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Discussion
Unofficial release
Several people have been asking for a release of the latest builds. If you trust me <insert snarky comment here>, I've thrown a build of the latest release - revision 12554, dated Nov 1 - up on github. Go to https://github.com/DavidWBrooks/UnofficialAWB/releases/latest, and click AutoWikiBrowser6211.zip. You can then follow the installation instructions from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#(2) Download. As they say, it works for me. David Brooks (talk) 23:10, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- @DavidBrooks: Works well for me - thanks so much!!! GoingBatty (talk) 03:08, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- Working for me as well. Thank you! Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 06:21, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- Is there a list of changes for this build? Gonnym (talk) 19:44, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: I don't remember the revision for the official 6210 release, but you can see it in Help > About. (maybe rev 12530?) Then you could look at https://sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/commit_browser and click "Browse commits" to see the list of changes since then through 12554. GoingBatty (talk) 20:50, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- It was 12528, but 12529 isn't there any more and 12530 was just to update the version to 6.2.1.1 prior to the next release. David Brooks (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Gonnym: I don't remember the revision for the official 6210 release, but you can see it in Help > About. (maybe rev 12530?) Then you could look at https://sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/commit_browser and click "Browse commits" to see the list of changes since then through 12554. GoingBatty (talk) 20:50, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Pending changes
On Turkish Wikipedia, Flagged revisions is actively used on all articles. I do not want AWB to make changes to pages with Pending Changes. Is this technically possible? Sadrettin (talk) 18:51, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
How do I find typos depending on the English variation?
One thing with New Zealand Wikipedia is that it is incredibly common for articles to be filled with American spellings, eg "color" vs "colour". I'd like to find these typos by searching for the {{Use New Zealand English}} template and a typo, eg "color". How would I do this? I'm unsure how people search for things, and I'm unsure how to plug these search results into AWB. —Panamitsu (talk) 03:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Panamitsu: One way you could do this is make a list or articles where the source is "What transcludes page" with "Template:Use New Zealand English", which brings up 21301. You could then add some find and replace rules such as color --> colour, and click the "Skip if no replacement" box. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 03:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you this works well! —Panamitsu (talk) 04:34, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- Make sure you exclude text in references as these may be American articles where color is the "correct" spelling for the reference title or text. Ditto names and deliberate spelling errors. - X201 (talk) 08:29, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- Don't worry I've been looking out for that :) —Panamitsu (talk) 11:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- A search like this might help. Be aware of false positives such as the use of the target word in a book title or other text that should not be changed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- Don't worry I've been looking out for that :) —Panamitsu (talk) 11:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Show more results edit and send it out to the settings for this position and the settings to determine how the any action in including personal information to be a good idea to have a nice to see
Show all the right to the settings and edit documents online to send the settings to me with any questions or need more results and discussion with any action based on a better things and all the best of the settings 102.91.54.120 (talk) 01:46, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Template:Double soft redirect being deleted
Template:Double soft redirect is in the process of being deleted per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 December 12#Template:Double soft redirect. Apparently, AWB is set up to bypass redirects pointing towards it as a uncontroversial maintenance task, so informing this page in the event AWB needs to be updated. Steel1943 (talk) 02:07, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- We really should have automatic detection of past TfDs for discussions like this. If the arguments from the previous discussion had been raised I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been kept. --Trialpears (talk) 02:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Request feature: Make list of user file uploads or user created articles
In the current version of AWB 6.2.1.0, I do find Make List of "User contribs", which is nice.
But for Wikimedia Commons a "User uploads", and for Wikipedia a "User created" would be extremely handy options to alow to get the list of files uploaded by a user, or pages created... This functionality seems to be missing? I assume it could very easily added? Geertivp (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Geertivp: Hi there! You can use the "filing a new task" link above to request a feature in AWB. Note that there hasn't been a new official release in over two years, so you may want to seek out alternate solutions while you're waiting. GoingBatty (talk) 21:48, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, can you be more explicit? I don't see a new "filing a new task" link, or "feature request button" on this page? Geertivp (talk) 00:04, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- The "Filing a new task" link is in the first box under the Before you post section. When you land on the phabricator "New Generic Task" page there are links to the Feature Request form (I don't think there's a button). David Brooks (talk) 02:42, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, can you be more explicit? I don't see a new "filing a new task" link, or "feature request button" on this page? Geertivp (talk) 00:04, 30 December 2023 (UTC)