Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 8

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Clean big tags inside headers

 * FixHeadings to remove &lt;big> tags from headings. Rjwilmsi  08:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

IFD image removal in galleries

 * Done. Rjwilmsi  18:53, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Citation date cleanup tweak

 * Redundant month removed too. Rjwilmsi  13:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Empty Gallery tags

 * Done. Rjwilmsi  14:46, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Re-parsing to check if wikify and deadend are still needed

 * Please retest when the new release is out, I have already fixed a coulple of issues with re-parsing. Rjwilmsi  10:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like I accidentally submitted this as a bug and feature request. Did solve this?  GoingBatty (talk) 03:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Populating Persondata dates

 * I think this has mostly been done as well in the more recent versions. One of the developers mentioned to me a while back that they deliberately restricted the logic for only full birth and death dates though. --Kumioko (talk) 17:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * We should discuss at WP:PERSONDATA what the desired behaviour is. I expect we would prefer year rather than nothing if the full date is not available, but I think it warrants discussion first and a clarification of the WP:PERSONDATA documentation. Rjwilmsi  10:51, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The examples on WP:PERSONDATA and Wikipedia talk:Persondata indicate to me that year only is perfectly acceptable. By automatically adding the years, it would highlight those fields as changed, which may encourage editors to add the month & day as well.   However, if you think a discussion is more appropriate, would you like to start it?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 03:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In this edit, AWB found "(5 September 1878 - 13 April 1941)" in the lead and added Category:1878 births. Could the same logic be used to add the FULL dates to the Persondata template?  GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Similarly, since AWB can identify dates when fixing People life date ranges (e.g. this edit) can it populate those dates into the Persondata template? GoingBatty (talk) 03:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Initial version of logic to catch unformatted birth/death dates. Rjwilmsi  20:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Convert coauthor to coauthors for Cite web

 * Careful with this one - if one of the other author parameters isn't used (required to make the coauthors value visible), then it may be better to convert |coauthor to |author . GoingBatty (talk) 00:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thats true but I cant think of how to write logic to capture that. This is just fixing broken code so it will display correctly not trying to intuitively determine where the data should go. If you can think of a reason we can program in though I am open to trying to figure out how to code it. --Kumioko (talk) 00:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The safe way would be to have an alert stating "Invalid citation parameter(s) found". More difficult would be if parameters author, last, or last1 exist, then convert |coauthor to |coauthors else convert |coauthor to |author .GoingBatty (talk) 00:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * We already have an alert for that. --Kumioko (talk) 03:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * coauthor and coauthors appear to be treated the same in the cite web source, so I assume Kumioko didn't actually check whether the parameter name correciton made any visible difference to the page. However, it's sensible to use the documented names so we'll rename coauthor to coauthors for cite web. If there's no author to go with the coauthors then that's a separate problem.  Rjwilmsi  08:21, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Remove capitalization changes from auto-tagger

 * Right, let's be clear:


 * There has never been logic in core AWB to change the template capitalisation of cleanup tags when the date is not added. Therefore your two diffs are Rich's concern, not mine.
 * What AWB does have is logic that as a side-effect, changes the template capitalisation when adding date. Before AWB 5.1 it changed to lower case (nobody ever cared then), in 5.1 it changes to upper case.
 * I have already done /AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates for the next release. Rjwilmsi  14:58, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It's hard to keep track what rules are custom and what rules are in-house. –xeno talk  15:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The majority of templates in WP are capped, and the vast majority of those that begin a line (Infobox is some 99 % I think 97.7%), or are cleanup tags.  This despite the fact that it is easier to type lowercase shows a clear preference.  I for one use "wfy" and "cu" safe in the knowledge that they will be made to look reasonable by a passing bot. I can sympathise with maintaining lowercase for in-line cites and convert, but to actually start an article with a lower-case letter verges on barbarism. Rich Farmbrough, 16:06, 22 October 2010 (UTC).


 * Good thing the article starts with a curly bracket then =) –xeno talk  16:13, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Just a side comment: It turns that everybody in Wiki becomes lazy. We spend all of our energy to debate on the case of cleanup tags and seems they are very few people really fixing the pages. I also see no action to reduce unreasonable tagging that is one of the sources of the problem. I'll try to make a list of editors who create pages by adding stub, expand, unreferenced, nofootnotes all together to pages by not giving any instructions how to really cleanup. I tried to work with pages tagged with Tense recently and simply was impossible to fix because I couldn't even find the problem.

So instead of people coming here with cool ideas of how to improve our tagger and reduce tags on pages, we keep having requests on the casing of tags that aren't supposed to stay on a page anyway.

One other thing that really upset me is that recently I used AWB to quickly open pages that have problems with citations, I manually fixed them doing some WP:GNOME job and I got a message that I may violate AWB's rule of use by making minor edits. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:22, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that it does not make sense to not be able to make minor edits with AWB. If a page has no major problems, just a few small things that could be fixed, there is no reason not to fix them. Who cares if it clutters watchlists. There is an option on watchlists to hide minor edits anyway.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  09:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * A templates with a lower case first character is not broken. –xeno talk  02:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Remove space before hash in links

 * . Done. Rjwilmsi  09:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Could you remove a space after a hash as well?  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  13:56, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You might have asked for both fixes the first time round. Rjwilmsi  20:57, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Fix date error

 * Endash spacing bug fixed. Rjwilmsi  08:57, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox automobile platform and engine

 * You can do this yourself by adding them at AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects. You may also want to comment on that talk page in favour of template redirect bypassing. Rjwilmsi  07:22, 27 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks and done. OSX (talk • contributions) 03:01, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * To be honest, priority are cases where the word "Infobox" isn't the first word. Just changing case isn't a big deal. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Improvements to the New Alert box I

 * gives horizontal. Vertical will appear when needed. — Ree dy  20:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, do you have any comment on the other two suggestions? --Kumioko (talk) 21:51, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Add count to end of multi-item alerts. Rjwilmsi  19:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Capitalise first letter in date parameter

 * TagUpdater: first word to first character uppercase in date field. Rjwilmsi  13:30, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Consolidate multiple See also templates
I like this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

MergeSeeAlso preliminary version that works only in zeroth section. TODO: Merge {tl|See also}} in any section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

MergeSeeAlso enabled for the whole article. MergeSeeAlso2 for {tl|See also2}}. TODO: Merge procedures in one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:05, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Remove Unreferenced stub yes

 * If the article is referenced, then remove the template completely. exists
 * If the article is really unreferenced, remove the parameter so the template is visible.
 * Currently ~55,000 pages in Category:Articles automatically tagged as unreferenced. Somewhat of a backlog. Rjwilmsi  15:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Smarter keywords

 * EG, page name contains "C++", will currently error, A+ will not match A+ etc... Rich Farmbrough, 01:15, 18th day of January in the year 2011 (UTC).


 * Escape title for %%title%% and %%fullpagename%% when calling ApplyKeywords from F&R or advanced F&R. Rjwilmsi  21:38, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

make %%title%% available for external processing
psi.Arguments = psi.Arguments.Replace("%%title%%", title);

Or whatever at the appropriate place. Rich Farmbrough, 06:59, 30 December 2010 (UTC).


 * Or better

psi.Arguments = ApplyKeyWords(psi.Arguments);

or whatever the syntax is. Rich Farmbrough, 09:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC).


