items - one for the new page name and a larger one for the reason. Just below the "Reason" entry item are some checkboxes, the number and function of which vary. One of those checkboxes, "Leave a redirect behind", is visible only to admins, and if checked (the default) the move function behaves like a move performed by a non-admin - a redirect to the new page name is created at the old page name. If unchecked, this redirect is suppressed. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

@John of Reading: Yes, I meant that checkbox. Teyandee (talk) 06:40, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * For starters, AWB doesn't use that move form, so whatever it has doesn't matter. Secondly, did this work sometime recently and now it's broken? As it would seem it's probably been broken since it was implemented, with relation to HTTP GET/POST parameters, and making them into equals seperated key/value pairs... Reedy (talk) 20:53, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Reedy (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This may also answer the question on the main AWB talk page about moving 200-300 pages on a custom wiki. --Kumioko (talk) 21:20, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing it. Teyandee (talk) 21:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

XmlException in MainProcess.ReadArticle
My input file for database scan was the latest article dump of dawiki: from http://download.wikimedia.org/dawiki/20110227/dawiki-20110227-pages-articles.xml.bz2
 * By the looks of it you have an article with that ASCII character in it (see Shift Out and Shift In characters), which .NET calls invalid. Are you able to contact somebody with SQL access to da-wiki to see if they can tell you the article? That way you could fix it for the next dump. Otherwise I could see about downloading the dump myself. Rjwilmsi  15:20, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Please upgrade to awb version 5.3.1.0 or later and rereport. It will give us more information about this bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:18, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Redirects causing issues

 * I think you also need to remove the tick from Options > Follow redirects. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:07, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Exactly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:44, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException
Please rereport for version 5.3.0.0 or later which provides us more info on these bugs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:16, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Oldafd talk banner on wrong page

 * This may have happened by some redirect but certainly is not an autotagger bug. awb doesn't move oldafd tags by default. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:51, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

AWB fails to save an article and restarts the timer
I have to use svn 7794 to make article edit as the new version have troubles with it.Log file says "object: ApiEdit Time: 1:02:34 Message: Bot API returned the following error: 'Unrecognized value for parameter 'watchlist': nochange= ". Teyandee (talk) 21:08, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem - please download SVN 7910 and try again. GoingBatty (talk) 21:20, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks. Teyandee (talk) 10:27, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

AWB new behaviour?

 * There's no change in AWB. If the page is already saving in the background then pressing stop may be too late, it depends on your timing. If the save request has already been sent we can't revoke it. Rjwilmsi  07:19, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No, this is definitely new behavior. Old behavior:  As long as I didn't push the "stop" when the bottom message bar said "saving", it wouldn't save.  New behavior:  The split nanosecond after the name pops up, I push "stop" and it saves.  It even saves when the bottom menu bar says "processing". I saved ~7,500 articles before the new AWB and there never was no problem.  Now, every $(#*> time it saves. Bgwhite (talk) 07:42, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * This was happening before too. As soon as AWB starts sending save info to the servers there is nothing to stop it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

overly broad in removing spaces around en dashes in dates
AWB removes spaces around en dashes between years. However, they shouldn't be removed when: (1) either date is preceded by "c.", "ca", "ca.", "circa", etc.; (2) either date contains a month, day, or season. At least for (1), AWB only incorrectly removes the spaces if it's the first date that's circa. I've only seen it for the first date in (2) as well, but both probably occur. — kwami (talk) 11:24, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you please give a couple of examples of diffs where AWB made an incorrect change? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 15:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * fixes dash spacing for circa year ranges. I can't see any problem for ranges including months, please provide an example diff for that if there is a problem. Rjwilmsi  14:36, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * archived in bugs archive. Please report any further problems in bugs page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:28, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

AWB shouldn't "fix" code in internal links (at least not in the part before a pipe)

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  21:44, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

citation whitespace removal goes the wrong way
AWB removes spacing which is needed to improve the internal readability of citations. For example, on this edit to D.B. Cooper, the vast majority of text changes are to remove spaces between  and   as in
 * before:
 * after:

Those spaces greatly enhance human maintainability:
 * They help guide the eye to identify the lexical elements. Since   must be butted against preceding text for the resulting html to render correctly, the lack of space introduces a very long block of dense symbols:  much beyond any readability guideline or comprehensibility threshold.
 * A space helps line-length wrapping break at an appropriate place.
 * Text editors with "skip to next word" cursor movement operation is intuitive with a space, but cumbersome without.

If anything, AWB should be going exactly the opposite direction, changing citations to multi-line indented elements:

some fact

It should also be arranging the citation template items into a standard, consistent order. I find the most effective order is sorted by top-to-bottom arrangement of URL, title, author, publisher, work, page, date, accessdate. Also note the spaces before and after the equal signs and the space after the  delimiter. These conventions are to make reading the wikitext more friendly by humans. In the case of consecutive citations, join them like this to easily identify each citation:

some fact

While this is potentially a controversial change, most of the controversy is that there is no standard. Many editors would remove citations completely because they "get in the way" of seemingly productive content. To help citations to be less nuisance, I believe friendly formatting will help them be embraced, expanded, and accepted. —EncMstr (talk) 19:35, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi EncMstr! I agree that this would be a potentially controversial change, since there is no standard, and does not change how the article it presented to the reader (only how it looks to editors).  In my opinion, this should be a feature request, not a bug report.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:56, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

This is a matter of preference and not a bug

XmlException in PluginManager.LoadSettingsNewWay
This must have been fixed via. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Tagger changes Unreferenced to Refimprove when article only has footnotes

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  21:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Don't remove blank lines in Track listing template

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  19:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

removing surplus spacing goes too far

 * I don't think this is standard AWB functionality. The edit was made by . I'll alert him about your comment here. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * (More) There's a recent help desk thread here. I agree with the views expressed there. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:53, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * So why does the standard AWB version tag appear in the edit summary? The user added it manually? --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 10:05, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB is a powerful editing tool. It has many built-in functions, and many others that can be configured to do whatever the AWB user requires. It can also be used as a regular text editor. All these different kinds of edit will be tagged with the "using AWB" edit summary. So one of the first steps in assessing a bug report like this one is to work out whether the edit was done by the built-in functions. If it wasn't, then there's no "bug" as such, and the edit needs to be discussed with the editor who made it. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:21, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my fault. The edits were done with AWB, but I had numerous scripts running at the same time with unexpected results. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused.
 * Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will go back and refine the settings. Thank you John for explaining the situation. -- Marek  .  69   talk  10:28, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Failure to skip redirects

 * Skips as redirect for me on 5.3.1.0 release or current SVN build. I need more info from you if you've still got the problem. Rjwilmsi  11:51, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I bet Lightmouse has "Bypass redirects" on. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:40, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

SVN7794 I still get the problem. I found an option "Bypass all redirects" in a right-mouse menu and I couldn't find it anywere else. Incidentally, Microsoft guidelines say: It was grey and unavailable to me. Is that the command you meant, Magioladitis? Lightmouse (talk) 16:45, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * "Don't make commands only available through context menus"
 * We mean whether you have "Options -> Follow redirects" on or not. Rjwilmsi  14:17, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Aha! Yes I did. I've turned it off. So we have three options in three different places: Thanks for letting me know, I hope that's solved it. I had no idea it was divided up like that. Can we make this simpler for people like me who wasn't aware of the division? Lightmouse (talk) 15:08, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 'Bypass all redirects'
 * 'Follow redirects'
 * Skip 'Page is a redirect'

Bad "in template" handling
{{AWB bug | status        = resolved | description   = AWB seems to think {{ marks the end of templates (or something like that) | duplicate     = In advanced find/replace, do an "in template" find/replace for say... {{tl|cite web}}. Search for "(.*)", replace with "$1+++".
 * If you run this against something like
 * {{cite web |url=http://www.example.com |title=Bob}}
 * It'll replace with
 * {{cite web |url=http://www.example.com |title=Bob+++}}
 * However, if you run this against something like
 * {{cite web |url=http://www.example.com |title=Bob{{ndash}}Mark}}
 * It'll replace with
 * {{cite web |url=http://www.example.com |title=Bob+++{{ndash}}Mark+++}}
 * Instead of the expected
 * {{cite web |url=http://www.example.com |title=Bob{{ndash}}Mark+++}}

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC) | site          = English  Wikipedia | OS            = Win 7 | net           = 2.0.50727.5446 | version       = 5.3.1.0 | workaround    = None | fix_version   = }}
 * The code splits out the template call into pieces if there are nested templates, so you end up with the double replacement you describe. I could change it, but the existing behaviour must be there for a reason, I don't know what that reason is. Rjwilmsi  21:06, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I can't think of a reason why this would be desired behaviour. All I know is it makes it impossible to have reliable if and if not conditions and prevents my regex from working; which in turn means my bot needs to blacklist articles with certain templates likely to be found within templates. This makes it skip several articles it could otherwise be processing, and I need to review those manually to see if the edit won't screw things up. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:50, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * If backwards compatibility is important, could the type of behaviour at least be an option? ("In {{...}}, type 1"; "In {{...}} , type 2"?)? Or if you tell me what to modify, I could compile a custom version of AWB for my bot. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:35, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The raw text of this is a SubVersion patch for WikiFunctions/ReplaceSpecial/InTemplateRule.cs that I think solves your problem. Rjwilmsi  07:21, 16 September 2011 (UTC)


 * So... how exactly do I go around patching stuff? Wait for the nightly build? Open Wikifunctions.dll and edit the file? Get the source, edit WikiFunctions/ReplaceSpecial/InTemplateRule.cs manually and compile ? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:45, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Get source using TortoiseSVN. Apply patch using TortoiseSVN. Build using SharpDevelop or MS Visual Studio Express for C#. Rjwilmsi  17:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Did just that and I'm getting an error with a warning.
 * Error: Could not load referenced assembly "C:\Users\Headbomb\Desktop\AWB-special\WikiFunctions\bin\Debug\WikiFunctions.dll". Caught a FileNotFoundException saying "Could not load file or assembly 'C:\Users\Headbomb\Desktop\AWB-special\WikiFunctions\bin\Debug\WikiFunctions.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.".    C:\Users\Headbomb\Desktop\AWB-special\AWB\ResGen    AutoWikiBrowser
 * Warning: The referenced component 'WikiFunctions' could not be found.

