Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 6

Object reference not set to an instance of object

 * My fault again. Last minute change... Fixed in . Will prep a new release as everyone is going to have this problem. Be online soon — Reedy  Boy  11:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Its out. Sorry again! — Reedy  Boy  11:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB not starting after update

 * I suspect this will be the same as below.. But your running an old updater... Try again in a bit — Reedy  Boy  11:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed! -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:57, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Updater error: AutoWikiBrowser.exe.config file not found

 * My fault. Minor file missing from release. I've fixed the packager to match, and also re-uploaded the version to Sourceforge. — Reedy  Boy  11:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * May just take a little while for it to propogate back out to the mirrors. — Reedy  Boy  11:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Unexpected modification

 * Found the cause. Just trying to work out a better regex. Have an improved one, just looking to see if i can do it better still. — Reedy  Boy  16:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * — Reedy  Boy  17:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB told me to
I don't understand any of this. RyanGerbil10 (Говорить!) 01:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Presumably you were using an old updater... Ie you didnt do any of the updater updates... And therefore, its missing the new diff file, as the updater was changed to handle the different files. Download a new version and try again.g — Reedy   Boy  10:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

blanking of 'Edit Summaries'

 * - Somewhere the logic had been changed around... Will have an SVN snapshot up soon if you desperately need this. Fixed for next release! — Reedy  Boy  17:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you! -Gwguffey (talk) 19:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger is triggered

 * This is realated to your monobook.js, and it doesnt like IE. - I've added code to it supress twinkle in IE. Force refresh the page in IE, and you should be fine with AWB again! If not, look at the last thing on the FAQ on the discussion page. Tha should fix any other errors with the code — Reedy   Boy  12:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Perfect! My default browser is FF. I had to keep in mind that AWB uses IE engine. Now it works. You can remove the entry from here I think. Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException

 * I have no idea what it means, but it prompted me to post it here. Hiding T 23:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Due to MW Error/http server error 500... Not a lot we can do atm... — Reedy  Boy  20:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

IRCM unhandled exception

 * Due to MW Error/http server error 500... Not a lot we can do atm... — Reedy  Boy  20:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException when redirecting to WP/Portal page

 * I dont get an exception - It redirects fine. The error looking at the ListView.CompareFunc, is related to the logging list views. Almost like its trying to put an incorrect log into on the wrong list view.. — Reedy  Boy  11:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Found the error. When you have it to sort by "Skipped By" or "Skipped Reason", and there are blank things (which is the actual bug - they should be filled out), it cant compare "", so therefore causes an exception — Reedy  Boy  16:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into this. I'd noticed the null skip message too. Rjwilmsi (talk) 18:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to look into this, although it should be noted that cross namespace redirects from mainspace are frowned upon and those may have to go! --kingboyk (talk) 14:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * . It doesn't look like much but it took several hours of line by line debugging to nail! The skip reason was being written to the log but then the wrong object was being added to the log tab. --kingboyk (talk) 18:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

URL underscore regression

 * Do you know when it was last ok in the SVN? — Reedy  Boy  19:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No, just starting using it since Late December. Dispenser (talk) 20:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Wont do it on plain URL's, or even URL's in references.. Just seems to be that page :/ - Test Sandbox Revision — Reedy  Boy  17:00, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been able to simplify to just an Image, #, weblink, and wikilink. My guess at is that it involves the anchor decoder not work correctly.  Test Sandbox Revision  —Dispenser (talk) 17:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Right... Found the problem - Parsers.FixImages

The regex is too greedy

—<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  00:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Would

be better? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rich Farmbrough (talk • contribs) 14:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Quick test in the regex tester... And it would look to do the trick perfectly. Will put that on the SVN version later on. Less greedy/now not capturing too much. Thanks Rich! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  15:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  19:11, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

No scrollbars (bug reopen)
Hi guys! I'd like to re-open this "no scrollbars" bug. It's been archived but not fixed. I've just downloaded the latest AWB version and the bug is still there. No scrollbars. All controls work fine in IE and old AWB but not in the latest AWB :( Please try to fix it. --89.112.10.184 (talk) 17:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It wasnt archived as fixed.. Its hard to try and fix when you cant even duplicate it.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe you can figure out what was changed since versions 3.x that ruined AWB? I have no such problems with any other application nor with old AWB. --89.112.9.35 (talk) 09:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Im pretty sure what caused it. We had a major GUI issue with v4 in which it caused problems for most people. Fixing it solved it, but seemed to have caused your problem it would seem... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  11:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_3 is the bug in question —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  11:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * This is not exactly the case. I had this splash screen bug and check boxes not displayed completely at the bottom. It's now really fixed but still no scroll bars in the upper "preview/diff" window and right "edit box/history" window. Please, please have them come back. --85.249.13.52 (talk) 11:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thats the thing. Everyone else's would seem to be there - ie no problem reported... :/ Im not sure how to fix it if we cant at least duplicate it —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  12:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems to be fixed now. What did you do, guys? :) --85.249.15.108 (talk) 11:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Errm.. Nothing...? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  16:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you did, a new diff.dll was downloaded during the update. --85.249.11.187 (talk) 13:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Reference-class to reflist error, part II

 * I do not think this is a AWB problem, but it maybe a AWB user. If you can show more occurrences of this, then the AWB team should look in to this.-- pete 21:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * And also, 4.2.0.0/4.2.0.1 werent released till the 25th - 5 days AFTER that edit.. So that would've been on the old version. The user, however, shouldnt have just being making those edits... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  22:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, that's easily checked. I just restored the Devil article to the version with old-style references; does AWB's suggestions still include replacing the div & references with a reflist? SnowFire (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I think in this article references and notes should be separated. Apart from that all these kind of problems can be skipped if under reflist the user adds references with the references-small class. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that it's awkward to mix numbered and not-numbered references. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

(de-indent) re:Magioladitis: Uh, I have to say I disagree with your edits there. First, regardless of preferred style, AWB (seems) to be breaking the editor's intent here and leaving hanging div tags, making invalid markup, so that's bad and needs to be fixed no matter what.

