Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 22

FixHeadings nor FixSyntax won't fix empty bold tags

 * Magio: in FixHeadings add a new regex to remove empty bold, allow zero or more spaces between the apostrophes. Add more unit tests for FixHeadings and commit the lot if happy, or send me a patch if you can only do part of the work. Rjwilmsi  11:52, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:28, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Ignores wikilinks with colons when determining whether to add dead end

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  17:38, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

It takes two edits to remove break line and bold from headers

 * Mediawiki does not show this as a valid header, did your example come from an actual article? Rjwilmsi  17:17, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 17:51, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Errors disambiguating, possibly due to link occurring more than once in a line

 * OK, code in this area doesn't look great, probably is an error over multiple links on the same line. I'll investigate. Rjwilmsi  14:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. In dab fixing window make editable portion only the wikilink, so that user cannot create conflicting changes and nearby dablinks can be updated correctly. Rjwilmsi  17:05, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Can't open wikilinks from preview

 * Fix relative link setting for wikilinks. Open in new window will now work as expected. Rjwilmsi  11:56, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Disable typo fixing inside "hiero" tags

 * Rjwilmsi 08:07, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

It firsts reorders references and then moves punctuation

 * Magio: create a new Genfixes unit test to show the problem, within file GenfixesTests, you should be able to use the AssertChange function. Then try changing the order of the RefsAfterPunctuation and ReorderReferences calls within Article.PerformGeneralFixes, does this make the new test pass without breaking others? Commit the lot if all tests pass OK. Rjwilmsi  11:57, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I created a test which, surprisingly, doesn't fail. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:19, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

The problem occurs when the References section doesn't exist. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:33, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

It added uncat in the wrong place in the first edit and fixed in the second

 * Magio, use debugger to see why the first time round during SortMetaData the Uncategorized stub was not picked up as a stub template, could it be that Wikiregexes.Stub doesn't match it when it has the subst date values in? Rjwilmsi  12:02, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

proves that Uncategorized stub is picked as a stub template by Wikiregexes.Stub. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 09:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiProjectBannerShell issue
Maybe this is custom module's bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:30, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Nope - try Category talk:Metalcore albums by American artists with no module loaded. GoingBatty (talk) 01:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:39, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Ambiguous citation dates alert remains when existing content blanked

 * Rjwilmsi 21:31, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia message, "You are using the MySkin skin, which is being removed..."

 * For History and What Links Here views use printable form rather than myskin. Rjwilmsi  20:59, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I/O Error
— Preceding unsigned comment added by A1 (talk • contribs)
 * Under Help->About in AWB, what is your .NET Framework version? You may need to update your .NET installation to the latest .NET 2 service pack. We are now using features from .NET that are available in .NET 2 but you may need the latest service pack. Rjwilmsi  21:30, 24 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I have .NET 2 SP2 but still got I/O Error message. http://prntscr.com/yw4d8 I've downgrade to .NET 2 without SP and SP1, still not work. Please help. Anyway, why the old version can not load anymore? With the old version I can work and never have a problem!  Ę-oиė    >>>   ™ 17:04, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Dynamically determine if HashSets can be used, fallback to old method if not. Rjwilmsi  16:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Focus the edit box with single click
Known problem. See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser for the grizzly details. Bgwhite (talk) 20:41, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * , Dynamically determine if Microsoft.Mshtml is available, fall back to old diff behaviour if not.  Rjwilmsi  13:03, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Template:Orphan is persona non grata @svwiki
The main template is sv:Mall:Föräldralös with Mall:Orphan as a redirect and Mall:Fl (and Mall:FL) as subst-template. Observe that templates are normally never deleted on svwiki, therfore it will most likely continue to exist, but it's content will be altered. Community consensus: sv:Wikipedia:Bybrunnen. -- Lavallen (talk) 18:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Can you please provide a link to a relevant discussion? I still see it as interwiki of the English orphan tag in wikidata. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:38, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * As I said above, templates are almost never deleted on svwiki, to not make older versions of pages hard to read. Therefor the interwiki will most likely stay on Wikidata. A link to the discussion on the Swedish Village pump (Bybrunnen) can also be found above. -- Lavallen (talk) 07:44, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect template redirect for WPB
WikiProjectBanners is WikiProjectBannerShell with yes -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:16, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, so changing WPB to WikiProjectBannerShell essentially removes the yes parameter. Should AWB always uncollapse this template?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:39, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It's a bug. It was my mistake at the first place when we created this function. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * fixes it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Possible char set problems on hi

 * Other pagenames are available. for example hi:वार्ता:चीन द्वारा भारत पर आक्रमण (१९६२). Rich Farmbrough, 21:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC).
 * I was able to save an edit to hi:वार्ता:चीन द्वारा भारत पर आक्रमण (१९६२) so this is now working. Rjwilmsi  21:25, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException - Form that is already displayed modally cannot be displayed as a modal dialog box. Close the form before calling showDialog.

