Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 24

Wrong placement of Uncategorized stub

 * Rjwilmsi 08:13, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Blank lines again

 * Rjwilmsi 14:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Moved template to wrong place

 * This is a known issue - Magioladitis stated "Image requested will go below WPBS but not every WikiProject." GoingBatty (talk) 00:52, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Wrong place for uncategorized stub?

 * Rjwilmsi 10:33, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

AWB moving a sanctions template

 * S. Rich, I think this was a manual edit. I'm using the same version of AWB and also use the same custom module for talk pages as the AWB editor did. It didn't change the position of the template. , can you confirm.  Bgwhite (talk) 04:04, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * adds support for this template to AWB. The AWB maintainers don't magically know about new templates that are only 6 days old. You must notify us when the template is created, not complain after the event.  Rjwilmsi  10:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT

 * Correction. AWB does not change anything in any DEFAULTSORT for me. What setting should I fix...? - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  10:02, 10 November 2013 (UTC)


 * In "Options", uncheck "Restrict change/addition". --Meno25 (talk) 10:09, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  10:47, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

The 3́ is still changing. Just so you know. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  10:49, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * This is not a unicode character. It is a mark on normal 3 and should be fixed/removed manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for the report. It was been troubling us for some time this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Please remove Wikify from the context menu
I left it because other wikipedia projects still use wikify. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:28, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Should we disable the insert option for en-wiki then? Rjwilmsi  10:01, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * replace it by Underlinked if it is possible. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Removed Expand completely and limited the visibility of Wikify to non-enwiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:32, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Don't add a blank line when changing deadend to wikify

 * For reference: Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 23, Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 21 and Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 21. --Meno25 (talk) 17:01, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 16:34, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

FormatException in UserInfo.Update / AWB problems with Marathi WP

 * Rjwilmsi 09:30, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Fixes for svwiki
For datum problem. Rjwilmsi 20:48, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

for the summary, wikify and okategoriserad. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:17, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * "Other don't add stub-tag under the categories, it should be placed two rows above" I need some link to documentation for that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:29, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The stub-placement did not have any proper documentation on svwp. It is beeing dicussed alongside with if stubtags should even exist anymore on svwp. So I 'ed it. -  (t)  Josve05a  (c)  14:58, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

A soft hyphen is incorrectly added inside words
- You may want to post this concern on sv:Wikipediadiskussion:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs)


 * Sorry. I now saw that the soft hyphen exists in the article. It was impossible to see until I copied the word "Västeuropa" from the article to Notepad. Then it became visible. So no bug exists. Svensson1 (talk) 19:09, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.UpdateButtons
What did you press exactly? Can you reproduce the bug on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:22, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure, this is a new install. The only thing (and this could very well be the problem) I installed it on a flash drive.  Mlpearc  ( powwow ) 17:27, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Please rereport if this occurs again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:12, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Improper alert for Invalid citation parameters
place is not in the documentation. We can't update the valid parameters daily. We need a full list. I think I'll change the wording in "Maybe an invalid parameter". -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:21, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:12, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * place is in the documentation - please see the second bullet in Template:Cite web. I agree that updating the parameters daily is not very efficient - neither is reporting them as I trip over them (e.g. Today I saw volume and issue are reported as invalid in Mazzy Star discography, while they are in the documentation at Template:Cite_web).  Would it be possible for you to please use the list of parameters on Template:Cite web as your full list?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:40, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * . The "all parameters" listings in the cite web documentation are incomplete. I have been through the sections you mentioned and added those parameters, then I got fed up. Rjwilmsi  10:50, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

We can't fix this thing case by case. First all citation templates documentation should be updated and completed. Then we could add more alerts and be more accurate. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:50, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

and for parameters: editor, version and laysummary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Although Author is now an acceptable parameter of cite web, AWB still generates an Invalid citation parameter alert. GoingBatty (talk) 16:58, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed for author. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:10, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Does not always populate full dates in Persondata

 * Rjwilmsi 08:09, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

AWB should not tag articles as stub if...
See Gallate for a current example where AWB tries to add stub and orphan. GoingBatty (talk) 00:33, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

for Chemistry index and this for its redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Auto tagger: Category-bug
AWB tried to do the same with this page but with an -tag.- (t)  Josve05a  (c)  21:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 22:41, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Auto-tagger: Differentiate between singular and plural in the edit summary for arwiki and arzwiki
Meno25. Can you please check ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I changed the format of my request. Is this is what you are looking for? Note that Arabic is written from right to left, so, in your example

" أزال" + " وسوم " + tags

(from right to left) "أزال" is the first word, "وسوم " is the second word and tags is the third word. I will test rev 9727 now. --Meno25 (talk) 13:39, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Meno25. Can you please check ? I fixed everything I guess. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Nope. Edit summary is reversed and you changed the correct current summary. Anyway, I wrote a patch for this. Could you, please, apply it?

--Meno25 (talk) 14:04, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Meno25 Please check. I recall we had the same problem last time. Something with my browser perhaps. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:18, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Summary is correct for all six cases (adding 1, 2 or 3 tags, removing 1, 2 or 3 tags). Thank you for your effort. --Meno25 (talk) 14:32, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Making AWB work on another site
Other wikis I'm pretty ignorant about programming and although I've learned a little about regular expressions from AWB, it's a far cry from being able to modify it in any meaningful way. I'd like to use AWB on non-Wikimedia Foundation sites&mdash;Freedom Defined, WikiIndex, and Wikitravel. Can someone explain to me what I have to do to make this work? When I go to Options -> Preferences -> Site -> Project: Custom and insert a URI, I get the following error: Message:  Call stack:    at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(String code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject, String protocol) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.OpenPreferences(Boolean focusSiteTab) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(String code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject, String protocol) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.OpenPreferences(Boolean focusSiteTab) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:57, 24 October 2013 (UTC) | OS         = Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 | version    = AutoWikiBrowser (5.5.1.2), WikiFunctions (5.5.1.2), revision 9356 (2013-07-15 17:07:21) AutoWikiBrowser (5.5.1.3), WikiFunctions (5.5.1.3), revision 9470 (2013-09-08 19:11:52) | net    = 2.0.50727.5472 | site   = http://wikiindex.org http://wikitravel.com | workaround    = | fix_version   = }} Again, I'm pretty dense. Can someone patient explain to me what's wrong? IMing might be the best option since there will probably be some back-and-forth. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:57, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Justin have you tried with AWB 5.5.1.3? Do you get the same error? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:10, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