Second, I think you misunderstand what's going on in that article; if anything, the section you have entitled "References" should be "Footnotes" and your "Notes" called "References." The manually written entries are further-reading general reference material, while the material generated from the Reflist are direct footnotes. This is a style established in many featured articles; see (picking at random...) Rhodes blood libel, for instance. It still doesn't really apply even if the names were swapped to the normal style, though, because there's no good distinction here. They're all references for the article, and the notes are not necessarily from the actual books cited, so there's not much point in separating them. (I suppose I could see renaming the non-inline references "Further Reading" at most, but only because I suspect they were added as that, not as genuine references for the article.)

Third, as for the "what about this?" change where Reflist is used but the div location is swapped... that is acceptable, and that's actually one of the solutions I proposed above. The only thing about swapping the locations is that it's a bit inefficient - if you view the source for Reflist, you'll see that it opens a div with references-small then closes it. Then, in your version, it opens another div with references-small, then closes that one too. It's the rough equivalent of Not bold, This is bold, and this is bold too vs. Not bold, This is bold, and this is bold too. The first is an acceptable alternative and not really a problem, but it's a bit inefficient since it needlessly stops and starts the formatting.

Anyway, did you use AWB, Magioladitis? The point of bringing up the Devil article as an example was to ensure the latest versions suggest that kind of replacement and it isn't a bug only with the older ones (though I suppose someone wanting to test could revert then see what AWB says). I'd also be curious if someone with AWB can see what is suggested for G. William Miller, which has a non-inline reference above the references rather than below it. SnowFire (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that the fact that AWB ignored that the div section isn't closed and replaced the rest it's a problem/bug and has to be fixed. Moreover, I apologise for naming the sections incorrectly in the Devil article. -- Magioladitis (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks like you can close this one; guess it was a coincidence. Odd. SnowFire (talk) 18:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I showed Snowfire that AWB was not the problem and they agreed stating "Yup, looks like it's a false alarm. Thanks a lot for investigating the matter; this is the third time I've seen it happen, but I guess it was just a coincidence here. Thanks". I ran the Devil through the latest AWB and AWB came up with no suggestions for changes. This is not a bug and can be closed. -- pete 18:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Return of the reference line break bug
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 22:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Mojibake

 * Presumably it doesnt like the Japanese characters.. Hmm —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Program crashes during login
I really need this problem to be fixed, there is no way to use the problem! Parent5446(Murder me for my actions) 00:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Here is a screenshot:

1024px Parent5446(Murder me for my actions) 00:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser - See the last FAQ item, and the 1 before it. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  12:57, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered ArgumentException
Can somebody help me? AWB told me, I should copy this onto this page.--Ticketautomat (talk) 12:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * - Prevented that from happening. You've enabled "save edit text box", but you havent set a file for it to save it to. 19:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Fix whitespace and mdashes

 * - Removed the 2nd regex, as it was just undoing the work that the first regex was doing - Spaces were being removed then re-added. Minor simplification to teh first regex, so it wasnt replacing the same with the same if no spaces. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  15:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

moving refs after exclamation marks in tables

 * Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs - Its probably going to be removed for the next release... So this isnt major ;) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:47, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you mean temporarily? Snowman (talk) 11:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Permenantly for the moment at least... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

General fixes breaking image formatting

 * The breaking of the nested wikilinks is related to


 * The old version

Was fine with this, however, it caused Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_6... Regression from fixing the bug in another case... Its causing all the above problems... Any suggestions again Rich? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Note that it doesn't just break nested wikilinks, it also loses all but the last piece of image formatting. In most cases it retains the caption, but if there is no caption or if the image formatting is in a different order, it could retain the image size or its designation as a thumbnail or... whatever came last, and remove everything in the middle. TomTheHand (talk) 21:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, i know, hence "Its causing all the above problems..." —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  21:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Might need to treat images separately; identified with \[?\[\s?\s?[Ii]mage Snowman (talk) 15:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thats what the Variables.NamespacesCaseInsensitive does - Its not hard coded so it can use the right namespace for the different language wiki's. It does need fixing though... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  18:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * What were your regex expressions (above) trying to match and not match? Snowman (talk) 13:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Is the function summary, and all the code. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  14:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Fixed in, but what will this fix break? :P Gotta cover all genfixes with unit tests. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Got this error
Need help sorting this one out please. FMAFan1990 (talk) 01:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Please try downloading the newest version manually from

The cause of the bug, it would seem, is you havent completed the updater updates that i released, to prevent this happening.

There was a change in the Diff Library used between 4.1 and 4.2, and a different file name, and your AWB is complaining as it cannot find the dll. The older updater would not cater for this file, and therefore not copy it from the newer archive.

