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External to Interwiki

Status	New
Description	I think AWB should have a feature that changes external links to sister projects into interwiki links, like changing Main Page to Main Page. --Wikihermit (Talk • HermesBot) 00:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
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By MaxSem from Wikihermits talk page:

1. find \[http://en\.wikibooks\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[b:$1|$2]]
2. find \[http://en\.wikibooks\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[b:$1]].

Reedy Boy 11:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

More:

1. find \[http://en\.wikisource\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[s:$1|$2]]
2. find \[http://en\.wikisource\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[s:$1]].
3. find \[http://en\.wikiquote\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[q:$1|$2]]
4. find \[http://en\.wikiquote\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[q:$1]].
5. find \[http://en\.wiktionary\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[wiktionary:$1|$2]]
6. find \[http://en\.wiktionary\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[wiktionary:$1]].
7. find \[http://commons\.wikimedia\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[commons:$1|$2]]
8. find \[http://commons\.wikimedia\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[commons:$1]].
9. find \[http://en\.wikinews\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[n:$1|$2]]
10. find \[http://en\.wikinews\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[n:$1]].
11. find \[http://en\.wikispecies\.org/wiki/(\S*) (.*)\], replace with [[s:$1|$2]]
12. find \[http://en\.wikispecies\.org/wiki/(\S*)], replace with [[s:$1]].

Implementation...?

Reedy Boy 16:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Another common pattern is word [http://en.--whateversite--.org/wiki/word] which should be replaced by [[whatever:word]].

I would be wary of implementing the [http://en.--whateversite--.org/wiki/word] versions on their own. I have seen quite a few cases where that is used as footnotes. That may not be the correct usage, but converting it to an interwiki link would be worse as it would result in an unintelligible sentence.

Example: Alfred Tennyson's works[1] are should not become Alfred Tennyson's workss:Author:Alfred_Tennyson are.

-- JLaTondre 00:44, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

This code is for en.wiki only! We use AWB in other wiki!--OsamaK 15:28, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

We know. It hasnt been implemented as of yet (it may not ever be), so it doesnt really matter atm. Reedy Boy 19:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I needed code for my tool since people didn't know which form to enter in. It has since become convenient to just paste the URL in and watch the magic happen. I hope the AWB devs implement this for the list maker parts of the interface.

Javascript fixTitle code

function fixTitle(e) {
    // Convert from the escaped UTF-8 byte code into Unicode
    s = unescape(decodeURI(e.value))
    // Convert secure URLs into non-secure equivalents (note the secure system is considered a 'hack')
    s = s.replace(/\w+:\/\/secure\.wikimedia\.org\/(\w+)\/(\w+)\//, 'http://$2.$1.org/')
    // Convert http://lang.domain.org/wiki/ into interwiki format
    s = s.replace(/http:\/\/(\w+)\.(\w+)\.org\/wiki\/([^#{|}\[\]]*).*/i, '$2:$1:$3')
    // Scripts paths (/w/index.php?...) into interwiki format
    s = s.replace(/http:\/\/(\w+)\.(\w+)\.org\/.*?title=([^#&{|}\[\]]*).*/i, '$2:$1:$3')
    // Remove [[brackets]] from link
    s = s.replace(/[^\n]*?\[\[([^[\]{|}]+)[^\n]*/g, '$1')
    // '_' -> ' ' and hard coded home wiki
    s = s.replace(/_/g, ' ').replace(/^ *(w:|wikipedia:|)(en:|([a-z\-]+:)) */i, '$3')
    // Use short prefix form (wiktionary:en:Wiktionary:Main Page -> wikt:en:Wiktionary:Main Page)
    s = s.replace(/^ *(?:wikimedia:(m)eta|wikimedia:(commons)|(wikt)ionary|wiki(?:(n)ews|(b)ooks|(q)uote|(s)ource|(v)ersity))(:[a-z\-]+:)/i, '$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9')
    // Put back in
    e.value = s
}

A general implementation (suitable for general fixes) for foundation links from the code above:

1. Find \[http://(\w+)\.(\w+)\.org/wiki/([^{|}\[\]<>"\n]+) +([^]]+)\] replace with [[$2:$1:$3|$4]]
2. Find \[\[(?:wikimedia:(m)eta|wikimedia:(commons)|(wikt)ionary|wiki(?:(n)ews|(b)ooks|(q)uote|(s)ource|(v)ersity))(:[a-z\-]+:[^{}\[\]]+)\]\] replace with [[$1$2$3$4$5$6$7$8$9]]

It avoid the flaws from above and works across all languages.—Dispenser 04:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! —Reedy 12:57, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I've been using my own regexes for this (though, not as good as the combo above) and would love to see this implemented. Rocket000 (talk) 00:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Would be good to implement this.. Not sure why the first one is needed in the ListMaker...? If you can elaborate/be a bit more specific Dispenser, i shall get this implemented. —Reedy 17:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Partially implemented. rev 3036 (code exists, but not in use. As per the discussion page, it doesnt seem to actually work as a general fix or in list maker.......) —Reedy 22:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

While the code I provided above is good what I had coded it for (a user page input routine) it wasn't good enough for a general fix (potential language issues). Thus I've coded the following which should be nearly problem free:

Python white list code

familiesIWlist = {
        'wikipedia':    'w',
        'wiktionary':   'wikt',
        'wikinews':     'n',
        'wikibooks':    'b',
        'wikiquote':    'q',
        'wikisource':   's',
        'wikiversity':  'v',
}
for m in re.finditer(ur'\[http://([a-z0-9\-]+)\.(\w+)\.org/wiki/([^{|}\[\]<>"\s?]+) +([^]\n]+)\]', text):
    if m.group(1) == 'commons':
        iwPrefix = 'commons'
    elif m.group(1) == 'meta':
        iwPrefix = 'm'
    elif m.group(1) in familiesIWlist:
        # don't allow http://sources.wikipedia.org
        continue
    elif m.group(2) in familiesIWlist:
        iwPrefix = '%s:%s' % (familiesIWlist[m.group(2)], m.group(1))
    else:
        # TODO: Prevent iw linking on [[Wikipedia]] where it's used as references
        continue
    text = text.replace(m.group(0), '[[%s:%s|%s]]' % (iwPrefix, m.group(3), m.group(4)))

— Dispenser 01:33, 13 October 2008 (UTC) Updated: 01:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I've implemented the above code in my commonfixes.py library. Over time I've noticed a few problems:

1. Due to the haphazard way naming was done the above code will try to make download.wikipedia.org and sources.wikipedia.org into invalid interwikis. This can be solved using interwiki table, which would include more links than we can cover in regexes.
2. Edit on the "Wikipedia" article raises question wheather those links can be linked. And I think I read somewhere that they aren't suppose to be directly, but it still doesn't answer the question about interwiki.
3. [ { | } ] and more are not valid characters, as well as their escaped counter parts like %7B. However, this highly unlikely since people typically don't link to invalid pages anyway.

For those of you still interested in linking I've come up with a set of regex. The whatever.wikipedia.org glitch is avoid by only allowing languages with two to three letter character codes.

Regex:      \[http://([a-z0-9\-]{3})\.(?:(wikt)ionary|wiki(n)ews|wiki(b)ooks|wiki(q)uote|wiki(s)ource|wiki(v)ersity)\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][{|}\s"]*) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace:    [[$2$3$4$5$6$7:$1:$8|$9]]
Regex:      \[http://(?:(m)eta|(commons)|(incubator)|(quality))\.wikimedia\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][{|}\s"]*) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace:    [[$1$2$3$4:$5|$6]]
Regex:      \[http://([a-z0-9\-]+)\.wikia\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][{|}\s"]+) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace:    [[wikia:$1:$2|$3]]

However you should likely add (?<![*#:;]{2}) to the beginning to avoid changing lists and (?![^<>]*</ref>) to the end to avoid changing links in references.—Dispenser 01:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

According to WP:WAWI, AWB would have to detect the difference between a convenient link to material like wikisource page and a reference link like a wikisource policy page. Luckily that's why we created namespaces.—Dispenser 08:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Soo.. Are we alright to implement this or something? ;P —Reedy 13:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Haven't you already? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

[2] --Magioladitis (talk) 19:12, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Handling <li> and <ul> html tags

Status	New
Description	Replace <li> with *. Delete <ul>, </ul>, </li>. Example -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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<li>(.*?)(</li>)? --> * $1

Then just remove all other </li>, <ul>, </ul>..

</?(li|ul)> --> ""

—Reedy Boy 13:34, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

So that should be easy. Can you implement it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

<ol>
<li>test</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>test</li>
</ol>

<li>test</li>

If we implement it, we should really cater for all that —Reedy 19:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I did this manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Ol causes complexions: This wasn't the wanted result -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

• Have care with this suggestion. There are some cases where the ol's deliberate (say, when there is also a colstart or style attribute) rather than as holdovers from some person marking his content up in HTML. --Izno (talk) 17:56, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Implementation for il/ul ONLY:

• Step 1: Remove any ul tags. Example
• Step 2: Remove any close il tags. Example
• Step 3: Convert open il tags to bullet. Example

-- Magioladitis (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

There are a number of edge cases where line breaks, comments, templates, and attributes are involved that need to be kept in mind. Some of them may even occur in articles. E.g. (see source):

• Foo barLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.bat
• Foo

  </li>
  

  Bar

  <ul>
    <li>Example of a list item</li>
  </ul>

Amalthea 11:51, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Templates that end in Breaks (CHECKWIKI error 59)

Status	New
Description	A simple find and replace that finds <br> at the end of a value in a template, and removes it as it is un-nescesary. See Error 59 in WikiProject: Check Wikipedia. If Not: honorific prefix Find (with regex multiline, case sensitive) :[\t ]*<[\s\/\.]*br[\s\/\.]*>[\t ]*([\t\n ]*?)(\]\]|}}|\|) Replace (with regex and multiline, case sensitive: $1$2
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Tim1357 (talk) 00:11, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

We already fix it for files. I think it should be easy to implement. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I had to remove the break line tag manually. Moreover, it was duplicated to the Persondata entry and I had to remove it from there too. I guess this addition will also fix WP:CHECKWIKI error 59. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:09, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Better in 7171 but there is a comma at the end. Check here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

rev 7223 for PersonData comma issue. Rjwilmsi 10:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

We just need to avoid: honorific prefix, honorific-prefix as the request says. I left a note to Infobox officeholder and they 'll probably fix this too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:55, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

honorific-prefix, honorific-suffix changed and don't need break lines at the end anymore. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:09, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

{{nihongo}} is also a template that uses break line tags as I was hinted in my talk page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:40, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

• The point with hon-pref and hon-suf is that in some circs they want the pref and/or suff on the same line as the name, in others they don't. It would be bnest for the template to have the smarts to distinguish, but that would need work and consensus. Rich Farmbrough, 16:35, 22 October 2010 (UTC).
  

We now have a custom module for error 59. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Since bots run the custom module for a while now I wonder it it could be now part of general fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:07, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

More break line tags cleanup

Status	New
Description	[3] Break line tag between immediately after maintenance tags is unnecessary and can be removed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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We could fix this as well. (Break line before template). -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

If all headers are of level 1 downgrade them 1 level

Status	New
Description	Examples: [4], [5]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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When maintenance templates immediately follow section header, change to section template

Status	New
Description	When a maintenance template immediately follows a section header, could AWB change it to the appropriate section template? For example: change {{Advert}} to {{Advert|section}} change {{BLP sources}} to {{BLP sources|section}} change {{BLP unsourced}} to {{BLP unsourced|section}} change {{Confusing}} to {{Confusing|section}} change {{Copy edit}} to {{Copy edit|section}} change {{No footnotes}} to {{No footnotes|section}} change {{Refimprove}} to {{Refimprove|section}} change {{Unreferenced}} to {{Unreferenced|section}} change {{Wikify}} to {{Wikify|section}} Any templates under section headers for "Notes", "References", or "External links" should not be changed. I would be happy to make a more comprehensive list if the developers express interest in implementing this. --GoingBatty (talk) 00:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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Added two more suggestions above. GoingBatty (talk) 21:51, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Made them all consistent. GoingBatty (talk) 04:31, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Should this apply to templates within {{multiple issues}}? Why only to templates immediately following a header? Why not to notes/references? Thanks Rjwilmsi 17:46, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this should apply to templates within {{multiple issues}} that have |section=yes. Only templates following a header so that it doesn't change templates in the zeroth section that would apply to the entire article. Not to notes/references sections since these templates would apply to the whole article (especially No footnotes, Refimprove, and Unreferenced). GoingBatty (talk) 01:22, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

FixReferenceTags: remove nowiki; encode titles

Status	New
Description	If the title and url parameters in a citation template are defined, then the title is linked. If the title contains certain characters, then the link is broken and the display is malformed. The standard fix is to encode the offending characters in the title field, however some editors have been wrapping the value in <nowiki>. While the visual rendering is fine, the metadata in the COinS output is mangled, with the strip markers exposed; see Help:Strip markers for details. We need to remove <nowiki> tags and encode characters in the title and chapter fields. remove <nowiki> and </nowiki> change newline to space change [ to &#91; change ] to &#93; change | to &#124; This needs clarification. Is it requested to remove "encode[d] characters" (as well as "nowiki" constructs)? Or is that certain characters (e.g., square brackets) should be represented by their codes ("&#91;")? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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Expand RefsAfterPunctuation for use with inline templates

Status	New
Description	Could RefsAfterPunctuation be expanded to put inline maintenance templates after punctuation, such as {{by whom}}, {{citation needed}}, {{clarify}}, {{disambiguation needed}}, {{geographic reference}}, {{out of date}}, {{peacock term}}, {{sfn}}, {{update after}}, {{weasel-inline}},{{when}}, {{who}}, {{whom2}}, and {{year needed}}? GoingBatty (talk) 23:29, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
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Added {{citation required}} to list. GoingBatty (talk) 15:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Added {{sfn}} to the list, and removed the word "maintenance". GoingBatty (talk) 04:46, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Updated list - GoingBatty (talk) 02:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Added {{who}} to list. GoingBatty (talk) 21:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Comment that this would be in line with the instructions at Template:Citation needed. GoingBatty (talk) 00:19, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Removed {{out of date}} and added five more. GoingBatty (talk) 01:33, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

When changing "b." to "born", add Category:xxxx births

Status	New
Description	When changing "(b. xxxx)" to "(born xxxx)", as in this edit, or if "(born xxxx)" already exists, could AWB be changed so that it would add Category:xxxx births if it doesn't already exist? GoingBatty (talk) 01:41, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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The problem that in the specific article there is nothing to 100% determine that this is an article about a person in order to add Human Categories. There isn't any person infobox or other human category. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

You're right - there's no infobox or other human category to make it 100% clear that this article is about a person. But if AWB is confident enough to change "b." to "born", isn't that enough? Or is "born" also used for non-persons, like animals? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

It is used for animals too but yob/yod categories apply for animals as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:01, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Birth dates with "c."

Status	New
Description	For articles about a person with a birth date in the format of "c. 1877", instead of adding Category:Year of birth uncertain, could it add Category:1870s births and add |DATE OF BIRTH=c. 1877 to {{Persondata}} (per WP:Persondata). See John Wombacher for an example. GoingBatty (talk) 19:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
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Do not include unimportant prefixes in {{DEFAULTSORT}}

Status	New
Description	I received a complaint on my talk page that my recent edit to The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia added {{DEFAULTSORT:The Last Tightrope Dancer In Armenia}}. Per WP:SORTKEY, it should have added {{DEFAULTSORT:Last Tightrope Dancer In Armenia, The}} (without the "The") (with "The" at the end). GoingBatty (talk) 23:17, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
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I only see "In some categories, sort keys are used to exclude prefixes that are common to all or many of the entries, or are considered unimportant (such as "List of" or "The")." It doesn't say in all. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Are there categories where "The" is important in the sort? GoingBatty (talk) 00:52, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

The Beatles? -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:55, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't see anything on Category:The Beatles sorted by "The".

• Category:The Beatles music is sorted under "M"
• Category:The Beatles and television is sorted under "T" for "Television"
• Category:The Beatles concert tours is sorted under "T" "Tours"
• The Beatles Anthology is sorted under "B"
• The Beatles' influence on popular culture is sorted under "I"

Furthermore, The Beatles article contains {{DEFAULTSORT:Beatles, The}} - so I've revised my request to match this format. GoingBatty (talk) 01:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Adding "The" at the end is unlikely to ever make a difference, but AWB already excludes "The" from DEFAULTSORT tagging. If you look at the edit you linked, AWB did not include "The". McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Actually, you did include "The", you just gave the wrong diff. This has never happened to me; "The" is usually excluded. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:23, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Try The Rats (play) and The UFC Chronicles. I'm using SVN 7424. Should this be moved over to the bug list? GoingBatty (talk) 17:23, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, it is adding "The". I thought it didn't. Maybe I'm wrong. McLerristarr | Mclay1 15:23, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Infobox cleanup (edit window only)

Status	New
Description	I remember that this issue was raised several months ago—though I'm not sure whether it was on this page—and there seemed to be support for the idea, but I can't seem to find the original discussion right now. Could AWB be used to clean up the appearance of infoboxes in the edit window. There are a number of things that could be done, from making parameter values readily identifiable by standardizing spacing so that all equal signs are in a straight vertical line (see Example 1) to clearly distinguishing between different parameters (see Example 2). Example 1 Change {{Infobox person |name = Auto Wiki Browser |image = AWB Banner2.png |occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor }} to {{Infobox person |name = Auto Wiki Browser |image = AWB Banner2.png |occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor }} Example 2 Change {{Infobox person| name = Auto Wiki Browser| image = AWB Banner2.png|occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor| }} to {{Infobox person |name = Auto Wiki Browser |image = AWB Banner2.png |occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor }} These types of changes will have no visible effect for readers, but I believe that they will make editing easier. –BLACK FALCON (TALK) 22:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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My personal opinion on this is that the second change is very good. Much needed. The first one seems a bit more controversial though... I prefer that the whitespace isn't present, and I think that opinions are pretty divided on that. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 22:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree with you that the whitespace is annoying, and that the latter change is good (but only in infoboxes, not in cite templates where it breaks the flow of paragraphs). --NE2 22:34, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see evidence of a discussion in favour of this non-visible change before any implementation of it. Also, it seems like a fair amount of work for a non-visible change. Rjwilmsi 08:01, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

AFAIK there is no consensus for adding whitespace. In fact I personally am removing it because it adds extra space to articles and makes no good. The only thing that I find really useful for editors is that every parameter starts in a new line with a vertical line. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I am also in favor of example 2 but I don't think we should do example 1 either.--Kumioko (talk) 11:13, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Based on the response so far, I withdraw my request for example 1. I agree that AWB should not be used for something that largely boils down to personal preference when editors have vastly different preferences. –BLACK FALCON ^(TALK) 17:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I know I come to this a bit late, but I do have thoughts on it. Specifically, I like the two proposals as they stand, but I also appreciate that not all editors do. I would go further and say that I personally like indenting the pipes on each new line just by one space for visual ease, and also the same new-line/indented/aligned style when doing cite templates, as there are many possible parameters. However, I do see the point of view of those who prefer things to be in-line. What about having a formatted editor purely as a UI within AWB but writing it back to the servers in a "least-change" format? ClickRick (talk) 18:20, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I rather like the idea of something like that. IMO, example 2 should be enabled by default, and then whitespace one can be enabled on a per-editor basis (certainly not a general fix, but this would fit in the assisted editing). Also incredibly useful would be the standardizing (not enabled by default) of the presentation of citation templates as detailed in here. This would save reference gnomes tremendous ammounts of time. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 10:46, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

• I agree method two should be a genfix, templates/infoboxes are currently a clusterfuck and anything we can do to make it better is a good thing^tm ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 23:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

  (\{\{[\w\s_]*[Ii]nfobox([^{}]*?\{\{[^{}]+\}\})*[^{}]*?[^{|}](= )?) *\| *\n ?(?=[\s\w]+=)

  and

  $1\n| 

  run until the regex has no more hits. (right now I use it in the advanced find and replace running 20 times). ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 19:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Infoboxes could be cleaned up to remove the pipes (and spaces) after the template name and the parameters and put pipes before the parameters like here. McLerristarr | Mclay1 22:42, 2 November 2010 (This comment was moved from another feature request.)

