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Partial implementation of MOS:TIME

Status Feature added in next release
Description *12-hour clock times end with dotted or undotted lower-case a.m. or p.m., or am or pm, preceded by a space (e.g. 2:30 p.m. or 2:30 pm, not 2:30p.m. or 2:30pm). Hours denoted by a single digit should not have a leading zero (e.g. 2:30 p.m., not 02:30 p.m.).
  • A hard space (see above) is advisable (2:30 pm or {{nowrap|2:30 p.m.}}).

i.e.:

  • Change 2:30p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (non-breaking space after number)
  • Change 02:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (remove 0 and add nbsp)
Added in revision rev 8404
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)

rev 8403 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)

rev 8404 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)

Reduce length of Alerts text to prevent horizontal scrolling

Status Feature added in next release
Description Could the Alerts text be shortened so that horizontal scrolling to see the number at the end of the alert isn't needed? For example:
Added in revision rev 8405 Magioladitis (talk) 18:50, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Change Primary sources to BLP primary sources

Status Feature added in next release
Description Expand Tagger to change {{Primary sources}} to {{BLP primary sources}} if the article is in Category:Living people. GoingBatty (talk) 22:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8409 Magioladitis (talk) 23:07, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description General fixes for Turkish Wikipedia
  •  Done Moves {{Link FA}}/{{Link GA}} templates to be above the interwikis.

--Sadrettin (talk) 11:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Added in revision rev 8423

rev 8423 Adds LinkFGAsTurkish. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:21, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Fix interwikis with duplicated double dots

Status Feature added in next release
Description [[es::Foo]]→[[es:Foo]] Example: [1]

-- Magioladitis (talk)

Added in revision rev 8425
rev 8425 Rjwilmsi 12:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Improve fixes for BORN

Status Feature added in next release
Description Do this. Foo (born: 7 August 2012) → Foo (born 7 August 2012) i.e. remove double dot -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8427
Seems more like a task then a coded feature of AWB. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 03:28, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
rev 8427 Done. Rjwilmsi 12:26, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Support for revised Multiple issues template

Status Feature added in next release
Description The {{Multiple issues}} template has been overhauled so that it now has a different syntax. People can now add any maintenance templates inside Multiple issues. Could you please modify AWB to utilize the new functionality, including:

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Added in revision rev 8432

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:
  1. You mention changes that only take place in the zeroth section. However, Multiple issues can be used in sections.
  2. 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)
Proposed list of templates to merge into Multiple issues

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 |section=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:
Proposed list of section templates to merge into Multiple issues

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:

  • 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)

* 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)

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)
CM runs before tagger. If you'd reparsed it would have. Rjwilmsi 22:02, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
rev 8356 Tagger problem, fixed. Rjwilmsi 22:02, 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)

Any update on how we should proceed? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

rev 8432 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)

Use Variables.Namespace in FileImageCurlyBrackets

Status Feature added in next release
Description Parsers.cs line 3046 -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:18, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8515 -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:40, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Categories not correct end

Status Feature added in next release
Description [[Category:foo}} → [[Category:foo]]Example -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:59, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8526 Magioladitis (talk) 18:14, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description Alert if [[|linktext]] found. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8528 Magioladitis (talk) 08:53, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description Alert for [[text|text2|text3]] (CHECKWIKI error 32) -- Magioladitis (talk)
Added in revision rev 8534

New namespaces

Status Feature added in next release
Description The TimedText and Education Program namespaces and associated talks are now live. They probably won't come up much, but it's worth adding them to the AWB filtering process. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:55, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8538 Magioladitis (talk) 13:54, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikivoyage

Status Feature added in next release
Description Add Wikivoyage to the list of sites –sumone10154(talk) 20:33, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8537

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

Needless addition of "Underlinked" after "Dead-end"

Status Feature added in next release
Description Addition of {{Underlinked}} (as {{wikify}} is deprecated) after {{dead link}} needs to be circumvented/precluded since it is deemed redundant per this discussion. Mr T(Talk?) (New thread?) 13:28, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8781, rev 8782

AWB is asking me to add {{Underlinked}} after {{Dead end}}. Until it was reported that the template is deprecated, AWB was adding {{wikify}} 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 {{underlinked}} 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

Status Feature added in next release
Description Currently, we can skip only a certain amount of wikitext or template. It would be nice if we could skip two or more kinds of wikitext at once (wich is very helpful when there are many redirects to a template). --Ankit MaityTalkContribs 15:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision
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 (Proposed deletion|speedy deletion-significance) and check the Regex box. Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 17:01, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Oh, damn I forgot. (For me it's (WP India|WikiProject India)) --Ankit MaityTalkContribs 11:28, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove some deleted Person Infoboxes from AWB logic

Status Feature added in next release
Description This is really neither a Feature request nor a bug, but I just decided to put it here. I was recently looking through the code of AWB for something and noticed that it contains some person infoboxes that have been deleted and are no longer used. I just thought I would bring them up. They are:

They are located in Wikifunctions, WikiRegexes, PeopleInfoboxTemplates, line about 1046. Kumioko (talk) 16:06, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Added in revision rev 8854 -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:06, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Allow Copy with Ctrl-C in diff window

Status Feature added in next release
Description In the diff window, we can copy text by selecting it and right-click->copy. The standard key Ctrl-C doesn't work, but should. AxelBoldt (talk) 19:32, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8966
rev 8966 Rjwilmsi 11:12, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Individual edit summary

Status Feature added in next release
Description If the 'add to edit summary' feature is enabled, have a box for the user to define a summary addition other than the default 'foo → bar' for each rule. This would be particularly useful for long or ugly replacements. mattbr 17:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8260
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 #Provide ability for edit summary to change dynamically based on what custom Find & Replace changes are made. –xenotalk 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☺ 17:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
rev 8260 Edit summary can be changed by user. Rjwilmsi 11:18, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description Page has <gallery> but no </gallery> (CHECKWIKI error 29) -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:51, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9003
rev 9003 Rjwilmsi 11:26, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

-stub

Status Feature added in next release
Description Use {{-stub}} instead of {{Stub}} and replace the latter with the former. This helps the stub sorters by a few keystrokes. Rich Farmbrough, 00:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC).
Added in revision rev 9005
rev 9005 {{-stub}} will be inserted via context menu instead of {{stub}}. Rjwilmsi 11:33, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Change unreferenced/refimprove templates for living people

Status Feature added in next release
Description The converse of my previous request - Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{BLP unsourced}} and {{Refimprove}} to {{BLP sources}} (and corresponding parameters in {{Multiple issues}}) if article is in Category:Living people. GoingBatty (talk) 06:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9006

