Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 21

WP:Percent and Swedish
As of FixPercent works only for enwiki and simplewiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:27, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Attention notice for typos no longer relevant

 * Rjwilmsi 13:26, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Reflist on dewiki (again)
Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_20 is marked as fixed, but the new version still has this wrong behaviour. (It changes  Message:   Call stack:    σε System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)   σε System.Collections.Generic.List`1.GetRange(Int32 index, Int32 count)   σε WikiFunctions.Controls.Lists.ListSplitter.Save(String path, Boolean xml) στο c:\Users\user\Desktop\AWB\WikiFunctions\Controls\Lists\ListSplitter.cs:γραμμή 135  System.ArgumentException: Οι τιμές μετατόπισης και μήκους ήταν εκτός των ορίων του πίνακα ή η μέτρηση υπερβαίνει τον αριθμό των στοιχείων από το ευρετήριο έως το τέλος της συλλογής προέλευσης.   at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.GetRange(Int32 index, Int32 count)   at WikiFunctions.Controls.Lists.ListSplitter.Save(String path, Boolean xml) στο c:\Users\user\Desktop\AWB\WikiFunctions\Controls\Lists\ListSplitter.cs:line 135

Magioladitis (talk) 22:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC) | OS         = Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 | version    = AutoWikiBrowser (5.4.0.1), WikiFunctions (5.4.0.1), revision 8413 (2012-09-13 02:06:14) | net    = 4.0.30319.269 | site   = https://en.wikipedia.org | workaround    = | fix_version   =  by Rjw }}

My list had 405,000 items and I asked to be split in groups of 50,000 each. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Splitter created 8 files of 50,000 each. Almost OK. I got the message anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:02, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

I tried again with a list of 119,490 pages and split size 20,000. Same problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:59, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I tried again with a list of 25,00 pages and split size 123. Same problem. With split size 100 there is not problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:47, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

In auto mode, AWB does not skip create-protected pages automatically

 * (AWB hangs=enters restart loop) Add skip check for page creation permission (salted pages).  Rjwilmsi  18:03, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Profile.txt problem

 * Confirmed. Reedy switched some profiling logic to a cleverer method, which doesn't seem to have worked correctly. Rjwilmsi  06:02, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

You don't have to downgrade. Just create two folders with the same version of AWB and run from each one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:31, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I already run my bot account in a separate folder because of the profile.txt problem when it very rarely happens, but I'd rather not create four other folders to run the other AWBs.
 * I believe Rjwilmsi should have written, "Reedy switched some profiling logic to a Bgwhite method, which never works correctly." Bgwhite (talk) 08:04, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Was this fixed in the SVN 8414 release? I haven't had a problem since I updated.  Bgwhite (talk) 07:12, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem here either. I believe this bug is fixed. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 10:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Memory throttling when 'Stop' button clicked

 * I've not got access to a machine with that memory configuration. Did the problem occur on earlier versions of AWB? Rjwilmsi  22:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've only got this machine recently so I don't know. What is the minimum hardware spec to run AWB? This begs the question why does AWB do anything when the 'Stop' button is clicked? Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 00:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Memory may not be relevant here. On Windows 7 with a couple of applications open and 1 GB of RAM you're going to be using close to all memory regardless. When you pressed stop did AWB eventually stop on that article? I suspect that it didn't register your stop click, and continued pre-parsing the rest of the list. At the moment in AWB as the processing is not on a separate thread you can't successfully press stop will a page is being processed, you can only press when the page is loading (status at bottom left). There's an old-school alternative I could put in as well though to have another way to stop pre-parse mode. Rjwilmsi  07:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It stops on the current page, no more pages are pre-passed. It's quickly noticeable that it's not going to the next page which it typically would do in one second. The process is repeatable, it takes minutes to stop every time. Have tested with a reboot and no other application loaded, installation is new and has no clutter at all. Response on other aspects of AWB are good. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 08:13, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, looks like when stop is pressed AWB updates the setting file. And when the setting file is 100MB+(but bigger in RAM) it takes a long time. So why does it write to setting and can that be stopped? Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 11:24, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * In which settings does it write? Do mean in the profiling.txt? Just delete it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, workaround added to above. Now that I understand what is causing this slowdown and know the workaround it is no longer an issue for me. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 10:19, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't count Main template when assessing dead end
Should it count them? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I think so, but it may make sense to consider what others think when deciding how to deal with wikify and dead end. GoingBatty (talk) 00:06, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This page is an extreme case anyway and most probably will be deleted. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:58, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Article was deleted. Pages should have wikilinks not only via Main anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk)

Memory and size of default.xml
Do you use the extra logging function? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Where is extra logging? Because of the ongoing and numerous problems I've been having I switched off things I could find. In options -> preferences, general tab I have 'Enable logging' unticked and in options ->  preferences, privacy I have include username unticked. If there are more options please let me know. In the directory I run the executable both the log.txt and profile.txt continue to grow rapidly despite those setting. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 19:34, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Next to the Edit box tab on the right there are more tabs. Check "Logging to file". It's the last tab after "Page logs". It should be turned off. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * In that tab it's all unticked and the status is read. However, in a short period of days since upgrading to SVN 8414 profiles.txt has grown to 9Mb and log.txt about 500Kb. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 16:47, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * So when you say "it stores hundreds of thousands of article I looked at", where is AWB showing these articles, how many articles do you have in the list on the left hand side, and how have you interacted with this many articles? Rjwilmsi  18:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Debug versions (for instance 5.4.0.1) store in the hard disc profiling.txt and log.txt. to help bug reports. You can delete them if you like. For the size of default.xml: Avoid saving list of pages to the settings file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:19, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Deleting profiling.txt and log.txt helps greatly. I suggest output of these debug files are made scalable, perhaps a new file each day. Anyway, it's no longer an issue for me as I'll clean up these files often. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 10:27, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Fix duplicated interwikis should be first letter case insensitive
Also check:
 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests
 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * For this log. Rjwilmsi  12:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Duplicated interwiki not removed when comment next to it

 * . Rjwilmsi  12:55, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

More on unbalanced brackets

 * 1 of 3 done. Rjwilmsi  12:40, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 of 3. Rjwilmsi 13:09, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

The last one is very rare. I found only 2 items via database scan which I fixed them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:53, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Born: not fixed if in capital

 * Rjwilmsi 08:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Find & Replace changes are not always added to edit summary
The reason the edit summary didn't always work was that your rule had four matches on the albums list article, but only one of those changed the article on replace.

F&R logic was using success and find/replacement values of first match of rule, but if the first match was a no-change replacement, the F&R would have an incorrect edit summary, incorrect match count and incorrect change status.

Rewrite PerformFindAndReplace to derive the edit summary based on the first match that creates a change, make the count the count of changes not matches, correctly determine whether changes made. Rjwilmsi 11:02, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Impressive work, getting to the bottom of this. Much appreciated. Chris the speller   yack  13:17, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Bug merging Expert-subject into Multiple issues

 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:40, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Bug merging multiple Expert-subject templates into Multiple issues
How do you add multiple expert-subject templates on MI? How do you do it if they have different dated parameters? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Changing it to the new format works:
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:41, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:41, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:41, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:41, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Bug merging Expert-subject template with parameter 1= into Multiple issues

 * Fixed by custom module referenced in this feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 18:48, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Not fixed. See this.  It isn't accepted. Ryan Vesey 20:46, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you using the custom module too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Er, no. What's a custom module? Ryan Vesey 21:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Explained to your talk page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:20, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Unbalanced incorrectly fixed causes mass side-effects

 * Rjwilmsi 07:50, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Invalid date fix

 * Rjwilmsi 08:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Extra line when adding Multiple issues and removing template

 * Rjwilmsi 08:28, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

I blanked the talk page at zhwp
You can't save empty pages in debug builds. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

False positive fixing of file names
Note: File is inside. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

The problem is somehow caused by the special character ă. Check that the bug does not happen if the special character ă is not there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:08, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Text it seems to be hidden correctly by HideMore per. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:38, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

FixDateOrdinalsAndOf seems to work fine for images too per. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So this is fixed in SVN 8451? Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 16:57, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:11, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

FixDateOrdinalsAndOf seems to work fine for image galleries too per. Still investigating. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:12, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Adding underscores prevents AWB of modifying the given page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:28, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Skipping prose when typo checking

 * Works for me with SVN 8436. GoingBatty (talk) 20:01, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * My bad. It now detects the typo. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 20:13, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

AWB hangs while processing
Can you please check log.txt and copy the last entry before AWB hangs? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:24, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Only thing in log.txt are a bunch of "object: MainForm Time: 3:41:54 PM Message: Starting" messages. Bgwhite (talk) 21:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you be more specific. I've used AWB 8414 with 6 copies running at once with no processor or memory issues, although I was doing only typo checking and not general fixes. (Strike, as in retrospect is was possibly 8350). Plus can you rename the debug files of profiling.txt and log.txt as that seems to cause some issues. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 21:27, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I've already tried renaming the debug files. Tried deleting them.  Tried putting a new AWB into a virgin directory.
 * I'm running with general fixes, RegexTypoFix, and a few find/replace when doing an article. It hangs on talk pages with everything off except a custom module. SVN8350, on a big article, will process faster than SVN8414 on a 3 line talk page. Bgwhite (talk) 21:52, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Can you please process let's say 30-40 talk pages with 8350 and 8414 and provide us the profiling.txt for these pages so we can compare differences on speed? At least "Alerts" should be faster now since we limited the namespace for all of them (8355, 8357). 8397 reduces regex backtracking on TemplateArgument. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:50, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I just emailed you the two profiling.txt files.
 * SVN 8350 took 21 seconds to process. 8414 took 110 seconds to process.
 * What is initial skip checks? The number for each talk page on 8414 is an order of magnitude higher than 8350. Bgwhite (talk) 22:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Alerts became a bit faster as I see. Am I right? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:45, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm in my usual state of confusion. What do you mean by faster?  The value for alerts on both versions say 2. Bgwhite (talk) 22:52, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right in this one. Not much difference there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:55, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So the value is time? That mean initial skip checks have gotten alot slower in the newer version? Bgwhite (talk) 23:03, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The value is milliseconds (ms). -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, make sense. I ran both versions of AWB on an article.  Initial skip check on 8350 was 10 and on 8414 was 347.  Alerts on 8350 was 23 and on 8414 was 17.   Something is wrong with Initial skip check on the newer version. Bgwhite (talk) 23:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So is the only significant difference in the profiling.txt of the two versions the "initial skip checks" times? Do the differences add up to the 110 versus 21 seconds totals mentioned? Rjwilmsi  11:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * "initial skip checks" is the only significant difference in the profiling.txt file.
 * If the numbers in the profiling.txt file are milliseconds, then 347 milliseconds doesn't account for the 2-5 second hang each time AWB processes an article.
 * I am running SVN8459. The "initial skip checks" number is way lower, down in the 10-20 range.  The new AWB is more responsive and faster.  Been running both versions of AWB on the same pages.  Profiling.txt numbers are about the same.  I'm not seeing any dramatic speed differences between the two. Bgwhite (talk) 18:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Saving problem
Hi, I am trying to get AWB running on a laptop and find it will not save any changes rather displaying initially "The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server" followed by "Restarting in ...". Is there some configuration or other that needs to be done before it will operate? It works fine on my desktop machine but that is an XP machine. Laptop is running OS windows 7 64-bit, connecting to English Wikipedia. Keith D (talk) 22:27, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Some connection problem. Not AWB's fault. Try again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Have tried several times and still unable to save though loads page OK. May not be an AWB problem but may be you can give some pointers to what to look at? Keith D (talk) 19:09, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem -> the first computer with WinXP + ABW 5400 + net by wire saves pages properly but the second computer with WinXP + ABW 5400 + net by air -> unable to save any page. I triad many times, for few days - nothing changes. Dosn't want to save anyting. Eventually, on the second computer I triad newest ABW 5401 SVN 8414 and it saves pages properly... So it is not the problem with the connection, but it is a bug of ABW version 5400. Electron (talk) 23:31, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that information. I have just tried that version and it saved the page. Keith D (talk) 11:26, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