The wikiindex.org one is not viewable in a web browser through https. Only though http. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:37, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Response, I didn't use https for WikiIndex. I tried to replicate the bug and here's what I got just now.
 * I have been unable to replicate an exception by just pasting in one of these custom site URLs. What steps exactly are you following? Rjwilmsi  20:50, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

can you please give us more instructions of how to duplicate the bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:07, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Start AWB. Options -> Preferences -> Site. Project:  Try any of those URIs: http://wikitravel.org/, http://wikiindex.org/, or http://freedomdefined.org/. The program will take several seconds and then spit out the error message above. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I get a pop up window "Error connecting to wiki" and no exception. Do you copy the entire http://wikitravel.org/ ? Or seletect http:// and paste wikitravel.org/ ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:26, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I used the  from the drop-down menu and inserted  . Then I tried to generate a list by making the   Category:Templates. I got the following bug:

Then I tried, since I remembered that they do different language editions as subdirectories rather than subdomains. (That is, they have "http://wikitravel.org/en/" rather than "https://en.wikivoyage.org/".) This time, it wouldn't even let me get to the point of trying to generate a list. It just gave me the following bug:

Does anyone use AWB on other projects? Has anyone else experienced this? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:18, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

I use AWB in wikias. In your cases I get a pop-up window and then AWB is disabled. I get no exceptions. Let's see if other get something else. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:36, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anyone used it other than on WMF or Wikia sites? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:37, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * , I have. It was on http://sarkarverse.org and it has been within the past month.  I was using SVN 9572, which is a "beta" version.  I was using the same custom settings I do on Wikipedia.  I did not use SSL.  I did not see any problems.  I just tried again. Using SVN 9643 and standard settings.  I did not have any problems. Bgwhite (talk) 07:59, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Huh. Have you tried Wikitravel, WikiIndex, or FreedomDefined, by chance? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:05, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * , sorry I thought you meant any outside projects. Sarkarverse is a site in which I already had an account.  I just made an account at Wikiindex and logged on just fine.  I tried several pages, but didn't see any errors.  Of particular interest, I saw the newly created page, Nudist History Wiki.  After reading the article, I have a feeling I won't get any more work done for the day. I owe you :)
 * Do you have .Net 4.0 installed? With "beta" versions you have to compile AWB yourself.  You can grab my copy from here. Bgwhite (talk) 08:51, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Do I have .Net 4.0? I have no clue. I don't do programming and I never know what frameworks and architectures I have. I'll try the version from this GDrive after I get some rest and see what happens. Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:56, 17 November 2013 (UTC) Update: Tried it and it wouldn't connect. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Please check/update your software, .NET version etc. and contact me if problem still occurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:49, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Another blank line report
DYK talk is not in WP:TPL list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Since the is used at so many talk pages (63,401), it should defenitly be added somewhere on the WP:TPL. -  (t)  Josve05a  (c)  21:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * maybe you leave a message at WP:TPL's talk page? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

skips fixes on talk pages if only whitespace changed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:49, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

A list of stuff to be fixed for talk pages
I have written than talk page fixes are not perfect and are not indicated for Automated fixing. Maybe I have to update the manual of AWB. Moreover, WP:TPL is an information page and not a guideline. everything in this area is incomplete. Some other things like "Oldhwypeerreview" are now on TfD. Talk pages are far from being standardised. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:23, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Peer review has less than 75 transclusions and I believe that some of them are incorrectly placed. I am not sure 75 pages are open for peer review. Maybe someone forgot o remove the template after peer review is over. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:29, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

"Summary from" has 35 transclusions and "RugbyUnionFortnight" has 1. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:31, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

"Search archives" has less than 5 transclusions now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:05, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

for "Afd-merged-from" and "Old AfD multi". -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:58, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Step 15 is not implemented on purpose. To avoid moving any other (not covered by our list) template below "archives". -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

for "pbneutral". -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:12, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The horror to see so many red X...I'm sorry for reporting so many "unnecessary" things. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  00:43, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
 * no worries. It was a good opportunity for me to send 5-6 templates to TfD, fix the code in 2-3 and check a portion of the 1,000 talk page templates. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:54, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Category sorting problem in non-en wiki sites
The same problem occurs on Arabic Wikipedia (arwiki). Please fix this on both wikis. All stub templates on arwiki contain the word "بذرة" in them. --Meno25 (talk) 19:19, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

This bug doesn't occur on rev 9700. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

User:Josve05a does this happen in more pages? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:11, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed. It also moves STANDARDSORTERING. Check "Daniel Woodgate" for instance. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:23, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi bug does not occur on revision 9700. Check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Stub on svwp
User:Josve05a this template does not follow stub naming standards of svwiki. Consider requesting renaming in svwiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * there are almost 1 500 diffrent templates that hav similar names on svwp. See sv:Kategori:Robotskapade djurstubbsmallar. That is almost 28 % of all stub templates on svwp. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  23:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Josve05a is there is a standard name convention? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:58, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Every template with the word 'stub' (exept the redirect uncategorized stub, substub and stubbmall (which is the base for every stubtemplate)) is a stub-template. The Swedish Wikipedia does not have many "guidlines" at all. It is just a big mess. Do what ever you want with this information.- (t)  Josve05a  (c)  00:06, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I noticed that almost all stubs in Swedish wikipedia use minus (-) instead of space. So, the rule you want is "any template that contains the string " stub " or the string "stub-" is a stub template? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:04, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. Exept the above mentioned templates. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  09:42, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

for all cases including uncategorized stub, substub and stubbmall. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Replacing with new lines

