Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 27

Some curly confusion
Here some unneeded curly brackets were added. If this is fixed the "nobots" template can be removed, if not, it needs fixing!

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:23, 19 August 2014 (UTC).


 * Rich this is still not fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:28, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Hm but should it be ${ {} }$  anyway?  Let me check Stewart and Tall. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC).


 * There was a nice definition of the natural numbers in terms of the cardinality of the empty set, the set containing the empty set, the set containing the empty set and the set containing the empty set, etc. which I cannot now find. Maybe it was an exercise.  Oh well it was 35 years ago I read it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC).


 * We cannot expect set notation which happens to match template calls to be processed properly by bots, in AWB or not. " – " is a perfectly plausible malformed template call, even if it is a proper way to indicate the set containing only the empty set.  It could be worse, though.  Imagine the correct statement for one implementation of "ordered pair" in (non-typed) set theory:  $$=\{\{a\}\}.$$  Try rewriting that using math.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Hide text in math as well as math tags. Rjwilmsi 07:05, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Rich now fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment parsing should precede wikilink parsing
עוד מישהו why someone to break the syntax and put a comment inside a cat? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * You'll need to ask, who did it in this edit. And it works for the wiki software. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * עוד מישהו many things work in wikisyntax in an unexpected way. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, this isn't my bdoing, it's 's. Ask him/her. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * And I see that did it elsewhere, such as here. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:53, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. We only need to move the comments as inline comments and warn the editor. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Edits were made in 2011. No need to warn.  Also, as Zzyzx11 is one of the ooooold timers, you can't teach 'em new tricks.  They also have that old person smell, so it's best not to go around them.  Bgwhite (talk) 08:24, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It was also the old days where AWB won't support inline comments. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:45, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I had to go dig into my user contributions to find out what I was doing. I think I was reverting somebody who had previously tried to diffuse Category:Bridges in California, but the consensus at the time was a WP:DUPCAT (non-diffusing cat). Hence the comment. And yes, I apparently was doing it manually, and meant to put the comment outside the cat tag like this. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:37, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Unexplained damage to table syntax
It was caused by RefsAfterPunctuation. Maybe time to remove exclamation mark from the list. I was afraid that this might happen. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:26, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

John of Reading I moved the notes in the correct place after text but you are right in this one. I guess we need to take better measures to avoid this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:30, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've found more examples of  with a database scan. All the ones I looked at are legitimate, using   as a table delimiter, or at the end of a quote, or to mark an outstanding chess move. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:44, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * John of Reading I would like to see this list! -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:20, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 81 articles in User:John of Reading/Sandbox. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:47, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * John of Reading Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:45, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi we could fix it by removing "!" from the list of punctuation marks. But the problem is not exactly in the move of the mark but with the removal of the double sign. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:58, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Exclude exclamation marks from duplicate punctuation to clean before refs. Rjwilmsi  13:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Regex typo fixing option not unchecked by loaded settings that don't have it checked

 * Fixed. Rjwilmsi  14:07, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

"Reset to default settings" is inaccurate in its wording

 * Added word "original" to menu item name. Rjwilmsi  14:10, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Processing time really slow
I've been noticing slow processing times too, when even just going through talk pages and updating project banners with find/replace. I had to uncheck all the other options/skips to make it zippy. I poked around to see if any one of the particular settings was slowing down the processing, and it ended up being Skip - Only cosmetic changes are made. None of the other settings I was using slowed down processing noticeably. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:39, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Archiving this till we get more info of why and when it happens. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:35, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in RegExTypoFix.DetectTypo

 * Rjwilmsi 11:07, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect change to refimprove since section did not contain any references

 * Needs to use unsourced-section then? Rjwilmsi  16:13, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

yes. Template:Unreferenced section or its redirect Template:Unreferenced list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * See also my feature request: Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests GoingBatty (talk) 19:21, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, marking as notawb and I'll look at the FR. Rjwilmsi  07:55, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

GoingBatty, in fact this one has a parameter "list" which I used to do the conversion. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:15, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Request to update list of valid cite web parameters

 * Rjwilmsi 07:47, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

blank edit box presented

 * I suspect this will be an intermittent network connection or MediaWiki API issue. In the past we have put in protections against blanking/saving blank pages, but there is always some editor using AWB on another wiki/language who then complains they can't deliberately blank pages. Rjwilmsi  08:15, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe so, but prior to last week I was never presented with a blank edit box--which I do not want. I was always put into an edit session for the article so I could examine the changes AWB made and make any additional manual changes I cared to.  Now, very randomly, I receive this blank edit session while working my way down through a whole collection of articles. And the same thing occurs again for the same article, such as National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy, hours or days later. Hmains (talk) 21:17, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I edited all the pages fine. I have not encountered any blank edit box for a long time now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:10, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have had dozens of these occur today and tried to find some pattern. I have not been able to. Examples: Shark River Reef or Rattlesnake Mountain (New Jersey) Hmains (talk) 03:10, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Hmains does this problem still occur? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:59, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it just occurred with one article in the last hour. Hmains (talk) 23:17, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * And Magioladitis it just occurred again right now with Fort Lemhi Hmains (talk) 23:37, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * And Magioladitis now Fort Pickering Hmains (talk) 23:46, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hmains do you use some special settings file or does this happen with the default settings? Maybe you could post your settings file somewhere so I could have a look.

