Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 8

NullReferenceException in DatabaseScanner.updateProgressBar
Hmm, did it happen immediately after you started the scanning? Then most likely it's because it used to start timer and only then initialise different internal variable, so when it took too long the 500 ms timer could already tick before things were ready for it. I addressed it in - could you try it to see if it helps? Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:41, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Most likely fixed with recent commits. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:37, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

MissingMethodException

 * Old CfD Plugin —  Ree dy  18:50, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered XmlException on custom project
This occured severl times. I was attempting to use AWB on the ISFDB wiki which is a mediaWiki ver 1.12 wiki with a pretty vanilla setup. Just downloaded the latest Version of AWB. I am a sysop on the ISFDB wiki, and I had loggged in. The problem came at MakeList from a category. 205.210.232.62 (talk) 21:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Your MW API install is borked: it prepends newline to XML output, scaring the .NET's XML parser to death. Max S em(Han shot first!) 11:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. 205.210.232.62 (talk) 01:15, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Decade formatting
It's not a bug: to avoid messing things up, AWB fixes decades only in certain contexts. Currently, this means that date should be preceded by "the", "late", "later", "early" and "mid-". That's why in your example 1930's was fixed as it was "the 1930's", while 1940's was left intact. If there are more 100% reliable contexts, they could be added. Not closing this bug for a while to let ppl report their suggestions. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I always take the apostrophe out when it is within a link i.e. 1990's . I have not identified any false positives with that. Can you give an example of a false positive that are you are trying to avoid? Lightmouse (talk) 09:45, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't have an example, as that predates my involvement in AWB, but from my experience, if there is a weird condition in parser, it's there for a reason, probably. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I understand your conservative approach. Lightmouse (talk) 16:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Wontfix then? —  Ree dy  16:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Lightmouse (talk) 17:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

MissingMethodException in CfdCore.Initialise

 * Try getting an updated CFD plugin from the plugin folder. Chances are its just out of date. —  Ree dy  15:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Tried that, and tried getting the latest SVN snapshot and I still get this error when I start AWB. Can I just delete that plugin? I don't use it anyway. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:55, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, you can. It works fine in the SVN versions, so something must just be out of date. —  Ree dy  06:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Deleted the CFD plugin, not getting the bug anymore, ta. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:23, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

IOException in Tools.PostData
Error messages suppressed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Typo - "Doesn't existent"
--Rockfang (talk) 23:06, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Already fixed, its now "Doesn't exist". —  Ree dy  08:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in Tools.ApplyKeyWords

 * —  Ree dy  06:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Ignore by Ctrl+I keypress no longer works

 * As of a recent SVN version..? —  Ree dy  08:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * - Shortcut removed from mark all as minor. I think Dispenser had added this seemingly random shortcut in his last main designer patch. —  Ree dy  09:36, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Exception at end of database scan

 * Hmm. Thought i'd addressed this before, but seems not. Cannot duplicate it (just tried on a 10mb export of cat:2008 deaths)... The CanRead i set, must still be returning true for your copy, but then when it tries to get the position (the inner if), its closed and tehrefore doesnt like it. —  Ree dy  17:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I get this when I run AWB under my VMware Windows XP, where the database scanner seems to run about 7x more slowly than on my native Windows. Under native Windows this exception doesn't occur, so is it some speed issue that the file is taking too long to close? Rjwilmsi  07:20, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thats interesting. I've got a server 2003 VMWare PC, so i'll try it in there and see if we get anywhere. Thanks for the info. —  Ree dy  14:07, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:34, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

AWB encountered TypeInitializationException
Not enough information, we need a report from 4.4+ which unwinds nested exceptions. Though I suspect a simple network problem. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:54, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Make list confused by unpatrolled changes?
New API-based Newpages provider added in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:02, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

