Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 9

=Implemented=

Partial implementation of MOS:TIME

 * I came here to request this... there is very little standardization at the moment, and this seems perfect for genfix. Cheers, PhnomPencil (talk) 11:51, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

This change should only be for en and simple wikis. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:12, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Add non-breaking space to 12-hour clock times MOS:TIME. It works only for dotted lower-case a.m. or p.m. TO DO: Remove leading zero. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Add non-breaking space to 12-hour clock times MOS:TIME. It works only for dotted lower-case a.m. or p.m. It removes leading zero too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Link FA/GA in Turkish
Adds LinkFGAsTurkish. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Fix interwikis with duplicated double dots

 * Rjwilmsi 12:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Improve fixes for BORN

 * Seems more like a task then a coded feature of AWB. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 03:28, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Rjwilmsi  12:26, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Support for revised Multiple issues template
Added examples. GoingBatty (talk) 00:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Current multiple issues logic is:


 * (apply Template Redirects)
 * en wiki only
 * convert title case parameters within Multiple issues to lower case
 * remove any date field within Multiple issues if no 'expert=subject' field using it
 * get the zeroth section (text upto first heading)
 * look for tags in zeroth section ([Aa]bbreviations|[Aa]dvert|[Aa]utobiography|[Bb]iased|[Bb]lpdispute|BLPrefimprove|BLP IMDB refimprove|BLP ?sources|BLPunref(?:erenced)?|BLP ?unsourced|[Cc]itations missing|[Cc]itation ?style|[Cc]ite ?check|[Cc]leanup|[Cc]leanup-laundry|[Cc]leanup-link rot|[Cc]leanup-reorgani[sz]e|[Cc]leanup-spam|COI|[Cc]oi|[Cc]olloquial|[Cc]onfusing|[Cc]ontext|[Cc]ontradict|[Cc]opy ?edit|[Cc]riticisms|[Cc]riticism section|[Cc]rystal|[Dd]ead ?end|[Dd]isputed|[Dd]o-attempt|[Ee]ssay(?:\-like)?|[Ee]xample ?farm|[Ee]xpand|[Ee]xpert|[Ee]xpert-subject|[Ee]xternal links|[Ff]ancruft|[Ff]anpov|[Ff]ansite|[Ff]iction|[Gg]ame ?guide|[Gg]lobalize|[Gg]rammar|[Hh]istinfo|[Hh]oax|[Hh]owto|[Ii]nappropriate person|[Ii]n-universe|[Ii]ncomplete|[Ii]ntro(?: length|\-too(?:long|short))|[Ii]ntromissing|[Ii]ntrorewrite|[Cc]leanup-jargon|[Ll]aundry(?:lists)?|[Ll]ead (?:missing|rewrite|too long|too short)|[Ll]ike ?resume|(?:[Vv]ery ?l|[Ll])ong|[Mm]ore footnotes|[Nn]ews ?release|[Nn]o footnotes|[Nn]otab(?:le|ility)|[Oo]ne ?source|[Oo]riginal[ -][Rr]esearch|[Oo]rphan|[Oo]ut of date|[Oo]verly detailed|[Oo]ver-quotation|[Pp]eacock|[Pp]lot|N?POV|n?pov|[Pp]ov\-check|POV-check|[Pp]rimary ?sources|[Pp]rose(?:line)?|[Qq]uotefarm|[Rr]ecent(?:ism)?|[Rr]efimprove(?:BLP)?|[Rr]estructure|[Rr]eview|(?:[Cc]leanup\-r|[Rr])ewrite|[Ss]ections|[Ss]elf-published|[Ss]pam|[Ss]tory|[Ss]ynthesis|[Tt]echnical|[Ii]nappropriate tone|[Tt]one|[Tt]oo(?:short|long)|[Tt]ravel ?guide|[Tt]rivia|[Uu]nbalanced|[Uu]nencyclopedic|[Uu]nref(?:erenced(?:BLP)?|BLP)?|[Uu]nreliable sources|[Uu]pdate|[Ww]easel|[Ww]ikify)
 * if currently no Multiple issues and less than the min number of cleanup templates, do nothing
 * article issues with one issue -> single issue tag (e.g. multiple issues to cleanup etc.)
 * In the Multiple issues template rename unref to BLPunref for living person bio articles
 * only add tags to multiple issues if new tags + existing >= MinCleanupTagsToCombine
 * all fields except COI, OR, POV and ones with BLP should be lower case
 * tag renaming, various
 * if article currently has Multiple issues, add tags to it, otherwise insert multiple issues
 * (metadata sort)


 * What I propose the new logic to be is:


 * (apply Template Redirects)
 * en wiki only
 * get the zeroth section (text upto first heading), only apply changes in zeroth section:
 * look for maintenance templates
 * if currently no Multiple issues and less than the min number of maintenance templates, do nothing
 * multiple issues with one issue -> single issue tag (old style or new style multiple issues)
 * only add tags to multiple issues if new tags + existing (old style or new style tags) >= MinCleanupTagsToCombine
 * if currently has Multiple issues, add tags to it (new style only), otherwise insert multiple issues with tags. multiple issues with some old style tags would have new style added
 * (metadata sort)


 * Tasks for you GoingBatty:


 * Is the above new logic correct?
 * Provide a list of maintenance templates, just their name in a list one per line (don't make a regex or convert first letter case). This is going to be a fixed list at this time rather than read from a settings page.
 * Add any templates to template redirects as needed
 * Rjwilmsi 08:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Rjwilmsi! I agree with this approach, but have some questions about the new logic:
 * You mention changes that only take place in the zeroth section. However, Multiple issues can be used in sections.
 * Will other parts of general fixes take care of tag renaming within Multiple issues? (e.g. rename unref to BLPunref for living person bio articles)
 * I've started a temporary list of maintenance templates at User:GoingBatty/Multiple issues based on your list of tags above. Once I complete the list, I'll dewikify it and post it here. I've also made some updates to WP:AWB/TR. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * List below - GoingBatty (talk) 03:31, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Abbreviations Advert All plot Alumni Autobiography BLP IMDb refimprove BLP primary sources BLP sources BLP unsourced Buzzword Citation style Citations broken Cite check Cleanup Cleanup red links Cleanup-biography Cleanup-laundry Cleanup-link rot Cleanup-list Cleanup-reorganize Cleanup-rewrite Cleanup-school Cleanup-spam Cleanup-tense COI Colloquial Condense Confusing Context Contradict Contradict-other Copy edit Criticism section Crystal Dead end Disputed Editorial Essay Essay-like Example farm Expand article Expert-subject External links Fanpov Fiction Format footnotes Game guide Generalize Globalize Globalize/North America Globalize/US Historical information needed Hoax Howto Inadequate lead Inappropriate person Incoherent Incomplete In-universe Lead missing Lead rewrite Lead too long Lead too short Like resume Local Magazine Manual Medref Missing information More footnotes MOS MOSLOW Neologism News release No footnotes Non-free Notability NPOV language Obituary One source Original research Orphan Out of date Over coverage Over-quotation Overlinked Overly detailed Page numbers needed Peacock Plot POV POV-check Primary sources Prose Prune Recentism Refimprove Religious text primary Repetition Review Sections Self-published Story Synthesis Technical Third-party Tone Too few opinions Travel guide Trivia Unbalanced Undue Unreferenced Unreliable sources Update USgovtPOV Very long Video game cleanup Weasel Wikify


 * Current logic only looks at zeroth section. What would the rules be if later sections were to be assessed too? I'll split out the existing "rename unref to BLPunref for living person bio articles" logic to operate on the templates not MI parameters. Rjwilmsi  06:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Look for maintenance templates immediately after header and before text. Use Multiple issues with yes. There are additional maintenance templates that are only used in sections - I feel another list coming on, but not tonight. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:31, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * "rename unref to BLPunref for living person bio articles" is already done in Conversions, so this is covered. Please provide the list of section templates then we're ready. Rjwilmsi  12:54, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * For sections all of the above plus:

BLP sources section BLP unsourced section Cleanup section Confusing section Copy edit-section Criticism section Disputed-section Expand section Importance-section POV-section Refimprove section Rewrite section Unreferenced section Update section Wikify section

