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Parameters
Parameters
* /s "file.xml" - /s loads a specified settings file if it exists in the AWB folder. Must include the file name in the quotes
* /s "file.xml" - /s loads a specified settings file if it exists in the AWB folder. Must include the file name in the quotes
* /u int - /u loads a specified user profile, and logs into it. Profile must exist, and user is prompted for password if it is not stored.
* /u int - /u loads a specified (either by user name or by its number in the list of profiles) user profile, and logs into it. Profile must exist, and user is prompted for password if it is not stored.


You can then append these parameters to the end of the target on a shortcut, to make AWB load the required things.
You can then append these parameters to the end of the target on a shortcut, to make AWB load the required things.
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<pre>C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml"
<pre>C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml"
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u 1
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u 1
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml" /u 1
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml" /u "Jimbo Wales"
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u 1 /s "test.xml"</pre>
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u "Jimbo Wales" /s "test.xml"</pre>


==AutoWikiBrowser User Manual==
==AutoWikiBrowser User Manual==

Revision as of 18:27, 5 March 2009

Chapters: Core · Database scanner · Find and replace · Regular expressions · General fixes

Basic procedure

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The basic procedure for using AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is as follows:

  1. Have AWB log in as a user
  2. Make a list of pages to modify
  3. Set the options (specify what to do to each page)
  4. Start the process (AWB takes you through each page, previewing the planned changes, and letting you make further changes, such as adding a template)

Startup parameters

AWB can handle startup parameters. It can load a specified settings file and/or login to a certain profile.

Parameters

  • /s "file.xml" - /s loads a specified settings file if it exists in the AWB folder. Must include the file name in the quotes
  • /u int - /u loads a specified (either by user name or by its number in the list of profiles) user profile, and logs into it. Profile must exist, and user is prompted for password if it is not stored.

You can then append these parameters to the end of the target on a shortcut, to make AWB load the required things.

eg.

C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml"
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u 1
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /s "test.xml" /u "Jimbo Wales"
C:\pathtoAWB\AutoWikiBrowser.exe /u "Jimbo Wales" /s "test.xml"

AutoWikiBrowser User Manual

Login

In order to login, choose File / Login (the sixth item from the top). You will then get the standard Wikipedia login screen at the top of the AWB window. Type in your own username and password (you may have to use the sliding bar at the right to see the login boxes). Click on "Login".

  • AWB uses the Internet Explorer engine, and uses the IE login. If you have different accounts, you'll have to log out of Wikipedia in IE and log back in as your other account. If you want to run AWB and do manual edits at the same time using 2 different accounts, use IE for your bot and do your manual edits in another browser like Firefox or Opera.

File

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  • Reset to default settings - Reloads the original AWB settings.
  • Open settings... — Loads settings from specified path.
  • Recent settings — Allows you to reset AWB settings to a previous saved setting.
  • Save settings — Saves the current settings to the file they were loaded from.
  • Save settings as... — Saves the current settings to a specified file.
  • Save settings as default — Saves the settings to the default.xml, these will then be loaded automatically when AWB is restarted.
  • Log in — Takes you to the login page for Wikipedia.
  • Log out — Forces logout of the current user.
  • Profiles — Allows easy switching between user accounts (with the ability to save passwords)
  • Can also associate a settings file with a profile, then when the profile is logged into, the settings file is loaded
  • Refresh Status/Typos — Allows you to refresh the typo list. If you have had AWB open for a long time and want an updated typo list (only if RegexTypoFix is enabled). Also reloads the check page to check enabled users and versions. The User talk templates page is also reloaded
  • Exit — Quits the program.

View

  • Show toolbar — Enables a simple tool bar at the top of AWB. Functions are: Show or hide the panel, Make the edit box span the bottom window (same as Ctl+Shift+H), Start, Stop, Save, Ignore, Show preview, Show changes, Delete (for administrators only), Add false positive.
  • Show control panel — Shows and hides the main part of the AWB window at the bottom (Shortcut key of Ctrl+H — this works when the toolbar is enabled or disabled).
  • Enlarge Edit box — Enlarges the edit box area along the bottom of the AWB window. You can toggle this function with the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+H.
  • Show Edit Box Toolbar — Displays a simple tool bar above the Edit box. Functions are: Bold text, Italic text, Internal link, External link, Mathematical formula, Ignore wiki formating, Horizontal line, Redirect, Strike, Superscript, and Subscript.
  • Display false positives button

List

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  • Keep alphabetized — Keeps the list sorted alphabetically.
  • Remove duplicates
  • Remove non-mainspace
  • Convert to talk pages — Changes list of page/template/userpage to their relevant Talk pages.
  • Convert from talk pages — Changes list of talk pages into their relevant page/template/userpage.
  • Filter...
  • Save list...