AWB disabled
To whoever it applies. trout Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 15:22, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You can download the new version here. Unfortunately it keeps crashing my IE but I'll try it with Firefox a little later. Kumioko (talk) 16:19, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The new AWB is usable for me, so I require the old one to work. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 16:22, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I can understand if the software doesn't work for you that you're frustrated, but would you please describe in detail what problems you're having? "unusable" doesn't give me any information to help you. Rjwilmsi  17:35, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I thought the discussion was on my talk page and here would duplicate it. How about fixing the problem by enabling 5.3.1.0 Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 22:28, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Now most issues have been set. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:52, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

AWB not save edited files on Commons
As far as I am aware, this error prevents AWB being used on Commons, so I presume that it is a significant problem. I would be grateful if this error was fixed. Snowman (talk) 13:27, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems to take a long time to get a reply here. Snowman (talk) 09:39, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If you're unable to save what happens then? Timeout / exception? Something else? Thanks Rjwilmsi  14:26, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB counts down to a restart. Then if you save again AWB counts down to another restart, but the time to restart is longer, and even longer after the next failure to save, and so on. Snowman (talk) 13:07, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I was able to edit the commons sandbox just now using AWB snapshot 8097 and also current SVN 8145. So questions: can you edit the commons sandbox with AWB? Have you tried using the latest AWB snapshot? Are other commons users reporting AWB problems? If you're still having problems please provide a real-page example with the edit you want to make, I'll then try it. Thanks Rjwilmsi  15:19, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have narrowed it down a bit. When I open a new instance of AWB and put in setting for commons, then it works. When I open a new instance and use old settings for commons editing (setting include regexes), it does not save edits with new versions of AWB, but is saves with old versions of AWB. Snowman (talk) 19:22, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I don't have access to check this right now, but suspect it's a difference in the settings file in the site settings. If you open old and new settings files in Notepad are there any differences in the site portion of the file? You might be able to fix the old file by correcting that portion of it, make a backup first. Rjwilmsi  10:31, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I copied parts between settings files, but the newer versions of AWB would not save when using my old settings. Snowman (talk) 20:35, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a slight difference in the settings files between versions due to adding HTTPS support. Try this: open old settings in new AWB, save settings to a new file. Close new AWB. Open new AWB, open new settings files, see if you can then edit OK. Thanks Rjwilmsi  09:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have tried that and it does not work. Snowman (talk) 17:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Please post your settings file to a sandbox and I'll see if I can convert it to a working version for you. Rjwilmsi  18:33, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there another way of doing this, because my settings are not going on the Wiki. Snowman (talk) 19:39, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Then I've run out of ideas. I cannot reproduce any commons saving error using old settings files. You can use new settings files successfully, there seems to be a problem with one or more of your old settings files but you can't or won't provide me with access to them. So I've no idea how I can help you. Perhaps you can rebuild your desired settings by copying portions over manually from your old settings file, backing up the file periodically and testing it so you identify if a particular item in the settings file causes the problem. Rjwilmsi 20:09, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Unusable
AWB is unusable due to the options being cut off. I'm also not able to resize the sections of the GUI. Here's a screenshot:. This is very frustrating, as I'm a first-time user, and AWB is complicated and confusing enough for a newcomer without GUI errors such as this. My screen is 1920 × 1080 and 17 inches wide, so it's not a resolution or size issue.—Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 15:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, I presume you're referring to the KingbotK plugin tab content shown in your screenshot? - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 17:41, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have trouble using that too, it never seems to work right for me either so I gave up. Kumioko (talk) 17:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am using that particular tab.—Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 19:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Now, whenever I start up AWB, I get this error (however, the program still works if I click "continue"): —Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 19:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This is due to old settings. Delete your old settinngs and download the latest snapshot from toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:35, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I did what you said, and the error message didn't appear, but I still have the original problem of AWB being completely unusable.—Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:07, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Which OS do you use? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:46, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Have you changed the Windows default font size, it seems that your font scaling is causing problems for AWB. Are you able to test it with Windows font sizes at default? Rjwilmsi  12:48, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I use Windows 7 x64
 * I haven't changed the Windows default font size.—Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 01:32, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

I have a similar problem when running AWB on 64 bit Windows 7. AWB seem to use different fonts than under Windows XP and the text does not fit in the spaces provided, which seriously limit some features of the program. See the example image. Is there a Windows 7 version of the code somewhere? --Jarekt (talk) 11:49, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Create a style.css with a copy/paste of the code from AutoWikiBrowser/style.css and put the style.css in the folder you run AutoWikiBrowser.exe, that should sort out your font problem. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 11:54, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I did that, and ... nothing changed. --Jarekt (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, timing is everything. The page wasn't corrected until September 5 prior to that it wouldn't help much. Do it again. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 19:09, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Create a style.css file in AWB folder and changing the font seem to affect the font of the diff panels, but not the font used in the rest of the GUI. "Remove" and "Filter" buttons are still missing and tabs do not fit in the tab bar and "Skip" tab still has a lot of unreadable text and missing controls (see here). --Jarekt (talk) 13:26, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I see, my mistake. style.css only is for the diffs and your getting the situation on the whole display. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 14:38, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

AWB v5.4.0.0 inconveniences
AWB version 5.4.0.0 has 3 inconveniences for me: 1) In the 'Start' tab, why did you change the label caption from "Summary" to "Default Summary"? Less space is now available for the edit box. And when I enter + Category:My images and lock the box, all I can see there is egory:My images]]. Teyandee (talk) 18:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * We enhanced the behaviour of the edit summary in the new release, and updated some of the descriptions and tooltips to clarify the new use. The sizing issue when "lock" is used is a problem, so I'll investigate. Rjwilmsi  11:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Display issue fixed. Rjwilmsi  21:06, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

2) This is how the "changes" editor used to look. I liked that view. Look at it now: http://oi49.tinypic.com/33ud8nt.jpg - plain white boring background with no changes highlight. It may be hard to tell what have changed. Were there any reason to disable the highlighting ?
 * We changed AWB to use the new MediaWiki standard diff colouring. AWB does allow you to choose your own CSS style, see AutoWikiBrowser/style.css if you'd rather keep the old diff style. Rjwilmsi  11:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link. Teyandee (talk) 18:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

3) Versions older that 5.4.0.0 seems to be disabled (not accepted) by Wikia. Why did you have to restrict the usage of older versions? Teyandee (talk) 18:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * There were a number of bug fixes made in the new version, we disable the old versions to ensure that users don't continue to use versions with known problems. Rjwilmsi  11:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok. Teyandee (talk) 18:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

4) I am about to add Category:Some category to http://samuraipizzacats.wikia.com/wiki/Gone_with_the_Ginzu and the changes editor preview is now width-reduced (not occupying the entire form width): http://oi46.tinypic.com/9jqc8x.jpg. Why did it shrink? I don`t remember older AWB version to act like that. Teyandee (talk) 18:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Can we re-enable this, 5.4.0.x is so buggy it's reduced my output to less then half. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 22:18, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Interwiki moved away from list of interwikis

 * Have you checked for nonprinting characters in/around the interwiki? Rjwilmsi  08:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I see no nonprinting characters in/around. I retyped the text and still it is moved. I also closed any unclosed brackets. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:15, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  10:54, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Skip if only general fixes
Hmmm - my guess was that WP:AWB/TR isn't part of genfixes, so I changed seealso to see also, but that wasn't the issue, as I can still duplicate it in SVN 8436. GoingBatty (talk) 17:10, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Page fixing also involves white space fixing on the very first line. I removed it and now page skips properly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Another Interwar unemployment and poverty in the United Kingdom. Not a bug but a comment that it's become impossible to find a setting that works to fix typos and general fixes but doesn't violate AWB's terms of use. One has to check diffs not only for correctness but also for there insignificance. Surely it was never the intention that a changes entirely by general fixes (i.e. a new line insertion) would not be skipped when skip on only general fixes is checked. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 00:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like this is another article that has white space on the very first line. Since you're doing typo fixing, you're checking each suggested change before manually hitting the Save button.  While it's not convenient that this article isn't skipped, the only violation of AWB's terms of use would be if you clicked Save without making some other improvements (such as fixing the unbalanced brackets, or removing any unnecessary multiple wiki-links).  GoingBatty (talk) 05:38, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * By the way, this article contains "world wide". That's not a typo to be fixed?  GoingBatty (talk) 05:39, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * "world wide" is quite valid and used by the bbc and others. What your implying by that example is to know many more errors to fix, as if the 3000 typos rules are not already enough to handle, in doing so the whole process becomes more and more impractical for a human. What I would of expected is a way to make using general fixes easier - so that all could use it - rather then making it a burden to apply. I can understand now why others such as John of Reading turn it off most of the time. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 20:38, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually I keep the genfixes turned on except when processing the large "List of Foo" articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:41, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I stand corrected! Maybe Chris the speller‎ then. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 00:05, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed specific issue of skip check not working when article text starts with whitespace. Rjwilmsi  10:08, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