"using AWB" broken on custom wikis
This is intentional. We localize edit summaries if possible on preset wikis, but can't do that on custom wikis, so we attemt to use as less unknown language as possible. Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Max. It looks a bit crappy though so let's leave the bug report open for now please - I'll have a think about how we might improve it. We could, for example, allow language selection of custom wikis, or allow customisation of the AWB string. I know folks could just alter their edit summary, but my observations (especially now we have some log data allowing me to look at custom wikis where AWB is being used) say that they don't. --kingboyk (talk) 18:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Appears to be fixed since then. Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Possible issue sending user name to stats server
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:40, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Minor typos and UI things

 * fixes the 2 minor GUI things. The other stuff is going to be worth a read, the GUI really does need overhauling. —  Ree dy  17:54, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I would be happy to offer thoughts on an overhaul. Lightmouse (talk) 18:07, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Any suggestions would be appreciated. I think, when we've got AWB working mostly on the EditAPI, then we can look at overhauling it designer wise (or at the same time, i suppose). I will read that article later. —  Ree dy  21:05, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in Tools.ConvertToTalk
Two questions: on which project it was, ? And can you provide us with the list you used? Max S em(Han shot first!) 07:33, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, yes, it was on pt. I thought it was this list here, but if I try it now, it works. Sorry, I can't remember if this was the list that failed to convert to talk pages. GoEThe (talk) 13:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in /. Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:09, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * For the time being, just remove pages in Anexo: namespace and its talk counterpart before converting to/from talk. Max S em(Han shot first!) 21:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Abort button on Disambig popup not working properly

 * Seems the method has become detached/been removed. However, nothing has changed with this form since revision back in May 2008, and that was only me doing a minor change to some text. You dont happen to know when it was last working right do you? —  Ree  dy  09:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Bizzare addition of things like:

 * The HideText AddBack/AddBackMore isnt being called... —  Ree dy  20:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Fixed - . You were just returning article text, ignoring the return that unhides the hidden text —  Ree dy  20:12, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Fixing my bad script is above and beyond your call of duty. I appreciate that a lot. Lightmouse (talk) 20:21, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

AWB @ mlwikipedia
Of course, it won't work if you append index.php to the URL, we need just path where it resides. I've made it fail gracefully in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

ArgumentOutOfRangeException in ExternalProgram.btnSelect_Click
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:42, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

TypoScan counter should be reset when articles checked out = zero
—  Ree dy  09:30, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

IRCM doesn't show any actions with ar.wp

 * Does it on any other wiki's? We know en.wp works.. Reedy Boy 20:20, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Just was shown a restore on commons... Reedy Boy 20:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * So the problem wasn't in non-English language.--OsamaK 19:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

We're dropping support for IRCM anyway. Huggle is an actively maintained project, so they may add support for different wikis better than we. Max S em(Han shot first!) 10:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Unreadable options in 'Make from' drop down list
List Maker designer needs overhauling. —  Ree dy  14:17, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Indeed. I think that the whole thing could be modelled on the 'Open' dialog that is in many applications. The list comparer could simply be an advanced extension of that. To me, handling an AWB list is similar to handling a document in MS Word. If I want to stop, I could just select save and the list would be saved. I have thought of a few of the related design issues and I think it could be an improvement. Lightmouse (talk) 14:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

/- Some list maker designer tweaks and slightly increasing the size of it. —  Ree dy  20:25, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Made the drop-down part fully readable in, but the combobox is still not readable. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Marking as wontfix. Its now more easily readable by the drop down bit being wider, the tooltip on the combo box means you dont have to drop it down, you can just hover your mouse over it to get a callout of the text. Thats good enough till we can redesign the designer! —  Ree dy  21:30, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Can't you put the label 'Make from:' above the box? That would allow the box to be the full width. Lightmouse (talk) 08:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * - Changed to "Source:" and combo box expanded. —  Ree dy  21:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Disambig tab, part two