 * I got this a couple times today when I was using AWB to pull in some different articles using make list. I got it on a couple categories and again when using the special pages function. --Kumioko (talk) 19:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Banners that have comments in them are considered a bad tag by KingbotK

 * This is probably not a bug. There is probably something in the banners that is causing the problem. Can you give an example page it happened on? –xenotalk 13:38, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah no problem if you pull in virtually any of the articles from the Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor you get it. A couple specific articles are talk:Gary Evans Foster or Talk:Gary George Wetzel. Please let me know if you need anything else. --Kumioko (talk) 14:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The bad tag report is from this mess of "B class checklist" items. Not sure why the plugin does not like it, it may be getting confused because of the hidden comments. –xenotalk 14:44, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh ok, if its worth mentioning I am going to cleanup all those comments to the shortened version on the milhist banner page, like below. I just haven't gotten that far along yet. Unfortunately most folks don't appreciate the need for the talk page banners so they are a mess.
 * |B1 = y/n
 * |B2 = y/n
 * |B3 = y/n
 * |B4 = y/n
 * |B5 = y/n --Kumioko (talk) 14:57, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * |B5 = y/n --Kumioko (talk) 14:57, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Atm, KingbotK will mark as bad tags all banners with comments. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:51, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Can we amend this? Milhist, especially, does this quite often. –xenotalk 13:52, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * We could but it's not a priority at the moment. The exception is on the top of the list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, that seems like a pretty big bug to me but I guess I can just keep using AWB without it. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good plugin though.--Kumioko (talk) 17:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Not fixing spacing in defaultsort when it is only change being made

 * I think you mean "the space after the colon" -- John of Reading (talk) 06:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Why are you saying there is a problem: only whitespace is changed and you have this skip option enabled? Rjwilmsi  07:05, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I notice that Tjaenhebyu is listed under "T" in Category:Egyptian architects even though the DEFAULTSORT has a space after the colon. So unless I'm missing something, an edit to remove the space is just a cosmetic change, and the AWB skip options are correct to skip it. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. The whitespace check is just that, it just checks whitespace, does not even try to identify whether the whitespace change would be significant or not. Rjwilmsi  07:17, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict)Looking at your examples, I note that they get sorted correctly with the space, so there's no need for AWB to change this. More importantly perhaps; neither Wahibre-teni nor Tjaenhebyu even need a defaultsort, so if you are going to change them, simply removing the defaultsort would be better (so that, if the page ever gets moved, the old defaultsort isn't wrong). But even that change shouldn't be made without a more fundamental change to the article at the same time. Fram (talk) 07:20, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree that defaultsort isn't needed in this case, but that is not the point and is off-topic. Due to a bug that was introduced, Mediawiki currently strips off the leading space.  There is a bug report.  Like all user generated bug reports, it probably won't be fixed until the zombie apocalypse.  As I live in fantasy land, I like to work as if bugs were fixed.
 * @Rjwilmsi.  Ok, if it is a general whitespace check, then no need to add complexity to the code.  Bgwhite (talk) 07:57, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.CloseDownAWB
I got an error when I first started AWB which I, unfortunately, failed to copy. Then I got errors whenever I attempted to do anything. For example, when I tried to open a settings file, I got a NullReferenceException in MainForm.SetProject, which was previously reported three years ago and two years ago. Those were archived without action due to rarity, so there's probably no point re-reporting, although I do have the info if you think it might be helpful.

Then I got the above error whenever I tried to close down AWB. It's very frustrating to be unable to close a program because there's an error closing the program. I had to use the Windows Task Manager to close it. Then I was able to restart AWB normally. I didn't find any references to this in the archives. This all happened to me once before. Feel free to archive this as a rarity, but I figured I should report it this time. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:33, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps we could try to close the program without trying to save the settings when this occurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:17, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Networks errors causing problems on AWB startup will not prevent AWB closing down cleanly. Rjwilmsi  19:04, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.SetProject

 * The above was likely a result of Wikipedia server/internet poor response rather then AWB specifically, although AWB does not handle such errors in a user friendly way. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 10:33, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * prevents this error from being thrown. (AWB still won't work if network connections fail). Rjwilmsi  19:27, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in ListMaker.LoadArticlesInBrowser

 * Rjwilmsi 18:59, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

AccessViolationException in MainForm.GetDiff

 * This happens fairly often under Wine (normally after around 100 edits in a session). After that new diffs are appended to the existing ones, however right click->Refresh twice on the diff seems to make it work again. I'll investigate further. Rjwilmsi  18:35, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Works around this problem. Rjwilmsi  21:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

AWB cannot log in to en.wikipedia - "This version is not enabled, please download the newest version"

 * I just filled in the .NET version above. v4.0.30319 was installed (by who?) just about the time AWB stopped working. I will attempt to remove that version, going back to 3.5. Chris the speller   yack  01:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The .Net version is just fine. The problem is the SVN versions currently available are all old as version 5.5 came out a couple weeks ago.  Goto Sourceforge's download site to get the latest version. Bgwhite (talk) 02:05, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that worked. I thought I was staying at the front of the pack by constantly using the latest SVN snapshots. Now that I have wasted several hours, what should I do from now on -- not go to the snapshots? WP:AWB still says I can do so. I don't think I am the only AWB user that will go off the tracks over this.  Chris the speller   yack  02:27, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Still update the same way. You do have a point... The SVN page should be blank until an SVN is newer than a main release.  Will bring it upto the powers that be.  Bgwhite (talk) 04:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks again for the quick help. Chris the speller   yack  05:06, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Clarify error message "This version is not enabled" -> "This version of AWB is not enabled". Rjwilmsi 08:13, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