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If a tag is to be added to an existing multiple issues in the old format, is it OK to add the tag in the new format, or better not to add the tag in? A conversion of multiple issues old to new seems to difficult. Rjwilmsi  18:00, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It's better to merge the tag and have a mixed format (which is invisible to the reader) than to have unmerged templates. Thanks for asking! GoingBatty (talk) 01:26, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Right, the source of this is a custom module you can run using the latest SVN snapshot to test the new logic. I'd like you to test all of the features you asked for, so we can iron out any problems prior to me committing this in the source and switching genfixes over to the new logic. You should first run genfixes as normal on an article to force the template redirects to be loaded from the source page, then switch to the custom module (and no genfixes) to test the new multiple issues function. Rjwilmsi  19:07, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Great idea! I'll try this out over the weekend.  Thanks for your continued support!  GoingBatty (talk) 02:05, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Here's my testing results so far: * Bug: In this edit, the custom module added an extra pipe between two new templates, which caused the last template to be not visible. Try Ronald McDonald House Charities for another example * Bug: no longer removes the unneeded date parameter (try Keppel Corporation). Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed three bugs I reported regarding merging the Expert-subject template.
 * Merges one template inside an existing Multiple issues tag with the old format. (e.g. this edit)
 * Adds Multiple issues template correctly with the new format. (e.g. this edit)
 * Tagger adds wikify and orphan into Multiple issues in the old format (e.g. this edit and this edit). When adding wikify to Vividas, it adds a new Multiple issues template with all the parameters in the old format.
 * Sometimes it wants to add multiple blank lines after Multiple issues (try National Institute of Technology Karnataka) but other times it adds only one (try Nasal spray).
 * Bug: sometimes converts new format to old format (try Social Housing Services Corporation).
 * I have BattyBot now using the custom module to add multiple issues to pages that have either advert or notability but don't have multiple issues. GoingBatty (talk) 03:31, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Updated CM here to fix pipe and date problems. The tagger still calls the old multiple issues function, can't easily change this in a custom module, I'd have to send you a custom build snapshot to test that. Rjwilmsi  10:27, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Confirmed that the new custom module fixes the extra pipe and date removal issues. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 22:12, 2 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Bug: Did not merge cleanup into Multiple issues in this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 02:53, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * CM runs before tagger. If you'd reparsed it would have. Rjwilmsi  22:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Bug: Wants to change the refimprove date on List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom in Los Angeles. GoingBatty (talk) 15:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Tagger problem, fixed. Rjwilmsi  22:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Bug: Takes two parsings for some articles, such as Tom, Dick & Harry Creative. GoingBatty (talk) 16:43, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That's been deleted, need another example (where it's not a CM then tagger problem). Rjwilmsi  22:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe it was a CM then tagger problem, just like this edit to UM Global. Thanks for your continued work on this!  GoingBatty (talk) 03:58, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Bug: Added orphan even though orphan already existed - see this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 12:17, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Any update on how we should proceed? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * All committed, linked in to Tagger for you to test in the next snapshot. Rjwilmsi  14:57, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That's great news! I look forward to the next SVN snapshot so I can try it out.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 13:24, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikivoyage
We already do. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:13, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Needless addition of "Underlinked" after "Dead-end"
AWB is asking me to add Underlinked after Dead end. Until it was reported that the template is deprecated, AWB was adding to suitable articles. Now Underlinked is put in its place. All is fine except for the case where dead end is already present and makes use of redundant which was not the case earlier with wikify. Mr  T (Talk?)  [ (New thread?) ] 13:28, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Happy? Never. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:40, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Advanced "Skip"-ing

 * Have you tried doing this using Regex? For example, if you wanted to skip pages that were being considered for deletion, you could populate the text box with   and check the Regex box.  Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 17:01, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, damn I forgot. (For me it's ) -- Ankit Maity Talk Contribs  11:28, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Allow Copy with Ctrl-C in diff window

 * Rjwilmsi 11:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Individual edit summary

 * That would be very useful. Many AWB users are reduced to using only very brief desciptors such as "Clean Up". I can see some problems, but the best implementation might be to apply this only to the advanced settings and have the option of adding a user-specific description of an edit to a rule that will be used if one or more of its sub-rules are applied. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 12:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This feature is available when using a custom module – user can set edit summary to whatever they want. Rjwilmsi  09:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I would assume most AWB users lack the knowledge and/or time to create custom modules. This feature request is similar to . – xeno talk 12:55, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Users always need to be able to change the edit summary. Not being able to makes edit summaries inaccurate. I use TypoScan, and when it does something wrong, I can fix it in the text but not in the edit summary. I've filed this as a bug. ··gracefool&#9786; 17:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Edit summary can be changed by user. Rjwilmsi  11:18, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Alert: Gallery not correct end

 * Rjwilmsi 11:26, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

-stub

 * -stub will be inserted via context menu instead of stub. Rjwilmsi  11:33, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Change unreferenced/refimprove templates for living people
Already changes Unreferenced to BLP unsourced if article is in Category:Living people. GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 11:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Fixing "id=" entries in cite journal

 * Yes, I will do this, though care will be needed for when the id has multiple ISSN/ISBN etc. Rjwilmsi  12:30, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

We are already doing this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:15, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Don't replace underscores from certain wikilinks
Similar discussions: User:Vadmium/Tricky page names, Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_18, Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_25. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:32, 12 February 2013 (UTC)


 * This is the sort of thing that needs to be addressed to avoid either giving the impression that "bots are stupid" or having pages protected against AWB, in perpetuity, or both. Rich Farmbrough, 14:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC).


 * Done with Category:Articles with underscores in the title since this is what's already on the checkpage. Rjwilmsi  08:55, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Multiple issues parameters expert and update are now deprecated

 * Rjwilmsi 09:09, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Improve "Open text selection in browser"

 * Rjwilmsi 09:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Remove items from FixCitationTemplates that duplicate WP:AWB/RTP
does the third request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

does the first request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

does the second request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:24, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Ensure that magicwords are capitalized properly
Database scan gave me 35 results for but there were all already fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:36, 9 March 2011 (UTC) : 2 results. Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:49, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

New database scan gave only 3 results for and 1 result for. I fixed them all. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:23, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 18:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Move bold and italics markup away from wikilink

 * Rjwilmsi 18:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Expand Fix People life date ranges to also fix when full dates used

 * Rjwilmsi 17:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Expand WikiProjectBannerShell to include other capitalizations
It maybe even more complex... as there are WPfoo, WP foo and other assorted permutations. Magioladitis has an AWB module that renames the various permutations to the standard WikiProject foo, so WikiProjectBannerShell will be added. Bgwhite (talk) 05:36, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Does the original part of this feature request. Rjwilmsi  10:47, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * IMO, the project template should also be renamed to match the correct capitalisation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:36, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Bgwhite - While there are plenty of redirects of Wikiproject templates that start with "WP", I specifically didn't include that in my request for fear that a) AWB might try to put WPBS or WPB within a new WikiProjectBannerShell or b) there may exist some other talk page template that starts with "WP" that's not a WikiProject template.
 * Magioladitis - I'm going to steal borrow your module, which is much more expansive than the list I've been compiling. I agree that any WikiProject templates should use the proper capitalization, but the reason for my request is that there are some redirects that have alternate capitalization.
 * Rjwilmsi - Thanks for the code change! GoingBatty (talk) 21:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * FYI, today I came across WP India AaA. Since it's not a WikiProject template, I think it's a good thing that the genfixes do NOT try to add it inside WikiProjectBannerShell.  GoingBatty (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Database scanner - more usability improvements
Thus in the database scanner: Lightmouse (talk) 11:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Please delete 'See also WMF dumps Wikia dumps Generating Database dumps
 * Please delete the 'About' button
 * Please change the dialog title from 'Wiki Database Scanner' to 'Database scanner'

for the first two and for the last one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Use AWB with LDAP domain login
--Cybermandrake (talk) 12:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Support domain name when logging in
My company has a staff wiki that can be accessed by different branch offices around the world with their own separate user databases. Looking at api.php it says this for the login module: Parameters: lgname        - User Name lgpassword    - Password lgdomain      - Domain (optional) lgtoken       - Login token obtained in first request

AWB currently supports lgname and lgpassword, but does not support lgdomain.

