Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser

AutoWikiBrowser 6.3.1.1

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Frequently asked questions

• When I start it up I get one of the following errors:

  "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.", or

  "To run this application, you must first install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework..."

  This error means your computer does not have the .NET framework version 2 installed properly. You can choose from various versions for download here, or you can run Microsoft Update and select version 2 of the .Net framework from the "Optional Updates" section, if you want the choice made for you.

• Does AWB run on Linux or Mac?

  Linux, a qualified yes. Mac, not natively but via virtualisation.

  AWB runs reasonably under Wine. See details here

  AWB might also run under Mono. See here for a status report of AWB vs Mono v2.6.

A native version, PyAutoWikiBrowser (screenshots here), based on Python, is being developed separately for Unix-like systems.

On the Mac, AWB is not natively available, but an option is to use virtualisation with Parallels Desktop for Mac (subject to meeting supported operating systems requirements) and then run Microsoft Windows virtually with AWB as the Windows instructions above. Note this option is not free, as a license is required for both Parallels Desktop for Mac and Microsoft Windows. An alternative visualization method is to use the free VirtualBox, see also Comparison of platform virtual machines.

• Does AWB work on other projects/languages?

  Many Wikimedia projects and languages are supported, see the "User and project preferences" option in the general menu. Other languages will be added on request, though at the moment the interface is always in English. You are also able to use AWB with third-party wikis: Options > Preferences > Site, you can change the wiki there. The wiki must support the Bot API required by AWB. This means that it should have latest HEAD version of MediaWiki or something close to that. The wmf-deployment branch is also recommended, as this is what is currently live on WMF sites.

• What interwiki link order does AWB use?

  The software reads the interwiki sort order from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/IW, which is generally mirrored to reflect the order at m:Interwiki sorting order.

• AWB puts stubs after categories, though categories are always rendered the last by MediaWiki?

  According to WP:STUB#Categorizing stubs, By convention they are placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. If your wiki uses another order, please let us know here.

• I don't like or use Internet Explorer; please use Firefox instead.

  AWB does not use Internet Explorer per se. It does, however, use the same web browser control (MSHTML) as Internet Explorer; the equivalent Firefox component does not provide the needed functionality.

• How do I open the page in another browser if I can't use the one in AWB?

  Right click on the edit box in the bottom right side of your screen. Select "Open page in browser".

• How do I edit a page that doesn't exist?

  Uncheck "Ignore non existing pages" in the "Skip articles" box.

• How do I skip certain articles?

  Use the "Skip if contains" and "Skip if doesn't contain" on the "Skip" tab

• Can't you leave up a "stable" version, so I don't have to download new versions?

  It is important to keep people up to date with the latest versions, because their use of the software doesn't just affect them, but the whole of Wikipedia. As any bugs that remain will be trivial; hopefully releases won't be too frequent.

• How can I stop AWB clicking when it changes pages?

  This is a Windows sound theme setting. This page explains how to turn off the clicking sound.

  Alternatively, delete the following key from the Windows registry:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current

• AWB randomly crashes upon page load on my system, and I always use a browser other than Internet Explorer when using Wikipedia.'

  You may have installed custom scripts incompatible with IE. Wrap the contents of your monobook.js into conditional:

               //Detect IE5.5+
               if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")==-1)
               {
                   // Previous contents go here
                   ....
               }

• I get Just In Time Debugger Messages when loading AWB/loading pages.

  In Internet Explorer, go to Tools --> Options --> Advanced. Make sure 'Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)' and 'Disable Script Debugging (Other)' Are both checked. Press apply and close.

• Why does AWB run very, very slowly if I try to make changes in the edit window on larger pages, especially pages with long lists or tables?

  If running on Windows, exit the Speech Recognition software that is built into some versions of Windows; don't just turn it 'Off', you must 'Exit' the software if you have started up Speech Recognition.

• When I do a clean install of AutoWikiBrowser the application seems to find old setting data somewhere. I'd like to do a really clean install. Any ideas?

  Clean up your registry and remove the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser" (Windows XP) or "C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\AutoWikiBrowser\" (Windows 7). Note that the application data folder may be hidden.

• AWB prompts that there is a newer version but won't update

  Check the version number of your AWBUpdater.exe. The current version is 2.0.0.9. If you have an older version, you have to download the latest AWB version and make a clean install.

• Which .NET Framework version do I have?

  You can find your .NET Framework version in Help --> About box.

• Where are the default settings stored?