 * What version of AWB are you using, what exact values for find & replace are you using, when you say "making a mess" please be more specific about the problems you are having? Rjwilmsi  17:13, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

SeanWheeler maybe you could answer the questions above? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:33, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * we need information from you please. Rjwilmsi  12:17, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Archived. No feedback for 2 months. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Uncategorized stub on svwp
Interwikis were a mess which I fixed and Swedish mall was also a mess which I fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:20, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

User:Josve05a what is the exact rule? I Swedish wikipedia we only add uncategorised (Okategoriserad) both for stubs and non-stubs if categories are 0? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:33, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Only add Okategoriserad. AW tried to add to a page. I don't remember wich page. -  (t)  Josve05a  (c)  11:22, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 12:09, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

I fixed the interwikis of uncat stub. -- Magioladitis (talk)


 * Rename uncat to uncat stub only for en/simple wiki. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:04, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Do not add a blank line on svwp
I need some link to some documentation for that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I could not find it (I did not remember at wich disussion page this was discussed so I will close this bug report and I might re-report it if I find the discussion in the feature. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  23:15, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Templates
for the second one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:51, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Is there a standard as to whether these tags should or should not have a blank line after them? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:11, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I just found it weird that sometimes when adding maintenance templates it adds/does not add a blank line. I thing that a "standard" should be in place. Either with a blank line or without. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  09:46, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Translation and fixes for svwiki
User:Josve05a This is the string construction for the en.wiki, please provide me the correct one for the svwiki: "added " + names of tags Added + " tag" + "s" (if more than 1 tag added). -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:28, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * , " added "=" lade till en ", " tag "=" -mall (or just mall, together with the tags name se e.g. #3) ".
 * If more than one tag is added then the summary should just say wich tags it was (+ the -mall) with commas and och (och=and). Not adding anyting at the end.
 * E.G. (if only one) Lade till en okategoriserad-mall.
 * E.G. (if two) Lade till en okategorisserad-mall och en ickewiki-mall.
 * E.G. (if multiple) Lade till en okategoriserad-mall, (not en if it is between first and last) ickewikimallmall och en [Other template]-mall.
 * It should have -mall if templatename ends with a consonant and together with the templates name without a " - " if it ends with a vowel.


 * I hope I have made some sense...- (t)  Josve05a  (c)  01:16, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't want to use "och" only commas. Can you please rewrite the examples without "och"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:38, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * , sure, I'll try. But the Swedish language is...strict.
 * If multiple templates have been added, don't write out the names of them, just write:
 * Lade till åtgärdsmallar. (åtgärdsmallar = Wikipedia maintenance templates)
 * I know tht that was not what you really asked for, but that is the only logical way to not use "och" in the summary. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  10:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

How is "removed" in Swedish? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:35, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I updated the edit summaries. I noticed I used "Lade till en" but in your examples you use "lade till" without "en". Moreover, I used "tog bort" for "removed". -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:42, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * As Josve pointed out, English is a bit more accepting, partly because it's not quite as agglutinative as Swedish. While English can add two elements like Magioladitis specified ("added " + names of tags Added + " tag" + "s" (if more than 1 tag added)), this does not work in Swedish. Swedish tends to create hyphenated and compound words easily, so you would normally have "added " + names of tag Added + " och " + names of tag Added + " tag" + "s" (if more than 1 tag added). And if you want to be picky, you should really have: "added " + names of tag Added + "- och " + names of tag Added + "- tag" + "s" (if more than 1 tag added) [with a hyphen after the first tag and the second tag name but before "tag"], like so: "lade till okategoriserad- och ickewiki-mallar". I hope this helps.//Hannibal (talk) 12:22, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I will removed "en". Per my Swedish friends it's like English in that aspect: "Added template" vs "Added a template". And in plural you wouldn't use "en" since that is "a". I would therefore recommend that you skip the "en" part. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I contacted Fluff for help of how to create the string. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I think your approach is well done, is there anything specific I can contribute to? /Fluff (talk) 19:36, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Fluff you could help by creating a patch for instance for writing me some psudeo-code to work with. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * , untested code but this may lead the way. Sorry for the diff format but the SVN differ totally crapped the UTF-8 so This is a straight up diff from rev 9743. And yeah, I've never coded c# so there may be unforseen syntax mixup/mishaps :) /Fluff (talk) 09:31, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Parsers.cs 7805,7806c7805,7808 <                	summary = "tog bort " + Tools.ListToStringCommaSeparator(tagsRemoved) + " tag" + <                    (tagsRemoved.Count == 1 ? "" : "s"); --- >                	if(tagsRemoved.Count == 1) > 						summary += "tog bort " + Tools.ListToStringCommaSeparator(tagsRemoved) + "-mall"; > 					else > 						summary += "tog bort " + Tools.ListToStringWithSeparatorAndWordSuffix(tagsRemoved, "-", ", ", " och ") + "mallar"; 7856,7857c7858,7861 <                	summary += "lade till " + Tools.ListToStringCommaSeparator(tagsAdded) + " tag" + <                    (tagsAdded.Count == 1 ? "" : "s"); --- >                	if(tagsAdded.Count == 1) > 						summary += "lade till " + Tools.ListToStringCommaSeparator(tagsAdded) + "-mall"; > 					else > 						summary += "lade till " + Tools.ListToStringWithSeparatorAndWordSuffix(tagsAdded, "-", ", ", " och ") + "mallar";