Also version 5.3.0.0 of AWB doesn't seem to accept my custom wiki URL, which is like this: intranet.company.co.nz/ourwiki/ It truncates the "ourwiki/" part off and doesn't seem to work. 5.2.0.0 and 5.0.3.0 don't have this problem, but I still can't login with them either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.49.72.36 (talk) 04:46, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Add code skeleton for login domain. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Unwanted saving of Find & Replace changes

 * You can always not save your settings file. Rjwilmsi  08:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * True, but then I lose my place in whatever list of objects I have built and have partially worked on. Hmains (talk) 03:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I would like to second this request. More than once, I have tried to change the first F&R rule and accidentally clicked on a heading cell just above it, thus unintentionally sorting the rules into an unusable order. I then had two unpleasant choices: save the trashed list of rules after trying to restore order, or not save the settings file, scrapping all incremental rule changes that I have made and tested since I last saved the settings. I suggest dropping the "Done" button and adding "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons. This could also help to resolve another feature request, "On exit, check for changes to settings and query whether user wants to save the changes" (q.v.). Chris the speller yack  15:12, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I have several times had this same problem of accidentally sorting the list and been faced with the same invidious choice. An Undo facility for the sort might be another way to solve this problem. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:28, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

There is a request to "Cancel button for F&R box". -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:45, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Added a cancel button. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Expand FixLivingThingsRelatedDates
I found 1861 pages containing the string "(b.19" -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:41, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 10:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

I found 121 pages containing the string "(b.20" -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:08, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

I found 458 pages containing the string "(b.18" -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:14, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Move more maintenance templates above infobox

 * We already have the MoveMaintenanceTags function, doesn't this already do the job? Rjwilmsi  17:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately not - try Sperling's BestPlaces. GoingBatty (talk) 00:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Added Notability to MoveMaintenanceTags -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Selectively activate alerts
Code is basically added. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:29, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Added. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:15, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

=Partially implemented=

Request to change rules to add/remove Wikify tag

 * Now that the reason parameter has been implemented, I've created a bug report instead. GoingBatty (talk) 02:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Consensus changed. We now reflect the current consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Allow ListComparer to output only the common list
I now realise that this is partially implemented. Load a list and save it. Then load a second list and filter it with the first one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:13, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Was this done as well? The Common list has the same "save list" and "use list" options as the others now. Avic ennasis @ 11:00, 3 Elul 5771 / 11:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Remove some WP-specific things, at least for other wikis

 * It can be done fairly easily... If theres stuff you definately want disabling for non-WP, we can do that. — Ree dy  20:52, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Anything in particular, etc? — Ree dy  10:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Any more for any more? Or i will close this request at somepoint soon. — Ree dy  21:06, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I have just one - on Wikiquote, we use spacing, indentation, and line breaks that AWB is always wanting to get rid of. It should ignore those. bd2412  T 13:51, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

We do more for specific tasks nowadays. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:29, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Merge duplicate refs
This is already included in the AWB general fixes, but is restricted to articles that already use refnames. GoingBatty (talk) 02:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it could be useful for refs that dont. A ref name can be generated using the title of the ref, then the author if no title, and finally just cut the first 15 characters off the ref string if nothing else is available. Then merge it's duplicates. Just an idea and I think a useful one. I am editing an article right now, Edmund Ser, where the author used 65 refs and most of the are duplicates. It's going to take me awhile to merge them and copyedit.--v/r - TP 18:12, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It is enough to give just one of the references a name. Once an article contains a named reference, then the current AWB/bots will merge all the duplicates, adding additional names as required. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I didnt think of it that way. That'll work.--v/r - TP 21:46, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Should refs be merged? No, this is a bad idea. I do a lot of cleanup of misformed, incomplete, and/or incorrect citations, and it can be a real pain tracking down a bad citation when the ref containing it is buried somewhere else in an article. I would prefer a tool to split named refs.
 * If it is to be done, then extract a tag in the form of author-date, so it makes some sense. Indeed, it would be useful to have a tool that replaces all instances of a given tag with a more informative one. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 18:34, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Currencies and numbers
Would it be acceptable for point number three to be added to WP:AWB/T? GoingBatty (talk) 18:49, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. –Moondyne 23:13, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Number 3 to WP:AWB/T, also included HKD. GoingBatty (talk) 02:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Also added EUR, GBP, JPY, and NZD. GoingBatty (talk) 02:45, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * How likely is it that someone would write "GBP$" or use $ for any other non-dollar currency?  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  04:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not specifying that the rules I added were to fix EUR€, GBP₤, JPY¥, as well as NZD$. GoingBatty (talk) 04:43, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Does it also catch "AUD]]$" and "AUD]] $" and "AUD $"? I've seen them all. –Moondyne 05:15, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does. GoingBatty (talk) 04:59, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm - rethinking my typo rule after reading MOS:CURRENCY - will sleep on it. GoingBatty (talk) 05:10, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I have removed (at least temporarily) the rules, per this note. -- JHunterJ (talk) 18:41, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * New proposal - change the currencies from USD$ to US$, which is consistent with MOS:CURRENCY. Thoughts? GoingBatty (talk) 22:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That looks better. Note that the examples at MOS:CURRENCY have no space between the dollar sign and the number, so your rule should be removing any stray spaces, not adding a non-breaking space. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:38, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'll give it a little thought, and then post a proposal on Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. GoingBatty (talk) 23:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

It would be great if the units in point number two could be added to FixNonBreakingSpaces, regardless of whether or not there is a currency symbol in front of the number. GoingBatty (talk) 05:10, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

This is partially done by typo fixing and the solution should be completed there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:49, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Regex checker

 * Using regex to check regex? :P — Ree dy  21:58, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe just use http://regexpal.com/ ? It highligths syntax and errors. Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 10:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the request is to have something internal to AWB... — Ree dy  10:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I know, and I suggested to use external service, I think that AWB is a wiki editor, not a regex checker. Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 11:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Was this implemented, since we now have a Regex tester under tools? Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis @ 10:56, 3 Elul 5771 / 10:56, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Editors can now check whether their regex catches things. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Unicode control characters

 * No reason the AWB Unicode converter list cant be updated to do these too —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  16:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool. Thanks. -- User:Docu
 * Just specifically you're regex? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * These are four I had found back then. As they are never used in wikitext, I suppose we could always remove them. If there are any others, I suppose we could add these too. -- User:Docu
 * Per User talk:D6, can you ensure that no-width spaces (U+200B, it seems) are not automatically removed? They do have a purpose (as workarounds to various problems).--Kotniski (talk) 09:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That should have been fixed under some six weeks ago, but versions in the 4.5.2 series are still enabled and have this bug. Perhaps the user should update their AWB version.  Rjwilmsi  10:51, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit confused now - this is marked as a new feature request, not yet enacted, so how can there be any effect from a bug in it? The problem I reported was with a bot running under the Check Wikipedia project, which as far as I know isn't the same as AWB (or is it? I don't really know what's going on here.)--Kotniski (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This feature request has not been actioned, but there was a separate bug report over zero width spaces which was fixed under some six weeks ago such that AWB (the tool used to make the edit in question) now won't change zero width spaces. It could be that D6 was using their own logic, so the bug fix isn't actually relevant.  Rjwilmsi  12:34, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * D6 is not using AWB. There is an AWB user that inserts them (possibly through some custom search and replace). I asked him for full details on this. -- User:Docu

I confirm that Unicode control characters are not removed in bot mode. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

This is CHECKWIKI error 16 and of great importance. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Regex replace \u200E|\uFEFF|\u200B with nothing. It does work in manual mode but not in bot mode! -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:32, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Aha. I found why. "Skip if no changes are made" skips the page because our check ignore control characters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:40, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Some unicode characters are removed. I also removed all instances of invisible unicode characters in enwiki using F&R rules. Many invisible characters are related to interwikis that have these characters in pagetitle. I fixed those too by renaming pages in various wiki projects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:32, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Don't remove trailing parentherical elements of DEFAULTSORT, indeed do add them
Explanation: while trailing parentheticals are often, indeed usually, WP disambiguators it is not always so. For example Old-Age Insurance (Industry, etc.) Convention, 1933 (shelved), 2nd (South East) Brigade (2nd Infantry Brigade), Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) , (((GRRRLS))) and (I'm So) Happy Happy (You're Mine). Moreover if they are disambiguators, then in the event that we need to choose a sort order, that is a reasonable way to do it (the only other option is likely to be category add order: we could get clever with birth dates for people etc, but "that way madness lies").
 * Jason Smith (ice hockey)
 * Jason Smith (actor)
 * Jason Smith (baseball)
 * Jason Smith (rugby league)
 * Jason Smith (sports radio personality)
 * Jason Smith (snowboarder)
 * Jason Smith (Australian basketball)
 * Jason Smith (American basketball)
 * Jason Smith (soccer)
 * Jason Smith (American football)
 * Jason Smith (curler)

Is the sort of thing we would get now. (This is a mix of bug and feature request, so I put it here). Rich Farmbrough, 09:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Parenthetical terms are only removed where AWB considers the article to be about a person. This was inline with WP:COP until you changed the wording in July. Where was the discussion about your change? Rjwilmsi  09:33, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Until now the common practice was to remove disambiguators. AFAI, if the listas entry is the same the sorting will be done by the pagename, so no randomness occurs-- Magioladitis (talk) 10:28, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately that is not so. The list above is not made up. I believe that the entries retain their sort order as if they had no key, which I believe is the order they were added to the category. Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 6 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Ah that explains it. It was wrong so I fixed it. No one objected. Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 6 September 2009 (UTC).