Moreover, can you please update to 5.5.3.0 and tell me if this still occurs? Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis I don't know enough about AWB to be doing anything special; I just do the same things over and over: change from one category to another using find and replace. When you say 'my settings' file, do you mean a 'find and replace' that I am using or what?  If something else, how can I get find it and give it to you? Hmains (talk) 04:07, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Hmains try first to upgrade to 5.5.3.0 if problem persists then check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser to see where your settings file (an .xml file) is. Thanks again! -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:28, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis. Ok I upgraded and started again.  Result the same, with Spring Gulch  Hmains (talk) 04:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmains OK! Next step. Save your settings file somewhere and post it for me. If you can't find it just do the following: Start AWB as usual, login, Save settings as..., post the file you just saved to your sandbox or somewhere else so I can obtain it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:59, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis I placed the one I have been using today (with the usual failures) directly into User:Hmains/sandbox Hmains (talk) 06:12, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis Was this of any use? Hmains (talk) 03:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmains I see nothing strange in the settings file. There was only a "-" preventing me from loading it but after I removed it all seem OK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:51, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to let everyone know, this fault is still occurring whenever I use AWB (daily) Hmains (talk) 16:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I can't understand why this happen this often to Hmains but not to me. Any ideas? PS Hmains has shown incredible patience :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

please download version 5.4.0.0 and use the settings I provide at User:Hmains/sandbox. Tell me if you see any improvement. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:03, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis But of course I have no choice but to have patience and keep editing! Anyway, I downloaded v 5.4.4.0 as that was the latest version auto furnished to me. I don't know what to do with the User:Hmains/sandbox material.  Simple instructions please.  Hmains (talk) 02:12, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * copy paste the page to a text file and save it with .xml extension and load this as your settings file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:24, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis I finally got this settings file figured out and started through Category:Geography of Colorado by county category recurse 1 level. I invoked my filter and then started.  I went through several articles ok, until I got to Echo Park (Colorado) which gave me blank edit box.  I skipped it and went on.  Next and last with blank edit box was Spring Gulch.   What now? Hmains (talk) 20:16, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I am heavily getting this error now with 5.5.3.0. Out of a 300 pages list on de-Wikipedia, more than 200 pages are shown blank. Unfortunately my global account does not work on en-WP; on all other wikis my account is Bildungsbürger. Should I send a settings file to someone? --84.147.153.68 (talk) 19:17, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * By the way, for me this seems to be very similar to below. --84.147.139.92 (talk) 12:27, 29 August 2014 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Bildungsbürger)

Hmains, Rjwilmsi created a patch to test. I'll upload it tomorrow. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:23, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

I uploaded revision 10441. Please test it and report if you still get problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis I downloaded 10441 and used it. Same problem in Category:Geography of Colorado by county category recurse 1 level. I invoked my filter and then started.  I went through several articles ok, until I got to Echo Park (Colorado) which gave me blank edit box.  I skipped it and went on.  Second and last with blank edit box was Spring Gulch.  Sorry. Hmains (talk) 18:55, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Hmains we have to sit and wait for new ideas by Rjwilmsi and Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:51, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Hmains I uploaded revision 10458. Please test it. Rjwilmsi may want to give some advice too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:12, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Hmains after you load the revision I uploaded, also load your settings and then save them again. Your settings file is a bot older and misses some properties. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:44, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis I downloaded AWB 5541 rev 10458. I loaded the settings you gave me above.  I deleted one item; saved the result; got out of AWB and back into 5541/10458.  I manually ran through the articles.  Echo Park (Colorado) and Spring Gulch will give me blank edit boxes.  Hmains (talk) 21:41, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

I can actually duplicate the bug! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Found it! the problem is with More... → Files → Comment out file: when this is blank! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis Is there something I need to do? Hmains (talk) 00:41, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * just use the settings from User:Hmains/sandbox. (or go to More... → Files and change "Comment out file:" to "Choose a task..."). I fixed the problem for you. Just test and confirm everything is fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:40, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Bildungsbürger same problem! Change More... → Files and change "Replace file:" to "Choose a task..." -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:53, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Problem is in "UpdateImages" (Article.cs). -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:56, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Magioladitis Thank you very much. Now that works in the test environment you gave me. Now for actual use.  What version of AWB should I now be using? Can I fix the problem with any/all of my new/saved settings files by just changing the More... Files... to 'choose a task'? Hmains (talk) 16:32, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmains you can use version 5.4.0.0 or later and you can fix all of your saved settings by just changing the More... Files... to 'choose a task'. I hope in the next version we 'll fix this completely so editors won't have to resave all their settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Magioladitis OK very good.  Thanks for taking good care of AWB. Hmains (talk) 16:41, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

fixes the problem! -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:04, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Blanking articles
I can't reproduce the issue - can you? Each page had wikilinks on it before your edit, so they should not have been tagged with dead end. Did you have any Find & Replace rules enabled? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 06:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I had the box checked, but nothing actually tagged to find and replace (the same settings I'm using right now). Skip if no replacement, Find and replace, nothing in the settings boxes. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪   ߷  ♀ 投稿 ♀  06:26, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * (e/c) I can't reproduce this either. It sounds as if AWB failed to read the article text, or lost the text somehow before counting the links or checking the word count. Then you'd be left with a blank article labelled "dead end" and "stub". -- John of Reading (talk) 06:33, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If you run these three articles through AWB again, does AWB blank the pages again? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 06:34, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * All: Here are screenshots of my settings (pardon the dark theme). Let me try right quick ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪  ߷  ♀ 投稿 ♀  06:36, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I just ran all three of those articles through AWB again and it did not do it again. I haven't changed my settings since it happened. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪  ߷  ♀ 投稿 ♀  06:40, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It did it again on Street Villains 13, I'm going to CSD nom this but it did do it to both that page and a author-blanked article.  ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪   ߷  <sub style="color:#006400">♀ 投稿 ♀  06:56, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