and Tools.cs: 3578a3579,3599 > 		/// Creates a string from a list with the following additions: > 		/// Specify a separator to be used between all elements in the list > 		/// Specify a suffix to be added to each element in the list > 		/// Specify a lastseparator that will be used between the last two elements in the list > 		/// > 		public static sting ListToStringWithSeparatorAndWordSuffix(List items, string separator, string suffix, string lastseparator) > 		{ > 			string ret = ""; > 			for(int i = 0; i < items.Count; i++) > 			{ > 				if(i + 1 == items.Count) > 					ret += items[i] + suffix + lastseparator; > 				else if(i == items.Count) > 					ret += items[i] + suffix; > 				else > 					ret += items[i] + suffix + separator; > 			} > 			return ret; > 		} > > 		///

and I added the code in. Please check for any mistakes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:46, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

are we OK now? Should I archive it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:21, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. I tried it out and from what I could see, it was fine. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  17:25, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Removal of Template:Sister project links
Observation 1: Sister project links is not removed in any page it transcludes it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:50, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Observation 2: It is somehow connected to page title. It won't be removed from User:Magioladitis/sandbox (copied all content there) -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

This is freaking weird. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:57, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Problem occurred also on List of testing bugs which I created. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:37, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Same problem on List of churches named after Saint Joseph. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:40, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I might be wrong but I thing AWB tries to move the template to "External links". But when no such header exist, it simply deletes the template. I might be completely wrong but I have tested on a few pages and in some with a "External links" AWB has moved it, and some that does not have it it just removed it. But as I said, I am just speculating. -  (t)  Josve05a  (c)  23:15, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Might be related (or not). AWB tried to remove from Viva. (rev 9745) - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  23:47, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Problem is any templates in SisterLinks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:54, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi This test fails.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

, added some tests. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Article with PUA characters being skipped without warning
BTW, I'm running through my watch list, and the changes I'm making work with many articles. I don't know if others are being skipped, but AWB worked fine with List of Latin-script tetragraphs and other similar articles. — kwami (talk) 01:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * kwami Check the log tab" Page has character in Private Use Area (PUA). We skip these pages because some characters are incompatible with AWB's edit box. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:01, 27 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but AWB normally issues a warning that it is skipping the article because of PUA. Pashto language, for example. (Though I can't find the PUA character in that article in order to fix it so AWB can edit.) So it's still a bug.
 * And where's the log tab? — kwami (talk) 02:04, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * kwami I get the warning as usual. The Logs tab is next to Edit box, History, What links here on the right. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:10, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * kwami the PUA character is next to the "strident vowel". -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:12, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * kwami I removed the characters, did general fixes and put the characters back. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:20, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. I sub'd them with their code numbers so AWB will be able to edit it in the future.
 * Ah, found the tab. Thanks.  Quite a few articles are being skipped without warning, so I'm reverting the 'resolved' status.
 * How do you ID the PUA characters? I'd like to fix the other articles, but have no idea how to look. (I mean, when the article is too long to just spot them by eye.) — kwami (talk) 03:06, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * kwami I get the warning message. So it works for me. Moreover, when I am logged in with my bot account (or I uses the pre-parse mode) I don't get the message but I see the article in the log. Since you found the log tab, check if you see the skip reason there. Also check if you are in bot mode or in pre-parse mode and report your findings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know what bot mode is. As above, I was not in pre-parse mode, which I know has never given warnings. The skip reason in the log was PUA. — kwami (talk) 08:36, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * BOT mode.... Brain Off Today mode or as Magioladitis and I say, a normal day. :) Bgwhite (talk) 08:42, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You should get a warning popup once when in normal mode (not pre-parse, not bot), and only once. That page, and other pages with PUA characters will then be skipped and put in the logs tab. If you save your settings and restart AWB do you then get the warning popup once? We have to skip pages with PUA characters as the C# RichText edit box does not seem to support them, we can end up with any text after the character (could be most of the article) getting deleted. We use C# regex "\p{IsPrivateUse}" to find PUA characters. Rjwilmsi  08:51, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that seems to be it. Thanks.  Could we adjust AWB so a warning is generated each time an article is skipped?  — kwami (talk) 10:11, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * We could, but I think most users (including myself) would find it annoying to have the popup multiple times. Rjwilmsi  10:37, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ideally there would be no PUA characters. Do you come across them a lot?  I've been subbing them w their codes when I come across them, so AWB doesn't have this problem, and marking them w PUA so we can keep track of them. — kwami (talk) 10:51, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

We do not plan any further action on the matter, so I am archiving it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Allow comments next to DEFAULTSORT on svwp

 * For clarity, in what sense do comments need to be "allowed" next to DEFAULTSORT? Rjwilmsi  00:07, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * They relly don't. But either AWB leaves them or deletes them. Right now it just moves the two rows up in the article making the article have an extra blank line plus it makes is just look "ugly". - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  00:27, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Kingbotk plugin not making edits
We now provide a newer version of the plugin. Please download latest version and retry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:44, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in WikiDiff.UndoChange
First reported in /Archive_15. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:46, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Shadak We made a lot of changes in the software. Please check if this bug occurs in latest version and rereport if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry Magioladitis, but after three years, I do not have a clue what I did back then... --Shadak (talk) 15:21, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

FormatException in HideText.AddBackMore
I activated "Ignore external/internal links..." on F&R window. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:41, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

It occurs when trying to remove a NUMBER and not a letter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:04, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

It occurs in every wikipedia project. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Bug documented. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:20, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

"Make list" button does not clear the list
I believe that this is intended, so that, you can generate a list from multiple sources. --Meno25 (talk) 15:25, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

It is not a bug. If you want to clear the list before regenerating, please use the Clear list option. If you want to avoid duplicated, please enable the "Remove duplicates" option. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:42, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in Tools.RenameTemplate