Title case for citations

Status	New
Description	Most people assume that you've got to keep the case that the source is using, but the MOS advises changing this to standard title case. So, may I suggest pushing a citation's title parameter through: public static string ProperCase(string TextToFormat) { if(TextToFormat.ToUpper() == TextToFormat){ return new CultureInfo("en").TextInfo.ToTitleCase(TextToFormat.ToLower()); } else { return TextToFormat; } } to fix the most in your face, block-caps titles. I don't think that would leave you with any false positives. Cheers, - Jarry1250 (t, c, rfa) 16:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
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Well, except for the non english wiki's ;) —Reedy 19:50, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh yeah :) I meant to change that "en" for some variable, but I couldn't be arsed to find out which was the right one. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)}

Maybe also external link titles? Harder to grab though, I would think. - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 09:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

When do you propose to convert the case of citation titles? Just when all in uppercase? Do you have some example articles? Rjwilmsi 10:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, in a perfect world, a citation title of "EXAMPLE: Lorem ipsum" would be converted as well, but the false positive/pointless edit rate would be too high I fear. So yes, just when all in uppercase for maximum efficiency. I would like to see this as a general fix if possible, though I haven't tested the FP rate myself yet. I shall set about finding you an example now. - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 10:31, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Ten random pages gave me Gaynor Cawley ("BIOGRAPHY") and Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily which includes a partial one (ref #12). - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 10:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I've had some experience programming reflinks with this, you can get most of the cases right. Here some edges cases

• Newspaper Archive: MINOR STORY OF THE DAY; MAN BITES DOG
• 65_PDF.pdf
• SPACE PROBE 56T LAUNCHES
• A.I.D.S. EPIDEMIC STILL SPREADING
• FOREIGN AIDS STILL MISSING
• ATLAS USER EQUIPMENT INTRODUCTION
• FIRST ROBOTICS GIVES HOPE
• NAVSTAR GPS
• J P PENNY

Those are some example I can think off the top of my head. It also a good idea to apply it to the author/first/last/publisher fields as well.—Dispenser 12:13, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks Dispenser. As written, the code doesn't touch .pdf (lowercase), capitalises "Of", and turns GPS to "Gps". The rest it gets right; hopefully, a few tweaks and it should be read to roll. - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 18:58, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Here's a much improved function for converting to useful title case, which is more palatable than block caps (I personally prefer sentence case, but that would be more controversial / less widely deployable. It works on all the examples above (and some more I invented), with the exception of acronyms that could be words UNICEF, etc. GPS has no vowels, and is therefore easy to capitalise.

public static string ProperCase(string TextToFormat)
        {
            List<String> smalls = new List<String> { "and", "of", "the", "but", "in", "to", "a", "an" };

            if (TextToFormat.ToUpper() == TextToFormat)
            {
                TextToFormat = new CultureInfo("en").TextInfo.ToTitleCase(TextToFormat.ToLower());
                //Ignore first words
                String FirstBit = "";
                if (TextToFormat.Contains(" "))
                {
                    int Index = TextToFormat.IndexOf(" ");
                    FirstBit = TextToFormat.Substring(0, Index);
                    TextToFormat = TextToFormat.Substring(Index);
                }
                foreach (String small in smalls)
                {
                    TextToFormat = Regex.Replace(TextToFormat, "([^a-zA-Z0-9])" + small + "([^a-zA-Z0-9])", "$1" + small + "$2", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
                }
                TextToFormat = FirstBit + TextToFormat;
                String[] Bits = TextToFormat.Split(" ".ToCharArray());
                for (int i = 0; i < Bits.Length; i++)
                {
                    //Capitalise consonant only words, plus a few obvious ones
                    if (Regex.IsMatch(Bits[i], "^([BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ]{2,}|UK|USA)$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase))
                    {
                        Bits[i] = Bits[i].ToUpper();
                    }
                }
                return String.Join(" ", Bits);
            }
            else
            {
                return TextToFormat;
            }
        }

- Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 20:16, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Maybe you should use a dictionary from a spellchecker to ensure words like GNU, LIDAR, and CBDTPA stay uppercased? You might also be able to capitalize names Ted Stevens.—Dispenser 18:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah... it's a question of how much in the way of resources one chooses to give over to such a minor (albeit intensely annoying to me) thing as capitalisation... hopefully the major acronyms can be hardcoded, and the rest left to the individual editors to catch. As the default Is This Sort Of Capitalisation, We Needn't Worry About Names Of People. - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 18:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

And no matter how much effort we throw at the problem, there will always be "yet another exception", e.g. CAT scan

The answer has to be that this will be a computer-assisted process, not an entirely automated one. ClickRick (talk) 18:47, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

This could be implemented as a general fix that users would have to explicitly turn on via the options menu (off by default) and could be disabled for bots. Question then is just what fields is this required on beyond the 'title=' field of a citation template? Rjwilmsi 15:38, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I think this was added to AWB. Not sure though but we might be able to archive this one. --Kumioko (talk) 00:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

We haven't added it yet. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:41, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Fix references that use Ibid

Status	New
Description	Fix reference on articles that use <ref>Ibid.</ref>, <ref>op. cit.</ref> or <ref>loc. cit.</ref>. This is a follow up of rev 6187. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
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What logic to fix? Could be a manual task in many situations. Rjwilmsi 15:53, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll form some rules probably tomorrow and experiment a bit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:17, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Here's some examples:

• [6]. "Ibid" without any other specification obviously refers to the previous reference. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• [7] Even easier: No other references in the article. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
• [8]. Only reference in section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:32, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

multiple hyphens

Status	New
Description	Multiple hyphens should be removed, especially "--", which is used a lot. In "text--text" it should be replaced with an em dash and in "text -- text" it should be replaced with an en dash. But it should work for more than two hyphens as well. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 10:19, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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Only if you can avoid changing "--" in a URL, or in a <!-- comment -->. Art LaPella (talk) 14:23, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't think any of AWB's changes affect URLs. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 16:05, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

"text -- text" is often used when the intent is to add an em dash, not an en dash (i.e., the intent is to have an em dash with spaces around it). In such cases it should of course convert to an em dash with the spaces removed. I do not see how a program could tell which correction to make. DGG ( talk ) 17:36, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I disagree. I feel that the intent of "text -- text" is to have some kind of dash longer than a hyphen which is set off by the spaces. This is a stylistic choice, and in my AWB settings, I attempt to respect the original writer's intentions by replacing unspaced instances with em dashes and spaced ones with en dashes. See WP:EMDASH. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Fixes for Nihongo template

Status	New
Description	{{Nihongo}} (which has ~50k translusions) has an |extra= parameter where editors usually add bord/death data. This means we have to: Obtain birth/death info for Human Categories Fixes mdashes -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
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Usually is not good enough. I would like to understand why editors ever put such data in the template. Rjwilmsi 17:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

They put data in order to add extra information before the parentheses that contains the local name closes. I am not sure how we do it in other cases. Do we have two pairs of parentheses one next to the other. Btw, "usually" in this case is equal to "always with probability 1" i.e. in all the cases I observed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:01, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Convert spaced hyphens to endashes

Status	New
Description	Hyphens that are surrounded by spaces (e.g. "Text - text") should be converted to endashes. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 01:37, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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I cannot think of any exceptions to this rule. Hyphens should never be spaced, nor should emdashes. McLerristarr / Mclay1 11:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

More than 4 full stops

Status	New
Description	More than four full stops (e.g. Hello.....) should be deleted and reduced to just three or four. I cannot think of an example in which it would be OK to have more than four full stops. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 01:41, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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See Ellipsis: according to The Chicago Manual of Style, "an ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots)." MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 04:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, then more than four full stops should be deleted. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 10:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Better perform a database scan first and check if we have any exceptions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

How do you perform a database scan? McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 10:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

I performed a database scan for articles containing "....." (5 full stops in a row). I 'll post in my sandbox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I've been going through them and they all seem to be instances that should only be 3 full stops. McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)

Status	New
Description	AWB doesn't correct a lot of things described in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). For example, these corrections and these and this and these and these. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 15:45, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Duplicate report filed:
Currently we fix dashes in limited circumstances. I think there are several other cases that we could cover:

• Use of an em dash rather than an en dash in dates and page ranges (there are a surprising number of these)
• Spaced em dashes, though whether that should preferably be corrected to an unspaced em dash or a spaced en dash I don't know
• Spaced hyphen, in the circumstances where we currently correct a spaced double hyphen. Since these frequently occur in lists, we should fix to a spaced en dash, though many occur in date and page ranges and would need to be ordered before corrections for spacing.

I don't think any of this would be controversial. The spaced hyphen in particular is aesthetically rather unpleasant to a lot of editors.—kwami (talk) 00:51, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Automatic title bolding

Status	New
Description	The automatic title bolding, that bolds the title of the article at the start of the article, needs to work for titles that are italicised, resulting in 5 apostrophes around the title. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 05:17, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
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What determines if the title is italicised? Rjwilmsi 13:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I only mean for titles that are already italicised before AWB works on the article. It would be impossible to program it to know which articles needed italicised titles. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 03:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Well those transcluding {{Italic title}} would becontenders. Rich Farmbrough, 21:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC).

No changes inside single straight quotes

Status	New
Description	No changes inside single straight quotes. This request arises from discussion at the previous feature request: "no_changes_inside_quotation_marks". Most (if not all) quotes have a non-word character on one side of the single straight quote. Most (there are exceptions) apostrophes have a word character on both sides. I'd rather have an occasional miss than be beaten up for a false positive. Could we use a non-word character outside the single straight quote marks as a distinction for super-cautious editing? Lightmouse (talk)
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Do you want this as general fix? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:46, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I thought a general fix was an edit. This is not an edit, it's almost the opposite of an edit. I suspect it would need to be an option. Not everybody would need or want to use it. Lightmouse (talk) 13:56, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I think this was fixed. If you scroll up a little youll see it. The new SVN just hasnt come out yet. --Kumioko (talk) 14:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

You may be referring to single curly quotes. I should have made clear that I'm talking about single straight quotes. Thanks. I've amended the text above. Lightmouse (talk) 14:06, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I note that HideMore is, by definition, an option for cautious editing. Perhaps the misses are rare enough that it could be added to HideMore for all users until we can selectively choose options. Lightmouse (talk) 14:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Template:'"

Status	New
Description	replace ' " with {{'"}} like here as per WP:MOS. McLerristarr / Mclay1 11:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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Where is this in the Manual of Style? This creates an awful unclosed " from the left side! -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:05, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Non-breaking spaces. (I moved it to WP:MOS from Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Non-breaking spaces where it was not relevant.) McLerristarr / Mclay1 15:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

234 transclsions. Interesting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:37, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Additional measurement Hand (unit)

Status	New
Description	Do the usual magic for 14 h, 14 hh , 14 hands. Rich Farmbrough, 14:09, 10 October 2010 (UTC).
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Remove spaces in transclusions

Status	New
Description	Remove spaces in transclusions like here. McLerristarr / Mclay1 17:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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Fix whitespace before/after punctuation

Status	New
Description	Could AWB be expanded to fix whitespace before/after punctuation per WP:MOS, such as the following regex: \s([\.,;:]) → $1 ([,:])([A-Za-z]) → $1 $2 GoingBatty (talk) 04:56, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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How about a new page, similar to WP:AWB/T but much smaller, containing rules that are to be treated as part of the general fixes? These would be controlled by the "general fixes" checkbox, not the "Enable RegexpTypofix" checkbox, and the changes would not be listed in the edit summary. The rules could then be developed independently of the core software.

Failing that, I would like the typo rule named " ," to be included in GoingBatty's request and re-implemented as a general fix. I think it's messy to have some of the space/punctuation fixes implemented as general fixes (eg WP:PAIC) while others are implemented as typo fixes. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:45, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Change "Main Articles" to Main|xxx|yyy

Status	New
Description	One of the general fixes is to change "Main Page: xxx" to use {{Main|xxx}}. Could AWB do the same for multiple "Main Articles", as I did manually in this edit? GoingBatty (talk) 00:42, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
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Unbalanced brackets

Fix unbalanced website

Status	New
Description	Fix unbalanced brackets in website parameter like what I did in this one -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:52, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Fix unbalanced brackets inside gallery

Status	New
Description	<gallery>[[File:foo.jpg</gallery> → <gallery>File:foo.jpg</gallery> Example -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:09, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
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Fix unbalanced brackets inside cite

Status	New
Description	<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foo.gr|publisher=[[IFPI}}|accessdate=2012-08-17}}</ref> → <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foo.gr|publisher=[[IFPI]]|accessdate=2012-08-17}}</ref>
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Fix unbalanced curly brackets in redirects

Status	New
Description	Do the following: {{R from subtopic} → {{R from subtopic}} {{R from subtopic}] → {{R from subtopic}} {{R from subtopic]} → {{R from subtopic}} {{R from subtopic]] → {{R from subtopic}} Do this before R-tagging because in some cases it adds a new R-tag for instance R from title without diacritics. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:57, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
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Permanent link of my related fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

More: [9], [10]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:07, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Fix unbalanced brackets in redirects

Status	New
Description	Do like I did. REDIRECT[[target]]] → REDIRECT[[target]] -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:30, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
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Skipping

Multiple skip options

Status	New
Description	It would be useful to have an explicit AND function else we have to do "..REGEX1 .. REGEX2.. OR .. REGEX2 .. REGEX1.." with 6 combinations for three things, etc. But this is very low priority. Rich Farmbrough, 20:02, 31 August 2009 (UTC).
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It would be great if it was possible in the skip section to be able to select more words so that if any of those are present then the page is skipped. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mephiston999 (talk • contribs)

Regex? (Word1|Word2|Word3) —Reedy 19:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

A better phrasing would be... "it would be great if AWB could do more to help people who are entirely n00bish about regex" =) Separating it such that you could have a list of the skip log of which word it matched would be nice as well. –xeno^talk 19:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Required. Trying to skip if contains 'Category:Living people' or 'Birth date and age|1900|1|1'. I know no way of doing that with regex because | is the separator and thus (Category:Living people|Birth date and age|1900|1|1) don't work. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 02:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

When you want a literal pipe you escape it: (Category:Living people|Birth date and age\|1900\|1\|1). Rjwilmsi 07:04, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you Rjwilmsi, you learn something everyday :) Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 08:31, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I found another way around this if anyone is interested. If you use the pre-parse option, you can specify a skip option, then you pre-parse the list again with another skip option. Basically you can recurse your list as many times as you want and doing this is the same result as having multiple skip options, although it is somewhat slower because you reload the article multiple times. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 23:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I noticed Regex (Word1|Word2|Word3) is logical OR. How does one use it to find out: word1 AND word2 AND word3? Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 19:33, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Exactly the point. You have to do ( Word1.*word2.*word3| Word1.*word3.*word2| Word2.*word1.*word3| Word2.*word3.*word1| Word3.*word1.*word2| Word3.*word2.*word1) (Or (1(23|32)|2(13|31)|3(12|21)) )

This is bad enough but if you have 4 its even more complex . (In fact you can skip all with word 1, delete the list and copy back the skip list, skip all with word 2.. etc... and even mix these methods reasonably getting 6 "ands" in 2 passes.) So it is do-able but it would be nice to have — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rich Farmbrough (talk • contribs) 15:50, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Template {{AWB orderless}} coming up. Rich Farmbrough, 04:32, 28 September 2010 (UTC).

John(George(PaulRingo|RingoPaul)|Paul(GeorgeRingo|RingoGeorge)|Ringo(GeorgePaul|PaulGeorge))|George(John(PaulRingo|RingoPaul)|Paul(JohnRingo|RingoJohn)|Ringo(JohnPaul|PaulJohn))|Paul(John(GeorgeRingo|RingoGeorge)|George(JohnRingo|RingoJohn)|Ringo(JohnGeorge|GeorgeJohn))|Ringo(John(GeorgePaul|PaulGeorge)|George(JohnPaul|PaulJohn)|Paul(JohnGeorge|GeorgeJohn)) - testing... takes up to 6 paramters. You really don't want to go to 7. Rich Farmbrough, 05:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC).

Redlinks, redirects, dabs, ...

Status	New
Description	It would be extremely useful for me if AWB has the option to skip pages that do not contain redlinks, redirects, disambiguation pages, etc. It would greatly facilitate the maintenance of Wikipedia books and of several lists. Of course each option should be individually selectable. Let me know if I'm not being clear with what I mean here. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:11, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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Skip pages of indef blocked users

Status	New
Description	Newsletter delivery with AWB often leaves messages for indef blocked users, which are then usually reverted. A skip option "Page of indef blocked user" would allow the operator to avoid such edits in the first place. Useful in particular for implicit lists of users where it's not a matter of removing a category or a name from a list. Amalthea 10:05, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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This would be very useful for newsletter delivery bots utilising AWB.—JamesR ^(talk) 11:57, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Skip if disambiguation page

Status	New
Description	Skip if disambiguation page. Similar to skip if redirect. Lightmouse (talk) 17:39, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
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Find and replace improvements

Allow advanced find and replace entries to be marked minor

Status	New
Description	Allow advanced find and replace entries to be major or minor to work with the new option to "skip if only minor replacement made". –xenotalk 22:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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Haha. Magioladitis and I were discussing this when i implemented the normal FaR one. —Reedy 22:22, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

And you decided not to allow it -- just to play a cruel joke on me??? –xeno^talk 22:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

We need a box to mark as minor in every rule (..and subrule??? :S). This is scary. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:27, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Haha. More a case of decided it was useful, but not so important. —Reedy 22:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I suppose the minor changes I have can be moved into the simple F/R matrix. . . –xeno^talk 22:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

lol. It aint gonna be done pre v5 :) —Reedy 22:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

You're a dreamkiller, sir. –xeno^talk 22:40, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Feature_Freeze_for_AWB_v5 ;D —Reedy 22:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Bump! ;> –xeno^talk 16:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

[11] :P —Reedy 16:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Sir, you really need to get your priorities in order. Just sayin'. –xeno^talk 16:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

If you want to do my report for me... —Reedy 16:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Whoever eventually responds to this, please put a {{whisperback}} on my userpage, as this is a very active page and I'll miss the response otherwise. -- ··gracefool☺ 16:48, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Apply the four generic settings individually

Status	New
Description	The ability to apply the four generic settings (ignore links, ignore templates, add to summary and apply after general fixes) individually to the different rules. mattbr 17:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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is that so hard to implement? i mean't split "ignore templates, refs, link targets, and heading" into separate options, and improve "ignore images" to ignore "images target" not the whole image section --84.234.42.68 (talk) 17:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds very useful to me. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 12:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

As a first step we have to call HideText and HideMoreText individually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:13, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

HTML substitution

Status	New
Description	In the Advanced "Find and replace" rule list, allow the easier replacement or removal of HTML attributes on tables. Currently, I'm running all code through a rule to quote all the unquoted attributes and then doing the processing that I want, but every so often a flaw comes up as it quote non-html text. —Dispenser 03:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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Addition for "Replace Special"

Status	New
Description	For some find and replace tasks it's useful to ignore certain parts of an article, like <math>...</math> or [[Image:...| (so the name of the image can't get changed). A new tab in Replace Special, in addition to "Replace" and "If", would be nice, so that it's possible to define parts of the articles in which these rule doesn't work. – 84.179.33.65 23:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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This almost seems like selective hide text.. —Reedy 18:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Subset regex

Status	New
Description	Add in the subrule a new type, like "Entire text" and "Inside template call {{..}}", but it only does the regex on the match from the parent rule. It call it something like "Matched from parent in $1". Implementing this would likely knock out some other feature requests, like my HTML substitution —Dispenser 02:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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Maybe I can example it better with an example:

I'll use HTML

<html>
<title>String1</title>
<head>
</head>

<body>
String1
</body>
</html>

We want to change String1 to RE1

What I'd like to be able to

Rule: Find the body
RE find: (<body>.*?</body>)
  Sub-rule: Use what was captured in parent
  RE find: String1
  RE replace: RE1

While the example is a little simplistic, it allow greater flexibly. The String1 in the title tags will never be parsed and there can be many String1 in the body without turning the recursion as with (<body>.*?)String1(.*?</body>). Hopefully that simplifies things. —Dispenser (talk) 04:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Remove sort for F&R box

Status	New
Description	Hitting one of the headings can break an order-relevant settings file beyond repair - the ability to sort is "nice" but I have never used it (my XML generator does some sorting though). (Often I am working with hundreds of lines of standard code and a few handfuls crafted for a specific problem only affecting a score of articles.) Rich Farmbrough, 07:13, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
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Yes please, either remove or add a confirmation popup or an "undo". Just one slight misclick, and the only workaround is to abort the program and restart with the last saved version of the settings file. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:06, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Add an "undo". After destroying a few sets of F&R rules by misclicks, I learned to use the feature to my advantage. On large sets where the order of firing is important, I put sort keys at the beginning of the comment field of each statement (aa010, aa020, ... az340 etc) so that I can resort if the order gets whacked. It also make it easy to move groups of rules, by adjusting the sort keys and then sorting the comments. Adding an "undo" or adding a "Cancel" button in addition to "Clear" and "Done" would allow us to have the best of both worlds. Chris the speller ^yack 19:07, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I apologize for duplicating this request (thanks to John of Reading for pointing this out). I have moved my duplicate request (after untemplating it), and the two replies it received below. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 05:52, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

• Please don't make it so easy to accidentally sort everything in Find & Replace! I have long, complicated sets of F&R which must be in a specific order. When I accidentally click on a column heading, it sorts all rows by that column. (These accidental clicks usually occur when I'm trying to resize columns.) I would be fine with disabling column sorting entirely, but I imagine some people could find it useful in certain circumstances. How about one of the following? A popup when a column heading is clicked, asking if you really want to sort all rows by those column values. Or provide a general option or a checkbox on the F&R page to enable/disable such sorting. Or disable the left click on column headings, but provide a right click menu to sort ascending or descending. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:02, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

A Cancel button would work well too. Three workarounds:

1. Add numbers in the Comment section so you can always resort by this column
2. If you misclick, exit AWB without saving your settings
3. Recreate your F&R rules as Advanceed F&R rules

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 01:33, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

See #Remove sort for F&R box for earlier requests. I'd be happy with any of Mandarax's proposed fixes. An additional workaround - begin the F&R rule list with a dummy line or two, so that there is no reason to click just below the headers either, reducing the chance of an accidental misclick from that direction. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:39, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Cancel button for F&R box

Status	New
Description	Close the F&R box without saving the changes. Rich Farmbrough, 07:13, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
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Different behaviour for new F&R lines

Status	New
Description	Don't add "True" to new F&R lines - if this is overlooked it can break articles with /true/i in them. Rich Farmbrough, 07:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC).
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Remember "Find & Replace" (and other) window details

Status	New
Description	I'd appreciate AWB remembering the size/position of windows such as "Find & Replace" between sessions (and also, if possible, the widths of columns within). I guess it could be something saved along with the other settings..? Hope it's straightforward to implement and sorry if it's already on the to-do list. Sardanaphalus (talk) 01:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC) PS Thanks for the recent upgrade.
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I endorse this request. It's a pain to have to manually resize the Find and Replace columns every time I open AWB. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:31, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Wholeheartedly agree. Yesterday I went to resize a column after opening AWB again and accidentally clicked on the heading instead of dragging the separator, thus inadvertently sorting the rules (that's an existing feature request) and forcing me to scrap the F&R rules. Chris the speller ^yack 13:55, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

I'd need the window/column sizes to be saved in the AWB folder or registry somewhere, not in the main settings file. I keep my settings files on a data stick and use the same files on a big-screen desktop and a small-screen laptop. As an aside, why is the "After fixes" column so wide? I never use it. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:18, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Find/Replace: Regex checkbox prompt

Status	New
Description	When entering a regex in the Find/Replace dialog, it's easy (ahem) to forget to tick the Regex checkbox. Could a test be made when clicking Done for [, * and ?, and if Regex is not checked then prompt the user with something like "This appears to be a regular expression. Did you mean to tick the Regex box?". Too many false positives would get irritating, so deliberately keeping the list simple like that means that newer users, who are more likely to restrict themselves to simpler regular expressions and also more likely to forget, will be the ones who will more often be prompted. ClickRick (talk) 10:12, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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Any false positives would be extremely annoying. This would have to be explicitly turned on somewhere, which would probably make it of little value for new users. Rjwilmsi 15:29, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Or could you write a really good regex for matching regexes? - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 09:17, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

"a*" could be a regex or a literal search. Any warnings would have to be explicitly turned on somewhere, which would probably make it of little value for new users. Rjwilmsi 09:43, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I would personally take Jarry's suggestion with a pinch of salt for exactly that reason. To your earlier concern, though, I would say that the prompt should be turned on by default but include a "Do not show this prompt again" checkbox, which should be remembered for that user, so an advanced user will only be prompted the once. An option somewhere else (Options|Preferences..., perhaps?) to turn it back on might be appreciated, too. ClickRick (talk) 10:20, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Maybe make the default for the regex box, checked? Most non-regex (for a loose value of the word most) also wokr aas regexen, e.g. "Horse" Rich Farmbrough, 21:55, 21 April 2010 (UTC).