"Show edit page" does not work

 * Now that we use the API for editing this option is probably redundant, so should have been removed as an option. I'll check with Reedy. Rjwilmsi  08:41, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean redundant? Is there a similar method that's not "show preview" or "show diff"? I was wondering because something that shows the edit page rather than the diff or preview would be useful for my work in another project. -- Zoo Fari  21:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Redundant in the sense that I don't think we open the article page for edit any more since we use the API to get the page and save the changes, so there's no edit page available to show. I will confirm with Reedy. Rjwilmsi  22:06, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Option removed, can't be used now we use the API for editing. Rjwilmsi  09:27, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Not all paragraph tags fixed
Note: This bug is CHECKWIKI error #39 related. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:02, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 16:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

AWB fails to substitute template

 * Rjwilmsi 13:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Unclosed bugs within template
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = {{Infobox|foo=bar (OMG} }} changes to  }} instead of  -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:20, 15 October 2012 (UTC) | duplicate      = line 80 | site           = enwiki | OS             = 7 | net            =  | version        = rev 8451 | workaround     =  | fix_version    = }}
 * Rjwilmsi 15:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Can't open AWB

 * . Rjwilmsi  10:24, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

AWB doesn't recognize Template:Hndis-cleanup

 * Magio one for you. Wikiregexes line 126 and unit tests. Rjwilmsi  15:11, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in Parsers.TemplateRedirects
This didn't happen in rev 8463 for elwiki. I can't reproduce it for enwiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Problem is caused by commit 8474. It happens when the redirects' page does not exist. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:22, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Duplicate: Open awb -> switch to el wiki -> load random page -> login -> start -> NRE. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
Same problem reported in Twinkle at the very same day. Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle. It was an API glitch. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Now fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:48, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Unnecessary new lines before stub template

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:22, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

When the Toolserver is down AWB hangs when trying to send stats
It hangs when trying to send data to stats server. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:20, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes. Isn't the stats server hosted at the Toolserver? --Meno25 (talk) 16:29, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. I mean the problem in not in the number "100". Trying to manually send stats earlier will still cause the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, it will still cause the problem. --Meno25 (talk) 16:45, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Log.txt reads: " object: UsageStats Time: 7:20:31 am Message: Ο απομακρυσμένος διακομιστής επέστρεψε ένα σφάλμα: (504) Χρονικό όριο πύλης." -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:51, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

In the past I also got "Message: Ο απομακρυσμένος διακομιστής επέστρεψε ένα σφάλμα: (500) Εσωτερικό σφάλμα διακομιστή." after running for a long time with two AWB sessions from different folders. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Put 15 second timeout on PrepareWebRequest, so that failed stats submission will time out after 15 seconds if toolserver down. Rjwilmsi

Adding WPBS adds a lot of newlines
If it will help to have more examples, see my report from about a month and a half ago. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  23:25, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * This bug happens with me as well. --Meno25 (talk) 09:19, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 09:03, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Dupe category is not removed when inline comment exists
Note: This is CHECKWIKI error 17 related. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Find and replace - Normal settings - Don't Ignore ignored
Version: 5.4.0.0 (I'm pretty sure this is new since 5.3.1.0.)

I have noticed my changes defined in Find and Replace > Normal settings are not made within even though I only have the first checkbox checked.

I.e. I don't want "external/interwiki links, images, nowiki, math and ", but I do want "templates, refs, link targets, and headings". (BTW I would like the caption part of images to be processed -- I guess they're "link targets".) However text inside templates inside ref tags are not being changed.

I'd test with my sandbox and see exactly what is being skipped, but I assume the current developers can do that more usefully anyway. Mark Hurd (talk) 15:20, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * One constraint that does apply is that in hiding external links we hide any url within a citation template, and because of common encoding errors we hide anything from the start of the URL until the next space or newline, rather than to the next pipe (which if all is correct would be the parameter delimiter). This could be why the replace you expect to run isn't running. Please provide an example of your find & replace rule and a citation in an article where your find & replace rule isn't working as expected. Rjwilmsi  17:23, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned the actual instance, and in reviewing it myself I realise it is more complex than I thought. Here's the final where I manually changed the ’ and ‘ in " TV’s ‘Law & Order’, " (and manually adjusted the edit summary), where as ' “Law & Order” and ... in “Tootsie” ' was changed for me. What I see now is that BOTH of these are within the template and ref, the former in title= and the latter in quote= (so it might be intentional, either since 5.4 or always).


 * To confirm my existing settings should change " TV’s ‘Law & Order’, " automatically, I edited my sandbox and got AWB to run over it without otherwise changing my settings. It change all the curly quotes as searched for.


 * Mark Hurd (talk) 03:03, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I think there is logic to also hide title within citation templates as well, I've not got access to check this at the moment. Rjwilmsi  22:32, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirmed, the first hide option includes title in citation templates. I've updated the user manual. Rjwilmsi  18:55, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Duplicate ref names, different content
AWB Version: 5.3.1.0

This shows an AWB change I allowed through where it did the same as the current page rendering (i.e. it was pedantically correct), following the ref names being the same and ignoring that the content for apf-78 ( at least only, luckily) actually changed.

I feel I should have been at least warned of this. I believe the content of the ref should be more important than the ref name, except for white-space.

Mark Hurd (talk) 15:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * As I actually start to fix this, it looks like AWB does know of this situation: The first different content is kept -- but the names remain the same. Perhaps I was "Alerted" and missed it or missed the significance. Mark Hurd (talk) 16:00, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB General fixes states: "Where an article using named references (see WP:REFNAME), duplicate copies of the same reference are condensed to the abbreviated format of ." In your example, the references were not duplicate copies. Therefore, if I'm reading the documentation correctly, AWB shouldn't condense these, so this is a bug. I think adding a new alert to the list of alerts would be a feature request. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:29, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * All references condensed where exact duplicate copies. The problem was that there were also some non-duplicate references under the same name. Rjwilmsi  23:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * DuplicateNamedReferences: Checks for instances of named references with same ref name having different values, does not modify article text in this case. Rjwilmsi  19:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

AWB shouldn't move stub templates after categories in arwiki
sorts stubs before categories. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:13, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

AWB not using the bot flag on en.wikivoyage
We already added support to wikivoyage. Wait for the next release/snapshot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:11, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Dubious fix to isbn10
Changing isbn10 to isbn is part of AWB's Rename template parameters functionality. It could remain or it could be removed, but there isn't conditional functionality to only change the parameter under certain circumstances. GoingBatty (talk) 02:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm suggesting a logic change. I think it is too dangerous, or at least very confusing, to obey WP:AWB/RTP and change FOO= to BAR= if the template already has a BAR= parameter. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:33, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This is sensible. RenameTemplateParameters: don't rename old parameter to new if new parameter already present with a value.  Rjwilmsi  10:15, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Extra whitespace removed
It takes two runs when it should take only one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:22, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 17:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

It takes two runs to add complete DATE OF BIRTH in Persondata
It was the mis-placed comma in the date that was culprit. Same goes if the month is abbreviated or the date is wikilinked. Bgwhite (talk) 13:17, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 17:50, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

FixHeadings needs to remove more whitespace

 * Rjwilmsi 21:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in HideText.AddBackMore
The problem is caused when trying to Unicodofy "&". -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 09:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

AWB keeps on adding and removing Template:Uncategorized when processing the same page again on arzwiki

 * I made the uncategorized category hidden and this solved the problem. --Meno25 (talk) 10:22, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't remove duplicated category: Case no key vs key eq. articletitle and no defaultsort
Sortkeys are case insensitive. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2012 (UTC): Rjwilmsi  17:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Full list of cases:
 * → (no key)
 * → (same key)
 * → (key 1 substring of key2)
 * → in page foo. (a key matches pagetitle)
 * → in DEFAULTSORT:foo. (a key matches DEFAULTSORT)
 * → NO CHANGE in page foo. (a key mismatches pagetitle)
 * → NO CHANGE in page foo. (a key mismatches pagetitle)

Takes two edits to replace Cite web year parameter

 * Rjwilmsi 17:54, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Takes two edits to replace misspelled Cite web parameter
" to the cite web template, and then the second pass will invoke WP:AWB/RTP to change acessdate → accessdate. GoingBatty (talk) 16:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC) | duplicate      = Try Hideo Tokoro | site           = en.wikipedia.org | OS             = Windows 7 | net            = 2.0.50727.5710 | version        = SVN 8564 | workaround     = Re-parse before saving | fix_version    = }}
 * Rjwilmsi 18:02, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Unbalanced brackets and whitespace

 * Rjwilmsi 18:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Br tag wasn't removed from the end of image

 * Rjwilmsi 18:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Underlinked missed from multiple issues
I changed AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects so that Internal links will now be replaced with Underlinked in this edit. Thanks for reporting the issue! GoingBatty (talk) 00:13, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Removing Dead End and Wikify templates is incorrect
fixes the dead-end issue. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I don't think so? From the current revision:


 * I.e., if a page has links, all instances of deadend are removed, which is incorrect. The change you refer to was I believe only meant to fix . Amalthea  16:47, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The description in the report was quite confusing, I've restructured it a bit to make it clearer (hopefully). Amalthea  16:51, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * What's the current consensus on that? Dead-end meant zero links and if mre were needed then we were adding wikify in the past. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is or ever was a clear definition of the term "dead-end page". However, the tag in question never said that it was only for pages with zero wikilinks, and Twinkle/Friendly also [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3AIoeth%2Ffriendlytag.js&timestamp=20080207142356&diff=prev always] had it listed for pages with "few or no wikilinks". Amalthea  17:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I believe that AWB doesn't remove if reason is populated. GoingBatty (talk) 17:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it does. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, you're right Magioladitis (try Abimilku). Guess I was thinking about the feature request I submitted on this topic back in August 2011. Should the feature request be incorporated into this bug report GoingBatty (talk) 01:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I think the best is to move our logic to remove wikify for deadend template and stop removing wikify. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:56, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Adds reason for wikify. "It needs more wikilinks. Article has less than 3 wikilinks or the number of wikilinks is smaller than 0.25% of article's size.". This addition broke 9 tests that need to be fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

wikify is now deprecated. Most probably we need to switch wikify checks for deadend and remove the extra code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:22, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * It appears that the logic for dead end is fine based on the revised template wording, and that we could substitute the recently created underlinked for wikify. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 17:18, 1 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikify renamed to Underlinked on en-wiki, only insert underlinked tag not wikify -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Bug fixed based on the current consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Orphan date left in Multiple issues
This is a series of manual edits by this editor and not an AWB bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:36, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've messaged him. However, the edit summaries do state AWB: when the only change to the article is a bad one, and AWB is named in the edit summary, I tend to suspect a problem with AWB. It has screwed up before. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:46, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed but this time it's clear that the problem is caused by the subst which is most probably inserted via Find and Replace method. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've gone through the list with AWB and fixed all the articles with broken Multiple issues templates semi-manually. This problem has come about due to the deprecation of the Wikify tag, and the relatively recent change in Multiple issues syntax. The two combined into this little mess, which hopefully won't happen again. Particularly if AWB ever stops adding wikify to articles as it continues to do 3 months after the template was deprecated. It should just add Underlinked or nothing at all.  Del ♉ sion 23  (talk)  12:40, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * We need more programmers to help us. Rjw and me spend a lot of time every day improving AWB. We did a lot of improvements the last month. I hope we can fix wikify soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:46, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I didn't mean to make myself sound so impatient. I appreciate the work you both put into AWB.  Del ♉ sion 23  (talk)  13:09, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It's OK. My comment was more a cry for help. We'll have the wanted change by the weekend. Then there is of course the question if we can release a new version soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:14, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Unbalanced alert is misplaced
This is caused due to another unbalanced bracket. Check this version. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Another example of misplacement in this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:58, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:51, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect removal of Uncategorized and Uncategorized stub templates

 * Tagger category counting: don't count categories containing "proposed for deletion" or "proposed deletions". Rjwilmsi  08:11, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

WP:AWB/TR doesn't work within Multiple issues

 * Rjwilmsi 08:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException 27 Nov 2012

 * Fixed Rjwilmsi  09:50, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

More on unbalanced brackets
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = Inside infoboxes: 1957 {age 69) → 1957 (age 69) Fixing this will help RenameTemplate work in case of ubalanced brackets. | duplicate      = Examples:, . Examples of 2:  | site           = enwiki | OS             = 7 | net            =  | version        = rev 8707 | workaround     =  | fix_version    = }}
 * Maybe 1957 {age 69} → 1957 (age 69) too -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:29, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * for first part. Second part is not unbalanced brackets. Rjwilmsi  09:12, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect edit summary when adding "underlinked"

 * Magio please discuss & make change. Rjwilmsi  08:03, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * When adding orphan, the edit summary links to CAT:O, a shortcut to Category:Orphaned articles. When adding dead end, the edit summary links to Category:Dead-end pages.  Therefore, I suggest that when adding underlinked, the edit summary should link to Category:Articles with too few wikilinks, or a shortcut to this category.  I've updated the last two category pages with text that links to WP:BTW.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:23, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. Can you please create a shortcut? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:41, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I created CAT:DE for Category:Dead-end pages and CAT:UL for Category:Articles with too few wikilinks. GoingBatty (talk) 15:34, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Updated both. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Strange error when opening settings containing custom module
Remember to count the first lines autogenerated by AWB when searching for bugs in the Custom Module. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:46, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like there are currently sixteen autogenerated lines before it gets to my code in a module. The ninth line is "class CustomModule : WikiFunctions.Plugin.IModule". By the way, when I said that "everything functions normally" after closing the compilation errors popup, that's including the module; it works fine without my having to do anything other than close the error window. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  06:29, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesn't occur on my modules. Please post the start of your module so we can see. Rjwilmsi  09:14, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It happens for me with any module, as long as it's part of the first settings file opened after starting AWB. For example, the following test module, which I include in its entirety:

public string ProcessArticle(string ArticleText, string ArticleTitle, int wikiNamespace, out string Summary, out bool Skip) { Skip = false; Summary = "Test"; ArticleText = "Test\r\n" + ArticleText; return ArticleText; }
 * I just tried something else. I can generate the same error at any time (not just when I first start AWB) by compiling a blank module. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  10:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. AWB was trying to compile the custom module before loading the code for it from the settings file. Rjwilmsi  12:59, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hr replacement within tables inline

 * Rjwilmsi 10:16, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Parsers.FixDateOrdinalsAndOf

 * Rjwilmsi 17:10, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

AWB fails to sort interwiki links correctly from the first time
Confirmed in 5.4.0.1 SVN 8512. Working on this revision it takes AWB two edits  to sort interwiki links correctly. --Meno25 (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  18:20, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

It takes two runs to add bullets and remove break tag

 * Rjwilmsi 10:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Reversed brackets inside template parameter

 * Unclear report. What's the current AWB behaviour? Rjwilmsi  16:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It doesn't fix it at all. Page may appear in pages with wikilinks with no target. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:33, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 13:34, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Adds duplicate orphan tag

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:40, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Autotagger problems on English Simple Wikipedia

 * simple:Template:Orphan exists. Where is written not to add it?
 * 1) I created simple:template:underlinked as redirect of simple:template:wikify
 * 2) Ibid is enwiki only. Have you seen AWB tagging for ibid?
 * 3) I created simple:CAT:UL as a redirect to simple:Category:Articles that need to be wikified. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:47, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, OK on 2 and 4 although I'm not sure that I agree with that workaround. On number 2 no, I went through the list of templates that the autotagger works with and that was one of them. If its En only though then that's ok, I didn't notice that in the instructions (if its not there we should probably add a note about it).
 * On 2 and 4: We can't create edit summaries for all projects. The trick should be fine for now I guess. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:58, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * On 3: I updated General fixes manual. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:02, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, its based on a discussion on the Simple talk page. The reasoning is, and it makes complete sense to me, is that the size of that pedia would mean that a huge amount of articles would be orphans so there is no need to splatter the orphan tag all over. When I turned the tagger on and ran through a group of articles it hit on a lot of them. I understand if you don't want to make the change though since the template exists. It just makes the tagger sort of unusable. Kumioko (talk) 01:07, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Then you should send simple:Template:Orphan for deletion or something like that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:19, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I understand. With respect though, there is a difference in having the template and wanting to carpet it across a small Wiki. Its not that big of a deal though it just means that when I/we run AWB I/we have to turn off Autotagger. I was just hoping to be able to use some of the functionality that applies without having to recreate it. Kumioko (talk) 20:46, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I also would like that tagger was fully customised. It's in my wish list. I think what you are dealing here is only the fact that simple wikipedia is not read for an AWB bot and every edit needs human attention. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Automatic completion of template brackets broke table

 * Spurious extra }} within table style definition were the problem, article corrected. Rjwilmsi  14:37, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Don't add underlinked template if dead end is there
See also Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

To-do:
 * no wikilinks => add dead end, remove underlinked
 * at least 1 + our criteria => add underlinked, remove dead end
 * en only -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Tagger: don't add underlinked if dead end already. Rjwilmsi  12:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Tagger: remove underlinked if tagging as dead end Rjwilmsi  12:25, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Blank lines removed from inside poem

 * . Newline cleanup will not apply within poem tags. Rjwilmsi  15:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

AWB sometimes adds empty Persondata template
I think you need to disactivate "Restrict DEFAULTSORT addition" from the Options menu. Try and report what happens then. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I did and nothing happens.  --Meno25 (talk) 16:39, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * AWB will add the persondata template even if it can't find any values to add to the template. For bio articles the persondata should still be populated even if AWB can't do it automatically. Is this causing a problem? Rjwilmsi  16:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * If this is intentional, then no problem for me. --Meno25 (talk) 16:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Why doesn't AWB add NAME or DEFAULTSORT? That should be easily found.  I've got a list where I found PERSONDATA empty, AWB did not automatically add NAME or DEFAULTSORT and I had to do it manually... Donald Beezley, Bob Deitrick, Crista Moore, Deirdre Davis, Colin Towns and others.  I've also got a list where AWB added a blank PERSONDATA and no DEFAULTSORT... Debjani Chattopadhyay, Jai Kalra, Sushil Kumar (TV Star), Debjani Chattopadhyay, Li Jiahang and others. Bgwhite (talk) 05:55, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. -- 08:27, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, so please provide examples where you think AWB isn't getting the DEFAULTSORT right before you manually correct them. Rjwilmsi  10:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

In here BgWhite added it manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Try Waroch I. It only adds year of death and no name. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:32, 8 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Only a human can work out how to apply Categorization of people and Persondata to each article. Simple cases are simple, but how is mere software to work out whether one of the exceptions apply? -- John of Reading (talk) 09:58, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Don't add both dead end and wikify on arwiki
Do you want the same changes for arzwiki too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:54, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, please. In arzwiki, wikify is arz:قالب:ويكى and dead end is arz:قالب:نهايه مسدوده. --Meno25 (talk) 16:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

should have fixed it but I need verification. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Not fixed AWB SVN 8803. --Meno25 (talk) 09:36, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

What about ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Still not fixed AWB SVN 8804. --Meno25 (talk) 11:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

This one seems fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:11, 13 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Here you added orphan tag which is correct. This edit is fine. --Meno25 (talk) 11:53, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

So I need to know exactly which cases are not tagged correctly. Mark as done the ones working: -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No wikilinks and no tags: Needs to add dead end and nothing else ❌ currently AWB adds wikify and dead end
 * Few wikilinks > 0 and no tags: Needs to add wikify and nothing else ❌ article with 1 wikilink: AWB doesn't add neither wikify nor dead end
 * No wikilinks and deadend tag: Do nothing ✅
 * No wikilinks and wikify tag: Remove wikify, add deadend ❌ dead end is introduced but wikify stay, also a pair of brackets {{ is added
 * Few wikilinks > 0 and deadend tag: Add wikify, remove deadend ❌ article with 1 wikilink: dead end is removed but wikify is not added
 * Few wikilinks > 0 and wikify tag: Do nothing ✅
 * Many wikilinks: Remove wikify, remove deadend ❌ wikify and dead end are removed but a pair of brackets {{ stay.
 * Also the edit summary says "underlinked", it should say "ويكي" {{Done}} {{awbsvn|8809}} fixes it.

