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Welcome to my talk page, if you want to start a new topic, then click here please! Generally I will reply here, so please come back to check. If I posted something in your talk page you don't have to answer here or post a talkback template. I'll check your talk page for answer.

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New checkwiki page.

New Checkwiki.... Information is located here. Could you take a look and report and bugs you find... also any suggestions, ideas for new bug reports, current bug reports that should be removed or anything else you can think. I'm sending a message to Meno25, GoingBatty, NicoV and Tim Landscheidt. If you can think of anybody else, could you send them a message. -- -Bgwhite (talk) 06:17, 27 July 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

CHECKWIKI November 2013

Error #2

  • For error #2, AWB was not picking up errors between the / and >. Examples: <br /\>, <br /2> and <br /•> Bgwhite (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Bgwhite in fact AWB is picking some errors just to be on the same side. Did you notice any of them being slightly common? I could add it to AWB's list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
rev 9697 for <br /2> and <br /•>. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:49, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There were about 20 cases where something was between the / and >. This included numbers and punctuation. <br /•> was only one case and it was mistyped... There was a list that contained 20 lines that had <br/>•, but a line was mistyped with <br /•> Bgwhite (talk) 02:44, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Now we fix all numbers and letters inside <br />. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:21, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Error #3

  • Increase of error #3 is due to not detecting redirects of reflist
    • I see you converted the redirects. Should I add the redirect to checkwiki or convert them. {{ref list}} is in about 300 articles. Bgwhite (talk) 00:44, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Error #6

Error #16

  • I asked the help of Carlossuarez46 for fixing error 16

Error 37

Error #61

  • AWB fix for multiple sfn and punctuation issue. rev 9607
  • Bgwhite maybe #61 needs to expand further to catch in-line templates? Check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Expand RefsAfterPunctuation for use with inline templates. -- Magioladitis (talk)
    • @GoingBatty:. It is already set up for it. Just add the templates to the Translation file. {{sfn}} and its derivatives, plus {{refn}} are already there. I had {{efn}} listed as well, but that caused problems. The efn templates can have templates inside itself. Bgwhite (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Excuse my newbie questions, but does AWB standard functionality call this Translation file, or do you need to load a module to enable it? Is it OK to add other non-reference inline templates here (e.g. {{citation needed}}), or will that cause problems? Is there documentation on this file? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:38, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • GoingBatty, sorry, this is for CheckWiki and not AWB. I saw you filed the original AWB feature report about this and thought I'd ping you. Once something gets in Checkwiki, Magioladitis or Rj gains motivation to find a fix (except for a nowiki problem, hint, hint). I added {{sfn}} into CheckWiki and two weeks later Magioladitis adds it into AWB. As Magioladitis essentially lives on a nice Mediterranean beach, you have to get him really motivated for him to do something. I'll add the other templates into Checkwiki that you listed in the feature report. Hopefully somebody will get motivated. Bgwhite (talk) 07:13, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Errors #69-73

Bgwhite any of these lists contained in Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Articles were placed into the ISBN category when Rich Farmbrough's bot found a bad ISBN and placed a template in the article. With Farmbrough's bots no longer working, the category isn't being updated like it was. So, the category is more of a subset to the CheckWiki lists. Bgwhite (talk) 19:33, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

General

  • Bgwhite I think the lists till last month did not contain duplicates. Now they do. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:13, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • They have always reported duplicates. Look at the of #10. In most, but not all cases, Checkwiki reports every error. If there are 5 broken brackets for error #10 in one article, it reports all 5. I output this to log files and this is what I put up on the AWB_CHECKWIKI dumps. When Checkwiki on labs gets done, it also outputs to the database. Only one error per error # for an article is put into the database. This is done so daily scans don't keep putting in the same errors in an article into the database over an over again. Bgwhite (talk) 06:48, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bgwhite 12 is being cleanup by Friejtes, GoingBatty presented a new list of a minor problem at User:GoingBatty/Main articles, 71 has very few items. Any plans for the next 10 days of the month? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:10, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm currently helping out Tito Dutta and his friends on getting a wikipedia site up and going... http://sarkarverse.org Mediawiki documentation is horrible and out of date. I don't know how long I'll be at it, but probably the rest of the week. Next week is Thanksgiving in the U.S. I'm cooking alot of the meal for my wife's family. So, next week I won't have much time. I have to address some issues on checkwiki's talk page before the next dump. I'm trying to stay on top of daily errors. Bgwhite (talk) 01:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Bgwhite can you please find some time for 71? I hope we can beat 12 and I am looking forward for next month's dump. till now we have not managed to have comparable results due to changes to our detection method. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:42, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bgwhite I wonder if now we can run the script on the lists of errors marked as "bot" to check what was left to be done manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:32, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    • Which errors do you want first? Bgwhite (talk) 07:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      • Bgwhite by order of importance (or how easy I can fix them): 44, 37, 48, 86, 64, 65. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:37, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • 44 and 48 are up on the AWB_CHECKWIKI page. I already ran 37 and you don't want to see it. Will get the other 3 tomorrow. Bgwhite (talk) 08:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        • Bgwhite I did 44. I almost did 48. there were many redirects with bad syntax. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:16, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
          • I just put 64 up. All articles still remain for 65. 86 will be up in a few minutes. Bgwhite (talk) 22:22, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
            • 86 didn't have any article remaining. I did put up #80. Bgwhite (talk) 22:42, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
            • Bgwhite Some redirects on 64 too. If there are any interesting cases still there we may need to record them and see if we can add some kind of general fix in AWB. It seems the idea of running the bots in all lists and then check of what remained unfixed to be a good one :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:48, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:57, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