We now follow the current Manual of Style. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Remove empty incorrectly formatted categories
I just performed a database run (January 2013 dump). No results. It seems to be a very rare case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

We fix -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:50, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I just performed a new database run (April 2013 dump). No results. It seems to be a very rare case. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Mono Support
We *try to* support Mono. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Ability to protect articles/review history for Wikinews archiving procedure
The history is implemented in the next version. — M ETS 501 (talk) 20:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * As is the move functionality, but it's unfinished and untested as of now. It'll most likely be in the next version. — M ETS 501 (talk) 16:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Without checking the code, does grabbing the history result in extra calls to the server? If it does, shouldn't it be turned off by default? --kingboyk 16:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * From just fiddling now, it only loads the history if the history tab is activated. Which is fine. Reedy Boy 13:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to add a reminder about the protect; this is full protection. Once we archive an article only administrators can edit, and should only do so with some consensus or review. --Brianmc 12:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * AWB has a history tab and protection button, so is this feature request completed? —Dispenser (talk) 04:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * History is there and working. I think work moves fine.. I dont think protect does.. Or doesnt completely... We really need to go through and update some of these requests! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  11:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * No, doesnt actually do the protect! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  16:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Skenmy has poked me about ressurecting this. Partial implementation has been added for the auto protect, but we've encountered an issue. So it is disabled for 4.2.0.0/4.2.0.1, pending a fix —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Reedy  Boy  19:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * What about adding the cascade option, that is not present in the latest version. --Charitwo talk 19:44, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * None of the protection is currently enabled.. But yeah, would be able to... I think we're still experiencing the same issues as before, but i havent actually looked at it! —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Not enabled here, but on other projects it works. --Charitwo talk 12:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Was meaning the AWB protection feature. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  12:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup, works fine for me, I can make a list of pages and assign no changes, and I can choose to either ignore, protect/unprotect, or delete an article, just no option for cascading. --Charitwo talk 18:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Ignore me. I was getting confused as i was thinking of the watch option... But there is the above.. A job i will complete when i've some more free time.. But its gonna be hard to do as i dont have admin anywhere else than here.. Hmm —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

22:38, 11 June 2008 Reedy (Talk | contribs | block) changed protection level for "Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sandbox" ‎ ([edit=sysop:move=sysop] [cascading]) (Change) Cascading Protection Added - (Just the auto protect... Not that i can remember about that) —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree  dy  21:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

AWB can protect pages and open history in browser. The rest can be done by a bot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:50, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Give notification of the file being saved when saving settings and overwriting another saved file

 * There should be... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * File --> Save asks you, as does Save as. Save as default doesn't... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * After using several settings in one session it is useful to have a memo of which settings are currently in use at the time the settings are saved. The default file is the one in current use, so this can change. After using several settings there is currently no memo of the file name when it is saved. I think it should always be clear what file is being overwritten. Snowman (talk) 22:48, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Save as will show you in the window. Save will save the currently loaded file (displayed in the program header). Default, well, saves to the default file.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * File menu then "Save settings as" just says "Replace existing file?" in a pop-up box. A memo would also be useful when using more than one version of AWB at the same time, or when saving some regexes at different stages of writing them. Snowman (talk) 22:55, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The filename is written on the header of the edit box. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The file name appears at the top of the edit box only after the file is saved, and then it disappears on starting using AWB abain. Surly it would be more user friendly if the file name appeared in the pop-up box. Snowman (talk) 11:10, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I see it on the top of the pop-up menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * If you have a deep directory structure you do not actually see the file name, but you see part of the path to the file (and perhaps only part of the file name). You might only see part of "C:\Users\long name here for the name of a directory\Documents\settings file.xml." I also had quite a descriptive long file name of the settings file. I launched AWB set-up files from the directory to which it was downloaded and this is the default file arrangement on my system. Snowman (talk) 12:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

We provide Save and Save as. Fixing the filename display is another issue. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:06, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

=Not implemented=

Passed away
It would be really great if AWB included a phrase converting all instances of sadly / tragically passed away / died to "died". So unencyclopedic. There seems to be a school of thought that believes sadly or tragically goes with such words in order to make "good writing". I have tried but failed. Kittybrewster <font color="0000FF">&#9742;  11:11, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * And of course the 2000+ instances of "untimely death" should be changed to simply "death" as well (apart from those cases where it is in a quote). Of course, in a sentence like "His untimely death is an irreparable loss to the nation and the mathematical community in Pakistan." (here), removing one word isn't sufficient to make things WP:NPOV. Fram (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Things like that are difficult to remove, even though we must do so, because it's probably perfectly true and probably written by someone close to him who feels a great loss. I recommend that as people do remove such things, the most respectful possible language and explanations are given, both in the edit summary and on the talk page. It's not good if such things are removed with "revert promotional fluff" or whatever people might be tempted to say.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 14:03, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * New rules could be added to the typos page to catch these phrases, though there isn't support for a specific edit summary. Rjwilmsi  22:08, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Not a good task for general fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Fix section headers
This seems to be a little unsafe. I'll make a list and check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

386 pages that contain References. Please check for false positives. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Too many false positives unless you think of something. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking. A looked at a few articles and agree.  GoingBatty (talk) 01:43, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Plural redirects

 * AWB already does this. Can you give an example where its not occurring? Also what version are you using> It could be the version you have. --Kumioko (talk) 17:42, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Does it? How? Rjwilmsi  21:38, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe not but if he's using a version from 6 months ago that could be an issue I would think. --Kumioko (talk) 23:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Admins already have the option to bypass all redirects on a page. This request is to do it automatically in certain circumstances. However, I'm unconvinced about the feasibility of this request since it would require an API call for each wikilink ending in s, which would not be performant for a general fix. Rjwilmsi  08:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Well... if not an API call, maybe build a database of such redirects from the data dumps? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:39, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Marked as "no". It costs a lot. There is a WikiProject to fix red links and in fact the redlink should bluelinked by creating it instead of bypassing the problem like this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:21, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Make the "Highlight errors" option default to enabled

 * I fear if we did other users would complain about it being annoying. Rjwilmsi  09:32, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I do like this option, but the part that might be most startling to unprepared users is switching the display from Edit Summary (at least that's what I'm usually monitoring) to Edit box if any alert is issued. <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  03:44, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Correction to my previous statement: it causes a switch from Edit summary to Edit box on every page when ready to save, whether alerts are issued or not. That's getting very annoying. <font color="#C30">Chris <font color="#060">the speller <font color="#900">yack  04:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Everything is in the manual. No need to touch the settings. Highlight errors is a good feature which however slows down processing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:58, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Provide a reason parameter when tagging an article with Wikify

 * Please discuss & agree on the template talk page, then we'll do it. In particular cover whether the use of small tags is within usability guidelines. Thanks Rjwilmsi  09:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * This is intended primarily as a tool for editors at WikiProject Wikify. It has been discussed on the project talk page and on the talk page of various coordinators. Its primary purpose will be to easily find articles that people tag incorrectly with AWB because it will add it to Category:Articles that need to be wikified with reasons given. I don't see the necessity in starting another discussion for this since it is uncontroversial. Ryan Vesey Review me!  11:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikify is now deprecated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:18, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Finland proper vs Southwest Finland