I did 9 edits in arwiki. Please fix them so I understand what went wrong. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

In your edits you added orphan tag which is fine. You have leftover brackets in 2 edits. --Meno25 (talk) 11:46, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Did you try with {{awbsvn|8805}}? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

The above comments were about SVN 8804. The problem persists with SVN 8805. Note that the tagging logic is correct on enwiki. Can't you duplicate the code for arwiki? Why is the tagging logic different between the two wikis in the first place? The names of templates is the only thing that should be different. --Meno25 (talk) 12:39, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

The logic is slightly different because in enwiki we should not remove wikify bit only underlink at least until the matter is set. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:05, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

You 'll need to test with {{awbsvn|8811}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:39, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Still exists in AWB SVN 8812 Sorry for causing you the trouble. I didn't think it would be so hard to fix this bug. --Meno25 (talk) 20:06, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

AWB SVN 8823:
 * No wikilinks and no tags: Needs to add dead end and nothing else {{done}}


 * Few wikilinks > 0 and no tags: Needs to add wikify and nothing else ❌ article with 1 wikilink: AWB doesn't add neither wikify nor dead end if article is short and {{done}} if article is long (3749 bytes)


 * No wikilinks and deadend tag: Do nothing {{done}}


 * No wikilinks and wikify tag: Remove wikify, add deadend {{done}}


 * Few wikilinks > 0 and deadend tag: Add wikify, remove deadend {{not done}} article with 1 wikilink: dead end is removed but wikify is not added if article is short (286 bytes) and {{done}}  if article is long (3800 bytes)


 * Few wikilinks > 0 and wikify tag: Do nothing {{done}}


 * Many wikilinks: Remove wikify, remove deadend {{done}} --Meno25 (talk) 10:55, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Unclosed brackets closed too soon

 * I don't think it would be easy for us to correctly handle this kind of example. Rjwilmsi  10:17, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Issue with redirect tagging

 * Rjwilmsi 11:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove extra blank line when adding dead end

 * Fixed for dead end addition. Any other scenarios that also need fixing? Rjwilmsi  14:30, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Nothing that I am aware of. Thank you for your work. --Meno25 (talk) 15:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Order of pages in "Successively saved" and "Skipped" queues is random

 * Saved and Skipped logs on Logs tab will be sorted newest first, unless user chooses a specific sort order by clicking on the column headings. Rjwilmsi  19:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Tooltip says "wikify" although it is depreciated
Not exactly a bug because it might be wikify if a non-enwiki project is loaded. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * changes wikify to underlinked. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:56, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove extra blank line when adding underlinked

 * ,  Rjwilmsi  18:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Typo rule disabled by a match in a interwiki link

 * Please contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. Rjwilmsi  10:46, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Typo restriction that typo rule not applied if it matches a link target will apply only to wikilinks, not image/interwiki/category links. Rjwilmsi  19:16, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Adds non-breaking space in "5 cd"

 * It's a typo to use "cd" rather than "CD" in this instance, isn't the resolution to fix the article and consider a typo rule for "x cd box set"? Rjwilmsi  18:18, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea! Before I create the typo rule, could you please let me know when is it appropriate for AWB general fixes to change "5 cd" to "5 cd" ?  Should this be added to the general fixes documentation?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 18:31, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "cd" is the SI unit for candela. Rjwilmsi  18:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. I've updated the documentation and added a typo rule.  GoingBatty (talk) 21:34, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect fix date fix

 * Rjwilmsi 14:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove month parameter when date parameter in yyyy-mm-dd format

 * See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_20 and please answer my question from the first time round. Rjwilmsi  14:28, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how to determine how many pages are using a number in the month parameter. Maybe someone with a database dump could search for   to help answer this question?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:10, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi 17:55, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Large-scale bug?
In recent times, at least three bots (including one that certainly uses AWB) and one AWB user have, in the article Richard Wagner, changed "1862–1902" to "1862 – 1902" (example). Manual of Style seems clear enough to me, so what is going on? Toccata quarta (talk) 20:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It could be a mistake on the logic that spaces endashes between date (not just year) ranges, I'll investigate. Rjwilmsi  11:06, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It was just that. fixed.  Rjwilmsi  20:01, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

ApiException in ApiEdit.Save
Exception thrown every time save operation is attempted, so it easily reproduced. Otherwise AWB works fine, it logs, it builds the list of articles, process my custom module and then fails to save.--79.176.203.101 (talk) 12:47, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Your wiki requires you to be logged in to edit. Are you correctly logged in when this error occurs? It could be that the wiki's API is not configured correctly to allow API editing. Rjwilmsi  18:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

NullReferenceException - Save error

 * I suspect that the WoRMS plugin is the cause of this error.. Grashoofd (talk) 12:28, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Retry without the unsupported plugin and rereport if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:04, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Tags above infobox

 * Currently the only maintenance templates we list for moving above infoboxes are "orphan", "BLPunsourced" and "cleanup". So we need a complete list of such templates to fix this problem. Rjwilmsi  08:28, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * On unreferenced: There is no clear consensus where to put it (on the top of the bottom), this is the reason we are not moving it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:03, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah ok. In my experience almost all tags are near above the infobox on the article. Major exceptions are Uncategorised and More categories which are at the bottom, and ones that are flagging sections. But I'm also not sure what the consensus currently is.  Del ♉ sion 23  (talk)  11:43, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm presuming that this request is only to ensure that the elements of the lead section are in the correct order, and that the change would be to do something like this:
 * to:
 * Templates under the lead (e.g. below a section header or at the bottom of the article) should NOT be moved. For the list of templates, I suggest you use the same list as you did for Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 9, plus the new underlinked template.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I added "underlinked" and "dead end". -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * to:
 * Templates under the lead (e.g. below a section header or at the bottom of the article) should NOT be moved. For the list of templates, I suggest you use the same list as you did for Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 9, plus the new underlinked template.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I added "underlinked" and "dead end". -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Templates under the lead (e.g. below a section header or at the bottom of the article) should NOT be moved. For the list of templates, I suggest you use the same list as you did for Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 9, plus the new underlinked template.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I added "underlinked" and "dead end". -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I added "underlinked" and "dead end". -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Plugin++ not adding listas
I don't understand what the problem is. Listas can't be added in bot mode. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:45, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't understand myself most days too. I'm running AWB in manual mode. I said "LaraBot", because it produces a copious amounts of examples. The examples don't have listas and have "WikiProject Biography". If AWB is run manually, it will add listas if the example has "WPBiography", but not "WikiProject Biography". Bgwhite (talk) 01:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like some of the redirects to Template:WikiProject Biography are being recognised, but not all; and curiously, not the template itself. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:56, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Problem not in redirects but in logic. Listas is added only if something else happens. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

by Reedy. Magioladitis (talk) 14:13, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Does not add complete birth/death dates in Persondata
Which infobox doesn't matter as the problem happens on any infobox. Also doesn't work on birth date and age and death date. Bgwhite (talk) 03:38, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The three articles given as examples don't have the YYYY births or YYYY deaths categories, so persondata dates won't be completed. Rjwilmsi  08:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That is not the problem. I did the correct categories for Gus Ziegler and AWB still won't retrieve birth/death dates from the infobox. Bgwhite (talk) 09:07, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Rjwilmsi! AWB general fixes will add the YYYY births or YYYY deaths categories on those articles and also add the years to the persondata, but it will not add the full dates.  Reparsing after the YYYY births & YYYY deaths categories were added didn't change the persondata.  GoingBatty (talk) 18:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * . Rjwilmsi  20:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Typo fixes changes Image link inside gallery tags

 * Curly quote allowed in image filename. Rjwilmsi  22:08, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Moves section tags above infobox

 * So the logic should only apply in the zeroth section? Rjwilmsi  21:58, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes - well said! GoingBatty (talk) 23:45, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:47, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Typo rule disabled by a match in a file link

 * Why are you saying this is a bug? Rjwilmsi  18:46, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A badly-spelt article name will quickly be caught and moved to its proper name. But files are uploaded with a fairly arbitrary name chosen by the uploader and don't often get renamed afterwards. So those names should have no effect on how the text of the page gets checked. If someone accidentally uploads "File:My cat in the the washing machine.jpg", and this is used in the Cat article, that's no reason to turn off the "the the > the" rule. So here: someone has uploaded an image with the word "egyptian" in its name - that's clear enough to identify the image, there's no need to rename it - but that's not a reason to turn off the "egyptian > Egyptian" rule. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:32, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The existing logic was added as a result of earlier discussions and examples of false positives (from memory the rule to not apply typos that match link text in the article was to reduce false positives on proper names etc.). You have one example of where the wikilink check is not needed, typo fixing will never be 100% accurate, one example does not convince me that the logic has to change. However, if the check would better apply to wikilinks only and not file/image links, please discuss on the typos talk page first, agree whether the balance of matches to false positives would likely be better, then I'll change it over if agreed. Rjwilmsi  18:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd like to read the 'earlier discussions' if that's possible. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 14:04, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_13. Rjwilmsi  15:41, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Was this fixed with ? GoingBatty (talk) 17:25, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. Rjwilmsi  11:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

List comparer Error
Try making a clean install by downloading AutoWikiBrowser5401_rev8686.zip from http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No use. -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 16:09, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this problem in en.wiki? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:10, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I actually never tried using AWB anywhere else other than enwiki. -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 05:59, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * We need to know the .NET version written in Help->About. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2.0.50727.1433 -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 11:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * So you're running v 2.0 SP1, according to List_of_.NET_Framework_versions, this is now out of support with Microsoft, looks like it doesn't handle the newer fatures of .NET we make use of in AWB. I have 2.0.50727.5456. I would like you to try getting the latest .NET service pack update for your Windows verison via Windows Update and report back whether it sorts out the problem for you.  Rjwilmsi  16:54, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I just realized I forgot to download the .NET framework 2.0 SP2 version. -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 15:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Marked as "old". -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:18, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Removes dead end tag when article only contains redlinks
There's also a difficulty arising when AWB adds dead end tags to pages like 2012 Peace Star Cup qualification where all the blue links are transcluded from templates. This is unlikely to be fixed very easily though. It's more about AWB users checking to see if dead end is really applicable before clicking save.  Del ♉ sion 23  (talk)  12:47, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2012 Peace Star Cup qualification needs a lead section, and wikilinks could be added there. However, that's not related to the issue I reported.  GoingBatty (talk) 16:09, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