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, I see what I did wrong. It's working like a charm now. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:05, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

RemoveDiacritics not working for listas parameter

 * Please link to the documentation/discussion saying this should be done (changes to existinglistas and I'll add it to AWB. Rjwilmsi  10:43, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * WP:MCSTJR. Listas and defaultsort both have the same rules.  Also Category talk:Biography articles without listas parameter... "Do not include ANY alphabetic characters other than the 26 letters of the English alphabet. No diacritics whatsoever."   Bgwhite (talk) 18:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Listas follows the same rules with defaultsort. adding this feauture is really usefull. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:53, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Feature has existed since . Rjwilmsi  07:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Works for me. Rjwilmsi  07:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I just added the diacritic back into Talk:Ciarán Brennan (journalist) and Talk:Alina María Hernández. AWB still didn't remove the diacritic.  Hmm, wonder if it is a module I'm running?  I tested it with and without Kingbotk, didn't work.  I'm running a module of Magioladitis/Kumioko.  I disabled it and it still didn't work.  Is there something in my settings somewhere? Bgwhite (talk) 08:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Just have genfixes on. Rjwilmsi  10:23, 4 February 2012 (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)


 * Still doesn't work in SVN 7961. If I'm reading the code correctly, it appears that the changes weren't made to AWB/UnitTests/RegexTests.cs   -GoingBatty (talk) 00:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your continued work on this! I don't understand why you chose to only do five of the eight tags listed.  GoingBatty (talk) 22:07, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Great - thanks so much! GoingBatty (talk) 23:45, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Headers must be on newline

 * Wait, there's no problem on line 227 it's on 418 and 419. And I suppose it's a bot problem not a AWB bug.-- Ankit Maity TalkContribs 08:49, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I see it's a AWB one only. Sorry.-- Ankit Maity TalkContribs 08:50, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  19:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Genfixes damage Cite Legislation AU

 * Rjwilmsi 18:35, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Strange bracket detection

 * . Rjwilmsi  22:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Stub sorting should not move section-stub in elwiki

 * Magio pinged via Skype. Rjwilmsi  08:54, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Since I renamed the template in elwiki and orphaned the template, I guess this bugs is resolved. I'll update variables too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Changing unreferenced stub → unreferenced does not add into Multiple issues

 * It's because the yes isn't removed until the next function in genfixes. Rjwilmsi  18:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT/Persondata addition and surname clarification templates

 * . Rjwilmsi  11:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Yahoo Search plugin still included in SVNs

 * Fixed Reedy (talk) 23:34, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ListMaker.get_Item / InvalidArgument=Value of '686' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index

 * I was trying to export a text file with the user contributions so that I could use it from another application while this error occured
 * Steps that I performed: Open List Splitter, Select Source to be User Contributions, Click on Make List, Sort alphabetically, remove duplicates, Sort Alphabetically, Remove some items at the top, remove some items at the end. There were 687 items and it did't save. I tried to save the contributions, The value of "Pages per files" was 1000. I clicked on Save to Text file when the error occured. --RajeshPandey (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

After removing duplicated index is not updated. Without removing duplicated list is saved fine (I tried sort alphabetically, removed from top-bottom all separately all work). -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentException in CustomModule.InitializeComponent
You need to reinstall Courier New font in your computer. This is a Windows 7/Vista bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:52, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Duplicated See also section

 * Don't move see also section if multiple references sections present. Rjwilmsi  21:16, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

More whitespace

 * Could not reproduce in sandbox. Rjwilmsi  21:02, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, conflict between FixHeadings and RemoveWhitespace, we need to decide whether the newline before heading rule applies for consecutive headings. Rjwilmsi  08:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 20:18, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't remove date from Multiple issues when expert is also a date

 * The Multiple issues documentation only talks about expert taking a subject or WikiProject not a date. Rjwilmsi  09:58, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right - I've submitted a request to have someone update the documentation too. GoingBatty (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've updated the template documentation. GoingBatty (talk) 21:19, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

This template is being deleted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Since the result of the TfD for Expert-subject is keep and improve, so I hope you'll reconsider fixing this bug. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  11:29, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Multiple issues section parameter not checked when changing/removing parameters

 * Rjwilmsi 15:24, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Interwiki sorting order on svwiki
-- Lavallen (talk) 17:03, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * fixed this. Snapshots with this fix in are available from the links at the top of this page. Rjwilmsi  20:37, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

skips some existing articles consistently

 * The "logs" page gives the reason for the automatic skip: "Page has character in Unicode Private Use Area". According to this archived discussion, AWB skips these pages because it cannot process them without causing accidental damage. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:14, 13 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, thank you. That explains it.
 * Not a bug, then, but not an optimal feature. Could I request that in such cases, rather than skipping the article, AWB notify the user that the page needs to be edited manually? — kwami (talk) 20:41, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * On first occurrence in session of page with Unicode PUA characters, show message box to user advising can't edit pages with Unicode PUA characters, then skip page. Rjwilmsi  19:49, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

XmlException in PluginManager.LoadSettingsNewWay
Now fixed. Please download latest snapshot from toolsever. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:37, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Fixing dates takes two edits

 * I'll investigate moving the  section to the end of , which should fix this one.  Rjwilmsi  11:56, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  07:06, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Extra reflist with General Fixes set to ON

 * This fix corrected the article. Now it's fine. Rjwilmsi  06:40, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentException in MetaDataSorter.RemoveCats

 * The page you are editing has two DEFAULTSORT templates at the bottom. Rjwilmsi  06:36, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Moreover, we have fixed that not to throw excpetions anymore. Please downloaws latest snapshot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:36, 15 June 2012 (UTC) Maybe I'll check out the snapshot, but I'm a bit wary of beta software. Jesse V. (talk) 05:52, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I just got the same exception:

Changing No footnotes|section to More footnotes|section looks at entire article

 * We need to ignore the section version of these templates. Rjwilmsi  08:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * While this conservative approach would ensure that no pages were changed erroneously, it would mean AWB wouldn't make valid substitutions on pages such as Central limit theorem. GoingBatty (talk) 00:37, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Never change no footnotes|section. Rjwilmsi  08:14, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Does not change No footnotes to More footnotes for articles containing sfn

 * . Rjwilmsi  14:22, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Does not change Unreferenced to Refimprove for articles containing sfn

 * . Rjwilmsi  14:29, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Replaces CURRENTMONTHNAME/CURRENTYEAR with currentmonthname/currentyear

 * We'll leave such errors alone. Have you checked whether Anomie's bot will pick these up? Rjwilmsi  06:58, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I posted a question on User talk:AnomieBOT - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:16, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Option to add human name DEFAULTSORT sometimes adding wrong value

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  07:40, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't provide alert for French parameters in Cite web

 * Maybe it only looks for invalid parameters with Latin characters. I'll check. Rjwilmsi  12:01, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * fixed. Rjwilmsi  10:54, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Win32Exception - The operation completed successfully
--Kumioko (talk) 18:16, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in MetaDataSorter.Load
Windows or Linux? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:10, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Removes wikify tag with reason populated

 * Comment you can see what occurs at File:Wikify tag removal by Auto Wiki Browser.png. Ryan Vesey Review me!  04:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * wikify with reason set will not be removed. Rjwilmsi  07:19, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Gen fixer breaks the new "Article issues"

 * fixes. Rjwilmsi  10:17, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Reflist on dewiki
-- Iste (D) 17:15, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * reflist addition will be restricted to English wiki only. Rjwilmsi  08:41, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Not removing PERSONDATA comment
AWB has never been removing this comment. This was something some AWB user were/are doing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:06, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirmed - I'm one of the users that is removing it via F&R when AWB is doing something more meaningful. GoingBatty (talk) 21:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Foreign-language quotation marks

 * We follow the guidance at MOS:QUOTEMARKS / MOS:QUOTE "replace guillemets (« ») with straight quotation marks". Please discuss on the MOS talk page if you think the MOS is wrong. Rjwilmsi  08:20, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

AWB messes up 13-digit ISBN groupings

 * Is this the edit you are referring to? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes it is thank you. Am I stuck with the more difficult (IMO) groupings? — GabeMc (talk) 07:49, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Firstly, these ISBN hyphenation changes are not a part of default AWB behaviour, so are custom to the editor who made the edit. Secondly, the penultimate group in an ISBN is not always 5 digits, it will be between 1 and 6 digits, see ISBN. The format of the hyphenated ISBNs in that edit looks correct. Rjwilmsi  08:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * From the perspective of a content editor, the five digits that tell me if I have the same edition are 89754 in the example I gave above. They should be grouped to help editors check sources, since the cpu doesn't care where the hyphens are, you get the same result with any combination, so why not make it easier for editors? — GabeMc (talk) 08:19, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Per WP:ISBN, "Formats for 13-digit ISBN: ISBN 9781234567897, ISBN 978-1-234-56789-7". So why does AWB not group the 13-digit as the policy suggests, and as is easiest for editors? — GabeMc (talk) 21:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe that line from WP:ISBN is to show that you may enter the ISBN either with or without the dashes. In the previous sentence it says "the placement of dashes varies between books". See also The FAQ page for the ISBN organisation, where it says that the "edition and format" part of an ISBN "may be up to 6 digits in length". -- John of Reading (talk) 22:07, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does vary by book, and the last six digits are the important ones, especially the five excluding the last. But house style should be consistant with what's best for libraries and editors. For example, would it matter if the Library of Congress entries group them exactly as I am suggesting? — GabeMc (talk) 06:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * With the hyphens in the correct places, marking off the variable-length pieces of each ISBN, then the group before the checksum digit is the "edition and format" identifier. If the language and publisher identifiers are longer, then the edition identifier will be shorter, and vice versa. If you want to see whether two ISBNs refer to different editions of the same book, then you need to compare everything excluding the edition identifier, whatever its length. If we impose a house style that insists on a hyphen before the last six digits, then this will make it more difficult to pick out the "edition and format" identifier, and thus make it harder to check whether two ISBNs refer to two editions of the same book. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Take this isbn for example, 978-0-7535-0481-9, can you please tell me which digits are the edition identifier? — GabeMc (talk) 08:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * (outdent)
 * According to this list, 7535 is the publisher code for Virgin Books, so 0481 must indicate both the title and the edition, and my previous post here is incorrect. Here is an AbeBooks search confirming my mistake; these ISBNs only vary in the last-but-one group (and the checksum, of course) but there are many different titles.
 * Similarly the ISBNs for different editions of the same book by the same publisher are all over the place. I couldn't find any other editions of the Beatles Encyclopedia at Abebooks, but I found another title by the same publisher with multiple editions, and the ISBNs are completely different (AbeBooks search).
 * So whatever the hyphenation, that makes it all much less useful for your purposes, doesn't it? There doesn't seem to be any way to tell from the ISBNs whether you are looking at two editions of the same title. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:31, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