 * Rjwilmsi 19:20, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Date-fixes
what is wrong with that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:23, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Adds reflist template when article already contains equivalent
References with R capital is not common. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:41, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * - You're right, but I'd rather not have one of my bots make a bad edit. I've changed Finally Awake to use   instead.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:59, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 08:51, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Link equal to linktext was not fixed
Same for this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:55, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 09:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Don't change uncategorized tag to duplicate uncategorized stub tag

 * This page should be deleted. I userfied it templorarily, so that, you would be able to see the diffs. --Meno25 (talk) 17:43, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Another example. --Meno25 (talk) 17:52, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Meno25 why the page had both uncat and uncat stub? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:09, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

There were 3 consecutive edits. First: my bot added dead end, orphan, stub and uncategorized stub tags. Second: Another bot using different code edited the article to add wikify and uncategorized. Third: My bot changed the uncategorized tag added by the other bot to a duplicate uncategorized stub tag. --Meno25 (talk) 19:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

so I guess the other should be fixed not to add uncat tag when uncat stub tag exists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Actually there are 3 bugs here:
 * 1) The other bot shouldn't have added wikify because the article already contains dead end.
 * 2) The other bot shouldn't have added uncategorized because the article already contains uncategorized stub.
 * 3) AWB shouldn't have changed uncategorized to a duplicate uncategorized stub tag. --Meno25 (talk) 02:58, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

If I had to choose I would say the AWB bug is the least important. :)

Moreover, what happens if page has uncat and uncat stub and it is not a stub? Would you want us to remove the uncat stub instead? What is the rule yo want? "If uncat and uncat stub co-exist do nothing"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

To answer your questions: For each of the above check if any added template is already on the page and don't add it if it already exists. (There should be no duplicate tags on the article.) --Meno25 (talk) 07:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * "what happens if page has uncat and uncat stub and it is not a stub?": Remove uncat stub and keep uncat (providing the page is indeed uncategorized). If the page is not a stub and categorized then remove both uncat and uncat stub.
 * "What is the rule yo want?": If uncat and uncat stub co-exist in an article, check if the article is categorized or not and check if it is a stub or not and:
 * If article is categorized and is not a stub: Remove both templates.
 * If article is categorized and is a stub: Remove both templates and add stub.
 * If article is uncategorized and is not a stub: Remove uncat stub and keep uncat.
 * If article is uncategorized and is a stub: Remove uncat and keep uncat stub.
 * Rjwilmsi 10:06, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Reordering references incorrectly so they are not in numerical order

 * Rjwilmsi 08:39, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Emboldens second mention of article title 2011 in lead

 * The first paragraph is generated by the template Year article header, so it's not surprising this needs handling as a special case. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:32, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * IMO this template should be subst only. I am against templates that generate much text. They discourage new editors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry - didn't notice that  was inside a comment.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * So do we need to disable BoldTitle for pages using Year article header? Rjwilmsi  08:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi Yes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:30, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi 09:10, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Deprecated template parameters better removed if blank
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2002_Breeders%27_Cup_betting_scandal&curid=22866778&diff=584811703&oldid=579916708 shows a fix that could be better executed by removing the deprecated field. Josh Parris 09:16, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * AWB is not aware of any parameters being "deprecated". Perhaps you should speak to the editor who made the edit? Rjwilmsi  09:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * - Template:Cite_web states that coauthors is deprecated. I've updated WP:AWB/RTP to automatically change variations of coauthors to author2.
 * - I think the request to remove blank parameters would be a feature request, not a bug. GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
 * FYI coauthors no longer automatically changes to author2 - conversion has to be more delicate than that.  GoingBatty (talk) 18:42, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Marked as resolved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Unable to compile SVN 9792

 * Rjwilmsi 19:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank You. It compiles just fine now.  Bgwhite (talk) 20:51, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

File names updated within a gallery

 * Per Help:Gallery tag every image in the gallery must be prefixed with the image namespace link i.e. Image:tobereplaced.svg not just plain tobereplaced.svg (or the local-wiki equivalent of Image/File). I think this is why your test cases fail. Rjwilmsi  08:43, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, in the French translation fr:Aide:Galerie (and in thousands of cases on the French Wikipedia, where the images in galleries are displayed without problem), this  or   is not said to be required. And perhaps in other languages too. Zetud (talk) 08:55, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, so when not en-wiki we'll hide the entire gallery tag and contents.  Rjwilmsi  12:20, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Blank line in multiple issues
Bug is independed of the extra pipe. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 16:54, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Incorrect addition of Category:Living people
Recent move. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:48, 26 December 2013 (UTC)


 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:49, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * confirms I fixed the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:50, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

XmlException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * So you get an error loading the Maldive page. Are you able to load the Maldive page in your browser. Does this link open OK and show the start of the article content? Have you specifically changed your settings to use HTTP rather than HTTPS. If open AWB, use File->Reset to default settings, change site to wikivoyage/it are you then able to load the page? Rjwilmsi  09:33, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "rare" and archived since we had no responce for 8 months. Please re-report if bug re-occurs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:54, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in TraceManager.RemoveListener

 * Hopefully will fix this.  Rjwilmsi  13:55, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

IndexOutOfRangeException in TraceManager.AddListener
Fram any chance that you had much too many pages loaded or saved? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No, I was getting the Newpages (500 pages). Normally this goes smoothly, but not this time. A second try didn't cause any problems, so it may have been a one-time glitch. You can ignore the "ListMaker Text; criminals" above; when you choose NewPages, the box below gets grayed out, but the text of a previous search remains there (in this case, a category:criminals" search). It doesn't influence the result set. Fram (talk) 06:54, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * This is a threading issue, see stackoverflow. The obvious solution of using ConcurrentDictionary requires .NET 4, so isn't suitable for us. Rjwilmsi  18:52, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hopefully will fix this.  Rjwilmsi  13:56, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

NullReferenceException at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject

 * improves the error handling, though the fundamental problem is some sort of network or API error. Rjwilmsi  14:55, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Double space in header

 * May not be a proper bug that will be patch due to that there was a space between 'are' and the . But the result after the AWB edit would have been two spaces...-  (t)  Josve05a  (c)  17:43, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * we don't fix double spaces as far as I remember. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, I just thought we did. Maybe a feature request? - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  17:58, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. I think it is more appropriate. I am not sure if there is anything in the Manual of Style about it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:34, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "notbug" and archived. Please add a FR if you think it is covered by the Manual of Style. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

A list of stuff to be fixed for talk pages II
This is not a bug exactly. There are no instructions where to place these templates in the Manual. After some TfDs and some effort talk message boxes reduced to 997 (from ~1,200). Still it is impossible to cover all cases anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:13, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "notbug" and archived. I'll work with some of them if asked and when covered by WP:TPL. Talk message boxes need more standardisation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:08, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Don't use "Do not" in Options because it is confusing

 * We would have to check carefully that users' existing settings files were still loaded correctly. Does anybody else think this change is worth the effort? Rjwilmsi  09:31, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Per Microsoft guidelines "Use positive phrasing. For example, use do instead of do not, and print instead of do not print.". -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:35, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Universal use of positive language is always clearer than negative Hmains (talk) 21:20, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

fixing this will break all old settings unless we mess the code for good. I support you but compatibility is more important. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:56, 16 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Feel free to close this as won't fix then. --Meno25 (talk) 05:59, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "wontfix" and archived. Meno25 has a point but we should keep compatibility with older settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:12, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

9814 compile warning
I've seen similar warnings (don't recall if this is the exact one), but haven't reported them as long as the code compiles successfully. I'm happy to report future warnings if that would be helpful. GoingBatty (talk) 19:19, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I get the exact same message as Bgwhite. (At least ever since I had to change to Windows Visual Studio 2012 (rev rev 9749), since I was not allows to use the 2010 anymore. That program was to complex, so I changed to SharpDevelop.) - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  19:30, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Bgwhite This is some time around after Reedy did some changes during Wikimania. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:52, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Use Arabic comma in edit summary when using regex typo fixing on arwiki
for ar, arz and fa. But Meno25 it needs to be tested in both Arabic and English :) Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:23, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The comma is localized as expected However, there is a minor issue that is probably not related to the above. In the edit summary, there is an extra fullstop in the translation of "typos fixed". It is currently ".الأخطاء المصححة:" whereas it should be "الأخطاء المصححة:" (Notice the extra fullstop.) Please remove the extra fullstop from the summary. --Meno25 (talk) 11:26, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Meno25 should fix it. please check I fixed the issue and I did not break anything in the English wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:08, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Correct on both Arabic and English Wikipedias.  --Meno25 (talk) 13:28, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

"remove" tags strangely appear in my pref files
Automatik can you check your Find and Replace box? Is it empty? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure I can, and it's not empty. Automatik (talk) 01:24, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Automatik The remove tags are related to Find and Replace options as far as I remember. You can try it. Make a copy and then remove everything inside the "remove" tags and tell me what changed in your settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:26, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * If I remove from my customized preference file all what's inside "remove" tags, then the result in my Find and Replace is not changed. From what I understand, when I start the software, my default.xml file is loaded. Then, when I load an other pref file, it seems that all the articles inside "remove" tags (each article is inside "string" tag more precisely) are passed to the new loaded file - the case is similar when you have a list of terms (in "Make list") and then change preferences. That's why when I save my prefs in this loaded file, the file becomes very heavy. But I don't know how to access the default pref file, and that's my problem, I think. Automatik (talk) 14:10, 29 December 2013 (UTC) Now I managed to access my default pref file, and I could remove the entire list item between the tags "remove". It seems to work normally now. Thank you for the attention :) Automatik (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

nbsp
Josve05a I think nbsp is not needed in headers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:53, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Some devices with small screens/wierd resolutions, there might be a problem. Or for instance if someone "zoomed-in" on a mobile device. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  00:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Josve05a what does the Manual of Style saying? -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:06, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis, I have looked thru MoS, the Help-pages and som Mos-talk pages that was linked to but I could not ind a rule for this case... - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  03:20, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Josve05a then the correct procedure is to first ask in the talk page of WP:NBSP for clarification. I have the impression npbs is not needed in headers. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:20, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis, According to MoS#Use it says that nbsp probleble should be used. (t)  Josve05a  (c)  12:43, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Josve05a It is not clear in the Manual. We do not fully cover nbsp addition anyway. Not a bug. Maybe a Feature Request after it is cleared by MoS? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure! I'm chatting with some users on the Teahouse and I have posted on the talk page of MoS. After that I (might) post a feature request. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  14:59, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "notbug" and archived. Feel free to fill out a Feature request after Manual of Style becomes more precise on the matter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:45, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

CHECKWIKI #6 (2013-12-29)
I need Bgwhite's advice on this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

in the future use my talk page for special characters not fixed. There are dozens of them that we do not fix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:05, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure thing, from now on I will do that! - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  22:07, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Yea, I kept seeing the Ranma articles pop up up for #6 and I kept ignoring them.   should *not* be replaced by   as / should not be included in sort values.  There are a few other articles with fraction in their title.  I think this is a case of putting the articles on the whitelists and ignoring them.  There are no good options available.  Bgwhite (talk) 23:22, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "rare" and archived. Better handle manually if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

ObjectDisposedException in MainForm.profilesToolStripMenuItem_Click
I can not duplicate it. Is anyone that can? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:29, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

