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Frequently asked questions

  • When I start it up I get error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application."
    This error means your computer does not have the .NET framework version 2 installed properly. Download
  • Will it ever work on linux?
    Probably not.
  • Does AWB work on other projects/languages?
    Many WikiMedia projects and languages are supported, see the "Select language and project" option in the file menu. Other languages will be added on request, though at the moment the interface is always in English. You are also able to use other 3rd party wiki's, by entering the URL where index.php of this wiki resides. The wiki must support Query API and Bot API required by AWB. This means that it should have latest HEAD version of MediaWiki or something close to that.
  • I don't like or use Internet Explorer, please use FireFox instead.
    AWB does not use Internet Explorer, it does however happen to use the same web browser control that Internet Explorer does, 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" in the "(2) Set options" 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 doesnt just affect them, but the whole of wikipedia. As any bugs that remain will be trivial, hopefully releases won't be so frequent anyway.

Discussion

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Feature request

I make use of AWB on Wikinews to do the pre-archiving cleanup. A feature that would be really useful to me is having a button to pop up the current article's history in a new window. A list of what should be done on a Wikinews article prior to it being protected can be found here. --Brianmc 19:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Very simple to implement too if Martin wants to :-) —Mets501 (talk) 23:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Already submitted by Martin a couple of hours after this request was posted. MaxSem 23:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll look forward to seeing this in the next release thanks! --81.243.180.100 12:02, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

<Typo word="Oft(en)times" find="\b(O|o)ft(|en)[- ]times\b" replace="$1ft$2times" /

Often Times to Oftentimes ???

It might be me, but that seems like a use that would be sparsely used?

Or is it just me?

Reedy Boy 23:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Hebrew Wikipedia

Is it possible to add Hebrew Wikipedia to supported projects? The URL is he.wikipedia.org.

(Am i the first one to ask that?) --Amir E. Aharoni 14:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is listed in the languages under preferences in AWB.... Reedy Boy 21:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Either i am insane, or it is just not there.
I am using version 3.0.5.2. --Amir E. Aharoni 09:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You're not insane, it will be there in the next release, Reedy boy probably is looking at the latest development version. Martin 10:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much. --Amir E. Aharoni 10:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, i am, sorry for the confusion!! Reedy Boy 12:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Can the interface be translated to Hebrew? Yonidebest 01:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose it could be, but it would be a very long job... And make maintenance more difficult, depending on how the changes were done... Probably the reason its only in english, as its constantly undergoing rapid development Reedy Boy 21:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see. Perhaps adding a mediawiki-like way of changing the interface language would be good - this way the software can be used overseas too. i.e. have a txt file that contains all of the interface captions. Yonidebest 23:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Focus problems

I keep getting caught when the focus moves to the "edit summary" drop-down without me noticing, and I end up doing several edits in succession with an incorrect summary before I notice. Please fix it so that focus stops jumping around, this is getting really annoying. TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 08:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think i saw something on the SVN logs of a fix to this in the latest source. If i am correct, this will be fixed in the next release Reedy Boy 18:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That would be great... I too keep getting hit with this, like if focus accidentally goes to the summary box and then changes when I use the mousewheel or something. It would be nice to have a checkbox like "lock edit summary". --Elonka 20:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Urdu

Is it possible to enable AutoWikiBrowser for Wikipedia Urdu? What is required to do so? Szhaider 23:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You have requested it here, you just need to wait for MaxSem or Martin to add it to the sources, and await the next build =) Reedy Boy 19:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Done. MaxSem 05:52, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We have different words there. For example for "Category" we use زمرہ and so on and so forth. Are they automatically fixed? How about spelling check? Szhaider 02:19, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, localized namespaces are fully supported. For spellchecking, you need to define a ruleset yourself, for details see WP:RETF. I'm still working on getting lists from Google search though. MaxSem 19:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Done, now it should search every project and much less relies on precise HTML output. MaxSem 20:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Load/Save settings files

We're in the process of categorising people (and groups of people) on Wikinews so you get pages like George W. Bush and Hezbollah, aaand I've noticed a minor niggle when loading and saving settings files.

If I save a file set up to go throught all the articles as Helen Clark then load one John Howard to make some changes to it the next time I go to save it has remembered the name of the file I last saved, Helen Clark, and not the name of the one I loaded, John Howard.

This is just a niggle, as long as I'm careful I'm not going to lose a settings file, but it'd be nice to remember what you loaded.

The other thing to avoid losing setup files would be if when you save a new one it backs up the old one in .xml.bck.

On the other hand, I'd like to once again say thanks for creating and continuing to update such a useful tool. --Brianmc 12:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB/DB Scanner

Hi, Just doing my DB scan on my wiki dump using AWB, noticed a few things.

Although the list is loaded into AWB, there is no count given in AWB. I presume this is from the count event for the listbox not being called? I know it wouldnt be the best idea doing it every item, but maybe say every minute or something?

The "Save result list", just creates a blank file... And to save the list in the actual AWB program, little annoying, but you need to click start, and then you can save it (ie start tab)


I also found an exception earlier, but i cant seem to find it again


Very useful tool =)

Thanks!