This therefore causes your bug

Cheers

—<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  01:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I already did, a few days ago. FMAFan1990 (talk) 03:18, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And does Diff.dll exist? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  10:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it's still not working. FMAFan1990 (talk) 10:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I've attempted to address this in, but not sure if it will help. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:28, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered InvalidOperationException
translation: "error while comparing two elements in array."


 * Is this still occuring? As i reckon it was just a problem on one article... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

On which page? Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:02, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry guys, now with the new version. The article is de:Komet, I had regex, general changes and unicodify activated. Codeispoetry (talk) 20:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Try it again - . be-x-old wasnt in the 2nd IW list.. Seems to work fine for me —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * AWB doesn't recognise stq interwiki, but it doesn't crash anymore. Moreover, it removes "thumb" and some image descriptions on this page. Codeispoetry (talk) 09:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * - stq added. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  13:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered ArgumentNullException
Presuambly the string array InterwikiLocalAlpha is the null... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it just didnt load, but you maybe had connection issues.. Improved the error handling - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  20:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I get the same "Value cannot be null" error when I try to do nothing more than try to click "File, New Settings File" or apply my preferences. Would that happen if I had connection problems?  --Kbdank71 21:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The new settings file uses the same area of code. It would usually happen due to connection problems - it all loads fine for me, and i know my internets fine.. And there hasnt been a mass reporting of the bug, so presumably its not the code —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  21:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's a connection problem. If I click on Profiles, then Login as selected, it loads the login page, then reports login successful, then it gives me the error message.  This never happened until today when it updated to the new version.  But if nobody else is having the problem, it must be a local issue.  Thanks anyway for the help.  --Kbdank71 21:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Still trying to figure this out, and getting nowhere. Question: if I were having connection problems, would AWB be able to check if I'm using the right version?  I re-installed version 4.1.4.2, and I'm getting prompted to upgrade.  --Kbdank71 21:12, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It checks it against AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version. 4.1.4.2 is disabled, so hence being prompted to upgrade —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  21:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So what is it choking on in the error above? Maybe I'm not understanding what the issue is.  --Kbdank71 21:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That loads the interwiki page. AutoWikiBrowser/IW - It then parses the data into an array. A null reference means the array points to a new instance of an array, with nothing in it. Null is essentially blank. So if its blank, its not entered anything into the array. Presumably because it wasnt able to load the page... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So the old version can load AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version but the new version can't load AutoWikiBrowser/IW? I think my days of using AWB are sadly over, as I don't have a clue how to fix that.  --Kbdank71 14:58, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Both versions use both pages... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  16:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I encountered the same error. It happens just when I run AutoWikiBrowser. Same AWB version, same O.S. version used by Kbdank71 (The old version - 4124 - used to work fine, then it stopped working because "it is not enabled" and forced me to download the new one). If I clic "Continue working", then the application crashes when I try to save my preferences (same error). --KingFanel (talk) 10:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there any point in asking if I could get version 4.1.4.2 re-enabled so I can do some work with AWB? Or at least use it to test if I can connect without getting the error?  --Kbdank71 15:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Moving spaces in links
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests - Thought we had fixed this. Hmm. Definately 2120? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2120 downloaded about 2 hrs ago. Snowman (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I'll have to try and duplicate this later on. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  11:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wasnt actually doing it for me... -, ive  asserted the word boundaries —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  20:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Ref Tags moved after punctuation
additionally, the puctuaction order that AWB provide is not correct on .pl --84.234.42.68 (talk) 10:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't feel that this is a bug (at least not on en.wikipedia). Aside from the fact that AWB is doing what it's supposed to be doing (there are very few cases where there would be a reason to place ref tags before punctuation), this seems more like a feature request to make this specific type of correction optional. Black Falcon (Talk) 20:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

If you read the citation guidelines mentioned above you will see that WP says it can wrong to relocate refs in many articles. I've seen good faith but contrary impositions of the US CMS 'dialect' on British English articles which have led to revert wars with some editors. It's not AWB's job to unilaterally impose its own arbitrary style rules. The so-called Nature style is much better and more traditional English, as it keeps the tag within the appropriate part of the sentence. IIRC the CMS style was only invented about 10-20 years ago and doesn't feature in my US grammar books which were written c. 1990. Ephebi (talk) 10:08, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I suppose we should kill all refs fixes with fire, they cause too much trouble for too few real improvements. Any thoughts? Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:27, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds a more sensible option. Probably just disable it for the moment.. General fixes, as we've discussed before, really need to just make changes, and the users shouldnt have to correct them (of course, bugs permitting) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:09, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think its just where the reference tags are moved positions? The other reference stuff (parsers.SimplifyReferenceTags, and parsers.FixReferenceTags) should be fine? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * - FixFootnotes disabled until further notice. Marking as fixed —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered FileNotFoundException

 * need to be able to duplicate this to attempt to fix.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered NullReferenceException