Already changes {{Unreferenced}} to {{BLP unsourced}} if article is in Category:Living people. GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

rev 9006 Rjwilmsi 11:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Fixing "id=" entries in cite journal

Status Feature added in next release
Description I ran across a page that had id={{issn|0000-1111}} in a cite journal template. According to the template instructions, this is deprecated; people should be using issn=0000-1111 instead. Seems like it wouldn't be too difficult for AWB to fix this (as well as DOI, PMID, Bibcode, etc., and also ISBN in cite book). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chowbok (talk • contribs)
Added in revision
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)

Status Feature added in next release
Description Make use of Category:Articles with underscores in the title or Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Pages with underscores in title to avoid removing underscore from certain wikilinks. Line 21 shows an unwanted situation. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8999

Similar discussions: User:Vadmium/Tricky page names, Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_18#Underscore_exceptions_need_revising, Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_25#Intentional_underscores_in_links. -- 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).
rev 8999 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

Status Feature added in next release
Description Now that the {{Multiple issues}} parameters |expert= and |update= are deprecated (see this diff), could you please update AWB so it will alert users that these are invalid parameters? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:38, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9000
rev 9000 Rjwilmsi 09:09, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Improve "Open text selection in browser"

Status Feature added in next release
Description The edit box's right-click menu has an option to open the selected text in your browser. As implemented, you can select the words "Amusement park" in the edit box and quickly jump to the Amusement park page in the browser. OK so far. But when checking sources I would like to be able to select the URL mentioned in a reference, "http://www.somewhere.com/somepage.html" and use "Open text selection in browser" to view the page. It would save a few keystrokes. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:27, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9001
rev 9001 Rjwilmsi 09:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description Could you please expand MoveSisterLinks so that it also moves {{Wikiversity}} to the External links section, per the instructions at Template:Wikiversity? (For example, AWB does not update Anatomy to move {{wikiversity|Topic:Anatomy}} from the lead.) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:10, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8997 Magioladitis (talk) 07:28, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Remove items from FixCitationTemplates that duplicate WP:AWB/RTP

Status Feature added in next release
Description Now that we have WP:AWB/RTP, would it be beneficial to remove some of the redundant functionality from FixCitationTemplates, such as:
  •  Done Renames invalid |pg= to |page=
  •  Done Corrects common typos in |accessdate=, |format=, |language= and |publisher= field names
  •  Done Renames |authors= to |author= in {{cite web}}.

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Added in revision rev 9016

rev 9011 does the third request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:57, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

rev 9012 does the first request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

rev 9016 does the second request. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:24, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Ensure that magicwords are capitalized properly

Status Feature added in next release
Description Some people apparently write __ToC__ instead of __TOC__. For some reason, this doesn't cause a problem on Wikipedia itself, however, this is extremely poor practice, and will cause issues on mirrors and any project which re-uses Wikipedia content, as well as the downloadable PDFs, as it is expected that MediaWiki standards for magicwords are followed.

AWB should fix all magic words to their correct uppercase version of __FOOBAR__. If someone could do a database scan and fix them all, it would also be extremely appreciated. (I did those for the __TOC__ variants, but not for the other magic words). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Added in revision rev 9021

Database scan gave me 35 results for __ToC__ but there were all already fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:36, 9 March 2011 (UTC) __NoToC__: 2 results. Fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:49, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

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

rev 9021 Rjwilmsi 18:02, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description [[foo|''bar''']] → '''[[foo|bar]]'''. This will enable us fix [[foo|''foo''']] → '''[[foo]]''' -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:49, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9024
rev 9024 Rjwilmsi 18:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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

Status Feature added in next release
Description It appears that the Fix People life date ranges portion of General fixes only works when the date is the year only. Could this be expanded to also work with mdy and dmy dates? (e.g. change "(b. March 12, 1955)" to "(born March 12, 1955)" in Erica Hunt) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:40, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8964
rev 8964 Rjwilmsi 17:17, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Expand WikiProjectBannerShell to include other capitalizations

Status Feature added in next release
Description WikiProjectBannerShell fixes only moves WikiProject templates named "WikiProject foo" inside {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. Could this be expanded to include other capitalizations, such as "wikiProject foo" and "Wikiproject foo"? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:35, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9002

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)

rev 9002 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

Status Feature added in next release
Description SVN7290: In the database scanner, there is an 'About' button there which probably should be removed to declutter it - all the 'About' info is (or should be) accessible from the Help menu. Also, there are three links 'WMF dumps', 'Wikia dumps', and 'Generating Database dumps'. These should be removed to declutter the dialog. The links should be moved to the help file if needed. The title of the database scanner dialog is 'Wiki Database Scanner'. I think the word 'Wiki' could be removed (so it matches the menu item) and the words revised to sentence case i.e. simply 'Database scanner'. Lightmouse (talk) 17:26, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9182, rev 9183

Thus in the database scanner:

Lightmouse (talk) 11:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

rev 9182 for the first two and rev 9183 for the last one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:51, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Use AWB with LDAP domain login

Status Feature added in next release
Description There should be a way to login to a MediaWiki server that uses the LDAP authentication. This is a repost of an older post.
Added in revision rev 9185 by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:27, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

--Cybermandrake (talk) 12:12, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Support domain name when logging in

Status Feature added in next release
Description Support domain name for logging in --202.49.72.36 (talk) 04:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9185 by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:27, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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)

rev 8023 Add code skeleton for login domain. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Add "Category Recursive user defined level" to NoLimits Plugin

Status Feature added in next release
Description NoLimits Plugin is essential for doing maintenance work on Commons where many categories are in 100s of thousands. Unfortunately "Category Recursive" is not very useful since single miscategorization can cause adding orders of magnitude more files than you were looking for. Ability to control depth of recursive scanning is quite needed. For example I would like to capture most files in subcategories of Commons:Category:Creator template home categories. Recursive scan does not work (never returns anything) and regular "Category" returns only other categories. I could really use "Category Recursive" to the 1st or 2nd level. --Jarekt (talk) 03:48, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9186 by Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Status Feature added in next release
Description Would like the 25000 page limit to be removed from Image file links. Currently investigating cleaning up use of File:Replace this image male.svg. Initially required to identify page that use this file but do not have a request for photo on the talk page. Also in discussion is to remove this image from all pages where it is used. --Traveler100 (talk) 10:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9187 by Reedy -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Different behaviour for new F&R lines

Status Feature added in next release
Description Don't add "True" to new F&R lines - if this is overlooked it can break articles with /true/i in them. Rich Farmbrough, 07:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
Added in revision rev 9189 by Reedy -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:44, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Cancel button for F&R box

