Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 11

Interface amendments II
Thus: Lightmouse (talk) 12:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Please replace the three Options tab group boxes (Automatic changes, Find and replace, Regex typo fixing) with three separator lines
 * Please replace the three More... tab group boxes with three separator lines
 * Please delete the Disambig tab group box 'Link to disambiguate' and move the label to the field
 * Please delete the Disambig tab group box 'Variants' and move the label to the field
 * Please replace the three Skip tab group boxes with three separator lines
 * Please replace the three Bots tab group boxes with three separator lines

for the options tab. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Stopping during processing

 * to . Run main processing on background thread, so AWB can be stopped in the middle (background processing continues but AWB is available for use). Rjwilmsi  12:17, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Shortcut

 * Add Control+Shift+E as keyboard shortcut for pre-parse mode. Rjwilmsi  16:44, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Populating PLACE OF BIRTH to Persondata

 * I don't think this should be implemented. WP:MOSBIO says that the dates should be in the lead, but generally not places of birth and death. "Birth and death places should be mentioned in the body if known, and in the lead if they are relevant to the person's notability." This feature would bless and encourage those who go against the guideline. Chris the speller yack  19:02, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't see it that way, Chris, but you bring up an excellent point. I know there are hundreds of thousands of articles with Persondata templates without the   parameter, so I'm presuming there are also a large number where the   is missing, and that populating the template would be a good thing.  However, if this feature was implemented, it would be documented on WP:AWB/GF, which may lead people to believe that the place of birth should be in the lead.  Any thoughts on how to populate this field without encouraging behavior that goes against the MOS?  GoingBatty (talk) 13:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that populating the template would be a good thing, but not if it makes WP look sloppy to the average user. My own experience with Persondata is that it gets populated when I move places of birth and death from the lead to the body of the article and do other light overhauls of an article. Another way to populate this field is to scrape an infobox; I don't know whether this is already being done. Chris the speller yack  14:47, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

On Persondata's talk page, persondata is now officially depreciated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:24, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Alerts for incomplete Persondata templates
I use "Skip if no alerts". If we add more alerts this would imply less pages to skip. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * For some tasks, users may want to "Skip if no alerts". For other tasks, users may want to be alerted to lots of things they can fix before clicking Save.  GoingBatty (talk) 21:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * True but these pages are populated by tracking categories anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I would like this change. When I'm fixing typos I won't see the tracking categories, and won't normally bother to scroll to the end just to see if the persondata is complete. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

I think this is going to be moot. There is already talk of bots on Wikidata getting information from persondata. (Mangus and Sk!d were involved) I have a feeling persondata will become obsolete when that happens. Maybe hold off on this request until stage 2 (or whatever the next rollout is called) is pushed to English Wikipedia? Hopefully will get a better idea where Wikidata is headed at that point. I think this entry on Wikidata shows where are now and the end of persondata. Bgwhite (talk) 10:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Interesting, thanks for that link. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:59, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

First tracking category has 0 items now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:17, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

On Persondata's talk page, persondata is now officially depreciated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:21, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Image file previewing

 * Is this something that AWB is capable of? Would it be better suited as a plugin or other? It's a feature that could really come in handy on my wiki. Could someone give me an indication as to whether or not it is possible? Spebi (talk) 09:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I second this, please show us how!
 * Peteparker (talk) 00:59, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Rjwilmsi this would mean that in File namespace we provide different (or extra) page statistics. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Removal of redundant commas within any infobox
For example: a list like |starring      = Tom Sizemore, Richard Jenkins, Ving Rhames, Colm Feore