T: template redirects

Hi, you participated in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2009 October 20#T:ITNBOX and other Template redirects, some of which I have relisted at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November_18#T:WPTECH. Please come along and share your thoughts .. ;-) John Vandenberg (chat) 15:32, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned page

Hello!

I wanted to thank you for bringing my attention that my page was an orphan page. I wanted to ask how to fix this problem. I have looked at the links and criteria, but I am having a hard time finding how to address this issue Ladeidramonetroberts (talk) 17:55, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ladeidramonetroberts which page is this? Maybe I could help? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

cleanup
Thank you, tireless contributor in several languages, for quality articles on Greek politics and the people behind it, for cleaning up little mistakes we carelessly make and bigger ones, and for your interest in standard infobox parameters, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:47, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda Arendt Wow! Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:48, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Opt out possibility please

Resolved

clean up / talk page general fixes using AWB (9710)

Some of these are helpful on talk pages, others are not so much.

Is there a way I can place a code on certain article talk pages to opt out of these changes, please?

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 18:10, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cirt did I do something wrong? Any particular page you have in mind? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:17, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cirt I checked your edits. Any reason why the bot call should be placed before talk header? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:20, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there's a whole slew of them where it takes "findsources" and breaks them apart, moves the talk page indexing archiving code to the bottom instead of keeping it on the top, stuff like that. I'd rather just if there was a way to opt out, please? — Cirt (talk) 18:21, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Because if it's at the bottom there's an ugly space and break up of the templates in between them. Can I place code on a page to opt out, please? — Cirt (talk) 18:21, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cirt I did the edit semi-manually anyway. So I don't expect any bot to reach these pages. Since this is a general problem and you have a good point maybe you leave a message at the talk page of WP:TPL that the bot trigger should be placed above "talk header"? And then, if there is consensus, I'll implement it for AWB. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I did that. Did you notice you often placed templates in between multiple "find sources" templates I had added to the talk pages, causing unnecessary and ugly empty spacing? — Cirt (talk) 18:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cirt Oh. I have not. Because I expected only one of these templates. I fixed the code at rev 9716 but I wonder if we could extend the template to accept more than one sources. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I guess that is one of the problems with automated editing, it doesn't work the exact same way for every page. Another reason it'd be a good idea to find some way to opt out, please? — Cirt (talk) 19:26, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cirt As I write I am not going to touch these pages again. So you don't have to worry about me at least. I also expect that your suggestion will be implemented as part of the Manual of Style. Opting out some pages is not a good way to go I think. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, okay, well thank you for your help with discussing these systemic changes for the future, in that case, that is most appreciated! :) Have a great day, — Cirt (talk) 19:32, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

9731

Could you please perform such edits with a bot [1]? They are spamming multiple watchlists (because they concern vital articles), and are hard to filter out because you edit from main account. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:16, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Materialscientist No problem. I 'll use a bot account in the future for similar tasks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:27, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please explain said edits? Has VA been designated for deletion? Josh Parris 02:38, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Josh Parris I replaced with full name because older versions of AWB could misplace it. It had not that many transclusions so I decided to do it. I am done with it already. I am trying to standardise talk page templates. Right now we have more than 1,000 templates, making it impossible to handle. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs on svwp