Copy regex find and replace from the "test regex page" to the active page

Status	New
Description	It is quite laborious copying the regex to the active screen from the test regex page. I would like a button on the testing page that will put the regex into the active find and replace page on the next available row, and automatically open the active active find and replace page ready for approval by clicking "done". Snowman (talk) 21:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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You can do that in reverse. If you go via the FaR, and right click and move to regex tester (not sure on the specifics), you can move it to the tester, edit it, and move it back... —Reedy 21:18, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I will look for that - I have not been looking at what was available in the right click menu. When I have needed to test a complicated regex I have started writing it on the tester, and there is no indication of how to transfer it easily to find and replace. Snowman (talk) 21:35, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Anyway, I think this area could be improved to make it more user friendly. Snowman (talk) 22:44, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Unwanted saving of Find & Replace changes

Status	New
Description	In the Find & Replace panel, I make some changes and then realize I don't want those changes. So I go to the 'x' at the top right corner of the Find & Replace box. I am surprised to find that my changes get saved even though I never pushed the 'Done' button. There should be a way to cancel out my just-made changes, and I don't want to delete my entire list! Hmains (talk) 19:28, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
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You can always not save your settings file. Rjwilmsi 08:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

True, but then I lose my place in whatever list of objects I have built and have partially worked on. Hmains (talk) 03:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I would like to second this request. More than once, I have tried to change the first F&R rule and accidentally clicked on a heading cell just above it, thus unintentionally sorting the rules into an unusable order. I then had two unpleasant choices: save the trashed list of rules after trying to restore order, or not save the settings file, scrapping all incremental rule changes that I have made and tested since I last saved the settings. I suggest dropping the "Done" button and adding "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons. This could also help to resolve another feature request, "On exit, check for changes to settings and query whether user wants to save the changes" (q.v.). Chris the speller ^yack 15:12, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I have several times had this same problem of accidentally sorting the list and been faced with the same invidious choice. An Undo facility for the sort might be another way to solve this problem. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:28, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Fine grain find and replace

Status	New
Description	Please move the ignore options that are in the find and replace options (templates, wikilinks, external links, HTML comments, files, excreta) so that these rules can be applied on a per item basis, often I have find/replace that I want to do on external links, while others that I don't want on external or internal link. Having the ability to set these on a per item basis would make it easier. ΔT The only constant 13:44, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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I think this is already listed. —Reedy 13:47, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Typos tab of edit box: include the typo rule name as first column, alongside existing find & replace columns

Status	New
Description	Typos tab of edit box: include the typo rule name as first column, alongside existing find & replace columns. Rjwilmsi 19:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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copying/adding lines to find list

Status	New
Description	On the find & replace panel, you can mark a row and use the right mouse button to bring up an options panel. On this panel, you can insert a new row. It would be helpful to have a field here to key a 'number' which would insert the indicated number of rows, not just one row. At the same location, it would be helpful to have a 'copy' function, not just an insert function, again with a 'number' so you can copy the marked row the number of times. This would help reduce the amount of repetitive keying now necessary when slight variations in a row entry are needed to handle all the desired changes. Hmains (talk) 19:20, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
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string find against edit box

Status	New
Description	On the start pulldown, at the bottom right, there is a place where you can do a string find against material in the edit box. When the find is made, the top line of the edit box shows the line on which the string was found--the 'find line'. As often as not, I have to scroll up one line to get the context of the 'find line' It would be helpful if the find command itself would always point to the line above the 'find line' for context. This is pretty standard on other 'finds' that I have seen. Hmains (talk) 02:37, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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New type of "Advanced find and replace"

Status	New
Description	There are two types of advanced "find and replace" feature in the AWB: (1) find and replace works for whole text; (2) find and replace works only inside templates call. Maybe is is possible to make find and replace work only in specified range of article lines, for example, for lines from 1th to 100th, or for lines from 50th to 75th. I wrote some settings for AWB, which make some useful edits, but end of article (roughly 20 or 30 lines) must be unaffected. --Mitas57 (talk) 18:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
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Threading, Background and Automation

Threading

Status	New
Description	Run "sort A-Z" and "remove duplicates" on seperate threads to prevent the user interface locking up Check that the listmaker buttons and menu items (which remain enabled when a background thread is running) don't cause an error if they fire when a thread is active; if they do, disable them, or implement a queuing system. --kingboyk 15:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC) The parser will have to be multi threaded as well as the IE component thing. The program will have two threads. One thread displays the result of the computation and the other thread will be working on the next item in the list. This will waste less of the user's time wasting for the page to load. Throttling will need to built in so that the program will slow down if it loads to many pages in a minute. —Dispenser 18:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
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The "keep sorted" should only run when new items are added to the list. Rich Farmbrough, 04:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC).

Bump this because with large lists the sorting of the already sorted list can make it very hard to get enough attention from AWB to turn the sorting off. Also by sorting the list when an item is added we can use a fast insertion sort, only doing a big sort when the menu item is checked. The same logic could then handle "Remove duplicates", which in some circumstances one has to unclick and click repeatedly. Rich Farmbrough, 15:19, 22 August 2009 (UTC).

Load pages in background

Status	New
Description	I have not tried AWB and I don't really want to set myself up on it since I am on semi-wikibreak. :-) But based on what I have read about it, I have an idea. It seems AWB makes users wait while it loads articles. Why not preload several dozen articles in the background? The server impact would be minimal. (Please feel free to close this or my other requests if they turn out to be based on invalid assumptions.) Cheers, ----unforgettableid
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Migrate to API? will allow us to complete this much more easily (as below). This is very much a duplicate request.. Cant find the others, but it has been requested before. Very similar to/a simpler version of: #Background_scan_to_prune_unchanged_articles_ahead_of_time The only problem we get is if pages are updated between pre-load and save... Which, could be, of course, checked for... —Reedy Boy 20:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Save pages in background

Status	New
Description	I presume AWB makes users wait while it saves articles. Why not save them in the background? This would make AWB more pleasant to use. ----unforgettableid
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Migrate to API? will allow us to complete this much more easily. With the current way, we'd have to be faffing about with multiple browsers (which we already do do...) —Reedy Boy 20:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

What shall we do if the save is aborted for some reason and user input is needed? All UI will already be diplaying the next page... MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 20:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

How about a visualization like the pre-parse mode? Pages that are saved without problems are just removed from the list and pages with errors, conflicts and so on are just marked with orange or red background and kept in the list. This way errors are handled gracefully and the fast workflow without delays is still preserved. Penguin (talk) 16:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

*bump* :) -- 16:26, 20 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Penguin (talk • contribs)

It will happen, just i've been busy for the last few months. Its on my summer todo list, most of the stuff IS implemented, its just making AWB fully use the API for editing.. —Reedy 16:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

What I suggest is to bunch up this request and the top request into a server request queue sort of thing. As in, let the user queue up some pages for processing and generating diffs. The user then can do something else, while it queues. Then, the user comes back, and queues up the saves after checking each page. The queue will empty itself as the user is checking the page. That way, your diffs preload, and your saves get executed a bit later, but then you get a continuous stream of pages, instead of a broken one. ManishEarth^{Talk • Stalk} 18:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I could still use this feature. When doing typo work with hundreds of articles (which I do at dawiki on a regular basis) the small delays between every save really slows down the process. There are three methods that I want (maybe in combination): 1. Preload the next page (so I don't have to wait for it to load). 2. Background save of article (so I don't have to wait for it to save), 3. Create some kind of bulk save in the end. The revision conflict risk is already there even if we don't pre-load/pre-save. It should just be marked in a sensible way (for bulk saves an option to add conflicts to the could be fine - for background saves a conflict save or otherwise server error could just keep the article in the list with a "notice/warning" background color, just as with pre-parsed links) --Penguin (talk) 20:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Automatic List Making?

Status	New
Description	Another idea. Allow the "make page" button to some how automatically reload. For example, if you use Special:Recentchanges to make a list, have an optional timer that you could use to automatically reload the list. ~ Wikihermit 01:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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And like this idea. Sometime we need make a list from many source. Like "Links on page" from 70 page or/and "from text file" from 10 texts files in one folder. That's hard by hand. --OsamaKBOT 16:35, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

As a point for any that are just allowing you to type things into the text box, you can type "Page1|Page2|Page3.....Page55|Page56"

Automatically have AWB do multiple things for bots

Status	New
Description	I'm guessing this is way too hard and the reason people write their own scripts, but here goes anyway: To start my bot, I must make a list from one place, filter it, make from transclusions and filter. Though it doesn't take long, I'm requesting a way to automate this and put it on a timer. For my other bot, it does take a little longer What I mean is a timer that automatically runs a bot every x minutes, and then performs the things you set it to do (ie. filter, then do this, then filter, then start with appending y). Basically, just tell AWB exactly what you normally do by hand, and have it do everything at the same time with just one click or automatically.. Like I said, probably pretty hard, but mines well request it. --(Review Me) R ParlateContribs@(Let's Go Yankees!) 02:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC) The ability to set up multiple tasks (for example, several template replacement runs), do a test edit with each task to make sure they do what you're expecting. Then hit "run tasks in sequence" and have AWB go through each task in turn. – Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:47, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
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Well, in theory there isnt... If we could build some form of an instruction set that awb can follow... and all the functions are software call-able, its viable... Reedy Boy 08:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like you're talking about a sort of basic scripting language. If it is an itch someone wants to scratch make sure there are commands/points where you can prompt for user input. --Brianmc 12:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Agree, this is very convenient to run two scripts subsequently each with its own settings file and its own input data file. A command line parameter will be fine for script name definition. Mashiah 23:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Things like this can in theory already be done with plugins or modules. However, I think that AWB does need this as a standard feature. I'd like it to be able to automatically check certain categories periodically and run a bot job (with seperate settings for each category) too. I was thinking more of keeping it all in the UI and using XML to define tasks myself. Anyway, if at some point I'm looking for something to do I might investigate this further. --kingboyk (talk) 23:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Now we also have the "call external script" functionality, just adding enough to allow AWB to start log on (log on used to work with profiles?) and run would do the trick. Rich Farmbrough, 11:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC).

Possible plugins

Allow easy way to add missing parameters to a template, and also a way to reorder parameters

Status	New
Description	I'm in the process of doing some massive infobox and other template conversion for standardization purposes. The feature to rename template parameters is extremely useful in this process, but it would another big advantage to have a way to add in missing parameters (and set a default value to them if they are missing). It would also be convenient to have a way to reorder all of the parameters so that similar ones can be grouped together, or so that every template instance can have the same ordering as every other one. I guess I'm envisioning a dialog with a grid with three columns: in the first column goes the parameter name, the second column gets the default value, and the third column a checkbox signalling whether to add the parameter (along with its default value) if it is missing. The parameters would then be automatically ordered according to their order in the grid, and added in if missing. Buttons would include "Move up", "Move down", "Delete", and possibly "Don't reorder" for cases when adding missing parameters but no need to reorder. The dialog would be perfect as a new type of rule in the Advanced Find and Replace dialog. Note: this would be used to add infoboxes to every city/town in the US, and add missing data to existing ones. Thanks, --CapitalR 12:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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Display more info for images and coordinating image tags added to menu

Status	New
Description	When a page is in the Image namespace it should check to see what other pages are using that file and also include the uploader history for ease in contact (boxes similar to Alerts->Multiple wikilinks). Would help for determining if Fair-use images are being used outside the main namespace, if an image is orphaned, if image is being used in articles it is not intended for. Tags to be added under an Image menu would be {{redundant}}, {{no license}}, {{no source}}, {{notorphan}}, and {{or-fu}} (with date auto-inserted) -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 05:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
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bumping so someone might at least respond to this.... -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 18:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

There are currently 55 other AWB feature requests, 3 dev's inactive, and a v4 to sort. This would be a major new feature, requiring quite a lot of work, as the actual html of the page would probably be needed to be loaded to get the file links, as with images being here and on commons, it doesnt make life easy. Requests that questions are needed to be asked, or input gained, have had replies...Reedy Boy 20:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

sorry if i sounded antsy... i wasn't aware that four of you were currently inactive during the newest upgrade. I actually had posted this a while ago when there were relatively few features being asked for so I was hoping for some sort of a response. Letting me know that loading the file links by html rather than query.php (i think that's how you typically retrieve the data, right?) presents a large issue helps me put my request into perspective and I appreciate your response :) On the other hand, tacking on a couple more template options to the right-click menu is likely a relatively simple addition. If you guys need the help, i do know c++ and can wade through c# pretty well, but i can't do much that's complicated. I never offered to help before b/c it seemed you guys had things well covered and only recently ported the code into OOP format, right? I'm confident i could actually implement my changes myself (the menu additions) if i knew exactly how to go about it... never worked on a sourceforge project before. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 00:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

It was sort of OOPs before, but the code wasnt the best. Kingboyk has done a lot of reworking of the code to add functionality, speed it up, and make it generally better. I have helped with this also, adding some major new features and so on.

If you wanted to add this yourself, i mean, if you want to do it, or at least make a start, and we can help out as and when, that would be fine. It may be worth looking and having a play with query.php and api.php to check and see if they do what you need to. We do use both the query.php, api.php and loading the actual edit pages to pull off the text, we tend not to really load the actual user view of pages too often for pulling off data. If you checkout a copy of the SVN version, have a play and see where you get.

As for the developer side, our "main/lead" developer, MaxSem, has been away from wikipedia for nearly a month now. Feature requests and bugs tend to really just get done by whoever knows how to do it, or wants to attempt to do it, ie personal preference, not really priority/importance of them.

v4 Beta (Alpha + a few changes) should be pushed out to most users this weekend... (Force upgrade... :D) so we'll see how that comes about. Reedy Boy 09:32, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Bypass redirects

Status	New
Description	It is somewhat important for navboxes (template space) as self-link are bold but only to a page with that exact title (no redirects), see User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects for an example of some code which utilized the api.php.—Dispenser 03:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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It doesn't utilise the bot API, it simply changes page CSS on request to make links to redirects visible, which is not helpful for us. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 10:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I was using api.php before the feature was integrated into the software, older version uses ajax to get the redirects.—Dispenser 05:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Interface

Sub-paragraph undo

Status	New
Description	When there is more than one word is highlighted in yellow on a line in AWB, and one of the highlighted is not a typo (i.e Cristian vs Christian both are correct but AWB recognizes it as a typo) when the non-typo is double clicked, it removes everything in that yellow box instead of the specified word, maybe have it where it only removes the highlight because more than one typo could exists on a line or paragraph dputig07 00:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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It would be helpful to those reviewing page edits if this fix could be implemented. Thanks Rjwilmsi 15:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation repair using numpad

Status	New
Description	I presume users must make multiple mouse clicks to operate the disambiguation repair dialog. Why not allow them to use just the numeric keypad on their keyboard to make their choices from 1 through to 9? Then you could mention this fact in the manual and perhaps onscreen. ----unforgettableid
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Im not sure how you'd actually want the keys mapping... —Reedy Boy 20:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Just by numbering the first nine options 1 to 9... Typing 5 will use the fifth option. Now you can use home/end and the first letter, which can be annoying if multiple options have the same starting letter. My request on disambiguation: the [done] key has no hot-key likt alt-D. Now I am forced to use the mouse (the tab key will only activate this button after many many button presses). It would be cool to have alt-Done and alt-Cancel available, so you can operate AWB to solve disambigs without the mouse. Yeah, sorry, I hate that mouse and I want to keep RSI/CTS away by keeping on hating it. Edoderoo (talk) 10:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Options list

Status	New
Description	This is one the more ambitious ideas and is a repost from the discussion page. It effectively present the user with a modular view of AWB with its options presented in a matrix.—Dispenser 04:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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AWB's Find and Replace goes up here

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Pre-programmed options

	General fixes
	Automatic Tagging
	Unicodify
	RegexTypoFix
	External processing
	PyWikipedia script
	Custom wiki-loaded regex fixes
	Add

Do you program in C#? Or are you capable at least of designing Windows Forms* in Visual Studio? If you are, perhaps you should join the team. Judging by our efforts up to now we don't have any UI artists aboard. *Or we could go with WPF, which would necessitate a move to .net 3.5, a jump I personally feel we will have to make at some stage... --kingboyk (talk) 12:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't know anything about C/C++/C#, yet. But I'd be willing to give the GUI thing as free time becomes available. I assume its part of the Visual Studio package I use to compile AWB.—Dispenser 22:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes it is. Windows Forms in Visual Studio is fairly simple if you're sticking to design, don't really need to be able to code much to do the visual part.

The .Net Framework 3.5 introduced design/code seperation I believe, a replacement for Windows Forms called Windows Presentation Foundation and a new markup language (XAML?). I've not tried any of these features yet and we're currently using .Net 2.0 with AWB so we're stuck with Windows Forms unless there's a compelling reason to "upgrade". Visual Studio can do both types of design anyway. --kingboyk (talk) 19:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

If you can do the graphical side.. It wouldnt be too hard to tie the backend code into it all... I suspect, looking at that, we're gonna need to make a custom control, probably inheriting from listview/similar... As a list view can do the different types of view like you see in Windows Explorer - Large Icon, Small Icon, Details... I may have a play later on —Reedy Boy 19:33, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Bit of googling/looking about. We are certainly going to need either a custom control, or to write our own. As list views by default do not accept images in the sub items (ie columns other than the first) —Reedy Boy 20:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixing ambiguous typos

Status	New
Description	There are quite a lot of typos that have had to be rejected for the RETF page because either the correction isn't unambiguous (e.g. 'distict' could be a typo for 'district' or 'distinct', or because it's valid in one context, but not in another e.g. 'Valparaiso' is correct when referring to Valparaiso, Florida, but should be corrected to Valparaíso when referring to the city in Chile. I'd like suggest an enhancement to AWB to help with situations like those. There would be a new 'Ambiguous Typos' list, much like the current 'Typos' list, with entries along the lines of <AmbigTypo find="\b([Dd])istict\b" replaceOptions="$1istrict,$1istinct"> AWB would read this list and, on finding the RegEx value in an article, would present a panel much like the current link disambiguation panel, for the AWB user to select from the listed replace options. Colonies Chris 08:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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Sounds like an interesting idea. Jogers (talk) 09:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

This would be a useful feature, provided that users had an option to 'ignore ambiguous typos' i.e. AWB would not change a word matching an ambiguous typo and would not prompt the user for the correct correction. Otherwise I could envisage users being regularly pestered by message boxes ;) Rjwilmsi (talk) 11:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Certainly would, but how about we smarten the regexer as well? "Distict of" is almost certainly "District of" similarly "Business distict" and "congressional distict". I will put some data on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos/distict. Rich Farmbrough, 14:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC).