Status Feature added in next release
Description Close the F&R box without saving the changes. Rich Farmbrough, 07:13, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
Added in revision rev 9190 by Reedy. -- `Magioladitis (talk) 22:20, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Unwanted saving of Find & Replace changes

Status Feature added in next release
Description In the Find & Replace panel, I make some changes and then realize I don't want those changes. So I go to the 'x' at the top right corner of the Find & Replace box. I am surprised to find that my changes get saved even though I never pushed the 'Done' button. There should be a way to cancel out my just-made changes, and I don't want to delete my entire list! Hmains (talk) 19:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9190 -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
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

Status Feature added in next release
Description Could you please expand FixLivingThingsRelatedDates so that it also changes "John Doe (b.1978)" - with no space between the period and the year - to "John Doe (born 1978)"? See Geevarghese Chediath for an example where AWB does not make this change. GoingBatty (talk) 00:53, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9222

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

rev 9222 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

Status Feature added in next release
Description For any maintenance templates in the lead immediately following an infobox, move the template above the infobox, as I did manually in this edit, per Wikipedia:Lead section#Elements of the lead. GoingBatty (talk) 21:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9223 -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
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

Status Feature added in next release
Description Selectively activate alerts. Magioladitis (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 9280

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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Per the discussion at the AWB talk page, could you please consider making the following changes to the Tagger:
  1. Do not add {{wikify}} to articles in a stub category, as there may not be three relevant links.
  2. Per Template talk:Wikify#Parameter addition, once the parameter is added to the template, do not remove the wikify template if the parameter is populated.

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Added in revision
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)

More nuanced approach to dead-end pages

Status Feature added in next release
Description In light of the recent change to {{dead end}}'s documentation... Would it possible for AWB, when deciding whether to add or remove the {{dead end}} tag, to disregard links within infoboxes and citation templates? So that, for example, an article with a link to a country in an infobox and a link to a newspaper in a citation template, but no links in the article body, would still be considered a "dead end" and tagged as such? DoctorKubla (talk) 15:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Added in revision rev 8781, rev 8782

Allow ListComparer to output only the common list

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Modify ListComparer so that can give only the list with the common articles in the middle. This will allow editors who care only for the list in the middle (lb3) to save some time. This is not difficult. We just have to figure out where to add this option. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:45, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision

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. Avicennasis @ 11:00, 3 Elul 5771 / 11:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description There are many WP-specific things which are highly annoying when using AWB on other wikis. They should probably be removed for other wikis, though it'll be a big task to find them all. If you decide to do this, I'll be happy to help you in that regard.  —Mike.lifeguard|@en.wb 14:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Added in revision
It can be done fairly easily... If theres stuff you definately want disabling for non-WP, we can do that. —Reedy 20:52, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Anything in particular, etc? —Reedy 10:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Any more for any more? Or i will close this request at somepoint soon. —Reedy 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Request a feature that will search the refs and then merge refs that are duplicates of each other. It could use the "Title" field or author fields to generate a refname.
Added in revision

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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description I see these grammatical errors frequently and wondered if they can be included in the genfix set.
  1. there's no space between a currency sign and the number following. eg. "$25" not "$ 25" (refer)
  2. big number words like thousand, million, billion, trillion after a currency-number pair are uncapitalised and ideally have a &nbsp between. eg. "$25 billion" not "$25Billion". (refer)
  3. AUD$ means literally "Australian dollar-dollar" and makes no sense. Change any instances of AUD$ to AUD, USD$ to USD, CAD$ to CAD (ISO codes)

Thanks for your consideration. –Moondyne 04:18, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Added in revision

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 plus Added 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 | 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description It checks the syntax of the regex to ensure that it is valid. For example, an invalid expression containing to many unbalanced parentheses or brackets will change the background of the box to a light red. Additionally, it could warn over common errors such as having pipes outside of capturing groups. Or warn when matching an empty string or just whitespace.—Dispenser 17:43, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Added in revision
Using regex to check regex? :P —Reedy 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... —Reedy 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? Avicennasis @ 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Would it be possible to include the removal of such characters in the list of general fixes of AWB? Parser functions in templates generally don't work well with them (whitespace is stripped, but not control characters). Recently we cleaned up up a series of characters found in {{coord}} templates (see Template_talk:Coord/Archive_9#Parser_function_errors_(Antelope_Valley_College). -- User:Docu
Added in revision
No reason the AWB Unicode converter list cant be updated to do these too —Reedy 16:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Cool. Thanks. -- User:Docu
Just specifically you're regex? —Reedy 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#Unexplained and probably harmful bot edit, 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 rev 4235 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 rev 4235 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

Status Bug currently being investigated/fixed
Description When creating DEAULTSORT AWB does not include any trailing expressions in parenthesis. This is usually harmless but is occasionally wrong. Leaving them is always right, and at worst harmelss. Rich Farmbrough, 09:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC). 09:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
To duplicate:
Operating system
.NET FW Version Unknown
AWB version
Workaround
Fixed in version


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").

  1. Jason Smith (ice hockey)
  2. Jason Smith (actor)
  3. Jason Smith (baseball)
  4. Jason Smith (rugby league)
  5. Jason Smith (sports radio personality)
  6. Jason Smith (snowboarder)
  7. Jason Smith (Australian basketball)
  8. Jason Smith (American basketball)
  9. Jason Smith (soccer)
  10. Jason Smith (American football)
  11. 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Remove empty incorrectly like here. McLerristarr / Mclay1 17:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision

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 {{Category:foo}} -- 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description I haven't been able to use AWB since a couple of years ago because my main platform has drastically changed. I used to use a Windows machine, but now my main platform is Mac. I would like to use it again, and I would like to petition for support of the Mono framework. This was last brought up in October 2010, and since then, referenced by [2], "Currently, Mono supports just about everything available in .Net 2.0. There are a few notable exceptions, like Windows.Forms' DataGridView and ASP.Net's WebParts". I'm not sure what parts of .Net AWB uses, as I am not a programmer, but since the framework (mono I mean) has evolved since then, I would hope a port to the platforms that Mono supports would be slick and easy. Thanks for considering this, Haseo9999 (talk) 00:28, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision

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

Ability to protect articles/review history for Wikinews archiving procedure

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Wikinews is quite different from the reference wikis such as Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, etc. Part of our mission is to provide a historical record. As a consequence of this we have a policy of protecting articles when they are about 2 weeks old. Much of the final cleanup to articles is done with the aid of AWB, but there are two key parts of the process that the tool does not help with. Firstly, prior to typo and link correction the history of an article must be reviewed. Edits days after the published tag are added need undone if they impact the content. Second, when all the links, typos, cats and other changes to make a archiveable article are done the article needs protected. Full details of the archiving process we try to apply on Wikinews can be found at WN:ARCHIVE. --Brianmc 11:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Added in revision

The history is implemented in the next version. —METS501 (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. —METS501 (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! —Reedy Boy 11:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
No, doesnt actually do the protect! —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 —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! —Reedy 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. —Reedy 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 —Reedy 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 - rev 2915 (Just the auto protect... Not that i can remember about that)—Reedy 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

Status This feature is partially implemented
Description Unless I have missed something, when saving the settings there is no notification of the name of the file being saved when a settings file is being overwritten. Perhaps the box that appears could include the name of the settings file about to be saved. Snowman (talk) 21:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision
There should be... —Reedy 22:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
File --> Save asks you, as does Save as. Save as default doesn't... —Reedy 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.. —Reedy 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 ☎ 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Change common section header names from '''References''' to ==References== (same with See also and External links) before adding {{Ibid}} and sorting the sections. (AWB currently adds {{Ibid}} at the top of Sonora Matancera.) GoingBatty (talk) 23:59, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description When foobars redirects to foobar (e.g. hadrons redirects to hadron), replace [[foobars]] with [[foobar]]s. Obviously this should only be done if something else is being edited. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:26, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Make the "Highlight errors" option default to enabled. I only recently discovered this cool feature. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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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. Chris the speller 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. Chris the speller 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}}

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Not long ago, {{Wikify}} was modified so that it can accept a reason parameter. Could AWB be modified to add the Wikify tag to articles like this {{Wikify|reason=Article has less than 3 wikilinks or the number of wikilinks is smaller than 0.25% of article's size. <small>Added using [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]]</small>}}? An example of the template called in this manner can be found at User:Ryan Vesey/Template sandbox. Ryan Vesey Review me! 20:46, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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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 Wikipedia: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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description The name of the Province in Finland is called Southwest Finland in english, not Finland proper (I work in the regional council of Southwest Finland). I don't know how to do this, but is it possible to change the name? Daniela.Ayadi (talk) 07:24, 18 December 2012 (UTC)Daniela.Ayadi
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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 Wikipedia: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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description In the same way that AWB capitalises category and file namespaces (e.g. [[category:Spam]] → [[Category:Spam]]), AWB should capitalise other namespaces, such as image, and also capitalise categories, files and images when they are linked (e.g. [[:category:Spam]] → [[:Category:Spam]]). McLerristarr | Mclay1 01:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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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}}

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description AWB knows that deadurl= is not an appropriate parameter of {{cite web}}. Instead of just showing an alert, could it remove the parameter and add {{Dead link|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} instead? For example, The Dark Knight (film) is an article where this would be appropriate. Since this would make the dead link visible on the article page, this would hopefully encourage users to fix the link. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:25, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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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 archiveurl parameter provides a good link on the article page, I'm inclined to say that AWB should just remove the deadurl parameter. However, if the archiveurl 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 deadurl, as do all of the Citation Style 1 templates. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Then, this task is obsolete now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Alert when there is an external link with no description. (CHECKWIKI error 79). -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:40, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Add {{R to section}} if redirect target a section i.e. target contains #. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
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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)

Close program at end of bot run

Status Feature already exists in AWB
Description It would be nice to have an option for AWB to automatically close the program when a task/list is completed in bot mode. Some users run multiple instances for different tasks/wikis, and it would be nice to not have to check which ones are complete so you can close the program.Avicennasis @ 20:40, 1 Elul 5771 / 20:40, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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Preserve article after reconnect

Status Feature already exists in AWB
Description For the next update, I'd like to see an internal save feature of some kind to preserve your article when it needs to reconnect. Now, if you've been inactive for a while and start writing the article (I'm currently making hundreds of disamb-pages on nlwiki), it has to reconnect after you've pressed 'Save'. As a result, the whole page goes blank and you can start over again - and the whole page you just wrote in the edit screen is erased. Is this save feature, or something similar, possible? Grashoofd (talk) 12:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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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 (#Preserve manual edits when page reloads) from three years ago, which I had updated with the same solution as that given by John of Reading. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 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)

Status More information needed
Description If the notes criteria is there but contains pages then replace note with page.--Kumioko (talk) 14:53, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
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This seems reasonable. Any example articles? Rjwilmsi 16:59, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Alt Text

Status More information needed
Description With the new requirement to include alternate text to all images (so that people who cannot see or are using devices to read text about a picture rather than seeing a picture) I have a couple of suggestions for new featureds in AWB.
  1. Remove any HTML from within the alt text string. The alt text feature does not support HTML.
  2. Remove any wikimarkup from within the alt text string. The alt text feature does not support wikimarkup.

Thats it for now but as this new requirement washes out I am sure there will be more.--Kumioko (talk) 21:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

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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

Status New
Description There are currently a number of articles that have multiple individual Common Category links on the same article. For example Body painting has two; One for bodypainting and one for face painting. I would like to recommend adding logic to AWB to combine these into the Common cat multi template rather than have two individual ones. --Kumioko (talk) 17:12, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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Delete or add name field from certain templates

Status New
Description Some templates within WP employ a name field that allows the input of the name of an individual if it differs from the page. The Find a Grave template and Hall of Valor templates are two examples. Some articles currently use this parameter unecessarily and some do not use it when they should. There are a number of templates where this logic should be applied but initially my recommendations are as follows:
  1. If the name parameter is equal to the Article name for the Find a Grave and Hall of Valor templates, then remove the name parameter.
  2. If the article name contains a disambiguation in parenthesis (for example (Medal of Honor), (soldier), (Footballer), etc) for the Find a Grave and Hall of Valor templates then add the article name minus the Parenthesis if the name paramter is not already used. For example if the article name is John Smith (Medal of Honor) then the name parameter should be John Smith.