AWB does not make changes to Kobon language article

 * The log says it was skipped because it contains a character in the Unicode Private Use Area - but I don't know why that means it is skipped, or how to find and remove the character(s) from the article. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It's, which we don't want to remove, because there's no good substitute and the best free IPA fonts will display it. — kwami (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Not being able to replace is okay, but skipping the article could be a problem. IMO it should at least stop and say it's unable to proceed, so that the editor can do it manually. — kwami (talk) 02:55, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * On first occurrence in session of page with Unicode PUA characters, show message box to user advising can't edit pages with Unicode PUA characters, then skip page. Rjwilmsi  19:45, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Fix typo in accessdate parameter
I only found two instances of "accessdaete" in Wikipedia and fixed them both manually. Doesn't seem common enough to add to WP:AWB/RTP. GoingBatty (talk) 00:25, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, how did you find them if you don't mind sharing? Kumioko (talk) 00:58, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB "Wiki search (text)" for "accessdaete" (including the quotation marks). GoingBatty (talk) 01:35, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Kumioko (talk) 01:57, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - I think we can archive this one. Kumioko (talk) 17:07, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Invalid regular expression: Length cannot be less than zero
When I try to use AWB general fixes (and nothing else) on Template:Ambox/doc, I get an error stating "Invalid regular expression - Length can not be less than zero. Parameter name: length. What needs to be fixed on this page to prevent this error from occurring?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  07:55, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

InvalidTitleException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * You need to give it a page title not a url. Rjwilmsi  12:28, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I know. I try to make Reedy's life more difficult. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

ArgumentException in CustomModule.InitializeComponent
Font 'Courier New' does not support style 'Regular' ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:07, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

The font is present on your system but incorrectly registered. The fix is simple: remove the font and then reinstall it. -- Magioladitis (talk)

InvalidCastException in MainForm.InitializeComponent

 * Curiously, there are no such error if I run the latest AWB 5.2.0.1 placed in a new directory. Placing the new version into the directory of the old one does not solve the problem, renaming of the directory with the old version does not help too. --Vladimir Ivanov (talk) 14:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Some file is corrupt probably? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:05, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I doubt. The new version placed in the directory named AWB-NEW works, the same version placed in the one named AWB does not. --Vladimir Ivanov (talk) 22:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Please rereport if bug reappears. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:49, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Change in definition of an orphan article per WP:Orphan
It's not if you activate the "Tag only linkless pages" on the Options menu. We keep flexibility for various projects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:22, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Is that on by default? Sorry, I don't know what is default or not anymore. Bgwhite (talk) 20:42, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. And it's HIGHLY recommended that you keep it on for en.wiki Jesse V. (talk) 18:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Win32Exception - The system cannot find the file specified

 * After having received a talk page message, AWB run from network. Rich Farmbrough, 23:08, 2 July 2010 (UTC).
 * What browsers etc? It should've just been attempting to open a URL to the talkpage in your browser... — Ree dy  11:55, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Firefox. Rich Farmbrough, 02:04, 12 September 2010 (UTC).

KeyNotFoundException in TraceManager.RemoveListener
Probably doesn;t occur anymore. Please rereport for version 5.3 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:12, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Devanagari numbers replacement
Maybe a Mediawiki bug? Reedy? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Windows/.net doesn't have good enough handling of indic languages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:01, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Copy pasting urls to the page list fails for mainspace articles with url that contains https

 * Rjwilmsi 19:33, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Tags articles with FlagIOC template as Dead end

 * Rjwilmsi 11:59, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect changes to Multiple issues used in sections

 * Rjwilmsi 09:53, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

An invalid citation parameter alert generated for parameter "isbn"

 * NB it's cite web. fixes.  Rjwilmsi  12:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Changes No footnotes to More footnotes when article only has footnotes

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  13:28, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Two edits to fix date and change from unreferenced to BLP unsourced

 * Rjwilmsi 14:50, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Double uneven small tag doesn't give an alert

 * Expanded alert logic for stray opening or closing tags. I've left the alert wording as "Unclosed tag(s) found (x)", so please update that (Main.cs) if you think it's now unclear given that unopened or unclosed tags can be found. Rjwilmsi  13:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

subst: doesn't work inside ref tags

 * No subst: of PAGENAME etc. on page if any such templates within tags.  Rjwilmsi  10:51, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Adding false nbsp before "um" on de.wikipedia
--AndreasPraefcke (talk) 07:50, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Adds Untitled heading on talk page inside infobox

 * Not within an infobox. Within an archive box template that was subst for some reason. I've fixed the talk page. Rjwilmsi  15:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Persondata and BC years
Fixed. Rjwilmsi 15:58, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in MainForm.RedSelection

 * Unable to reproduce. Rjwilmsi  13:05, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

The cursor jumps. Try User:Magioladitis/Sandbox with settings to remove "remove me with F&R" wth F&R. Then highlight on alerts. Important: Highlight errors must be turned OFF. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Some info remains in the buffer. Replacing it with clean buffer doesn't work. That's why the selection shows red to me even if Highlight errors is off.

AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.RedSelection(Int32 index, Int32 length) στο c:\AWB\Main.cs:line 5132 AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.lbAlerts_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) στο c:\AWB\AWB\Main.cs:line 2579

-- Magioladitis (talk) 01:48, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I've just hit this one with 5.3.1.0. I clicked somewhere in or near the "alerts" box while the article was being saved. Maybe the program was trying to highlight something in the edit box just after the edit box had been cleared for the next article? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, found it now.  Rjwilmsi  17:44, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Merging expert-subject with Wikiproject into Multiple issues
This template is being deleted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Since the result of the TfD for Expert-subject is keep and improve, so I hope you'll reconsider fixing this bug. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:38, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Incorrectly removes uncat tags from prodded articles.
Needs to exclude Prod categories Category:Proposed deletion.... and maybe some others too, using the same technique as excluding stub cats. Generally the generic "people" cats aren't considered enough either (Living people, ... births, ... deaths, etc.). Rich Farmbrough, 21:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC).


 * For articles with just the generic "people" cats, Improve categories might be more appropriate. GoingBatty (talk) 22:51, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed for "Proposed deletion". Rjwilmsi  15:33, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

"Follow redirects" should not invalidate "skip if redirect"
This is a matter of preference and not a bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * When would you want the reverse i.e. to have your "skip if redirect" preference totally ignored? Surely most people prefer the opposite i.e. not to have their preference ignored. It's hardly clear from "follow redirects" that it's going to invalidate any other options, either. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 21:37, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If "skip if redirect" is on, don't bypass redirects even if "bypass redirects" is on too. Rjwilmsi  19:46, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Persondata
Looks like all of these articles now have both DEFAULTSORT and Persondata, most courtesy of AWB run by you or RjwilmsiBot. GoingBatty (talk) 22:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Some of these pages are not identified as being about a human. You should more criteria to get more results. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:08, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Current status (remember always use the latest snapshot): GENFIXES -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:09, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There was no problem on Albert S. Janin, Albert Schwarz (inventor), James Acord, these all had persondata at the time, or it was added to the article without any relevant changes afterwards.
 * In the case of Edmund Hill there were multiple death date categories: it's not taken as a bio article as it incorrectly had Category:1973 deaths and Category:Date of death missing at the same time, incorrect article categorization.
 * In the case of Joan Heggen there weren't birth/death cats to identify the article as a bio, adds logic to include checks from "People from ..." categories, so the article as at 8 April would be seen as a bio article by AWB, persondata would be added.  Rjwilmsi  17:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Recent settings

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  19:27, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Page total/counter to the left of "Make list" box not work correctly in pre-parse mode

 * The counter to the left of the "Make list" button always shows how many pages are in your list.  If pre-parse mode is set, AWB decrements the counter when pages are skipped automatically.  If the page cannot be skipped AWB automatically proceeds to processing the next page without decrementing the counter. Once the list is completely processed, the counter shows how many pages remain in the list.  Seems to me like it's working as designed.
 * To determine your .NET version, go to AWB's Help > About menu. GoingBatty (talk) 11:38, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The "Edits/min:" at the bottom of the AWB screen is not working properly. Snowman (talk) 16:06, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you please be more specific? If you're still referring to pre-parse mode, "Edits/min" should be 0, since pre-parsing doesn't make edits.  If you're not referring to pre-parse mode, it may be more helpful to report this as a separate bug to keep conversations separate and make archiving easier.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * In pre-parse mode "Pages/min" does not work. It would be useful to have this couter working to estimate how long a task might take. Snowman (talk) 12:52, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Pages/min counter to show pages parsed/minute when in pre-parse mode. Rjwilmsi  18:24, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Program truncates custom site information, removes subdirectory
My apologies, I'm not a Wikipedia user, but am using AWB on a private wiki I'm using for historical research. My site's files are at http://www.melange-tea.com/codex/, and of course I enter www.melange-tea.com/codex/ under Options > Preferences > Site > http://. Each and every time I load any settings file using this project (including when settings load at program start), I am given:

Error connecting to wiki: An error occurred 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: Root element is missing.