 * Cant seem to duplicate it on my vista box.. —  Ree dy  21:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I have Vista SP1 and IE version 7.0.6001.18000. Dunno if any of that makes a difference... –  T M F 23:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Im on the exact same. lol —  Ree dy  15:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I was browsing through the revision diff in the archive link above and the current revision of "Main.Designer.cs", and unless I'm not reading the code right, the line of code that was added to fix this bug before (, line 2577) has since been removed (, line 2834 would be the equivalent as far as I can tell). However, if you can't duplicate it, maybe that's not the issue... –  T M F 11:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * VS has this strange habit of moving all the designer code around, even with minor changes, not sure why, but makes it difficult for finding this changes. However, you might be right, the group box has been set back to transparent behind that text box on the disambig. tab on main.cs. puts it back again —  Ree  dy  11:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I just downloaded and compiled rev 3414 using TortoiseSVN and Visual Studio 2008 and I can confirm that this bug has been fixed. Thanks!
 * (Also, I want to say thanks to all the AWB devs for providing very easy instructions on how to retrieve and compile the latest SVN revision of AWB.) –  T M F 19:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

AWB freezes when running with bot
With my bot works fine and svn3325. :S. I used it some hour ago with Autosave on. So, the problem occured in a newer version or we need more details. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:51, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh dear. It did seem odd that nobody else was complaining. I have rebooted my computer several times and made sure I only have office applications running. Nothing funky. Has anybody run a bot with the same svn versions as I reported? Lightmouse (talk) 20:00, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I tried downgrading to svn3395. Now when I login as Lightbot, it freezes just after I click 'Log in'. I can use it as Lightmouse without any problems. Is there something weird about what it does with bots? Any suggested tests that will help diagnosis? Lightmouse (talk) 20:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * What about svm3325? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I only know how to get versions from the svn snapshots webpage. It doesn't have that version. Can you provide a link to it? Lightmouse (talk) 15:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I downloaded mine from here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I am now running svn3325 with no problems. So it is not me. Lightmouse (talk) 18:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Any indications how to reproduce it? Config, step-by-step instruction? Max S em(Han shot first!) 18:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