It was pointed out to me my connection speed might be relevant. I get on average 40-50 Mbps on Speedtest.net and a ping of ~110-120. <b style="color:#FC89AC;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">♥ Solarra ♥</b> <sup style="color:green">♪ 話 ♪  ߷  <sub style="color:#006400">♀ 投稿 ♀  08:45, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Same here Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs. I wonder what is the common thing between Solarra and Hmains's settings. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Solarra i need that you post tour settings file the same way Hmains did. Moreover, I would like to know if you guy have any plugins loaded and this bugs also occurs then you have "Auto-tag" disactivated. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 11:26, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the long delay on the reply on this, I have been User talk:Solarra quite popular today. Anyways I'm not entirely sure how to pull the tour settings (not exactly programming literate), but I'm more than happy to do so if you can walk me through it.  As for not tagging, no I haven't had it occur if I don't have articles auto-tagged.  Also, I don't have any plugins loaded, as I do not know where to get any.  Just using the basic software on more or less default settings. <b style="color:#FC89AC;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">♥ Solarra ♥</b> <sup style="color:green">♪ 話 ♪   ߷  <sub style="color:#006400">♀ 投稿 ♀  23:47, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser for the location of your settings file, depending on your operating system. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 14:46, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Page blanking is an old bug, but it was with a far lesser frequency, and we put it down (with good reason) to the API-write. This problems seems to arise from reading a blank page when there should be text there. At least we should be able to sanity check for this, by having a default option to skip blank pages or by having a warning come up, or a combination of the two. It might even be worth having a default option to re-try blank pages. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:29, 21 August 2014 (UTC).


 * As stated above, I can reproduce this bug (or the one in above) quite well. Now it really looks to me like an issue connected to the settings file: I renamed my Default.xml and let AWB start up with default settings - the behavior was OK! My "old" Default.xml contains some settings related to find/replace actions I did some time ago, then deactivated find/replace. So some technical expert may want to have a look at the details/differences... --84.147.139.92 (talk) 12:31, 29 August 2014 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Bildungsbürger)
 * you have mail. --84.147.165.48 (talk) 19:13, 10 September 2014 (UTC) (de:Benutzer:Bildungsbürger)

I uploaded revision 10441. Please test it and report if you still get problems. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Marking as fixed as of. Now we have better control on the situation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:13, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

It takes two runs to move refimprove above infobox

 * Add unreferenced to MaintenanceTemplates. Rjwilmsi  09:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

When unref and refimprove both exist...

 * if have both unreferenced and refimprove, and have some refs then just remove unreferenced. Rjwilmsi  09:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

ConfigurationErrorsException in Settings.get_WindowLocation
Note: Although this formatted messages says my OS is Windows NT, it is actually Windows 8. When I click on "Continue working", the message window goes away, but AWB does not load.


 * Update: I seem to have fixed this. My user.config file was empty. I copied the info from the user.config for a previous version of AWB, and it seems to be working fine. The only thing I can think of that I did that might have changed things was to update Windows 8. Before the update, AWB was working. After it, AWB was not working. However, I did not have this problem after previous Windows 8 updates, so I'm not really sure what happened. If anyone wants any more info that I can provide, let me know. It's probably best to leave a message on my talk page, because now that AWB is working for me again, I probably won't be checking here as often. --Auntof6 (talk) 00:45, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in AsyncApiEdit.CallEvent
I searched and saw there were other instances of this exception in the archive but none of them seem to have been fixed and they were from a long time ago. -- Jamesmcmahon0
 * Were you using the plugin when it happened? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:56, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes I was using the Kingbotk Plugin with the Biography and 2 generic templates. I was pre-parsing a list of around 3500 pages --Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 18:07, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The plugin is buggy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:14, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Jamesmcmahon0 please check that you have version 2.3.3.0 of the plugin. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:15, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Jamesmcmahon0 please use version 3.0.0.0 or newer of the plugin. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Marking as "old". Waiting for feedback. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:53, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

InvalidOperationException
Probably old settings were used. Please make a clean install and retry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:57, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Special functions
After I ran AWB on John Bauer (illustrator), another user ran AWB. Their changes included dash-->"to" for date ranges discussed in a sentence and ISBN formatting.

Is there a way I could integrate this functionality, too? I saw code for the ISBN changes at AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/ISBN-hyph, which I assume is for the insertion of hyphens into ISBN numbers. But I don't know what to do with it - or if I need special skills, applications, other to implement this. The use of css/js files are as techy as I've gotten, and I've needed help with that at times.

Is there a way I could leverage this functionality?