Resolved

Please add {{Stubavsnitt}} to the list on sourgeforge. That template is not a stub tag, but has the word stub in it. -(t) Josve05a (c) 16:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Josve05a I recall you giving me the rule we used. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:47, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Iknow but I forgot to mention this template. This is an exeption to all the stub. This template has 'stub' in it but is not a stub. -(t) Josve05a (c) 21:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User:Josve05a rev 9751 fixes it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:24, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pha̍k-oa-chhi romanization

Resolved

As you can see with the section heading, there is a slight problem. Bgwhite (talk) 21:47, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

a̍ It is not a letter but an accent above a. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:28, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For all your help with AWB and CHECKWIKI-errors and for making Wikipedia a better place. Your efforts is really appreciated! (t) Josve05a (c) 23:36, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox person

I was wondering if the parameters shown are the only ones you can use. For example i've seen some usages of the template adapting to the parameter "family" and others even though it does not appear on the blank parameter.

(talk page stalker) As I advised at User talk:Redrose64#Template:Infobox person, please discuss undocumented parameters on the template's talk page. That way, we can keep all discussion in one place instead of fragmenting it around various user talk pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:02, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, i will do so. Pass a Method talk 21:32, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pointless edit

Re this I know that I sound like a broken record but honestly, I shouldn't have to come here several times to mention this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:57, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Magioladitis: is that Thanks for spotting it, or Thanks, and I've really, really fixed the code this time, one last time? (I'm really hoping the latter). —Sladen (talk) 22:00, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sladen I try to be more cautious every day. I think it is normal/expected that with all this effort I may miss some (very few in fact) things. Editors with much less edits than I save and resave the same page over and over for minor reasons. I fixed the thing I wanted in the page and I missed by saving before fixing it. I revisited the page and I think now it is OK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:31, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Could you clarify whether any code/ruleset changes have been made to AWB to prevent AWB from attempting to change the case of templates. —Sladen (talk) 10:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No change was made. There was no mistake on that. The uppercase version is a redirect of the lowercase. I forgot to do additional manual changes before saving. That's all. I revisited the page and did what I wanted to do. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:08, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Arabic comma

Resolved

Hi. A user on Arabic Wikipedia asked me if it was possible to use Arabic comma ((U+060C) See Comma#Comma variants.) instead of English comma in the edit summary provided by AWB when adding or removing multiple tags at the same time. If this was possible, please make the change for arwiki and arzwiki. --Meno25 (talk) 18:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is. I added Arabic comma for Farsi at some time during the summer. It must be something similar. I'll have a look. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:33, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Meno25: Check rev 9758. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:38, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Still not working. See this example. --Meno25 (talk) 01:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Meno25: Check rev 9759. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:35, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed partially. Arabic comma is used between tags but not between human edit summary and automatic summary. See example. --Meno25 (talk) 01:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Meno25: Check rev 9760. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:47, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. Thank you very much. You are very helpful. --Meno25 (talk) 02:09, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Anytime. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:09, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pointless changes by Yobot

Hi. What is the point of edits like this and this and this? It seems to me that they simply clutter up watchlists and waste server space, contrary to WP:COSMETICBOT. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:05, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

JohnCD you are right on that. Something went wrong. I'll have a look. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Have a look", or "actually, really, really fix the bot this time?" —Sladen (talk) 23:16, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According to Murphy's law there is always one more bug. :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:22, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According the AWB's bug page, we dealt with 38 bugs since November 1st. To his you can add the bugs reported on my talk page, bug reports sent to me by email, bugs I discover by myself. If you asked me a month ago I would say my bot and AWB are bugs free. The same I say now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy to accept that [your] bot and AWB are bug free. Could you confirm that all of these edit links, and the one listed just above are entirely human actions? —Sladen (talk) 23:46, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sladen for the last report: I must have loaded a wrong set of settings. This is not that common. I happens rarely when I do a lot of tasks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:48, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Have you made changes to the "wrong set of settings", so that pointless template changes are not made in the future? —Sladen (talk) 23:52, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sladen I just got rid of 30 old settings files from my hard disc. This will reduce confusion. Thanks for your advice. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:14, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What BRfA task were you meant to be running at the time? Josh Parris 00:16, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Josh Parris I wanted to add blp on talk pages lacking it. Something went terribly wrong. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:17, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In doing so, the rendered page ought to have changed and didn't. I was under the impression that AWB detected changes that don't change the rendered form of the page; as there are changes that a valuable yet don't change the rendering (such as adding hidden cats, defaultsort, etc) I imagine that one can override the "don't edit if visual changes aren't made". Have I misunderstood or misremembered anything? Josh Parris 02:15, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Josh Parris I have never activated this feature for talk page fixes to be honest. I do most of the talk page related tasked more rarely than mainspace editing. The last 2 months AWB expanded a lot on talk pages fixes so I need to update a lot of the settings. Another reason is that it is usually requested to bypass some requests in order to make some things happen. For instance, Wikiproject banners will be converted to WPBS only if there name is set to "WikiProject foo". Talk pages and talk page banners are still a real mess. I found that about 8% of the pages in the category "Talk page templates" should not be there and some other templates can be deleted. The result of all this is that my settings were not based on built-in AWB general fixes as it happens for mainspace editing but in custom modules and self-made code. Anyway. I'll have a look to my settings file to start updating them before using them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:38, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for upseting all of you guys! -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:28, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Zadoc Dederick