OK. I am not sure what 'config' means but I will post more later (I presume the information above is not sufficient). Lightmouse (talk) 18:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Config being your settings. Unfortunately its not, we need to be able to reproduce it to find out where the problem lies —  Ree dy  19:11, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I downloaded svn3429 and I am not getting the symptoms anymore. Hurray. Do you want me to downgrade and try to replicate the issue or shall we leave it at that for now? Lightmouse (talk) 09:44, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I suspect, if it seems to be "fixed", we'll leave it at that. You can always reopen/create a new bug if it occurs again =) —  Ree dy  10:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 10:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Minor typo - sentence case: 'Page Contains no links' should be 'Page contains no links'
Thanks, done in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:19, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in 2.get_Item
Corrected in Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive 8. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Error connecting to "custom" wiki following update to 4.4.1.0 from 4.4.0.0
It's not that 4.4.1 changed something, it's that it handles errors more thoroughly, preventing further errors you reported. Now, from report you posted early I suppose that the URL should be http://www.dev.spadental.co.uk/wiki/, instead of what you're trying. Or whatever where your index.php and api.php are. Max S em(Han shot first!) 15:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You are correct the URL is http://www.dev.spadental.co.uk/wiki/, the screen gives the impression that www.dev.spadental.co.uk/wiki/ should be entered in the box. I have tried both and get the same result Cjchilling (talk) 15:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Just noticed Max S em(Han shot first!) that you have changed the Status of this "bug" to "Not a bug in AWB, has been referred", I am confused if I was not getting an error connecting to my custom wiki with 4.4.0.0 but am now getting a "known error" (ie not a Bug) with 4.4.1.0 and there has been no change on the server - how can this not be a problem with the client software? I have set it back to new for the moment until you tell me otherwise.Cjchilling (talk) 16:03, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The URL is dead for me... —  Ree dy  17:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You will not be able to see this URL as it is an internal server only visible on our LAN Cjchilling (talk) 21:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I "un-istalled" 4.4.1.0 and "re-installed" 4.4.0.0 and immediately was able to connect to our "custom server" and it is now correctly displayed in the bottom right corner. When I then tried to log-in I get the following "Problem".
 * This version is not enables, please download the newest version. It you have the newest version, check that Wikipedia is online. 
 * Please press "Yes" to run the AutoUpdater, "No" to load the download page and update manually, or "Cancel" to not update (but you will not be able to edit)."
 * After choosing Cancel - there is a message in bottom left corner which says "Software disabled".
 * Is there a way to go back to version 4.4.0.0? Cjchilling (talk) 22:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm having the same problem with marveldatabase.com, and I can't figure out how to fix it. I was extremely happy with 4.4.0.0, and extremely disappointed when the update caused the browser to skip every page.  Any suggestions?
 * Peteparker (talk) 05:08, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have not been able to find a workaround for this - nor can I work out how to go back to using 4.4.0.0 Cjchilling (talk) 07:10, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Now we've got an externally available wiki we can test against, we can have a look at debugging, and hope work out either whats wrong with AWB, or what needs changing on your wiki, if that is indeed the actual problem. Max did make some changes with detection and such between 4.4 and 4.4.1, which has maybe found the problems. —  Ree dy  09:26, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent let me know if there is any testing or help I can do to fix the problem Cjchilling (talk) 19:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * My AWB loads it fine, and allows me to login... Well, other than i dont have an account. —  Ree dy  20:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Doesn't work for me: |namespaces|statistics&format=xml the GET query we're using to retrieve site information works for me in Opera, but fails with "unknown_action: Unrecognised value for parameter 'action'" in AWB, IE and Chrome. Appears to be some HTTP server or network misconfiguration. Max S em(Han shot first!) 13:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Still having the same problem on marveldatabase, but we're changing the URL tomorrow to marvel.wikia.com, so hopefully that'll solve it. Sorry it's not a fix for spadental, but since custom URLs seem to be the only ones affected, I'm hoping the URL change will fix it for us.  I can log in, and load a list of pages, but when a change is attempted, instead of saving the page, it skips the page very quickly and leaves "There was a problem loading the page" in the skip logs.
 * Peteparker (talk) 03:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I have temporally arranged for port 80 to be opened and point to our relevent internal server, you will find spadental.co.uk on the following IP address http://217.45.118.30/wiki to allow you to test against our server. Cjchilling (talk) 08:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah. Now got this "There was a problem loading the page" myself on my personal test wiki. Seems the code for detecting the edit box isnt working. —  Ree dy  15:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Cjchilling - You should start by upgrading your wiki to 1.13.2 from 1.12. —  Ree dy  15:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

- Seems on my 1.12 wiki that it was giving the same error... The text area tag had a newline before the end so it wouldnt match the regex... Not sure if its going to solve it for the others yet though —  Ree dy  16:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone else on IRC has just tried it and it fixed it for them, On the portuguese uncyclopedia. The logon errors, i suspect, are the old wiki. —  Ree dy  16:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I will get my IT guys to update Wiki to v1.13.2 tomorrow and try again. Thanks for the help so far Cjchilling (talk) 19:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Try an updated build from http://awb.reedyboy.net anyway, may work —  Ree dy  20:43, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Between the URL being updated and throwing out the old AWB and using the updated build at reedyboy, the problem is solved for http://marvel.wikia.com. Thanks for all your help, Reedy.Peteparker (talk) 02:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know Reedy - updating to AutoWikiBrowser_rev3438 only has not fixed the problem, I'll get Wiki updated later this morning.Cjchilling (talk) 07:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I suspect, that should fix it for you (in combination with the above which has fixed it for at least a couple of people) —  Ree dy  10:21, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Closed as fixed: the problem with marveldatabase has been resolved, Cjchilling's site is borked. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Broken image description
Dupe of. Max S em(Han shot first!) 09:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

AWB is completely broken on Wikisource

 * Works fine for me... What problems are you having? —  Ree dy  20:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hang on; I'll see if I can come up with a use case. Hesperian 03:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * WFM now, after a clean checkout. I've no idea what the problem was. Closed as "not a bug". Hesperian 01:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

ExternalException in ReplaceSpecial.CopyCmd

 * I suspect, it didnt set the clipboard from the stack trace)... Max, whats the Russian say? :P —  Ree dy  11:54, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * should "fix" it... —  Ree dy  12:02, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