As more templates that use the name paramter are identified, logic can be added for them as well. --Kumioko (talk) 23:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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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

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)
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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 |group=s (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)

Skip if based on article content size

Status New
Description I recommend adding a skip function that would allow the user, in some way, to skip or retain an article that meets a certain size established by the user. I think this should skip things like categories, images and captions and templates like Infobox's. This would be very useful when tagging for stubs or for doing assessments for WikiProjects. Currently there is no easy way to look at an article and tell its length for assessments or for stub tagging using AWB without the difficulty of creating a custom module and the Kingboyk plugin currently only supports a few specific projects and doesn't work for every user making it a less then reliable option. Kumioko (talk) 17:31, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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Allow Javascripting for Advanced Find and replace

Status New
Description It would be helpful if coding (such as Javascript, C#, VB or C++) could be used under the advanced find and replace option of AWB perhaps with a check box like we do for regex. There are a lot of things you can do using code that cannot be done easily in awb without programming the module. Currently the only way to make edits using code is through a module but using the module you either end up with multiple items stacked together or you have to run them individually, manually commenting out the ones you dont want to use. If users could add them in the advanced find and replace it would be easier to comment them out, manage the code and separate edits into appropriate groups. --Kumioko (talk) 14:43, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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Auto focus Normal settings find and replace columns

Status New
Description I would also like to suggest some logic to auto focus the width of the find and replace columns to the widest non empty text. --Kumioko (talk) 15:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Allow Find and Replace settings order to be manually determined

Status New
Description AWB seems to automatically determine the processing order for Find and replace. This currently makes it difficult to process certain changes without either manually hitting reparse or making several passes. This request would add the ability to manually set the processing order of the Find and Replace settings. I thought maybe a 4 digit number (automatically populated at first) that could be manually reset by the user to allow the find and replace settings to process in the desired sequence. --Kumioko (talk) 00:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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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

Status New
Description I currently use different PC's to edit in WP and in order to keep the Find and Replace XML up to date between them I have to email it to myself or temporarily copy the code to a userspace sandbox and then paste it into the new location. I would like to suggest a function that allows users to opt for using a userspace subpage rather than an offline XML file. This would have several benefits including:
  1. Allow users to spend less time moving files around and more time editing
  2. Reduce the offline footprint of AWB (not that its all that big)
  3. This would also allow better visibility of what edits people are making
  4. Would allow us to assist one another if we see a problem in another users code.
  5. Could be used by multiple editors doing the same type of edits. This is especially true of more complex code

In fairness a couple potential problems I see with this:

  1. The source code page could be vandalized causing problems (which could be fixed with a message stating that the page has been edited by someone else like we do when someone edits the talk page)
  2. Large lists should still be done off line because it could make it slow to load or put a burden on the WP servers--Kumioko (talk) 13:47, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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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. Avicennasis @ 11:16, 3 Elul 5771 / 11:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Add functionality for exception lists in find and replace

Status New
Description I would like to suggest adding the ability of allowing users to designate an exception list. For example when doing certain edits I have a notepad document of about 100 pages that I have to manually purge for a variety of reasons (such as complicated or special article structure, special circumstances outside the norm, contentious articles were any edit tends to provoke an edit war, etc). It would make it very useful if I could just setup the exception list one so that AWB just skips it automatically.--Kumioko (talk) 13:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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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)

Add a vertical scroll bar to Normal settings find and replace window + 2 more

Status New
Description Can a vertical scroll bar be added to the Normal find and replace window. Some of my find and replaces are fairly long and I find it somewhat time consumning to constantly resize it to see the whole find and replace filter. --Kumioko (talk) 15:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Allow multiple Contains/Not contains elements to be defined for Advanced find and replace

Status New
Description Currently under the advanced setting find and replace window only one Contains or Not contains can be specified for a find and replace edit. I would like to suggest that multiple Contains or Not contains entries be allowed. For example I can currently create a find and replace with a contains of Category:Confederate Army general but I cannot (at least anyway I know of) create one with a contains of [Category:Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients and [Category:American military personnel of World War I. --Kumioko (talk) 15:20, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Submit Usage Stats asynchronously

Status New
Description No point doing it synchronously (ofc, unless it's shutdown time :)) —Reedy 12:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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I think this was done a while ago. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

A couple more possible changes

Status New
Description I have a couple more possible enhancement to AWB.
  1. Currently the edit box defaults to the top of the article even if the change AWB is recommending is at the bottom. I recommend changing AWB to default the edit box location to the line where the 1st recommended change occurs.
  2. Currently information cannot be copied and posted from the AWB show change area. I believe it would be beneficial to allow copy paste from this especially when trying to document a possible error.
  3. Allow users (or AWB) to specify a color to differentiate between manual user edit recommendations based on the find and replace function, changes made as part of a module or the general edits that AWB generates (maybe green, pink and orange). Currently AWB looks at a change as a change with no differentiation and frequently its difficult to determine where the change is coming from. I am going to throw myself under the bus as an example here. I have about 400 manual find and replace edits, I frequently use modules and sometimes have problems. In the cases where these problems occur its difficult sometimes to determine if its something I did or AWB. --Kumioko (talk) 18:38, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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For number 1, theres a menu option to focus at end. —Reedy 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. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 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)

Reparse option

Status New
Description Can we have a checkox or an option of some kind that could be set by the user to allow AWB to reparse (potentially multiple times) if checked. I have close to 2000 changes in one of my settings files and I find myself having to manually reparse quite often and this would save me a lot of time even if it meant I had to wait a little longer fro AWB to process the change. A good example of this is the logic in AWB to add multiple portals to portal box. If you add a portal using a custom find and replace you then have to manually reparse to put it into the portal box template. --Kumioko (talk) 17:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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Render/preview a change without saving it

Status New
Description Currently in order for AWB to render any logic or to use pre parse mode to see what articles are affected by a particular problem (like to filter out redirects) the user must have access to login to AWB. I am recommending that users without access to save changes still be allowed to view the effects of a change or to use the preparse mode as a means of determining articles affected by a particular problem or change. Some AWB featured such as the list comparer work without being logged in so the precedent is already there for some functionality to work without being logged in. To clarify, I am not asking that AWB allow the change to be saved, just to see what the change would do especially the ability to use the preparse function to scan a group of articles for a particular problem. --Kumioko (talk) 18:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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Add functionality to indicate the status of the associated page

Status New
Description It would be very helpful if AWB had an option or alert that would inform us in some way of the status of the associated page. For example if I was looking at an article but the talk page to that article is missing or is a redirect, then AWB would either highlight that article (say in red for missing or yellow for a redirect) or showed an alert. Not only do I frequently find articles with no talk page but I also find a lot of articles were the talk page has been redirected or talk pages were the article has been redirected and the talk page was left. --Kumioko (talk) 19:07, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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Run edits when save is hit

Status New
Description When using certain functions such as the Append/Prepend text function it is possible to add things that AWB would normally reorder such as adding WikiProject banners above talk header or to trigger another edit or rule. Can a checkbox be added that will allow users to tell AWB to run the settings/custom modules again when save is pressed (essentially run them again). Of course there would be a significant performance hit so this should be an option that the user can uncheck if they don't need it. I believe this would also reduce some of the edits )bot or otherwise) where users do multiple edits on the same article successively. --Kumioko (talk) 02:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
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Enhance bug reporting capability