 * This is the wrong page for a request like this, since you are asking for someone to use the software for you, not for anyone to change the software itself. You could try posting at AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks instead, but you will need to post a link to a discussion somewhere to show that several editors agree with the change. If there hasn't been a discussion yet, then Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Finland would be a good place to begin one. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Capitalise namespaces
12,000 pages with lowercase image. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:27, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

200 pages with indented lowercase category. In some cases they should have been replaced with commons category. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:48, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

3,000 pages with lowercase file. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I capitalised almost all lowercase file but there is a lot of editors who think this is completely cosmetic so I think it's better we don't add it in AWB's general fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:34, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Only 144 pages with indented lowercase category. I fixed 80 of them. This task doesn't seem thrilling neither. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Don't do this. I have a feature request: Leave namespaces alone. Quale (talk) 03:09, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Marked as "no". Purely cosmetic. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:27, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Better handling of deadurl= parameter in cite web

 * What version of AWB are you using. I think they already fixed that. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm using 5.0.3.0 - thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Whats the SVN? The last SVN release was 7159. If you download that one AWB will move Deadurl out and place it after the reference. --Kumioko (talk) 02:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I'm on SVN 6660 - was awaiting the official release before downloading the new version. I checked Archive 7 before posting this request, and didn't see this change there.
 * However, I'm looking at HMS Royal Oak (08) (specifially reference #29 "Erwin Schulhoff") and rethinking this request. Since the  parameter provides a good link on the article page, I'm inclined to say that AWB should just remove the   parameter. However, if the   parameter is blank or missing, only then AWB should add the Dead link template to encourage users to find a different source or a proper archive URL. Thoughts? GoingBatty (talk) 04:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Cite web now supports, as do all of the  templates. --—  Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Then, this task is obsolete now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

New alert: External link with no description
Search for \[ string_with_no_space \]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Error is now disactivated. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:14, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

R to section

 * Not always a redirect to section, it could be a redirect to anchor where r to anchor would be appropriate. --  Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Preserve article after reconnect

 * I think this is already possible. If you right-click in the text box you may be able to select "Replace text with last edit", the last-but-one option on the popup menu. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No, that's not what I'm saying. Please read it carefully. Just happened again, translated Charles Miller, which takes a while, then press start and the AWB has to reconnect, then entirely swipes the page blank. Can start all over again. Grashoofd (talk) 09:23, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * If the "Save" fails and the edit box ends up blank, what happens if you then right-click in the edit box? Is there an option "Replace text with last edit"? Is it enabled? -- John of Reading (talk) 10:09, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that this is a duplicate of my feature request above from three years ago, which I had updated with the same solution as that given by John of Reading.  M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  10:28, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That should work! Thanks guys, you've been a great help, this can be archived now. :) - Grashoofd (talk) 13:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Some changes to cleanup Web citations (part 2)
This seems reasonable. Any example articles? Rjwilmsi 16:59, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Alt Text

 * If you still want this I'll need an example diff of each change you want AWB to be able to make. Thanks Rjwilmsi  12:55, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Example: |alt=Photo of [Marilyn Monroe → |alt=Photo of Marilyn Monroe

Combine multiple common categories

 * An example of how is done?
 * No problem thanks for the quick reply. Using the article I mention above; Here is what the article looks like with multiple cats and here is what it looks like with the multiple common categories combined into a single commons cat multi template. --Kumioko (talk) 17:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Next time just give the diff :P -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:44, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think, additionally to this FR, you have to make a bot request in WP:BOTREQ? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I can do that, but why would this be a bot request over just an AWB logic edit? I ask this question mostly for my own knowledge so in the future I can distinguish the difference between edits that are more appropriately done as a bot request and an AWB logic change. --Kumioko (talk) 17:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Usually if we have an amount of a lot of articles have a problem: We reduce it by using a bot and we use AWB to keep it low. The best is a combination of bot and AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:44, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok makes sense thanks, question, is there a way to find out how many articles has more than one? I have found and fixed about 20 or 30 in the last month as I made other edits but I have no idea how many there are out there. It may be a fairly small problem already. --Kumioko (talk) 19:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Svick or Rjwilmsi can help by making a database scan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:56, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Should I request it on their talk page or is there a WP page were I need to request that? --Kumioko (talk) 00:39, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Talk page would be fine. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:47, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Or if you're lucky, one of them is watching this page :-) I have found 1078 such pages in the latest database dump (from March), listed at http://ponderka.wz.cz/wikipedia/multiple%20commons%20cats.txt. The list includes some false positives, like Template:Scoutlogoheader/sandbox. Svick (talk) 16:01, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate you taking a look at that for me. One of these days ill have to get someone to show me how to do that myself. After doing some research into the various different templates for Commons, linking to other wikis such as wictionary and Sister projects there seems to be quite a confusing and redundant network of templates. If you take a look at Magioladitis's talk page you'll get an idea of what we have been talking about. That sounds like a fairly small number at least. --Kumioko (talk) 16:07, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Delete or add name field from certain templates
IMO, the best solution would be to request for a bot task, to do this for a bunch of templates. Depending on the number of changes, we could discuss to add it in the genfixes or not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:52, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way, maybe is time for you to ask to have your own AWB bot? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:53, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I thought about that and even went to the effort of establishing a Kumbot account but most of the tasks that I would likely perform can be done with other existing bots. Not sure there is much benefit gained by creating another sole purpose bot. --Kumioko (talk) 01:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Delete duplicate reflists
{{AWB feature | status = new | description = Add logic to eliminate duplicate Reflists. Im not sure how common this is but I have found several articles in the last few days with multiple reflists. In this edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rondo_Hatton&action=historysubmit&diff=391079516&oldid=388019690} AWB converted refs to reflist thereby giving the article 2 reflists. I recommend adding logic to AWB to delete multiple unparametered reflists. If the reflists have parameters such as 2 though they should not be removed. --Kumioko (talk) 16:36, 16 October 2010 (UTC) | fix_version = }}


 * Is that really a good idea? The presumption is that multiple reflists is an error, but I can think of uses for that. Perhaps it would be better to simply raise a flag alerting the article's editors in case it is inadvertence, but not to presume to "fix" what might not be broken? - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have a counterexample? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The only way you can have muliple "reflists" with different purposes is if you specify different groups (for example group=N). Other than that the reflist will just duplicate the references. A good example of this is on the Smedley Butler article. One reflist has group=n for notes and the other is just a reflist (although it does break the section into columns). --Kumioko (talk) 22:04, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, you're right, multiple uses gets duplication. (I was doing something slightly different.) As to potential uses, I can think of one, but doubt if it should be encouraged. I am still leery of automatic "fixes" (e.g., how is it determined which instance should be deleted?), and generally prefer admonition than execution. But I defer to you all's capable judgement. - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:37, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Allow Find and Replace settings order to be manually determined
I presumed that the processing order was top to bottom, which a user could change by moving rows up and down. If that's not true, what is the processing order? If that is true, when would top to bottom not meet your requirements? GoingBatty (talk) 01:10, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Im not completely sure but I think it does Normal settings first, then Advnaced settings and I believe it goes from top to bottom. The problem is if you sort the list (and mine is several hundred edits long) it can take a long time to put them back in a certain order. The only way I know of to make sure they process in a certain order is to build a custom module. Which is difficult. --Kumioko (talk) 01:21, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to an accidental sort (in which case a Cancel button would be nice) or an intentional sort? GoingBatty (talk) 01:42, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I just tried putting a two digit number in the Comments column, sorting on Find (which messed up my order), and then sorting on Comments (which restored my order). Would this work for you?
 * It could I guess, but I also use the comments to determine the type of edit (ie grammer, punctuation, typos) and some other things like if its an edit with a date I need to change. I could put the number in the beginning I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion thats a good Idea ill have to try. -Kumioko (talk) 02:32, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Allow users to modify the source location of the Find and Replace code
For the first problem, just make the page something like User:Foobar/AWB.js - this would only allow you and admins to edit that page, should stop any possible vandalism. <sup style="color:red;">Avic <sub style="color:blue;">ennasis @ 11:16, 3 Elul 5771 / 11:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Add functionality for exception lists in find and replace