DirectoryNotFoundException in Updater.KillTempDir

 * Lol, so its got to the end and then cant seemingly delete it... —  Ree dy  23:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * - Not sure why it reckons it doesnt exist, but it should be there. Added a check before trying to delete. —  Ree dy  18:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Value parameter issue
, now checks to make sure its not above the maximum —  Ree dy  17:55, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Complaint --> Compliant
For some reason, AWB keeps trying to fix the real work complaint to compliant. Perhaps that should be looked at? NuclearWarfare  contact me My work 01:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:yes_check.svg|20px]] A change yesterday introduced the error, it's now fixed. In future please post issues with AWB typo fixing on the Typo talk page. Thanks Rjwilmsi  07:01, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. And yes, I will do that in the future; I just did not know about that. NuclearWarfare  contact me My work  21:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

NotSupportedException in ExternalProgram.ProcessArticle

 * I think I figured it out. I had put a complete path rather than just a filename in "Input/Output file" under External File Processing. --Apoc2400 (talk) 20:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Filter for main space allows a template through
T:, not Template: ? —  Ree dy  14:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

It's a crossed namespace problem. Someone to delete T:TDYK.It's an article redirecting to a template. It was kept "for historical reasons". -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:51, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Reedy, as an administrator, can you correct the links transcluded in Template:DYKbox so they are all in the correct namespace? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:58, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * What, like T:DYK to Template:DYK? —  Ree dy  15:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Just follow the redirects:


 * T:DYK -> Template:Did you know
 * T:TDYK -> Template talk:Did you know
 * T:DYK/N -> Template:Did you know/Next update

If you don't want to ruin the length, make them piped. This change will save us from lot of trouble. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 15:23, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Surely that makes the redirect pointless on the page? And might aswell be removed? —  Ree dy  15:38, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Better don't delete them. We have to ask because they are marked as historic. Certainly, they should not be used anymore. Template:DYKbox causes the only problem. This is the template linked by the main page and elsewhere. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the first link. I'll ask for the rest. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

A minor problem

 * Hmm, im sure this is reported on here somewhere else.... —  Ree dy  15:39, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't think so, though related error of not cleaning all whitespace around link pipes is reported above. Rjwilmsi  22:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably that then =) —  Ree dy  22:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Is the problem caused because the pipe check is done before the underscores or something like that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I've just noticed, it'll never fix that

" Marathon Triology "

Tilogy != Tiology

Parts arent the same, so cannot be simplified

=)

Not AWB! —  Ree dy  23:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * hahaha. I just noticed!! LOL. Good job! -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Possible line feed error
I fail to see anything wrong with that edit. Max S em(Han shot first!) 11:43, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The edit screwed up the page formatting. Instead of the contents table being on the right of the page, it gets displaced by the infobox which squeezes the text on the left and leaves and empty space on the right. Compare the layout to the edit before and after and you should see what I mean. Gatoclass (talk) 17:05, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * In my monitor I see not difference. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly. For me they make no difference either. Relying on newlines to fix layout issues is EXTREMENLY WRONGONEONE Due to almost infinite number of possible browser/font size/zoom/resolution combinations, you'll never get it right. Ever. Use - or something that explicitly defines the layout instead of hacks that work only on your system. Max S em(Han shot first!) 06:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks guys. Lightmouse (talk) 16:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

AWB freezes when running with bot

 * Mine seems to be working ok, have you tried downloading the newest SVN? – xeno  ( talk ) 19:18, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The issue is in the SVN: 4.4.1.0 released = rev3430, Lightmouse reports rev3499. Rjwilmsi  19:29, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I am willing to try a newer SVN. How do I get an SVN newer than SVN3499? Lightmouse (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you try to reproduce it on another PC? I suspect there's something wrong with your Internet Explorer. Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried another PC and it worked fine. So I downloaded and reinstalled IE7 but that had no effect. I suspected that some of the old settings had been carried across to the new installation so I went to the advanced option of 'Reset Internet Explorer settings'. That did it. It now works fine. I have no idea what it was, I rarely use IE. Could it have been some conflicting Javascript from another website?