 * My favourite bug... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  23:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So, what conditions do you need ? --Movses (talk) 09:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * need to be able to duplicate this to attempt to fix.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered NullReferenceException
Mashiah (talk) 22:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * All this day I've been blocked somehow (looks like provider error because I can ping and get other languages) to access ru.wikipedia.org via http. Maybe this can be quick-fixed with an approach to access it through seсure.wikipedia.org? Is it supported in AWB? Mashiah (talk) 01:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, AWB will never support SSL unless Brion, Tim and Domas allow us to do so. Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Which would mean more than 1 SSL server... For a start —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  18:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Problem with updating
I have 4.2.0.1 on Vista, and tried to upgrade automatically. When opening AWB, I get two update messages -- one asking to update the updater, and one asking to download the new version. I have tried every combination of these options, and all failed. The farthest I've got is the updater unzipping downloaded files, at which point I get the ever helpful "something has gone wrong, please try again" message. Other times, the updater stops responding and has to be terminated. I've since downloaded 4.3.0.0 manually, but I don't understand why the updater shouldn't just work. Ral315 (talk) 07:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * My ever help "something has gone wrong, please try again" ;), has now been replaced with a proper error handler, due to the fact it was pants, like you say. It means some issue with the unzipping. I've put out these updater upgrades, to try and prevent people having problems with future updates... Did you update your updater before? If you have manually updated, and therefore updated the updater, just give us a shout with any errors you get in the next version... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  10:03, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox not working on custom wiki

 * Maybe there is an old hack somewhere to always treat Wikipedia: prefix as Wiki EN? That not a bug, its a feature! See Help:Interwiki linking.  I'm not sure how AWB's check page operates but the sandbox should be set in the same namespace (i.e. Wikipedia → ReedyWiki). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dispenser (talk • contribs)
 * Wow. I never knew that (and presumably nor did anyone else who's read this up until this point). You are however absolutely right!
 * Well, in that case it was a bug in AWB and my commit of has already fixed it :) Thanks! --kingboyk (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Freeze up
It loads month names separately, I'm working on it. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done in . However, Sam's wiki needs an update to support this. Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Crashes when trying to load a plugin

 * Seems to work fine for me. When exactly did it crash, and what plugin were you trying to load? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't get that far. I just choose Plugins --> Load Plugin, and bam, error message. Are you on XP or Vista? --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Vista, but i bet i know what it is... MaxSem made a change as it was something i minorly changed not knowing it could cause a problem for some people. Try - . If that works, the reason is because you dont have SP1 for the .NET framework installed. It was a minor tweak for vista... Let me know —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  00:01, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Didn't work - got the same unhandled exception error:

See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void System.Windows.Forms.FileDialog.set_AutoUpgradeEnabled(Boolean)'. at AutoWikiBrowser.PluginManager.LoadNewPlugin(IAutoWikiBrowser awb) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.loadPluginToolStripMenuItem_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)
 * Exception Text **************

mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
 * Loaded Assemblies **************

AutoWikiBrowser Assembly Version: 4.3.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.3.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dorothy%20Chen/Desktop/AutoWikiBrowser_rev2218/AutoWikiBrowser.exe

WikiFunctions Assembly Version: 4.3.0.0 Win32 Version: 4.3.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Dorothy%20Chen/Desktop/AutoWikiBrowser_rev2218/WikiFunctions.DLL

System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll

System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

Accessibility Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll

Microsoft.VisualBasic Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled.
 * JIT Debugging **************

For example:

<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.

--Rschen7754 (T C) 01:13, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I downloaded .NET 2.0 SP 1 and revision 2218 works... --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered ArgumentOutOfRangeException
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:21, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Replace category: option not operational
Fixed in, my bad. Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just forced to download AWB 4.3.0.0 and the problem not fixed there. Where is the fix? I am doing simple category replacements Hmains (talk) 04:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The fix is in the Sourceforge code repository. You won't get the fix until you build your own version, or until the next maintenance release. Unfortunately we don't have any magic to change the code on your computer until you download it! :) Since there's been a lot of work on AWB this week from Max, Reedy (Sam) and myself I expect Sam will put out a maintenance release soon. --kingboyk (talk) 09:32, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * If you need it now, you can use for the time being —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  10:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Breaks refs ending in div tags which are are, or follow, a ref with a name
I can't reproduce it in Fiat X1/9. What am I doing wrong? Can you reproduce it with a clean config where only genfixes are enabled? Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Already fixed by Reedy Boy. Max S em(Han shot first!) 05:50, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Something has gone wrong with the downloading of the files. Please restart the updater to try again.
How about putting a version number into the title of the updater so that bugs in the updater can be found. pete 19:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you right click on the updater, properties, then click the details tab, it does tell you there :) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1.3.5.2 pete 20:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've tweaked the message. The error comes during the unzipping... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Marking as fixed for the time being. Ral has reported it too an old updater, put the report on here if you get an error again! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  10:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered InvalidOperationException