I then go to Options > Preferences > Site > http:// and, once custom is selected under Project, I can see the http:// field populated with www.melange-tea.com (i.e., the URL with the subdirectory removed). I add the subdirectory /codex/ back on, click OK, and then everything runs as normal... until I have to load another settings file, and this whole process must be repeated. (For what it's worth I have tested this with the wiki set both private and public (i.e., $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true/false ) ; it occurs the same way under each configuration.)

It looks (to my unknowing eye) simply that your excellent program is clipping off the subdirectory, or doesn't accept a site that doesn't use the /w/ folder? Anyway, I can work around it no problem, but thought you should be let known. I think AWB is an excellent resource, thank you very much for creating/maintaining it!!!

Boris G 68.84.222.221 (talk) 21:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  19:36, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

False positive for multiple wiki-links when a link appears in comments

 * Text within wiki comments, nowiki tags etc. ignored for duplicate wikilink assessment. Rjwilmsi  17:57, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Changes No footnotes when parameter specifies a portion of the article

 * It would be OK to change the template if it contains article or yes. GoingBatty (talk) 02:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this your exhaustive list of exceptions? Rjwilmsi  17:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * After going through hundreds of articles, that's my list. There will probably be a few creative editors who will insert parameters where it would be OK to make the change, but I think it's better to miss a few edits than to make wrong edits.  (If the template contains article, you could remove the parameter if you wanted, which will make it more likely to me merged into Multiple issues.)  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 05:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Allowed date too. Rjwilmsi  20:17, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

dashes prevented by links
I reported this at typos, but was told it should be here. A simple fix.

Double-hyphen is converted to an em dash (except between digits, when it becomes an en dash). However, if the word to either side of he hyphens is linked, the conversion is prevented. This means that where the dashes occur in pairs, often only one of them will be fixed.

An example is here, where only the second "--" was autofixed in



(I did the other by hand.) — kwami (talk) 05:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  16:31, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent: highlight find

 * I'm unable to reproduce the stack trace you are seeing, though of course I get a popup about the invalid regex. What find are you using exactly: find & replace, advanced find & replace, find below start button? Rjwilmsi  15:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * This was the Find below the Save button, on the Start tab. Note that the problem was due to leaving the Regex checked (when the find text is not a valid regex) and clicking Save or Skip: the next time there is something to do the Find is automatically checked to display the matches (Options > Highlight Find matches is checked). I have confirmed it is repeatable -- let me know if I should adjust debug logging and add any extra logs. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:42, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that you were using "highlight find" was the information I was missing.  changes the error handling for highlight find to present the same popup you get from pressing the find button with an invalid regex. If you get the error you will need to turn off highlight find, press start again and fix the regex before highlight find can be used again.  Rjwilmsi  11:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Article title isn't emboldened if immediately preceded by a template

 * If we go down this route we'll have to run everything twice, at twice the time cost. We had better make a wider discussion to see if this is really needed. Rjwilmsi  22:48, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't think this was an issue of running things twice, as no amount of re-parsing gets The Urban Unit emboldened. GoingBatty (talk) 23:39, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:51, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Slight bug in Unbalanced bracket logic
{{AWB bug | status        = notawb | description   = When AWB looks at the table in the Delaware Route 82 it identifies the table as an unbalanced bracket but {{tl|jctbtm|col=4}}at the end of the article which acts as a close bracket. Can the logic be refined to recognize this template as a close when it is preceded by an {| ? | duplicate     = Run AWB on the Delaware Route 82 article | site          = English Wikipedia | OS            = Windows XP | net            = 2.0.50727.4214 | version       = SVN 7794 | workaround    = | fix_version   = }}
 * Shouldn't jctbtm be used in conjunction with jcttop? AWB reports the same issue when s-end is used to close a table that is started with {|  GoingBatty (talk) 01:48, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Your right on both counts, but I still think it should be possible for AWB to recognize it. --Kumioko (talk) 01:55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Instead of fixing the logic we should fix the article to use jcttop-jctbm. Someone need to check how many of these are there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:57, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

According to the AWB list comparer tool there appears to be:
 * 1437 articles with jcttop and no jctbtm
 * 979 articles with jctbtm and no jcttop --Kumioko (talk) 13:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * We need to go to the Village pump for help. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:45, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Just to make sure I get this right. Which Village pump should I send it too and what should I be asking? Are we just asking for clarification of how these templates should be used or technical help with cleaning them up? --Kumioko (talk) 13:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * We need willing editors to fix these anomalies by editing the pages and adding the missing templates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh ok. --Kumioko (talk) 00:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

BTW, LegendRJL is another template that is used to close a table, yet generates an alert. GoingBatty (talk) 01:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Office-table (~200 transclusions) also seems to be used to open a table, requiring |} to close the table, which generates an alert. GoingBatty (talk) 03:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Awards table has the same issue as the previous two. GoingBatty (talk) 01:08, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

This is bad template design/use and not an AWB fault. Rjwilmsi 19:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't correctly subst a pagename in Hindi wikipedia
-> instead of ->. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:56, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 13:32, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Wiki search (title) not working
Note: to perform a title search, do a regular Wiki search (text), but prefix the search term with "intitle:"; for example search for intitle:example. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  02:08, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * That workaround works for me - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:22, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Someone put it ti the manual as a tip then. :) Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Added tip in manual in this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 19:11, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * If you do a title search for Ypres, the en-wiki API URL is this but for me the API returns "title search is disabled". In AWB the title search list provider wasn't doing any call at all, hence no results. I've changed it to do a wiki search with "intitle:" as suggested, . I'll ask Reedy to confirm that this won't cause other problems. Rjwilmsi  15:09, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

An invalid citation parameter alert generated for parameter "type"

 * Rjwilmsi 15:27, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't fast enough to add the list Kumioko posted on the talk page: arxiv, bibcode, doibroken, isbn, jfm, lccn, mr, oclc, ol, osti, page, pmc, pmid, rfc, ssrn, zbl.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:33, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't have access to the coding obviously but here is what I think is needed to fix the logic to include the missing parameters. I also ordered them in alphabetical order to make finding and adding/removing them as changes are needed. Also, I took the above list of fields from the Template documentation however the code contains a few parameters that aren't listed in the documentation. A couple examples are editor-last, editor-first, editor-link and editor-surname. It might be a good idea to add those as well. Kumioko (talk) 01:29, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I suggest two small changes, as it seems coauthor is a valid (undocumented) parameter, and "pages?" also covers "page":
 * GoingBatty (talk) 02:37, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Makes good sense to me, how do you feel about adding in the other few (editor and such) that I mentioned above? Kumioko (talk) 02:56, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Since including them all would increase the list a great deal, how about only including those in the Template:Cite_web documentation?:
 * GoingBatty (talk) 03:10, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think we can shorten it a little and still cover them all.
 * Kumioko (talk) 03:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, your suggestion would supress valid alerts for invalid parameters such as "editor5-last", "editor6-last", "editor7-last", "editor8-last", "editor9-last". GoingBatty (talk) 03:28, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point. Kumioko (talk) 10:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Kumioko (talk) 03:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, your suggestion would supress valid alerts for invalid parameters such as "editor5-last", "editor6-last", "editor7-last", "editor8-last", "editor9-last". GoingBatty (talk) 03:28, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point. Kumioko (talk) 10:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Please work out between you the regex you want and I'll add it in. Thanks Rjwilmsi  20:03, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I am fine with the one that GoingBatty came up with but if you know of a way to clean up the grouping of editor[1-4]-[first|last|link] so it doesn't need all those parameters feel free.

Kumioko (talk) 20:16, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with this list, since it contains all of the documented parameters. Note that it doesn't cover all of the alternate undocumented parameters (e.g. surname\d?, given\d?, author\d?-link, others, editor-surname, etc.)  GoingBatty (talk) 22:14, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * , also retained editor. Rjwilmsi  13:46, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Latest SVN messing up Infobox box variables

 * Cannot reproduce. Are you sure the problem isn't in your own custom settings? Rjwilmsi  19:50, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I can still reproduce the bug in AVN 8062. However, everything works fine in SVN 8097.  You did something to fix it. Bgwhite (talk) 08:37, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe something you did accidentally and caused the bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Marked as Notawb and archived. Rereport if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:23, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Gen Fixes wrongly inserting colon: from to

 * Rjwilmsi 20:25, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Restarting in countdown timer
Nobody responded to me on the main talk page. I assume this is a bug. Whether or not it is, please remove it from the code of future releases; it is an annoyance and a time-waster - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  τ <font color="#3AAA3A">¢ 17:06, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is that the connection is lost or reset somehow, not the restart timer itself. Rjwilmsi  19:19, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Duplicating text when trying to remove the Orphan Tag.