 * Could you use the Filter with regular expressions in the Remove titles containing field? GoingBatty (talk) 16:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have tried to do this without success and it might be possible for someone with better programming ability but even then it could be quite difficult. Essentially you have to put some thing like [(article1|article2|etc)] with the articles that you want to exclude. For me thats about 100 at present and it grows by a few a week. --Kumioko (talk) 16:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Submit Usage Stats asynchronously

 * I think this was done a while ago. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

A couple more possible changes

 * For number 1, theres a menu option to focus at end. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  18:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response and sorry I guess using the end was a bad example. I frequently get edits that are at various points in the article and have to click on the edit box or scroll down to get to it. It would be much easier from an editors point of viwe anyway of AWB did that automatically. --Kumioko (talk) 19:26, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Any ideas about if this might be possible? --Kumioko (talk) 13:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * For 2 you can already copy from the diff area by selecting text, right clicking and using the copy option, so that feature exists. For 1 I'm not clear what you mean by a "recommended" change, though yes, we could provide an option to focus the edit box on the line with the first non-whitespace change (ignoring the source of the change). For 3 it's theoretically possible but I think it would be hard to do – I would be disinclined to spend my time on it, as I think other features would be more beneficial to Wikipedia. Rjwilmsi  14:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks again, For 2, I tried to copy it and it didn't work. It might just because I am still using IE. For 3 I understand and for 1 thats exactly it. --Kumioko (talk) 14:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note that trying to copy with Ctrl-c doesn't work, but right click/Copy does. However, if pasting into the edit box, the pasted text displays in a different font (which I reported right after the change to the rich text box) and, more importantly, a new line is always inserted after the pasted text. M AN d ARAX <font color="6600FF"> •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this one can be archived too. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I second proposal #1. It would be a great help. And what would be even better is the possibility to focus the cursur to any user-defined place in the article (as to be found by a regex search). I frequently want to check and (humanly) modify certain templates. It's a nuisance to have to scroll to the line in question in every article. If the template is usually at the beginning or end, that's no problem, but often it's somewhere in between (like in a "Literature" section). --FA2010 (talk) 12:14, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Add a tab and logic to AWB to view the talk page

 * This is another one I'd been rolling around in my head. The logic should be usable in the "if contains" and "if not contains" advanced find and replace regex. I.e.


 * if (article page contains) -stub}} then replace class= with class=stub


 * That would be keen. –<b style="font-family:verdana; color:black;">xeno</b><sup style="color:black;">talk 19:18, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Any ideas about if this might be possible? --Kumioko (talk) 13:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Certainly possible to add a preview of the talk page as a separate tab (though not sure I could do it myself). Rjwilmsi  14:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response. --Kumioko (talk) 14:41, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk page enhancements

 * 1) Not many with low-case letters. Just perform a database scan and fix them if needed.
 * 2) Unnecessary and KingbotK places them at the bottom.
 * 3) We already do
 * 4) Minor.
 * 5) How many are there? Now I see how there were introduced. Wikisearch gave me only 12 results though and I fixed them all.
 * 6) We would like to.
 * 7) We already do. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:44, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response. I have seen cases were 4 and 8 aren't done but the next time I see one I will let you know. I admit I did do a couple of those but I thought I fixed all the ones I did. I will fix those you identified. --Kumioko (talk) 17:04, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * 1. There are probably thousands of redirects with "redirect" in lower-case. I would like AWB to correct instances of this in every namespace.
 * 5. Minor edits are still useful if done with more important edits.
 *  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  06:09, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a note on #3, I realize that KingbotK did this but I didn't like it then either. What I have seen happening is that some people add it again at the top and the article ends up with 2 of them. On the question about #2. Categories should not have the #REDIRECT. It should use the template. I can't remember where this is documented but I will try and locate it. --Kumioko (talk) 14:09, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes but I think it's impossible to find a category redirect that needs fixing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:26, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I admit I don't know exactly how many there are but I recently changed several relating to WikiProject United States. Plus I admit that few users edit categories. I can just use the regex I have and do it that way as I run across them. --Kumioko (talk) 14:32, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I admit I don't know exactly how many there are but I recently changed several relating to WikiProject United States. Plus I admit that few users edit categories. I can just use the regex I have and do it that way as I run across them. --Kumioko (talk) 14:32, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I fixed all instanced of #6 by performing a database scan. I found no more occurrences the last 6 months. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:49, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

1 is a duplicate of another FR for all redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Add logic to allow WikiProject to use the listas logic

 * 1) Per #1) Agree with Kumioko. While the sort value will be the 1 word title even if listas is not set, adding it would remove the talk page from some tracking categories and thus people won't have to add it in manually.
 * 2) Per #4) Not needed. If listas is set in WikiProject Biography, then all banners on the talk page will use this value. btw... If listas is not set in Biography or Biography is not added, but listas is in another banner, then only that banner and any banners that come after it on the talk page will use that value for listas.
 * 3) Per #2) Disagree. If AWB's logic was good, then I would agree. But right now, AWB messes up on all Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Icelandic, Malaysian, Burmese, Cambodian, pre-Meiji restoration Japanese, pre-1934 reform Turkish and living Arabic/Muslim names. It also messes up on Spanish/Portuguese with full names given or their two word last name given. It also messes up on most peer names, non-western Native American names and special cases (kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, old patronymic systems, etc) While some of the above could be fixed relatively painless, I don't know how AWB would do most of the above cases. If a missing listas value is in WikiProject Biography banners, the talk page goes into a tracking category and gets looked at manually. Bgwhite (talk) 22:41, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * On #4 it only works for WikiProject Biography. The listas does not seem to carry over to WikiProject United States (maybe some code changes are needed in the template?). If you take a look at the sorting of the WPUS cats youll see it sorts by article name unless the listas is added. If what you say about the sorting is true then perhaps we need to discuss making sure the Bio banner is the top banner. Also, even if Biography did carry it over to the other project it would only apply to Biographies and there are a lot of other articles that are sorting poorly making it difficult to add categories that help us determine which articles do and don't need listas added. On #4 good points. --Kumioko (talk) 02:38, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Improvements to the New Alert box II

 * 1st would be possible, but difficult. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  06:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The first one was at least partially done. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

A couple changes for BLP Unsourced

 * 1) A reference not a note. Sometimes ref is used to add notes but the page is still unsourced. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 * True. But I think if it starts with certain things like Cite something, Http or www then its probably a reference. I have been doing these edits for a couple days now and havent had a problem yet. --Kumioko (talk) 02:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I suggest AWB could use the same logic that it does to convert unreferenced to refimprove. GoingBatty (talk) 02:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

3. If BLP unsourced and Multiple issues are in the same article, then AWB will convert it to BLP unsourced. GoingBatty (talk) 02:48, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Add logic for one source
They may still be from the same source. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Place "External links" after "Further reading"

 * I have some regex code that does this if you want it! I also do this for other things as well.--Kumioko (talk) 01:56, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

WP:ORDER confirms that we need to do that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Place "External links" after "See also"

 * Here is the logic I use to determine that:

Find

([ ]*)External links[ ]*
(.*?)==[ ]*See also[ ]*==(.*?)== Replace

$1See also$1
$3==$1External links$1==$2==

The catch is you have to do it for all of the following Sources, Further reading, External links, References and notes.