On that article you said that it was the wrong place to request an infobox. Where is the right place? Or are you saying that this page does not need an infobox? --HighFlyingFish (talk) 05:49, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

HighFlyingFish That particular tag only goes on talk pages, not in articles. However, the article doesn't need an infobox anyway, there isn't any info to put in an infobox besides his name. Bgwhite (talk) 06:55, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

xfD talk page templates

-- Magioladitis (talk) 08:43, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Curious about edit

In this edit, with summary ((Remove unicode control characters (CHECKWIKI error 16) using AWB (9773)) - I couldn't see any unicode. Is that summary correct? The cleanup performed was fine, btw, just a strange summary. If there was any unicode in there, I wonder how it got there. --Lexein (talk) 16:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lexein There was an invisible character next to the word "Curses". -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weird - I guess it was pasted in when I copied the title from a webpage. Thanks. Curses, unicode, indeed! --Lexein (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically, it was that old favourite the U+200E left-to-right mark, immediately before the letter C of Curses. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:52, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism report

Hello, thanks for such continuous effort towards improving wikipedia. I wanted to inform you about some vandal activities going on wikipedia page of Arjit Singh. I have reverted those edits, but haven't warned the editor. I request you to please look into the matter and take action accordingly. Regards Mr RD (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know why...

...AWB did not remove the underscore ( _ ) within {{Olympic_Games}} at this page? -(t) Josve05a (c) 19:55, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Maybe because it doesn't matter? Where template transclusions are concerned, {{Olympic_Games}} and {{Olympic Games}} are identical in both effect and rendered appearance. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:27, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But AWB changes [[Text_text]] to [[Text text]]. Why not the same for templates? -(t) Josve05a (c) 20:32, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For a wikilink, the underscore is visible, so it's a valid fix: compare Text_text with Text text. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:40, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, now that makes it clearer. But removing the underscore can be implemented as a minor general fix for templates within AWB. Just as it removes blank lines and spaces. -(t) Josve05a (c) 20:44, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
We remove underscores only from Infoboxes AFAIK. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:57, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for bot action

Hi Magioladitis.

The newly formed WikiProject Women artists could use a bot to add its project banner to the talk pages of articles within defined categories. If possible, we would like to add the banner to all of the articles in the categories listed below, borrowing class assessments when other projects have them listed.

Categories within the scope of WikiProject Women artists

Category:Women artists and most of its subcategories:

Let me know if this is possible or if you need any more information from us. Thank you! Gobōnobō + c 05:30, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Hi, Magio. Could you, please, comment on this isuue? --Meno25 (talk) 11:57, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CHECKWIKI December 2013

As of this month we try a new approach. First, we run bots on all errors and then we recheck lists to see what was left unfixed.

Error #64

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:10, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional AWB skip options

Is there a way that AWB can have or load additional skip options like the Database Scanner? Also, is there any way to run through the entire list and prepend to 10000 page blocks from the database scanner? Whenever I do a run it crashes at about 300,000 results in. If I split it up I get a bunch of duplicates, literally thousands of seemingly random duplicates and almost always in a jumbled order. And how do I get a Regex to search for a stub tag (any stub tag) on an article? I need to double check the D&D space again and I noticed that some tags were present when they should not be. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 17:32, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry talk page stalker. For the stub thing you could try looking for {{(.*?)\-stub}}.
What kinds of things are you trying to skip? That might help answer that question.
I have also noticed that AWB doesn't handle large lists very well. If its over about 30 or 40 thousand it doesn't sort of remove duplicates very well. Once you get over 100K articles it gets really crashy. 108.45.104.69 (talk) 18:03, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I also thought I would mention if you put in .{2000} under Contains and check the regex button it will skip if the article has 2000 or more characters. For another example if you put in .{2000,3000} it will skip if the article is between 2000 and 3000 characters. 108.45.104.69 (talk) 19:02, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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