%%key%% sometimes doesn't provide expected result

 * It's because of the Arabic name rules, see Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_11. Rjwilmsi  08:14, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I personally think this needs to be revisited. There are many names in the Arabic name rules that should no longer be in there, all three examples given by Zetud for example. Minus people from Malaysia, 99% of living people with Arabic names do follow a surname, firstname pattern. The different 1% are dang hard to figure out they don't follow the pattern. This is similar to the Japanese surname problem. Living people (except sumo and kabuki) follow western order. Dead people before a certain date follow Chinese order. A very good journal article is from The Indexer, The International Journal of Indexing. Bgwhite (talk) 07:09, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I would be fine to remove the Arabic names logic if there is an appropriate centralized discussion that comes to that conclusion. Rjwilmsi  11:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

ObjectDisposedException in ApiEdit.MD5 (Safe handle has been closed)
Saving Posadowsky Glacier (Antarctica). Rich Farmbrough, 07:06, 22 September 2010 (UTC).

I'm not sure what caused it but I was trying out the 'Max edits' function in the bots tab. But when I turned 'Max edits' off, the error still happened. It appears to happen whenever I try to save the changes to the article. I downgraded to SVN 7505 and the bug disappeared. A popup error message came up. -- Lightmouse (talk) 11:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MyPreferences.get_Language
Reported in Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_10 in the past and Reedy claimed to have fixed that in. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know. But this happened in version 4.5, and I'm using the 5.0.3 and it is still there for that site (www.spescoladeteatro.org.br/enciclopedia/). I think the fix was only for the wikia sites. This site I'm attempting to connect is not related to Wikimedia (but it uses MediaWiki) and it is a single language project (it doesn't have interwikis ou subdomains like xx.spescoladeteatro.org.br/enciclopedia/, for instance). I think there's some bug in AWB with that, because I use it in a wiki in my notebook (http://localhost/wiki/) and there's no problem with that. This only happens when I try to use it on http://www.spescoladeteatro.org.br/enciclopedia/ . CasteloBranco msg 12:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We can easily fix it if you install the latest snapshot found in http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/AutoWikiBrowser5031_rev6872.zip and recatch the bug. This will show us in which line we have to add the extra code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Magioladitis, I'll put the new message here, that ocurred in 5.0.3.1, revision 6872. CasteloBranco msg 13:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Is there a solution for this error? CasteloBranco msg 19:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We can't find the line where it occurs. We 'll have to search a bit more. Sorry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Since now we have a better bug catcher and we made many code improvements I need you to tell if the bug still happens for you. The latest AWB can be downloaded at http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ If the bug reoccurs please change th current bug form with the most recent one. It will contain more info and I might be able to fix the bug. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:53, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in ApiEdit.Login
It seems you don't have .NET 3.5 installed. Please install and rereport if bugs persists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:40, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

ArgumentException in TraceManager.AddListener
Rereported and fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:03, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in MainForm.lbDuplicateWikilinks_Click

 * Do you have any information on what you did to encounter this error, what page it was on etc.? Thanks Rjwilmsi  17:31, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't remember the exact circumstances, but I think the error occurred when I attempted to add a page to my watchlist. AWB would automatically restart and reload the page I was working on, so I attempted to save my work before the restart timer ran down and got this error message. If I try and duplicate this problem, I get the same result (error message and restart with loss of work), but I get a different error message: "Attempted to save a wrong page", header: "Exception in MainForm.Save". HMman (talk) 17:56, 14 August 2012 (UTC).
 * Fix watch/unwatch by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:34, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

It didn't add year of birth nor converted b. to born

 * 18:39, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Remove a wikilink in the header if it is wikilinked elsewhere

 * Link to the MOS policy on this please? Rjwilmsi  18:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It's MOS:HEAD, but I think it is dangerous for software to enforce this MOS rule automatically. A proper fix requires a human to decide whether the same link occurs close enough to the heading for the lost link not to be a problem, or to decide how to add an equivalent link to nearby text. My preference for this rule, as I've said before, is that the software should only remove a link from a heading if the same link appears near the beginning of the following section. Otherwise, perhaps, it should be re-implemented as an alert. I routinely double-click to undo the effect of this general fix. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I personally haven't thought about this before, but Keith D's comment of my bot's edit convinced me. Removing the wikilink should be done by a human and not bot. I'd favor John's suggestion of it be re-implemented as an alert. Bgwhite (talk) 23:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Remove genfixes logic to unlink wikilinks in section headers. Add new alert to highlight headings with wikilinks on mainspace pages. Rjwilmsi  19:53, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

It takes two edits to remove unneeded heading and remove unneeded empty line

 * Rjwilmsi 16:37, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Unbalanced brackets caused a correct pair to break

 * Rjwilmsi 17:11, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Skip option "only genfixes" can lose "Find and Replace" corrections

 * Rjwilmsi 17:58, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Takes two edits

 * Rjwilmsi 18:19, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't always add Defaultsort or persondata name parameter

 * I think AWB only adds persondata if there is a birth or death category e.g. after I added 'Category:1893 births' to William Langhorne Bond AWB worked normally.--Racklever (talk) 07:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