 * I would like to add that I think that this new feature would be very useful. It should be able to pass either the file name of an image or an article page name. Please make the solution user friendly. Snowman (talk) 12:35, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Apply Tools.ApplyKeyWords to External Processing arguments. Rjwilmsi  09:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Don't add Wikify, dead end, stub to pages with Template:wi

 * Exclude redirects to wictionary from stub tagging
 * Prevent wictionary redirects from being tagged as uncategorised

-- Magioladitis (talk) 20:01, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Excluded wiktionary redirects from any kind of tagging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Allow for "Image" or "File" class in WP:Plugin++ for file pages

 * – xeno talk 16:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * - -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ,, . -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Updated the it.wiki. Es.wiki was already fine. If you give me a more detailed list I can do more of them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Added the ro.wiki ones. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:54, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Added the vi.wiki ones. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Added some more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:09, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Space + comma, should lose the space

 * How about you add this as a grammar fix in the typo rules? Rjwilmsi  16:44, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I have done as you suggested. I plan to return here in 4 or 5 days and withdraw this request, if all goes well. A search for 'uttar' found 12 instances of this in the first two articles, so this is not a rare occurrence. Chris the speller yack  20:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I withdraw this request, as it has been added to Typos, and it seems to be happy there. Chris the speller yack  14:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Don't unlink article title in

 * Looking at the source of, I see that the switch caters for both animal and animal, plant and plant, chromalveolate and chromalveolate. Would your problem go away if it was modified to accept both rhizaria and rhizaria? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:59, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That certainly sounds like a better solution, and it doesn't even look like that much of a change. I didn't even look at the code because I always assume it's more complicated than I think I can understand. (I need to stop being afraid of templates!) I'll ask there if they would make that change (the template is protected). Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 07:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * The template was changed to accept "Rhizaria" unlinked, but there are still many other arguments that have to be linked. Would it be much trouble to make the change to AWB? --Auntof6 (talk) 21:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  15:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Allow bot option for RegexTypoFix

 * RETF allowed with bot mode for custom wikis. Rjwilmsi  13:15, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Pasting from a category using Firefox

 * , fixed. Rjwilmsi  15:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the speedy fix, as usual. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  18:15, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I just tried it in SVN 7794, and it's still not working properly. The only change in behavior is that the leading spaces are removed. Blank lines are still pasted in the first situation and items have a leading "* " in the second. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  18:37, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Can this please be fixed? The ability to copy from a category and paste into AWB is extremely fundamental. This is completely nonfunctional when copying from Firefox. The workaround is very inconvenient: copy, then paste to Notepad, then edit, then copy again, then finally be able to paste to AWB. Thanks. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  21:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It works for me on that snapshot build (and you don't have to continue to justify something that's already agreed). Rjwilmsi  22:04, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe newer versions of Firefox handle it differently. My version copies the first situation as "# Article" and the second situation as "   * Article", neither of which is correctly handled when pasted to AWB. I'll try again when I switch to a newer Firefox.  M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:37, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * A newer Firefox does handle it differently; in the first situation, it no longer adds any leading characters and in the second it just adds some leading spaces, which AWB handles fine. Thanks. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  00:28, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

"Sic" warning—is it really necessary?

 * We might make it an alert. Rjwilmsi  09:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Since bots can't do typo fixing and typo fixing isn't done inside sic templates automatically, there is no reason to pop-up windows. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:02, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If there's a template then no warning is needed. But if the article has a literal "[sic]" then, by experiment, I find that no typo fixing occurs at all. This needs a warning, because to get the article spell-checked you have to find the "[sic]", replace it with the template, save, and then ask AWB to re-process it. Dull! -- John of Reading (talk) 09:13, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, then the fix should be to do typo correction everywhere except around the "sic", not to have a popup warning.&mdash; Chowbok  ☠  12:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Most of the times I've seen sic used, it hasn't been used around text e.g. in Alford plea and Blade Runner. AWB will not skip the incorrect text if it is not inside the sic template. That's probably why the warning message was there in the first place.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  11:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The text in Alford plea or Blade Runner would not be fixed by AWB even if the sic template wasn't there, since the text in question are quotes. Therefore, there's no need for AWB to give a warning when sic is inside quotes. Also, AWB doesn't try to fix typos like "" or "institue sic", so there's no need for a warning then either.  Could someone please show an example of when this warning is needed, or remove it from AWB?  GoingBatty (talk) 21:29, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Make sic tag warning during typo fixing an alert rather than a popup message. Rjwilmsi  15:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Merge no footnotes into Multiple issues

 * no footnotes is known Multiple issues parameter. Rjwilmsi  19:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * no footnotes is template to merge into Multiple issues. Rjwilmsi  19:29, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Article banners
Why version do you use? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:05, 2 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I use the latest version. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 04:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 5.0.3.0 or some snapshot? Which revision? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 5.0.3.0. Why? McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 08:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this is already implemented in latest snapshots. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

New option to Reset article counters

 * This would be useful to me too. Rich Farmbrough, 16:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC).


 * New option on File menu. Rjwilmsi  17:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Every time these data are reset, info should be send to the server. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:16, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Interface amendments
Thus: Lightmouse (talk) 12:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Please change the Skip tab text 'Match' to 'Text'
 * Please change the Skip tab text 'Regexes' to 'Regex'
 * Please change the List filter text 'Matches' to 'Title'
 * Please change the List filter text 'Regular expressions' to 'Regex'
 * Please change the List filter text 'Keep titles containing' to 'Contains' and move it up
 * Please change the List filter text 'Remove titles containing' to 'Not contains' and move it down
 * Please change the Database scanner Title tab text 'Text Searching' to 'Text'
 * Please change the Database scanner Title tab text 'Page Text Properties' to 'Page properties'
 * Please change the Database scanner Title tab text 'Title contains' to 'Contains'
 * Please change the File menu item label 'Log In/Profiles...' to 'Log in/profiles...' Changed to 'Log in/Profiles'
 * Please change the More... tab text 'Append/Prepend text' to 'Append/prepend text'
 * Please change the Database scanner Restriction tab text 'Check Restriction' to 'Check restriction'


 * Thanks for progress on these. They're minor but hopefully easy to fix. Any chance of more progress? Lightmouse (talk) 16:40, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I did some more. at he moment we prefer group boxes against separator line so I won't do the rest unless the other devs think we should use separator lines. -- Magioladitis 18:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Moving talk pages

 * Trivially done. Need to decide if we just do it, or make it optional.. — Ree dy  18:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Optional. Exactly as in Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:08, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe this now exists following a bugfix to the move article popup. Would an admin check on a snaphsot? Rjwilmsi  09:48, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The move window has only two options atm: "No redirect", "Watch". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

rev 8012: Talk page is automatically moved when it exists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:58, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

rev 8015: Moving assoc. talk page is now optional. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Replace DISPLAYTITLE template with the same magic word

 * Done for all those magic words in the maintenance category. Rjwilmsi  11:51, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Provide a warning when AWB cannot handle a page

 * On first occurrence in session of page with Unicode PUA characters, show message box to user advising can't edit pages with Unicode PUA characters, then skip page. Rjwilmsi  09:35, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Lists with parameters (part 1)
You can add list from more than one categories by using a separator. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:46, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Remove spaces between numbers and %
Yes, this is really useful. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:13, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * rev 8220. Now need to exclude false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:14, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

no F&R changes inside quotation marks " "

 * This is already done as part of the "Ignore templates..." option. Rjwilmsi  20:30, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Then why are changes continually being made inside " " pairs when I have that option turned on? Hmains (talk) 05:27, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That does not occur for me. If you'd like me to investigate please post your AWB settings file to a sandbox, and suggest a mainspace page where quoted material is incorrectly affected. Thanks Rjwilmsi  07:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I am sorry I have no idea how to post a settings file to a sandbox. The test article is Kikuchi clan.  The only setting I have is to change from 'twelfth century' to '12th century', with no quotes, with the ignore templates option on and with no other special settings--mostly just the defaults provided by AWB.  Hmains (talk) 17:16, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, a long quote. I had set a limit of 500 characters for text within quotation marks, so increase that limit to 2000. You should find any quote less than 500 characters is already covered.  Rjwilmsi  20:43, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. Sometimes the exclusion worked; sometimes it didn't. Thanks Hmains (talk) 21:05, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you think about text in italics text. Generally, these are the names of objects such as books and should not be changed by AWB either.  See Chersonesos Taurica, first item in section "References and further reading" for example.  Hmains (talk) 21:26, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