P.S. if someone will buy me Google's n-grams I will produce the rules based on them. Rich Farmbrough, 14:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC).

As in [12] ? $150... —Reedy 17:17, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes they are the ones. Rich Farmbrough, 18:18, 2 June 2010 (UTC).

Make the Find and replace dialog not modal

Status	New
Description	It would be extremely helpful if I could just keep the find and replace dialog box open all the time, and have it stay on top of the main AWB window. Right now, however, if I want to scroll down in the edit box when the find and replace dialog is open, I have to close the dialog, scroll down, and then reopen the dialog to continue editing my regex statements. Thanks, --CapitalR (talk) 01:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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It isn't modal, see Feature Request Modeless Dialog "Text regex" (Couldn't spell). But I have the main window on my first screen and AFAR on the second. Perhaps, you want an always on top feature or a taskbar button?—Dispenser 03:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Show rather than show dialog? IIRC? —Reedy 14:52, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I changed it to modal some time ago because when it was non-modal, closing it sometimes resulted in the main being hidden. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 15:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I've had this tonight.. —Reedy 21:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Allow split-screen mode to see preview and diff at the same time

Status	New
Description	It would be very useful to be able to see both the preview and the diff at the same time using a split screen setup. This is actually so useful that I recently hacked AWB to allow it (using one of those splitContainer controls), but I think it would be a great option to have available to everyone. Even better than that would be to allow seeing the original page, the new preview, and the diff (or any combination of the two) all at the same time (which would probably only be possible on wide screen monitors, but it would be quite useful). --CapitalR (talk) 02:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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Scrollable Window

Status	New
Description	Do you think you could make it so that you can scroll through the entire window? I use a laptop with a 1024 * 600 resolution, so some of the window gets cut off. I really like AWB and I just want to be able to use all the features. Oracle Techie 16:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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To be honest, im not sure about making the whole window scrollable.. Should be doable, would need to try having a play... That a 9/10" screen by any chance? —Reedy 22:37, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I think its a 10" diagonally. Yea, its 10.2" diagonally. OT 22:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll have to try it on my 9" eee —Reedy 22:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Alright, just post what happens when you do that, I guess. Thanks! OT 02:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Suppose i should've posted before, it definately doesn't want to play nice on the smaller screens :( —Reedy 19:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

This is related to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#AWB_netbook_fail. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:56, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Possibility to set order of automatic operation (Find&Replace, External Proc. etc)

Status	New
Description	Right now, it is only possible to force Find&Replace to be before/after General Fixes. But it's not possible to set when the External Processing will be executed, Add/Replace/Remove Category, Template Substing etc. I guess it'll be hard to implement, but I believe in your skills. (rest below, {{AWB feature}} breaks pipes in preformatted box)
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How I imagine it to look like: it would be a little window like F&R one, with rows like there, and easier possibility to move row up or down (=make it be executed earlier or later), delete or temp disable operation. Also, a button "Add operation...", which will allow to add custom bunches of replaces or, if they were deleted form list earlier, General Fixes, External Proc. and others from another list.

It might look like this:

Operation | Description | Minor | | | | | Enabled
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General Fixes | AWW-specific fixes | ☑ | | [move up] | [move down] | [delete] | ☑
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
Find and Repl... | "cat" -> "dog" | ☐ | [edit] | [move up] | [move down] | [delete] | ☑
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
External Proc... | friendlyIbox.rb | ☐ | [edit] | [move up] | [move down] | [delete] | ☐

Explanation:

Operation

non-editable hard-coded name.

Description

editable, just like regexes in Find and Replace; short user-written desc

Minor

if checked and only fixes are these from minor operations, AWB would skip article.

[edit]

if possible to modify this operation, they will show dialog boxes same as these that appear now when clicking for example Tools -> External Processing

[move up]/[move down]/[delete]

self-explanatory.

Enabled

would work exactly like the ones in Find&Replace dialog.

The dialog may be shown by clicking Tools -> Manage order... or by button placed near Find and Replaces ones.

I hope you like my idea and understand my poor English ;), Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 10:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

#Options_list, its a good idea.. but there are some that are supposed to be run before others (but this could be catered for).. All that would technically be necessary would be to turn most of the stuff into individual modules that could be added to a list for processing or similar... —Reedy 10:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Aw, I was looking for request like mine, but I couldnt find it (I suggest to archive requests more often ;)). What is supposed to run before others? I have no idead what it can be. And, well, I said it'll be tought, but - I repeat it - I believe in you, developers. Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 11:11, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Haha. People get annoyed if we archive non finished ones ;). I'll combine them later. However, i think this is more a v5+ request.. Hopefully where we'll have *maybe* changed to .NET v3... and can look at improving the gui with the new toys it gives us! —Reedy 11:27, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Move 'Make list' to new dialog

Status	New
Description	Move 'Make list' to new dialog. The model that I have is that an AWB list is like a file in many applications. I can create a new list, open an existing list, work with it, and/or save it. In Microsoft Word, I can create a new file, open an existing file, work with it, and/or save it. In Microsoft Word, I use items from the 'File' menu: 'New', 'Open', 'Save'. I suggest that AWB has similar items in the 'File' menu, although they might have to be appended with 'list' e.g. 'New list'. Description: 'New list'. Produces a dialog. All the items in the current 'Make list' group would be moved into this dialog. The list itself would be duplicated so that it is in the 'New list' dialog and the main AWB interface as it is now. An advantage is that the main AWB interface could have a longer list due to the removal of six elements (the two fields for source and the two buttons). Description: 'Open list' or simply 'Open'. Produces the usual dialog for opening a text file. Description: 'Save list' or simply 'Save'. Produces the usual dialog for saving a text file . Lightmouse (talk) 14:51, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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Sounds alright to me... Whats the wider community consensus? —Reedy 13:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Some further thoughts:

• I defined 'New list' but not 'Edit list'. An 'Edit list' function needs an 'Edit list' button beneath the list where the 'Filter' button is now.
• 'New list' and 'Edit list' should produce the same dialog. A working name for the dialog should be 'List'.
• The 'List' dialog is the main place for editing lists but removal of articles should be possible in the main AWB interface.
• The right-mouse menus throughout AWB could do with a review. The right-mouse menu in the current list has 'Filter', 'Save list', and 'Sort alphabetically'. If this design idea goes further, I suggest eliminating those three options.

Lightmouse (talk) 15:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

This feature request has been hanging around for 21 months. Any further thoughts? Lightmouse (talk) 17:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I thought are files were settings with lists included and not lists. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

That could work. Lightmouse (talk) 19:19, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Could we start by designing an 'New list' dialog as described above? Lightmouse (talk) 16:51, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

User contribs tab

Status	New
Description	Sometimes its useful to be able to tailor the messages you leave at user talk pages based on when that editor last edited. The tab would only need to display when working in the User: or User talk: namespace. I've drafted a possible patch that would do this. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 15:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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I wouldn't want to use a separate browser for this... Im wondering about combining the history and WLH here ones and having like radio buttons to select or something... —Reedy 17:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, having one browser would be simpler. You could then disable the user contributions option for non-user (talk) space. It's not urgent, I can use my local version to do the few I'm interested in at the moment. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 17:17, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Photo tagging or sectioning

Status	New
Description	I wonder if there is some way we can allow editors to non-destructively augment existing images with tags or highlighted sections that point out areas of interest when the image is referenced in multiple articles. For example, an existing image of a motorcycle can be shown on an article relating to its brand while another article can reference the same image and highlight some technical aspect of it like a brake assembly or fork configuration. The editor could specify one or more highlighted areas with a pair of coordinate points along with some popup text. (I hope I've put this feature request/suggestion in the right place) --Hooperbloob (talk) 15:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
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Snippets from DB search

Status	New
Description	From: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 23#Repeat edit. In the DB scanner show the surrounding text of the match when selecting a diff. Possibly similar to Notepad++ shows matching when searching through files.—Dispenser 15:33, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
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More special pages

Status	Waiting on External Constraints
Description	It would be nice if pages like Special:UncategorizedPages were added to the list of special pages that you can make create lists from. –Drilnoth (T • C) 12:11, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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We're waiting on [13]. As said before, i am not HTML scraping (not worth the hassle). So this will be resolve when the bug gets sorted on the MW side —Reedy 12:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay; thanks. –Drilnoth (T • C) 12:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Bug fixed. ^Avic_ennasis @ 10:58, 3 Elul 5771 / 10:58, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Provide a separate checkbox for "Incorrect phrases" during Regex typo fixing

Status	New
Description	Per a discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#"Passed away", I think it would be a good idea to provide a separate checkbox after enabling Regex typo fixing called "Fix incorrect phrases" and if not checked, ignore section Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Incorrect phrases. This would give the users an additional mental prompt that they will be looking for stylistic changes to phrases as well as simple typos. –xenotalk 01:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
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Fronds ofc does something like this.. Its whether you wanted the audit trail and it kept onwiki. —Reedy 06:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Well there's some disagreement as to whether phrases should be included with typo fixing. I'm leaning towards the no side, but some people like them. So I figured the best of both worlds could be included with a further check box. I would say suggest default to off. –xeno^talk 12:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

FYI, someone at the discussion was concerned that Fronds was in its infancy and thus wouldn't be as effective as it being built into the typo matrix. –xeno^talk 13:17, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Admittedly so (think "Who bought the first telephone?"). - Jarry1250 ^{[ In the UK? Sign the petition! ]} 15:29, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Probably someone who wanted to ring up 'ole Al. –xeno^talk 19:41, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

If maxlag exceeded more than 10 times, pause for a lengthy period rather than terminating operation

Status	New
Description	Rather than terminate the operation, AWB should just wait for, say, half an hour, when maxlag is exceeded 10 times in a row and give it another shot. –xenotalk 21:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
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I'm not sure how Web Browser AWB will benefit from this. </sarcasm> ;D —Reedy 21:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Server has been so gorram lagged these days. –xeno^talk 18:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

• I'm not sure if you guys killed the maxlag features with fire or whatever, but I rather liked being able to "let my bot loose" as it were and let maxlag act as a leash. So maybe having maxlag as an option to enable would be cool. –xeno^talk 15:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Unload plugins

Status	New
Description	Use Plugin manager to unload plugins. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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Avoid stretching the diff area

Status	New
Description	In the diff area, break up the display of long uninterrupted strings of characters such as URLs. These long strings annoyingly stretch everything out, requiring horizontal scrolling, and making it much more inconvenient and difficult to compare the versions. The diff area should always be evenly split right down the middle with no horizontal scrolling required. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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Yes, please! That is easily the most annoying problem with AWB. Seems like it could just be set to insert soft line-breaks after forward slashes.—Chowbok ☠ 20:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, please! I don't like horizontal scrolling at all. --Siddhant (talk) 18:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

None of you would happen to know what the fix would be? (It'd be HTML/CSS/JS I suspect) —Reedy 12:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

If the Mediawiki diff.css is used as a custom style we get no horizontal bars but truncation of the diff at column width. In Firefox I get the vertical wrap we want. I believe it's because the .NET webcontrol doesn't support the CSS word-wrap feature. Rjwilmsi 18:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Is the browser user agent... So... It think it's IE7.. —Reedy 22:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Double-click shouldn't return diff window to top

Status	New
Description	When you double-click on a paragraph to undo a change in the diff window, the window goes back to the top after undoing. This can be quite inconvenient when undoing multiple paragraphs towards the bottom of a long page. Would it be possible to add an option to return to the old line in the diff window (or as close as possible) after you do a double-click undo? Hope this makes sense.—Chowbok ☠ 16:28, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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I have also noticed that in addition to this if I make a change in addition to those being suggested by AWB, double clicking will eliminate any manual edits I have made. --Kumioko (talk) 16:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

You can get around this by clicking "diff" immediately after doing a manual edit.—Chowbok ☠ 16:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

thanks, didn't know that. --[[User:|Kumioko]] (talk) 19:24, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

rev 4909 Resolves Kumioko's issue. Rjwilmsi 13:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

rev 4910 Both issues (loss of position and loss of manual changes) resolved. Rjwilmsi 13:22, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... I checked-out & compiled revision 5036 and I'm still seeing this behavior. Is there something I need to set?—Chowbok ☠ 21:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Try the latest API edit snapshot. Rjwilmsi 09:43, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm restoring this from the archives, because I have never seen this fixed, in any version. Using 5.0.0.0 now.—Chowbok ☠ 20:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

The fix which was implemented deals with the focus in the edit box rather than the requested diff window. I agree that the original request would be very useful, but I also realize that it's much more complicated since the double clicked paragraph probably won't be displayed, so it would have to find the closest paragraph which would be displayed. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Aha. That makes sense. Changing this back to "new", then.—Chowbok ☠ 20:29, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I made a duplicate request below. The clicked paragraph may or may not be displayed, depending on how many automated changes there are; but if not, focusing on the next (rather than previous) paragraph that is displayed would be a nice feature. That way one could go through the diffs one by one from top to bottom, eliminating those which aren't desired.

Note that if you click the 'diff' button to fix any manual changes (resolved request above), that also takes you back to the top of the diff page. It would be nice if both actions (dbl click on paragraph and manual edit plus 'diff' button) would keep you where you are on the page so you can continue editing uninterrupted.—kwami (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Ability to resize either list window for at Make List or in List comparer, or a scrollable window

Status	New
Description	When working on wikisource pages, especially in the Page: namespace, the page names are very long, and only vary in the last few characters (looooong filename.djvu/\d{1,3}). Ability to be able to expand the size of one of the list screens to see the whole pagename, or even to be able to have a scroll bar. This is necessary as pages don't sort well due to /1, /10, /100, /101 ... /199, /2, /20, /200, /201 ... and can be a selection of pages upon which to be worked. billinghurst sDrewth 14:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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Add ctrl+c, ctr+x, ctrl+a shortcuts to log lists

Status	New
Description	++ -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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Give notification of the file being saved when saving settings and overwriting another saved file

Status	New
Description	Unless I have missed something, when saving the settings there is no notification of the name of the file being saved when a settings file is being overwritten. Perhaps the box that appears could include the name of the settings file about to be saved. Snowman (talk) 21:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
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There should be... —Reedy 22:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

File --> Save asks you, as does Save as. Save as default doesn't... —Reedy 22:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

After using several settings in one session it is useful to have a memo of which settings are currently in use at the time the settings are saved. The default file is the one in current use, so this can change. After using several settings there is currently no memo of the file name when it is saved. I think it should always be clear what file is being overwritten. Snowman (talk) 22:48, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Save as will show you in the window. Save will save the currently loaded file (displayed in the program header). Default, well, saves to the default file.. —Reedy 22:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

File menu then "Save settings as" just says "Replace existing file?" in a pop-up box. A memo would also be useful when using more than one version of AWB at the same time, or when saving some regexes at different stages of writing them. Snowman (talk) 22:55, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

The filename is written on the header of the edit box. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

The file name appears at the top of the edit box only after the file is saved, and then it disappears on starting using AWB abain. Surly it would be more user friendly if the file name appeared in the pop-up box. Snowman (talk) 11:10, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I see it on the top of the pop-up menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:58, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

If you have a deep directory structure you do not actually see the file name, but you see part of the path to the file (and perhaps only part of the file name). You might only see part of "C:\Users\long name here for the name of a directory\Documents\settings file.xml." I also had quite a descriptive long file name of the settings file. I launched AWB set-up files from the directory to which it was downloaded and this is the default file arrangement on my system. Snowman (talk) 12:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Allow more granular control of Preference "Enable logging"

Status	New
Description	Further to Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests/Archive 7#Option to turn off internal logging, or auto-clear the list every XX minutes, if we could have it give us an option to disable logging of saved and skip separately, that would be neat. –xenotalk 19:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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Happy. Never. Rearrange to suit. ;D —Reedy 21:49, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Smarter AWBupdater

Status	New
Description	Current status Editor launches AWB and get informed that there is that their version is disabled and has to download new version. They are asked to press Yes to update, No to do it manually or Cancel. Pressing yes results AWBUpdater to launch. AWPUpdater asks (again) if editor wants to update with a Yes/No. Suggestion First box changes to Automatic/Manually/Cancel. If "Automatic" AWBUpdater is called with a parameter and no new window pops-up. Update starts. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
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I think this is done. The updater has been updated multiple times since march when this was submitted. --Kumioko (talk) 01:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Save and load settings from wiki page

Status	New
Description	The ability to save and load AWB settings to/from a wiki file page would be helpful for publishing source code and collaborative development. –xenotalk 04:11, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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Do you mean a physical [[File:]] - Of course, using the relative file location will let you do it, with MaxSems warning... —Reedy 14:47, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, no, I meant 'page'. –xeno^talk 14:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

So the text from a specified wiki page? —Reedy 11:50, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, like wrapped in <source lang=xml> tags or whatever. –xeno^talk 03:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Someone post a settings file -> Save as in a text file -> Load settings. :D You would like to skip step 2. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:01, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, the real reason is so that I don't have to email myself settings file back and forth between locations when I'm in the middle of a task. –xeno^talk 13:10, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

This or a similar feature would be very useful. For example me and some other users maintain a list of regular expressions at Commons:File description page regular expressions (XML) and it would be really cool if the finds and replaces in it could automatically be loaded by all our bots at startup, kind of like what's done for typos. - EdoDodo ^talk 09:52, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Ability to save the state of the database scanner

Status	New
Description	It would be nice to be able to save the state of the database scanner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xeno (talk • contribs) 23:16, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
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Yes, especially the default .xml path + namespaces to keep. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:16, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Have navigable TOC for edit box

Status	New
Description	Sometimes, I want to get to particular section of the edited page and I think navigable TOC would be useful for this, something similar to what the Usability Initiative created for Vector. Svick (talk) 15:50, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
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Filter on timestamp—last edited

Status	New
Description	Looking to know whether there was an efficiency to be able to filter (pre-parse) pages on their last edited date, eg. pre-parse can skip files edited before DATE-A Background: On a project at enWS we are looking to update the style used on transcriptions, and after we have updated pages, we would only want to run the search on pages edited after the last cleanup. It is a link style cleanup so there is no ready other means to filter. billinghurst sDrewth 14:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
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Trivial, yup. PageInfo gives us the last edited timestamp. If someone can suggest a good place to add this, and what to do about date formats etc, I'll get this added. —Reedy 06:31, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

This appears very similar to the previous feature request called History analysis. Is it worth solving them both together? Lightmouse (talk) 17:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

In the 'Filter' there is a tick box option called 'Sort alphabetically'. I suggest that we turn that into three option buttons labelled: 'Do not sort', 'Sort alphabetically', and 'Sort by date of last edit'.

It would also be useful to have date fields labelled 'Remove articles with last edit after' and 'Remove articles with last edit before'

At the same time, I'd review the 'Keep alphabetized' option in the 'List menu'. I'm not sure what it does and perhaps it could be removed or have another option relating to the new chronological sort.

Regards Lightmouse (talk) 11:54, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Any further thoughts on this? Lightmouse (talk) 12:16, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

The two sections History analysis and Filter on timestamp—last edited both want to investigate article history. Any further thoughts on these two requests? Lightmouse (talk) 18:53, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Prevent the article from being saved if a condition exists

Status	New
Description	An option that would prevent an article from being saved if a rule is violated. So if the Save button is pressed and a condition exists that violates a predefined rule then the article is not saved and an error dialog is displayed (or the article is skipped and the occurrence is logged).
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This could be a plug-in I guess. It would create a additional rules dialog analogous to advanced settings. The dialog would allow the user to enter some number of rules (regular expressions) paired with an error messages. The text would be evaluated when the Save button is pressed. If a condition exists in the text which violates one of the rules then:

1. The save is aborted.
2. The first instance of violating text is highlighted as with the highlight errors option in the Options Menu.
3. An error dialog is displayed containing the paired error message.
4. If in bot mode, or at the users discretion, the page is skipped and the error message entered in the skipped log.
5. This process is repeated until the text does not violate any of the rules.

Perhaps a check box could be added to the rules dialog that would prevent saving when an error exists of the type highlighted by the existing highlight errors option. This might also include the option of skipping and logging the error type.

The highlight color should probably be different than the red used by the highlight errors option. Some striking color that could not be confused with red but does not obscure the text.

The motivation is that it is possible to detect situations that are ambiguous and need human attention. In the past I've created rules that inserted brackets that created an open bracket error. On re-parsing the bracket errors where highlighted and allowed me to handle the case manually. It's a laborious process that is prone to failure.