 * What article? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:06, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ru:Собор святого Стефана in version before my bot.
 * It'd wanted to delete (to replace it by nothing).
 * In "Edit box" respective string was with some strange symbol - something like |-> - string was.
 * Alex Spade (talk) 21:00, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Categories
- Bearcat (talk) 06:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It works with that particular version. Are you sure you used everything from AutoWikiBrowser_rev2218.zip? Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I deleted the old folder entirely and reinstalled 2218 from scratch. Twice. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I *may* have bodged up the snapshot.. But it worked fine for MaxSem, but not me. Can you try - That works fine for me —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  18:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * "The requested URL /AutoWikiBrowser_rev2239.zip was not found on this server." Bearcat (talk) 19:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Goddamit. Wrong link - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy   Boy  20:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh. What a comedy of errors. Guess you're having a day very like the day I'm having, eh? Anyway, I'll install it and let you know if it resolves the problem. Bearcat (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Resolved. Yay. Bearcat (talk) 22:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered ArgumentNullException
Hmm, <tt>userTalkTemplatesRegex</tt> is null, and it's not reproducable. And <tt>Main.ProcessPage</tt> calls <tt>LoadUserTalkWarnings</tt> just before <tt>SubstUserTemplates</tt>. Even more strangely, <tt>LoadUserTalkWarnings</tt> can't exit prematurely because it handles all exceptions. Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:17, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ouch, didn't notice that it was on Simple. Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Breaks some section links
similar as here, somehow connected to "#" sign --84.234.42.68 (talk) 17:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Disabled in until we find a more reliable way. Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Before resorting to chainsaw surgery, I'd like to try some heuristic rules. So:
 * Something that normalises to a Latin or non-printable char should not be touched.
 * If the anchor string already contains a char which is normally anchor-encoded by MW, we shoudn't change it.
 * If the encoded sequence is preceded by a number, but not a valid encoded sequence, it shouldn't be changed.
 * Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Line splitting regex
Currently, it's <tt>(\p{P}|[^\s\p{P}]*)(\s*)</tt> (WikiDiff.cs → Word.Splitter). We must modify it to detect word boundaries on every character that has special meaning in wikitext (eg |][<>). Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've managed to improve it, but not sure if we can say that the problem is completely gone. Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

No complaints so far - looks like everything's ok. Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered NullReferenceException

 * Note an edit conflict occurred round about this time. Rich Farmbrough, 20:31 10 March 2008 (GMT).
 * Yup, likely a synchronisation error. Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Rules in Finnish Regex TypoFix list not always applied
Because we grouped regexes in alternating groups for matching, backreferences matched random crap. Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Focus lost when filtering

 * Normal FaR does it too.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  21:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Should be ok since. Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered MissingMethodException (experimenting with Mono 1.9 and Wine 0.9.57)
I don't expect anyone to pay great attention to this bug! I'm just trying to get AWB to work as much as possible on as free a software stack as possible, and thought I'd note it here :-) - David Gerard (talk) 19:16, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Please don't post mono-related bugs here, it's not supported (and will never be supported until they fully implement .NET 2.0). Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the error would obviously look to be related to a not fully implemented web control. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:34, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered ArgumentException
I got this error message when I tried do spelling correction in Tamil in category. Please let me know if there is anything else is required--Umapathy (உமாபதி) (talk) 03:30, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Personendaten not handled properly on dewiki
Your way wouldn't have been the best way, and is a bit hacky. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  15:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Enabling RegexTypoFix crashes AWB
Works fine for me. Is your Vista 64-bit? Which version of .NET framework do you have? Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Fine on my 64bit vista! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  18:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it's 32-bit. I have either version v2.0.50727 or v3.0 of .NET Framework (folders for both exist in my computer's  folder). Also, there's something I forgot to mention in the original bug report: the problem seems to have started after recent changes to the AWB typo list that doubled the size of the page. Black Falcon (Talk) 17:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What speed internet connection do you have? What processor, and how much memory do you have? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  18:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in responding ... my internet connection was dreadfully slow yesterday and wouldn't load most pages. I re-installed and tried AWB today and it seems to be working fine, so it was probably an issue with my ISP rather than with AWB. Thanks, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:49, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Project information error in intranet-wikis
You need to update your Bot API and possibly MediaWiki. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered KeyNotFoundException
The site AWB is connected to is not one of the predefined sites in the User/Project preferences list. 哦，是吗？ (О кириллицей) 01:55, 20 March 2008 (GMT)
 * Additionally, after specifying the site in the aforementioned dialogue, AWB throws an exception: '>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is "" or ''' .  Line 1, position 63.  The same dialogue presented the following JIT debugging information:

See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

System.Xml.XmlException: '>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '"' or '''. Line 1, position 63.  at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.DtdParserProxy.System.Xml.IDtdParserAdapter.Throw(Exception e)   at System.Xml.DtdParser.Throw(Int32 curPos, String res, String[] args)   at System.Xml.DtdParser.ThrowUnexpectedToken(Int32 pos, String expectedToken1, String expectedToken2)   at System.Xml.DtdParser.ParseExternalId(Token idTokenType, Token declType, String& publicId, String& systemId)   at System.Xml.DtdParser.ParseInDocumentDtd(Boolean saveInternalSubset)   at System.Xml.DtdParser.Parse(Boolean saveInternalSubset)   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDoctypeDecl   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml) at WikiFunctions.SiteInfo.Load at WikiFunctions.SiteInfo..ctor(String scriptPath) at WikiFunctions.Variables.LoadProjectOptions at WikiFunctions.Variables.SetProject(LangCodeEnum langCode, ProjectEnum projectName, String customProject) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.SetProject(LangCodeEnum code, ProjectEnum project, String customProject) at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm.PreferencesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) [trimmed]
 * Exception Text **************

哦，是吗？ (О кириллицей) 02:03, 20 March 2008 (GMT)
 * Please update your MW and Bot API. Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

General fixes problem: br tags inside templates
Suggested fix: continue to fix   in general fixes, but not inside a template - David Gerard (talk) 15:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:30, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

List limit
Looks like there has been some MW changes... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  14:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I got caught by this too. Major PITA and makes the "category" functionality in AWB all but useless. If AWB continues to work through the API, then you'll need to implement query continuations (though I've yet to get these working when I do queries by hand) - David Gerard (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * It does do query continuation, knows where to continue from etc - Its just for some reason, the MW API now wants an extra, seemingly duplicate parameter... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  15:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That'll be why I can't get 'em working by hand then ;-p wikitech-l will be the place to ask then - David Gerard (talk) 16:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