Thanks!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'> CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 04:54, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It appears that User:Mr Stephen has custom settings to make the dash → "to" changes, so you may want to ask him if he would be willing to share information with you.
 * To use AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/ISBN-hyph, copy that file on to your PC, and use AWB to load that settings file. GoingBatty (talk) 18:57, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, Mr Stephen is away right now, but I'll circle back with him.
 * Hi, Mr Stephen is away right now, but I'll circle back with him.


 * Regarding the ISBN-hyph, I got an error message - but it's likely I did something wrong. I copied the xml code in the gray box on the page you identified into a text file. I then went into AWB and selected "open settings", selected the file that I saved, it's file type defaulted to XML, and then clicked "Open" which resulted in this:

What did I do wrong (for instance does the name of the file need to be something specific, other)?

Thanks for your help!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'> CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 19:14, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Confirmed that I have the same issue.
 * You were the last one to edit this file. Were you able to update this file to use in the current version of AWB?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:07, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * If it is desired, I made a version of ISBN hyphenation which is implemented as regular expression substitutions and works with the current AWB. However, it does not format most of the much less common registration group elements. It works for 99% of the ISBNs that I have encountered and inserts a comment when it comes across a registration group element which is not coded. [Registration group elements are the first portion of a 10-digit ISBN which indicates the geo-political/linguistic source of the book.] However, using regular expressions for ISBN hyphenation is inefficient and requires a lot more work to code and maintain than using an actual programming language. Thus, I never actually finished off the regular expression substitution version (i.e. never entered all registration group elements).
 * For the primary thing for which I was desiring ISBN hyphenation, I eventually decided to just do it the right way and implement the code for it (once I actually got a complete list of the decoding and realized how complex it actually was). Thus, I also have an implementation of ISBN hyphenation as a JavaScript module which is complete and up to date as of April or May of 2014 (isbn.org issues updates from time to time, the module was structured to make integrating such updates easy). I have been intending to convert the module to something which could be used from AWB, but I have not gotten around to doing so. &mdash; Makyen (talk) 04:45, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't try to load these settings. The page just turned up in my list when I was working on Lists of common misspellings/G. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:19, 12 September 2014 (UTC)


 * There is a subroutine in one of my userpages that will do the job for all ISBNs. ..Mr Stephen (talk) 13:07, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

This is really old. We have to save again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:33, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

I almost updated the settings file. The F&R rules still need to be fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:42, 12 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the input on this! I'll await an update.--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'> CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 03:28, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I updated the settings file AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/ISBN-hyph with a 5.5.4.0 compatible version. I think I am OK but there is still some minor things that puzzle me. Some options were disabled but I see them enabled in the new version. I also removed a couple of things now done by general fixes. Please use with caution. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Will do, thanks for your work on this!--<span style='text-shadow:0 -1px #DDD,1px 0 #DDD,0 1px #DDD,-1px 0 #DDD;'> CaroleHenson  ( talk ) 17:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

The English list of typos is used instead of the Swedish list
Svensson1 Works for me. Moreover, we do not allow bots to use Typo fixing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:46, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I now tried to download the latest version and it works for me in exactly the same way as for Sjunnesson. See my edit here. A message is shown saying that the English typos are used. It looks like this: "Check each edit before you make it. Although this has been built to be very accurate there will be errors. The newest typos will now be downloaded from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos when you press OK.". (With "bot" I do of course mean working with AWB in the intended manner with a bot flag.) Svensson1 (talk) 19:48, 25 September 2014 (UTC)



Svensson1 Works for me in version 5.5.5.0 too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:57, 25 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I just found a way to get this to work for me: I select "Options", "Preferences", "Site" and changes Swedish (sv) to anything else, for example English (en). After that I change back to Swedish (sv). Then it works. But I have to do it again every time I start AutoWikiBrowser, because it does the same misstake every time it is started. It ignores the setting Swedish (sv) when it is started and uses English (en) instead. Svensson1 (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Svensson1 OK now I see. Please do me another favour. Load your settings and save them again without touching anything. Then close AWB and open it again. Check whether the problem remains. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:10, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

maybe it's connected to. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi: "When loading settings, disable typo fixing, load new project & language code, then set typo fixing to saved preference. So typo fixing is always set per saved preferences, and if enabled will be loaded for correct project & language code." -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:56, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi: "On change of project/language ensure Typos are redownloaded if already enabled and still enabled with new settings". -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:42, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Svensson1 bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:46, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

I noticed that these code changes are in the same neighborhood of. Was there a verification that the fix in that wasn't regressed? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:58, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Stevie is the man! can you compile and test the latest revision? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't really have the time to set up a compiler for that in the near future, but if you guys compiled a snapshot, I could do a quick test of it. Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 00:42, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Stevie is the man! We tested it and works. You can download a snapshot to test it yourself. Please take note that this is a debug version and not a release version so it won't let you create new pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:52, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

AWB v 5.5.5 rejected by Norton Security software
Hmains Perhaps report Norton about that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:32, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * "One of the AWB files" - I expect the AWB developers would like to know which one. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:36, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Surely AWB isn't malicious so it should be reported as a false positive. Also, check out Norton Security's help to see how to whitelist or unquarantine an application, if possible. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 12:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok I tried 5.5.5 yesterday. I installed it without any problems and no files being suddenly deleted and am now using it without any problems. So I hope it is ok.  Maybe I previously did not answer some of Norton questions correctly and this time I did.  Who knows? Hmains (talk) 20:53, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Cool. Glad it's working for you now.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 22:10, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