I hope that this was not already suggested and declined and that it is not too much to ask for.  –droll [chat] 06:25, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

The interface might not have to change much. Maybe add a rule type to advanced settings that implements the functionality.  –droll [chat] 03:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Ignore Error

Status	New
Description	In the error description box, have a button that allows you to ignore all errors that are the same as the one displayed. -- /DeltaQuad|Notify Me\ 20:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
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Default directory for settings

Status	New
Description	Handle the initial directory for "Open settings" and "Save settings as". Either allow users to specify a default directory, or start in AWB's directory. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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I use many different settings files, so this would be very useful to save a little directory navigation. (It would be especially helpful when running more than one instance of AWB simultaneously, as "Recent settings" only works initially for the first. This specific issue may only be relevant with snapshots which are debug builds; I'm currently using SVN 6872.) MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Image file previewing

Status	New
Description	Allow previewing of image files instead of just a preview of the image description page. Image file preview may also include information about the file itself, e.g. file type & size, resolution, file duplicates, etc. Spebi (talk) 07:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Is this something that AWB is capable of? Would it be better suited as a plugin or other? It's a feature that could really come in handy on my wiki. Could someone give me an indication as to whether or not it is possible? Spebi (talk) 09:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Selective undo of changes from diff window

Status	New
Description	It would be very helpful to be able to select and undo any given change as shown in the diff window; this would be a big time saver over manually undoing a change, and would be less prone to manual error. (Thanks for great work!) David Hollman (Talk) 07:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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You can double-click any change in the diff window and it will be undone.—Chowbok ☠ 08:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

As long as you realize that that undoes all the changes in the paragraph. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that's definitely helpful. Though, a more localized undo (ie, the exact change clicked on) would still be useful I think. David Hollman (Talk) 16:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

...and as long as you realize that double-clicking on any change in the diff window (or making any change in the edit box) wipes out all the automated messages that get added to the edit summary (e.g. typo fixes, replacements, addition/removal of templates), which is a bummer. GoingBatty (talk) 01:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Maybe it would be possible to allow line by line removal instead of having to remove the whole paragraph? --Kumioko (talk) 02:25, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

It is line by line, but in the code, one line usually contains the whole paragraph. Do you mean sentence by sentence? Svick (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Change by change removal would be wonderful, as even one sentence may have more than one change. GoingBatty (talk) 20:12, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't just show the paragraph containing the diff. It also puts paragraphs either side that have no diff. These provide some context but use up a lot of space. Can these non-diff paragraphs be reduced in size?

Perhaps allow the user to specify? --Kumioko (talk) 17:25, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

It might also be helpful to have an "undo like" capability that would allow the user to deselect all changes like on an article..(for example if AWB suggested a bunch of typo changes the user could select the undo like option to uncheck all the top changes). --Kumioko (talk) 17:25, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Restoring content of the regex tester

Status	New
Description	Regex tester is a very useful tool, but it is inconvenient that one should type all expressions again and again every time one opens the tester window during thorough debugging of a complex regexp. It would be great if the last content of the window was restored when it is open. --Vladimir Ivanov (talk) 12:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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Allow non-bots to use Auto Shutdown feature

Status	New
Description	The Auto Shutdown feature would be nice for non-bots too, especially when pre-parsing a long list of pages. GoingBatty (talk) 04:36, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Allow list to be sent to Special:Export and resulting xml automatically loaded in database scanner

Status	New
Description	AWB should allow sending a list to Special:Export, and automatically loading the resultant xml file in the database scanner. –xenotalk 03:20, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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Remove button generated text

Status	New
Description	The text generated by the editing buttons ''Insert non-formatted text here'' for example, can often be inserted in a page by mistake or vandals. With some caveats it is safe to remove, recursively. This will often fix other breakages. Rich Farmbrough, 10:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC).
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See User:Rich_Farmbrough/AWB/Reg_ex for a possible reg-ex starting point. Rich Farmbrough, 10:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC).

In the past, I asked for a Filter for cases like: '''Bold text''' and ''Italic text'' -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't think AWB should do this. Automatically removing the text will improve the article, yes, but it will not welcome the new user or warn the vandal. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:32, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Wanted pages listing

Status	New
Description	Special:WantedPages and Special:WantedFiles lister
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I found out that here at Wikipedia the Special:WantedPages has been disabled (I don't know why), but on other wikis such as the RuneScape Wiki, have wanted pages and is not disabled. When I tried to make a list in Special Pages, there was no such option, nor was there for Special:WantedFiles. This would be helpful for those non-wikipedia wikis. Evil1888 00:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.236.58.30 (talk)

Waiting on bugzilla:14869 —Reedy 00:20, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Bug fixed recently (2011-02-08). -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:44, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. But we need 1.18 to go live on the WMF cluster now. Reedy (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Lose work on "restart"/"timeout

Status	New
Description	When you click "save", the edit box becomes grayed out. If you get a timeout error (or whatever causes AWB to restart), AWB just re-processes the article from scratch automatically, and you lose all your manual changes. It would be IMMENSELY useful if, when you click "stop" to interrupt the re-processing, that the edit-window would become editable again so you could keep your changes (via crtl+c), or that AWB would prompt you before reprocessing the page, giving you the option of keeping your changes rather than start from scratch. This happens to me every now and then, and I always lose massive amounts of work. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:32, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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This happens to me too and I find it very discouraging. I spend considerable time on an article only to have the changes disappear. It is not always related a long period of inactivity on my part. Is the edit box content saved anywhere on my computer where it can be retrieved after restart? –droll [chat] 06:24, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Have Filter window remember from one time to the next if it was set to "Intersection"

Status	New
Description	Have the "Filter" window remember from one time to the next if it should be set to "Symetric difference" or to "Intersection" - usually when I've used "Intersection", and go to there again in the same session, I want to use "Intersection" again, and I imagine that so would most other AWB users. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu
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Please add option 'Open diff in browser' for log.

Status	New
Description	Please add option 'Open diff in browser' for log. The options 'Open page in browser' and 'Open history in browser' are very useful. I'd like to be able to see one or more items in the log and select 'Open diff in browser'. The use case is: check multiple edits. Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 13:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Please add option to increase visible size of log

Status	New
Description	Please add option to increase visible size of log. The log only shows 6 lines at once, sometimes I'd like to be able to see many more lines. I know that I can save the log and review it that way, but Would it be possible to have an option that enlarges the log? It currently shows 'Successfully saved' and 'Skipped' by default. Perhaps you might be able to allow the user to choose which one to show and that would allow more vertical space for possibly 30 lines. Lightmouse (talk) 13:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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Interface amendments II

Status	New
Description	. We can save space by replacing group boxes with a separator (see Microsoft guidelines) in the following tabs 'Options', 'More...', 'Disambig', 'Skip', and 'Bots'. In the case of 'Disambig', I suggest the groups shouldn't exist at all, the labels should go directly on the widget. Lightmouse (talk) 09:05, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thus:

• Please replace the three Options tab group boxes (Automatic changes, Find and replace, Regex typo fixing) with three separator lines
• Please replace the three More... tab group boxes with three separator lines
• Please delete the Disambig tab group box 'Link to disambiguate' and move the label to the field
• Please delete the Disambig tab group box 'Variants' and move the label to the field
• Please replace the three Skip tab group boxes with three separator lines
• Please replace the three Bots tab group boxes with three separator lines

Lightmouse (talk) 12:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Alow creating lists based on external web pages

Status	New
Description	Not infrequently, I use a toolserver tool to create a list of all pages where certain edits would probably be needed using AWB (category names by patern using this tool, category scans using this tool), where creating the list inside AWB is either impossible (such as my first example) or difficult (the second example - I still would need to filter out all non-mainspace, for example, but that would be simple AWB filtering). I think that we should be able to make a list from all incoming links from an external web page, given by URL. That would make these tasks much easier. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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Using pre-parse mode without logging in

Status	New
Description	I'm using AWB on frwiki since a few years. I’d like to be able to use some of its functions on the others wikipedias without having to log-in. The pre-parse mode doesn't modify the articles so it shouldn't be access protected. It would allow to use all the skip tab functions to filter (regexp) a list of articles with what their text contains and not only their titles. In fact, I'm trying to find out what articles of a category exist on other wikis and doesn't on frwiki (ie. what could be traduced). And I want to do it for a lot of languages. The two solutions I have for the moment is either download all dumps then use the database scanner, either request an AWB authorization on each WP to access the pre-parse mode and use it as a little scanner. Downloading full dumps and scanning them to check a few hundred articles is absurd. Asking an authorization to use AWB on all WP could be very long, especially that I don't ask it to edit there, only to read the wikis (ambiguous request, and biaised for me). I can't use the list comparer either because I don't know the traduction of the titles of the articles. If there's another way/tool to do what I want, I'd be glad to know. If the way users access are handle in AWB could be revised, I'd be glad to continue using it to work!—A2 (talk) 00:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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This has already been requested and is waiting for a developer review. I would like to have this option available too. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:18, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I also requested this some time ago as well. If I remember correctly it can't be done because of the Wikipedia API. In order for AWB to connect to WP it needs to use a login through the API. I can't remember exactly but I think thats how it was explained to me a while back. --Kumioko (talk) 04:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

So perhaps a slightly revised feature request would solve this: to allow pre-parse mode (only) if logged in with an account that has no AWB permission? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:13, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Minimialise the config stuff on bottom half of screen

Status	New
Description	What matters for typos checking is the top view pane, have a toggle to reduce the bottom part down to 'the current article name', the existing four buttons, 'start', 'stop', 'skip', 'save' with the edit summary beside it, plus a way to re-expand to normal. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 23:50, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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Edit summary

Provide ability for edit summary to change dynamically based on what custom Find & Replace changes are made

Status	New
Description	Allow a field in an Advanced "Find and replace" entry to modify the edit summary. The edit summary would allow for numerous variables and these would be filled in by the Find/replace entry. –xenotalk 14:12, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
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Example: "(Bot) Tagging for WP:FOO - Inherited $1-class assessment from other projects"

Find and replace already records replacements and removals. Plus, it has notes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Only in the normal Find and replace though and in any case this wouldn't allow for what I've shown above as an example. –xeno^talk 16:50, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Dynamically change edit summary based on its length

Status	New
Description	Use normal, prettier edit summaries when space allows, and use space-saving measures when the summary is so long that it would be truncated. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
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One space-saving measure would be to remove the spaces surrounding the arrow in typo replacements: "againt→against" instead of "againt → against".

Some (most?) people prefer the visual appeal of "using [[Project:AWB|AWB]]" to "using [[Project:AWB]]". With this feature, the prettier version could be used most of the time while not wasting those valuable characters when necessary, and the space-saving version could be even further shortened by removing "using". Make it simply " ([[Project:AWB]])".

I already do something similar. When I'm fixing typos, my normal edit summary is [[WP:AWB/T|Typo patrol]]. When there are so many typos that the list is truncated, I clear my edit summary to allow more of the list to show. Note a bug in my example diff: the "[[Project:AWB]]" got lopped off. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:05, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree with that. Pipe Project AWB if edit summary has enough space. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Add ellipsis to truncated edit summaries

Status	New
Description	When an edit summary is so long that it gets truncated, remove one more character and replace it with an ellipsis (…) to indicate the truncation. Without this feature, those summaries look incomplete, confusing, and/or incorrect. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
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Smarter edit summaries

Status	New
Description	If I understand how edit summaries work currently in AWB, if I change something either by directly editing the text of the article or by double clicking a line in diff, AWB uses just the default edit summary, not specific changes, because the user might have undid them. I think it would be better, if the edit summary would be smarter, so if AWB suggest two fixes and I undo one of them, the edit summary would still contain the other. Svick (talk) 23:35, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure implementing this won't be easy, but I think it could be done in the long term. Svick (talk) 23:35, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I think it should be doable. Certainly is in no shape or form easy. —Reedy 22:23, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary when I use find and replace on ar.wiki

Status	New
Description	In ar.wiki we prefer Arabic edit summary. Can you edit "edit summary" when I use find and replace on ar.wiki? English : Replaced: 1$ > 2$. In Arabic: استبدال : 1$ > 2$ --OsamaK 08:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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I think this would be worth doing for all the wiki's where we have the different namesapces. It would only require a few code changes, ie instead f Replaced, use Variables.Replace (or whatever), and then have the local word for each... Reedy Boy 08:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Not exactly. Replacing right arrow with left one can give you weird results if you've replaced one non-RTL word with another[14]. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 20:04, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

What about using the Arabic word for "with" -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:19, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

It's "بـ".--OsamaK 23:44, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Include more additions/changes in edit summary

Status	New
Description	When AWB automatically does the following, could they automatically be included in the edit summary? adds {{Persondata}} or {{DEFAULTSORT}} adds Categories xxxx births/xxxx deaths/Living people changes {{Uncategorized}} to {{Uncategorized stub}} GoingBatty (talk) 01:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC) changes {{Unreferenced}} to {{Refimprove}} GoingBatty (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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You can construct your own edit summaries using Custom module. I agree with the first one though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

My goal isn't to change the existing rules, but to have the edit summary that is automatically generated better reflect the changes that are made. Took a quick look at Custom Modules, but didn't see an example of one that with logic such as: if (something) is added, then include (some text) in the edit summary. GoingBatty (talk) 17:54, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Use something like this to begin:

• Summary = "StartSummary"

and call a function inside an if..then statement adding:

• Summary += MoreSummary + @", ";

I guess Rjw can give you more specific instructions.

The first one is good because adding persondata is an improvement and not a fix. The others go a bit off our philosophy, because generating lentghy edit summaries can be time consuming and endless. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:11, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Support for Wikipedia books

See also: WP:MOSBOOKS, Help:Books/for experts, and User:WildBot/b01

New source: Books

Status	New
Description	It'd be useful to be able to load books into AWB. Currently, what I'm doing is telling AWB to load "Links on page" from "Book:Foobar", then remove Help:Books Help:Books/Feedback Help:Books/Frequently Asked Questions Help:Books/Printed books Wikipedia:Books Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books from the list of articles to work on, with a default edit summary of "clean up for [[Book:Foobar]]" Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:49, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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Basic cleanup for books

Status	New
Description	Wikipedia books all follow a basic syntax, detailed at Help:Books/for experts, which needs to be rigorously followed. To determine if a page is a book or not, check if either of Category:Wikipedia books (community books) or Category:Wikipedia books (user books) are present. If they are, it's a book, and the cleanup logic needs to be adjusted slightly. Specifically, 1) The {{saved book}} and these four parameters (in this specific order) should always be present at the top of the book. There can be other parameters, but they should all be after |cover-color=. {{saved book |title= |subtitle= |cover-image= |cover-color= }} 2) If a level 2 header isn't present, add one (=={{SUBPAGENAME}}==) 3) The |title= and |subtitle= of {{saved book}}, if empty, should be filled with the level 2 and 3 headers respectively (==Title== and ===Subtitle===) 4) :''[[Foobar]]'' and :"[[Foobar]]" should be replaced with :[[Foobar|''Foobar'']] and :[[Foobar|"Foobar"]], respectively. Likewise for :''[[Foobar|Barfoo]]'' and :"[[Foobar|Barfoo]]" which should be replaced with :[[Foobar|''Barfoo'']] and :[[Foobar|"Barfoo"]], respectively. 5) As in articles, :[[Foobar|Foobar]] should be replace with :[[Foobar]]. However, unlike in articles, :[[Foobar (barfoo)|Foobar (barfoo)]] should not be replaced by :[[Foobar (barfoo)]] 6) Articles found in Category:All disambiguation pages should be tagged with {{dn}}, except those with an explicit (disambiguation) in the title, such as :[[Foobar (disambiguation)]] 7) If the image of |cover-image= is found in Category:All non-free media, it should be removed. 8) Categories starting with "Category:Wikipedia books..." should precede other categories, separated by a line break 9) If no category starting with "Category:Wikipedia books..." (except the 7 listed below) is present, then "Wikipedia books (books without categories) should be added. If such a category is present, then "Wikipedia books (books without categories) should be removed. Category:Wikipedia books (books without cover images) Category:Wikipedia books (books without custom colors) Category:Wikipedia books (community books) Category:Wikipedia books (community books with bugs) Category:Wikipedia books (incorrectly categorized books) Category:Wikipedia books (user books) Category:Wikipedia books (user books with bugs) 10) Disambiguation pages, duplicate articles, and redirects should give alerts. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
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Talk page related

Edit talk - view article

Status	New
Description	Possibility when editing talk page to view the article page. See User:Traveler100/edit talk - brows article for details. --Traveler100 (talk) 09:00, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
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Expand template redirect functionality to talk pages (zeroth section only)

Status	New
Description	AWB currently adds {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} if 3 or more WikiProject templates are found, but only for WikiProject templates named "WikiProject foo" and not with their redirects. Could the Template redirect functionality be expanded to fix the redirects before adding the BannerShell? (e.g. something like this edit.) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:54, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
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I like this idea too. Kumioko (talk) 03:25, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I thought you had posted this idea somewhere, but couldn't find it, so I added it here. GoingBatty (talk) 03:47, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

BTW I have already written written code for most of the Wikiprojects and redirects. If the logic for the AWB/TR page were updated to include talk pages or if another separate page were created for talk pages, I think it would be very beneficial and would be easy to convert the code I wrote over to the new format.Kumioko (talk) 13:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I changed the title to really correspond to what is to be done. We need substitutions only to zeroth section. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:42, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Alerts

More detail for PUA

Status	New
Description	Currently AWB announces that it is skipping an article because it contains PUA characters and can't be edited. There are two problems with this: (1) in pre-parse mode, the article is simply skipped without warning, and (2) in an article like Kabardian language, I'm not able to locate the PUA character that's the problem. Could the article not be skipped in pre-parse mode, so that it can be reviewed manually (I suspect this will result in weeding out more PUA characters), and could the guilty character be displayed in manual edit mode, or at least the line or paragraph highlighted, so we can either replace it with a supported character or format it appropriately for AWB? (E.g. {{PUA|}} for .) — kwami (talk) 00:04, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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bad categories to show in alert box

Status	New
Description	In the alert box, list categories that do not exist when the article/etc is first brought up to edit and also after the 'diff' button is pressed or when you preview the article edits in any way. Currently, there is no warning at all that something was already wrong with a category in the article when the article is first presented to you for editing or after you have made any manual edits. This results in unnecessary and undesired category errors in the saved articles. Hmains (talk) 16:59, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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Provide alert for invalid citation parameters in templates other than Cite web

Status	New
Description	The "Invalid citation parameter(s) found" alerts for {{cite web}} are very helful. Could this be expanded to other citation templates? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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I just wanted to follow this with a little more information. I was looking at the instructions and at the coding of these templates for the 4 main ones(News, Web, Book and Journal) and I noticed that the instructions are essentially crap. If you look at the coding of these 4 templates there are very few parameters that the others don't have. The instructions just may not say it. I have created an excel spreadsheet showing most of these parameter differences and I will post a table of the results out in the next day or 2. Kumioko (talk) 14:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

There is ongoing work to improve documentation; please discuss at Citation Style 1. There is also a discussion to deprecate and eventually remove a number of superfluous aliases; see Help talk:Citation Style 1#Aliases. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:07, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Great thanks. User:Kumioko/sandbox2 has a the table I just created to help sort out the parameter differnces. Its not done yet but its a start and makes it easier to see the differences. Kumioko (talk) 15:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

It seems that AWB also provides alerts for {{citation}} - try Ric Flair. Could you please let me know which templates AWB provides alerts for so I can update the documentation? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:24, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

It provides alerts mainly for "cite web" and "citeweb" and some general stuff for "cite web", "citeweb", "cite news", "cite journal", "cite book", "citebook", "citation", "cite press release", "cite paper", "cite hansard", "cite encyclopedia" -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:09, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Keep "delink selection" button available even when no multiple wiki-links

Status	New
Description	In the "Alerts" area, could the "delink selection" be made available when there aren't any multiple wiki-links? I use the "Find" feature with regexes to find things that I'd like to unlink, and being able to use the delink button would be very helpful. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
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New alert: {{s-start}} with no {{s-end}}

Status	New
Description	Add a new alert to indicate when an article contains {{s-start}}, but does not contain {{s-end}}. GoingBatty (talk) 21:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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Alert: Stub category directly added

Status	More information needed
Description	Provide an alert when a stub category is directly added in an article. (e.g. the article contains Category:Environmental organization stubs instead of {{environmental-org-stub}}) GoingBatty (talk) 17:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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What logic will identify all such stub categories? Rjwilmsi 20:52, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Categories ending with " stubs" would get most of them. GoingBatty (talk) 03:42, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

HotCat now disallows directly adding -stub categories. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:36, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Autotagger

Replace/remove {{Uncategorized}} when categories exist

Status	More information needed
Description	Could AWB be changed so that it would replace {{Uncategorized}} with {{Cat improve}} when a small number of categories exist, and remove {{Uncategorized}} when a large number of categories exist (e.g. this edit)? GoingBatty (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
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These categories should not be hidden categories, maintance categories nor stub categories. Any rule when exactly the article is considered "categorised"? -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

If it's in at least one true content category, it's considered categorized (though {{cat improve}} may still be appropriate, such as if an article's only content categories are birth/death years.) You're correct that hidden/maintenance/stub categories don't count toward the article being considered categorized, if they're the only categories present. Bearcat (talk) 03:56, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Intro-missing