I have some related questions: 1. Does this option apply if the code is in a module rather than in Find&Replace? 2. Could there be an option for avoiding text within single quotes? 3. Could there be an option for avoiding text that is indented e.g. by a colon? Regards Lightmouse (talk) 21:15, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1, Yes, whenever HideMore is called. 2, single curly quotes are already matched, if we match on a single straight quote we'll match on apostrophes. 3, already done in HideMore. Rjwilmsi  07:58, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. That's very good to hear. I've used HideMore in the past and plan on using it again. I couldn't find a complete list of what it does. Is the HideMore source code and/or documentation available to view? Would it be possible to have Hidemore as a checkbox option for module users? I didn't know the single quote character problem related to apostrophes. That's interesting. Most (if not all) quotes have a non-word character on one side of the single quote. Most (there are exceptions) apostrophes have a word character on both sides. I'd rather have an occasional miss than a false positive. Could we use that distinction for super-cautious editing? Lightmouse (talk) 10:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Source code is linked from Awb main page. HideMore can be called in a custom module. I'll check how well it's documented. Rjwilmsi  08:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't be super-cautious it would be wrong, for example

Here various levels of nativity would have various levels of fail - i.e. quoted bits seem unquoted and vice versa. This case can be solved correctly however by the following rules: However it rapidly becomes more difficult after that, some cases will be truly ambiguous.
 * The president said 'Moses' bullrushes would be preserved in a museum.' he later added 'Next to Jesus' un-seamed garment, in the Presidents' library.' He was speaking in the 'Adan Governorate, where Moses' bullrushes' remains had been found.
 * 1) .' is a closing quote
 * 2) \w' is never an opening quote
 * 3) All closing quotes have a corresponding opening quote.
 * 4) All quotes are either terminated in .' or preceded or followed with a saying verb (asked, added, commented, said etc.)
 * Rich Farmbrough, 21:32, 6 September 2010 (UTC).


 * Good points. Based on those, and thinking out loud:
 * A quote can only be closed if it is open.
 * Treat  as an open quote. We contrast a non-word char on the left with a word char on the right. For example,   False positives may occur due to apostrophes, as suggested above.
 * Treat  as a close quote. We contrast a word char on the left with a non-word char on the right. It is not an open quote. For example,   False positives may occur due to apostrophes, as suggested above.
 * Treat  as a close quote. We see non-word chars on both sides. It is not an open quote. For example,
 * Treat  as neither an open quote nor a close quote. Treat it as an apostrophe.
 * Treat a new paragraph, or a paragraph end, visible to the reader as a close quote. A foreseeable issue is that multiparagraph quotes (e.g. a quote character at the beginning of paragraph no1 and at the end of paragraph no3) will be closed too soon. But that is better than the current situation where the quote isn't detected. The quote character at the end of paragraph no3 will have no effect.


 * Can we move this discussion to the FR: "No changes inside single straight quotes" below? Lightmouse (talk) 23:49, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

do not make changes to text in italics
What kind of change occurs? Do you mean typo fixing? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:56, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  08:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * thanks Hmains (talk) 03:11, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Rename template parameters
You can use our tools in a custom module to rename/remove template parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:02, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, but we could do that with template redirects as well... renamed template parameters fall into the same category as template redirects because they are both non-essential general fixes (or am I missing something?). So, it could be helpful to add renamed/deleted template parameters on the same basis as template redirects. SeveroTC 16:04, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * We now have AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters. Rjwilmsi  20:45, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Improve edit summary for "typos fixed"

 * done for en-wiki Wikimedia projects. Rjwilmsi  08:24, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Remove empty hidden comments
We have RemoveComments already. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * activates it. Removing empty comments seems to be controversial in some cases though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:57, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Allow editing and using summary from Edit Summary tab
After manual edits, automatic summary information from RegexTypoFix, Find and replace, user modules, etc. is wiped out. However, the original, full edit summary is still available in the Edit Summary tab. If users were able to edit this summary, they could annotate their manual changes, remove portions pertaining to undone changes, or use it as is.

(I have on occasion copied the summary from the tab to the Summary field and edited it there, but that's inconvenient, causes problems if I forget to switch my summary back to my default, and clogs up my list of summaries, as it gets added to the list automatically.)

This would definitely be a solution to my feature request Prevent edit summary mistakes above, and would also provide a very easy (although not automatic) solution to Smarter edit summaries. M AN d ARAX  • XAЯA b ИA M  23:01, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This excellent feature has been implemented, so this request may be archived. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:43, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

=Partially implemented=

Regex help

 * If we link to anything then it should be to Regular expression I think. Rjwilmsi  15:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * In the FaR one we link to both of those. — Ree dy  15:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * We also have AWB manual (needs a rewrite) and a wikibook. — Dispenser 18:14, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Alerts, click to find as with multiple links

 * The way we do it is to have the 'highlight errors' option available, and for that to highlight the errors in red in the edit box. Logic updated to handle dead links, ambiguous cite template dates (unbalanced brackets, invalid cite template parameters already included).  Rjwilmsi  16:54, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
 * On page List of doping cases in sport for instance AWB informs me in red writing that there are unbalanced brakcets somewhere but does not highlight them. Unbalanced brackets is one of the most common alerts. In that revision it says that dead links will be highlighted but they aren't on this list. Just the alert. Dead links can be found easily by going to the page but unbalanced brackets on such a long page would require reading half the page to find them. ~ R.T.G 01:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Under the Options menu do you have 'Highlight errors' enabled? Rjwilmsi  07:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Further work: on click on alerts box scroll to next alert after current position in edit box, else to first alert if no later one. Rjwilmsi  21:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Add &nbsp before "Hz" and other SI units

 * FixNonBreakingSpaces to cover Hz as well as GHz, kHz, MHz. Rjwilmsi  07:08, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

IW link sorting for custom projects

 * Provide some examples please. Rjwilmsi  14:27, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * uh?? AWB has an option to "Sort Interwiki links" that is apply with general fixes, based on this list. That i have been unable to trigger on a custom project. I ask and got answer that it only applies for certain projects/languages. still need examples? --Cizagna (talk) 19:38, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Updating my link as it has being archive --Cizagna (talk) 18:45, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Interwiki sorting varies from project to project. Every project would need its own page for something like that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:35, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Meta has the full list here, and I experience some issues with the Yiddish Wikipedia when it comes to the sorting of interwiki links. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 20:51, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * / add a couple more of the predefined ones into use — Ree dy  21:17, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Change Unreferenced to Refimprove if article contains references

 * Related request at . Also, please note that, for the sake of simplicity, my request is only for templates transcluded without any specified parameters (such as most navigation templates). –B LACK F ALCON  (T ALK ) 20:33, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Although having a parameter-changing feature would be good too... –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 20:36, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

To clarify, the existing category functionality does not allow category removal by using a blank 'with Category' field. Rjwilmsi 21:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Right now (v. 4903) AWB removes the "Template:" prefix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this is done with the new Template redirect page and logic. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * We also provide tools to replace/remove templates using custom module. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Database scanner - usability improvements

 * "Database" is probably wrong as well, since this can also scan an .XML file generated from Special:Export which is only "partial" database. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 19:28, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Use naming Database and "Database file". Rjwilmsi  09:13, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try to remember to look when I get it. Lightmouse (talk) 22:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I've looked at svn7155. The tab name 'Database' and field name 'Database file' looks good thanks. Any thoughts on the other comments (e.g. the 'About' button, and the three hypertext links)? Lightmouse (talk) 11:36, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

This FR can be closed, the remaining comments have been moved to a new request. See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests. Lightmouse (talk) 17:28, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