New MediaWiki required
We cannot support each and every version of MediaWiki, sorry. Please upgrade your site. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:40, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

BadImageFormatException
Your .NET Framework is broken and needs to be reinstalled. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Image: -> Bild
-- MichaelFrey (talk) 13:05, 23 March 2008 (UTC) Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks :-) -- MichaelFrey (talk) 17:36, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

general fixes bug
Fixed in, now it will correctly change <tt> X w </tt> → <tt> X w </tt>. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered AccessViolationException
βcommand 20:26, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Also encountered by PamD (talk) 13:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What's that? We've got no unsafe code... Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * My only guess would be relating to the Window Flash/Beep.. But its not mentioned in the stack. Anyone enlighten us how they produced the error? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  14:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * After some googling I've come up with two versions: one thread accessing WinForms classes belonging to other threads w/o <tt>Invoke</tt> and incorrect finalisation. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * its still there when I try to load pages on commons. βcommand 14:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm getting this error too. jwillbur 04:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Marking as fixed. Updated builds seemed to solve the problem for Betacommand. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  17:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException
On which page? Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've discovered it myself and fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB creates empty lists from category

 * It appears to work on 4.3.0.3. I've downloaded and compile the latest from SVN, and it appears to be running fine. One question though, what happened to the "remove duplicates". I thought duplicates were not generated, but they are, so they cannot be removed. --Cartoro (talk) 10:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It was fixed in the post release verson. The button that says "remove" is the remove duplicates... Somethings have been badly moved about on the designer —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  15:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in by adding a fallback code. Now it should work in MW 1.12 release - tested on WowWiki. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I just downloaded 4.3.0.2 and have had similar problems. When I work with very large categories, the maximum it returns on a list is 500 articles. Is there a preference I missed to lift the max. or is this a bug? --Rkitko (talk) 00:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The fix wont be released till the next update. In the meantime, if you need this, please see —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  09:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Boolean' to type 'System.String'.

 * Can you duplicate this on demand? Is it on the header, or is it on a blank row? Its been reported before, but couldnt duplicate it, so therefore couldnt fix it... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, on demand. On further testing, it occurs for non-blank rows only, every time I right click on the unlabeled field (i.e. leftmost column) for the row. For blank rows the normal context menu shows up. Thanks Rjwilmsi (talk) 18:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Can at least duplicate it now. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed the error - SVN wont let me commit currently. Noticed it doesnt seem to take account of whether the regex checkbox is checked or not... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  23:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Wiki search not returning any results

 * IIRC, MaxSem said there has been some changes to mediawiki which has broken this.... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  22:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * - Fixed so its working again. Hopefully Max/Myself will look at migrating it to API —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Removing emboldened headings
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:02, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException

 * Fixed - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  10:16, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

typo skip on 'regular expersions'

 * Cheers. - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  10:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Removal of tags in
Fixed in Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Remove duplicates button has changed

 * - Designer needs overhauling... Maybe as per Dispensers changes... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I gave my development box to a family member, and I can't install the .NET framework on this one. So I wont be able to help until I build a new box, which doesn't look likely anytime soon.  — Dispenser 03:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Was more saying use your already created patches. ;) I need to take some screenshots of both, and see what the general consensus is here and take it from there... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

long edit summaries truncated poorly

 * Anyone know what the character limit is? (I will look it up) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 255 - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:49, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * should do it —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that was an extremely prompt response. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 18:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ideally needs some checking. In #mediawiki on Freenode, someone said its generally 255, but not always... So may just need tweaking to cut a bit more off. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:41, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Main and See also templates
See this.--Kozuch (talk) 21:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . Next time please use the proper template, it helps to track bugs. Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:57, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

ArgumentException
Likely fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Err.. Max.. Surely you mean if (AutoSaveEditBoxFile.Trim.Length != 0) SaveEditBoxText(AutoSaveEditBoxFile);...? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Gee, lol. Fixed that too o_0 Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException -- selecting Custom wiki
Hi All, I have several wikis working, and this first appeared on the oldest of them all. I wiped out the whole Mediawiki core, and re-installed (unzipped) it again. The failure remained. I wasn't too bothered, until my must critical wiki had the same problem. I decided to go for AWB source code (hence 4.3.1.1), as I always managed to have a workaround, but now I'm stuck. All wikis are:

Where is it reading the XML from, and what file could it be? I really love AWB, but this bug is driving me mad!... sorry for all the unnecessary rants! --Cartoro (talk) 10:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Some light into this. In file:

c:\AWB\WikiFunctions\SiteInfo.cs
 * the following line


 * Returns an XML with "\n" at the beginning of the string. --Cartoro (talk) 11:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Fine on my Test wiki on 1.12.0 - |namespaces|statistics&format=xml... Is your wiki externally accessible? If so, can you give us the link?? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Make a list from category, returns empty list
It turned out to be a problem with the query to the api.php. On file: c:\AWB\WikiFunctions\GetLists.cs Replace line: with:

api.php is not happy when title and category are used in conjunction. --Cartoro (talk) 14:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * And that will break it on the current WP version. That change was made due to leading MW SVN changes (try it here and see) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:24, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll have a look against the link when above happens. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  11:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB currently supports two MediaWiki versions: SVN head as on Wikimedia projects, and 1.12 official release (e.g. Wikia and so on). We cannot support each and every version of MW (nor we are interested in it), sorry. Please upgrade your site. Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered NullReferenceException
Same as below, your site is unavailable. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered KeyNotFoundException
Your site is offline. I guess it's due to incompatible MW, but would still like to double-check it and investigate why it didn't cause errors at login-time. Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't investigate the problem if your site is inavailable, so I'm just assuming that the problem was on your side. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:46, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

ignore external/interwiki links, images, nowiki, math...
That's the way it's intended to work. Previous behaviour likely indicated a bug that was fixed later. Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