Status	On Hold
Description	A simple idea really – all articles should have lead sections and many don't. There are a couple of situations when AWB should intervene, in my opinion. On any occasion when the article begins with a header (==Whatever==), then {{intro-missing}} should be added. If the article begins with a header that matches the article title exactly, then the header can just be removed. Potential stumbling blocks might be infoboxes and so forth. Either way, I hope this is construed as a decent idea and that it might spur on some constructive discussion. Seegoon (talk) 22:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
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Comment: If article starts with a header that has the same name with the article, then AWB removes the header. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:13, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

We need more feedback. A bot should try to do that first. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:47, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Check if the article lacks intro >> if yes, check if the headline of the first section of the article's body match the name of the article >> if yes (example) >> remove that headline. Sole Soul (talk) 17:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Is any bot doing it? We need feedback if they are any articles that this tag doesn't apply. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Enhanced Autotagging

Status	New
Description	Add a window to allow editors to choose which part of autotagger they want to enable/disable. A window similar to GF skip options with the following options: Add/remove the following tags if applicable: ☑ stubs ☑ expansion (remove only) ☐ uncategorised ☐ orphan ☑ deadend ☑ wikify ☐ ibid Notes: AWB should not add expansion tags, only remove if article is a stub thus the "(remove only)" The above list could be expanded with two columns Remove / Append -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:28, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
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Change uncat with Cat improve, if page contains Living people, births, deaths categories

Status	New
Description	Change uncat with Cat improve, if page contains Living people, births, deaths categories -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
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That would be cat improve, but let's keep that consideration for another time. Rjwilmsi 09:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Add {{cat improve}} when only categories are Living people, births, deaths

Status	New
Description	Add {{cat improve}} if the only categories are Category:Living people, Category:xxxx births, Category:xxxx deaths, and/or maintenance & hidden categories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoingBatty (talk • contribs)
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Change Expand section with Empty section in empty section

Status	New
Description	Change {{Expand section}} with {{Empty section}} if section contains nothing more than this template and empty space. diff -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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Add {{Cleanup-HTML}}

Status	New
Description	Expand AutoTag to add {{Cleanup-HTML}} if there are HTML elements that AWB can not automatically change (e.g. <big>) GoingBatty (talk) 14:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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I would first like to see the template documentation provide a complete list of what is and isn't permitted HTML tagging in Wikipedia. Currently it's unclear. Rjwilmsi 10:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Example -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Example2. -- 15:04, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Example 3. I fixed some but there some unclosed bold tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:14, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Add {{cleanup-bare URLs}}

Status	New
Description	When AWB displays the "Unformatted references found" alert, could it also add {{cleanup-bare URLs}} (if it's not already on the article)? GoingBatty (talk) 22:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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Changed request from {{cleanup-link rot}} to its new name: {{cleanup-bare URLs}}. GoingBatty (talk) 00:04, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Change {{unreferenced section}} to {{refimprove section}}

Status	New
Description	Change {{unreferenced section}} to {{refimprove section}} if the section contains a reference. GoingBatty (talk) 03:42, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
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How can we know that? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:11, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Using the same logic as when changing {{unreferenced}} to {{refimprove}}, but only looking between {{unreferenced section}} and the next section header? Or by looking for <ref> between {{unreferenced section}} and the next section header? GoingBatty (talk) 01:44, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

I mean: It was risky before already. In the ref can only be a comment and not a real reference. --- Magioladitis (talk) 20:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

But that would be easy to be implemented by checking if the ref has a url/or a cite template in, or? mabdul 20:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

It is not required that a ref have a cite template, & quite a number of refs do not, from both new and experienced users. . I , for example, never use it unless there are already refs in the article formatted with it. DGG ( talk ) 16:23, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Merge multiple {{multiple issues}} templates together

Status	New
Description	When an article has multiple {{multiple issues}} templates at the beginning of the article, could AWB be expanded to merge them together? (as I did manually in this edit) GoingBatty (talk) 03:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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Silliman University College of Engineering and Design is an example of an article with two multiple issues tags. GoingBatty (talk) 16:11, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

How many pages with this problem are out there? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:19, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Reasonable question, but I don't know how to count this. GoingBatty (talk) 20:51, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Unsorted

On exit, check for changes to settings and query whether user wants to save the changes

Status	New
Description	On exit, check for changes to settings and query whether user wants to save the changes. When I exit most applications, they check if changes have been made. If no changes have been made, they exit immediately. If changes have been made, they ask if I want to save the changes. Look at how MS Word behaves. AWB does not do this. I know that AWB cannot test for everything but I would like it to be able to save my javascript changes as a first priority and my skip options etc as a second priority. Lightmouse (talk) 22:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
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This is a very useful proposal, however checking for changes the right way (e.g. by serialising settings and comparing against saved ones) is a heavy operation. Needs more thinking. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 08:23, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Perhaps we could divide the request into several pieces. For example, changes to the 'Make module' could be one problem piece to solve and changes to checkbox options in the tabs could be another problem piece. I would regard it as a useful advance if you could solve either of those problem pieces. Lightmouse (talk) 08:39, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Please delete this request. It's resolved by the 'auto-save' feature. Lightmouse (talk) 11:31, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Hold on. I often make incremental adjustments to "Find & Replace" while processing a list of articles, and don't want to save new settings until they are tested on a few articles, so I would not have 'auto-save' turned on in that situation. Before exiting AWB or before loading a new settings file, I would like to be reminded that I have unsaved "Find & Replace" changes to the current settings file. This part should not be difficult to implement, especially if the request for "Unwanted saving of Find & Replace changes" is taken care of by dropping the "Done" button and adding "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons. If the "Apply" button is pressed, just make a note that the settings file has changed and may need to be saved on exit; the heavy operation of comparing settings against saved ones would not be necessary. A similar technique could be used to mark changes to skip options, etc., and all the checks would not have to be added at once. Chris the speller ^yack 14:53, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Multiple page moves

Status	New
Description	It would be very great if AWB will allow us to move many pages the same way (e.g.: moving Goldfinger article to Goldfinger (film)), there is yet 2 pywikipedia scripts (movepages.py and pagerename.py), but movepages.py does not append words to the title and pagerename.py does not convert to UNICODE, especially when using special characters (as French é, è, à... and also Arabic letters). So, please, such a feature on AWB is highly recommanded, thank you. --DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 20:05, 15 June 2008 (UTC) The needed actions are : Prepend (to titles), i.e.: prepending a word to titles (in a list of articles), e.g.: USS Michigan (for the USS ships). (this is just an example) Append (to titles), i.e.: appending a word to titles (in a list of articles), e.g.: St. Louis, Michigan. (this is just an example) Find and replace (in titles), i.e.: finding a word in the titles (in a list of articles) and replacing it by another, e.g.: Goldfinger (cinema) to Goldinger (film). (this is just an example) Delete (from titles), i.e.: deleting words from the titles (in a list of articles), e.g.: State of North Carolina to North Carolina. (this is just an example)--DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 20:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
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Possibly best implemented as a MassMove plugin... (could be a default ship plugin with AWB though) —Reedy 22:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Define space in lines/paragraphs between Multiply links

Status	New
Description	Allow the user or hardcode an agreed distance where by Multiple links are shown If we had: Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser is a semi-automated Mediawiki editor for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista designed to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. It is essentially a browser that automatically opens up a new page when the last is saved. When set to do so, it suggests some changes (typically formatting) that are generally meant to be incidental to the main change. At present, Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser can create a list of pages from single or multiple categories, "what links here", the wiki links on a page, a text file, a Google search, a user's watchlist, or a user's contributions. Distance =2 lines . This would return false Distance =10 lines . Would return true Distance =1 paragraph would return true Gnevin (talk) 14:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
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What? Plrk (talk) 15:10, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

i believe gnevin is asking that users have a way to say how close multiple wikilinks have to be to eachother before AWB complains about them. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 16:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

As Zapper says , sorry for not being clearer Gnevin (talk) 21:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Lines depend on resolution... Hm... an idea would that in the Multiple wikilinks box to have not only number of occurrences but minimum distance in terms of words too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Internationalisation and localisation

Status	New
Description	50% of the WMF traffic is not English. If this software is useful for other languages, it should be possible to use the software in this other language.
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You can use it on any language (as of the svn version), just the interface isnt localised. —Reedy 11:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

As an aside. We have thought about it, and it would be a good idea. It just would require a lot of reworking of the code, and the interface changing to cater for the larger text aswell... Getting translators would be easy enough, i suspect... —Reedy 11:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I haven't found an easy to #Support non-standard Windows font PPI since the window resizing modes doesn't seem to have an "em" mode. The best I've been able to come up with is using dymaic layout boxes, but that tends to slows redrawing.—Dispenser 16:48, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Article page in disambiguation popup

Status	New
Description	Currently, the disambiguation dialog box only has a short excerpt of the text. This is often not enough to determine context for the correct replacement, and you have to open the page in an external browser. It would be nice if you could drop a webbrowser control in the blank space in the bottom of the dialog so we can read the article without opening other windows. Thanks for a great tool Phil153 (talk) 05:48, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
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Mark as patrolled

Status	New
Description	Now that we can mark pages as patrolled even if we don't get to them from special:newpages, is there a way to allow this to be done in AWB?--Fabrictramp
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I would expect that any unpatrolled page saved by an admin to be marked as patrolled automatically. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:54, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Dekimasu's disambig finding tool.

Dekimasu has come up with a neat tool to find all disambiguation pages linked by an article (in short, you put in an article like Lyndon B. Johnson and it lists all the disambiguation links on that page). Can this be parsed through AWB to generate a list like the list of entries with multiple links? It would be neat and functional. Better still if the individual links could then be picked and disambiguated from the list on that disambig page. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it could, but some form of API output would be better (possibly worth requesting). Just a list of pages in an xml list style like the MW Api gives. Im not getting into having to parse HTML un-necesserily —Reedy 18:07, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

tools:~jason/AWB_article_dabs.php?title=Ohio - We've got a XML style output now =). What specifically are you wanting to use it for? —Reedy 23:43, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I "specifically" want to be able to select articles which I know are likely to have many disambig links, and use the tool to pick out all of those links and fix them to point to the proper pages. bd2412 T 23:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I know this doesn't have to do with the request. But do this new tool provide anything different from tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/dabfinder.py?page=Ohio? I'm looking to find something not tagged as "likely to go away". Sorry for derailing. §hep • ^Talk 23:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I need to rewrite that tool to use the more efficient SQL queries (It was my first SQL tool). It provides multiple page output using API query and has simple html scrapers for use certain pages structures. And it also reports other link oddities like self redirects. The "likely go away" is in reference to the rewrite which will significantly change how things works. So if the devs could describe what they'd like in the format option (JSON, XML, YAML) I'd be willing to add it to the new tool.—Dispenser 11:41, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

History analysis

Status	New
Description	Features to work with history (last edit undo, undo of specific user edits, statistics)
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This appears to be similar to Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_19#Filtering_based_on_history. Lightmouse (talk) 10:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

This feature would be very useful for bots to filter out articles that it has already edited so it can avoid editing an article for a second time. For example, in some scenarios the bot makes a false positive edit, then a user reverts the bot, then the bot makes the same edit again. I would like to be able to see if the history contains the bot user name but it would be useful to test for any string in the history. I imagine the interface as similar to the 'article contains', 'article does not contain' code. Is it possible? Lightmouse (talk) 07:38, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

It probably depends on whether the mediawiki API has a feature whereby it will tell us how many times a given user (or bot user) has edited a page. If that's available then we could certainly have an option "skip if I've already edited this page". Searching a history for a string doesn't sound feasible: the history of some pages is 50 edits per day, so AWB could easily spend several minutes working through the last two months of a page history. Rjwilmsi 22:27, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, you'd probably want some time constraint on it. You may have not touched it for 2 years, so missing out on those edits would therefore be bad... It may be possible to query the API (ie have to ask Roan nicely to do it), to be able to specify a date, and a username and return whether the user account has touched that page since that date... *May*. As per prior mentions, i'm NOT html scraping. I'll stick a bugzilla request on and see (or ask Roan on IRC).. —Reedy 11:25, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

prop=revision&rvstart=timestamp&rvend=timestamp2&rvuser=username&rvlimit=1

omitting rvstart (prop=revision&rvend=timestamp&rvuser=username&rvlimit=1), will give all (if any) edits by that user to the page since the date. It's possible —Reedy 11:28, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

The two sections History analysis and Filter on timestamp—last edited both want to investigate article history. Any further thoughts on these two requests? Lightmouse (talk) 18:52, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

To list the links in a section of a page

Status	New
Description	To list the links in only one section of an article. This is because some pages have a list in a section, and it would be useful to check these pages with AWB, without a lot of other links on the whole page. Snowman (talk) 13:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Wasn't there a request for this before.. I seem to recall there was as i spoke to Roan about a way to do it.. —Reedy 13:36, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I'd just copy the wanted section to a sandbox or something and then get all links on that page. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 18:55, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I would like to use a quicker and more automated method than that. Snowman (talk) 00:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

We need a windows with two boxes:

Article:
Section:

1. AWB opens article
2. Find start of section and identify section level
3. Start obtaining links until reach header of same level

-- Magioladitis (talk) 15:24, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

search individual templates

Status	New
Description	It would be very useful to be able to restrict searches to individual templates. For example, suppose I'm using advanced search for cleaning up an IPA template, including reformatting stress and length marks <ˈ>, <ˌ>, <ː> for apostrophes, commas, and colons. Now, if the IPA template is embedded in an infobox, as it is with the planet infobox, or even if there are both an IPA template and an infobox on the same page, then every apostrophe, comma, and colon in the infobox will also be replaced and need to be deselected, making maintenance very time consuming. It would be nice to only replace things in the template I'm searching for. kwami (talk) 19:26, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
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I think we can do with the Advanced find in replace. Create rules and subrules. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I can't think of a way to do that, since the searches are global. kwami (talk) 23:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Interestingly, I'm currently working on a plugin which will focus on doing things in specific places within templates, with a UI to help define the template, parameter and values which need attention. Might this be of interest? ClickRick (talk) 23:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Screenshot at File:TheTemplator.png so you can get an idea of what I'm offering. ClickRick (talk) 23:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that looks like it might do it. But it would still be nice to have a simple check box to restrict the find-replace to the template that matches the if/not conditions. kwami (talk) 08:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

If I want to make changes in a specific template I am doing the following: Find and replace -> Advanced settings -> New Rule -> If contains -> Infobox Example and then I am creating subrules. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

But if the page contains a template that contains your search string, then the substitution will be made in all templates on the page, not just the one that contains the string. So if I change apostrophes, I mess up formatting in all of the info boxes. kwami (talk) 08:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Try a regex like \{\{IPA\|([^\}]*)\ˈ([^\}]*)\}\} to $1[whatever you're replacing ˈ with]$2. I'm sure there are much more elegant ways. --NE2 21:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

That works! Thanks. A feature option would still be nice, but with this I can at least take care of some of the more grievous problems. kwami (talk) 07:56, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Upload date detection for image license migration

Status	New
Description	It would be very useful if the advanced find/replace features allowed you to: A) skip that particular find/replace from being made on an image page if the image was uploaded after a certain date and B) make that particular find/replace only if the image was uploaded before a certain date. This is needed for commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/DrilBot and User:DrilBot here to fully help with the image license migration. Specifically, images can be relicensed only if they were uploaded to a Wikimedia project before August 1, 2009, and if it was published elswhere under the GFDL it must have been uploaded to Wikimedia before November 1, 2008. This would probably be best as plugin if possible, but I know zilch about C# so can't really make it myself. If AWB could be made to detect image upload dates for find/replace in this way, then DrilBot could relicense images tagged as (non-self) {{GFDL}} and can continue relicensing images after August 1, 2009. Thank you! –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:56, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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Do you still need this? If yes, what on an image page shows the upload date (i.e. how would a user find it?). Off that I can write a C# function to find it or return whether it's before/after some fixed date. You could then write a custom module to update the template parameters based on the returned answer. Rjwilmsi 12:52, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Lists with parameters (part 2)

Status	New
Description	Possibility made lists with parameters which may by used in substitutions on replacement operations. That possibility must be have: possibility of importing lists from wiki tables (when is made import from file, or from wiki page with table (columns order -> parameters order); possibility of use that parameters in substitutions, by using exp. %%p1%%, where p1 is parameter name, --Vpovilaitis (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
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Namespace-insensitive list sorting or add talk page after article

Status	New
Description	Add an option to sort a list while disregarding the namespace, so that a mainspace article would appear immediately before the same title in other namespaces. For example, instead of sorting as Article1, Article2, Talk:Article1, Talk:Article2, it would be Article1, Talk:Article1, Article2, Talk:Article2. This could be in the right click menu and/or the list filter. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC) Another possibility would be to have an "Add talk page" option to take a list of articles and add the corresponding talk page right after each article. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:22, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
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I'm working on sets of pages where I fix/add DEFAULTSORT and also work on the corresponding talk page, adding WPBiography if missing and fixing/adding the listas and living parameters. It would be very convenient to have the pages sorted together so I can manually apply any nonstandard DEFAULTSORT which I find in the article to the listas, and also determine the living status from the article to fill in for WPBiography. Or, if I find that the article's not a bio, I can immediately skip the talk page. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 00:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

This is such a useful feature for me that I wrote a simple external program to do it and I paste the list into AWB. But it would still be very convenient for AWB to do this. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:22, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Category information

Status	New
Description	Display category information in the "Page statistics" box when a Category: page is displayed; by "category information" I just mean the statistics returned by api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:Foo
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Reverse order in statistics box for ar.wiki

Status	New
Description	"Words: 10" --> "10:Words" in Start tab. --Magioladitis (talk) 11:21, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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separating categories from templates in Vikipedio

Is this the place to ask for all language WPs?

In Esperanto, there are two templates which editors feel should not be separated from the categories by a blank line, because they tie in closely with the categories, and have nothing directly to do with the article. These are 'vivtempo' & 'havenda artikolo'. Can these be added in as exceptions? See comment on my talk page here.—kwami (talk) 23:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Can you provide an example? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

English variations

Status	New
Description	It would be useful to have a language setting for AWB so you could tell it whether the page is written in British English, American English etc so it could fix, for example, "color" in an article about England as "color" is not a word in British English. This way it could standardise the spelling of an article without having to manually (and tediously) search through the hyperthetical article about England that an American user has edited to find all of his spelling mistakes. McLerristarr (Mclay1) (talk) 03:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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Null edits

Status	New
Description	Allow null edits for a "What links here" list. I've reviewed the archives, and seen the arguments against, but I want this for a different reason. When a user turns a page into a disambig, and lots of articles link to that new disambig, I leave them a note reminding them of WP:FIXDABLINKS if they didn't clean up. The problem is, if those links are coming through a template, someone may have already fixed the template, but the disambig's "What links here" doesn't reflect it yet. There's no easy way to determine how many links to a new disambig are via a template and how many are actual article links that need fixing. If I could do null edits for the "What links here" for those few disambigs, I would know what really needs cleanup. You can see what I'm talking about at the daily disambig report; for today's report (Sep 10), Sherman Creek is a perfect example. Are all 167 links through templates, or are there 40 or 50 links that actually need fixing? Impossible to tell. --JaGatalk 14:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
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What I do when is just hold down the enter key since it allows you to save "no changes" as along as it's not automatic. It's actually a bit faster than bot mode (35 edits/min. vs. 29 edits/min.) If you have a lot to do, you can probably use a program to automatically press enter continuously or put a weight on the key to hold it down while you're away from the keyboard. Rocket000 (talk) 18:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey, that worked. Takes a bit of time (I was only getting about half the performance you were citing), but it gets the job done. Of course, if someone wanted to make it a little more automated, I wouldn't object. But this does the trick. Thanks! --JaGa^talk 19:48, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Do "What links here" in AWB, filter to templates (we are talking navboxen?), select all and rt click, add -> blue links. Open list comparer, using current list, make the second list from "what links here" and do a compare. Rich Farmbrough, 22:36, 30 September 2010 (UTC).