Anyway, I really appreciate your help. I would not have guessed that. Lightmouse (talk) 17:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

bug
Эээ, батенька, ничего не замечаете? Вы это уже рапортовали недавно ;) Max S em(Han shot first!) 16:09, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Я видел, было написано, что fixed.. Но сегодня же повторилось опять :) Rubin16 (talk) 20:44, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Ой, простите. Говорилось, что "rev 3444 should "fix" it", а тут rev 3429. Снимаю заявку, извиняюсь за беспокойство
 * Sorry for mistake, I've missed that it would be fixed in rev 3444. Rubin16 (talk) 20:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Misleading button label
—  Ree dy  19:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Save and ignore buttons are unavailable when using "On load: Show edit page"

 * —  Ree dy  22:35, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

KeyNotFoundException in 2.get_Item
PLEASE NOTE I RUN 2 AWB SESSIONS AT ONCE.--mboverload @ 22:36, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  22:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Pasting into the custom Find and Replace rules list

 * —  Ree dy  22:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Only one spurious space removed from link
I think it's because some articles have a space before it's name to be put on the top of the category's article list, e.g.,, and that would break it --84.234.42.68 (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * But this is not a category. Snowman (talk) 22:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * - fixes the "related issue" —  Ree  dy  23:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * For the prior, Parsers.FixLinks doesnt do anything to the piped bit of the link, so no whitespace removal... —  Ree dy  23:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

And for the former -, —  Ree  dy  23:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Is that correct behavior? — Dispenser 02:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Eh? —  Ree dy  11:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Error in "public static readonly Regex ExternalLinks" – excessive text is masked
Ah. I don't understand all of the above but I wonder if the weirdness I reported with 'image link protection' is related to this. Lightmouse (talk) 13:46, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There's a second bug relating to image masking. Wait a moment while I post it... Rjwilmsi  14:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Pipe character is valid within a URL, example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Main%20Page&plnamespace=2|10 . Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:37, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, if this URL is added to a cite template then the |10 doesn't show in the marked up link. Rjwilmsi  15:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Image masking works incorrectly when image description contains wikilink(s)
Please don't make conclusions about things you're unfamiliar with. The problem lies in HideText, there's no serious way to achieve this with regexes. I've added some tests that indicate this problem in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, I was only trying to be helpful, while learning more about AWB to help me with my custom module. Obviously I'm not an expert in the code but it does seem HideText references the line I've cited ( where it does  if (HideImages)...Replace(WikiRegexes.Images.Matches(ArticleText), ref ArticleText); ).
 * Now, I hadn't thought about images within images. I've had another go. Perhaps we can't get a perfect match on masking images with regex, but I think   instead of   in the place explained above will pass all of the useful unit tests you've just added. It will catch 'image within image' as per your unit test, but not 'image within image within image' (is there a live example of this?). However, I think it's a fair improvement and will overcome the issue Lightmouse was having with wikilinked dates in image descriptions.
 * I've successfully tested it with my own SVN version (e.g. find&replace 'foo' to 'xxx' with hide images checked on User:Rjwilmsi/Test, where I've imported those unit tests). Thanks Rjwilmsi  18:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but I have not been able to update my code because I don't have any code that says .*?)\]\] Lightmouse (talk) 23:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I didn't explain very well: the change needed is in WikiRegexes.cs, part of the AWB SVN, not your own module. I'm hoping that the AWB developers will review the change I've suggested and add it in, so that this bug can be resolved for all AWB users. Rjwilmsi  23:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Does make 1 extra test pass... =) —  Ree dy  09:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Would this solution work for those of us that use modules? Lightmouse (talk) 11:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's how I found & tested it (detail: modules use the HideText method which uses the WikiRegexes.Images.Matches line of code to hide images. Find & replace with 'hide images' uses the same code too). Rjwilmsi  12:40, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Well I wonder if it could be made global with a checkbox. That would save me having it in the module. Lightmouse (talk) 13:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * =) —  Ree dy  22:43, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