BD-SORT
Call me crazy but I suspect it has something to do with the header capitalization. It seems this bug is triggered only after a head capitalization. Check here as well. Moreover, I would like to inform you that BDSORT doesn't exist anymore, BD-SORT is now empty and BIRTH-DEATH-SORT will be soon empty as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:57, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The same bug occurs with BIRTH-DEATH-SORT as well. The only active templates in this category is Lifetime and BD (redirect of Lifetime). I replaced all the others with Lifetime. I think, it's better to completely remove the replacement completely.


 * Check this. It's very interesting! Some bullets appeared as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Btw, can an administrator unprotect and delete BD-SORT? It's empty and completely unnecessary redirect. Thanks -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:11, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Done that. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Cheers! I think we can just remove any reference to these templates from AWB. Lifetime works just fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:43, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

In this example I make no replacement. I just apply general fixes, but the bug appears again. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This functionality was a part of general fixes, and was removed in because I was unable to find out the indications that lifetime should be substituted. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki sorting in other wikipedias
Updated in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! bDaneE 14:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdanee (talk • contribs)
 * Thanks in advance! Samaten (talk) 14:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Sectstub template removed
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:11, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Removing deliberate double line breaks
Old, fixed bug. Max S em(Han shot first!) 11:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Null reference
Which SVN revision? Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure exactly what revision I last built but about rev 2310. Rjwilmsi (talk) 17:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, it's most likely <tt>string HTML = webBrowserEdit.Document.Body.InnerHtml;</tt> Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

The error is now in line 730 of Main.cs (SVN 2338). Thanks Rjwilmsi (talk) 10:20, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Template handling in HideText
Bah, HideText doesn't match templates with single {} in parameters. Working on it. Max S em(Han shot first!) 11:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed in . Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:58, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, working correctly on Enstatite. Thanks Rjwilmsi (talk) 21:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Can't build from SVN
Should be theoretically fixed by, but please check if it works. Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Just needed the csproj for the plugin updating too - . Osamak, if you had said it was vs 2008, i might have been able to help you the other night ;) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:36, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I will do next time :). Thanks all--OsamaK 18:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Typo fixes being applied to a reference name
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 08:50, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Skip "non-existant" pages is a typo
. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Text disappears when text box in settings loses focus

 * Vista and text disappearing... I reckon i know what this is - We had a similar problem with the list maker a bit back. Its related to transparent background... I'll have a look in a bit. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  09:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup - looks to have done the job (i could duplicate it before my change, and not after). —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  09:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Typos loaded isn't the latest list
Strangely, the old-style raw wikitext retrieval parameters <tt>ctype=text/plain</tt> and <tt>dontcountme=s</tt> caused this, removed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT with spaces
is what its doing, but it needs to be, trimming the leading space? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Sometimes people intentionally use space character instead of asterisk to sort a page before the others. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:05, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It needs to not convert to DEFAULTSORT unless the MediaWiki bug is fixed. --NE2 20:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. By the way, what's the number of the MediaWiki bug? Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect skip reason for no find & replace
Thats to blame, due to the code order. I think just moving the bottom else if to the top should solve it. Moment. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup - . Not bad logic, just wrongly ordered! Cheers, —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for that. I've slightly modified my SVN copy so that AWB in fact skips for 'no change' ahead of 'no f & replace', which is how I prefer it. Rjwilmsi (talk) 21:17, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've tweaked it a bit code wise in to reduce some duplicated checks... Mind posting the code you've got for that now? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  21:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * (this works for me but might be a bit of a hack) I commented out all the if (theArticle.SkipArticle) return; in ProcessPage; so that all article fixing is done (if I've checked the option for it) and then after the call to ProcessPage I changed the order of the if statement so that the no change is tested before the TheArticle.SkipArticle. This means now that AWB skips as "no change" if all processing has been done and there really was no change regardless of skip flags, then it will skip based on the skip flags if there were some changes but not the flagged ones. Also, for example, it always does typo fixing and f&r (if checked) so that I can differentiate between 1 really no change, 2 typo but no f&r and 3 f&r plus possible typo. I hope that makes sense. I don't expect you to do anything further on this as I'm not sure that the way I want AWB is the way others would want it, and I know what to do for my own purposes. Post questions if I haven't made sense and I'll reply tomorrow. Thanks Rjwilmsi (talk) 22:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Meh =). 2402 has now been commited, i didnt commit it before. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

System.InvalidOperationException

 * Hmm, weird.. Its not modifying anything, so not sure why that happened.. Did you click on something else/remove something just after opening it..? As the code itself is not modifying the list.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  12:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I clicked Ignore straight afterwards before Firefox had opened. Rjwilmsi (talk) 09:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Just got it myself. Easiest fix is just some error supression - If it fails on one, it will go onto the next one if there is one, etc. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  18:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered MissingMethodException