  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\AutoWikiBrowser
  • Windows Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\AutoWikiBrowser\Default.xml

Discussion

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Need assistance

Hi,My user name has been changed from User:zeeyanketu to User:zeeyanwiki after request but i cant able to login AWB with new username.Plz guide me for this.---zeeyanwiki ^discutez 18:21, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Should work now - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 19:29, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I have also the same issue. My username has been recently changed from Torreslfchero to Tolly4bolly. Could you also change my username so that I can use it when I need it. T4B (talk) 19:47, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Also done. I have a bot which handles this issue (renamed users in the AWB check page list) but your case just made me realise why it's not been doing it (I messed some things up when installing a new operating system), so I'll try and get to fixing that. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 22:05, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Some basic helps needed.

• In the make list column, there is an option to automatically add new pages in the list of articles or pages. My doubt is which pages are loaded? Are they already reviewed by new page patrollers or are just out of creation.

Just created, or just modified – completely raw. Chris the speller ^yack 19:23, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the help. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

• How to automatically add a template or a set of templates to pages in the list?

Please help.

- Jayadevp13 (talk) 16:23, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

To add templates to your list, make sure you have selected a source that contains "(all NS)" - which means all namespaces - and that you do not have the "Remove non-main space" checked in the List menu. If you would like to provide an example of a set of templates you want to add to your list, I would be happy to help further. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 01:59, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

I think you have misunderstood me or most probably I was not able to explain my problem well. For example, I have already prepared a list of articles or pages. Now take a template, for example Template - Indian space programme. Now I want to edit the pages in the list in such a way that the mentioned template is already added to the article and I just need to press the SAVE button to save my edit.

- Jayadevp13 (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Try using a combination of Append/Prepend Text box and the sort meta after check box on the More tab. See Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User_manual#More.... — Ganeshk (talk) 10:28, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. It worked. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 11:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Jayadevp13 - sorry for misunderstanding. Ganeshk - thanks for giving the right answer.

Everyone - How should Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Order of procedures be updated to reflect the "sort meta data after" option? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:22, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

AWB and dead-end

In the past few days, two articles on my watchlist, From the Vault (Magic: The Gathering) and Magic: The Gathering duel decks, have been tagged with Template:Deadend. One small problem: they weren't dead-ends. Both link to Magic: The Gathering and Template:Magic: The Gathering, the latter of which links to a whole lotta other articles pbp 18:28, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Both of those contain a whole bunch of external links disguised as wikilinks. Interesting, but not really AWB business. Mr Stephen (talk) 19:41, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

So? They also contain real wikilinks, so AWB shouldn't have slapped the "dead-end" tag on them pbp 23:20, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

My point was that the the article contains a lot of external links that look like internal links. It's not AWB business so I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#External links disguised as wikilinks. Fell free to chime in and put me right either way. Mr Stephen (talk) 13:15, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

It works OK for me. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:53, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Looking at the history of From the Vault (Magic: The Gathering), I don't see where it was ever tagged with {{dead end}}. When Magic: The Gathering duel decks was tagged in this edit, it had one true wikilink. I can reproduce the issue, so I created this bug report. GoingBatty (talk) 21:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Select which auto tags

I would like to run a check for orphan articles over Wikivoyage. The auto tag option is however built for Wikipedia and adds other tags such as empty sections and uncategorised pages which are not relevant for the site. Is there a way to selectively switch on and off these tags? --Traveler100 (talk) 09:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Not currently possible, but you could raise a feature request to specify which tags should be used for Wikivoyage. Rjwilmsi 12:14, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Help with regex through AWB

I don't know if this talk is the right one; anyway. My need is to select a certain portion of delimited paragraph that does not cointain certain words, but I can't find the right regex to use. All my testes has been performed through AWB regex tester. For example, if I use this: (start)(?!.*text.*)(.*?)(end) without Singleline flag, it matches this "start text end" but not this "start\ntext\nend". If I use the singleline flag the situation is the opposite.

If I use this: (start)(?![.]*text.*)(.*?)(end) without singleline it selects also "start text end" ignoring the "not match" condition. Apparently [.] should be equal to . but the behaviour is different.

If I use this: (start)(?![\s\w]*text.*)(.*?)(end) with singleline it matches correctly both the above cases, but it fails on "start ;text end".

Any explanation for the above cases? Can someone tell me which is the right regex that work in every case? Thanks, --Andyrom75 (talk) 00:44, 28 March 2013 (UTC)