It did not convert inline p tag to newline

 * Please use debugger to see why SyntaxRemoveParagraphs within FixBrParagraphs doesn't match this text then. Rjwilmsi  10:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

The problem is with the unbalanced quote. Check this simplified version for instance. Once the quote is removed everything works. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:40, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

ApiErrorException in ApiEdit.CheckForErrors

 * error started today; several repetitions so far Hmains (talk) 04:25, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * this also now occurring just reading articles with pre-parse mode Hmains (talk) 05:16, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Confirmed. I get it too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:31, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Reedy something is broken in API. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:39, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Reported as API bug. There have been similar reports in the past. Most probably rollbacking some recent change will fix it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:47, 10 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm seeing it when reading, not when saving; for reading, the workaround is to turn off the auto-tagger. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:38, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * John of Reading confirmed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:00, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

WPCleaner has same problem today getting backlinks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:10, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Status on bugzilla: PATCH_TO_REVIEW. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:15, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Just FYI, most people probably aren't going to bother checking this page's archives, so you may receive fewer error reports from these people, unless they're like me and completely ignore this edit notice:  Seppi  333  (Insert 2¢ &#124; Maintained) 07:13, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * !!!DON'T POST BEFORE CHECKING THE ARCHIVES, YOUR BUG MAY ALREADY BE FIXED!!!

Status on bugzilla: RESOLVED FIXED. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Broke Cleanup-spam template when removing Multiple issues
Garbage in, garbage out. . The first positional parameter of had been misused:, when used correctly it is normally the word "section" as in. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:48, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

GoingBatty thanks for the report but I marked it as rare. Unexpected parameter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Index and length must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name: length
Cpt.a.haddock what did you do to catch the bug? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:32, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I clicked on an Unbalanced brackets alert and this popped up. FWIW, I've used the wrong heading here; I should have used ArgumentOutOfRangeException in MainForm.RedSelection.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 13:52, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Cpt.a.haddock do you remember in which page was that? I bet Rjwilmsi know how to fix this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:58, 14 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I am not entirely sure, sorry. It might have been Hemu which has since changed.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 11:20, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate: Assume unbalanced bracket is on position X. Delete all bytes starting from X and create a page of length X-1. Click on "unbalanced brackets" alert. Kaboom. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

by Rjwilmsi. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Takes two times to properly format a radio frequency
I updated the typo rule so it will insert the &amp;nbsp; appropriately. GoingBatty (talk) 03:02, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

AWB no longer finds disambiguation links next to a tag.

 * We disabled this in because otherwise it would allow editors to add another dn tag to a link that already had a dn tag.  do you recall why we did this?  Rjwilmsi  09:14, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

I think the second tag was insterted inside the first tag and not next to it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:30, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, have seen the problem, fixed now. Rjwilmsi  10:03, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Takes two edits to fix DISPLAYTITLE

 * Call TemplateToMagic word in TemplateRedirects if there were templates changed. Rjwilmsi  08:53, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Bold and dfn element
Hello. In french wikipedia, the element (used for he first apparence of the subject in the text) bold automatically the subject. But general fixes in AWB try to bold it again? Could you fix it ? Thx Supertoff (talk) 13:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes. please provide an example page on fr-wiki that is affected by this, so we can test the change. Thanks  Rjwilmsi  09:48, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok. I just saw that not all pages are affected.
 * This one is affected : Match des champions (hockey sur glace)
 * Those one are not : Albert Hassler, trophée Raymond Dewas Supertoff (talk) 12:25, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅  Rjwilmsi  11:17, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * thx Supertoff (talk) 22:58, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Bracket fixing can damage the name of a file
John of Reading very rare situation. I usually go and fix the page's name in commons. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:15, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. You can mark this "won't fix" -- John of Reading (talk) 15:14, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Request to update list of valid cite web parameters

 * . I've retained number, chapter and chapter-url though. Rjwilmsi  09:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentException in Parsers.MILaterSection
This edit resolves the bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:53, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Wiki search (text) at en.wikipedia returns too few/erratic results

 * Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser concluded this was due to filtering of all namespace results hitting 1000 result limit before 1000 mainspace results had been found. Provide mainspace only versions of "wiki search text" and "wiki search title" List providers. Repurpose existing ones to be mainspace only, add new ones for "all NS" option.  Rjwilmsi  15:06, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

DivideByZeroException in UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc
The bug occurred after 30 hours of continuous run, and was accompanied by out-of-memory complains. There was not enough memory to run pull-down menus, there were a lot if red X in the AWB window and I got an error about "Screen-compatible bitmap cannot be created. The screen bitmap format can not be determined" when trying to exit. --Jarekt (talk) 10:34, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