The pages reported can not be identified as pages about persons with our current logic. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:02, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Working like this is hopeless: if we report pages then immediately go and edit them. If there is still a problem please re-report problem pages without editing them afterwards so I can test against the page as-is. Rjwilmsi  08:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * None of us edited the first 3 pages, it was an uninvolved editor. AWB would add persondata (2 had infoboxes), but not the name parameter, so AWB did identify them as persons. Bgwhite (talk) 08:31, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Defaultsort is too subtle for software to fill in automatically - see WP:SUR for the list of hard cases. The Persondata name parameter is also subtle (Persondata), and I believe that AWB will only fill it in by copying the defaultsort. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:45, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * @John, yes Persondata name is taken from DEFAULTSORT. @Bgwhite, fine, though either way I need live examples to work on. Also, is "restrict DEFAULTSORT" definitely turned off for you? Rjwilmsi  08:53, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * @Rjwilmsi, yes "restrict DEFAULTSORT" is off. I do add alot of DEFAULTSORTs. @John, I wrote WP:SUR, so yes, there are alot of different permutations for DEFAULTSORT.  However, AWB does get it right 95% of the time, it can be corrected by the user and does fill in a value, which wouldn't normally happen.  There is an automatic check for diacritics and a manual one... when adding listas as this is hardly ever done by anyone. Bgwhite (talk) 17:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, so if you have further problems please try to give me a live example. Rjwilmsi  18:00, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Live examples: Ahmed Zahir and Mohamed Didi--Racklever (talk) 22:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * These examples do not contain a bug. For certain Arabic names, AWB will not add DEFAULTSORT.  Ahmed and any variant of Mohamed will trigger the exception.  See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs.  Bgwhite (talk) 22:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

A live example, for now... Don Williams (animator). Bgwhite (talk) 06:43, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That page has no categories, hence no DEFAULTSORT is added. Rjwilmsi  07:15, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Why does it add Persondata? Bgwhite (talk) 07:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If adding persondata template and no DEFAULTSORT, derive NAME field as DEFAULTSORT would be derived (using MakeHumanCatKey) Rjwilmsi  08:29, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Found another one... Nenad Ban. It adds persondata and fills in the name parameter, but doesn't add DEFAULTSORT. It also doesn't add any categories. It should atleast add birth category as the birth date is given in the infobox. I'm using svn9075. Bgwhite (talk) 21:34, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * does not run for an article when there are >20 refs to guard against false positives. Rjwilmsi  18:43, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

We need someone to update the our manual. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletes heading if name is same as article's title
Probably we should keep doing this but only if the very first header matches the pagetitle. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

And it has to be limited to level 2 headers. Try Vector projection. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:45, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Only remove level 2 headings that match the article title Rjwilmsi  21:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

"Highlight errors" and "Auto focus end of the edit box"

 * Highlight errors will focus the edit box on the first error, so I made it mutually exclusive with "Auto focus end of the edit box". How do you think it should work? Rjwilmsi  21:25, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If they are both checked, then the edit box should contain red highlighting and the focus should jump to the end. But, in the longer term, focus and highlighting ought to be independent. Other possible options for focus could be "at the beginning" or "at the first yellow 'find' match". -- John of Reading (talk) 06:31, 16 April 2013 (UTC)


 * For me, "Highlight errors" always focuses the edit box on the last error. Very annoying because I have to scroll to the top of the article before I click anything in the alerts box.
 * I agree with John, if "Auto focus end of the edit box" is checked, it should override anything else and goto the end. If not checked, it should focus wherever the default is set. Bgwhite (talk) 07:14, 16 April 2013 (UTC)


 * While the developers are looking at this code, there's a related performance issue. If an article has hundreds of mismatched brackets, there's a long delay while the edit box scrolls to each one in turn. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Allow both options to operate together. Rjwilmsi 22:04, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Performance improvement to error highlighting in edit box when many errors. Rjwilmsi  22:20, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.Login
You seem to work with 5.4.0.0 How is this possible? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Please upgrade to version 5.5.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:51, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

ArgumentException in TypoScanBasePlugin.UploadResult
Most probably an one-off problem caused to lost network connection. Please rereport if it occurs to v.5.5.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:57, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

SEHException in Command.GetCommandFromID
Did you use the external processing? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:54, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

It creates empty Multiple issues tags or something worse
Even worse try Hidetoshi Nakamura. It creates two groups of Multiple issues. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:41, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Not adding defaultsort

 * Rjwilmsi 17:42, 30 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Found another one. Randy Johnson (second baseman).  Using 9118.  Bgwhite (talk) 06:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * added the Infobox in the list of infoboxes about persons. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi fixes the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:26, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I got this exception when I was without connection. With it, AWB starts normally

 * Rjwilmsi 21:28, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Defaultsort

 * This is not a problem. We don't add DEFAULTSORT where there are any as this can indicate an article with problems, adding a DEFAULTSORT may only make the problems worse. As for the categories, if the category has a colon then it's a wikilink not a category, so the articles wouldn't be in any categories so wouldn't need a DEFAULTSORT per our logic.  Rjwilmsi  21:22, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

It takes two edits to add break line after header with whitespace

 * Rjwilmsi 17:31, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

It takes two runs to simplify wikilink and remove quotes in cite

 * May be sufficient to update PerformGeneralFixes such that SimplifyLinks is called before FixCitationTemplates. Rjwilmsi  09:52, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 17:37, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