Plugins

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  • Load... — Allows the user to open/load new plugins into AWB whilst AWB is running
  • Manager... — View a list of all plugins currently loaded into AWB

Options

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  • Preferences...
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  • Summaries... — Allows the user to edit the saved edit summaries for AWB.
  • Auto save settings file every 10 edits — If set, AWB will automatically save the currently loaded settings file after every 10 successful saves.
  • Use pre-parse mode — The purpose of pre-parsing mode is to allow an AWB user to have AWB automatically parse a large list of articles where it is expected that the majority will not in fact require any changes. During pre-parsing my AWB operates automatically, so the user is saved at the tedious task of watching AWB skip articles. If set, AWB enters a mode whereby pages are skipped automatically if they can be skipped for any of the selected skip reasons, and if the page cannot be skipped AWB automatically proceeds to processing the next article. Articles that remain in the list are highlighted in green and if saved in the settings file they are marked as pre-processed when the settings file is later reopened. Processing continues in this manner until the end of the list of articles is reached. The currently loaded settings file is automatically saved every time another 10 articles are skipped. Therefore it is recommended that pre-parsing mode is used when the option to save the list within the settings file it is also enabled. Pre-parsing mode may be disabled either by unchecking the option in this menu (AWB will then stop once an article without skippable changes is found) or by pressing the stop button. During pre-parsing mode it is not possible to save any articles and other features such as checking for new messages are disabled so that the pre-parsing, if left unattended, is not interrupted. Once a list has been pre-passed, editing of the articles may continue as normal. Note that if an article has already been pre-parsed AWB will not ignore the article if a second pre-parsing run is selected; this allows a list to be pre-parsed a second time based on different skip criteria or if there has been a significant time interval since they were first pre-parsed.
  • Follow redirects — Instead of editing pages that redirect to another page, AWB edits the page to which it redirects.
  • Apply automatically changes — No changes are made, instead you can use the "re-parse" option selectively.
  • On Load: show changes
  • On Load: show changes — Shows the changes between the current revision, and your intended changes.
  • On Load: show preview — Shows in the browser window what the updated page would look like — like manual edit 'show preview' button.
  • On Load: show edit page — Shows the edit page in the browser window.
  • Auto focus at end of text box
  • Mark all as minor — Marks all edits as minor.
  • Add all to watchlist — Adds all edited pages to user watchlist (This will override any preference options set).
  • Sort interwiki links — Sorts the interwiki links in same order as pywiki bots (if "Apply general fixes" is selected).
  • Replace Reference Tags — Replaces certain cases of the old reference tag to a template (if "Apply general fixes" is selected).

Tools

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  • Make Module
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  • External processing — Send page text to an external program or script.
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  • Regex tester — Displays interface for testing searching and/or replacing text with regular expressions.
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  • Database scanner — Launches the Database Scanner, see here.
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  • List comparer — Allows you to make or open 2 lists, and AWB will tell you the entries that appear in both lists, the entries only in list 1 and the entries only in list 2.
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  • List splitter — Allows the user to make or open a list, and then split the list down into sections between 10 and 50,000. The current List Maker list (ie page list) can be transported to the listsplitter. When the lists have been split, they can then have these saved into individual text files. Or, it can also save to full AWB XML settings files based on the currently loaded settings.
  • Note: For saving the required settings set any AWB or Plugin configuration options before running the ListSplitter, as it will pass the current configuration to the list splitter.
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Help

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  • Help — Shows an integrated web browser to display this page. Includes a contents page on the left hand side.
  • About — Shows creators, maintainers, version of AWB, IE Version, Windows Version, .NET version, and a disclaimer.
  • Usage statistics
  • Check for updates — Will check for software updates to AWB.

Make list

This is the pane where you make a list of pages to edit.