This may have stopped in the 5.5 series. Please rereport if not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in HideText.AddBack
I don't know what happened. I was processing pages. I stopped in the middle of processing one page at the bottom, "moved" the "blue highlight" to the top, pressed star and then this. <span style="background: turquoise;font-family: 'Segoe Script', 'Comic Sans MS';">(t) Josve05a  (c) 19:12, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You say "stopped in the middle of processing one page at the bottom", did you press Stop while processing was running (as we now can), then maybe start processing another page before the previous one would have finished? Rjwilmsi  19:30, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes that is exactly what I mean. (Pre-parsing was on 2 pages earlier if that has anything to do with anything...) <span style="background: turquoise;font-family: 'Segoe Script', 'Comic Sans MS';">(t) Josve05a  (c) 19:41, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * If user presses Stop while page processing still running in background, abort background thread, otherwise completing background thread may change data used by processing of another article (e.g. dictionaries used in HideText). Rjwilmsi  20:10, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for super qick fix! (Why aren't you on ? Easier to describe bugs on IRC than on talk pages...) <span style="background: turquoise;font-family: 'Segoe Script', 'Comic Sans MS';">(t) Josve05a  (c) 20:15, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in HideText.AddBack (rev 10516)
I tried pressing and this was the result. <span style="background: turquoise;font-family: 'Segoe Script', 'Comic Sans MS';">(t) Josve05a  (c) 20:35, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, added checks to Start/reparse edit box as well, should be OK now. Rjwilmsi  10:13, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Takes two edits to remove unreferenced and multiple issues

 * Rjwilmsi 10:33, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

It takes two runs to add bullets

 * Rjwilmsi 18:00, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Automatic bold
Or maybe is there a way to choose the general fixes I'd like to use? --Horcrux92 (talk) 17:10, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't enbolden title if "bio" template on page. Rjwilmsi  17:41, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much --Horcrux92 (talk) 18:08, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Wiki search (text) @ hr.wikipedia
I'm trying to find particular words in articles on hr.wikipedia, but AWB can't find anything. The only way to find is put word in quotes, but results are incomplete. For example, search for word jučer gave 0 results, but search for word "jučer" gave 21 pages although there are 182 pages with that word (according to search at hr.wikipedia ). I've tried to search en.wikipedia, AWB working fine even without quotes (""). What's the problem with hr.wiki?-- Ma  Ga  07:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Reedy I wonder if this is mediawiki problem. We had the same issue reported for other wikis too. Check User_talk:Magioladitis too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I can just confirm that there is exactly the same problem when doing a "Wiki search (text)" on the Swedish wikipedia (sv.wikipedia) in AWB. For example, when searching for Malta, you'll get 2 search results (of over 5,000 when searching directly on sv.wikipedia.org). I noticed that if you put the search term inside quotation marks "Malta" you'll get around 500 search hits in AWB, an improvement but still only 10% of the actual occurrences on sv.wikipedia //Inteloutside2 (talk) 00:23, 29 September 2014 (UTC)




 * I have been having very strange results using Wiki search (text) on en.wikipedia; with AWB 5.5.5.0, for example, search for "surreptitiously-" gives 727 main space pages. I went back to AWB 5.5.3.0 and it works correctly (3 pages returned). Even searching for nonexistent words almost always returns "Emoticon". I think we need a sad face here :-( while I go back to the earlier version. Pretty sure it's not a Mediawiki problem. Chris the speller   yack  14:03, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Can we please get 5.5.3.0 enabled on en.wikipedia again? As things stand, I have to run 5.5.3.0 to get a list, then save it, then run 5.5.5.0 to use the list. Chris the speller   yack  14:08, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Chris the speller I reenabled 5.5.3.0. Please tell me if you still get difference results and whether 5.5.3.0 is more accurate. Reedy is this possible? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

The only thing we did this year in ListProvider was to remove some commented out code (rev 19472). Previous changes was in September 2013. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:44, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, now both versions of AWB are returning crazy search results. (BTW, 5.5.3.0 still says it's not enabled, but I guess it won't help me anyway.) Maybe it's an intermittent Mediawiki bug. Thanks for trying. Chris the speller   yack  15:06, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Now we're getting somewhere; it wasn't going back to 5.5.3.0 that fixed it – it was launching AWB and doing the text search before loading any settings file. Once I load a settings file, the text search goes haywire. Is there some conflict between 5.5.4.0/5.5.5.0 and existing settings files from 5.5.3.0 and earlier? Chris the speller   yack  15:48, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

so: gives difference results. Right? Any chance that there is something in settings that activates the Filter? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:56, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikisearch before loading any settings
 * Wikisearch after loading any settings in 5.5.5.0


 * After more investigation, it was not the settings file, it was logging on that fouled things up! I went to my Beta preferences in WP and disabled the "New Search" feature. That seems to have fixed everything. Something else changed in recent weeks, I think; AWB never noticed my Beta search preference before. I started using the "New search" regularly when the LuceneSearch indexing stopped for about 11 days. Its index is better now, so I don't need "New search" as a preference. Chris the speller   yack  16:23, 2 October 2014 (UTC)


 * There's no "New search" feature in beta preferences at hr.wikipedia.-- Ma Croatian squares Ljubicic.gif Ga  20:34, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, but I think some of the Wikipedias went directly to the new search.Naraht (talk) 09:03, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

et al. I ve been told by Mediawiki guys that the problem will be resolved by the end of this month. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ok, thank you very very much. --ERJANIK (talk) 13:02, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Great news. I hope it will be so. Magioladitis, will you keep us informed about it, please?-- Ma Croatian squares Ljubicic.gif Ga  16:55, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