It takes two runs to consolidate references

 * Rjwilmsi 17:46, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

It adds more than one References list

 * Unclosed wiki comment in article caused the problems, article was fixed by Bgwhite. Rjwilmsi  17:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Mainspace cats added in non-mainspace pages

 * Sandboxes are a special case, we need to be able to test full functionality against sandboxes for testing purposes. Have you got examples of non-sandbox, non-mainspace pages where category addition is a problem? Rjwilmsi  21:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Here's a listing of Fram's cleanup efforts yesterday, showing the many kinds of pages where it is a problem. I !vote for Fram's suggestion that the categories should be added, but with the extra colon: . This wouldn't hinder the testing of AWB in sandboxes. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:51, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * John's idea is a good solution. Solves Fram's problem while keeping the cats in place on sandbox articles.  I've deleted way too many cats on stale sandbox articles. Bgwhite (talk) 07:23, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yep, this would work for me. Fram (talk) 08:03, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * When genfixes running on non-minaspace page, add birth/death/living categories only as wikilinks with colon at start. Rjwilmsi  08:54, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't change Japanese fullwidth characters to halfwidth

 * Only change Japanese/Chinese full width bracket characters if unbalanced brackets. Rjwilmsi  08:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in SiteMatrix.GetProjectLanguages

 * Also seeing this message displayed  Jay Jay Talk to me 18:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Clearer error handling on network errors. Rjwilmsi  17:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Start-up error

 * Better error handling of network errors on startup. Rjwilmsi  18:00, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in Parsers..ctor
AutoWikiBrowser was working fine. The system was getting slow (seem that windows 8 has a memory leak somewhere) so a reboot usually fixes the dozy OS. This time I restarted AutoWikiBrowser while the system was still under a heavy start up load. This bug appeared. So I updated AWB to the latest version but the bug did not go away, so I suspect the data causing the crash is in a cache somewhere. -- PBS (talk) 14:55, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

The AWB application has now started, without displaying the bug. So it could have been due a thread timeout on a heavily loaded system. Not sure. Will report back if it occurs again when the system is not showing high load levels. -- PBS (talk) 15:04, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * This is a network error, AWB needs to load interwiki and wiki language information on startup. makes the error message a bit clearer, but there's nothing we can do if your PC, or your ISP or the Wikipedia servers are having network problems. Thanks  Rjwilmsi  17:55, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Unfixed typos still listed in edit summary

 * If you edit the text, either directly in the edit box or by double-clicking in the diff window, then it is up to you to check that the edit summary still describes your edit. The edit summary can be edited on the "Edit summary" tab before you save the edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:38, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Why has this changed? The previous version, which i updated from this morning, did not behave this way; if i didn't replace "it's home" with "its home" i didn't have to go and correct the edit summary. Cheers, LindsayHello 15:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * See the archived feature request here. I think the new behaviour is great; it means I can do some copyediting in the edit box without losing the software-generated edit summary. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but it should still remove explicitly double-clicked changes that are undone. See this and its corresponding edit summary -- FYI I definitely wouldn't have manually edited out that change (as it automatically includes |date= etc.), other than by double clicking on the diff. Mark Hurd (talk) 06:30, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and the discussion returned back when we decided to change the edit summary behaviour and use the previous one. We can never be sure what manual changes the editor does before saving. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. Probably a warning on first use or a readme automatically displayed when using new versions would be good. Mark Hurd (talk) 07:37, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * And perhaps it should at least warn when you made further changes outside of the section still in the comment, like I did, instead of just silently removing the section "comment", which I didn't in this case to test. (I do actually like the idea of allowing us to determine if a major edit was done in one section and very minor edits in others and so only mentioning one section, although I think it should be warned against.) Mark Hurd (talk) 09:39, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

This is a rather annoying behaviour. But I see several ways to prevent wrong edit summaries and necessary additional clicks:
 * 1) Remove summary parts if the according change has been reverted by double-clicking
 * 2) Displaying the actual edit summary not in a special tab, but in the "Edit box" tab (beyond the default edit summary or the edit area would be good)
 * 3) Coloring the "Edit Summary" tab if there was something added to the default edit summary automatically
 * 4) Providing an option not to change the default edit summary automatically at all --YMS (talk) 20:12, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Option 1 may not be doable. We could put the edit summary on the edit summary tab by splitting that tab with a vertical line. 3 and 4 could certainly be done, opinions from others? Rjwilmsi  08:07, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Option 1 looks very hard to code; I like option 2 - if the full edit summary was moved to the top of the "edit box" tab, I wouldn't have to switch tabs at all; if option 3 were implemented I would want a preference option to turn it off; option 4 might please some editors but I wouldn't use it. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Remove edit summary tab. Add edit summary box to top of edit box tab, if edit box toolbox is used resize edit summary box to fit. Rjwilmsi  14:52, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT is added in the wrong place in categories

 * Magio to review what parts of meta data sorter should run for Category namespace. Rjwilmsi  08:44, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Sort interwikis should also be done for categories.
 * Move portals, see also, etc. also should be done for categories.
 * We don't expect persondata in categories
 * articleText += strStub + categories+ interwikis;

So, basically everything. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

After further investigation: Activate to just change order of things: DEFAULTSORT, categories, interwikis; in this order. Persondata thing should be mainspace only. Don't Move portals, see also, etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Will need testing over a wide range of categories to ensure nothing else is affected. Rjwilmsi  09:50, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

bug with the ReGex Tester that prevents the "replace" section be empty as to delete such text