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Note: You can make lists from multiple pages or categories by using the pipe symbol (|). For example, in Category mode, the query "Cats|Dogs|Fish" will make a list of all the pages in Category:Cats, Category:Dogs and Category:Fish.

  • Categories on page — Will look at each category under which the page is filed, listing their pages (articles and subcategory pages).
  • Category — the list of its articles and subcategories.
  • Category (recurse 1 level) — Combines the previous option plus repeating the same process on each of the subcategories, adding their articles and subcategories (i.e. sub-subcategories) to the list. See Recursion for a more formal definition.
  • Category (recurse user defined level) — Same as the previous option, but repeated X times, where X is the user-defined value. So, if X=3 then 3 levels of subcategories will be listed.
  • Category (recursive) - Same as the previous option, but X is infinity, so everything within the category will be found. Be advised that this can be very time intensive and may yield redundant results. For example, recursively searching from Category:Evolution will find the Human evolution article several times and even traverse the same subcategories numerous times. Worse yet, the process may take so long that it will terminate prematurely (caused by either Wikipedia or AWB). Thus, it may be necessary to download and search a database dump when making large lists. Another option is Google search, which finishes quickly but may not be as thorough.
  • Database dump — Opens AWB's Dump Scanner to scan a downloaded database dump. The recommended dump is enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2. Note that this is a very large file (~4 Gigabytes), and it is compressed, so after downloading it must be decompressed (7-Zip is the recommended free open source tool) before AWB can use it. The decompressed file will be roughly 5 times larger (~20 GB). See Wikipedia:Database download for more info.
  • Google search — Gets a list from a google search of the wiki.
  • Image file links — Gets a list of pages that use the given image.
  • Images on page — Gets a list of all the images on a page.
  • Links on page — Gets all the wiki-links from the given page, all namespaces.
  • My Watchlist — Imports your watchlist (using the account you are logged into Internet Explorer with).
  • New articles — Lists all the pages in Category:New articles.
  • Random pages — Will add 10 random pages to the list.
  • Redirects — Gets a list of what redirects to the given page
  • Special page — Shows a separate sub form to allow more specific "Special page" list providers. Allows a selectable namespace also
  • All pages
  • All pages with prefix (prefixindex) —
  • Link search
  • New articles
  • Random pages
  • Recent changes
  • What links here
  • Text file — Gets a list from a text file (the pages in the text should be [[wiki linked]]).
  • Transclusions on page — Gets a list of all the transcluded templates/pages on the given page.
  • User contribs — Lists all pages ever edited by the specified user name.
  • User contribs (user defined number) — Same as the previous option but specified by the user's ID number.
  • What links here — Lists all of the "What links here" entries of a page. This doesn't include Redirects to the page, though.
  • What links here (all NS)
  • What links here (all NS) (inc. Redirects)
  • What links here (inc. Redirects) — Same as the previous option but also includes all pages that link here via Redirect pages.
  • What transcludes page — Gets all the pages which transclude this page
  • Wiki search — that gets list of pages from wiki's internal search engine. Typically, Google search results are better, but Google rescans Wikipedia only around once per month and cannot search for specific wikisyntax.
  • Make list — Makes list based upon given options
  • — This button appears next to the when a list is being made. Clicking on it stops any current list making.
  • Add — Adds item in the text box to list.
  • Remove — Removes selected item from list.
  • Filter — Allows you to filter the list by a selected list of namespaces, inclusion of selected words. Can also exclude items that exist in another list and remove duplicates.