 * I have just done a simple test, to see if any changes had been made to the first paragraph by the software - the results are clearly positive. As a result, the orphan tag would be opposite the original version of the first paragraph in the diff, while the new version would appear afterwords in the diff. When you double click on the orphan tag, then the software, correctly, replaces the orphan tag with the old diff info at the same place - the old version of the first paragraph. What you should have done is gone to the edit window at the bottom, and removed the template from there manually. This will occur only if the first paragraph is modified; in Alfred Darjou, this paragraph was just an image which AWB left alone. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:15, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Removing it from the edit window is another way of removing the orphan tag, but the problem still needs to be fixed. Being able to do somethings from one window and only other things in a different window can and does lead to confusion. Bgwhite (talk) 22:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * We can'y fix this. This is how Mediawiki diff recognises differences in the code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Genfixes too eager to combine "see also" links
Hi John! Since Template:See also states: " is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other, related, titles at the top of article sections according to Layout", it seems that AWB is consistent with the MOS. GoingBatty (talk) 16:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, OK. So I will continue to turn off genfixes when I run into an article that contravenes that part of the manual of style... -- John of Reading (talk) 17:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I also think we should merge "see also" tags found only for the top section or limit merge within sections. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Please confirm what change is required here. Rjwilmsi  14:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

SeeAlso function should leave the following things unaffected:

==Blah==

More blah
And

==Blah==

daqdasfsgdghdfk;hfkh fsgfegterhyrjutjutui

More blah
should change to

==Blah==

daqdasfsgdghdfk;hfkh fsgfegterhyrjutjutui

More blah
-- Magioladitis (talk) 18:26, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 12:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Fix all excess whitespace adding whitespace

 * It also seems to add several about 6 I think) blank spaces after talk page templates when it adds the Wikiprojectbannershell to talk pages. I will add a link once I get another one. --Kumioko (talk) 17:11, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Alert! Some editors remove space after bullets and some add it! I have in mind Kumioko that removes and Betacommand that adds. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Per your request I have stopped for the moment but I have added a comment to Template talk:Persondata for consideration and consesnus. --Kumioko (talk) 19:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Either way, AWB should definitely not add it. The whitespace is excess and so should be removed with the command.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  17:06, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Significant use of FixExcessWhitespace is just going to attract complaints. I'm not making any further changes to it unless it's a genuine bug that breaks page display. Rjwilmsi  19:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean you're not going to fix it? Perhaps you misunderstood the request. Without suggesting it on /Feature requests, someone has messed around with the Fix all excess whitespace command (whether deliberately or accidentally) so that it adds whitespace after bullets and no longer removes excess whitespace in section headings. It needs to be fixed first, then if someone wants the removing whitespace in those places to be removed, it should be discussed.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  16:13, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Fix spaces in list cleanup within RemoveAllWhiteSpace: don't add space if list unspaced. Rjwilmsi  12:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Symmetric difference not working properly
Works fine for me. I got 340 pages by loading List1 and taking symmetric difference with list 2. Be careful to keep all namespaces. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I managed to get the same result by running a new task of AWB and doing that; however, I succeeded in duplicating the results above by following the instructions in the box above in a single task of AWB. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:49, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * And the list of 340 pages I got is wrong incomplete - Georg Karl Pfahler should be on it (it's in list 2, but not in list 1), but it doesn't show up - the list can be found at User:Od Mishehu/possibly malformed stub types. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:05, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you please try it in v. 5.2.0.0.? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:45, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Bug is still present. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed. Even simpler things fail. Load a list and diselect everything in "Namespaces to keep". The result should be 0 files but it seems like nothing happens. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I don't like BinarySearch. I'll use another method to get the lists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:26, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Trick: To get the symmetric difference. Just load both lists and then remove duplicates. I'll try to implement it this way. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I think that the first problem in the description (that the first attempt at a symetric difference gave only 18 entries) is that it did the difference, not the symetric differenc - note that both lists are without repeats, and the difference between the results of "symmetric difference" in both directions comes out to precisely the difference between the lengths of the lists - which is what one would expect from the difference. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I know what the bug is about. There is also a note in the code writing "Not working". I have in mind some modification but I need programmer's help to implement them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We need to set up a simple test case then. Rjwilmsi  14:11, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It shoud be easy. Insetad of using the BinarySearch use the List comparer that we already have. Symmetric difference is obtained with the way I describe above. BinarySearch should be removed completelly from the code. We have later to see the problem of the ListComparer's performance but this is not the main issue now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed symmetric difference to work correctly, removed BinarySearch. Tested intersection operation OK as well. On these two sample files the symmetric difference code takes about 370 ms to run on my PC. The remove duplicates action takes about 10 seconds, I'll look at this separately. Rjwilmsi  18:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

The arrow in "replaced" edit summaries points the wrong way in right-to-left languages

 * In the code the logic to switch round the arrow for RTL is deliberately disabled, giving as an example of why it won't work. Can you link to some actual diffs on an RTL wiki so we can see the edit summary?  Rjwilmsi  13:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Example. This is not a bug. Of course we should better write as "the ← teh" but it's not a bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Here's another example which shows that it very much is a bug. Since actual users of actual RTL wikis will mostly replace RTL words, the rationale for disabling the correct code is rather weak. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Are you sure what you display is F&R and not typo fixing? Can you please upload the settings file somewhere? why it works for me and not for you? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not typo fixing. How can it be typo fixing, if typo fixing is for English wikis only? It's find and replace with regexes that i wrote myself.
 * It worked for you in the link you posted, because you replaced numbers and Latin text, which behave differently from the bi-directionality perspective. Try replacing them with actual right-to-left text. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:56, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Find & replace arrow RTL/LTR derivation reinstated. Users can report if this is mostly better or not in RTL languages. Rjwilmsi  13:02, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Diff in right-to-left languages is shown left-to-right

 * . For RTL wikis the diff will now be RTL. Rjwilmsi  15:09, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Creating multiple login profiles using same user name with different default settings fails

 * Need to see whether the error on creation of two entries for same user ID can be made into a warning, whether this breaks anything else. Rjwilmsi  08:35, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Multiple profiles for the same user can be created and saved, you will be asked to confirm prior to creation of each one. Rjwilmsi  18:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Google search returning no results
Google probably changed the method they give their results. We need to see how to obtain the results now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:56, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 16:18, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikia bug
Give us please an example of an article this happens. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:33, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

"Links on page" option do not work on Commons template:XXX/lang pages

 * The problem might be due to Commons:template:lle creating links using [ ] format which might not be recognized as proper links by AWB. However it is commonly used link format. --Jarekt (talk) 12:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That would mean they're not being registered in the page links table by mediawiki —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  06:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that is intentional each file has a license template or two and each license template has great many language version links. This was causing an explosion of some link tables in the database. Commons:template:lle was designed to fix that (see discussion). --Jarekt (talk) 12:52, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB would use this API query for links on Commons:Template:Occupation/lang. If there's a need to hide these links from the API then I don't see how it's expected that AWB will still pick them up? Rjwilmsi  15:58, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

AWB not putting Talk header above WikiProject templates in all cases

 * You shouldn't be putting on Talk:Cherokee County Airport (Georgia). There are no discussions, and per the documentation,  "should be used only when needed. There is no need to add this template to every talk page."; "This ... is intended to be used on particularly active talk pages that attract commentary from inexperienced editors, and/or high levels of debate from everyone."; and "Calm talk pages do not need this template.". -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify I didn't put it there I am just presenting it as an example. I don't think that AWB can determine whether the template should or shouldn't be there and if it could I'm not sure if it should remove it. There are arguments on both sides for and against using the template that I don't think AWB needs to get into the middle of. But the template shouldn't be stuck between the wikiProject templates like this.
 * I also think that we should make sure that WikiProject Banners are above discussion strings like you can see on William Augustus Jones, Jr. where the banners are below the discussion. --Kumioko (talk) 19:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Had me going there for a bit thinking you wanted the on all pages.  I agree with Kumioko.  An example, currently Larabot will append Wikiproject Biography above the talk template, if the talk template is already present. This could be expanded for other things, for example:
 * Image requested banners being in the middle of WP banners should be moved to the bottom.
 * Moving the WikiProject Biography banner first in living biographies.
 * Bgwhite (talk) 20:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * In the original example (Cherokee airport), the second wikiproject template at the time of Kumioko's edit was WPAVIATION, which AWB does not pick up as a WikiProject template as it's not named WikiProject or wikiproject. So I've no example of an AWB fault to investigate. The discussion after is ideas other things, which should be raised as feature requests if there is consensus for them. Rjwilmsi  14:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Using custom setting files fail
{{AWB bug | status     = notawb | description = <div style{{=}}"padding: 1em; border: 1px dashed #2F6FAB; background-color: #F9F9F9; margin: 10px 0;"> An error occurred while connecting to the server of 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: `accesskey` is an unexpected token. Expecting white space. Line 88, position 97. {{Collapsible list <?xml version="1.0"?> <AutoWikiBrowserPreferences xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xml:space="preserve" Version="5.3.1.0"> <Project>custom</Project> <LanguageCode>en</LanguageCode> <CustomProject>ddowiki.com</CustomProject> <UsingSecure>false</UsingSecure> <PHP5>false</PHP5> <List> <ListSource /> <SelectedProvider>CategoryListProvider</SelectedProvider> <ArticleList /> </List> <FindAndReplace> <Enabled>false</Enabled> <IgnoreSomeText>false</IgnoreSomeText> <IgnoreMoreText>false</IgnoreMoreText> <AppendSummary>true</AppendSummary> <Replacements /> <AdvancedReps /> <SubstTemplates /> <IncludeComments>false</IncludeComments> <ExpandRecursively>true</ExpandRecursively> <IgnoreUnformatted>false</IgnoreUnformatted> </FindAndReplace> <Editprefs> <GeneralFixes>false</GeneralFixes> <Tagger>false</Tagger> <Unicodify>false</Unicodify> <Recategorisation>0</Recategorisation> <NewCategory /> <NewCategory2 /> <ReImage>0</ReImage> <ImageFind /> <Replace /> <SkipIfNoCatChange>false</SkipIfNoCatChange> <RemoveSortKey>false</RemoveSortKey> <SkipIfNoImgChange>false</SkipIfNoImgChange> <AppendText>false</AppendText> <AppendTextMetaDataSort>false</AppendTextMetaDataSort> <Append>true</Append> <Text /> <Newlines>2</Newlines> <AutoDelay>10</AutoDelay> <BotMaxEdits>0</BotMaxEdits> <SupressTag>true</SupressTag> <RegexTypoFix>false</RegexTypoFix> </Editprefs> <General> <AutoSaveEdit> <Enabled>false</Enabled> <SavePeriod>30</SavePeriod> <SaveFile /> </AutoSaveEdit> <SelectedSummary /> <Summaries> clean up      re-categorisation per CFD clean up and re-categorisation per CFD removing category per CFD subst:'ing stub sorting Typo fixing bad link repair Fixing links to disambiguation pages Unicodifying </Summaries> <PasteMore> </PasteMore> <FindText /> <FindRegex>false</FindRegex> <FindCaseSensitive>false</FindCaseSensitive> <WordWrap>true</WordWrap> <ToolBarEnabled>false</ToolBarEnabled> <BypassRedirect>true</BypassRedirect> <AutoSaveSettings>false</AutoSaveSettings> <noSectionEditSummary>false</noSectionEditSummary> <restrictDefaultsortAddition>true</restrictDefaultsortAddition> <restrictOrphanTagging>true</restrictOrphanTagging> <noMOSComplianceFixes>true</noMOSComplianceFixes> </Module> <ExternalProgram> <Enabled>false</Enabled> <Skip>false</Skip> <Program /> <Parameters /> <PassAsFile>true</PassAsFile> <OutputFile /> </ExternalProgram> <Disambiguation> <Enabled>false</Enabled> <Link /> <Variants /> <ContextChars>20</ContextChars> </Disambiguation> <Logging> <LogVerbose>false</LogVerbose> <LogWiki>false</LogWiki> <LogXHTML>false</LogXHTML> <UploadYN>false</UploadYN> <UploadAddToWatchlist>false</UploadAddToWatchlist> <UploadOpenInBrowser>false</UploadOpenInBrowser> <UploadToWikiProjects>false</UploadToWikiProjects> <DebugUploading>false</DebugUploading> <UploadMaxLines>1000</UploadMaxLines> <LogFolder /> <UploadJobName /> <UploadLocation /> <LogCategoryName /> </Logging> <Special> <namespaceValues> 0      1       2       3       4       5       6       7       10       11       14       15     </namespaceValues> <remDupes>true</remDupes> <sortAZ>true</sortAZ> <filterTitlesThatContain>false</filterTitlesThatContain> <filterTitlesThatContainText /> <filterTitlesThatDontContain>false</filterTitlesThatDontContain> <filterTitlesThatDontContainText /> <areRegex>false</areRegex> <opType>-1</opType> </Special> <Tool> <ListComparerUseCurrentArticleList>0</ListComparerUseCurrentArticleList> <ListSplitterUseCurrentArticleList>0</ListSplitterUseCurrentArticleList> or  to match whatever the wiki uses, NOT just. Rjwilmsi 10:43, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * frame_style = border: .5px solid;
 * title = Using Custom.xml
 * title_style = background: #efe; text-align:center;
 * list_style = background: #efe;
 * 1 =