 * Rjwilmsi 07:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Error converting html 'bold' tags
Confirmed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
 * fixes my report. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:02, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Original problem still occurs -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:06, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  06:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in ImageFileLinksListProvider.get_UserInputTextBoxText
Please rereport if it occurs to version 5.5.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in WikiRegexes.MakeLangSpecificRegexes
This bug repeatedly appears just after starting AWB (while splash screen is still showing loading bar) and I can't get AWB to run. Even downloaded a fresh version, but didn't help, same error occurs. So I'd guess it has nothing to do with configuration or the like. --$traight-$hoota (talk) 12:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 17:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Generic templates created by Kingbotk plugin not loaded from the settings file, although successfully saved into it

 * This might've been broken since July 2010 when I majorly overhauled the plugin to give the more generic base. Being that long ago, I've no idea as to remembering if I tested it back then. If it's saving, that's half the battle, I guess it's just skipping what to do with the user defined generics, and either not building them, or even just not displaying it. Reedy (talk) 00:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Seems to work fine now. Please download version 2.3.3.0 of the plugin or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
While trying to move File:Cc1.jpg.jpg to File:Cc1.jpg. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:54, 23 August 2012 (UTC)


 * File:Sas.jpg.jpg to File:Sas.jpg. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Kam Air Boeing 737-200.jpg.JPG to File:Kam Air Boeing 737-200.jpg. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:04, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Smooth.jpg.jpg to File:Smooth.jpg -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Fort Denison c1885.jpg.jpg to File:Fort Denison c1885.jpg -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:36, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

We need a windows with "Overwrite anyway? OR Cancel". -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:17, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Pass actions for a couple of CheckForErrors calls. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:04, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
Duplicate: Load KingbotK plugin. Bot mode: Off -> Load a page, when "Press skip" appears activate bot mode and press Skip -> Kaboom. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Message:

Geraki, did this occur when you pressed Start in the Plugins tab? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, I'm getting this one as well.   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 12:47, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that this related to the timer and the way we save the plugin's stats. I ll try to do some debugging later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Method to correctly count Kingbotk edits: -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Save text
 * Apply plugin changes
 * If old text <> new text add 1 to Tagged
 * Apply genfixes


 * I believe this is the same error that I pointed out. If thats the case its due to the Plugin getting stuck on comments. Could you provide them an example article or two that generates the error. --Kumioko (talk) 13:32, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Duplicate with Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs. Charles_Edward are you trying to assess articles? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm getting it too when trying to assess and cleanup metalworking articles. Wizard191 (talk) 13:39, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is in the way we do the ststistics in KingbotK. We are already aware of that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes I am trying to assess. I can get through, say fifty or more without an error, and then it gets to a patch where its error after error. Then it clears back up and I can assess another fifty or so before it craps out again. I have just been going back and manually assessing all the errored ones right now. I think this is related to other errors posted here. Here's some examples:
 * Samuel Henderson (Indianapolis mayor), I can load the page, then click skip or save to get to the talk and it hangs. It never loads the talk page. If I click skip or save a second time, the above error occurs. If I click stop, then restart, or just click start without stopping, I get the above error too. Then upon restarting I get the "pluggin was expecting talk page" error.
 * Same with Jim Hill (Oregon politician)
 * Eventually you get through the "bad" articles and it will start working again. I don't see on the talk pages of those articles any comments, or things like that. And it is on such a variety of articles and they have no common template except the Indiana project template, which I am assessing for. &mdash;Charles Edward (Talk 14:09, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Happens when I try to do assessments with WikiProject Ontario Roads. Half the pages come up with an error saying 'AWB expected a talk page', with only OK to click. That stops the processing. I click start again, and it often skips the item and goes to the next and asks the same thing. Eventually it will go, but then this error will come up and stop the processing again. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  τ ¢  12:49, 2 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Yep, getting same errors. -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 12:08, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you also use the KingbotK plugin? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:13, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. Not only when I press 'skip' but also when I press 'stop'. Once (i.e. just now when my bot was mass-tagging for BRFA Bot Trial) it stopped in the middle with this same warning, without me pressing any button. Then, I had to restart AWB when it again started working. -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs 12:27, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The "assess" feature is officially broken. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It doesn't even open the 'assess' window it's supposed to open. So it's kind of doesn't even exist. -- Ankit Maity Talk <sub style="color:green;">Contribs 12:41, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Removing many stuff from the plugin seems to have resolved the problem. Anyone can rereport on version 2.3.3.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs / UserPrefs.SavePrefs
This error usually is a result of the ASP.NET account not having permissions to a directory, possibly the windows temp directory. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Bug reported 3 times and reports were merged. Check edit history. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:36, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

You are using old settings file. Please make a clean install. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:37, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.profilesToolStripMenuItem_Click
Can you reproduce this? Do you remember what was your last action before it happened? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

We won't be able to fix this if we don't know more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:45, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

ArgumentException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
I processed the page with no problem:. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:26, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I was asked to comment here. This report was semi-automated and unfortunately I don't know much about the technicalities sorry! Mr T  (Talk?)  [ (New thread?) ] 05:44, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Marking as "rare". Please rereport in version 5.5.0.0 or newer if bug reoccurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:19, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