Status New
Description I recommend adding a couple of enhancements for bug reporting to AWB.
  1. Add a submit bug option to the Help menu of AWB that auto captures the required information from the About AWB options (AWB version, OS, >net version, etc.)
  2. Add an option to the bug dialog box that generates saying submit as but with the needed info
  3. Modify the About to allow users to copy the info about AWB, the OS, and the other things needed to submit a bug report. Kumioko (talk) 17:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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Add a tab and logic to AWB to view the talk page

Status New
Description The first part of this suggestion is that I would like to suggest that a new tab be added to AWB between Edit box and History to view the Talk page of the article. The second part of this request is to allow both to be edited within the same instance of the edit. For example if AWB finds fixes on the article, the editor can then view the talk page, if necessary make changes and then when save is pressed it processes the article page first and then the talk page. This could also allow future logic to be added to AWB to do some comparison between the two if the editor decides they want to go down that road. For example, if the article page had a category for Living people and the talk page was missing the BLP tag (or potentially the WP Biography template) then AWB would add it. I realize that this change would not be a simple thing and would likely cause AWB to move slower so the user should have the option of doing this or not. Initially I think just adding the tab would be a good start. --Kumioko (talk) 19:13, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
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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. –xenotalk 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)

Line out blocked users when using AWB to add comments to User talk pages

Status New
Description There is a discussion on the Village pump about adding a gadget that would line out a username if that username is blocked. As someone who occassionally uses AWB to add comments to talk pages I had been preprocessing the pages to filter them out. If some logic could be added to AWB that would line out or otherwise mark a user page as being a blocked user it would save me a great deal of time (and I believe others as well). --Kumioko (talk) 20:34, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
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Talk page enhancements

Status New
Description I would like to request some logic be added for some tasks related to talk pages.
  1. If the talk page is a redirect and is shown as #redirect can we make it change to capitals #REDIRECT.
  2. If AWB senses a talk page redirect that looks like #REDIRECT on categories can we change that to Template:Category redirect
  3. If the talk page has the WikiProjectBannerShell and the parameters BLP, BLPO or activepol at the end of the template group, move these to theh top of the group directly after the text for WikiProjectBannerShell.
  4. If the WikiProject Biography Banner contains activepol=yes and the WikiProjectBannerShell does not contain it then add it to the WikiProjectBannerShell.
  5. If the talk page banners are lined up like this {{WikiProject X}}{{WikiProject Y}} on the same line then separate them to seperate lines
  6. If the talk page contains the improper formatting of |blp=yes1= then replace it with |blp=yes|1=
  7. If the talk page contains a duplicate banner (for example WikiProject United States is listed twice then delete one.
  8. If the WikiProjectBannerShell contains 2 of the parameters BLP, BLPO or activepol, delete one.--Kumioko (talk) 14:55, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
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  1. Not many with low-case letters. Just perform a database scan and fix them if needed.
  2. ?
  3. Unnecessary and KingbotK places them at the bottom.
  4. We already do
  5. Minor.
  6. How many are there? Now I see how there were introduced. Wikisearch gave me only 12 results though and I fixed them all.
  7. We would like to.
  8. 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 | 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 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)

Expand the logic for adding untitled to untitled talk page sections

Status New
Description Currently the logic in AWB that adds Untitled to sections without a title on the talk page does not seem to work in all namespaces. I would like to see if the logic can be expanded to include all Namespaces. --Kumioko (talk) 19:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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Add logic to allow WikiProject to use the listas logic

Status New
Description There are currently quite a few WikiProjects that have a parameter for |listas=. Currently, these must be done separately or with a plugin however here are my suggestions for including this for WikiProject banner tempaltes.
  1. Add it for 1 word titles

#Use the logic AWB uses to add DEFAULTSORT and Persondata as the listas information.

  1. Could create an Opt in page where projects can optin or not if desired to allow maximum flexibility and limit the needs for developer maintenance.
  2. For people it could also use the listas already available on most articles in the WikiProject Biography template.--Kumioko (talk) 02:25, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
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  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)

Remove WikiProjectBannerShell if only one project exists

Status New
Description I have found quite a few articles with the WikiProjectBannerShell and only one project. The policy states its ok to add it if more than one project is present but there is no need for it for only one project. Kumioko (talk) 22:54, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Modify and expand Article alert logic

Status New
Description Currently the Article alert logic is hardcoded and cannot be easily changed or added too. I recommend a new subpage be created similar to the Typo fixes and Template redirects that will allow Article alerts to be added. Although some of the Article alert logic cannot be easily converted easily into a subpage and must be hardcoded there are a lot of things that could be easily done in a subpage. For example there was a request recently at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 49#A bot to remove puffery that I thought would be perfect for this type of feature. The task itself is not appropriate IMO to be a bot nor does it meet the criteria for a Typo fix. It does IMO meet the criteria of something that could be alertable to allow the user to review and do manually. Kumioko (talk) 22:59, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Improvements to the New Alert box II

Status New
Description I would like to suggest a couple of further improvements if possible.
  1. Also, would it be possible to include logic similar to that used by wikilinks to take you to the that line if clicked. Currently it lists the alerts but its sometimes difficult to locate the problem the user is alerted too.
  2. It would be nice if AWB could be set somehow to search for specific ones, for example if I wanted to search for Dead links I could select that alert, perhaps under options somwhere and AWB would let me know when it finds one.
  3. The next is kind of a high hope but I think it would be useful if there was a way we could add our own Alerts in much the same way as the find and replace but rather than find it and replace it, it will just let us know if there is one. The idea I had was to add the ability under the find and replace Normal Settings option and maybe the advanced option to Alert Only as maybe a checkbox. Sorta like how we identify it as a minor edit. Then when AWB finds it it shows it as an Alert rather than process it as a change.
--Kumioko (talk) 20:05, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
  1. When working with talk pages could an alert be added to notify the user if the talk page is empty or if there are no wikiproject banners present. Currently if AWB is being used to scan talk pages for problems and articles talk page is empty or contains no banners it simply moves on. --Kumioko (talk) 15:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
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1st would be possible, but difficult. —Reedy 06:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
The first one was at least partially done. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Add a possible vandalism alert or message