On the original issue, we might need another API call within the tagger then to count outbound links excluding redlinks, seems a shame to have to add 500 ms to the tagger time. Rjwilmsi 20:05, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

I marked as "wontfix". The cost is bugger than the benefit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:48, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Is that a Freudian slip, Magioladitis? :-)  GoingBatty (talk) 18:10, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * LOL. I meant "bigger". Freudian dyslexia? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

AWB reformats short pages contrary to norm

 * If this is policy it needs to be noted at MOS:LAYOUT. Is it there currently? Rjwilmsi  17:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the misleading "policy" for the heading. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:16, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Long comment/doc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * During MetaDataSort on en-wiki ensure short pages monitor and any comment following are kept at the very end of the article text. Rjwilmsi  20:46, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in unknown function
I use Mono 2.6.7 on Wine 1.2 on Mandriva 2010.2. --Rinaku (t · c) 13:25, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This is the error message that I receive as well when attempting to use AWB using Mono 2.10.8.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2. Wine doesn't seem to be working for me either, as I can't get the appropriate winetricks set up properly. Logan Talk Contributions 17:12, 9 April 2012 (UTC)


 * In AWB/Main.cs change:
 * private static readonly Regex UnicodePUA = new Regex(@"\p{IsPrivateUseArea}", RegexOptions.Compiled);
 * to:
 * private static readonly Regex UnicodePUA = new Regex(@"\p{IsPrivateUse}", RegexOptions.Compiled);
 * Per documentation, both mean the same thing, both are supported under .Net, but only IsPrivateUse is supported under Mono. Bgwhite (talk) 06:14, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Problematic DEFAULTSORT causes problem in Persondata human key generation

 * We'll fix the defaultsort then. Rjwilmsi  16:39, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:Year of death uncertain
Example? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If you try to process an article such as Dimitris Liantinis AWB adds Category:Living people despite it being in Category:Year of death uncertain.--Racklever (talk) 14:34, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 16:30, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Does not move colons that are directly after a ref tag to before the ref

 * Magio, please confirm if this is correct and it's clear at WP:REFPUNC that it's correct to change? Rjwilmsi  20:03, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * MOS reads "ref tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies, including any punctuation (see exceptions below), with no intervening space." -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:36, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * At line 1346 in WikiFunctions/Parse/Parsers.cs, a colon should be added...
 * Currently says: private const string RefsPunctuation = @"([,\.;])";
 * Should say: private const string RefsPunctuation = @"([,\.:;])";
 * Bgwhite (talk) 09:19, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * As long as you're looking at this part of the code, should it also move quotation marks before the reference? (see references 2 & 3 on Kindle single)  GoingBatty (talk) 00:59, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi 19:09, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

It takes two runs to add bullets and remove break tag (II)
Rjwilmsi 19:22, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Old Multipleissues style and Ignoring Orphan tag

 * I think it was fixed as a result of this bug report from last month. It doesn't happen with the latest SVN snapshot, which I suggest you download to take advantage of multiple bug fixes for adding/removing maintenance templates.  GoingBatty (talk) 03:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Willdo  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 03:44, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Load/save settings problem
Problem is located somewhere in SkipOptions.cs or its designer. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't fix defaultsort on redirect pages

 * DEFAULTSORT changes enabled for mainspace redirect pages. Rjwilmsi  14:05, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Does not fix wikilinks when brackets are separated.

 * Is the scope of this to correct wikilinks broken by separation by full stop or comma? Do you have some live examples or diffs where such links occurred on mainspace? Thanks Rjwilmsi  11:07, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Diffs of some examples [[Siren],], [[Omar Khadr],] , [[Geeta Mera Naam]'']  and original].] in [[Metre]]. Bgwhite (talk) 07:40, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done for the set [,.;:"'] Rjwilmsi  19:10, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect removal from list

 * Fixed. Fast deletion mode will only be used for contiguous selections, old mode (slow on large volumes) needed for non-contiguous selections. Rjwilmsi  20:14, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Close unbalanced Persondata brackets instead of adding a new one

 * Might not be easy to fix the missing brackets in a useful way. How many occurrences of this have there been? Rjwilmsi  11:09, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * At about 100. AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox. RjwilmsiBot added some duplicated persondata too: -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:12, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * FixUnbalancedBrackets to fix this specific error. Persondata function to skip if page contains {{Persondata but not a valid persondata template. Rjwilmsi  19:32, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Tagger removes deadend tag when only wikilinks are in Proposed deletion endorsed

 * Done. Rjwilmsi  18:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Naming all identical refs with a different name

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  19:01, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Unbalanced brackets cause mass effects

 * Rjwilmsi 09:51, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Didn't fix unbalanced Defaultsort

 * Rjwilmsi 10:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Unicode character not always unicodofied
I only use general fixes. No F&Rs, no custom module, etc. Unicodification works on other pages:,. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:44, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Magio to investigate. Rjwilmsi  08:59, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I reduced the bug to this text portion: . Same type of daggers, no sup tags, no table. One dagger is replaced and one is not (the one in the template). -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Marked as not a bug. The latter dagger is hidden by HideMore and this is the expected behaviour to avoid false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Does not remove three brackets around url
Same for Manas Chakraborty. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Same for 1, 2, 3, 4.

I did a database scan for ''' Magioladitis (talk) 21:26, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:24, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Small tags not always removed
I had to do this manually. (Ignore the edit summary). -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:12, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

What is to be done: Error 63 reads: "Article contains the tag in a or  or   tag. Inside these tags we don't need a small text because the tag output is smaller than the standard is (AWB)." and Error 55 reads: "Article contains the tag . In the most case we don't need this double tag. (AWB)."

So:
 *  ANYTHING → ANYTHING</sup|sup|ref|small>
 * <sup|sup|ref|small>ANYTHING → ANYTHING</sup|sup|ref|small> -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Don't change the code for images. We still need to remove small tags from image captions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. Rjwilmsi  11:38, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Song title suppresses Typo fixing

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  11:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Fix brackets before typo fixes
According to AutoWikiBrowser/Real_user_manual, general fixes are done before typo fixing. Our procedures are fixed to this order at the moment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:53, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Documentation is wrong, typos are done first. Perhaps they should be done after genfixes. Rjwilmsi  10:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I updated the manual to reflect the current status. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I updated AutoWikiBrowser/Real_user_manual once more to cover everything. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

We could change the order of procedures. I don't see how typo fixing could affect the general fixes and as we see the other way affects the outcome. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Does not remove date ordinals from infobox

 * Yes, the use of HideMore to avoid changing quotes will mean we won't catch ordinals in infoboxes. Rjwilmsi  08:47, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. After reading about the use of HideMore, I don't have a reasonable suggestion.  Unless one of you have a better suggestion, I guess this request should be set to "wontfix" and archived.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:11, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

AWB broken on Wikia when CheckPage exists

 * The page says "Rappy_4187" with an underscore. Try replacing the underscore with a space. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:12, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Left a question to reporter's talk page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Odd. That did allow me to log in, but still doesn't address the issue that I was sent to the CheckPage on Community Central rather than the local wiki I was trying to sign in on. Users will not be freely given Bot rights on Community Central's CheckPage, so this redirect to there is misleading. It should lead me to Lego Wiki instead. Rappy 20:46, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Treat underscores and spaces as the same for user ID CheckPage lookup. Rjwilmsi  11:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * If user "not registered" and on wikia it means there is a local checkpage, so don't direct user to central checkpage. Rjwilmsi  12:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

"Skip if only minor genfixes" skips non-minor genfixes

 * User manual is wrong. Somebody has confused the "MinorFixes" function with the "skip if minor fixes" skip check. For the skip check the only non-minor genfixes currently are FixDateOrdinalsAndOf, FixSyntax, FixCitationTemplates, AddMissingReflist. Rjwilmsi  20:41, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info - I updated the documentation. However, I'm curious as to how you chose which genfixes to classify as "minor".  Was your intent to be consistent with WP:MINOR?   Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:02, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think an accurate "minor" skip option is going to be very difficult to get right unless genfixes are significantly rearranged / split to different functions. "Only cosmetic changes" is a better skip option: it evaluates whether the rendered page HTML is different i.e. whether there is a visible change to the article text. Rjwilmsi  08:11, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Does not fix wikilinks when brackets are separated part 2

 * Do you think this will be the complete list? It's more time consuming to make multiple changes rather than one set. Thanks Rjwilmsi
 * I've been doing checkwiki error #10, where this type of pattern is found. I've done 2,800 articles that contain error #10 in the past week.  I haven't seen any other patterns popping up, so this should make it a complete list. Bgwhite (talk) 18:54, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  13:22, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Skip if only minor replacement made ignores advanced F&R settings