ConfigurationErrorsException in Settings.get_WindowLocation
Marking as "rare". Please rereport in version 5.5.0.0 or newer if bug reoccurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:21, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

InvocationException in AsyncApiEdit.InvokeFunction
Marking as "rare". Please rereport in version 5.5.0.0 or newer if bug reoccurs.-- Magioladitis (talk) 21:21, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

XML exception nThread: DB Scanner thread
Marking as "old". Please rereport in version 5.5.0.0 or newer if bug reoccurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:14, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in TraceManager.ProcessingArticle
Please upgrade the plugin to version 2.3.3.0 and rereport if bug reoccurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:38, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Reported again at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_17. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:21, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

AccessViolationException in Program.Main
http://archistance.blogspot.com/2010/05/exception-attempted-to-read-or-write.html -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Nothing we can do for this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.LoadPrefs
is missing but I ve no idea why. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:27, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Most probably not an AWB mistake. Maybe the list was modified manually? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:39, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in TypoGroup.FixTypos
Please rereport if this occurs in versiob 5.5.0.0 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Takes two tries to load list from saved settings

 * This has since been fixed. Rjwilmsi  09:38, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

It won't remove duplicated categories with same sortkey if first letter has different case

 * If sortkeys are now entirely case insensitive should we do a case insensitive compare of the entire sortkey, not just first letter? Rjwilmsi  10:22, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You are right, We can do a case insensitive compare of the entire sortkey but I thiknk it's better if the first letter is capitalised. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:48, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Meta data sorter: categories are also duplicate if first letter upper sortkey is the same. Rjwilmsi  13:49, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Add only one blank line instead of two before stub template on arwiki

 * Rjwilmsi 09:01, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't add a blank line between daed end and orphan templates on arwiki

 * Rjwilmsi 09:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

UnauthorizedAccessException in WikiTraceListener..ctor
Maybe log file got really huge? We won't write log files anymore so this bug won't reoccur. -- Magioladitis 09:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors
I found similar bugs but wasn't sure if they were related. On almost all page loads I do while running AWB, I get an error dialogue:

The program has encountered the following problem:

Heading:

Body:  Message:   Call stack:    at WikiFunctions.API.ApiEdit.CheckForErrors(String xml, String action) at WikiFunctions.API.ApiEdit.QueryApi(String queryParamters) at WikiFunctions.Lists.Providers.ApiListProviderBase.ApiMakeList(String url, Int32 haveSoFar) at WikiFunctions.Lists.Providers.WhatLinksHereListProvider.MakeList(String Namespace, String[] searchCriteria) at WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers.TagOrphans(String articleText, String articleTitle, Boolean restrictOrphanTagging) WikiFunctions.API.ApiErrorException: Bot API returned the following error: 'Exception Caught: Internal error in ApiResult::setElement: Attempting to add element backlinks=2500, existing value is 5000' at WikiFunctions.API.ApiEdit.CheckForErrors(String xml, String action) at WikiFunctions.API.ApiEdit.QueryApi(String queryParamters) at WikiFunctions.Lists.Providers.ApiListProviderBase.ApiMakeList(String url, Int32 haveSoFar) at WikiFunctions.Lists.Providers.WhatLinksHereListProvider.MakeList(String Namespace, String[] searchCriteria) at WikiFunctions.Parse.Parsers.TagOrphans(String articleText, String articleTitle, Boolean restrictOrphanTagging) Sagaciousuk (talk) 01:39, 14 August 2011 (UTC) | OS = Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 | version = AutoWikiBrowser (5.3.1.0), WikiFunctions (5.3.1.0), revision 7792 (2011-07-23 16:53:25) | net = 2.0.50727.5446 | duplicate = [encountered while processing page ] | site = http://sonichu.com | workaround = | fix_version = }}

While I appreciate support for using AWB on non Wikipedia sites is limited, I wondered if this error was specific to my use of it on other wikis or whether there was another bug that may be affecting more people than just myself. --Sagaciousuk (talk) 01:39, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Temporary Mediawiki problem. Check similar at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Lists#API_internal_error. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:52, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Remove English date parameter when adding Arabic date parameter on arwiki

 * Dated templates: rename date if parameter name localized. Rjwilmsi  14:19, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

It didn't remove comma from date in all cases

 * Rjwilmsi 15:21, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Slow processing of List of abbeys and priories in Ireland
Start closing the unclosed tags please!!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Workaround for WikiRegexes.Small backtracking in UnclosedTags when many unclosed small tags in page text: fix performance problem, but where there are many unclosed small tags we may also incorrectly report valid small tags with nested tags as invalid as well. Rjwilmsi  09:39, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * performance: only highlight first 100 errors. Rjwilmsi  10:07, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

It replaces line separator although genfixes are turned off
I see that there was a unicode character removed (Line separator LSEP). In line 108. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)


 * But removing Unicode characters is considered gen fixes, isn't it? --Meno25 (talk) 18:56, 6 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_21. Nothing we can do about it but it is really rare. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_12 too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:59, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

I performed a database scan on May 2013 dump to search for line separator. Only 1 result found. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

stub / cats on cy
I operate on cy, where AWB made this edit here, whereby the order of the cats / stubs were altered wrongly. Does AWB not recognise the Welsh word for Stub (Egin)? Can someone point me to a discussion on conforming AWB to other languages, please? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 05:18, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Localize stub tag for Welsh/cy. Rjwilmsi  06:27, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