No progress about this until today...-- Ma  Ga  13:43, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Nothing we can do from our side. Rjwilmsi added some new list providers which might make things better. Now it's Mediawiki's guys time to help us out. Maybe Reedy has an idea. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:46, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Still not fixed... And still not OK on :fr. Any news ? Zetud (talk) 21:38, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Persondata has been deprecated
Please note that the deprecation decision is being contested. Periglio (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

I follow the discussions. We won't stop adding Persondata until there is a clear consensus and until it is ensured that the bots have transfered all data in another place. Changes that will affect 1.5 million pages should always be done very carefully. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:42, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * To be clear, this request is only to stop adding new Persondata, not to delete existing Persondata. I am, however, happy to wait until Periglio's contest is processed and the outcome of that contest is reached. A 'consensus' (by 4 users as compared to the ~50 users in the RfC) was reached in the Tfd linked above, but no-one had indicated wanting to formally contest it until now—Msmarmalade (talk) 09:08, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "inprogress". We will remove it from the code when the communities are ready. Ping me in my page if necessary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:52, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

TargetInvocationException in Plugin.LoadPlugins
It was caused by temporariry loss of connection. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in FindandReplace.Decode
Llywelyn2000 (talk) 18:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Would you post the settings file you were loading please? Rjwilmsi  08:45, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorted at 3.00am! Many thanks! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 09:36, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Llywelyn2000 what did you do to fix it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:35, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * In short, the coding suggested to me here was dated; using Notepad++ and saving as an htm file seemed to work. What would make life simpler would be if the 'Replace' facility could accept a spreadsheet - either through the csv auto plugin - or better still, enable copy and paste into the Replace columns. For a small wiki like cywiki, AWB is mana from heaven, so I'm not complaining! Thanks to both of you for your hard work. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 04:19, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

BG19bot table breakage
Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:32, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Changes valid ASIN citation parameter to asin

 * Rjwilmsi 20:26, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Comparing that part of the code with Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist, I see that the citation templates allow many more uppercase parameters: ARXIV, ASIN-TLD, BIBCODE, ID, ISBN13, ISSN, JFM, JSTOR, MR, OCLC, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN, URL, ZBL.  GoingBatty (talk) 21:29, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 22:57, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Underlinked in very short page

 * So what do you suggest the revised rules for adding underlinked should be? Rjwilmsi  10:35, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

maybe we should add a minimum size check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:57, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, what value do you want? Will you agree the value with documentation/editors of underlinked etc.? Rjwilmsi  17:19, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Minor F&R rules not run on page re-parse when skip minor replacement enabled.

 * I can replicate this when skip minor replacement is enabled, only when this skip option is enabled, and it's only a problem on re-parse. I'll look into fixing it. Rjwilmsi  07:13, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It is always nice to hear that it can be replicated. At least then we know that it is not just on my config, or that I am seeing something that is not really there. I appreciate your looking into it and looking to fix it.


 * However, you merged another bug report into this one. I see two different behaviors. I am wondering if the merge was because you felt the two different behaviors were actually the same bug, or if you were unable to duplicate the second behavior and felt that it was just a duplicate report of this bug. You're looking at the code, so are the one that makes the call as to 1 or 2 bugs. I just want to make sure that both behaviors are noted (and, hopefully, fixed). I don't want the second behavior to fall through the cracks because I failed to describe it sufficiently, or because it was a bit more difficult to duplicate.


 * The two different behaviors:
 * Not run on initial parse with "minor" and "after fixes" checked in the rule and "Skip if: only minor replacement made". Does not run on re-parse. Will run on re-parse if "Skip if: only minor replacement made" unchecked after initial parse.
 * Runs on initial parse with "minor" and not "after fixes" checked in the rule and "Skip if: only minor replacement made". Does not run on re-parse. Will run on re-parse if "Skip if: only minor replacement made" unchecked after initial parse.


 * Behavior #1:
 * I encountered this issue – intended to be covered by this bug report – where rules marked as both minor and after fixes did not run on initial parsing of the page – definitely not run on initial parsing. I only noticed it because replacements I expected to see in an article upon initial presentation to me had not occurred (one that was not skipped according to any skip criteria at the time).  I do not recall if, at the time, I attempt to re-parse in order to see if it still failed to run on a re-parse. After testing further, I verified that the rule is also not run on re-parse.
 * For me it is definitely not run on initial parse of the page and on re-parse. The "after fixes" checkbox can be unchecked and re-parse will work normally for that rule. I have re-verified that it is on both initial parse and re-parse. I also confirmed that "Skip if: only minor replacement made" must be checked for the issue to occur and that unchecking "Skip if: only minor replacement made" after initial parse will result on the rule being run upon re-parse.


 * Behavior #2:
 * The other bug was that the rules marked as "minor" (not "after fixes") definitely ran on initial parse. They then definitely did not run on re-parse. "Skip if: only minor replacement made" must be checked. They will run on re-re-parse after "Skip if: only minor replacement made" is unchecked. There appears to be more to the conditions causing the not running upon re-parse as my simple, quick testing did not duplicate this issue.  However, I am able to repeatedly duplicate it in real runs. I will attempt to get a better min-case.