Shift click doesn't work in list comparer results

 * Issue still present in SVN 7852. You can do shift click in the left side (input lists) but not in the right side (results lists). Lightmouse (talk) 16:34, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:53, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

"list comparer" is extrimly slow for large sets of pages

 * Googling has suggested that we need to use a ListView rather than a ListBox to hold page lists, otherwise there are performance problems with large lists. This might not be a simple conversion. Rjwilmsi  08:28, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Scratch that. HashSet is the way to go, though it will force a requirement of .NET 3.5 or 4 for AWB. I'll see whether the performance improvement is worth it. Rjwilmsi  10:33, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that upgrading to 3.5 or 4 would generally be a good idea anyway. It seems like there would be other improvements that we could take advantage of as well. Kumioko (talk) 10:47, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Performance fix to ListComparer compare operation by use of HashSet. Comparing two 10,000 entry lists is now nearly instant (before ~40 seconds); it now takes about 4.5 seconds to compare two lists of 100,000 entries each. Performance should scale linearly above that. Rjwilmsi 22:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Performance fix to ListMaker RemoveSelected operation (i.e. delete a selection of items). Removing 10,000 articles from a list of 50,000 is now nearly instant in main list box and those in List Comparer (before ~15 seconds). Rjwilmsi  23:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Performance fix to ListMaker select all/select none operations. Rjwilmsi  16:46, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

It won't remove template prefix in other languages

 * Rjwilmsi 09:31, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

In cite web when date parameter present, removes year but not month

 * The logic works for month names, but not month numbers. Is the (incorrect) use of month numbers sufficiently common that we need to care about it? Thanks Rjwilmsi  09:14, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:07, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

After copy/paste, edit window jumps

 * I agree it's annoying, but the current behaviour is the best I can do to prevent a more serious problem over the font of pasted text. If I can work out how to not have the jumping I will do it. Rjwilmsi  18:11, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi

It takes two runs to enbolden name and convert yob- to born yob

 * Rjwilmsi 08:54, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT Diacritics (part 1)
There are some problems with the mapping in Diacritics: Gorobay (talk) 03:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC) I fixed these. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * "Ɯ" should map to "W".
 * "ø" is listed twice. One of the two might as well be deleted when the above changes are made.
 * You deleted the entry for "Ø" → "O". Gorobay (talk) 20:19, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * "Ǣ" and "ǣ" should map to "Ae" and "ae", to be consistent with "Æ" and "æ".
 * "Œ" and "œ" should map to "Oe" and "oe", for the same reason.
 * "Þ" and "Æ" should map to the titlecase strings "Th" and "Ae", per Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 11.
 * fixes some more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Eliminate some false positives for unbalanced brackets found
The "Unbalanced brackets found" alert checks for { } < > [ ]. Should the check be turned off for Talk pages? GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Possibly but I find a lot of broken links that way. In Banners, sometimes links in discussions or other templates. Personally I would rather live with the false positives than to eliminate the functionality. Kumioko (talk) 03:16, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Let me clarify - should the check on talk pages look for unbalanced { } < > [ ] but not unbalanced ? GoingBatty (talk) 04:43, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh ok well maybe. I do find some of those but not that many so it wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't look for on talk pages IMO. Kumioko (talk) 10:36, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Let me clarify something: This is not a bug. The alert is clear and correct. I had the same idea to limit the search for unbalanced brackets in talk pages only in the lead section but this not a priority right now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. Kumioko (talk) 10:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It's definitely working as designed. However, if it's providing lots of false positives, and presuming that we wouldn't change many unbalanced parentheses in user comments, it may be a valid feature request to adjust this alert for talk pages.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 17:20, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

For unbalanced brackets: Just limit the check to the leading section. We don't care for unbalanced brackets in the real talk page. The unbalanced chceck should be done after the Untitled section header is added to ensure that the search is limited to the upper part of the page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Only check zeroth section of talk pages for unbalanced brackets. Rjwilmsi  13:01, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect error message after failed search

 * So the fix you want is to rename the popup to "Text search failed"? Rjwilmsi  09:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. I knew from reading AWB pages that search is no longer disabled after an unsuccessful attempt, so I try again. But others may believe the "disabled" message and just give up. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  09:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes and no. One type of search is disabled on the WMF servers (due to Lucene etc). I did have it removing it before, but users didn't approve of this... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Text search via API is enabled. I've just added logic for the title search to work via the API as well. If the error refers to the search being disabled it will be on the API side, a genuine message, rather than AWB. Therefore no action here, this report can be archived. Thanks Rjwilmsi  15:26, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Adds wikify tag to very short articles

 * This seems like a Déjà vu moment for me. I just had a conversation about this with a couple folks in the last couple days and considered creating a discussion on the Village pump about this to see if we can make a community change. To me, if an article is a stub, there is no reason to tag it with such things as Wikify, Cleanup, expand, refimprove and a number of others. The stub status infers a level of incompletness that makes some of these tags unnecessarily redundant and distracts the reader. --Kumioko (talk) 18:58, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In brief: Expand is dead, we don't add cleanup, we only replace unreferences with refimprove if some references exist, wikify still needs some work to be accurate. Big problem is that we still don't have strict rules on wikify. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:25, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

We should exclude infoboxes and drugbox from length count. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

excludes infoboxes and drugboxes from length count. This should solve the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:44, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

edit summaries must be editable
Whoever eventually responds to this, please put a whisperback on my userpage, as this is a very active page and I'll miss the response otherwise. ··gracefool&#9786; 17:52, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * When editing using AWB you can change the edit summary in the Summary box on the Start tab to whatever you want, if the page text is manually edited only "using AWB" will be appended to what's in the Summary box, typo "a -> b" items will not be appended. Therefore I'm unclear why you say you can't change the edit summary? Thanks Rjwilmsi  12:40, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Here's a typical edit summary: "Typo and General fixing, replaced: Commemmorative → Commemorative, typos fixed: Morroco → Morocco, caracter → character using AWB". If I had made even one keystroke in the text window, all this is lost. The workaround suggested here requires me to grab the text from the edit summary tab, paste it into Notepad to be edited, and repaste it from there into the tiny box on the "Start" tab. Then, since everything typed into the box on the "Start" tab gets saved in the list at "Options > Summaries", it is necessary to clear them out of there from time to time.
 * Since that is unworkable I *never* edit in the text window while typo-fixing, and jump out to edit in my browser whenever the AWB edit isn't right.
 * Can we think of a better way to use the space on the edit summary tab? Something like: just below the preview of the edit summary, an editable field where a one-off edit summary can be composed, and a button to copy the automatically-generated edit summary into the editable field. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:59, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Make edit summary editable: edit summary tab allows free editing of default/generated edit summary. Manual changes in text box/reparse/undo in diff do not change edit summary. "using AWB" or its translation will always be automatically appended to edit summary (unless disabled e.g. when in bot mode or on custom wiki, no changes to rules about when this can be disabled). Rjwilmsi  16:24, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Unreferenced to Refimprove, but with a current date
This is a superminor problem. Dates on tags are only for categorisation purposes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:01, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Magio has updated the refimprove documentation to match. Rjwilmsi  15:13, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

AWB and Norton 360 v5.1.0.29
I've downloaded the latest version of AWB, extracted the zipped files to a folder. Once run, Norton (Symantec) AntiVirus 360 (v5.1.0.29) either makes the files invalid or deletes one or two of the files. Adamdaley (talk) 10:35, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ive had that happen as well. It doesn't do it every time and I usually just disable the app temporarily till Im done updating AWB. --Kumioko (talk) 13:41, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. I disabled Norton (Symantec) and it did work indeed.  This could be something the developers could consider in future releases of AWB.  Adamdaley (talk) 22:40, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Archived. Please report if problem presists in Norton's latest version. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Apparent regression of ref-reordering bug
Previous bug at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_11

There are also some other templates that should be treated the same way, I think:
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates
 * Anything in Category:Inline citation cleanup templates


 * Rich Farmbrough, 01:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC).