 * Hmm, we probably didn't consider running normal f&r and advanced f&r at the same time. So you think if there are advanced f&r that change the page the "minor" skip should not apply? Rjwilmsi  09:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that if there are advanced f&r rules that change the page, the "minor" skip should not apply. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 13:27, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW, I run normal and advanced f&r rules at the same time so that the normal f&r replacements can be included in the edit summary, but the advanced f&r replacements are not. GoingBatty (talk) 13:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Logic was already trying to make sure we didn't skip for "minor change" if advanced find & replace had made changes, logic now corrected. Rjwilmsi  17:03, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Removes Multiple issues before tagging with maintenance templates
Tagger runs before general fixes. We should not change this because then we will have problems with tags that need to be removed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:04, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * AutoWikiBrowser/Real user manual says General fixes runs before Tagger. GoingBatty (talk) 17:10, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes my mistake. General fixes resolves multiple issues and then tagger adds wikify. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I updated AutoWikiBrowser/Real_user_manual once more to cover everything. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Would it be appropriate to move MultipleIssues from the General fixes module into the end of the Tagger module, so that the order would be:
 * General fixes (including FixSyntax, FixEmptyLinksAndTemplates, FixLinks, FixHeadings which could change the number of wikilinks)
 * Tagger add/remove orphan, underlinked and dead end
 * Tagger add/remove multiple issues
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I've looked at this. It's too painful to do it that way. The problem arises because we remove MI if it has only one tag, but only add it if there are three or more tags. So MI with 1 tag -(genfixes)-> tag -(tagger)-> two tags, nut MI not added back as not 3 tags. So there's the gap of two tags: we don't remove MI, but do add it. So it seems we should make the threshold two tags, then the existing logic (MI is called in genfixes and again in tagger if tags are added or removed) would work. Rjwilmsi  19:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I appreciate you looking at this, but I sorry that I don't understand your example. My suggestion was to move the entire MultipleIssues function to the end of Tagger, so it would only add/remove the template after all the other functions that could impact that decision have been run. I was not suggesting to have it run twice or to change the add/remove threshold to two tags.  I know you understand the code much better than I, so of course I will defer to your better judgment.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understood your suggestion and logically it could make sense, but is painful to do without affecting the skip logic. We already call the MI function at the end of the Tagger when any tags are removed or added, so if the threshold were two not three, there would not be a problem with the current setup. So that's my suggestion. Rjwilmsi  22:28, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if it's appropriate to add multiple issues for only two maintenance templates. I'll leave this one to your discretion.  Thanks for your consideration!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  13:50, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Related discussion about documentation

 * Also, should the Real user manual be integrated into WP:AWB/UM - either merging or adding a link from User manual to Real user manual? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 14:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You call. If we keep them separated we need a more fancy name than "real user manual". -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Renamed it to AutoWikiBrowser/Order of procedures, and updated WP:AWB/UM. GoingBatty (talk) 18:53, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

When reparsing, logic for adding uncategorized does not look at changes made
It's impossible to look at them. Since the categories haven't been parsed before really submitting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * We use the API to count categories: since templates can transclude categories onto the page we can't just count explicit categories found on the page. So if you manually add a category we're not going to know about it on reparse. Rjwilmsi  11:51, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * We could probably address this specific issue by counting both the categories by API and categories on the page. The API call is there to pick up categories transcluded by templates. So we could fix this one, but I can't see we can easily deal with the reverse: removing categories, reparsing and finding uncat isn't added. Rjwilmsi  09:44, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If fixing this particular issue doesn't introduce any new issues, then I'm happy with your suggestion. Thank you!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:25, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagger to take Category count from API (to pick up cats transcluded from templates etc.), then count categories on page if API returns 0 categories, in case genfixes/user have added categories to page. Rjwilmsi  17:50, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Set converttitles when checking page existence

 * Will need Reedy to look at this one. Rjwilmsi  18:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Add  to API query calls to retrieve page text. I have tested this successfully on 龙门飞甲.  Rjwilmsi  18:20, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Removes orphan tag with few parameter
FYI, I just added AWB standard installation to Template:Orphan/doc. GoingBatty (talk) 04:33, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

We remove only there are three or more incoming links. Did that change and few can mean we need more incoming links? -- Magioladitis (talk)
 * When you use the few parameter, the text states "is an orphan, as few other articles [ link to it], or is a walled garden." While you might be able to pick a number that is no longer a "few", I don't think you're going to be able to test if it's no longer a walled garden.  GoingBatty (talk) 01:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Ukrainian Wikipedia uses a different tag for walled gardens. They call these pages isolated. -- Magioladitis (talk)`

Don't remove orphan when few populated with a value. Rjwilmsi 14:48, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Issue converting "multiple issues" template

 * Fix support for nested templates in TemplateRedirects. Rjwilmsi  15:30, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Takes two edits to remove empty multiple issues if one other tag exists

 * Remove empty multiple issues within  cleanup logic.  Rjwilmsi  15:56, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow - immediate fixes for all three bugs I reported. Thanks for the exceptional service!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:08, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Selection of all text vs selection one word by double click in "Replace category"
Enable double click to select all for replace category Rjwilmsi  23:56, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Stuck when appending text
Check for API having normalized page title, update list box accordingly. Rjwilmsi 18:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Genfixes moves cleanup out of multiple issues
This was fixed in, and does not occur on current SVN, so the snapshot cannot have been built correctly. Rjwilmsi 18:21, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. Hopefully the next SVN snapshot will be built correctly.  I hope a new snapshot is posted soon, so I can take advantage of all the great fixes you've done!  GoingBatty (talk) 18:38, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

CRL+A doesn't works on Find & Replace fields
See also Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs. I don't know if they are related. Lightmouse (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2011 (UTC) Use key event handlers to workaround fact that MS don't support Ctrl+A as shortcut for multiline text boxes. Rjwilmsi 23:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Problem with female user pages - AWB fails to automatically remove the page from the list while skipping the page
Since MediaWiki 1.18 there are male (and neutral) and female user (and user talk) pages. In Ru-Wiki these are Участник and Участница (Обсуждение участника and Обсуждение участницы).

The special page (All pages with prefix) returns list with genger prefix (if respective user is female, the prefix will be female prefix). not
 * Участница:Page1, Участница:Page2, Участница:Page3, and etc
 * Участник:Page1, Участник:Page2, Участник:Page3, and etc

Then I work with such list: AWB can pick up page with female prefix, can make edit, can save it, but then there are two bugs - (1) AWB does not remove Участница:PageN from list, it replaces such edited and saved page in list by Участник:PageN page, (2) if I press "Skip", AWB says "AWB failed to automatically remove the page from the list while skipping the page. Please remove it manually". Alex Spade (talk) 17:07, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

I have saved list, replaced all Участница: by Участник: or User: and uploaded list to AWB - this action does not help. Alex Spade (talk) 17:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Reedy will take a look at this problem soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Check for API having normalized page title, update list box accordingly. Rjwilmsi  18:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Removes dead end too often

 * Also removes it from In vitro recombination when the only wikilink is in cleanup. GoingBatty (talk) 03:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Related discussion: Template_talk:Dead_end. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think we need to remove the logic from AWB relating to dead end removal on en-wiki, as we can't easily meet these revised specific requirements for the tag. Rjwilmsi  12:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with Rjwilmsi. Otherwise, we will have to create two sets for rules. One for en-wiki and one for the rest projects with most probably the first being inaccurate and slow. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Just to clarify: Tagging is OK. Problem is only with untagging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed - I'm not aware of any false positives when tagging. AWB won't tag all articles, but that's OK.  Untagging is where I've seen the recent issue.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 17:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagger to NOT remove dead end tags on en-wiki. Rjwilmsi  14:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Keyboard shortcut stops working
This was originally reported on WT:AWB by, but that report was recently archived without any action. The keyboard shortcut feature is a very useful one, providing a comfortable alternative to stressful repeated mouse clicking, so I've brought the issue here. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  01:32, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ctrl+S works only if the program is focused in the edit area. I thought this was the expected behaviour. (Btw, the pther discussion was automatically archived by a bot). -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:56, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Having to click in the edit box completely negates the convenience of having a keyboard shortcut (except on those occasions when you happen to have been making a manual edit anyways). The keyboard shortcut to Save should be just as available as the one to Ignore is. Try making a list of pages (with all skip options disabled), and see how easy it is to go through the list by pressing Alt-g to I g nore them. It should be just as convenient to use Alt-s or Ctrl-s to S ave. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  09:57, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * IMHO the keyboard shortcuts should work in the entire main window of AWB. Not sure why they don't at the moment. Rjwilmsi  10:00, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Most likely is a detached event or something... —  Ree dy  10:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Start AWB -> Press Ctrl+E to start external processing. Nothing happens. Click with the mouse in the list box. Press Ctrl+E. It works. Close window and click with the mouse in the diff window. Press Ctrl+E. No response. (same with ctrl+M). -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:04, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * All shortcuts work only if AWB is focused in List box or Edit box and nowhere else. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:06, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I just tested the newest version (SVN 5899) and verified that Alt-k correctly S k ips anywhere, just as Alt-g did in previous versions. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:43, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think there are two issues with Alt-S:
 * When the browser portion of the window has the focus, it prevents the proper function of the Alt- and Cmd- functions. I bet IE grabs the keystrokes before the main thread of AWB sees them.
 * When "Start" is not the current tab and the Save button is not visible, the Alt-S shortcut won't work. Windows only honors Alt shortcuts for active controls, and a hidden control is not active.
 * It would be very helpful if this could be addressed. Having to click in the edit box before using Alt-S is inconvenient. Using a Cmd- key shortcut for a new "Save article text" menu entry would help with #2. I am not sure how you resolve #1 if my guess about the focus issue is right.—John Cardinal (talk) 22:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Partial improvement: keyboard focus is now correct over many page loads & saves until the diff area is clicked (after that focus is only sometimes correct). Needs further investigation. Rjwilmsi  01:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I think has now fixed this one.  Rjwilmsi  13:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

AWB doesn't skip pages that user can't edit

 * The protection on these special pages doesn't show up as standard protection then. I'll investigate, expect we need to look for another page protection type in the API return. Rjwilmsi  13:55, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Check for customcssprotected error return from API an skip page if found. Rjwilmsi  11:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

ArgumentNullException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
While saving a page try to switch accounts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:30, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Adds dead end/underlinked to shipindex disambiguation pages

 * Rjwilmsi 08:37, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Changes type -> format in citation template

 * Rename template parameters updated. You don't need me to change the RTP list for you. Rjwilmsi  08:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The better answer would have been... Bgwhite, when in the world are you going to remember about the RTP list? you *$&(# numbnut.   Bgwhite (talk) 09:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing WP:AWB/RTP so that the parameters aren't changed for citation. Should type be changed to format for the other cite templates, or should these be removed from WP:AWB/RTP too?  GoingBatty (talk) 14:10, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * They should also be removed from RTP. Bgwhite (talk) 22:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Newline handling in regex tester
Previous related bugs:
 * Newline handling is broken
 * \r bug in regex mode
 * Newline bug #3

Heyzeuss (talk) 11:42, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Newline will be \n for find in Regex Tester. Rjwilmsi  14:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