A couple more suggestions related to Persondata logic
My opinion on these. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:58, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) As you see, this would be a wrong entry in your case. You should have "Restrict DEFAULTSORT addition" disactivated when adding PERSONDATA. In future version of AWB the name field will be the PAGENAME if there is no DEFAULTSORT and the name contains no spaces.
 * 2) Why would I restrict defaultsort when adding persondata. Other than the fact that persondata derives data from DEFAULTSORT they are mutually exclusive templates. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) I wrote "disactivated". AWB must add DEFAULTSORT. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) On articles without DEFAULTSORT and without Persondata (e.g. Léon-Eugène Méhédin, when "Restrict DEFAULTSORT change/addition" is checked, no DEFAULTSORT is added, and Persondata is added with no value in the Name= parameter. When "Restrict DEFAULTSORT change/addition" is unchecked, DEFAULTSORT is added, and Persondata is added with the same value in the Name= parameter as in DEFAULTSORT.  Instead of populating Persondata Name based on the value in DEFAULTSORT, could the same logic that DEFAULTSORT uses to figure out the correct value also be used to figure out the correct Persondata Name?  GoingBatty (talk) 17:49, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Probably yes. But why duplicate the method? This will slow us down.
 * 6) I don't know what the best way to make it work would be, I just offered that as a possibility. In my opinion though AWB should add the defaultsort template before it adds the persondata. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) No idea.
 * 8) It could but I don't like the idea of adding an alert for something that obvious while scanning the article.
 * 9) I have 2 arguments for this. One is that most users dont care or do anything with persondata and in fact it isn't even visible to users unless they actively make it so. The second is that when I am using AWB I usually only scan the changes it makes or the alerts it presents. I don't read the whole article for context on every edit. I have to assume that most other users do it the same way. When making edits without AWB, I may or may not notice if the persondata has short description. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) Until now we used Alerts to give warning on errors we couldn't fix automatically. Adding an entry isn't exactly an error, it's an addition. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 11) This can be easily updated. The problem is with these "BirthPlace" and "DeathPlace" parameter names. I am trying to standarise the parameter names in all infoboxes in 2-3 variants. This will save us with similar problems in the future.
 * 12) I understand, thanks for standardizing those infoboxes. Theres a lot of redundant ones out there that needed to be cleaned up. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 13) Done in 7105. Check.
 * 14) Based on the description in 7105 Im not sure that was the question I asked. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 15) Check that birth_date uses Birth date and age and PERSONDATA doesn't. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 16) No, Kumioko is asking for existing persondata using the templates to be corrected. This is not yet implemented. Rjwilmsi  07:21, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 17) This will be done in a future version.
 * 18) Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 13:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to let you know that I came up with some regex that looks at the persondata and removed the Dates from templates like birth and death dates. I am working on some for city state template. I know that you are able to do it yourself but if you want it I would be glad to give it to you and save you some effort. --Kumioko (talk) 14:23, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is some regex to help get rid of the City-state template from within the persondata template:

This will replace the City-state template in the PLACE OF BIRTH field:

Find

Replace {{Persondata|$2|PLACE OF BIRTH = $3, $4

This will replace the City-state template in the PLACE OF DEATH field:

Find

Replace {{Persondata|$2|PLACE OF DEATH = $3, $4
 * {{awbsvn|7309}} PersonData to de-template {{tl|city-state}} in PLACE OF BIRTH and PLACE OF DEATH fields. You don't need to take your time to write your own regexes as I won't use them. Rjwilmsi  09:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks thats good to know. Do you use something else besides Regex or is there just a better way of coding it. If the latter is the case I would be interested to see what your version of the code looks like so I can learn. --Kumioko (talk) 12:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Better control of uncat tagging

 * If adding the tag is the only thing you want to do, then turning off genfixes should turn off the automatic adding of that tag. Also, I think it doesn't tag some of the articles automatically, because they contain templates – in that case, AWB doesn't know, whether the article is already in some categories, through the templates. Svick (talk) 14:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Tagger: when no cats from existing page by API call but genfixes adds people categories, don't tag uncat. I fail to see what more problems could occur since AWB uses API calls to check whether a pge is categorised or not. If a page with categories is tagged as ucategorised please report it in the bugs page. Do the same for pages with no categories which aren't tagged. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:09, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Comment on Template:Persondata deprecated

 * Don't add persondata comment when adding new persondata template. Rjwilmsi  19:15, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Removing a comment would not affect rendered page at all. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:11, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Expand Tagger to rename Improve categories when appending Uncategorized stub

 * Tagger: improve categories --> uncategorized if no real categories on page (stub assessment done later). Rjwilmsi  06:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

https support for custom sites
I have solved this together with adding support for HTTP AUTH protected wikis. Patch can be found here for trunk: User:John Ericson/AutoWikiBrowserHttpAuthAndSslToCustomProjects.patch. I would love to see this commited to trunk. --John Ericson (talk) 08:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

"use secure server" in the preference/site menue can not be selected in "custom" wikis; AWB should provide this feature for AWB users in "custom" wikis. --Wvk (talk) 06:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I've made some changes to further implement this properly. As WMF wikis now can be accessed via HTTPS simply, I've forced them over and swapped how we do the protcol choosing. Thanks for the patch, most of it was applied as is, some changes around the open in browser code, but that's possibly still broken. Reedy (talk) 21:16, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Support BASIC HTTP AUTH authorization for private custom wikis. If access is denied give user possibility to input user/pass. Patch included!

 * Hi, you don't seem to have svn add'ed the new Login.cs files... Could you do this, and then update the diff? Thanks! Reedy (talk) 19:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Reedy for noticing me of that! Now all the Login-files are included in the patch and I also cleaned it up some extra so it's smaller. You'll find it at the same place. --John Ericson (talk) 21:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The patch is now updated to trunk (revision 7941) as requested by Magioladitis. --John Ericson (talk) 23:38, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * And it's now applied, thanks! HTTPS support tweaked also.. Reedy (talk) 21:17, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Merge more templates into Multiple issues

 * cleanup-link rot. Rjwilmsi  15:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * When updating AWB to merge these templates into Multiple issues, could you please also ensure that they do not give "Unknown parameters in Multiple issues" alerts? Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:57, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Moved other parameters to bugs page GoingBatty (talk) 14:29, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Support to fix "Category:Articles using Infobox musical artist with deprecated parameters"

 * The first three would be easy. The 4th one would be harder because there are a lot of different variations of how that information is displayed in the inforbox. I have seen that data a dozen or more different ways. --Kumioko (talk) 19:46, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I've created AutoWikiBrowser/Rename template parameters that will allow 2 and 3 to be done. I'm not motivated to be sorting out the date and location splitting. Rjwilmsi  13:46, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

There is a script in User_talk:Magioladitis which helps deal with 50% of the current backlog. Feel free to use it. I use it every time I get enough internet access. More from September. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:59, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Category is now empty! Mission accomplished. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:48, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Remove "lang=en" from citation templates

 * FixCitationTemplates to remove en as well as English on en-wiki. Rjwilmsi  09:22, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * lang is already reported as an invalid parameter in alerts. I don't intend to do any more on this. Rjwilmsi  10:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I reverted my previous edit to confirm that when I load Western Union in AWB SVN 7660, lang is not reported as an invalid parameter. GoingBatty (talk) 00:13, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Order appendices

 * Related to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests. This logic could be expanded. Rjwilmsi  08:03, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Move the 'see also' section to be above the 'references' section, subject to the limitation that the 'see also' section can't be the last level-2 section. Rjwilmsi 17:33, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

In accordance with the MOS there is a certain order that sections should be in at the bottom of the articles and in many cases these sections are out of order. Two examples are that the see also section should be above Notes/Sources/References, Further reading and external links. Another example is that Further reading should be above External links. This request would add logic to AWB to reorder some of these sections. I previously submitted this request and in the case of the see also section it was, understandably added as an alert due to the complication of determining were it should go. Through research and experimentation (and the Regex help of another user for the first one) I have found that it is possible to capture at least some and move the section to its proper location. I have provided some code that could be used as a guide. I have tested this no about 20 or 30 articles in the Medal of Honor recipients category without errors but I also admit that it doesn’t capture 100% (usually for the bottom section that has stuff under it like {{Persondata, {{Defaultsort, [[Category:, templates and tables).