 * It may be all one bug, grouped in one set of code. However, to me, from an observation standpoint, it is two different behaviors.
 * #1 We appear to have min-cased. It is repeatable with those settings.
 * #2 Is not yet exactly defined. I have not seen the issue in a simple case, but do see it in normal use. For me it is repeatable to the extent of regularly (multiple times in a session) working around the issue (needing to uncheck "Skip if: only minor replacement made" prior to re-parsing). &mdash; Makyen (talk) 23:39, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't apply find & replace skip checks when reparsing. You're writing a lot but I am unable to replicate any problems on first parse. If you want me to look at it further, please provide an AWB settings file and an article where the first parse problem can be replicated. Thanks Rjwilmsi  09:54, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That is a reasonable request. I do see it routinely with the set of rules I am currently using. Is there a normal/good way to pass you the settings file? If not, I will just choose some off-wiki hosting.
 * I still should make further attempts to find a minimum case.
 * Hmmm... Ok hold on... I've got it down to two rules. A bit of a contrivance, but...
 * Rule 1:
 * Rule 2:
 * Page:Park Si-Hun
 * I, of course, remain willing to send a complete file. However, I was able to drop these two rules into a default config and exhibit issue #2 (minor rule runs on initial parse, but not re-parse). It did not matter if gen fixes and/or typos were enabled.  No skip options other than "F&R Skip if: no replacement" and "F&R Skip if: only minor replacement made". &mdash; Makyen (talk) 08:12, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, this is fixed now. I have uploaded a new snapshot release to sourceforge, that URL should be available within a few minutes. Please download that and retest your scenarios, and tell me if there are any remaining problems. Rjwilmsi  10:39, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the snapshot. I downloaded it and have been using it.  I confirm that #2 is fixed.  The fix is making my workflow much easier. Thank you.
 * Unfortunately, #1 is not fully fixed (F&R rules marked both "minor" and "after fixes"). However, it has changed. They now do not run on initial parse but do run on re-parse (previously they did not run on re-parse). &mdash; Makyen (talk) 09:21, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Works for me on your earlier test case. If the F&R rules don't run, what happens then? Page is skipped, or only some other changes are applied on first run? Rjwilmsi  09:30, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. I completely missed that you replied.
 * My earlier test case from above is for problem #2 which now works correctly with the snapshot (minors previously were not running on re-parse, now they are).
 * The thing that is not working correctly, but has changed in how it works, is problem #1: "minor" and "after fixes". Behavior with snapshot is that they do not run on initial parse, but do run on re-parse.
 * Specific to your question: All rules run on initial parse except those that are "minor" and "after fixes". All rules run on re-parse. &mdash; Makyen (talk) 07:08, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

ThreadAbortException in ApiEdit.GetResponseString
At [encountered while processing page ] too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:09, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

AWB should change Cite Hansard parameters to lowercase
GoingBatty any particular reason they want everything to be lowercase? Maybe after parameter standardsation this limitation is outdated now? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 23 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Looking at the Cite Hansard code, it's just a wrapper for Cite book. I was able to edit the code so that URL is now acceptable, so the two examples above now display the same results.  Therefore, I withdraw this request.  GoingBatty (talk) 14:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Let me close the "new messages"!

 * We insist that users must read their talk messages in case the messages relate to problems with their AWB edits. If you cancel the messages popup it would appear again when you processed the next page with AWB. If you want to cancel the popup is it in order to read the talk message another way? Rjwilmsi  09:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm always logged in to Wikpiedia if I am on AWB, but my default browser is Firefox and I use Chrome. -- (T) Numbermaniac (C) 09:29, 10 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I support the current behavior. Reading new messages should be mandatory. --Meno25 (talk) 16:42, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The one case where there is a legitimate reason to not have this, is for users who use separate AWB accounts (like me - I edit with, and use AWB with . My solution to the problem was simple - redirect my AWB account's talk page to my main account's talk page, and semi-protect my AWB account's talk page. However, I shouldn't need to go to such measures to prevent a disruptive anon from messing my AWB session upo completely by vandalizing the talk page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

This is not a bug. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:07, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

UriFormatException

 * are you running AWB from a network share? Rjwilmsi  09:19, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the reaction, no network share, but a virtual (Windows XP) machine on a Mac.--elya (talk) 19:16, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Path it's in must be the problem, what path is the AutoWikiBrowser.exe file run from? Is it a UNC path or similar? You may need to map it as a network drive so that XP sees it as on a local drive e.g. D:\ Rjwilmsi  17:38, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

we need your feedback please. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:40, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

I can duplicate a similar problem on demand: Options → Preferences → Site → Project:custom → add some Urdu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:54, 23 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Magioladitis, sorry for not responding, first time I saw this I had no idea what you are talking about, and then I was in other places … but now it seems I've got it. Having the .exe file saved on the Mac Desktop, the error happens, this location is a path of the type \\.psf\Home\Desktop\AutoWikiBrowser5540 – putting the stuff on the “real“ Windows Desktop, we have the following path: C:\Documents and settings\All Users\Desktop\AutoWikiBrowser5540 Seems that works now! Thanks for the hint! --elya (talk) 19:59, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

thanks for the feedback. Everything works fine in Windows then. Happy to know that. Nothing we could further from our side. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:09, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Site down bug
Mag, when WMF goes down, it shouldn't return the above as a AWB bug, it should just say it couldn't reach the API or WMF servers are down please try again later. Don't you think? — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 19:23, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

true. I do no know if it possible though. I'll have a look. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:32, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Nothing we can do at the moment. AWB assumes everything is fine on server's side otherwise unexpected situations may happen. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)