Options

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  • General
  • Auto tag — Appends {{wikify}}, {{uncategorised}}, {{stub}} and {{orphan}} tags when appropriate. Removes stub tags from long pages. Adds the date parameter to the by-date sorted templates.
  • Apply general fixes — If checked will apply general fixes (see List of general fixes below)
List of general fixes
  • Unicodify whole Page — Replaces wiki like &deg; with its unicode equivalent, °. Note that for symbols which could be easily confused with others, the conversion is not applied (for example: &prime; &Prime; and &times; which map to ′, ″, and × and could be confused with symbols like ', ", and x.)
  • General fixes skip options
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  • Find and replace
  • Enabled — If checked will enable Normal, Advanced, and subst: find and replace.
  • Normal settings — Opens the AWB Normal Find and replace.
See Normal - Find and replace for more detailed information on using this feature.
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  • Advanced settings — Opens the AWB Advanced Find and replace.
See Advanced - Find and replace for more detailed information on using this feature.
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  • Template substitution — Opens AWB substitute templates. Allows you to Substitute templates you chose. This is a more convenient and reliable way than simply entering regexes in Find and replace — AWB will automatically generate regexes.
See subst: - Find and replace for more detailed information on using this feature.
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  • Skip page when no replacements made — If Find and replace is enabled and this box is checked, the page will be skipped if no changes were made by any of the find and replace features (Normal, Advanced and, subst:).
  • Regex Typo Fixing
  • Enable RegexTypoFix — If checked will turn on AWB typographical error check feature (typo fixing is automatically prevented on image names, templates, wikilink targets and quotes), which automatically fixes thousands of common typographical errors. Please read and understand the RegExTypoFix before using. The typos can be modified on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos. Users performing typo fixing will be warned if a {{sic}} or {{typo}} template is found (when on English Wikipedia).
  • Skip if no typo fixed — If checked will skip pages that have no typo errors found.

More...

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  • Append/Prepend text — Appends/Prepend the given text to the bottom of the page.
  • Images — Replace/Remove/Comment out Images
  • Categories — Add/Remove/Replace categories (replace only available when making a list from a category), enter the new category name minus the Category: prefix. When entering a category for "Add new category" use the keyword %%key%% to insert the reversed human name key, e.g. entering "Economists|%%key%%" might insert "[[Category:Economists|Smith, Adam]]".

Disambig

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This feature is intended for quick user-supervised fixing of links to disambiguation pages.

  • Enable Disambiguation
  • Load Links — loads all links to the aforementioned page(s) into "Variants" edit box (see below).
  • Variants — all possible variants to disambiguate to (the list can be edited to add or remove links). Don't forget to decapitalize links when needed (e.g. matrix (mathematics) should be lowercase, but not Matrix (TV series)).
  • Skip page when no disambiguation made — ignores the page when it doesn't require disambiguation or user pressed "Cancel" in disambiguation dialog.

Disambiguation dialog

Once the disambiguation feature has been enabled using the above process and a page list loaded using "What links here" in the "Make list" section, the dialog box shown in the image will appear when a page has been loaded and a link to disambiguate found. In the image shown, two links in the page have been found to disambiguate. For each link:

  • Left box — contains the link in bold and some of the surrounding text.
  • Selection box — select the change wanting to be made from the following options:
  • [no change] — default.
  • [unlink] — remove the link.
  • {{dn}} — adds [disambiguation needed] next to the link. Should be used when the correct disambiguation cannot be determined.
  • Variants — as specified in the "Variants" box in the "Disambiguation" tab.
  • Right box — editable box that displays what has been changed. Default change creates (or alters) a piped link. In the image, [[matrix|matrices]] is changed to [[matrix (mathematics)|matrices]].
  • Unpipe — unpipes the link. This would change [[matrix (mathematics)|matrices]] to [[matrix (mathematics)]].
  • Reset — clears the changes made for that link.
  • Undo — reverts all manual changes to the right box, including unpiping. This is equivalent to reselecting the current item in the selection box.

Skip

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  • Match
  • Contains: — Skips pages that contains the given string or regex.
  • Doesn't contain: — Skips pages that do not contain the given string or regex.
  • Case Sensitive — If checked, indicates whether the above strings are case sensitive.
  • Regular expressions — If checked, indicates whether the above strings are handled as regular expressions.
  • General page skip options
  • Page is inuse — Skips the page if it contains the {{inuse}} tag
  • Edit blocked by Spam Filter — Skip page if not allowed to save page due to being blocked by the spam filter
  • Page contains no links
  • No changes made — Skips page that it doesn't automatically change (i.e. make a "general fix", find and replace etc.).
  • Only whitespace is changed
  • Only casing is changed
  • Only general fix changes
  • Page is redirect
  • Page
  • Doesn't exist — Causes AWB to automatically skip pages that don't exist. Cannot be selected at same time as Skip existing pages.
  • Exists — Causes AWB to automatically skip pages that exist. Cannot be selected at same time as Skip non-existing pages.
  • Don't care