&amp; parse error

 * A note, the reason it fails to load pages after is because it gets stuck at that error page, and tries to restart. You have to physically remove the page from the list. &mdash; neuro(talk) 07:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * What did you paste in? —  Ree dy  15:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Please list the steps required to reproduce this. Max S em(Han shot first!) 05:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Create a list that has a page with & in. Execute. (I came accross it with Typoscan, IIRC.) &mdash; neuro(talk) 11:19, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Still can't reproduce, both with manually entered page titles and titles returned by TypoScan. Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:44, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * AWB encodes ampersands correctly, so there must be a problem with a proxy or something else unrelated to AWB. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:33, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

AWB misuse
When running your module you should have "Skip when general fix changed" turned on. Did you? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe what he is saying is that delinking all these years without doing any other fixes to the article is excessive and unnecessary, falling under the "inconsequential edit" umbrella. – xeno  ( talk ) 16:03, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Is he? I don't think this change is inconsequential at least until other bot does it as well or AWB includes it. I did some edits today as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:05, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd have imagined that my comment would have been rather clear to someone with a knowledge of Lightmouse's last 50 (at least) contribs. It appears not. I revoked the access due to misuse of the tool to make minor and inconsequential edits. Delinking can be classed as minor and inconsequential. If you want the changes to be made to articles, the best thing to do is seek consensus for the changes to be made and offer a patch or file a bug for the fix to be included in AWB's general fixes. In this way, the dates can be delinked automatically when other users run bot tasks or other tasks which make more consequential changes.

Note please that the same course of action (revocation of access to the tool) is frequently used when users go through articles doing only "general fixes" with the tool. This change is nothing more than a general fix, hence my removal of the access. Martinp23 16:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphans

 * Mine doesnt. API was disabled earlier due to some preformance bug that has now been fixed. When did you last try it? Can you try it again on your current version, and if it still does it, try again on the latest SVN snapshot —  Ree dy  17:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And will not, now it's ignored anyway because it contains DEFAULTSORT and has a few backlinks. But it currently seems to handle orphans quite reasonably, so it's a close? Max S em(Han shot first!) 17:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Closed. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:25, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

SVN: general fixes removes whitespace around pipes within citation templates
Fixed in. Max S em(Han shot first!) 12:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Tiny typo related bug

 * What exactly are we talking about? —  Ree dy  18:26, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, on the typo tab? I reckon its cause its been done as integer division.. Lets see —  Ree dy  18:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Screenshot: --ThaddeusB (talk) 18:37, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup - —  Ree  dy  18:41, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

2nd typo related bug

 * I dont think its No of Changes, (MaxSem would be able to clarify).


 * I *believe* it has something to do with regexes that are matching stuff to change, and the thing its changed to is exactly the same as the original... Max? —  Ree dy  21:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe Reedy is right on this one: the idea of the "no changes" stat is to identify any incorrect typo rules. If all is well, "no changes" should not go above zero. Rjwilmsi  21:21, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, im pretty sure thats what it was for (debugging).. I suspect its maybe worth making it a bit clearer —  Ree dy  21:26, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * In that case, may I suggest adding a 3rd column for times ignored. This info is potentially usefully for finding rules that detect a lot of false positives. (Let me know if I should take this to feature suggestions.) --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm.. Im not sure this can be added simply... Again, Max would possibly be best to comment, i think its going to have to become a feature request. —  Ree dy  22:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually..