You tried to login while closing session. Cool. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Templates on fr.wikipedia.org
thanks for the research. I marked as not done all those not treated in enwiki anyway. Please try to distinguish between bug report and feature request in the future. I'll check this bunch. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "notbug" and archived. Keeping as future reference. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:22, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in UsernamePassword2.get_Password
How did this occur? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * While pre-parse a batch of 600 articles for typos. I set it going. After about the first 30 or so articles I logged out of Wikipedia(in my browser) and walked away. When I came back a few minutes later this error was up. I suspect it relates to my logging out(had this cause issues before). Why AWB should be interested in my login and password while pre-parse typo checking is beyond me. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 01:20, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Twice more today the same error but both times I was logged in with the browser. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 00:08, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you reproduce the bug on demand? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:42, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No, I've tried re-typo-scanning on the same articles in the same way several times, but mostly without the error so no pattern to it at all. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 12:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Sun Creator does this bug still occur? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:58, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The profile isn't apparently set. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:18, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "old". We did a lot of changes in that part of the code. Please re-report if it occurs in version 5.5 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

,, , more relevant cleanup. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:35, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

UnauthorizedAccessException in Updater.UpdateUpdaterFile
any chance you can tell us some steps of how to reproduce the bug? What did you do to catch it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:33, 31 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late response. I think the download my have been corrupted by my anti-virus software. When I deleted all the AWB files, re-downloaded, and launched, everything was fine. Thanks for the follow-up! —  Spike  Toronto  02:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:01, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Changing typo in "link" without http-prefix
I don't see the URL in any version of Vijay Batra. Vijay batra has been deleted, so now we can't confirm the error. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:26, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oops, I copied the wrong article link...this page, this revision. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  23:44, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * OK now I can reproduce the problem. I believe that AWB's general fixes only add the "http://" if the URL is within a citation template.  Some of the typo rules are written to prevent changes to URLs, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile to add that extra logic to every typo rule.  GoingBatty (talk) 23:53, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


 * GoingBatty, Josve05a since it is a typo rule that needs (or does not need) update, I can close this as "notawb"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me, since typo fixing is never done by bot, so the AWB user should see the bigger issue is that the URL should be fixed. GoingBatty (talk) 21:04, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

(On sv.wikipedia, typofixes are done with a bot) (t)  Josve05a  (c)  21:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * this is very dangerous. Typo lists contain a lot of errors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, on sv.wikipedia, are typo fixes are done with an AWB bot? GoingBatty (talk) 01:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, on sv.wikipedia.org there are a few typo-bots" using AWB. Most of them are "checked" manually" before saving, but not all. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  14:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * This is a reason why the should not or why the should create a very restricted set of typo fixes rules. In English Wikipedia typo fixes are revised far too often. I can leave the bug report for Rjwilmsi to check, but I believe it is better that we do not go in the direction to make set of rules that tweak typo fixing. Thinks will get far too complicated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Inconsistent DEFAULTSORT additions
AWB added  inside the and added   to the article. Why are they different? (t) Josve05a  (c)  04:54, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Is it an issue with names containing special characters? See my report above. GoingBatty (talk) 05:15, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * GoingBatty maybe you could please research and find which revision broke something? Was this a problem in version 5.5.2.0 for instance? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:17, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * How would I download an old version such as 5.5.2.0? GoingBatty (talk) 15:11, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Right-click on you AWB folder and then tortoise SVN... → Update to revision... → Select revision and put something like 9800. If bug remains, try an earlier version. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:17, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * ,, this bug did occur in 9750. I don't have time right now to look further, but it did occur before 9750. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  15:48, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

broke it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:06, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

adds a test. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:10, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks like you did the research, but I'm willing to try to do the research next time. Thanks for the tip!  GoingBatty (talk) 23:50, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

I am trying to fix the bug but I fail. :( -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

fixes it but I Rjwilmsi need to review all my commits. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:17, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

After my edit "İ" wont fix inside a DEFAULTSORT of a person. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

by Rjw fixes it for pages about persons too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:42, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect merging of about and for templates
GoingBatty I guess the problem is that about does not support enough parameters. Maybe update about? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * ...or just don't merge the two when the for template has links to more than two pages. GoingBatty (talk) 15:36, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * the problem is with the "and" parameter after the 3rd position. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:41, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Correct! Since about doesn't have enough parameters to support the equivalent of a for template with the "and" parameter after the 3rd position, my vote is to just not merge them at all.  My guess is that there probably aren't enough cases with this many links to warrant updating about, but maybe I'm wrong.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:48, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * You are right on that. In general there is a hatnote overload on this page. The "related content" should be a "See also" section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Rule: Ignore for is third fourth argument not empty.
 * We need a check of there are any pages with that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:25, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Parsers.Dablinks seems to work fine with for with three arguments (line 943 of the code). -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:32, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

fixes the bug. Feel free to do some testing on this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:41, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Systematics had the same problem I reported pre-SVN 9830. Now it doesn't incorrectly merge the templates, but it does change for to about.  Is that intended?  GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Frisia has a different problem when merging the templates. GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Other articles with issues include Kharja, Askari and Mercier, Montreal. Most of AWB's suggestions were spot on.  GoingBatty (talk) 04:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