Bots

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  • AutoSave
  • Auto-mode — Will make saves automatically at given interval, only for accounts registered in the Bots section of the checkpage.
  • Delay — The delay in seconds before saving the page after loading, (normally loading takes about an extra 8 seconds or 3 seconds with quick save enabled).
  • Suppress "using AWB" — Stops addition of "using AWB" to the edit summary, as registered bots do not need this.
  • Nudging
  • Resave (nudge) after x minutes if stuck — Allows you to re-attempt saving after a set number of minutes if AWB sticks
  • Reset Counter — Reset AWB Nudge Counter
  • Skip page if first nudge doesn't help — If the first nudge hasn't allowed AWB to continue/save, AWB will skip the page
  • Auto Shutdown
  • Auto Shutdown? - When the bot job is finished, automatically shutdown/standby/hibernate/restart the computer

Start

Note that the Start tab may not be visible immediately, even though it is the most important one. It is at the end of the sequence of tabs that starts with Options and More... Use the arrows to the right of those words to see the Start tab, and click on it.

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  • Summary — The edit summary, either select one from the drop down, or enter your own text.
  • Lock Summary — Allows the user to select to 'lock' the edit summary, so that it cannot be accidentally changed
  • Minor — Sets the edit as a 'minor edit'
  • Page statistics — Various statistics, such as number of characters and images.
  • Alerts — Displays alerts when, for example, the page is uncategorized, is long but tagged as a stub, etc.
  • Start — Starts the process when you have a list of pages. (Shortcut key when 'Save' button not enabled — Ctrl+S, but Ctrl+G at all times)
  • Stop — Stops the editing process. (Shortcut key — Esc)
  • False — Adds page to a list of false positives, in a file called "False positives.txt"
  • Preview — Changes the view to preview (and updates any extra changes you made).
  • Diff — Changes the view to the difference view (and updates any extra changes you made).
  • Move — Allows you to move a page to another location. Upon pressing this button, a windows appears asking for the new location, and a summary of the change, which is then confirmed by pressing move again.
  • Protect — For administrators use only. Allows protecting/un-protecting pages.
  • Delete — For administrators use only. Allows you to delete a page. Upon pressing this button, a window appears asking for a summary of the change, which is then confirmed by pressing delete again.
  • Ignore — Moves on to the next page without saving anything. (Shortcut key — Ctrl+I)
  • Save — Saves the page, including any extra changes you made, then moves on to next page. (Shortcut key when button is enabled — Ctrl+S)
  • Find
  • Enter your search criteria in the find box. This will allow you to search the edit box for the criteria you enter in this box.
  • Regex — If checked indicates that the criteria entered in the find box is a regular expression and to search as a regex.
  • Case sensitive — If checked the find will be searched as the case entered in the find box.
  • Find — When this button is clicked it will search the Edit box for the inputed string.

Edit box

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A text box used for manual editing of the current page text. See also: Context menus, Edit box context menu

History

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Allows the user to view the current page's history without having to open a separate web browser. See also: Context menus, History context menu

Diffs between pages can also be viewed in the history area.

Edit summary

Displays the complete current edit summary

Logs

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Common to both Successfully saved and Skipped

See also: Context menus, Logs context menu

  • Save Log — Saves a copy of the relevant list view to a specified file
  • Clear — Removes all the items from the relevant list view

Skipped only

  • Add to page list — Adds the selected page(s) to the list maker

Note that the log entries have tooltip text containing details of how the page was processed and why.

Logging to file

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  • Log to XHTML — Output a log in XHTML format
  • Log to wiki code — Output a log in MediaWiki syntax
  • Log to MySQL — Not yet implement
  • Verbose logging — Detailed log, mainly for debugging
  • Upload — Upload the logs to the wiki
  • Folder — Where on the filesystem to store the logs
  • Apply — Apply changes
  • Upload to WPs — Upload the logs to the automation department of a WikiProject
  • Add to Watchlist — Add uploaded logs to the watchlist
  • Open in Browser — Open uploaded logs in the web browser
  • Upload Location — Where to upload logs to
  • Category — The name of the current category (optional). Also used in edit summaries (by kingbotk plugin only at the moment, maybe should be an option for AWB to use it; this text box really needs a new home but we're short of space)
  • Current Job Name — The name of the current job (can be used by the program when uploading logs)
  • Maximum Lines — Maximum number of Lines in a Log
  • Status — Shows the number of log uploads, number of lines written to SQL/Wiki/XHTML log, and the number of lines since the last log upload.