Standardise redirects I

Status	New
Description	In order to standardise redirects, AWB should do things like this. Capitalise 'REDIRECT', have a space before the target and another space before a redirect template.McLerristarr / Mclay1 10:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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What would be a purpose of that? Most changes AWB does make some visible change to the edited page. Also see rule #4. Svick (talk) 13:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Not all changes are visible, such as avoiding redirects to {{Citation needed}}. There are many edits that AWB does that qualify for rule 4 if only done by themselves. However, if all these changes were made to a redirect page, as well as edits to categorisation, interwiki links and other existing changes, it could be beneficial. Removing pointless extra text in a redirect page is useful, as it is completely unnecessary and could possibly be vandalism. McLerristarr / Mclay1 15:53, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Standardise redirects II

Status	New
Description	Redirect templates on other lines should be moved up to the first line with spaces in between them. McLerristarr / Mclay1 10:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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Standardise redirects III

Status	New
Description	Anything other than the REDIRECT tag, the target, templates, a DEFAULTSORT, categories and interwiki links should be deleted. McLerristarr / Mclay1 10:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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Some redirects have categories. There is no rule that prohibits categories from redirects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

I know. I wrote "Anything other than ... categories ... should be deleted". McLerristarr | Mclay1

Add space after Images and Files

Status	More information needed
Description	For readability when editing, add a space after an Image or File like here or, even better, a new line. McLerristarr | Mclay1 16:27, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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We need some documentation from WP:MOS or something similar for that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Allow for non-removal of stub tags

Status	More information needed
Description	When editing a "long stub" using AWB, it tries to remove the stub tags. While re-adding them isn't too difficult, it's extra manual work, and when I'm stub sorting using AWB, it makes my task more difficult. I would like an option for "non-removal of stub tags", which shouldn't interfere with any other general fix AWB may propose (including moving the location of the stub tags). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:39, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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If you turn of the auto tagger isn't that good enough? Rjwilmsi 18:08, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

That would turn off any other tag which AWB may want to add, and I don't want to do that. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:12, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Comment: Logic was improved to exclude infoboxes and chemboxes from word count along with categories, comments and persondata. To remove the stub the body text should have more than 500 words. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:47, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Correct date when following the

Status	New
Description	For some reason AWB does not correct dates when following "the". e.g. "the 1st of January" will not correct to "the 1 January". "The" cannot be removed due to phrases like "the 1 January 2000 elections" but I see no reason why the date should not be corrected. "The" could be removed if the date is followed by a punctuation mark. McLerristarr | Mclay1 22:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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Correct --

Status	New
Description	Currently, -- corrects to an emdash. Could it instead be corrected to an endash if it is surrounded by spaces? e.g. "text--text" will correct to "text—text" but "text -- text" will correct to "text – text". McLerristarr | Mclay1 22:19, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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I think it should correc to an unspaced emdash. It's usually what is mean in my experience. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:07, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

There's no reason to make that assumption. If the writer has included spaces, the fix should leave them in. It would mean the same thing, so it's best just to leave the writer's stylistic choice alone in an automatic edit. McLerristarr | Mclay1 07:43, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Auto-replace direct use of stub categories with stub templates

Status	New
Description	If an article being edited by AWB has a direct use of a stub category (such as here; a stub category is any category ending with the word "stubs"), then the category should be replaced with a stub tag; finding the appropriate stub tag is relatively easy - in the category, there is a {{Stub Category}} template or a {{Stub category}} template, where the stub category is givenas the parameter called "newstub". עוד מישהו Od Mishehu
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I also think that Category:Stubs->{{stub}} should be hard coded into the software. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Any estimate of how many pages have this mistake at the moment? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:04, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories - the most recent list has 1438, the recent lists were 1601, 1668 and 1740 respectively. (Note that the 13 October list doesn't count, due to the Darius Dhlomo copyvio problem; such pages were removed from subsequent reports.) This report isn't quite complete - some times, a page will have both a stub tag and a direct use of a stub category (such as this revision), and those won't be listed there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:37, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, but we can't fix more than the "Stubs" one and this report includes subcategories too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:54, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Magio since I haven't yet looked at this let's not draw any early conclusions about what is feasible. Rjwilmsi 20:53, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I have never seen the code for AWB, but given that AWB has the functionality for parsing page code, and for looking for specific parameters, I would imagine that it's not too hard. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:17, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Populating PLACE OF BIRTH to Persondata

Status	New
Description	If the lead of an article about a person contains "(born November 10, 1980 in [[Los Angeles, California]])", AWB will add "November 10, 1980" to the {{Persondata}} DATE OF BIRTH= parameter. Could it also populate the PLACE OF BIRTH= parameter with [[Los Angeles, California]]? GoingBatty (talk) 02:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't think this should be implemented. WP:MOSBIO says that the dates should be in the lead, but generally not places of birth and death. "Birth and death places should be mentioned in the body if known, and in the lead if they are relevant to the person's notability." This feature would bless and encourage those who go against the guideline. Chris the speller ^yack 19:02, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

I didn't see it that way, Chris, but you bring up an excellent point. I know there are hundreds of thousands of articles with Persondata templates without the SHORT DESCRIPTION= parameter, so I'm presuming there are also a large number where the PLACE OF BIRTH= is missing, and that populating the template would be a good thing. However, if this feature was implemented, it would be documented on WP:AWB/GF, which may lead people to believe that the place of birth should be in the lead. Any thoughts on how to populate this field without encouraging behavior that goes against the MOS? GoingBatty (talk) 13:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree that populating the template would be a good thing, but not if it makes WP look sloppy to the average user. My own experience with Persondata is that it gets populated when I move places of birth and death from the lead to the body of the article and do other light overhauls of an article. Another way to populate this field is to scrape an infobox; I don't know whether this is already being done. Chris the speller ^yack 14:47, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Putting HTML comments on a separate line

Status	New
Description	AWB should stop doing things like this: moving HTML comments to different lines. It also does it with categories etc. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:40, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
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Translation

Status	New
Description	Allow the translation of the software, and thus implement the choice of language --Number55★ (after 54, before 56) 02:17, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
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Recommend archiving this one. Its OBE. Kumioko (talk) 23:36, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Removal of redundant commas within any infobox

Status	New
Description	Within an infobox, to remove a comma when followed by <br> (and its other versions) so that a "," does not appear at the end of each item in an infobox list. See the examples below for examples of what this should do. Skier Dude (talk 05:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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For example: a list like
|starring = [[Tom Sizemore]],<br />[[Richard Jenkins]],<br />[[Ving Rhames]],<br />[[Colm Feore]]

Example with commas
Starring	Tom Sizemore, Richard Jenkins, Ving Rhames, Colm Feore

becomes
|starring = [[Tom Sizemore]]<br />[[Richard Jenkins]]<br />[[Ving Rhames]]<br />[[Colm Feore]]

Example without commas
Starring	Tom Sizemore Richard Jenkins Ving Rhames Colm Feore

Add non-breaking space before endash

Status	New
Description	Replace spaces with a non-breaking space before an endash per MOS:ENDASH and MOS:NBSP. McLerristarr | Mclay1 11:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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Remove categories if Persondata populated

Status	New
Description	Remove categories if {{Persondata}} parameters are populated as follows: If |DATE OF BIRTH= is populated with a year, remove Category:Year of birth missing, Category:Year of birth missing (living people), Category:Year of birth uncertain, and Category:Year of birth unknown If |DATE OF BIRTH= is populated with a full date, remove the categories above plus Category:Date of birth missing, Category:Date of birth missing (living people), and Category:Date of birth unknown If |PLACE OF BIRTH= is populated, remove Category:Place of birth missing and Category:Place of birth missing (living people) If |DATE OF DEATH= is populated with a year, remove Category:Year of death missing, Category:Year of death uncertain, and Category:Year of death unknown If |DATE OF DEATH= is populated with a full date, remove the categories above plus Category:Date of death missing and Category:Year of death unknown If |PLACE OF DEATH= is populated, remove Category:Place of death missing and Category:Place of death unknown GoingBatty (talk) 01:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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If we know a year and page is in YOB unknown, it's a disaster. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:46, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I agree, and I'd like AWB to be able to fix that disaster. GoingBatty (talk) 02:02, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Date (DMY) templates

Status	New
Description	Is there any possibility that AWB can recognize if dmy (or any ofther time format) is used only and add the template automaticly? This would prevent some unneeded extra edits by users/bots, if this is the only timeformat in the article. mabdul 08:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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The fact that only one date format is used in the article doesn't always mean it's the correct one. I've seen plenty of bio articles about English/British/European individuals with no links to America/Canada where only the American date format is used, whereas per WP:ENGVAR the correct format would be International. Yes, this is possible, no I don't think it should be done. Rjwilmsi 10:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

This would create way too many false positives. McLerristarr | Mclay1 10:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

And what to check the date formats with categories/wikiprojects? (And what to check this and correct the date formats?) mabdul 12:57, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Add "Category Recursive user defined level" to NoLimits Plugin

Status	New
Description	NoLimits Plugin is essential for doing maintenance work on Commons where many categories are in 100s of thousands. Unfortunately "Category Recursive" is not very useful since single miscategorization can cause adding orders of magnitude more files than you were looking for. Ability to control depth of recursive scanning is quite needed. For example I would like to capture most files in subcategories of Commons:Category:Creator template home categories. Recursive scan does not work (never returns anything) and regular "Category" returns only other categories. I could really use "Category Recursive" to the 1st or 2nd level. --Jarekt (talk) 03:48, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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Consolidate multiple {{Redirect}} templates

Status	New
Description	When an article contains consecutive {{Redirect}} templates, consolidate them into a single template to improve how they appear on an article. (For an example, see this edit.) GoingBatty (talk) 00:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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Remove redlink files

Status	This feature is not going to be implemented
Description	Find redlink files within an article/page and remove them, or at least comment them out. As of last Database report, there are over 16 thousand pages like this. Avicennasis @ 03:13, 17 Shevat 5771 / 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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I think this should be a bot task. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Marked as no. This is very sensitive to vandalism. We need a bot to check article history before removing. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Consolidate multiple {{Commons category}} templates into {{Commons category multi}}

Status	New
Description	When an article contains consecutive {{Commons category}} templates, consolidate them into a single {{Commons category multi}} to improve how they appear on an article. GoingBatty (talk) 23:32, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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While there is already Parsers.MergeTemplatesBySection() for {{Commons category}} we would need to only merge uses with one argument, and rename to {{Commons category multi}}. Rjwilmsi 18:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

One blank line before stub templates

Status	On Hold
Description	Per recent changes to WP:Stub and MOS:LAYOUT, we now only need one blank line before stub templates. McLerristarr | Mclay1 18:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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I can't find it in MOS:LAYOUT. Can you please copy the exact text? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:40, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

It isn't in MOS:LAYOUT. It used to advise putting two blank lines in but that text was removed. McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:06, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

The relevant text is located in the second paragraph of Wikipedia:Stub#How to mark an article as a stub. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 01:59, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Be aware that this was changed referencing an old discussion, which, in my opinion, does not support the change. Per that discussion I have changed the guidance back to two blank lines. It is notable, however, that the non-displaying DEFAULTSORT on its own (with no explicit categories), while not counting as a blank line itself, allows the preceding and subsequent blank lines to count as successive. The same may also be true of the various non-displaying templates. Rich Farmbrough, 03:35, 7 February 2011 (UTC).

I have reopened the discussion here. Debresser (talk) 09:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I checked today: "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it, and another one after them before the interlanguage links." -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:56, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Non-breaking spaces before slashes

Status	New
Description	Replace normal spaces with non-breaking spaces before forward slashes (/) to avoid awkward text wrapping before the slash. Do not add spaces before a slash if no space already exists. McLerristarr | Mclay1 09:53, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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But without creating stuff like http://en.wikipedi.org/ /my_secret_page . Rich Farmbrough, 03:49, 7 February 2011 (UTC).

Move infobox above article text

Status	New
Description	For any infobox in the lead (before a section header), move the infobox above all article text (but not above templates), as I did manually in this edit, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes) and Wikipedia:Lead section#Elements of the lead. GoingBatty (talk) 20:33, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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Enhance logic for removing duplicated categories (CHECKWIKI error 17)

Status	New
Description	Enhance the logic of duplicated category removal duplication logic to remove duplicated categories with different sort-keys when the one key is substring of other. i.e.: [[Category:CatName|Foo]] [[Category:CatName|Foo bar]] → [[Category:CatName|Foo bar]]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:58, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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Do the same if key is part of DEFAULTSORT. [15] -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:58, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Eponymous category sorting

Status	New
Description	When an article is in a category with the same name (e.g. Pixar in Category:Pixar), the sort key should be a space (e.g. [[Category:Pixar| ]].); see Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort keys.
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-- Black Falcon ^(talk) 21:46, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Extend scope of 'Add replacements to edit summary' to custom modules

Status	New
Description	Extend scope of 'Add replacements to edit summary'. In 'Find and replace', there's a 'Normal settings' button which leads to a 'Find and replace' dialog. The dialog has a check box called 'Add replacements to edit summary'. This is very useful. I have a custom find&replace module that is hundreds of lines long but the auto edit summary doesn't work for custom modules. Question1 Can it be made to work for find&replace in custom modules? Question2 Is there a way to transfer hundreds of lines from a custom module into the find&replace dialog? Lightmouse (talk) 11:53, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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Remove underscores from wikilinks with sections

Status	New
Description	AWB removes underscores from wikilinks, except wikilinks with sections (e.g. [[This_is_a_link#To_somewhere|Link]]). I don't know if this is a bug or a deliberate feature but I can't see any reason for it. McLerristarr | Mclay1 04:05, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
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Because it's easier to read without underscores. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:40, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

I meant I don't know why AWB doesn't remove underscores from wikilinks with sections. McLerristarr | Mclay1 07:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

No limit plug-in to work with Image file links

Status	New
Description	Would like the 25000 page limit to be removed from Image file links. Currently investigating cleaning up use of File:Replace this image male.svg. Initially required to identify page that use this file but do not have a request for photo on the talk page. Also in discussion is to remove this image from all pages where it is used. --Traveler100 (talk) 10:57, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
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Case senstive filter

Status	New
Description	The 'List filter' dialog has an option for 'Remove titles containing' with a checkbox for 'Regular expressions'. Can you add an option for 'Case sensitive'? That would make it match similar functionality in the 'Skip' tab in the text search of the 'Database scanner'. Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 08:26, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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Stop using non-breaking spaces between figures and unabbreviated units of measurement

Status	On Hold
Description	WP:MOSNUM calls for non-breaking spaces "in expressions in which figures and abbreviations (or symbols) are separated by a space", but that does not mean they should be used with unabbreviated units of measurement, as it did to "Melton stands 5 foot and 3 inches", where it inserted a non-breaking space after the "3". Doing so makes the article less readable to editors, and slows down an AWB user who stops to wonder what's going on. Chris the speller yack 18:31, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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I didn't know it did that but I welcome any reduction in the use of nbsp. Lightmouse (talk) 22:40, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

MOS:NUM says to use non-breaking spaces "in other places where breaking across lines might be disruptive to the reader". In my opinion, 5

foot and 3 inches looks odd. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it looks odd to me, too, but using a non-breaking space won't fix it, and it might be harder for an editor to notice it with a non-breaking space in it. If there were a consensus to always use a non-breaking space between figures and spelled-out units, I think WP:MOSNUM would say so. Avoiding breaks "in other places ... disruptive to the reader" seems to be giving freedom to editors to exercise good judgment, but I don't think AWB is to the point where we can say it has good judgment. Chris the speller ^yack 14:03, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Chris here. Please can we drop this? Lightmouse (talk) 11:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

How will a non-breaking space not fix it? McLerristarr | Mclay1 15:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

When I said it looks odd, I meant the strange wording, with mixed plural and singular units of measurements, and with the word "and", instead of "Melton stands 5 feet, 3 inches". It wasn't clear to me (and still isn't) what looks odd to you, since the sentence (in the article on Nikki Taylor Melton) has no line break in it anyway, so a non-breaking space or lack of same is not detectable by the reader. Adding a non-breaking space will not help the issue with the strange wording, and AWB did not try to add a non-breaking space after the "5". What AWB does and doesn't do with non-breaking spaces, and why, is somewhat of a mystery to me. Chris the speller ^yack 20:17, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

There may be no break on your screen but if someone has a narrower screen, then there may be a break. McLerristarr | Mclay1 02:46, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Good point. Chris the speller ^yack 14:41, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Agreed with Mclay1's initial comment - our goal should be to make the article text more readable to the general public, even if that makes the code a little less readable to editors. GoingBatty (talk) 17:38, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

While I agree that

At the market,
Jimmy bought 27
sheep, 254 birds, 5
heads of cattle and
a ladder that is 20
meter long

isn't desirable, AFAIK the MOS never got consensus on systematically using non-breaking spaces in the generic "number + noun" situation (which is basically why it's telling people "if things look bad, consider using an nbsp" rather than "this could look bad, so always use an nbsp to make sure" in those situations). Maybe that changed, but it should go through MOS first. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

There really is no good reason for using a non-breaking space between a value and a unit, any more than between a different pair of words. Breaking a line between "ten" and "feet" (or even "10" and "feet") is no worse than between "the" and "market" or "of" and "cattle". The situation where we have consensus is between values and unit symbols like "10&nbsp;ft" as it is agreed that starting a newline with symbols/abbreviations like "ft" does disturb the reader. An example of consensus use is the {{convert}} template, which only outputs &nbsp; where abbreviation is off. For reference, the MOS is clear about where we use non-breaking spaces, WP:NBSP#Use and MOS:NUM#Unit symbols.

May I remind editors of the ArbCom ruling that:

• "Editors who collectively or individually make large numbers of similar edits, and who are apprised that those edits are controversial or disputed, are expected to attempt to resolve the dispute through discussion. It is inappropriate to use repetition or volume to present opponents with a fait accompli or to exhaust their ability to contest the change. This applies to many editors making a few edits each, as well as a few editors making many edits."

This feature of AWB does not enjoy consensus, and editors who continue to use AWB to make such changes after they become aware of the lack of consensus risk falling foul of an ArbCom ruling. Please remove this feature. --RexxS (talk) 17:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't see how inserting a "non-breaking space" makes the copy harder to read, but I suspect Chris was really referring to the "&nbsp;" code for a non-breaking space. Yes, that is hard to read, but how a nbsp is to be inserted is a different matter than whether the result is a good thing or not. (And this is not the place for that discussion.) What I would strongly suggest, given the strong feelings on the matter, is that AWB – and bots generally – not be messing with any non-breaking space (either adding or deleting them), nor with the the "↦nbsp;" code that represents them. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:38, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

A "non-breaking space" is an html entity, "&nbsp;". This is the only way of inserting a "non-breaking space" into wikitext and having lots of them makes the copy harder to read, period. You may be confusing that with a nowrap style that stops a particular block of text from wrapping, which has absolutely no relevance to the issue here. I'm complaining about AWB sticking "&nbsp;" in front of ordinary words like "kilogram"; it is perfectly reasonable to place "&nbsp;" in front of unit symbols like "kg". --RexxS (talk) 02:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Update: rev 7887 "Don't add non-breaking spaces for unabbreviated units" by Rjwilmsi fixes this issue. Thanks to all who contributed. --RexxS (talk) 23:16, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Another Question: Is it possible to create a template (mayby template:fnb for figurenobreakingspace) that do this: {{fnb|At the market, Jimmy bought 27 sheep, 254 birds, 5 heads of cattle and a ladder that is 20 meter long}} on a very narrow screen:

At the market,
Jimmy bought
27 sheep,
254 birds,
5 heads of cattle
and a ladder that is
20 meter long

Source text would be easy to read. It should work as &nbsp; after every figure (0-9). --Diwas 00:39, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

ref name

Status	New
Description	As can be seen in this edit (if you look at the whole page before the edit), AWB does not shorten duplicate <ref name="X"> tags. If multiple ref name tags of the same name are present with the same content, all the ones after the first should be shortened, like in this edit. If multiple ref name tags of the same name are present with different content, a warning should be displayed to alert the editor to the mistake. Also, the empty duplicate ref name tags that AWB does correct, are given an unnecessary space (see the first diff). This space does not need to be added and it would save space if such spaces were removed (see the 2nd diff). Also, if one reflist is present but is not in a notes or references (etc.) section, a section title should be added. McLerristarr | Mclay1 08:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Use filter when making a list

Status	New
Description	It would be useful if the filter could be applied while making a list. For example, if I check articles that transclude the 'no refs' template, I only get back a few months before hitting the 25k-article limit of AWB, which means that I never see most of the articles. I hit the limit even if I restrict myself to Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2009. Since I'm not going to bother with refs for subjects I don't know anything about, I'm just going to filter the results for articles which have 'language', 'dialect', 'grammar', etc. in their titles anyway. If the filter could optionally be applied first, so that I got a list of 25k filtered articles, I'd have access to everything – there can't possibly be that many unsourced language articles, and even if there were, I could just run the list several times with more restrictive filters. Would this cause too much of a server load to be practical?—kwami (talk) 20:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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As an admin, you can use the NoLimits plugin to bypass the 25k page cap. ^Avic_ennasis @ 20:45, 1 Elul 5771 / 20:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Allow on-site saving of lists

Status	New
Description	Occasionally, I create a list which I want to save on Wikipedia, such as a list of categories I want to nominate in a single CFD disucssion. It would be nice if AWB would allow me to save this directly on Wikipedia (maybe limited to the account's userspace - I always save it to the userspace, anyway), in stead of having to save on a local disk, and then open in a text editor and copy to Wikipedia. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:18, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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Doing save to site would be rather trivial... We should probably add a load from page type feature to compliment this.. Though, saved in the correct format, links on page would work. Reedy (talk) 21:21, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Add a space after a disambiguation message box

Status	More information needed
Description	Currently, AWB removes any spaces after a disambiguation message box, such as {{Disambiguation}}; however, I can't find any guidelines recommending this and it seems odd. It would be more consistent with everything else if there were a space between the template and any categories or interwiki links. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:52, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
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Need link to policy on line spacing around these templates. Rjwilmsi 10:56, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Stop adding blank line before section headings in some cases

Status	New
Description	Sometimes there is a template call just before a heading that relates specifically to the new section. See here for two examples. In these cases it would be better not to add a blank line before the heading. —Coroboy (talk) 10:58, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
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{{Anchor}} is supposed to be place in the section title; however, placing it the line above the section title could work better because it avoids the problem of the template becoming part of the section name. In those cases, AWB should add a blank line above {{Anchor}}. McLerristarr | Mclay1 06:46, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Convert template list entries to /doc subpages

Status	New
Description	Pretty much what the header says: convert template list entries to /doc subpages, similar to how AWB can convert from articles to talkpages. Just have it take any template:foo entry in the list and replace it with template:foo/doc. This would be handy for changing documentation across a given template category (or even be used to change the category, since it's often set with <includeonly> on the doc subpage.) Avicennasis @ 06:16, 6 Elul 5771 / 06:16, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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Category:Disambiguation pages

Status	More information needed
Description	If [[Category:Disambiguation pages]] is found on an article, it should be removed and {{disambiguation}} should be added. (If the template and the category are found, then just the category should be removed.) Category:Disambiguation pages states the category should never be used directly. Avicennasis @ 15:26, 12 Elul 5771 / 15:26, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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What about having a bot to fix this? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:27, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

No mainspace pages are in Category:Disambiguation pages at the moment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:09, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

List building a query function for API

Status	New
Description	List building a query function for API. It would be excellent if API type queries could be built into AWB interface. Recently I had to undertake a query that was unable to be determined within AWB, and instead needed to have a separate query run through the API. The only way to have that undertaken was to determine the external query within the API space, and then to import the query through the makelist "HTML scraper with advanced regex". Also as the HTML scraper does an anonymous query, rather than that of the logged-in user/bot, it was limited to 500 entries returned per query, rather than the 5000 of a bot; subsequently time-based versions of the query had to be run three times to get the requisite list. Also made the query more complex and as the line for the url to be pasted is not long, it was difficult to navigate through the url to edit it.—billinghurst sDrewth 06:05, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
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Localization of Messages

Status	More information needed
Description	AWB should allow users to localize the message (comments) in their own language. - Prabodh 12:33, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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What do you mean by "comments"? Rjwilmsi 20:24, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Add Main or See also when automatically removing a wikilink from a section heading

Status	New
Description	I noticed that AWB automatically removes wikilinks from section headings, which is a good thing, but often this is the only place the link exists in the article. Obviously whoever added it believed that the section they were labeling was about the relationship between "Section title object" and "Article title object" (see this diff for an example). Please set AWB to automatically add any article linked in a section heading as a {{Main}} or possibly {{See also}}, and then we can decide if we want to keep it. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 18:04, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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Note that adding or removing even one character in the edit box loses the edit summary created by the Find+Replace rules, so, at least in my way of working, if any of the general fixes seem inappropriate the only workaround is to turn off the general fixes and process the article again. The suggestion here seems to assume that editors will use the edit box to fix up or delete the Main/See also links after the general fixer has created them.