I have attempted to correct this case by using (.*)[[Category: to capture everything down to the first category (because presumably most articles will have a category) but I just haven’t figured it out yet. Maybe you will have better luck and if we can't do this case then thats fine but we can at least do some I think. Again the first one is done as an example of what has worked for me.

Find code: ==([ ]*)Notes[ ]*==(.*?)==[ ]*See also[ ]*==(.*?)==
 * Move See also section above notes section

Replace code: ==$1See also$1==$3==$1Notes$1==$2==


 * {{done-t}} Move See also above References
 * Move See also above Sources
 * Move See also above Further reading
 * Move See also above External links


 * Move Notes above External links
 * Move Notes above Further reading


 * Move References above External links
 * Move References above Further reading.


 * Move Further reading above External links


 * Move Sources above External links
 * Move Sources above Further reading--Kumioko (talk) 18:24, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is an example of one that I recently did that this worked on Thomas W. Hyde. --Kumioko (talk) 01:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Doesn't AWB already do this? McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 01:27, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not usually. I think there might be a couple of specific cases but not generally. --Kumioko (talk) 01:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Notes shouldn't always go after See also. For example, List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe has a notes section for footnotes from the tables. It wouldn't make sense to put the notes after the see also section.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  11:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If we don't intend to add more code to AWB to rearrange sections as mentioned above we can archive this one. --Kumioko (talk) 11:41, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Better handling for Dead end with section
We have to first clarify what does "wikify" really means and when dead end is supposed to be added. There is an active discussion in Wikiproject Wikify. Please add your idea there first. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Tagger: if not dead end page do not remove tags.  Rjwilmsi  11:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Double redirect fix functionality
This bug is partially dependent on 14869 —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  15:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Bug fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:44, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Move ArticleHistory under Talk header per WP:TPL
ensures that WPBs is under talk header even there is a blp on it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:02, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

A couple more suggestions for talk page fixes

 * Just for clarification of the above I have no preference as to where above and below as applicable but they should not be embedded in the wikibannershell or sandwiched between wikiproject banner templates. --Kumioko (talk) 17:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Removed 2 already done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:44, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, They might be bugs then rather than feature requests. I have SVN 7424 and I have seen several cases today where these did not work. The next time I get one I will post a link to the article. --Kumioko (talk) 19:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * diff (check and confirm you saw, then I'll delete it). -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:55, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Recall that talk page genfixes don't work in template talk space. They work only in article, book and category talk space. Moreover, per WP:TPL, Oldprod, Old AfD multi, etc. must go above projects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:00, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, by their descriptions it made more sense to put them below. You can remove those 2 if I get them again I will resubmit them as bugs with a proper diff. Cant seem to find another one at the moment. --Kumioko (talk) 20:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * In this edit AWB added the WikiProjectBannerShell template above the talk header and even when I try to reparse it doesn't move the talk header above WikiProjectBannerShell. --Kumioko (talk) 21:11, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried and in my case it doesn't add the WPBS at all in Talk:Test page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:32, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:41, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Succession table
This is more a bot task, isn't it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * SmackBot was doing a lot of this on the fly... i'll make a note Rich Farmbrough, 23:03, 5 October 2010 (UTC).


 * It might be more of a bot task, but it wouldn't hurt to incorporate it in AWB as well if possible. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Steps 1,2,4 and 5 are done with Template Redirects now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:15, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Step 4 is not done through template redirects as this isn't a redirect. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:30, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this one is done and can be archived but I'm not sure. --Kumioko (talk) 20:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Step 3 and 4 aren't done. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:27, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I think this Feature request was done also so it can be archived. We do these with the template redirects logic. --Kumioko (talk) 11:43, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I think this is done as much as it can be. I don't think we can do the #3 without contention so this can probably be archived now. Kumioko (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Fix excess whitespace

 * It would also require other tweaks as well. It could be separated into automatic changes that fix mistakes and far too much whitespace (it could be ticked as an option like Regex) and manual changes that don't really improve the article just remove spaces (like before bullets).  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  11:24, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Add wiktionary link to disambiguation window
I expected that in most cases wictionary doesn't have a similar entry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:58, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * What do you mean? In the case given, sometimes people link a word so that the definition can be understood, i.e. that an embossed surface is a raised surface, not necessarily embossing of a certain type (like the articles on the disambig page). Wizard191 (talk) 01:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I mean that at most times the foo.wiktionary would be a red link. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:04, 22 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Interwiki links never show up as red links, even if there isn't a target page. See ;lkj. Wizard191 (talk) 01:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

This is partially implemented. If wiktionary is in dab page. AWB will grab it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I grabs it, but adds "Wiktionary" to the variants, instead of wikt:word. If this feature is considered, I suggest that it be done smartly: if wiktionary was used, wikt:word is added to the variants instead of "Wiktionary". --Muhandes (talk) 08:58, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Only replace when something else is happening

 * Has been added by the minor find & replace enhancement. Rjwilmsi  17:06, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a more general request: Skip only if F&R is performed and nothing else happens (tagging, genfixes, etc.). Minor fixes works in the context of F&R. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Changes to category sorting
First part is done. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Was just the explicit request done – simply suppressing the addition of DEFAULTSORT when only casing is affected? If so, this request should be extended:
 * The sort key generated by AWB, such as the value given to %%key%%, should not change the case. For example, the sort key for LeRon McCoy should be McCoy, LeRon. The one generated by the latest SVN (7910) is Mccoy, Leron. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  19:04, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Why is that? Since defaultsort is case-insensitive now. Both versions are OK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:48, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, a DEFAULTSORT of "mCcOy, lErOn" would also be functionally equivalent, but we wouldn't want to use that. Things should not be done without a reason, and there's no longer any reason to change the case of sort keys which users are adding to DEFAULTSORT and listas. In the past, people would sometimes ask why the case was changed, thinking it was incorrect, and we could point them to the relevant guideline. Now all we could say is that it's an obsolete remnant from the Olden Days. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:09, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Improve efficiency of list algorithms

 * One of the developers just did about 10 or 12 changes in the last couple weeks that should fix a lot of this. I'm not 100% sure of course but I believe if you try the next SVN when its released you'll find a significant improvement. Kumioko (talk) 00:18, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a new snapshot available with major performance fixes to removal of duplicates, selection of all items/none in the list, removal of a selection of items from the list, list comparer operation. So, please try out the new snapshot and report any areas where list performance still seems problematic. Thanks Rjwilmsi  20:18, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

=Not implemented=

Stub
This helps save the stub-sorters time. (Yes Rich asking for a lcfirst template! You saw it here first.) Rich Farmbrough, 18:24, 27 October 2010 (UTC).


 * I got tired of this kind of FR either lcfirst or ucfirst. -- 18:43, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * We already add stub in lowercase, has not changed since rev 6600 or earlier. Rjwilmsi  20:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Remove links to example.com
I don't get what is the problem and why to do that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not being clear. It appears that there are templates/wizards for creating articles that contain things like  link title  that human editors are not removing.  See this edit for an example I've already fixed. GoingBatty (talk) 15:40, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I asked for a filter for that some time ago. I think we need a database scan first. AWB can't do that blindly. Maybe they are some occasions that this link is actually used. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:10, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The domain www.example.com is currently linked 200 times from articles on enwiki . Some of them are correct (Site map, iCalendar, Uniform Resource Locator and probably others), but most of them are not. I think that removing links to www.example.com only from the section External links should be safe (with the exception of Example.com). Svick (talk) 17:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree that care is needed, because there are many pages that use the text "example.com" correctly. It's the articles created by the Article Wizard with the formatting I specified above that need to be cleaned up.  I've cleaned up many of them manually, but I'll stop so further analysis can be done.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 18:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Marked as "no". Care is needed, so it can't be part of general fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:12, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Would you reconsider if I limit the request just to the one specific link above (which I've nowikied for clarification), which is found in the External Links section of articles created by the Article Wizard? I'm cleaning up a lot of these manually again.  There are plenty of good links to example.com on Wikipedia, but can you point to an article that has a link with exactly the format above that adds value to an article?  Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:52, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You could do this yourself with "Find & Replace"? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:28, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, that's what I did. Was hoping that I wouldn't need to have my Find & Replace always enabled.  GoingBatty (talk) 00:09, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Add logic to add Year of birth or death missing categories to articles without them

 * Over the last few months I've added logic in this area, but for the article you cite as an example there is no mention by category/tag/infobox as to whether the subject is living or dead, or when they may have died or been born. How would AWB know? Rjwilmsi  18:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Please, don´t. In most the the cases better approximations of the death can be done. For example 20th-cenruty deaths, etc. Right now, YOB missing is used a bit ubder control not helpting really find anf fix the information missing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:14, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I admit that adding the Year of birth or death missing cats arent the perfect solution but at least they will have a cat from which we can review. Having no birth or death cat, to me is even worse.