Status New
Description Although I do not actively do vandalism I have been catching a lot of vandalism on articles lately. I know this is a little out of AWB's scope but can a checkpage or alert be added if certain potential vandalism is found on the page? I was thinking of an alert that looks at a page like the Template redirect page and if it sees something that meets the criteria an alert or message box would generate saying something like "Potential vandalism". --Kumioko (talk) 02:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
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Status New
Description I have found quite a few articles with multiple see also sections such as the one I did manually in this edit. If AWB cannot merge multiple See also sections could it at least give an alert that there are multiple see also sections? Kumioko (talk) 23:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
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Alert for References/External link/Further reading placement errors

Status New
Description Currently there is an alert that will tell the users if See also is after certain other sections. Could an alert be added to do this for References, Further reading and External links as well? According to the WP:MOS there is a certain order these should come in and currently they are in the wrong order on many articles. I understand why AWB might not be able to fix them as a General edit but an Alert would be helpful as well. Kumioko (talk) 23:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
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A couple changes for BLP Unsourced

Status New
Description When editing the article for Laurie Lea Schaefer I noticed it had {{BLP unsourced}} but it also had <ref> and {{reflist}} with the reference in it as well as having |bot==yes. I recommend logic be added to AWB to do the following:
  1. convert {{BLP unsourced}} to {{BLP sources}} if the article contains a references. Per the instructions at Template:BLP unsourced articles with at least one reference should not have the BLP unsourced tag.
  2. If the BLP Unsourced is in a section change it to BLP unsourced section. --Kumioko (talk) 21:13, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
  3. Make BLP unsourced top billing for cleanup templates. If thats not entirely possible it should at least be above {{Multiple issues}} --Kumioko (talk) 22:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
  4. Also, if {{BLP unsourced}} and {{BLP sources}} are both on the article err on the side of it being unsourced and delete {{BLP sources}}. If the above code is implemented at the same time AWB will convert teh BLP unsourced to BLP sources anyway (as long as AWB processes them in the right order at least). --Kumioko (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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  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}}

Status More information needed
Description I have recently found quite a few articles were {{One source}} is no longer needed. Can logic be added to remove this template if more than three references is used? --Kumioko (talk) 02:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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They may still be from the same source. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Place "External links" after "Further reading"

Status New
Description Move "External links" sections below "Further reading" sections, per WP:LAYOUT. When I ran AWB on this version of Bighorn National Forest, it changed the order from "External links, References, Further reading" to "References, External links, Further reading". The correct order is: "References, Further reading, External links". -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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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"

Status New
Description I know that a lot of logic has been added to AWB in recent months to clean up the order of things that appear in articles to make article structure more consistent and to follow the MOS. I would like to suggest some additional logic to make sure that the start box/end box template groups appear in the correct location. I have seen frequent articles were this appears below categories, before references, in see also sections, etc. An example can be seen in Joseph R. West. In this article it appears as sandwich meat in between the References and External links sections.--Kumioko (talk) 20:56, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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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

Status New
Description When I was going through some categories I noticed that AWB doesn't appear to recognize Template:Category redirect . as a redirect. Could the logic be modified to include this? --Kumioko (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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:

  • 'Bypass all redirects' in the right-mouse menu
  • 'Follow redirects' in the options menu
  • Skip 'Page is a redirect' in the skip tab

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)

Add Functionality for the File namespace

Status New
Description Currently there is very little if any functionality in AWB that affects the File namespace and I would like to suggest this be changed. After doing a recent task I noticed a number of things that would be well suited IMO to be edits in AWB.
  1. Fix the incorrect URL's (like HTTP//, HTTP:/WWW, HTTP://Website.come with no WWW, etc) This logic is already in place on the main namespace
  2. Enable typos checking  Done
  3. Remove the duplicate section titles.
  4. Allow general fixes to be done
  5. Add a function that would allow the user to turn on or off General fixes for different namespaces. For example, most editors using AWB only make edits to mainspace so there is no reason to have edits enabled for all namespaces. --Kumioko (talk) 17:37, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
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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

Status New
Description I would like to suggest a page be created that would allow us to delete deprecated parameters from templates similar to the template parameter rename page. There are currently a lot of Template parameters that have been deprecated over the years and the clutter is starting to get serious. Some templates have hundreds of articles with deprecated parameters. --Kumioko (talk) 02:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
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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. — 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. — 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

Status New
Description Currently AWB has the ability to pull in articles based on a prefix so for instance we can pull in articles starting with Louisiana fairly easy. I would like the ability to pull an article in if the title contains something or if its easier if it ends with something. For example: Sportspeople from New Orleans, Louisiana. --Kumioko (talk) 19:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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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. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Currently the only way to perform the "Fix all Excess Whitespace" checks is to right click and select it on each and every article. It would be nice if this could be set as a default behavior by the user. I do recommend this is linked as a minor edit so it isn't done alone. Kumioko (talk) 02:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
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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

Status More information needed
Description Improve WP:EMDASH. I noticed that someone improved dashes immediately after I did a general fixes. Maybe check this script and see what can be improved. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 14:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
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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)

Diff comparison for the Custom module function

Status New
Description Currently when creating custom modules there is no button or function to compare the difference between the old logic and the new logic before making the module. I am recommending another button be added with a way to comparing the new changes to the current code before making the module. Something similar to the Diff comparison under the Start tab. Kumioko (talk) 18:50, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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Add a new statistic for Character count

Status New
Description Currently AWB has a statistic for word count but not character count. I would like to recommend that 2 new statistics be added.
  1. Characters
  2. Characters (-) - Not sure what the name should be but this would be the character count after the AWB calculation to remove categories, comments, etc. is applied. Kumioko (talk) 03:34, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Allow Page statistics to be used as Skip filters

Status New
Description Currently AWB has several Page statistics on the Start tab for things like number of Words, Links, Categories, Files, etc. I would like to suggest that a new option be added to the Skip tab that will allow the user to skip based on the content of these statistics. For example if it contains X number of Categories or X number of links. Kumioko (talk) 03:40, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Add info about the source folder AWB is running on

Status New
Description I would like to see an option added to AWB that would allow the user to see what source folder the user is using to run the application and the settings file. I sometimes use multiple instances to do different things and it would be useful to know easy which one is running from where. Kumioko (talk) 13:40, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Added functionality for the false positives button

Status New
Description When adding false positives with the false positives button there is no message saying it was added, what was added or where it was added too. I think it would be very useful to add a message that says it was added, where it was added too or something. Currently if you hit the false positives button it doesn't even flicker so you don't even know if it worked. Kumioko (talk) 20:17, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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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)