GoingBatty I think all of them are rare though. Please confirm. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed the change of a single for to about in case there is only one for with less than 4 arguments but I think it is not a big issue.
 * On Frisia the rule should be to merge before the "other uses" argument.
 * ✅ On Kharja the rule should be to add "other uses" as a first argument of "for".
 * Sorry - forgot to mention that I used the list comparer to find all articles with for to about, and these were the only errors I found. So yes, I believe the errors are rare and you can probably fix the articles manually.  GoingBatty (talk) 06:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 08:23, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi covers the case where for with blank first argument. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:46, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Merged Frisia manually. Now there is only one important(?) rule to add: If about has more than 9 arguments do nothing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:57, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

for the last one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Stopped working
Windows crashed. Not our fault. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:46, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * "Application Name: AutoWikiBrowser.exe" crashed Windows, not the other way around. Technical 13 (talk) 20:50, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Are you able to reproduce the error? Rjwilmsi  12:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The error occurred three times during that task. I had created a list of pages transcluding a certain template (AFC submission) and had a only stop on pages containing the text " {{AFC submission||| " of which I was saving with no changes (null edits) to add members to a category I had added to the template.  I got an error message saying that I couldn't use AWB to save some of them due to unicode character or something (IDR exactly now) and then a few saves later (wasn't a consistent number) it would crash with that message. Technical 13 (talk) 12:40, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Technical 13 we have not been able to reproduce the problem, so need further info to understand if there is really an AWB bug causing it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:11, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

winmm.dll is a module for the Windows Multimedia API, which contains low-level audio and joystick functions. It is not AWB code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Template name
FYI Template:)! is used in nine articles. Template:!( is used on hundreds of articles. GoingBatty (talk) 00:52, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 07:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Date-formats in Persondata
adds the format most used in the page. All formats added are acceptable forms. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:59, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Nope, on Charles Matton DD MMMMMMMM YYYY is used more, but still AWB added YYYY-MM-DD. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  01:02, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Removing and re-adding dates shows the contrary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:51, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

The difference is most probably related to the fact the typo fixing was done after genfixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The latter problem has already been reported. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Blank spaces

 * Page contained Unicode control character U+200E (left to right mark) which caused the normal whitespace clean to fail. Next edit fixed it. Rjwilmsi  15:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Forgot the blank line
I don't see any guidance at Template:DEFAULTSORT or MOS:FOOTERS regarding if blank lines are recommended before it or not. Is there somewhere that provides recommendations? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:53, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 00:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I have not found any documentation about it. But since every-other page has a space between normal templates and DEFAULTSORT/categories, than I think this is just common sense.
 * Plus the the toolserver tool DABFIX is using WP:MOSDAB-rules and that that tool is placing a space in between, then I think that is the common practise. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  00:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Recommend creating a more graceful failure

 * While testing AWB's admin related functionality at Wikia I found this error generates when putting in a date in the past for the expiry date when protecting articles. Is it possible to have a more graceful error message? Reguyla (talk) 19:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Validate that expiry date on page protection is not a date in the past Rjwilmsi  10:45, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Fix will work for time dates but not for negative time periods. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:39, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Category moved

 * I'm surprised that the MediaWiki software recognises that category statement, as according to this tool it contains three embedded Unicode control characters. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING, LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK (fixed by CHECKWIKI 16), POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING. I wonder if we could remove any of these from text. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

842 pages with LTR embedding. In all the cases I 've checked so far the invisible character can be safely removed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:09, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

1062 pages with pop directional formatting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:11, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

I removed all invisible characters from all pages in question. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Marked as rare and archived. Now these characters will be part of CHECKWIKI fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

MetaDataSorter not moving refimprove above infobox
MaintenanceTemplates in Wikiregexes.cs contains "orphan", "BLPunsourced", "cleanup", "underlinked", "dead end", "notability". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Having looked at Backlog for the most popular issues, could you please add "unreferenced", "refimprove", and "BLP sources"? Also, could you please change "BLPunsourced" to "BLP unsourced" (with a space)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs) 17:54, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

for BLP unsourced and refimprove. I better leave "unreferenced" untouched. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

for BLP sources. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:03, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Wrong AWB link on edit summaries

 * Rjwilmsi 10:56, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Takes two edits to remove heading and bold title

 * Rjwilmsi 10:51, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Context menu stays in the screen

 * Print screen of the situation File:Bug awb.png

I can't duplicate it. I'll need a more specific description. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:16, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Marked as "rare" and archived. Please re-report if this occurs in version 5.5 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:18, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

TypeInitializationException in ApiEdit..ctor and NullReferenceException in MainForm.UpdateButtons
From Microsoft: This problem occurs because the MD5 algorithm is not FIPS compliant. The MD5 algorithm uses Windows Communication Foundation to obtain a hash value. The hash value generates a unique name for a data contract. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

We did a lot of changes these two years. Please rereport if this occurs in version 5.5 or later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:40, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Auto-tagger: Don't tag articles that contain Template:Wikiquote redirect or Template:TempUndelete
for Wikiquote redirect. No documentation says anything for TempUndelete. Moreover, TempUndelete has no transclusions at the moment and it is not expected to have more than 2 or 3 ever. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:12, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Missing alert - Invalid citation parameter "data dostępu"

 * Rjwilmsi 08:27, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Remove all pairs of empty brackets not just one

 * Rjwilmsi 08:36, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Don't activate the "Delete" button if the page does not exist

 * Rjwilmsi 08:19, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

\n in Regex tester in replace field
What do you mean it doesn't work? Find and Replace uses a big textbox that supports newlines. So they "disappear". There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to make the treeview control, see

Also, looking at the code, this is done purposely: Reedy (talk) 22:18, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant that in the big result box, "\n" is displayed as "\n" instead of showing the line break.  So the example above shows "foo\nbar" instead of "foo" on the first line and "bar" on the second line.  Since you're indicating this is working as designed, I've added a note about this in AutoWikiBrowser/User manual.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:15, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Are we talking about the same thing? When you click on "Find" in the Regex Tester, it's perfectly fine and desirable to display "\n" in the tree. But when you click on "Replace", I thought that it most definitely should display as an actual new line rather than "\n". When I first encountered this years ago, I naturally assumed that the output of the Regex Tester was an accurate reflection of what happens in the actual Find and replace, so I figured that \n did not work correctly in AWB's regex implementation, and I performed some strange contortions to handle this perceived deficiency until I eventually discovered how it really works. I guess it doesn't matter for people who have been around and realize how it's handled, but new users could certainly be confused as I was. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  07:20, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * make user-inserted \n in replace show as a genuine newline in results. Rjwilmsi  18:26, 31 January 2014 (UTC)