AWB doesn't remove empty DEFAULTSORT

 * Who says we need to remove this? If the DEFAULTSORT is there with no key, doesn't it suggest a user needs to manually set the right DEFAULTSORT? Rjwilmsi  15:16, 30 May 2013 (UTC)


 * In most cases I have seen this, the addition of empty DEFAULTSORT is vandalism by someone trying the edit tools. Also, note that AWB removes empty gallery tags and I think it should do the same for any other empty tag or magic word. Any way, if you want to close this bug as won't fix then fine by me. --Meno25 (talk) 18:17, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

It should be very rare to have an empty DEFAULTSORT anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:55, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Not skipping when triggering edit filter
Check Archives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:42, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yup - it's at . Sorry for the duplicate report.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:46, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Adding stub on sv:wp.

 * So what's the rule on sv-wiki, do all stub templates either end with "stub" or have "stub-" in their name? Rjwilmsi  23:10, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It's different. Some is names 1920-talsstub and some 1910-talsstub-USA, but all stubs has the word stub in it. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  14:27, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

It takes two edits to fix dates in date and accessdate fields

 * Rjwilmsi 08:00, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

It takes two runs to fix date ranges

 * Rjwilmsi 08:13, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Disable user notifications counter on wikis that don't have this feature

 * OK, I'll do this if the API can tell us which wikis have it enabled. If not, you can just ignore the notifications icon. Rjwilmsi  16:55, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Another option would be to disable the click action if there are no notifications. Rjwilmsi  17:28, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Only show count of notifications, and make notifications area clickable if notifications enabled for the wiki. Rjwilmsi  09:32, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Not considering other protection levels from Special:ProtectedPages

 * According to |move|upload&apprlevel=autoreviewer this API query you have precisely one page that is autoreviewer protected. It hardly seems worth my effort to support this. Thanks Rjwilmsi  10:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Restarting in ...

 * So AWB is failing to save the pages. Have previous versions of AWB worked on your wiki? Is there any information in the Log.txt file (in the same directory as AutoWikiBrowser.exe) relating to this issue? Rjwilmsi  10:42, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Please rereport if bug reoccurs in version 5.5.0.3 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:37, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException in UserPrefs.SavePrefs
I can't save my settings, using "save settings", "save settings as..." nor "save settings as default". I already tried to reinstall, to solve compatibility problems, to run AWB as an administrator and to save settings in different places, but I always have this error message. Ѕÿϰדα×₮ɘɼɾ๏ʁ You talkin' to me? 16:36, 9 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SyntaxTerror (talk • contribs)
 * It's a permissions problem on your PC. Add a more specific error message.  Rjwilmsi  15:02, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Won't remove section in edit summary

 * So how about you disable section edit summary use from the Options menu? Rjwilmsi  06:47, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * AWB already does this, but the check is deferred until you actually save the edit. In this edit, the "edit summary" tab displayed a section name, but, because I edited another section it removed it from the edit summary when I saved the edit. I'm using 5.5.0.1 SVN 9049. I think the current behaviour is good enough. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:25, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You can always edit the edit summary too. In latest versions the edit summary box is above the edit box. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I probably never noticed before, but I do now because of the new edit box, thus I thought it as a bug. Magioladitis, I am using the latest version and it is not above the edit box, it is IN the edit box.  Removing 1/3 of the edit box when I have to enlarge font size is not fun. There has to be a way to turn it off.


 * On another note. How is John still using 5.5.0.1 SVN 9049?  Shouldn't that have been turned off with 5.5.0.2 out? Bgwhite (talk) 07:45, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * We always allow some days for the previous version. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I think we are good enough in this one. If someone makes changes to other sections can also modify their own edit summary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:40, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Auto-tagger: Change order of words in edit summary on arwiki
Meno25 do you want the same thing to be done for arzwiki too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:38, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * @Magio: Yes, please. --Meno25 (talk) 12:49, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Meno25 try 9243 and tell me if this is what you want. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:50, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Magio: Test edit Sadly no. Two problems: 1-The word "وسوم" should be rendered in normal text (not linked as it is now). 2-The word "وسوم" should be after "أضاف" and before "مقالات غير مصنفة" (i.e. the edit summary should be rendered as "أضاف وسوم مقالات غير مصنفة"). --Meno25 (talk) 15:19, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

What does "وسوم" mean? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:12, 16 June 2013 (UTC)


 * It means "tags" in Arabic. --Meno25 (talk) 11:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

I hope is what we meant. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:23, 16 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Nope. (Test edit) The edit summary is now rendered as "مقالات غير مصنفة وسوم أضاف". It should be "أضاف وسوم مقالات غير مصنفة". --Meno25 (talk) 11:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I think you can create a patch for me. Please change the lines I changed to reflect the correct order. I am trying but I think it's my keyboard. I put something in a place and appears in a different one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Meno25 help! -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:09, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Meno25 I did a test edit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Magio: Here is the patch but please double check the syntax:

--Meno25 (talk) 12:30, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

This test edit shows that the patch is working correctly. --Meno25 (talk) 12:30, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. This is what I was trying to do but for some reason copy-paste seemed to change the order of things. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:14, 16 June 2013 (UTC)