 * Fixes whitespace problem for rp matching. Rjwilmsi  18:26, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Handle the Inline citation cleanup templates too. Rjwilmsi  17:51, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Multiple refs reordering

 * , . Fixed Rjwilmsi  18:46, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Double stub tag not always detected
What happens if you reparse (by pressing F5)? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:00, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Pressing F5 results in one more stub to be added! The more you press the more the fun. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * My correct edit fails for me. I think we don't fix double stub tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:32, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * MetaDataSort fixes double tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:02, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Problem on the example given was a commented out second DEFAULTSORT, which meant the metadata sorter didn't run fully, not clearing the duplicate stub. I've reproduced the problem on AWB 5.3.0.0, it no longer occurs on latest SVN, so this one is fixed. Rjwilmsi  21:33, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

It takes two runs to fix External links brackets and add bullets

 * No longer a problem on latest SVN. Rjwilmsi  21:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

It takes two runs to move punctation and fix spacing

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  22:03, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Moar &lt;br&gt;

 * Wasn't this fixed by improving the articles formatting? There's almost always better ways to format than using &lt;br&gt;. Kirkburn (talk) 14:34, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

And &lt;p&gt;. Max<font size="+1">S em(Han shot first!) 16:06, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not clear what the problem is in either of the examples. Rjwilmsi  00:26, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Removing the paragraph tag caused two paragraphs to merge. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:03, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Removing break lines inside blockquote. At least this one we can easily fix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:01, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, by genfixes? Should not be done by genfixes as SyntaxRemoveBr only called on HideMoreText articleText. Rjwilmsi  13:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Genfixes. Confirmed. No plugins loaded, no customised settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:38, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, that one is actually by BrTwoNewlines in RemoveWhiteSpace, so is in genfixes. Rjwilmsi  14:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

On pages like this one the automatic general fixes of AWB tries to remove the <tt>  </tt> tags including the following blank line instead of replacing the tags with <tt> </tt>. -- ζ 14:33, 20 March 2011 (UTC) </tt> give the same result. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:20, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * As far as I know <tt>  </tt> and <tt>

Don't change br tags within blockquote tags (fixes Abul Ala Maududi example). Palindrome example is no longer a problem. Rjwilmsi 08:40, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Does not fix date formats in gallery file captions

 * This is because image name hiding logic currently hides all text in galleries, not just the image names. Rjwilmsi  21:36, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Improve WikiRegexes.Images to match only the image file names in  tags, not the entire gallery tags so that image hiding hides only images within   tags and not description as well.  Rjwilmsi  16:09, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void WikiFunctions.Controls.ArticleTextBox.PasteUnformatted'.
I got this error when I tried to cut and paste the DYK talk template below the WikiProject template. Kumioko (talk) 23:36, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you reproduce this bug on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:46, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, However there also seems to be some issues with my settings files. I notice that the .net version says 2 but I have 4 installed on this computer. I also noticed that all the plugins are installed (including some that don't exist anymore) but I cannot unload them no matter what I do. Kumioko (talk) 01:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I would also note that I am running Windows 7 not NT. Kumioko (talk) 01:07, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * OK well partly good news. I had a corrupted file so now that I fixed that it wiped clean the extra plugins and stopped the error. The bad news is that AWB still reflects the wrong version of .net and Windows so that might be something you need to take a look at still. Kumioko (talk) 01:19, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought so. Missing method was probably a result of old settings file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

BoldTitle does not follow WP:BOLDTITLE

 * bold title logic will apply to zeroth section only. Rjwilmsi  07:26, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect change to Multiple issues

 * MoveMaintenanceTags to not pull tags from new-style multiple issues template. Rjwilmsi  12:10, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ArticleTextBox.PasteUnformatted

 * Fixed by . Rjwilmsi  14:53, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Does not move all DABlink templates to top of page
I added two/three other uses. Are you sure for see also? I think we have some function to limit move inside sections. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * You're right - Template:See also says " is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other, related, titles at the top of article sections" - not the top of articles.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT Diacritics (part 2)
There are some problems with the mapping in Diacritics:
 * "б" and "л" should not map to anything.
 * "ǅ", "ǈ", "ǋ", "ǲ" all represent two characters and should map to "Dz", "Lj", "Nj", and "Dz".
 * What version of AWB are you using? Could you give some examples of articles? Bgwhite (talk) 05:32, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I do not use AWB; I was just looking at Tools.cs rev 7971. Examples:
 * Œ: Œuf-en-Ternois
 * Þ: Þjazi
 * Æ: Ælnoth of Canterbury
 * б, л: Либерално-Демократска Партија
 * Ɯ: Ɯ
 * Gorobay (talk) 12:47, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

I would like to see this written in some Manual or something. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:41, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll look these up. It will be a couple of days.  Æ is pretty common in Scandinavian words and should be sorted as Ae. Либерално-Демократска Партија is Cyrillic.  Shouldn't the title of the article be translated into English? Bgwhite (talk) 07:41, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think AWB has Œ wrong. It should be Oe and not O rev 7971, line 1063.  Example of Œuf-en-Ternois is found as Oeuf-en-Ternois at www.oeufenternois.net.
 * "ǅ", "ǈ", "ǋ", "ǲ" are indeed all two characters. Lines 1157-1157 and 1169 in rev 7971 should be changed. Bgwhite (talk) 21:49, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis (talk) 21:58, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Improve Dated template functionality

 * . Rjwilmsi  17:59, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Unneeded break tags don't removed if next line starts with bold

 * , though has nothing to do with bold on next line. Rjwilmsi  18:50, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Date on stub tag causes weird problems
The number of newlines is depended on the number of categories or something like that! -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:15, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

I used only general fixes. I tried with Autotagger on and off and the result was the same. An idea to fix it is to remove date tags from stubs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

I found 120 pages with -stub|date= in them. The list excludes pages excludes section-stub and list-stub which I all fixed. I didn't exclude those with the sect-stub but I fixed them too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:14, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

It also causes weird changes and prevents general whitespace fixing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:24, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Ignore this one. It was done by custom settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Do any stub templates support additional parameters? Does WikiRegexes.Stub match a stub with a date tag? Rjwilmsi  17:50, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know if any stub support additional parameters. We have a test for so I guess the answer is "maybe".
 * I added a test for  at  and it was successful. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:41, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

fixed. Rjwilmsi 19:59, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

I had to add bold manually
This is because the PAGETITLE is in bold inside the Infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:55, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Per WP:BOLDTITLE: "If an article's title is a formal or widely accepted name for the subject, display it in bold as early as possible in the first sentence." This is independent of what is happening in the infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:01, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * BoldTitle to ignore infoboxes when checking for existing bold text in articles. Rjwilmsi  11:20, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

It takes two runs to remove selflink and bold

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  13:11, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

AWB takes an inordinate amount of time and CPU to display some pages

 * Somebody must have messed up on a lookaround in one of the recent rule updates. Rjwilmsi  06:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed by . Performance problem with revised images regex meant article alerts were slow to generate. Rjwilmsi  06:55, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Custom edit summary issues
Note that it works fine if you use the great new feature allowing you to edit the edit summary using the Edit Summary tab. I've added this to the "Workaround" above. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  07:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The smaller edit summary box was really designed to be changed per article... Reedy (talk) 11:30, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * MJ94, the design of AWB is that the Edit summary on the Start tab in the middle acts as the default start of the edit summary, if you want to change the summary for a specific article only, change it on the Edit Summary tab on the right hand side. We can't update the per-article edit summary if you change the default after the article has been processed since we might overwrite deliberate user changes, so if you want to change the default change it before loading the article. We've only just made the per-article edit summary editable, so the user manual needs to be updated, but I don't think there's any problem in AWB. Do you agree? Rjwilmsi  11:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Rjwilmsi! I was teaching MJ94 how to use AWB when we came across this issue. There are advantages to this design, such as keeping the "typos fixed" info when making additional unrelated fixes. However, there are disadvantages, such as keeping the "typos fixed" info when double clicking on the line to undo an erroneous typo fix. It will take a while for me to get used to this change, as I almost always change my edit summary in the drop down box with each edit before clicking Save. It seems it will take longer to use the Edit Summary tab, but if I'm careful, I'll end up with more accurate edit summaries, which will benefit the project.
 * This functionality change, while working as designed, does not seem very intuitive at first glance, although I'll probably get used to it after a few hundred edits. I would not have noticed it at all if I wasn't working with MJ94, and would have made lots of edits with incorrect summaries. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to have the Summary on the Start tab be uneditable when in "Ready to save" move, to prevent users from making changes they think will be applied when they click Save. Also, maybe hovering over the Summary on the Start tab could reference the Edit Summary? Maybe someone else has a better suggestion to make this more obvious, as I'm concerned people won't reread the manual when downloading a new version, make constructive edits with incorrect summaries, and give the AWB-haters something else to gripe about.
 * Thanks for continuing to improve this valuable tool! GoingBatty (talk) 02:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Another thought - how about moving the Summary field from the Start tab to the Edit Summary tab? GoingBatty (talk) 02:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * In my request for this feature I had suggested a button or check box in the Edit Summary tab to use the edited summary. But an easier-to-use solution would be: if one or both was changed for the current page, to use whichever summary was changed most recently. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  03:38, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm going down the path that the functionality is right (list of default summaries and an editable edit summary per page), but it's not correctly labelled and not properly documented in the user manual. So the task is to get the labelling right and ensure the manual explains it clearly. Edit Summary on start tab is "Default Edit Summary", update summary editor/Options menu to reflect this. Rjwilmsi 11:52, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that the drop-down list on the "start" tab will no longer have any effect on the current article? Here I am fixing typos, and constantly flipping between two pre-configured edit summaries so that I mention the "General fixes" only when some general fixing took place; and here I am fixing infoboxes, and selecting the appropriate pre-configured edit summary after deciding how to fix each problem. Am I going to have to copy+paste one of my pre-configured edit summaries into the edit summary tab each time? That will add a lot of extra clicks and keystrokes compared with the convenience of a drop-down list. Please try to find a way to make the edit summary editable, for the rare cases that need it, without losing the functionality of the drop-down list on the start tab. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:41, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If user changes default edit summary after article has been processed, regenerate editable edit summary; any custom changes to editable edit summary will be lost. Rjwilmsi  16:44, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Small bugs with bracket checking logic