becomes |starring      = Tom Sizemore Richard Jenkins Ving Rhames Colm Feore

Skier Dude this is better as a WP:BOTREQ. So we can see who can do it and how. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Allow use of CirrusSearch back end for "Wiki search (text)" and/or "Wiki search (title)"
I agree that the new CirrusSearch should be very helpful (although I agree that case sensitive searching would be a nice addition). Will CirrusSearch be replacing the current search engine, or will we have two types of searches going forward? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:49, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * mw:Search says "Our current project is to replace our legacy lsearchd system with a new system based on Elasticsearch (using a new extension called CirrusSearch). This project started in June 2013, with the migration slated to last until early 2014." That schedule seems rather optimistic. I get the feeling that it will probably be many months before CirrusSearch hits prime time; it hasn't even been offered in a beta version yet on en.wikipedia. I estimate that the index is about 70% built and will take a few more days to finish. Allowing AWB users to try CirrusSearch now will soften the learning curve for AWB users that will hit suddenly when they think it's time to yank the plug on the search that is now in production, and lots of productive WP cleanup can be done in the meantime; why wait? I asked about case-sensitive search on the talk page for CirrusSearch help, but haven't gotten a rise out of anybody there. Chris the speller yack  21:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

what is the status of this one? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:38, 25 July 2014 (UTC)


 * It appears that we still have more time. WP:VPT says that they have hit some performance snags and have backed off using this as the primary search for the Spanish Wikipedia, and delayed its rollout for other languages. The index is complete, and I frequently use CirrusSearch to find certain kinds of phrases, but then have to scrape the screen to create a list for AWB. The previous target date for en.wikipedia was August 25; they are supposed to set a new schedule within a week. Chris the speller  yack  14:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

There is nothing to be done by our side. It will be done anyway and it will be automatically inherited by AWB as long as it comes live. No worth implementing it independently. 6 months ago it may worth to do it but now... -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:25, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

It should work by now. Please confirm. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:08, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I assume you mean that I should try AWB 5.5.4.0, and that's what I did. I didn't see any difference in Wiki search (text); is there a switch to flip? One surprise was that the search kept hits from these namespaces: Main, User, Wikipedia, File, Template, Category (and all the talk pages for those). I usually filter for just Main/article, and never saw a new release change the filter before. Chris the speller yack  02:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Now on 5.5.5.0 and still no capability to use CirrusSearch back end. We need this more than before, as LuceneSearch's index has not been updated for 11 days. Please advise. Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  21:08, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

? Any ideas? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * And then from https://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php


 * AWB doesn't set a srbackend parameter, so it should be using CirrusSearch (as it's the default). If it actually isn't, it would seemingly be a MediaWiki/MediaWiki API bug. Reedy (talk) 13:41, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I know that "AWB doesn't set a srbackend parameter". That's exactly why I made this request over 8 months ago, so AWB could set it to use a back end that can produce useful results. Is there still any question about what I was asking for in January and am still asking for now? <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  16:20, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm poking around about this on the MediaWiki side. Can you provide an example of something that should work? Ie it definitely does when using Cirrus, but doesn't using the (out of date) Lucene indexes? Reedy (talk) 13:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Here is a query that only works with Cirrus. I tried it in a browser without cookies and it went to Cirrus and spat out results.  Of course on dewiki, enwiki, frwiki, and zhwiki it wouldn't because it'd still go to lsearchd.  And because the search is in Spanish.NEverett (WMF) (talk) 14:46, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Please notice that this request was made over 8 months ago, long before CirrusSearch was the default back end for search on any Wikipedia. Perhaps when Magioladitis posted "It should work by now. Please confirm" he meant that I should test it on a Wikipedia that had CirrusSearch as default. I use en.wikipedia (99.999%) and so was confused by the claim that it should work. Now we're in a pickle because AWB can't make much use of the LuceneSearch index on en.wikipedia, which stopped updating almost 2 weeks ago, and it can't use CirrusSearch, because we have no way to specify that. I thought that by giving 8 months' notice we could be prepared for this day, but now it appears that I was too optimistic. AWB is not ready, and CirrusSearch hasn't addressed the shortcomings in finding hyphenation that were pointed out several months ago as feedback and then reinforced in bug reports. Can we do anything to improve this mess? <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  16:07, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Now that CirrusSearch is the default search on all Wikipedias, it probably makes sense to mark this suggestion as "This feature is not going to be implemented". <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  05:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:39, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Make → a fix item

 * Despite  without closing tag being invalid XML,   and   are both valid forms of the line break in HTML.&#91;1&#93; This means it's technically a bug in the syntax highlighter. I do prefer   though. SiBr4 (talk) 10:42, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "no". Both are valid. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Correct. The break element is vastly overused in article content. Where used to improperly create lists, plainlist or similar should be used. Where used to format lyrics, poems and the like, poem should be used. --  Gadget850talk 18:54, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Only restrict Bots on CheckPage