Convert to Basepagename

Status New
Description Currently there is no easy way in AWB of converting a list of things (articles or otherwise) to the basepagename. So if you are working with something like comparing a list of template/user sandboxes or subpages to a list of Templates or users to determine if there are sandboxes leftover from Users or templates that have been deleted, the comparison must be done outside AWB. I recommend functionality be added to:
  1. The list comparer
  2. The Right click navigation where it converts to and from talk, add another option to convert to basepagename. Kumioko (talk) 10:34, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Add a new feature (stub tagger)

Status New
Description The stub tagger in AWB needs some refinement. Currently it only tags an article if the article has less than 300 characters but articles like Columbia Heights, Lexington, I think by anyone's standards, is clearly a stub. Per [5] ignores some things like Categories, comments and some templates like infoboxes. I recommend that all templates be ignored as well as content in ref tags and website links. It might also be beneficial to bump the count up to 500 characters (Not words but characters) as anything less than that is still going to be very very small as the example given indicates. Kumioko (talk) 14:29, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Example of a stub with a lot of refs that is still a stub: Congregation Achduth Vesholom. Kumioko (talk) 15:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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  • 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)

Remove portals in Simple English Wikipedia

Status New
Description Neither portals nor the portal namespace are used in the Simple English Wikipedia. Can logic be added to AWB that will remove portals if they are present in an article? Kumioko (talk) 00:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
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Status New
Description AWB performs actions in Simple English Wikipedia that are not applicable to that Wiki. Below are some problems that have been identified so far:
  1. Update logic to use Other websites instead of External links
    Currently changes some things to External links but External links isn’t used in Simple, that section is called Other websites. This should also change External links to Other websites
  2. AWB has logic to move some things under External links. Logic should be changed to apply the changes to the appropriate locations for Simple (ie. Other websites instead of External links)
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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)

A couple more changes to English Simple Wikipedia

Status New
Description As I have continued to work in the English Simple Wikipedia I have found some additional things that I think should be changed. When editing an article, and after left clicking on the edit window box the following items should be changed to match the different syntax used in Simple.
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New functionality to specify which General fixes to apply

Status New
Description Awb Currently allows the option for certain General fixes to be skipped under the options menu or it allows users to ignore all of it by unchecking the option. I recommend adding functionality to allow users to select which of the general fixes they want to use. I envision this being a button, under Automatic changes and similar in nature to the button that already exists for Aut changes skip options. There has been some fussing lately about some of the General fixes and I have found that some or not useful or counter to how things are done in other projects. Some only apply to En, but some are useful in other projects as well. This would allow much more flexibility and more responsibility put on the user. Kumioko (talk) 15:38, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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Check boxen to allow running GF before AND after custom fixes

Status Unknown
Description Check boxen to allow running GF before AND after custom fixes
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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.. —Reedy 20:36, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
We're currently not following maxlag... —Reedy 14:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Skip pages by size

Status New
Description Please add a new option to skip pages with sizes larger or smaller that a user-input number. This can be used for example to skip all pages larger than 100 KB which will help when using AWB on a limited resources computer. (Larger articles take more computer resources.) --Meno25 (talk) 16:27, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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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 Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Skip ? 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. —Reedy 22:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Expand Redirect tagger

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Could the Redirect tagger be expanded so that it would add {{R to section}} when the target page name contains "#"? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_9#R_to_section. -- 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description [[es:Foo|bar]] → [[es:Foo]] [6] -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Per WP:TPL {{Not a forum}} must be above {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} and/or any WikiProject banners.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 13:56, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

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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, Wikipedia: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)

Disambiguate {{dn|wikilink}}

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description When I make my list using the source "What links here" and add What links to a particular disambiguation page, it includes pages that contain {{dn|wikilink}}. However, those pages are skipped by AWB. For example, you can try this by trying to disambiguate APC - notice that it will include Adenocarcinoma in your list because the article contains {{dn|DCC}}, but AWB won't prompt you to disambiguate it. (If you have enabled RegexTypoFix, it will prompt you to change "etc" to "etc.") Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
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Change {{cite web}} to {{cite news}}

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description AWB knows that newspaper= is not an appropriate parameter of {{cite web}}. Instead of just showing an alert, could it change the template to {{cite news}}? (AWB seems to do something similar already to change the template to {{cite book}}.) Here's an example of an edit where I did it manually. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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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:
{{Cite news$1http://www.news$2}}

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: coauthors, month, postscript, separator, work, and year 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 newspaper to work or publisher, 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: author and work. 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 AW{{cite 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description AWB currently removes the comma from international date formats (e.g. "30 October, 2010"). Per WP:DATESNO, could AWB be expanded to remove the comma between month and year of dates when the day is not specified (e.g. "October, 2010")? GoingBatty (talk) 05:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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"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 | Mclay1 22:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
It could be fixed if the date is followed by any punctuation mark actually. McLerristarr | 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Remove {{DEFAULTSORT}} if case insensitively the same as article title, as part of the minor general fixes. GoingBatty (talk) 17:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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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)
Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Where RETF rules are applied, could an option be added that would automatically fix redirects from misspellings, other capitalisations and titles without diacritics before fixing typos? For example, if AWB changed links from Shelly Winters to Shelley Winters, then the typo rule would fix any similar misspellings in the text. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
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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? — 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description More than four full stops (e.g. Hello.....) should be deleted and reduced to just three or four. I cannot think of an example in which it would be OK to have more than four full stops. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 01:41, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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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)." MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 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 | 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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description The text generated by the editing buttons ''Insert non-formatted text here'' for example, can often be inserted in a page by mistake or vandals. With some caveats it is safe to remove, recursively. This will often fix other breakages. Rich Farmbrough, 10:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC).
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description Extend scope of 'Add replacements to edit summary'. In 'Find and replace', there's a 'Normal settings' button which leads to a 'Find and replace' dialog. The dialog has a check box called 'Add replacements to edit summary'. This is very useful. I have a custom find&replace module that is hundreds of lines long but the auto edit summary doesn't work for custom modules. Question1 Can it be made to work for find&replace in custom modules? Question2 Is there a way to transfer hundreds of lines from a custom module into the find&replace dialog? Lightmouse (talk) 11:53, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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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

Status This feature is not going to be implemented
Description I wonder if there is some way we can allow editors to non-destructively augment existing images with tags or highlighted sections that point out areas of interest when the image is referenced in multiple articles. For example, an existing image of a motorcycle can be shown on an article relating to its brand while another article can reference the same image and highlight some technical aspect of it like a brake assembly or fork configuration. The editor could specify one or more highlighted areas with a pair of coordinate points along with some popup text. (I hope I've put this feature request/suggestion in the right place) --Hooperbloob (talk) 15:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
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Very difficult to implement. Not in our range of interests at the moment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:24, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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