 * Also, in French American AWB tries to remove the 4th } in the ref around line 9. This breaks the Citation template. Kumioko (talk) 23:17, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * There is also a small problem with bulleting references. Leprosy in Louisiana has a number of references in the references section but none contain a * before them. Kumioko (talk) 00:07, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Please report separate problems separately. Rjwilmsi  11:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Will do, resubmitted as Possible problem with bulleting referencesKumioko (talk) 17:13, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Possible problem with bulleting references

 * We add bullets to external links, not to references. Rjwilmsi  16:48, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

new edit summary generation seems to have some issues

 * Editable edit summary: if generated edit summary includes section edit summary and if then manual changes to article text mean section edit summary is no longer correct, remove section edit summary from edit summary prior to save. The user can freely edit the rest of the edit summary; if they had already removed the section edit summary then no changes are made. Rjwilmsi  08:41, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Not adding stub tags
Words: 77. Characters: 564 (including category), 528 (excluding it). In both case I included MI in the count. If we excluded MI tag (thing that we don't do) the page would have 442 characters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:50, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

With our method AWB appends stub if article has at most 300 characters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:14, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * What does that 300 character count exclude? I didn't think it counted things like comments, infoboxes or categories, is that still true? This is the sort of thing that would make having the ability to set a manual skip if statement based on the number characters a great improvement.

Check GENFIXES: Appends stub if article has at most 300 characters (comments, categories, persondata, infoboxes and Drugbox are excluded from character count). -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:51, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Watchlist bug
I attempted to add a page to my watchlist. AWB would automatically restart and reload the page I was working on, so I attempted to save my work before the restart timer ran down and got this error message. If I I get an error message: "Attempted to save a wrong page", header: "Exception in MainForm.Save". HMman (talk) 17:56, 14 August 2012 (UTC).

I can reproduce the bug: Load any page, press Watch/Unwatch button and then press save. Kaboom! Attempted to save a wrong page (Article name: 'Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox', session page title: '')! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for confirming it is not only myself that has problems with the Watch button. HMman (talk) 18:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC).

Fix watch/unwatch by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:34, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open
Confirmed. AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.1), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.1), revision 8267 (2012-08-15 02:04:01) -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:57, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

The bug occurs when trying to bypass the redirect. Disactivate the "bypass the redirect" option and no bug occurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:06, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

API behaviour is inconsistent in this case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:17, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Reedy reported this API bug in Bugzilla (Bug 39492). -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

BrokenXmlException in ApiEdit.Open
http://ddowiki.com/page/Internal%20error.html redirects to http://ddowiki.com/page/Special:RecentChanges. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:12, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

AWB tagging short lists as stubs - should add expand list
You have first to update the documentation of stub to reflect this. The manual should read that the tag should not be put in lists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:24, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The documentation of stub includes: "This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follow; for full details please consult Stub." Stub includes the statement " Lists and non-article pages, such as disambiguation pages, categories, templates, talk pages, and redirects, are not regarded as stubs.". Is that not sufficient? Pam  D  12:11, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Since this was added as a copyedit only a month ago I am not sure that the community is really aware of this change. I would prefer to have some proof of consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:23, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I left a question at Wikipedia_talk:Stub. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

and Don't tag List of... and Lists of... as stub per Wikipedia_talk:Stub. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:34, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Header to Headerthumb
It's because is an image in a header. Is this really visible for starts? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:02, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Bug confirmed in en.wiki:. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:12, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

fixes the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:43, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Don't use leader field data in infobox to add Persondata
Fixed. Rjwilmsi 07:44, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

AWB skips pages when automatic changes are ticked for auto tag, apply general fixes unicoify whole page

 * The performance problem in the 8207 snapshot is fixed in 8267. In the logs tab on the right hand side of AWB what is the skip reason given for the Rangers article? Rjwilmsi  16:35, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * this is the first time it has put anything there "Only General Fix Changes"--<font color="Light Blue">Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 17:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * mmm very strange just checked memory looking for something and i noticed awb seems to be registering itself running from my local drive ie C: and also from the network drive where i copied it from, and the svn version to which i only downloaded seem to be also thinking it running from both<font color="Light Blue">Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 17:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * just a update, i have ran this on clean install xp machine, with it download straight form here not the network, same problem it skips the page saying just general fixes<font color="Light Blue">Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 14:07, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

What are your skip conditions? Can you please check the Skip tab and tell me? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:31, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * where is the skip tab??? i cant see it i can take a screenshot of the log page if you want that all i have is the log page saying skipped for "Only General Fix Changes"<font color="Light Blue">Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 16:50, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * In the middle part of the bottom half of the screen, the tabs are Options/More/Disambig/Skip/Start. See it? -- John of Reading (talk) 16:55, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * it seems i had skip general fixes not sure why, but its not a bug so i am happy to close :)<font color="Light Blue">Andrewcrawford ( talk  -  contrib ) 17:47, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * You had it because we have it turned on by default. Problem solved! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:20, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

List comparer not functioning correctly

 * Also, I tried it with SVN 8277, with and without my settings file loaded and it performs exactly the same way. Kumioko (talk) 18:53, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Massachusetts articles by quality has only categories so you should load "Category recursive" and then "Convert from Talk pages" (use right click). Then it gives you 0 pages unique in the first list, 446 pages in the common list and 14608 pages unique in the second list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:26, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Wrong categorisation. Someone mixed Stub-class with stubs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * After fixing this I get: 77 in list 1 and 369 common. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:35, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh I didn't catch that thanks. Kumioko (talk) 19:50, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

For DEFAULTSORT, AWB is changing first letter of each word to be capitalized
It also generates sort keys in which upper case letters are changed to lower case (e.g., for LeRon McCoy, it generates Mccoy, Leron). It should never change the case of any letter for a sort key. Please see my previous request. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  05:22, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't change casing in DefaultSort. Now it is case insensitive. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:56, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Hangs for four minutes on one article
Initial skip checks: 7 Custom module: 0 External Program: 0 Plugins: 0 HideMoreText: 141 Unicodify: 10 UnHideMoreText: 7 Categories: 0 Universal Genfixes: 0 HideText: 19 TemplateRedirects: 357 RenameTemplateParameters: 72 MultipleIssues: 25 FixLinkWhitespace: 36 FixSyntax: 135986 MinorFixes: 579 FixPeopleCategories: 57 SetDefaultSort: 35 FixCategories: 6 FixImages: 77 BulletExternalLinks: 17 CiteTemplateDates: 847 FixCitationTemplates: 1085 FixTemperatures: 22 FixPercent: 291 FixNonBreakingSpaces: 311 FixMainArticle: 54 FixReferenceListTags: 37 FixEmptyLinksAndTemplates: 36 FixEmptyReferences: 28 DuplicateUnnamedReferences: 29 DuplicateNamedReferences: 451 SameRefDifferentName: 864 RefsAfterPunctuation: 71 ReorderReferences: 434 FixReferenceTags: 240 AddMissingReflist: 13 Mdashes: 176 FixDateOrdinalsAndOf: 186 PersonData: 667 FixLinks: 65 Metadata: 363 SimplifyLinks: 5 FixDates: 413 End of general fixes: 0 Mainspace Genfixes: 0 Auto-tagger: 3033 Append Text: 0 Images: 0 Disambiguate: 0 Alerts: 147018 ActionOnLoad: 111 Make Edit summary: 13 -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:22, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

There are no alerts at the end. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If these are milliseconds then half the time is spent in "FixSyntax" -- John of Reading (talk) 12:41, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a page with 231+ references. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:59, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Tweak regex to reduce excessive backtracking on rare case. I fixed the article as well. Rjwilmsi  13:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I performed a database scan and found 70 pages with <ref name=<ref name . I fixed them all. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:02, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I found 2 pages with <ref name= <ref name and 4 pages with  <ref name = <ref name . Exact match. No regexes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:01, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Not replacing & with "and" in sort values
Fixing... -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * fixes it. Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 6 minutes to fix it. Wow, that must be a record.  It's dark outside and that means you need to goto bed for a change.  Bgwhite (talk) 22:56, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll be at my bed soon... dad. :D -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Changes the original title in "cite web" etc.

 * This is the right thing to do per MOS:QUOTE Rjwilmsi  15:51, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Changes the order of references

 * Refs are put in numerical order. If the importance/relevance of the references needs to be explained to readers, please add extra explanation to the references rather than assuming that anybody will interpret something from the order of the references. Rjwilmsi  15:54, 1 August 2012 (UTC)