Ghost Windows 7 Final RTM X86 Lite Edition (Activated
Marisol Stgermain
While editing with the AWB, after I clicked save, I received some notice about "spam protection" but the AWB navigated to the next page on the list before I could read the page. When I went to my contribs, the edit I just made had not been saved. Does anyone know what happened? My best guess is that the MediaWiki software blocked my edit, possibly because I was editing too quickly. Any other guesses? --M@thwiz2020 22:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I found that if the AWB is out of focus when it finds an article with no changes, it will remove the article from the list in the bottom right but the browser will not navigate to the next article on the list - to do so, I have to select start again. Is this problem similar to the one with the save button and, if so, can you fix it using the invoke member script? Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 23:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry to be writing here so much, but I found that a lot of people write: [[Image: ]] (or the same thing with one bracket on each side). Could you add regexs to the bad link repair section that removes the "image:"? (I would write this could, actually, before the bad link repair so that the AWB could remove the double brackets in the bad link repair section, if necessary.) Thanks! --M@thwiz2020 23:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi again AWB team. I'm just messaging in the hope of getting a progress report into the development of AWB on Windows 98. I was told a months or so ago that oyu'd work on it - any news? --Celestianpower hblame 23:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I downloaded the new version 1.92, but somehow am unable to connect properly. I'm sure it's the right version, I'm listed and I definitely am logged in at IE, but it still gives me the usual "Not enabled" message. I hope v1.93 will solve my troubles. It also made me think whether, seeing as from now on, you intend to label the versions differently, it might make sense to provide the second-newest edition as well. E.g. in my case v1.91 might work, but I can't get it (and my old version is far outdated, didn't use AWB for two weeks or so) -- Genesis 13:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I had a discussion with FireFox on this matter. I believe AWB is a great tool, but one should not use it for edits of this kind. Such edits just clog one's watchlist, without providing any tangible benefit.
Noticed that AWB isn't opening articles with certain characters - examples are Jason "Jay Dawg" Arsenault and The Body Soul & Spirit Expo. I was working my way through a list and it told me that both of those articles were redlinks. --Syrthiss 00:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia just had a brief period where the servers were unavailable. I was using AWB at the time and when it tried to load an article it got the error page. It looked like it just kept trying to load the page over and over. The only way I could get it to stop was to exit the app. I would have liked to have been able to save my progress, but it didn't seem like I could interupt it & I didn't want to let it keep trying to re-load the article if the servers were having troubles. -- JLaTondre 02:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Make list: Make from: What links here. In case of templates, it would be good if we could pickup only lines with "(inclusion)". A new option "What links here (inclusion)"? This would be very helpful for template orphaning. Phil also made a request on wikitech-l [1]. --Adrian Buehlmann 19:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you add another check-button to "What links here", making it possible to only add pages that link to the page via a redirect? It would make cleaning up pages like White Wolf, Inc. easier, I think. -- Genesis 12:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
AWB 1.9.6.0. I have loaded some regexes and AWB shows me a non-empty diff. Now I go and make some additional edits in the edit window on the lower right. Then I click on "Show changes" in order to update the diff. At the moment - don't ask me why - I mostly get an error from the server (this must be a server issue) for example I get a html page with an error message containing:
My problem now is: I'm stuck in this state. I can click "Preview" or "Show changes", but nothing happens. I can click on "Start the process" and AWB redoes the regexes, but my edits are thrown away then. BTW can it be that I get more server errors if I work with AWB compared to normal editing with Firefox? I know this is an odd question, but at the moment I feel I have a lot more server errors when working with AWB compared to normal editing with Firefox. Strange world. --Adrian Buehlmann 16:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
It seems auto-wiki browser doesn't check for nowiki tags before changing and removes underscores from the second part of a piped link even when it would leave the link text totally blank. This can be damaging to pages describing character sets e.g. [2] Plugwash 16:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC) (later correction in bold)