In the cases were there is a persondata template or defaultsort template use this: Find

([ ]*)External links[ ]*
(.*?)==[ ]*See also[ ]*==(.*?)\{\{Persondata Replace

$1See also$1
$3==$1External links$1==$2{{Persondata

I imagine there is a better way but I am not as good at regex as you all are but this seems to work good as long as the article doesnt have a multisection reference. In which case you have to tell it to ignore sections with more than 2 ==. I hope this helps. --Kumioko (talk) 11:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:Category redirect
Do you want to skip category if it is a category redirect? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:47, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry I did't clarify that. Yes, I think it should be treated as a redirect if the appropriate check box is checked in AWB so if I check "Page is redirect" under the "Skip" tab it should include category redirects. --Kumioko (talk) 13:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * What about the "follow redirects" option? Should soft redirects be treated as redirects in that case?  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  12:20, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Good point. I think they should if you have that option on. What do you think? --Kumioko (talk) 13:22, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I suppose they should, or perhaps redirect options could be split into both hard redirect and soft redirect options.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  13:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Spooky, I've just listed a bug for Failure to skip redirects. I don't know the difference between hard and soft redirects but that bug and this feature request could be the same. It certainly made me wonder why I ended up at pages that I'd already excluded from the list. What's the difference between hard and soft redirects? Lightmouse (talk) 10:03, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Hard redirects are actual redirects (e.g. "Beatles"), whereas soft redirects provide a link to the target page that must be followed manually (e.g. "Category:Notable Wikipedians"). Basically, soft redirects aren't technically redirects.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  14:50, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * From what you say, it sounds to me like AWB shouldn't be doing what I reported at Failure to skip redirects. Unless I've still got it wrong. Either way, I just want a way to prevent AWB from editing an article that I didn't list. Lightmouse (talk) 17:44, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * You need to disacticvate "Follow redirects" from Options pulldown menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Rjwilmsi pointed it out to me at Failure to skip redirects. The confusion was because we have three options in three different places: I had chosen the option in the skip tab and was convinced I'd made the correct setting. It never occured to me that I had to look for more redirect settings elsewhere. Can we make it so it's possible to make all redirect settings without having to look in more than one place? Lightmouse (talk) 18:53, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 'Bypass all redirects' in the right-mouse menu
 * 'Follow redirects' in the options menu
 * Skip 'Page is a redirect' in the skip tab

Add Functionality for the File namespace
Typo fixing is already enabled - try File:Thriller 25 cover.jpg GoingBatty (talk) 23:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Good to know thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 01:07, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete deprecated Template parameters page
In general there is no reason to do this. It makes no difference if a template is invoked with extra parameters. "Deprecated" does not mean that existing uses need to change, it only means that new uses are discouraged. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 23:06, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't really agree and here's why. For one, in most cases, the parameter is deprecated for a reason (could violate BLP criteria, could be automated through another piece of logic, could be completely uneeded or generally unreferancable such as shoe size in a Person infobox). Additionally, if its there then people tend to populate it or they copy the template to another further perpetuating the problem of getting rid of it. I would agree that due to some editors desire to not do changes of this type (that is not having a visible change to the page) it should only be done if there are more significant edits being done at the same time. Personally, I do not include this type of change as the same as moving a stub around or deleting blank spaces and if the item is deprecated then there is no reason to have it on the article and the argument of not deleting trash because it doesn't render any changes to the page is a pretty weak one. But that's just my opinion and I understand not everyone agrees with it. In the end its not my decision if the change is made and I am just offering my suggestion and opinion.--Kumioko (talk) 23:47, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * If a particular parameter needs to be replaced, the solution is to put in a bot request and replace all of them (for BLP reasons or similar). One advantage of that is that it has a mechanism to measure consensus, via the bot approval. Otherwise, it seems like there is not much of a need to AWB to randomly rename some (but not all) instances of a particular parameter. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 00:05, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Well bot requests are ok but I admit not all of these need to be done in a hurry and simply trickling through them as we do other edits is sufficient. Also, This would be to delete the deprecated parameter not rename them. We already have a parameter rename page. You do bring up a good point though. If the page is created it should be Fully protected and any changes to it requiring discussion on the talk page and additions made by only an administrator. Renaming a parameter could cause irritation, but deleting a parameter is a different thing entirely and could cause real problems in certain templates. --Kumioko (talk) 01:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Along the lines of the template redirects and the dated templates features, a feature to remove deprecated parameters from a given template. Like template redirects and date templates, the list of parameters to update would be taken from a subpage here and done as part of general fixes for when someone is doing something that actually changes the article! SeveroTC 19:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 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)

New article title search capability
This capability exists. Make a list using Wiki search (text), prefixing your search with "intitle:". Note that Wiki search (title) does not work; it would be nice if that were fixed, so people wouldn't have to remember the workaround. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  20:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you I didn't know about that. --Kumioko (talk) 20:33, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I just tried and it seems to have 2 issues. One it seems to max out at 1000 entries and it only includes articles. No tcategories, templates, etc. Definately a good trick though and very useful.--Kumioko (talk) 20:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if the NoLimit plugin could be used as a workaround to the 1000 entry restriction.
 * In the meantime, you might want to use this grep tool, save the list as a text file, and then load the text file into AWB. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 23:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't know about that one either. I had been using the Yanker tool built by MZMcbride but thought I would see if it could be added to AWB too. --Kumioko (talk) 03:51, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Add fix all Excess Whitespace to the options menu

 * Excessive whitespace "fixing" has caused complaints relating to AWB editors and AWB, so we'll not do this. Rjwilmsi  17:32, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Improve WP:EMDASH

 * Better logic has been added for this since may so I think this is done. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This request is too vague for me to work on. Rjwilmsi  10:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Added functionality for the false positives button

 * As long as the message doesn't require the user to click a button to close the message, this would be a nice feature. GoingBatty (talk) 21:28, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Add a new feature (stub tagger)

 * This is not a exactly a new feature request but an improvement of an existing one. Now: templates like Nihongo contain really content. Sometimes a lot of words.
 * Some pages contain a short text with a lot of references
 * You need to start a discussion on WP:STUB or somewhere similar. Until now we 've been asked to decrease our character/word count. Of course now that we exclude certain infoboxes, etc. maybe we could increase a bit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:48, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I agree its not exactly a feature request but I didn't think it was a bug either so I thought this was the best place.
 * Thats a good point that some templates contain content so maybe some kind of exclusion list would be appropriate. I don't think that particular template should be an exception because although it does have some info, I don't think it would necessarily need to be excluded from the exception count. I do think that templates containing content will be the exception and not the standard.
 * I'll go ahead and start a discussion and see where it goes. There's already a discussion about eliminating stub templates completely which isn't gonna pass IMO.
 * The activity of WP:Stub seems to be pretty low these days so I'll probably leave it at the Village pump to maximize comments.Kumioko (talk) 15:17, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Changes to External links logic for Simple English Wikipedia
An example of what we do and it is wrong? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:04, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If you run AWB against simple:Hannes Schäfer it tries to convert Weblinks to External links. It should be "Other websites".
 * Again, I will look for some more. Kumioko (talk) 01:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Check boxen to allow running GF before AND after custom fixes

 * Doing some work where GF makes malformed items recognisable to my regexs, so I want it first, but they can also create self-piped targets. I know I can fix these by adding a regex to do what GF is doing, or running twice, but would be nice to only have to tick a box. Rich Farmbrough, 20:36, 31 August 2009 (UTC).
 * A combo box in one of the upper menu's makes more sense.. Before, after, both.. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  20:36, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * We're currently not following maxlag... —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  14:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Skip pages by size

 * Actually this already exists. If you put in .{2000} under Contains and check the regex button it will skip if the article has 2000 or more characters. If you put in .{2000,3000} for example it will skip if between 2000 and 3000. Kumioko (talk) 16:31, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you think it's worthwhile to add this to AutoWikiBrowser/User manual ? GoingBatty (talk) 01:12, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I do absolutely but I also agree with the submitter. The method above tells how many characters but it doesn't care what those characters are. In line with the submission, which is a duplicate of one I submitted and a couple of others, woudl be a way to skip if it meets the words requirement based on AWB's calculation minus comments, infoboxes, categories and the like. That, to me, would be a great improvement and I wouldn't think it would be that hard to do. Kumioko (talk) 01:25, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Combinate?
Can you combinatie the pages which linked to File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg and pages in the category Association football clubs. I hope so that everyone can input this to me! 77.168.97.100 (talk) 20:17, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Should be on WT:AWB. Use the list comparer to create a list of what uses the image, and category members, then compare. —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  22:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Expand Redirect tagger
Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_9. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oops! I must have remembered the idea, but not the r to anchor comment.  Sorry for the duplicate request.  GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Remove pipes inside interwikis
This is CHECKWIKI error 45 related. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:21, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Most probably this task is obsolete by now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Very rare in nowadays. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Move Not a forum above WikiProjectBannerShell in talk pages
On hold till I have a clear consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:03, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Although I personnally like the idea of moving this template to the top of the article directly below talk as well, Talk page layout reflects placement of it as below the Talk header. This is just an info paper and not a "policy" but I wanted to mention it so if we do add logic for this we should also update this documentation. As a side note, this template could also be merged into Talk header as a parameter thereby eliminating another limited use template. Per Jarrys template use counter] there are only 2177 transclutions of notaforum of which at least 520 (AWB will only allow me to pull in the first 25000 talk header articles so its likely higher) already have both the talk header and the Notaforum templates. --Kumioko (talk) 14:30, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I mean "under skip to talk and talk header" too. Check Wikipedia talk:Talk page layout and raise your voice there. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was just coming back to rephrase that and you beat me too it. Your just too fast for me.. Ok will do. --Kumioko (talk) 14:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