Seems to be there, but not actually outputted/shown.. Will poke Max to this —  Ree dy  22:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

That "no changes" thingie means that a replacement has been made, but it resulted in no actual change (i.e. the rule matched a correct spelling). "False positive" means that a replacement has been made, but it was incorrect and had to be manually rejected. False positives are not currently correctly counted and therefore we don't show this stat to users. Unless there is a clean example of a page where "no changes" is counted incorrectly, this bug is closed as invalid. Max S em(Han shot first!) 20:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Text file bug re non-ASCII characters
If you choose UTF-8 format when saving in Notepad, everything will be just fine. Of course, if you choose ANSI you will lose or damage all chars that don't belong to this encoding. Max S em(Han shot first!) 19:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

AWB Updater encountered

 * You've got an ANCIENT updater —  Ree dy  20:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Not surprising, as I don't use AWB that often. I got a message did I want to update the updater, replied yes, that's when it went wrong. Anyway, AWB did the job as intended, and thanks for the reply. --NSH001 (talk) 21:53, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Sources and Unreferenced
adds sources/refimprove to be have the date subst'd on it as refimprove... —  Ree dy  20:37, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And removes the change to unreferenced. Max S em(Han shot first!) 14:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

NullReferenceException in MainForm.MakeSummary

 * Popped up about four times when I loaded my settings, but seems to be running fine now. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:48, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Has it happened again? I think i was having this problem myself last night, and i thought i had fixed it in the SVN version (which may or may not be after 3530 (i cant remember), but i think it was... (just checked elsewhere, 3533 is now latest...) Will upload a version later —  Ree dy  20:59, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep, happens when I click the "Start" tab hover over the "summary" field. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:34, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Try the uploaded 3533 —  Ree dy  20:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Closedmouth (talk) 00:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you have the latest version of KingBotK plugin? You must have v.2.1.0.3. This was a problem I had the all the previous versions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:01, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Try the uploaded 3533 —  Ree dy  20:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That did it. Thanks! §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  20:26, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

access -> accesss typo bug
I believe the problem was this and fixed here. For the future, this belongs at WT:AWB/T. If you reload the typos, that problem should be fixed. Suggestions for typos to be caught can be made at WT:AWB/T. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  22:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

SVN: stack overflow error

 * Lol, found and fixed, thanks!. —  Ree  dy  00:58, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Categories below interwikis
As a side note:These archives are hard to search through, there's a lot of discussion. Would you guys be opposed to running the indexer bot over here? §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  12:58, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea to me!! —  Ree dy  16:12, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * As an aside, this works fine if you have general fixes enabled aswell... —  Ree dy  21:11, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Gen fixes, I didn't think to try that. Thanks.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  21:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * But i suppose, the point is, should this function just work by itself (by running the category rearrangement thing aswell...) (Which would be easily done if deemed necessary/a good idea) —  Ree dy  10:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd assume so, as that's what I thought it was going to do. But no other complaints; so maybe I'm the only one with an issue. :)  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  22:40, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Bad unicodification of &isin;

 * - Works and looks fine for me. —  Ree dy  21:23, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * How strange. It showed up wrong on my comp in both AWB and the WP preview (but both the  original article & the new one show up correctly).  Guess it is a local problem? --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Only getting article namespace

 * Not a bug, thats what its designed too. However, i'll add a WhatLinksHere (All NS). —  Ree dy  20:13, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * , will upload a SVN snapshot later on. —  Ree dy  20:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Understandable, but then what is the point of having filters by namespace, and the "Remove non-main space" function under the "List" tab? I use AWB primarily for disambiguation, and it is often necessary to disambiguate links in templates and even in category space. And right now I'm using it to blank 19,000 outdated IP talk page warnings. bd2412  T 00:39, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Typos in make list 'Source'.

 * Thanks, —  Ree  dy  10:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Exception whilst trying to save

 * —  Ree dy  20:36, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Eternal Saving

 * Current SVN works fine for me. Little slow at saving, but it worked (was a null save) —  Ree dy  22:04, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  22:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much for checking, I'll make sure I'm all updated and continue troubleshooting from my end. Merry Christmas!
 * Peteparker (talk) 17:48, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Wrong link simplification capitalisation
This is not a bug. This is the second edit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:57, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I got that edit result by using a manual edit as a workaround. Pointing to my manual edit proves nothing, because it was a AWB edit modified manually by typing in the text box. Snowman (talk) 01:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What did AWB do instead? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * , added another unit test, changed one to match expected result —  Ree  dy  18:35, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * , fixed —  Ree dy  18:49, 26 December 2008 (UTC)