Succession templates out of place

 * Withdrew this one. After doing a bunch of these myself there is no way for AWB to tell if it belongs at the bottom or in the middle of the article.

remain in place when rejecting changes

 * Duplicate request. See . M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Suggestions for additional logic to talk page general fixes

 * 1) Very rare
 * 2) Very specialised. We need a bot for that
 * 3) Very specialised. We need a bot for that#
 * 4) Very specialised.
 * 5) Very specialised.
 * 6) Interesting but... we need to document this first.
 * 7) Our logic for alerts is to notify if article has a problem not just need improvement. We have categories for unassessed pages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:46, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Skip if talk is a redirect
Just enable "Skip if contains" and put "=redirect" then. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem with that is that I am already skipping if Contains United States. I will play with it some more later and see if I can get it to work. Maybe Ill try and do it as a module. --Kumioko (talk) 21:51, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that you should check the "regex" checkbox for the Skip if contains/doesn't contain section, and check for =redirect|United States. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:15, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

A talk page that has class=redirect isn't a redirect plus it may not be a talk page of a redirect because the tag may be outdated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:17, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Use Lifetime template to define if article is about a person
Lifetime has 0 transclusions and goes to most 10 during week because a bot replaces it with the categories. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * OK - missed the line in Lifetime template that says "Automatic bots regularly replace it with the expanded form" GoingBatty (talk) 16:03, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * So just wondering why dont we submit it for deletion then. Is there benefit to keeping this template around. --Kumioko (talk) 16:06, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Guess it would depend on how many instances the bot replaces each time it runs. If you choose to submit it for deletion, also submit BD.  GoingBatty (talk) 16:17, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I spent 2 years with TfD, RfD etc. with this template. Lifetime is very useful in adding categories but not good to sty since it hides categories, etc. So we decided to keep it and substitute it regularly. As I said Yobot substitutes 10-20 per week now since Lifetime isn't that popular anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:08, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetise categories

 * Please link to a discussion where this was agreed as wanted. Rjwilmsi  15:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There is none. I'm starting one now. Other than perhaps being seemingly pointless, there is no reason not to alphabetise them. I do not think it is completely pointless, however. It's easier to read through the categories when they are in alphabetical order. Most established pages have their categories in alphabetical order so clearly I'm not the only one. There is also a userbox dedicated to letting people know one prefers alphabetised categories.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  15:54, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The discussion would have to occur elsewhere. I'd guess there are also articles where categories are ordered by relevance. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 16:01, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That's true. Perhaps just an option to sort alphabetically then for pages that had category lists already in alphabetical order until something like HotCat messed it up.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  01:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that categories should be in some sort of order. For example, 'Television shows that premiered in 2006' and 'Television shows that were cancelled in 2008' should be in that order. 'Living people' should go somewhere near the end, because it's an unwieldy and blunt category. But yeah, we should discuss this somewhere else. - Richard Cavell (talk) 01:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization.  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  01:45, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Whether you agree that categories should be in priority or thematic or alphabetical order, when adding Category:xxxx births, AWB should add it before Category:xxxx deaths, which it doesn't do now (e.g. this edit) GoingBatty (talk) 04:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * When you say should, what WP policy are you refering to? Rjwilmsi  15:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize for my poor word choice. How about this: In my opinion, it appears to me that any category order that would be agreed upon in Wikipedia talk:Categorization would include placing Category:xxxx births before Category:xxxx deaths.  Would anyone see a benefit in sorting these in the opposite order?  If we reached consensus on these two category types, could AWB be changed to add births before deaths?  Better???  GoingBatty (talk) 22:45, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried in the past but they are many exceptions to form a solid policy on the matter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:48, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't add wikify if tagged with dead end
The documentation implies that both can be used. And a proposal to merge deadend to wikify was speedy closed in TfD recently. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Add Reflist instead of Empty section

 * In your example there are no s that require a reflist, so the change you suggest is incorrect for the page. We already add reflist when it's needed, so my answer is no. Rjwilmsi  12:53, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Change BLP templates for dead people
Potential problems:
 * Pages about multiple people
 * A section in the page refers to a living person. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:55, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Many articles will refer to living people. Are you suggesting that any page with an unreferenced reference to a living person requires a BLP maintenance tag?  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  08:46, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * No. I suggest we should not change BLP unsourced|section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:53, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think pages about multiple people should not have Category:xxxx deaths. If you want to exclude the section templates from my request, that would be fine.  GoingBatty (talk) 15:14, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Sometimes they have. Duos or twins for example. 1 dead and 1 alive. I have a list with exceptions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:29, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Minor improvement: Changes BLP unsourced|section to BLP unsourced section. -- Magioladitis (talk)

Marked as "no" due to many false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Remove |bot=yes from BLP unsourced
Request a bot to do it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * OK - requested here. GoingBatty (talk) 22:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh no, wholly not worth a botreq. Remove-on-the fly is what the doctor ordered. Rich Farmbrough, 00:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC).

I removed it from all instances. Maybe there are some leftovers but not many. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:40, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Image: -> File:

 * See Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 5. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 15:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Those arguments are rather weak. The reason for that is to ensure usability: You and I know that image has been renamed to file, but newbies don't, and it will then only be confusing when once they see it as an image and once as a file. Thus, changing this as a general fix that you do when you edit anyway would be good to ensure consistency and reduce confusion. --The Evil IP address (talk) 14:48, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other, just pointing out this was previously closed as WONTFIX. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 14:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It wasn't done due to a lack of consensus that it was desirable and useful. If the consensus has changed it can be done. Rjwilmsi  08:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, this feature is within the Pywikipedia cosmetic_changes.py, so I assume there is consensus for this change. --The Evil IP address (talk) 14:16, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * If it matters I do this when I do edits but only if there are other significant edits being done at the same time. --Kumioko (talk) 16:46, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * This can be taken off the list too. Doing this change would stir up a fight and we dont need that right now. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

misspellings inside Template:Episode list

 * I'm reluctant to add exclusions on a template-by-template basis. Rjwilmsi  13:45, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Moreover, episode names are likely to have misspellings on purpose. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:09, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand both concerns. I suppose that it's not a big concern on balance. It just seems so inefficient to be correcting errors one at a time, hitting "find" each time AWB passes. Typically the episode name is only in a clearly marked field of the template. --LilHelpa (talk) 20:54, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Delinking dates according to the new format

 * The problem is that articles should now be using a consistent date format (i.e. all the same in the article wherever possible) and the format matching the locale of the article (e.g. American dates for American articles) which requires a user decision. So I'm not sure how AWB could do this as a general fix. However, a plugin/option that prompted the user to decide the right date format for the article, then automatically apply it, would be great. Rjwilmsi  11:08, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

As you probably know, the monobook script is coded by me. It permits you to choose 'dmy' or 'mdy' during the edit of each article. If you want to know how to get it working, just ask me.

As you suggest, AWB is used for lists of articles without per article options. I do have AWB code that delinks without changing the format and anyone is welcome to use it. It is at User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion/delink full years. Just go to the AWB 'Tools' menu, select 'Make module' and paste the code in there (delete what is currently there). If you need more help, let me know. I happen to think that delinking even without reformatting is definitely worthwhile.