No horizontal scrollbar on Find and Replace Normal Settings dialog

 * Rjwilmsi 13:44, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Unable to save some pages causes infinite loop
Perhaps a result of a wifi drop. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 11:22, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No. I have encountered this before. Something with unicode characters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You'll have to edit the article section by section then line by line to find the problematic character(s).  Rjwilmsi  11:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Disactivating "Unicodify whole page" makes auto-skipping possible. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

The problem is caused due to a deprecated unicode character. Check here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I suspect this is an API issue, a rare one. Maybe if you post on technical village pump another user can confirm if this problem occurs with the API when used outside of AWB? Rjwilmsi  14:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I mean we couldn't we skip when MD5 hash is incorrect instead of trying again and again to save? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:30, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Same for Dahae, Osun State. -- Yobot (talk) 12:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I resolved the last two by replacing the unicode characters manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:02, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Reported at Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41002 -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:23, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

The ball is back on our field: "So presumably AWB needs to do the normalisation itself (so it knows the post-normalisation MD5) or the API needs to accept pre-normalisation hashes (which, given the distribution of functions between WebRequest and the API seems tricky).". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:32, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Skip page if we encounter badmd5 error from API on save, prevents cycle of attempted saves. Rjwilmsi  11:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Unicodify to not change HTML characters &amp;#x2329; and &amp;#x232A; (deprecated bracket characters), if converted API returns badmd5 error. Rjwilmsi  11:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Sort meta data after

 * I'd be dubuios about enabling the data sorter on the Wikipedia namespace as most of the sorter logic is geared to mainspace pages. Rjwilmsi  13:29, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * If I add a navbox to a Wikipedia page, it is useful. --weltforce (talk) 14:33, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, many procedures within data sorter are not a goo idea on the Wikipedia namespace. Enabling them would cause more harm than good. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:40, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

MoveDablinks does not move all Dablinks

 * Our current list of dablinks is "about", "ambiguous link", "for", "for2", "for3", "dablink", "distinguish", "distinguish2", "hatnote", "otherpeople", "otherpeople1", "otherpeople2", "otherpeople3", "other people", "other people1", "other people2", "other people3", "other persons", "otherpersons", "otherpersons2", "otherpersons3", "otherplaces", "other places", "otherplaces3", "other places3", "otherships", "other ships", "otheruses-number", "other uses", "other uses2", "other uses3", "other uses4", "other uses6", "otheruses", "otheruses2", "otheruses3", "otheruses4", "other uses of", "otheruse", "2otheruses", "redirect-acronym", "redirect", "redirect2", "redirect3", "redirect4", "this", "two other uses", "three other uses", "disambig-acronym". On the documentation page not all templates are 'top of page' ones, so please tell me what you want our list to be. Thanks Rjwilmsi  08:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Selfref is also used in sections. This is the reason I didn't add it in our list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Now dablinks are only moved to the top of the page if already in the zeroth section, so maybe we can add this one? Rjwilmsi  13:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

SocketException in ApiEdit.HttpPost

 * I'm getting annoyed, I'm just getting errors spit out from left to right. I can't do anything!  Jay Jay Talk to me 16:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Problem was caused by Mediawiki upgrade at some point. Please re-report if bug appears in AWB version 5.4.0.1 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Replace template parameters not case insensitive
Also, I don't understand why Citation needed is used as the example, since there are no rules for that template. GoingBatty (talk) 22:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Feel free to improve the documentation! -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed Rjwilmsi  14:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Documentation updated - wanted to confirm how this would be fixed before updating the documentation. GoingBatty (talk) 21:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Does not always change "b." to "born"

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Others is now valid parameter of cite web
I've added AWB standard installation to the template documentation, so hopefully we'll be notified when people decide to change the template again. You may want to compare the template edit history with the AWB code to see if there are any others to be added. (I previously reported agency in this bug report.) GoingBatty (talk) 17:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Copy from diff

 * Yes, known issue. Rjwilmsi  09:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Enable copying text from diff view via Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut. Rjwilmsi  10:33, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

AWB preview no longer shows red links in red

 * This is one of many things in the preview that doesn't work properly anymore. GoingBatty (talk) 17:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Would it be helpful if we started compiling a list of items that are not rendered in the preview pane correctly? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:04, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Make page preview work again (presumably following MediaWiki API changes). Rjwilmsi  11:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Unclosed small tags cause mass effect

 * Extra check. Rjwilmsi  13:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup-bare URLs not merged into Multiple issues
I added AWB standard installation to the template documentation, and adjusted WP:AWB/TR appropriately. GoingBatty (talk) 02:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 09:31, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Images are not displayed in preview mode

 * Did it display correctly in preview mode with the previous snapshot? Rjwilmsi  08:27, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Images were not displayed on purpose to save loading time. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)


 * No, they did not display with the previous snapshot. I noticed that you were fixing other issues with preview mode, so I entered this bug report.  Since this is a feature, I have updated WP:AWB/UM with this information.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed then. Rjwilmsi  17:36, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

References with URLs not displayed properly

 * Did it display correctly in preview mode with the previous snapshot? Rjwilmsi  08:27, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No, they did not display correctly with the previous snapshot. I noticed that you were fixing other issues with preview mode, so I entered this bug report. GoingBatty (talk) 16:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed then. Rjwilmsi  17:34, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Multiple issues displayed incorrectly in preview mode

 * Did it display correctly in preview mode with the previous snapshot? Rjwilmsi  08:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No, it did not display properly with the previous snapshot. I noticed that you were fixing other issues with preview mode, so I entered this bug report.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:02, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed then. Rjwilmsi  17:34, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Wiki search (text) not working

 * Works for me. What are you entering in the Wiki search box.Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 19:33, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * My search terms include some elements of wiki code like Rcsprinter '''  (converse)  @ 10:49, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It would help if you provide specific examples of what you are searching for that cause the error rather then making us guess what you possibly might be searching for. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 14:58, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I have had the same issue intermittently over the last couple of days, but without the wiki code characters; it seemed to be a server response issue that happened when the search requested a large number of articles. Perhaps Rcsprinter could verify that the same search sometime works OK. Chris the speller   {{sup|yack}}  13:24, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * BTW, you can get the .NET version by going to AWB's Help > About. GoingBatty (talk) 13:39, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

{{od}}The API sometimes returns a "feature disabled" error for searches. I think it does this to protect the wiki from outages if sever load is temporarily too high. So there's nothing we can do about it in AWB. All you can do is try your search again another time, or maybe ask on the technical village pump to see if others know of API/server issues and when they'll be resolved. Rjwilmsi 11:09, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Ignoring pages

 * Not sure why you're saying there's a problem with the edit. The edit merged two references by creating an abbreviated reference name for them. The idea if ref names is to be an abbreviated/short term, so AWB doesn't include all text/all page numbers from a list. Or are you saying that the rendered reference has lost items from the page list? Rjwilmsi  17:37, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The second. I was notified that AWB excluded two pages when substituted in-line cit with named cite. The in-line had 4 pages (104, 122, 150, 229), but named cite cover only 2 pages; it lost 2 pages in transition. AWB recognized only first 2 pages, ignored last two and deleted them. See line 87. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic (talk) 06:38, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The rendered refs did not lose pages. I have replied directly to the editor who raised this with you. Rjwilmsi  07:13, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

AWB removes the uncategorised template when Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard is present

 * It appears to be a hidden category, not a maintenance category. GoingBatty (talk) 04:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Grrr, you are correct, it is a hidden category, thus does not count on if an article is categorized or not. Bgwhite (talk) 05:30, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Need to know if there are other hidden categories explicitly added to pages. We now handle stub categories, proposed deletion categories and this one. If there are too many to handle, I'll have to revert the change to allow AWB to remove uncat if user manually adds regular categories and reparses edit box. Rjwilmsi  11:11, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Skip if no replacement not working
Note that you may want to release a new SVN version after fixing this, as I'm concerned that my bots aren't the only ones that count on this functionality to work to avoid trivial changes. GoingBatty (talk) 12:50, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:16, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Parsers.FixDatesA

 * . There's a newer snapshot available and we'll get a full release out in the next week. Rjwilmsi  08:19, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty (talk) 16:43, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Typo in Auto tag mouseover description
{{AWB bug | status        = fixed | description   = When you hover over the Auto tag checkbox, the description contains {{ibid} instead of {{ibid}}. GoingBatty (talk) 02:34, 17 March 2013 (UTC) | duplicate     = Go to the Options tab and hover over the Auto tag checkbox | site          = en.wikipedia.org | OS            = Windows 7 | net           = 2.0.50727.5737 | version       = SVN 8964 | workaround    = | fix_version   = {{Awbsvn|8978}} -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:39, 17 March 2013 (UTC) }}

In Template

 * Please post your AWB settings file and/or screenshots of the in template rule you have set up, and an example talk page where you expect it to work. Rjwilmsi  13:15, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Source extract of relevant section. Load articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people and start from the end of the list. It will remove the line only if WikiProject Biography is not in BannerShell. --Traveler100 (talk) 15:17, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The In Template logic isn't always good at nested templates. It seems to work if you add WikiProjectBannerShell to your template list along with WikiProject Biography, does this then do what you need? Rjwilmsi  09:18, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I have done a work-around. I have a nested In Template that first checks for WikiProjectBannerShell then the templates I am looking for. A little duplication of but it works. --Traveler100 (talk) 12:53, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Asking for update - none available
Hi, I use AWB on simpsonswiki.net and it has worked fine. Recently, I tried to log in and it tells me that the version is not enabled and I need to download the latest version. I go to do this and it tells me there are no updates available. I then installed the updater manually and ran that and still found I had the latest version. I can not log in as a result of this. I have asked another user and he is having the same problems. Can anyone give us a fix for this? Thanks, Solar Dragon (talk) 14:41, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Which version did you install? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've had the same problem today on the English Wikipedia while running 5.3.1.0 (AWB updater tells me I need to update and thus I cannot log in, then the updater tells me there's no updates), and had to manually update AWB (ie, download 5.4.0.0 and replace old files with new files). I hope this helps. Regards, HMman (talk) 15:29, 5 September 2012 (UTC).
 * I had to do the manual upgrade as well. Kumioko (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Same problem here, the automatic updater said there was no upgrade (from 5.3.1.0) - the solution was to download the 5.4.0.0 zip from Sourceforge, so nothing too complex --  Random Time  12:55, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem with the same version. The same solution worked for me. -- PBS (talk) 15:46, 13 September 2012 (UTC)