Reedy Boy 19:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The exception is a clipboard handling error Reedy Boy 22:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It also seems the limit no. of results is ignored. Just out of interest, from where i had reached in the DB scan of making AWB typo lists, it found 91061 matches, but the limit was on 30000 Reedy Boy 10:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The About of the DB Scanner shows nothing in the scrolling text box (rich text box) - Would be better if it was the same as the AWB one Reedy Boy 12:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore non-existent pages

Where is the button to uncheck this option (Gnevin 20:21, 24 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Click the Set Options tab, then Untick "Skip non-existing pages" Reedy Boy 20:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Awe right under my nose, thanks (Gnevin 20:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Regex and settings

With the new versions of AWB, I've noticed that it's not saving my regex backslash characters. Like, in my "Find/replace" box, it's supposed to insert {{uncat|November 2006}}\r\n. If I enter it in manually, AWB does the find/replace just fine, but when I try to "save" the settings, it doesn't remember the "\r\n" part. For awhile it was just saving it as a box, and with this newest version it's not saving it at all. I can work around this by re-entering the characters each time I boot AWB, but it would be nice to have them saveable again. --Elonka 21:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this applies to all serialized strings. Gotta find if it's possible to automatically escape all those strings. Sure, I wrote code that encodes some strings straightforwardly, but I'd like to see more universal solution. MaxSem 22:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB Adding Uncat Tag when page has categories

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theatre_Under_the_Stars_%28Vancouver%29&diff=89093082&oldid=84558928

Any Ideas? Reedy Boy 22:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it acted properly. There were no "real" categories on that article, just stub categories. --Elonka 23:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, yeah, that makes sense then. Just one of those little things, but i cant see it happening too often Reedy Boy 11:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Login problem

I can't seem to use AWB 3.052 with my laptop today, as AWB keeps cycling through "Loading page to check if we are logged in." It successfully locates my user name (which shows up as green in the lower righthand corner), and sometimes it can even get a page loaded, but it still shows up as "You are not currently logged in" at the top of the window, and then it just sits there, repeatedly cycling through "loading page" and "loading page to check if we are logged in."

I've tried various methods to deal with this, including various permutations of loading a fresh copy of AWB, pre-logging-in via IE, trying the "login" option in the File menu, but nothing seems to work. I did note though that when I rolled back to earlier versions (3.015 and 3.029a), I correctly got the "You are not logged in" pop up (which the newer versions weren't doing), which then brought me to the login page. But even though they'll let me login, I can't use those versions of AWB, because they keep prompting me to upgrade to the newer versions.  ;) So I guess I'm stuck, unless someone knows how to disable that "upgrade to newer version" block? --Elonka 23:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(update) On a different computer (desktop, not laptop), the "You are not logged in" pop up appears normally. However, if I attempt to run multiple instances of AWB (when I'm on a roll I routinely have 3 or 4 going at once), the login information is not saved per session, and I need to separately login with each instance. With earlier versions of AWB, only one login was required, and the other instances of AWB would "remember" the login info. --Elonka 03:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regextypo fix ignore in [[Image:]]

Hi Can we get AWB to ignore typo's in Image names/image tags? As ive seen a few pics with countries in them, and then it makes the image unfindable

Cheers

Reedy Boy 21:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • good idea, all (typos, find and replace matches etc.) into [[image:]] and internal links [[ ]] should be ignored :> pl:wikipedysta:gregul
Skipping image file names and external link addresses is good, but internal links often need to be fixed. —Mets501 (talk) 01:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, as images are [[Image:ImageName.extension]] , and external links [http://website linkname] , this should be feasible. But like Mets501 said, internal links are needed, as some do have typos in Reedy Boy 10:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist bug

Has any experienced a bug where AWB is adding pages too your watch list even thought the options is unselected ? (Gnevin 22:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Yes, though it's not so much a bug, as "just one of those things."  ;) Evidently the toggle on AWB can only be used to turn on watchlisting if it's already off in your normal preferences. If it's on in your normal preferences, the AWB toggle really has no effect. --Elonka 01:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
So i have to turn it off in my watchlist ok, Maybe this should be made a little clearer on the main page (Gnevin 11:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

SVN version 3.0.6.0

Hey, Can someone enable this version for me?

Cheers

Reedy Boy 16:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notice its been done - Thanks Martin =) Reedy Boy 10:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Change request

The Start tab defaults the focus to the edit summary field. Several times I've found this has meant I've inadvertantly scrolled to a different edit summary. Could it default to a different field? Rich Farmbrough, 22:48 29 November 2006 (GMT).

It could be. Quite easily, a simple change for MaxSem or Martin... What would you prefer it on? Reedy Boy 10:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Building on from this, it would be good if there was an "Add edit summary" button so that custom edit summaries could be saved without digging through the config file. Harryboyles 10:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done, fixed both problems. MaxSem 12:38, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hitting return in the summery box already added the current edit summary to the list. Martin 15:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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