 * Delete the WPAssessmentsCatCreator.dll from your AWB folder. Its old, dead, and now out of date. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Updater will be tweaked to remove this DLL. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  10:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered Exception
I got this bug when starting up AWB just after downloading version 4.3.2 I am not really sure what it means so sorry if it has already been solved. <font color="orange" face="comic sans ms">Captain <font color="red" face="Papyrus">panda  01:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I realize now what I did wrong. My firewall was just blocking AWB and it wasn't telling me. It's fixed now. Sorry about that. <font color="orange" face="comic sans ms">Captain <font color="red" face="Papyrus">panda  23:44, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

RegEx not working in find & replace replacement box

 * IMHO not a bug, as regex find & replace works for me. Richard0612, your example in the screenshot doesn't work as you want it to because there is no bracketed clause to identify $1 try find= (.*) and the $1 will be replaced. Rjwilmsi (talk) 23:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * All I can say is... D'oh! I filed this bug report late in the evening, and I must have been half asleep! Please disregard this, of course the (..) are necessary for the variable to work. How stupid! And I'm supposed to be fairly good at this sort of thing! <small style="font:bold 12px Trebuchet MS;display:inline;padding:1px 6px 2px 7px;"><font color="#630">RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 15:26, May 20, 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException

 * Glitch on Kingboyk's hostying server it would seem. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  11:33, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException

 * This pops up when trying to grab the links off of My sandbox. §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  21:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Should be ok now. The API had been disabled due to some issues... Maybe intermittant for a while. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Clean up deformats tables removing tags
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB reverting order of stubs and cats
As this edit shows, AWB still puts categories above stubs in the source code despite the fact they are rendered as stubs above cats. What is the point of cluttering peoples watch list with such nonsense? I remember having previously protested against this annoying "feature". See also how the AWB user reacted to my message on his talk. -- Matthead Discuß   19:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ❌: WP:STUB says: By convention this is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. I'll add this to FAQ. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:33, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing me there. According to talk, the consensus is not clear, and the concept of Stubs itself is questioned. German Wiki discontinued them, and it is suggested that the stub categories are hidden. Anyway, I expected that the rendered result and its source code has the same order. Putting the stub templates below the cats has no visible effect on the position of the message "This article is a stub", it just re-shuffles the order of the categories which is mostly arbitrary anyway. The policies are very inconsistent here, as are preferences of users. I consider the relocation edits by AWB a nuisance, pointless edits are added to my watch list, and the order or the article source is messed up. I suggest that developers and users of AWB regard this re-ordering as the lowest priority, and focus on others things instead. -- Matthead Discuß   14:33, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

probably should not have been made; were it not for the category order it would be a completely useless edit. --NE2 16:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly. He was warned not to make such edits anymore, so let's hope that everything will be alright, otherwise his access will be terminated. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Broken dependency in Kingbotk plugin
Can't get any articles to process with the newly downloaded version -- get this error every time. Since the old version is disabled, I'm stuck.--Fabrictramp (talk) 14:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose you don't do WikiProject tagging? Then delete <tt>Kingbotk AWB Plugin.dll</tt>, your version seems to be out of date. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That did the trick. Duh, should have thought of that myself. Thanks much!--Fabrictramp (talk) 17:06, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

AWB follows piped redirects to an invalid page title
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 11:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Hesperian 11:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Error with pages with two hypens in certain places in title

 * - working fine for me.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  12:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * And it works on my computer now too, but I have had the problem previously on a long run. Snowman (talk) 12:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

PAGENAME

 * I have not seen this bug recur in recent versions. Snowman (talk) 20:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Marking as fixed. Please reopen/re-report if it reoccurs. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:17, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Duplicate images in image plugin
Gnevin (talk) 22:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you actually mean in the plugin config window thingy? (Side note for me, wonder if CFD does the same...) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  15:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you provide more information please?


 * The above works fine in the GUI. Or is it during processing? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  11:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Two things: could you update your AWB to 4.3.2.0 and replace your CFD.dll with the new one from Pligins folder? Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Upgraded and replaced my dll . The duplicate error doesnt show but now IFD isn't generate a list of pages anymore, strange Gnevin (talk) 16:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Wonder if thats another API change at fault.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  17:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Weird, for some reason the IFD plugin was trying to load a list of categories... fixes it again —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  10:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

General skip options - Only whitespace is changed

 * This will only skip if whitespace has been added/removed - Not if things have been moved about... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:02, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed, logic seemed a little askew. Also improved the code a bit - —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  11:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Very large lists, can't pull the scrollbar down to the bottom

 * Just tried with 150,000 generated "articles" and it works fine... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  20:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

accents removed in defaultsort tags
It a workaround for MediaWiki ASCIIbetical sorting, so "é" does not come after "z". — Dispenser 04:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks. I've added an entry in the AWB manual about this. Rjwilmsi (talk) 06:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks =) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Project preference
It's just a trivial bug, but looks odd to see a duplication. <b style="color:#0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b><b style="color:green;">Talk page</b> 01:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Its from the "lastWMF = species".. Not sure why thats exactly there... I've altered it, and also pointed us to a couple of broken lines in the listMaker post our overhaul. . Max, is there any particular reason it was done likes this...? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  08:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fix. <b style="color:#0000FF;">OhanaUnited</b><b style="color:green;">Talk page</b> 16:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in SpecialFilter.set_Settings

 * Hmm, thought i'd fixed this already - adds a bit more protection. Osamak, let me know if it fixes this or not. If not, might need to speak to you on IRC. Cheers! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  13:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)