Context menus

Web control window context menu

The web control context menu is the menu that appears when you right-click on the web control window.

  • Standard Internet Explorer right click menu

List context menu

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The list box context menu is the menu that appears when you right-click inside the list box.

See also: Make list

  • Filter out non main space — Removes all non-main space pages.
  • Filter — Opens the advanced filter options.
  • Convert to talk pages — Transforms the list into talk pages, e.g. "Cat" => "Talk:Cat".
  • Convert from talk pages — Transforms the list from talk pages, e.g. "Talk:Cat" => "Cat".
  • Sort alphabetically — Sorts list alphabetically.
  • Save list to text file — Saves list to text file (which can be used later on to create new list, as described above.)
  • Cut selection — Cuts the currently selected page(s)
  • Copy selection — Copies the currently selected page(s)
  • Paste selection — Pastes whatever is in the clipboard. Pages separated by newlines or commas will be entered as separate pages
  • Select all — Select/Highlight all the pages in the list
  • Invert selection - Selects any pages which aren't selected, unselects any pages which are selected
  • Select none — Unselects all pages in the list
  • Add selected from list... — When an item is selected, the following can be added to the list
    • Category on page
    • Category — Adds the contents of a category when a category is selected.
    • Category (recursive)
    • Image file links — Adds the pages linked to an image when an image is selected.
    • Images on page
    • Links on page — Adds the pages linked in the selected page.
    • Transclusions
    • Redirects
    • What links here — Adds the pages that link to the selected page.
  • Remove — Removes the selected page(s).
    • Remove — Removes the selected page(s).
    • Duplicates — Removes duplicates from the page list.
  • Clear — Clears the list.
  • Open page in browser — Opens the page in your default browser.

Edit box context menu

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The edit box context menu is the menu that appears when you right-click inside the edit box.

See also: Edit box

  • WordWrap — Wraps the text in the edit box at bottom-right.
  • Undo — Negates the last action.
  • Cut — Cuts the selected text.
  • Copy — Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
  • Paste — Pastes text from the clipboard to the selected area.
  • Paste more — Enter text into the textboxes, then double click one to paste its contents.
  • Select all — Selects all the text in the edit box.
  • Go to line — Enter the line number and hit return.
  • Insert... — can:
  • Guess birth/death cats — Guesses the birth and death years of the page's subject and inserts the appropriate categories. (For biographical pages only.)
  • Meta-data template — inserts the persondata template. (For biographical pages only.)
  • Human name category key
  • Insert tag — Inserts the tag selected from the submenu to the selected area of the page. If {{stub}} is selected, the user can optionally change the type of stub by typing into the box.
  • Convert list to
  • * List — (Bullet pointed list)
  • # List — (Numbered list)
  • Unicodify selected — Converts any HTML entities or URL encoded characters in the selected text to unicode.
  • Bypass all redirects — replaces all links to redirects with direct links. This feature shouldn't be used in most cases, therefore it's restricted to admins only.
  • Fix all excess whitespace
  • Re-parse — Re-applies all the functions (general fixes, re-categorisation...).
  • Open page in browser — Opens the page in the default browser.
  • Open talk page in browser — Opens the talk page for the page/page in the default browser.
  • Open page history in browser — Opens the page history in the default browser.
  • Open text selection in browser — Allows the selected text to be opened as an page, as if it were a wikilink
  • Replace text with last edit

History context menu

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See also: History

  • Open history in Browser — Opens the history for the current page in the default web browser
  • Refresh history — Refreshes the history of the current page

Logs context menu

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This context menu is common to both the Successfully saved and the skipped logs.

See also: Logs

  • Add selected to page list — Adds the page of the currently selected log to the page list
  • Cut — Cuts the currently selected log(s)
  • Copy — Copies the currently selected log(s)
  • Remove — Removes the currently selected log(s)
  • Select all — Selects all the logs in the current list view
  • Select none — Selects none of the logs in the current list view
  • Open in browser — Opens the page of the currently selected item in the list view
  • Open history in browser — Opens the page history of the currently selected item in the list view
  • Clear — Remove all displayed entries
  • Reset — Remove all displayed and hidden entries, remove sorting

See also

Database scanner user manual

Find and replace user manual

Regular expressions