 * New checkpage option: will enable all users for user mode, and enable bots only when in  section.  Rjwilmsi  13:50, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Threading

 * The "keep sorted" should only run when new items are added to the list. Rich Farmbrough, 04:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC).
 * Bump this because with large lists the sorting of the already sorted list can make it very hard to get enough attention from AWB to turn the sorting off. Also by sorting the list when an item is added we can use a fast insertion sort, only doing a big sort when the menu item is checked. The same logic could then handle "Remove duplicates", which in some circumstances one has to unclick and click repeatedly. Rich Farmbrough, 15:19, 22 August 2009 (UTC).

Marking as added. We now have faster list sorting and filtering with use of .NET 3.5  and   with predicates. Rjwilmsi 12:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Expand FixSyntax to correct "http:// http://"

 * Rjwilmsi 15:32, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Add a "Load list" function
See above. In both the main window and the list comparer, the  and   options in the "Source" menu import a locally stored list. To save a list but not the other settings, use the List → Save list function in the main screen, or the button in the list comparer. SiBr4 (talk) 17:11, 30 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I already know how to save lists by themselves -- that's not the concern and I don't know how I left the impression that I didn't understand that already. Anyway, I now see that lists can be loaded via Source, and I thank you for pointing that out.  However, it's not very intuitive.  There needs to be a "Load list..." under "List" in the menu, for clarity's sake.  I'm thinking many users wouldn't make the mental connection of "Text file" to "List". We have examples of two people who haven't. :)   Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 17:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Import list
If I understand your request correctly, there actually is. The "Source" dropdown menu contains the options  and   to import .txt files of different encodings. SiBr4 (talk) 20:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * To complete your task, I would set list 1 with Source of Category and fill in "Male athletes|Female athletes" in the Category box. You can use the pipe character to include multiple categories in one list.  Hope this helps!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:44, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks to both of you. These are the kind of features I was looking for, but I'm struggling to find documentation that notes either of these – do we have an appropriate venue to add this information? SFB 06:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * See AutoWikiBrowser/User manual, which has an explanation of each item in the source drop down menu and a small note at the top about using the pipe character. GoingBatty (talk) 15:59, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Expand removal language=English from citation templates
I hacked a quick script that removed en, EN, English, and Englisch from about 60 pages that transclude.


 * Find:
 * Replace:

The better solution perhaps, is to fix so that it doesn't pass English on to. I'll have a look at it in the morning unless someone beats me to it.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Tweaked the script so that it also fixes even though that template uses.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 01:21, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Any luck with fixing so that it doesn't pass English on to ?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:51, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, with .  is pretty much empty right now.


 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 01:03, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks - request withdrawn. GoingBatty (talk) 02:34, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Automaticly change the cats to template
This is already done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:02, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Remove files that contain ext links
Note that your example is of the form, which is another variation that would be good to remove. If there isn't already a bot that does this, I could submit a bot request. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:05, 26 September 2012 (UTC)


 * That would be good. There are some bots that work on images - one of them is CommonsDelinker and there is another one (forgot the name) that will sometimes tag a page revision if it is bad image related edit. The bot should revert the edit and notify the editor. I am seeing some newbies struggling to get an image into an article. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:06, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That's too advanced for my simple bots. Try Bot requests.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This issue is going to disappear as more infoboxes are converted to use Module:InfoboxImage. There's logic in there to ignore an image parameter that is actually an external link. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Most infoboxes use Module:InfoboxImage now. Do we still need this FR? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:34, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Marked as "no". It is rare and risky. Better ask for a tag for this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:47, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Warn before opening XX number of pages

 * In List Maker, apply same "large list" check to double click as well as "open in browser" menu items. Rjwilmsi  14:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Use the new serif font for headings of primary sections in preview mode
<font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller what's the status of this one? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:08, 25 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Adding my sign, so that the ping works... (t) Josve05a  (c) 11:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

For preview, Wiki does the work. So we are doing it :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:50, 1 March 2015 (UTC)