TPL changed to meet common practise. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Change cite web to cite news
In my opinion its possible to capture some of the but the problem is going to build logic to catch them all. For example here is some regex to convert from Cite web to Cite news if it contains www.news in the url: Find: \{\{[ ]*cite web(.*?)http\:\/\/www.news(.*?)\}\} Replace:

Of course you could also look for publisher=News ltd but the problem is that both of these are based on the assumption that all articles that have publisher=News ltd or www.news something are always going to refer to a news article. And we would need to do some testing to make sure that all the parameters in cite web would apply to cite news. --Kumioko (talk) 01:18, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * My assumption was that it wouldn't matter what the URL or publisher was - just change the word "web" to "news". However, you have a valid point about the parameters:  and   are all parameters of Cite web but not Cite news. It would probably be too complicated to try to map those values into the Cite news parameters.
 * My next thought was to keep the template as Cite web but change the parameter from  to   or , but what if those parameters already exist with different values? Sigh.... GoingBatty (talk) 01:35, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * So how does AWB convert Cite web → Cite book? Cite web has two parameters that Cite book does not:  and  . Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:43, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I dont actually know what the code looks like but I would do it by looking for the ISBN in cite web to change it to cite book or look for things like google books to change it from web to book. Of course its still not 100% but I think in these cases it would be much easier to derive. --Kumioko (talk) 01:54, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * BTW I dont think its a lost cause I just dont think it would be 100%. I also wouldnt worry about the parameters too much. coauthors, separator and postscript arent used all that much so the instances of those should be low. Work, year and month are common though. --Kumioko (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Cite web's month and year could be mapped to Cite web's date, but I don't have a good plan for the rest. Is it possible to see which articles have a Cite web template with a newspaper parameter? If there are only a few, I could just fix them manually. If there are a lot, fixing a few might bring some insights. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:03, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I did a quick check against a small group of 25000 and I found several within the first 100 articles in Cite web that probably should be in Cite news. One more problem that I found was there appears to be some redundancy between cite news and cite journal. There were quite a few in Cite Journal that could fall into the realm of news. Im not sure what the differentiation is between cite news and cite journal. --Kumioko (talk) 02:28, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like Cite news is for newspapers and other news sources, whereas Cite journal is for journals and magazines. Cite web is for web sites, but I can see this getting murky when the newspaper/magazine publishes their printed content (or non-printed content) on their web site. GoingBatty (talk) 03:13, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The overuse of cite web is a problem, but not so much of one for news sources, since cite news is pretty similar to cite web. It's more of a problem for books, where cite book has the useful ISBN, edition, chapter fields, and academic journals where the cite journal DOI, PMID, PMC, volume, issue fields are very useful. AWB already converts cite web to cite book for Google books URLs. I have RjwilmsiBot converting to AWcite news for the strict list of news sites it supports. I'm not sure a wider conversion would be easy to do as part of AWB genfixes – where we need to be really accurate. There are some reasonable suggestions for some specific cleanup here that I'll have a look at. Rjwilmsi  10:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Cite web now supports 'work', 'journal', 'newspaper', 'magazine' and 'periodical'. All templates now support 'coauthors', 'month', 'postscript', 'separator', and 'year'. --  Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:47, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Expand date format corrections per WP:DATESNO

 * "In March, 2005 people ..." we can't avoid that false positive, so I don't think we can safely do this. Rjwilmsi  07:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Are we avoiding the false positive "On 25 March, 2005 people ..." ? GoingBatty (talk) 16:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * How about limiting the fix to text with commas before and after the year, such as "In July, 2004, Oolite was developed" in Oolite (video game)? GoingBatty (talk) 20:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 * A lot of people do not bother putting commas after things like that though. Also, that would mean the dates would never be fixed when the date was in the middle of text. If that was to happen however, a date at the end of a sentence would be safe to correct.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  22:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It could be fixed if the date is followed by any punctuation mark actually.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  22:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

AWB corrects date formats such as "21st of January" to "21 January". Please update it so that it will also change "the 21st of January" to "21 January". See this edit for an example of what AWB currently does (and doesn't do). Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:32, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've already suggested this, amongst other date corrects, however I think some of my suggestions possibly shouldn't happen. If this correction is added the 'the' should not be removed as "the 11th of September terrorist attacks" should correct to "the 11 September terrorist attacks".  McLerristarr /  Mclay1  13:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Good point - I agree. I'm trying to think if there's additional logic we could come up with, such as "on the 11th of September" → "on 11 September", but that doesn't seem to be foolproof either. GoingBatty (talk) 16:37, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Remove DEFAULTSORT if no longer needed

 * Not necessarily a good idea. For names from such places as Thailand, Malaysia and Burma, defaultsort will be the same at the article title.  It is nice to set defaultsort so somebody else doesn't come by and set defaultsort in western order.  Bgwhite (talk) 04:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Typo fixing for wikilinks to redirects
I like this idea and I have a suggestion for an extension to it. If the new correction option were to automatically fix all occurrences of a redirect string in those categories (not just the linked ones) in the article, there would be no need to manually add such corrections to the typo list at all. This would make practical use of the work other editors have put into creating and categorising redirects. Colonies Chris (talk) 08:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Removed other capitalisations - for example, see Tutti Frutti. GoingBatty (talk) 01:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point: however, if we were to exclude all redirects that point to disambiguation pages from this correction option, then all the originally suggested categories would be acceptable. Colonies Chris (talk) 08:22, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Good idea. Unfortunately Category:Redirects to disambiguation pages is not appropriate for Tutti Frutti. GoingBatty (talk) 13:39, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Tutti Frutti is categorised as a 'redirect from other capitalisation' and not categorised as a 'redirect to disambiguation' (though it should be, and it is now - I've just fixed it) . But AWB could detect that the redirect goes to a dab page without having to rely on the appropriate redirect category being present. Alternatively, this suggests that there may be a case for someone (or a bot) to go through redirects making sure that any that point to a dab page are correctly categorised as such. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:59, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Does WP:NOTBROKEN apply to this? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:22, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. WP:NOTBROKEN recommends "editors should not change, for instance, Franklin Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt just to 'fix a redirect'." However, I would think it is valuable to change, for instance, Franklin Rosevelt (only one "o"), since this is a typographical mistake visible to all readers, regardless of whether or not they click on the link. GoingBatty (talk) 16:25, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * While AWB could do this I am not sure how we could do it in a performant way: would probably have to make a series of API calls (assume there are many thousands of typo redirects) to get the list of redirects. If the user is a standard user and the API pages limit is 5,000 this could be tens of API calls. Maybe better as a bot task. Rjwilmsi  17:35, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

More than 4 full stops
See Ellipsis: according to The Chicago Manual of Style, "an ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots)." M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  04:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, then more than four full stops should be deleted. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 10:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Better perform a database scan first and check if we have any exceptions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * How do you perform a database scan? McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 10:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I performed a database scan for articles containing "....." (5 full stops in a row). I 'll post in my sandbox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I've been going through them and they all seem to be instances that should only be 3 full stops.  McLerristarr &#124;  Mclay1  05:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Marked as "no". This is merely a typo fixing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:52, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Remove button generated text
See User:Rich_Farmbrough/AWB/Reg_ex for a possible reg-ex starting point. Rich Farmbrough, 10:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC).

In the past, I asked for a Filter for cases like: Bold text and Italic text -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think AWB should do this. Automatically removing the text will improve the article, yes, but it will not welcome the new user or warn the vandal. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:32, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

To risky to do as general fix. Better fix these by filters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Extend scope of 'Add replacements to edit summary' to custom modules
Not doable. The editor can create their customised edit summary using the custom module though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:51, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Photo tagging or sectioning
Very difficult to implement. Not in our range of interests at the moment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:24, 26 August 2013 (UTC)