Furthermore, you can create a list of articles that are likely to be in one format (e.g. all articles about British, Irish, or Australian places are likely to need 'dmy' format), and you can use a 'reformat to dmy' script instead. This is at User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion/dmy and I can make a 'reformat to mdy' version on request. It would be great if we could find a generic AWB solution. So I am keen to read what others say. Lightmouse (talk) 11:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I have revived this feature request in accordance with the statement from Martinp23 as follows: Martinp23 has also revoked AWB access for Closedmouth on the same basis. I now understand that Martinp23 actually meant 'feature request' rather than 'bug'. I would be delighted if Martinp23's suggestion for AWB inclusion were possible. I offer the regex in User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion/dmy as a start. Lightmouse (talk) 15:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * "for the time being I have revoked your access to AWB. The reason for this move is that a number of extremely minor, inconsequential edits have originated from your account through the tool. This sort of change, which isn't really important in the grander scheme of the article, is best added to the "general fixes" part of AWB so that the "problem" can be fixed when more effectual bot tasks are run. Please file a bug against AWB to have the fix added to the general fixes".

There is not currently clear consensus in favour of mass/automated delinking of all dates. This feature request should be set pending until such consensus is reached. Rjwilmsi 11:32, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I am confused. Martinp23 said it was 'extremely minor, inconsequential' and is best added to general fixes. Was Martinp23 mistaken? Lightmouse (talk) 11:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that Martinp23's comments were inconsistent. Still, I don't think there's (yet) clear consensus for this. If and when there is clear consensus it could certainly become part of AWB's general fixes. Rjwilmsi  15:28, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I see that he has removed my AWB permission again just now. Lightmouse (talk) 16:08, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to say first that I have disareed with the delinking of dates from the beginning, but it did meet consensus as a change and was posted appropriately to WP:MOS. If anyone wants to vote to change that I would be delighted to join in but until it does get changed then it should be followed and any dates that fall into that policy should be delinked.  Furthermore it is my opinion that Martinp23 has exceeded his authority by revoking AWB access.  I recommend that the access be restored immediately and Martin be asked to follow proper procedures for revoking access in the future.--Kumioko (talk) 03:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

We are not in a position to implement this feature request until there is clear agreement in the community about how date linking is to be handled and all the outstanding discussion about it has been cleared up. Thanks Rjwilmsi  19:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Time to resume this? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Full-date unlinking bot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this has been overcome by events and should be archived. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Improve HumanCatKey: Icelandic names
User_talk:Mandarax. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, make that WT:WikiProject Iceland M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  21:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Marking as no. Defaultsort may apply as usual. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:50, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Fix interwikis in curly brackets
Rjw did a scan, there were a few matches, about 20 or so, and some false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:17, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

When AWB removes an expand tag from a stub, then in the edit summary, please explain why AWB did it
This would make edit summaries longer. At least for me it's obvious that all articles must be expanded, especially when they are stubs. I realise of course that there is a confusion on the subject. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

"removed expand tag (stub)" ?Rich Farmbrough, 10:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC).

Expand tag is dead. We can archive this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Don't count text in blockquotes when determining stubbiness
I think we have to stay in the safe side and keep counting text there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

General Fixes: Interwiki sorting
I'm fairly sure AWB already does this. I've seen it happen various times when AWB has decided to sort the interwiki links not by alphabetical order of the ISO codes but by some other order, which I can only assume is by alphabetical order of the names of the languages.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  10:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

The order of the interwikis is defined by meta.wikipedia. AWB just follows the rules set there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:45, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If any such non-ISO sorting occurs then I assume it's for the most common and well-known cases like Finnish/Soumi etc. but some minority languages as mentioned above are seemingly left out of this scheme, e.g see this revision. Do you know how to check the meta feature? De728631 (talk) 17:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * meta:Interwiki sorting order. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:21, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link. That is weird though because in the meta list for en.wiki the frr ISO code is definitely not somewhere among the other f's but behind nl, as it should be for own language sorting. So unless AWB permits some user interaction during editing I don't know how the above revision came about. De728631 (talk) 22:46, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * AWB does allow manual edits to be made, although why anyone would manually re-arrange interwiki links is beyond me.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  06:56, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * FYI, the template at the top of every AWB page has a link to the IW order used by AWB. GoingBatty (talk) 01:02, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If you try running Föhr through AWB again, you'll see that it wants to move the frr interwiki after the other f's - because that's what AutoWikiBrowser/IW is set to do. GoingBatty (talk) 01:06, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Aha, frr was simply missing in the AutoWikiBrowser/IW list. So I've updated it according to the Meta order. Should work now, thanks for the hints. De728631 (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Gen fixes request: Declutter convert template by removing settings that are default anyway
This is better done by bot. I withdraw this request. Lightmouse (talk) 13:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Some suggestions for additional functionality
-- Magioladitis (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Do you work with lists that contain both articles and talk pages? Why not separate them?
 * 2) It seems a plugin is needed for that.
 * 3) This would be usefull but the functionality of Portalbox is a bit weird at the moment. I would expect something like the WikiProject Banner Shell instead of having to add the name of the image used and the portal's name manually.
 * Ok thanks, why would the ship names be a plugin? --Kumioko (talk) 12:09, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the subject is too narrow. How many articles transclude the ship template and need maintance? (It's a real question. If you have an estimate please write it). -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:22, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not sure to be honest but it exceeds the 25000 limit of AWB. Not only do ships have it, people have it, battles have it, cities where the ships are based out of, the companies that make the ships have it, there all over the place. Here is a link to the template. There are basically 6 scenarios to link for this template Template:USS. I am not necessarily trying to capture every single possibility but I think that we can make a big improvement. --Kumioko (talk) 14:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The functionality mentioned here for combining portals has been done and the portal logic has been completely rewritten but the rest have not yet been done. If they cannot be done I recommend archiving this one but I left it and Ill let you decide to keep it or not. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Remove coord missing if coord exists
This is more a bot request. Found 2,569 pages. Fixing right away. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I informed Bot_requests. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:37, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. I guess we could add it as a general fix but some coordinates were coming from infoboxes which were transcluding coord. Does it worth to add it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing these. Maybe wait a month to see how many more problems crop up?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 00:41, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Add Infobox person
You have first to gain consensus for that. Possibly in the WP:VILLAGEPUMP? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Check WikiProject Composers for instance. It clearly says not to add infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Not going to be done unless there's a clear change in community policy. Rjwilmsi  09:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Article Creation

 * Have you looked at CSVLoader plugin for AWB? — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:11, 31 August 2011 (UTC)


 * It's exactly what I need. -- <font color="#BA0000">Σ <font color="#036">talk <sub style="margin-left:-3.2ex"><font color="#036">contribs  01:33, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

100 random pages list
I'd like to bring up this request again. I think it's no big deal to implement this feature. And it would really help people who occasionally like to run "Typo fixing" over 5,000 random pages (like I do). --bender235 (talk) 23:03, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Cannot currently be done: the MediaWiki API has a limit of 10 pages for users, 20 for bots (see API documentation). You would have to arrange an API change to get 100 random pages in one go. Rjwilmsi  10:23, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. Didn't know that. --bender235 (talk) 00:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Or have (100/number of results that user can get) requests to do that... Reedy (talk) 12:59, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * A workaround I use is to pick a Category (recursive) to make my list, and run in preparse mode to skip if no typos found. Each time you find a typo, do a Wiki and/or Google search to find all the articles with the same typo.  That should keep you going for quite a while.  Happy typo fixing!  GoingBatty (talk) 14:38, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Automaticlly remove missing files
I think this was rejected in the past. Bots finding deleted files used to comment them out. The reason is/was that this gives the chance for a recently deleted file to be reuploaded in a new version. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point in leaving articles messed up. I'm currently working on a 13k list of deleted/non-existent file links. Leaving an article with red links does not encourage what your trying to do. βcommand 22:50, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think these have to be done manually (not automatically). Redlinks are the main way of diagnosing erroneous deletions (like when commons deletes a file that needs to be uploaded locally). &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 23:05, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree with CBM. We already have the ability to remove or comment out a given file name, which means the AWB user has determined that the file has become a redlink for good reason. Doing this in bulk may not helpful. Rjwilmsi  12:17, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Replace Image: tags with File: by default

 * I agree and I have been doing this as well whenever I am there doing a more significant edit anyway. --Kumioko (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Not going to be implemented. It has been already discussed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Removal of superscripted ordinals
As far as I remember there could be false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:26, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

There is a bot doing it. There are false positives and it can't be implemented as general fix. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Fix redirects with incorrect syntax (CHECKWIKI error 36)

 * I have cleaned up the #redirect: cases a couple of times. : is deprecated but still works. I'll look at the "=" case. Rich Farmbrough, 22:29, 30 September 2010 (UTC).