I recently saw an AWB edit that changed childrens to children's in an external link ([3]) which broke the link. I realise that this is the responsibility of the user and so on, but would it be possible to stop the program making these types of changes to hyperlinks? Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 00:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I dunno of this is just an unfortunate "feature" caused by using .NET, but AWB seems to be a major memory hog. It just never release any memory, after editing 500+ pages with it I literaly run out of system memory and is forced to shut it down and start it back up because my system starts glitching on acount of insifficient memory (I have 1Gb RAM and 2Gb swap file space). How about doing some explicit garbage collection, or whatever it is called in .NET, once in a while. --Sherool (talk) 02:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Hhhhmmm, maybe there is a memory leek, I haven't experienced this though, sounds odd. As for the IE ignoring your cache settings, I can't remember if it allows me to programmatically change things like that, I'll look into it. Martin 11:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
You know what would be nice (if you have a spare evening with nothing to do that is)? A feature in AWB that would help archive talk pages. You'd specify how many days old a section must have been without comment before moving it to an archive page. Another bot is already doing this at the VP. BrokenSegue 03:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
When I'm editing using the AWB, a lot of times, I make a change and then want to reparse the article based on the change I just made. For example, if "alpha sort interwikis" is selected, and I add a new interwiki link but don't want to sort it manually, I would like to have a "reparse" button that takes the text in the edit box, including my new interwiki link, and puts it through the parsing process once again. Thanks! --M@thwiz2020 19:26, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Good news for all proponents of open source (which, as of now, appears to be everyone). SourceForge has two "levels" on projects: admins and developers. Developers can view and edit the source, and admins, (here's the main part), can choose who is a developer. In other words, vandals won't have access to the source!
The process will go something like this: Wikipedian 123W creates SourceForge account 123S and posts a message at the AWB forum on SourceForge asking to become a devloper. The message will be signed 123S. Then, Wikipedian will leave a message at a page TBD on Wikipedia saying that 123W is 123S and will sign it as 123W. That way, the admins of the project can make sure that 123S is really 123W and not a vandal/impostor. Then, an admin grants 123S developer privileges and he/she can access, view, and edit the source code. Currently, Martin, Adrian, and I are the admins and there are no developers. Once Adrian figures out how to work the CVS (anybody else know how?) we'll get the project up and running (assuming that the results of this poll continue for the next six days). --M@thwiz2020 23:43, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I am very thankful for this application and many more editors benefit from those who use it. I would respectfully ask that, if possible, a few features get added because Martin is very familiar with the code. If not, I understand completely but it doesn't hurt to ask :)
As I scan my watchlist, every time I reach an edit summary that starts with "AWB assisted ...", I have to pause and read through it to discover what the summary of the actual edit is; and usually it is something trivial. If you must promote your software in the edit summary, at the very least put the summary first, followed by "... using AWB", or "... [AWB]", or some such.
Edit summaries are most certainly not for "promotion", it is simply so it is clear how the edit was made, which is the same for people who make "popups assisted" (or what ever it says) edits. To say it is spamming your watchlist, or somehow makes it difficult to read your watchlist is just unbelievable. Martin 11:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Seeing this edit summary in my watchlist prompted me to use the software. I believe that this raises awareness of tools available for editing just like other open source tools available to us (like Lupin's popup tools). It is also valuable to know how these edits were made.--Adam (talk) 11:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps an instance counter of sorts? If I am going through looking for misspellings of "February" (often spelled incorrectly as 'Febuary'), could there be a little box showing if there is more than one instance? Helpful so I know I should be proofing for multiple instances or not. JoeSmack Talk 06:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Also, every once in a while the list is populated with pages that, since been listed by google, have been deleted, bringing out the appropriate "if you want to make an article here, go ahead". When running it through, it will pause on it like there was something to find and replace there. Is there a way these can be skipped? I have a 'skip if doesn't contain: Febuary' type string out there, but it'll still stop on em. JoeSmack Talk 06:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
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