User:Chaosdruid/awbnotes

Wildcard

Hi

Is there a wildcard i can use within text for find and replace ?

For example Ukrianian Ukrianain something along the lines of Find "Ukria####" replace with "Ukrai####"

thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 21:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

• select options tab then in the Find and replace section, click the box(Enabled) finally go into the Normal settings.

In Find column enter "Ukria####", then in the Replace with column enter "Ukrai####". click Done tab. When AWB starts, you can get the result. --தகவலுழவன் (talk) 02:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 13:56, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

AWB

Hi

I was coming onto your page to ask you a quick question about using AWB but it seems like this might be some sort of portal into another Wikidimension !?!

Having seen the chat about the "something you made" and that you have over 400,000 edits may make my question a little dumb lol

I was going to ask if you could tell me how you were fixing the cites using AWB after noting your edits on "History of Robotics", the user manual is sort of ok but doesn't really cover everything. For example I have just tried to make it read years in so I can edit them automatically but that doesn't seem to have worked: Find [[1###]] replace with 1### just ain't cutting it lol

So am I missing out on some user manuals that are hidden away somewhere, do you have any advice on where to go looking and am I not using AWB correctly in regard to fixing things like cite problems ? IE should I be loading a list and processing it more than once to get all the errors out or can I do typo, linking, dashes and cite errors in one go ?

sorry if thats a bit much in one question

thanks :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 20:48, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

You want to be using regular expressions. Find \[\[1(\d\d\d)\]\] replace 1$1 is probably what you want. Rjwilmsi 22:06, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that link and the info ! I'll test it out later in AWB. As for the cite fixes: is it that I need to choose a different parameter in the "Make list > Source:" or are there a list of modules which can be used in AWB as well as the ones listed when you first install ? thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 23:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

For History of robots and specifically this edit I have written my own script User:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion, which I have not yet released for the reasons I list above. Rjwilmsi 07:20, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Greetings. Regarding this error - I understand it's server-side, but can't AWB automatically attempt to re-establish the connection (without the timeout), or at least not grey out the editing area? Thanks. -- Mentifisto 16:19, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Im not trying to confuse the conversation here but I just wanted to ask a question loosely related. I use regex to do something similar but my regex code looks like this Find:\[\[([0-9]{4})\]\] replace $1. Would this have the same result? I have never had a problem but I wonder if there is a reason why I might want to change it. --Kumioko (talk) 16:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)