 * #REDIRECT = 0 matches in database.
 * #REDIRECT= 0 matches in database.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 12:05, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Rare problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Option to selectively not ignore comments

 * Duplicate of Apply_the_four_generic_settings_individually. Rjwilmsi  09:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not really. Even if they were split that wouldn't accomplish want I'm talking about. I want the "Ignore comments" ON, but be able to edit them if a pattern matches the comment itself (by including &lt;!-- and/or --&gt;; which is safe to do since there's no other reason you would search for that syntax if you didn't want to match). I don't see how separating the options would help (although I would like that feature too). Or did you mean that that those four generic options could be applied individually to each search pattern, like multiline, singleline, case-sensitive, etc. can be? That would work although, but kinda be option overload and I prefer it figuring it out itself. Rocket000 (talk) 13:49, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

correct ph to pH
What about "pH value" instead of "pH level" in some (or all) cases? <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  00:59, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * To me, it seems more natural to say "a range of pH values" than "a range of pHs". <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  01:04, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I think this is best implemented as a new typo fixing rule. Rjwilmsi  07:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Provide checkbox options for module users

 * There is a three line example of using HideMore. If that's too hard you won't be able to write the rest of the custom module anyway. Rjwilmsi  07:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't that the example wasn't clear. It was just an extra convenience, particularly when some runs are needed with it on and others with it off. As you say, doing it manually isn't hard. Thanks for considering it anyway. Feel free to archive this request. Lightmouse (talk) 15:28, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Add a couple of Alerts for talk page problems
Better use tracking categories for that. For example: WikiProject USA with unknown class/importance. This is because some projects don't have C class, some others don't have importance, etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with it if the answer is no but I just want to clarify that categorization won't fix this. There are too many projects to make that a workable solution. Kumioko (talk) 20:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Reflist
Does this have consensus? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:17, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That would certainly need to have an explicit consensus before mass-converting them, Manual of Style (footnotes) does not favor one over the other. It's also more complex than described above: The &lt;references /&gt; tag may be enclosed in refbegin/refend, a list of non-inline references might be listed there as well. Amalthea  11:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The appearance of Reflist is different to and converting the latter to the former would create formatting problems in some articles.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  03:27, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Out-think session timeouts

 * In regards to session timeouts I am still having a lot of problems with AWB starting the 60 second clock on every edit and on every couple pages when I use the pre-parse mode. Do you think the 2 issues might be related?--Kumioko (talk) 20:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This seems a bit useless now? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Prevent edit summary mistakes
My usual edit summary in the main window is just a blank, with various actual summaries supplied by a module. I often perform additional manual edits before saving, and I change the edit summary, which would just end up being blank otherwise. The problem is that occasionally I'll forget to restore my default edit summary, and then my next few edits have or, worse,  summaries until I notice my oversight. When I'm not using a module, I also sometimes accidentally end up with an incorrect summary after similarly editing and changing summaries. This usually happens when saving is slow and I go off in another window while I'm waiting for the page to save, or I'll just get distracted by some shiny object, and when I return to AWB I absentmindedly neglect to restore the summary. I feel that an accurate edit summary is important, and this is just another way that AWB can help to prevent human errors. <FONT COLOR="green">M<SMALL>AN</SMALL>d<SMALL>ARAX</SMALL></FONT><FONT COLOR="6600FF"> • </FONT><FONT COLOR="999900"><SMALL>XAЯA</SMALL>b<SMALL>ИA</SMALL>M</FONT> 20:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I know just what you mean, but sometimes it is useful to have the edit summary carry over. I think that it would help a lot, if the edit summary had a different colour background (a light shade behind the text), if the edit summary was anything else but the default "clean up". Snowman (talk) 13:08, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I noted in my subsequent feature request that that would provide a better solution to this issue. That feature has been implemented, so I am withdrawing this one. Thanks!  M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  19:35, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Remove dateformat= parm from uses of template:cite web

 * Yes it can, but first please point me to a discussion where this has been agreed as wanted. Otherwise somebody else will complain later. Rjwilmsi  21:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not enough that "dateformat" isn't a parm for that template? There hasn't been such a discussion that I know of. Do you happen to know where the discussion(s) is/are for other parameters that currently get removed (so I can look at them for examples)? Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:53, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Just go to the talk page for Cite web and start one. Or at manual or style. --Kumioko (talk) 12:15, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * What is the status of this one? Was any discussion in Cite web talk page? -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:27, 21 August 2010 (UTC)


 * No, I ended up writing my own regexp to handle it. You can consider this request withdrawn. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:50, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This request was withdrawn. I think it should be archived. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Check typo scan page for updates
You don't have to restart AWB to get the new changes. Just press Ctrl+R or go to File -> Refresh status/typos. Autochecking once a while is costly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:53, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought so too but it doesn't seem to work. When I did that it didn't update the changes I had made to the Typos list. Kumioko (talk) 00:37, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That is mystifying. Doing "File -> Refresh status/typos" always does the trick for me. When you do that, does it say "3470 typos loaded", or something similar, on the status line at the bottom of the AWB screen? Make sure you have hit the 'Stop' button and that AWB has stopped before reloading typos. <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  00:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * A slight correction: stop AWB before hitting Ctrl+R. It does not have to be stopped to do "File -> Refresh status/typos". <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  01:01, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I think there must have been a lag in the system or something. It updated and gave me the number but didn't read some. I think its working now though. Maybe I was just doing something wrong. Sometimes I just get a case of the stupids and it overwhelms me. :-)Kumioko (talk) 01:21, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Move portal talk above WikiProject banners like we do with Talk header
Most probably it can be an one-off job (i.e. use WP:BOTREQ). 1,500 pages. Most probably the number of Portal is not increased very often. Moreover, we don't do portal space fixes and the general fix you suggest is not covered by WP:TPL. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ...but you are currently making an awful lot of edits like this one, where the headers were already in the right order. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:36, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I just stopped. In most cases Portal talk is in place. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:45, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I also think we don't need a banner for every subpage. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:49, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

I normalised most of the pages. Now it's really not worth to create a general fix for this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:26, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Option to enable/disable talk page fixes
You can disable talk page fixes by disabling genfixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:26, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Good to know, I didn't realize the talk page fixes were lumped into genfixes. I had thought it might be useful but now that I know that I can understand it wouldn't be as easy to do. --Kumioko (talk) 15:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * General fixes are customised based on the type of the page: Article, Talk page, Redirect. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:39, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Feature doesn't quite exist, there might be a situation where a worklist would contain both mainspace and talk pages, where one or the other type of general fix was desirable but not both. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 12:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * This isn't anything else than a general case, where in some articles we need to do genfixes and in some don't. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:36, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Deep customizability isn't something we should discourage, but indeed this probably isn't of high priority. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 13:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We need something like "Perform genfixes only when..." but exactly this isn't a priority atm. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Would the custom module for general fixes solve this issue? GoingBatty (talk) 17:02, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. Disable general fixes and use the custom module by adding an if condition for the case of mainspace. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)