I'd rather see this rule do less - remove the wikilink from the section heading only if there is another wikilink to the same target near the start of the following section. It should restrict itself to making changes that are 100% correct. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:58, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

This request is irrelevant now that AWB has been coded not to remove wikilinks from section headers. (archive). -- John of Reading (talk) 21:28, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

spacing w ndash template

Status	More information needed
Description	I brought this up at typos, but was told it's probably a feature request. The template {{ndash}} is not supposed to have a leading space. It includes a nbsp, and adding a manual space messes up the spacing. Deleting a leading space seems to be okay even when adjacent to a ref, as here.—kwami (talk) 01:26, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
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There's now {{spaced ndash}} so this feature requests needs to be updated, or withdrawn if no longer needed. Rjwilmsi 13:40, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Depends on whether AWB is converting them over. — kwami (talk) 07:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Automatically comment out missing files

Status	New
Description	I feel that it is time to revisit the removal of missing files using AWB. It has been suggested at least once before. See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_8#Automaticlly_remove_missing_files. Given that there is currently 8500 articles and another staggering 30,000 odd pages with missing files there is no way the backlog will be cleaned up manually. In my opinion a page with a commented out file (and an appropriate note in the edit summary) is better than having a big ugly redlinked file in an article. Having the deleted files commented out and with an edit summary about the file name gives ample information for a subsequent editor to find a suitable replacement. I don't know how many of the deleted files are because they were moved or for incorrect inclusion criteria but if it mostly the latter it would support this proposal. If these redlinked files are left they are a target for vandalism - perhaps more so with the new file upload wizard. Finally, all the well maintained articles would have the files replaced with another which would mean that those remaining are of a lesser importance and presumable the deleted image is of low importance. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 05:03, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Would this be appropriate for a bot request to go through the backlog instead of adding to standard AWB general fixes? GoingBatty (talk) 19:33, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I have asked for it to be done with a bot but in the long term we should let AWB do it so we don't build up a backlog. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:09, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Immediate new noinclude.

Take away the immediate new noinclude.

Status	New
Description	As I always add CAT to Template at zhwp, sometimes there will be too much noinclude stuck togather. <noinclude>[[CAT:old one]]</noinclude><noinclude>[[CAT:New AWB added]]</noinclude> How about if there is more then just one. Is that possible to change like this : <noinclude>[[CAT:old one]][[CAT:New AWB added]]</noinclude> Thats take away the immediate new noinclude. And it won't change those immediate stop noinclude, such as <noinclude>~~<noinclude></noinclude>~~</noinclude> Justincheng12345 (talk) (urgent news here) 13:58, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Could you do this with a F&R rule, such as "]]</noinclude><noinclude>[[" → "]][["? GoingBatty (talk) 19:32, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

• No, as I tried adding text at the end of the page, the F&R doesn't work. Possibly because F&R run earlier than adding text.Justincheng12345 (talk) (urgent news here) 10:31, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Using Regex it would be "\]\]<\/noinclude><noinclude>\[\[" → "]][[" — T13   ( C • M • Click to learn how to view this signature as intended ) 16:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Fail: [16]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Create a list of all pages in the last # of day(s) or since last run.

Status	New
Description	It would be nice to have the ability to create a list of say all New pages created in the last day, or since I was last on.. The host of one of the wikis I am using is having all kinds of troubles with filtering out spambots, refuses at this point to give anyone admin group permissions, and I have been using AWB to mark the pages as spam. It would be nice if I could created a list of all pages since I last ran the check. Similar to using the API "&days=1" or "&since=20120517080000" (since {{#time:YmdHis|08:00:00 may 17, 2012}}. — T13   ( C • M • Click to learn how to view this signature as intended ) 14:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Filters before running the list maker

Status	New
Description	The filter button currently applies the selected filters on the artice list. Can it be setup so that the user can select filters ahead of time and then click "make list". For example, I would like to load "only categories" from when I click "Make list" using "Category" make from option. Right now, I having to load a bulk of articles first and then select the filters (this takes a lot of time). Try pulling the categories under Category:Unassessed-Class India articles. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 22:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hmm. Something like List --> Filter out non mainspace and Filter duplicates (they run when new stuff has been added).. —Reedy 22:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Tried that...when I selected "filter non-mainspace", it returned nothing. I wanted the categories alone to pull up (select category check on the List - filter option). Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 22:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, what im meaning, is something "like" that needs adding. —Reedy 23:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps it might be worth considering have a separate list maker dialog. This would be equivalent to the 'Open' file dialog in other applications. Then you could have more room for options such as this request for pre-filtration. I would suggest merging it with the similar functionality of the 'List comparer'. I am always looking for improvements that will firstly make the terminology and interaction similar to other applications and secondly give more space for the working areas. Lightmouse (talk) 11:01, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

It would be easy enough to add on the special filter a checkbox to say, apply this filter whenever new articles are added to the List Maker... That saves other real-estate, and puts it in a relevant place? —Reedy 22:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it would :P -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:43, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Some of this can be done with "Special pages" dialog. Rich Farmbrough, 10:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC).

Preserve manual edits when page reloads

Status	New
Description	When a page can't be saved right away due to timeout, connection problems, or whatever, the page is reloaded. This is a problem because any manual edits which were made are discarded when the page reloads. If I make more than a few trivial edits, I've gotten in the habit of copying the page text so I can paste it in the event this happens. I believe this only applies to the API versions. I'm currently using SVN 4973. On the plus side, this version does seem to solve a problem in older versions; if you tried to save when it had timed out, AWB would just move along to the next page as though the page had been saved, without any indication that it really hadn't been. Hopefully a solution can be found which fixes the current problem while keeping the old one solved too. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
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I don't really consider AWB a tool for making significant manual edits to a page – rather to make the same or very similar edits to a number of pages. Still, others could use it this way. Rjwilmsi 09:37, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, I want this feature badly ;-). I frequently encounter this problem. Rjwilmsi, talking about significant edits, edits like balancing unbalanced brackets, correcting a unique typo, etc. could still be saved. Thanks. --Siddhant (talk) 20:19, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I have also had this problem often. It only happens when it has the worst possible effect – after I've worked on something for about an hour. The way I use AWB is explained here. Art LaPella (talk) 23:02, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

I've been able to avoid losing my edits by quickly copying the entire text of the page when I see that AWB is restarting. With the cursor in the edit box, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C will select the entire text and copy it. After the reload, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-V will select the entire (reloaded) text and replace it with what you copied. HTH. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree that AWB isn't for major edits, but even making a few minor edits takes a minute or two. And it really pisses me of when I don't make it in the 30 seconds (or whatever) and my work gets erased. Why is this reloading needed at all? Debresser (talk) 22:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree - every now and then, in the course of performing some routine edits, I'll come across an article with a lot more problems and spend some time fixing them, and it's infuriating to see all that hard work lost because of a timeout/reload. Like Auntof6, I've got into the habit of manually saving any large article before I hit the Save button, so that I can recover my work if necessary - but it would be much better if AWB could remember my changes and reinstate them, rather than just reload the original page. Colonies Chris (talk) 23:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

This has had a solution for a while. After the page reloads, right click in the Edit box and select "Replace text with last edit". I don't know if others still want a completely automatic solution, but as far as I'm concerned, this can be marked as implemented, and can be archived. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 07:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Belated comment: Could "Replace text with last edit" also restore the edit summary that the last edit was trying to save? -- John of Reading (talk) 17:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Add an option, or multiple options, to allow Typo fixing in references, indented paragraphs, etc.

Status	New
Description	WP:AWB/T in section "Usage" says "typo-fixing is automatically prevented on image names, templates, wikilink targets and quotes (including indented paragraphs)". Fine for new editors and/or new AWB users, but it means many errors will probably not get fixed for many years. Not all misspellings in quotes are in the original source; many, many are typos by WP editors. Those experienced AWB users who care to take the additional time to check external sources and take on the additional risk should be allowed to do so. Of course, there is no point in messing with image names, but not all indented paragraphs contain only quoted text. If a misspelling is fixed in open text, it would seem to make sense to fix the same misspelling in a wikilink, which is probably either a dead link or a redirect from a misspelling. I can set up a F&R rule to check deeply for one or two misspellings, but I can't check all 3,000+ typos deeply at once. WP has plenty of need for fixes in these places that are now off-limits to AWB Typos, and quite a few AWB users who could and would take the training wheels off their bicycles. Chris the speller yack 15:22, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
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Background for this request is at WT:AWB/T#AWB avoids too many areas that contain typos. Chris the speller ^yack 15:30, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Move maintenance templates above infobox

Status	More information needed
Description	For any maintenance templates in the lead immediately following an infobox, move the template above the infobox, as I did manually in this edit, per Wikipedia:Lead section#Elements of the lead. GoingBatty (talk) 21:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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We already have the MoveMaintenanceTags function, doesn't this already do the job? Rjwilmsi 17:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately not - try Sperling's BestPlaces. GoingBatty (talk) 00:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Allow typing shortcuts in the Edit Summary box, similar to "Paste more" in the Edit box

Status	New
Description	The "→" right arrow is pretty hard to input; if there's already one in the summary, then cut and paste will work, though even that's a little tedious, especially if the clipboard is already loaded with a text selection. Other boilerplate stuff, such as ", also rm 'Dr.' per [[WP:CREDENTIAL]]" could be ready to go when needed. Perhaps Ctrl+number-key could be used, as in the Edit box. If the "Paste more" from the Edit box could be used for the Edit Summary box as well, I would be very happy with that. Chris the speller yack 19:12, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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Pretty output of typos.txt

Status	New
Description	In the output of typos.txt add a '*' at the beginning of each line so that the contents can be pasted to a wiki page in a readable way rather than this confusing display. Also adding a date and time stamp to the output would be nice, along with the sum of the times of all rules (something I find myself calculating manually quite a bit) . Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 10:57, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
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do not alter quotations

Status	New
Description	Add an option to not make any 'find and replace' changes to any text which is inside quotes "xx" of any kind anywhere in the article text, including not making changes anyplace within any type of block quotations--independent of any other 'find and replace' options chosen. There is currently no way to do this, which results in a great deal of unnecesary manual checking and editing (and mistakes) of the results of the 'find and replace' work. Hmains (talk) 16:39, 16 September 2012 (UTC) Also to ignore the contents of quote= parameters found in certain templates Hmains (talk) 18:45, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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Localization in Turkish

Status	New
Description	General fixes for Turkish Wikipedia <references /> change {{Reflist}} → {{Kaynakça}} --Sadrettin (talk) 11:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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How is ==References== in Turkish? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Usually "References" → "Kaynakça". Very slight "Kaynaklar" and "Dipnotlar" Sadrettin (talk) 12:57, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

There isn't a problem is there? --Sadrettin (talk) 10:10, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

To Implement this I have to rewrite a medium size of code because the function is enwiki only. We have two cases: If the references section already exists and if it doesn't. So I think the best would be that I make a custom module for you, you test it and you tell me if there are any more changes to be made. I could also provide some examples. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:38, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

We would need ==Kaynaklar== and {{kaynakça}}, but {{reflist}} also works (redirected to {{kaynakça}}. We'd love to have the custom module if it's not easy to implement directly into AWB.--Khutuck (talk) 15:10, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

While you are at it, can you implement this for Arabic (ar) also? Arabic {{Reflist}} is ar:قالب:ثبت المراجع, ==References== is ==مراجع== (also ==المراجع==, ==مصادر== and ==المصادر==). --Meno25 (talk) 13:11, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Note: AddMissingReflist in Parsers.cs must be altered. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:13, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Spaces inside wikilinks

Status	New
Description	[[Foo#nice%20example|F]] → [[Foo#nice example|F]] Example line 42 (CHECKWIKI error 76) -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Remove files that contain ext links

Status	New
Description	A number of images turn of in Category:Articles with missing files that use an ext link as a file name (eg. [17]). I would like to see AWB remove any files of the form File:http://example.ext or File:https://example.ext. I doubt that there would be any false positives. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:55, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
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Note that your example is of the form image = http://example.ext, which is another variation that would be good to remove. If there isn't already a bot that does this, I could submit a bot request. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:05, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

That would be good. There are some bots that work on images - one of them is CommonsDelinker and there is another one (forgot the name) that will sometimes tag a page revision if it is bad image related edit. The bot should revert the edit and notify the editor. I am seeing some newbies struggling to get an image into an article. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:06, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

That's too advanced for my simple bots. Try Wikipedia:Bot requests. GoingBatty (talk) 00:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

This issue is going to disappear as more infoboxes are converted to use Module:InfoboxImage. There's logic in there to ignore an image parameter that is actually an external link. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:52, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Adding spaces between section headings

Status	New
Description	AWB should not do this. There doesn't need to be a space between a higher ranking section heading and a lower ranking section heading. The other way around is fine, although that would also require an {{Empty section}} tag. McLerristarr | Mclay1 09:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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Reference list duplication (CHECKWIKI error 78)

Status	More information needed
Description	If in ==References== there are more than one <references/> / {{Reflist}} leave only one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:27, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
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Is this common enough to be worth the effort to implement? Rjwilmsi 17:24, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

If implemented, then only duplicates of base <references> or {{reflist}} should be changed. Multiple reflists can be validly implemented by {{reflist|close}} or {{reflist|group}}. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:29, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

localization for zh.wikipedia

Status	New
Description	For zh.wikipedia, we usually don't put space(s) after (or before) ref tag or between units like cm/km. As, is that possible to remove that features for Chinese Wikipedia? Also, Chinese Wikipedia uses fullwidth characters like （）　instead if () while general fix just go in a reverse way. And -{}- is a 'stop convert sign' for the words (Chinese Wikipedia contains both zh-hant & zh-hans in lines, as the -{}- will stop the conversion of the display.), that is, most fixes shouldn't be done in the -{}-, at least not typo. Sorry for the poor English and if I put this in a wrong place.--Justincheng12345 (talk) (urgent news here) 14:03, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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• That's some imperfections of general fixes. We don't want to make a module to do that. --Makecat_Talk 09:51, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

FixSyntax to fix reversed italics tags inside cite fields

Status	New
Description	Do: {{cite news|title=</i>Foo<i>}} → {{cite news|title=Foo}}. Examples: [18], [19]. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:17, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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How common are these errors? Unsure whether it's worth the effort of changing AWB logic. Rjwilmsi 11:30, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't know the exact number. 10-20 pages were reported with this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

I think this is a rare problem then, can't see it would be easy to rejig Hide() or HideMore() just for this. Rjwilmsi 14:48, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Database scan for =</i> (explicit string) gave me 63 matches. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:54, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

It seems there are more with = </i> (explicit string) etc. After running general fixes to all pages that contain HTML italics markup there were at about 800 pages (out of 2,000-2,500) not fixed for various reasons. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:24, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Here is the list. I excluded at about 30 pages which I fixed manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

few orphan tag

Status	This feature is partially implemented
Description	Distinguish between orphaned articles that have no links to it and those with only a few link to it. When adding a new {{Orphan}} tag and Restrict orphan tag addition to linkless pages option is not active the orphan tag should be added with additional few=date parameter to show that article has only a few links to it. If the article already has {{Orphan}} tag then should be re-evaluated, if 3 or less links then the few parameter added, if more then 3 links to it then de-tagged. --Traveler100 (talk) 19:37, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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As of rev 8920 we do not remove {{orphan}} if |few= is set. Rjwilmsi 17:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

op. cit.

Status	New
Description	{{ibid}} doesn't include op. cit. since a few months as discussed at Template talk:ibid. Please remove that tagging as it had happened here. mabdul 21:39, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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This will be tricky to code properly. "Op cit. H. Cordesman, p.44" might be acceptable, but "Op cit. p.44" is not. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:23, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Only because the original contributor used the "op cit" in an incorrect way, that doesn't mean that it will be/is used in every situation incorrect. Of course I try to resolve that ibit-tagging and clearing the backlog, if I can, but per se op cit isn't forbidden. mabdul 19:24, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Should we include "loc. cit." though? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:36, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

For instance, I found 220 pages that use it. Should we tag them or not? list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:42, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Fix some links with no target

Status	More information needed
Description	[[|linktext]] → [[linktext]] and [[|foo|bar]] → [[foo|bar]]. Example. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:20, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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Fixing links with one opening brace then pipe? Rjwilmsi 17:13, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

My mistake. I fixed it. I mean wikilinks that start with pipe. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Auto remove AFC comment text

Status	More information needed
Description	Andrew (talk) 20:47, 20 December 2012 (UTC) There is a standard block of text that is added to all articles at AFC. Articles that are accepted and moved to the main article space retain it. It would be useful for AFC and new article editors to have AWB automatically find and remove the following comment: "This will add a notice to the bottom of the page and won't blank it! The new template which says that your draft is waiting for a review will appear at the bottom; simply ignore the old (grey) drafted templates and the old (red) decline templates. A bot will update your article submission. Until then, please don't change anything in this text box and press "Save page"."
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I second this request. I do see this alot. I also see the text repeated two or three times in an article. Bgwhite (talk) 21:56, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

What template does this text come from so we can monitor the template for changes to the wording (or consider loading the text wording via API)? Rjwilmsi 18:47, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

This comment is from Template:AFC submission/Substdraft. Other common AFC-related comments come from Template:AfC preload, Template:Afc preload/draft and Template:Article wizard/skeleton. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:38, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually I'd !vote for a separate page where a list of unwanted comments can be maintained. Then when someone comes along later to ask for the automatic removal of some other comment, it can be done without modifying the software again. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:43, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Changes to See also logic for Simple English Wikipedia

Status	New
Description	AWB performs actions in Simple English Wikipedia that are not applicable to that Wiki. Below are some problems that have been identified so far: Update logic to use Related pages instead of See also/Other pages Currently changes some things to See also but See also isn’t used in Simple, that section is called Related pages. This should also change See also and Other pages to Related pages AWB has logic to move some things under See also. Logic should be changed to apply the changes to the appropriate locations for Simple (ie. Related pages instead of See also)
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An example of what we do and it is wrong? -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:03, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

No problem. If you run it on the following articles you get the described affect:

1. simple:Grand Korean Waterway - AWB changes See Also to See also. It should be to "Related pages" instead.

I will add more as I find them in the next few minutes. Kumioko (talk) 01:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

"a" before initial vowel in double square brackets

Status	New
Description	AWB typo fixing recognises "a" or "A" before a vowel and corrects it to "an" or "An". All good. However it misses cases where the vowel is separated from the article by link syntax eg "A [[iron..." . An enhancement to recognise this would be good. -Arb. (talk) 18:21, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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I think this is typo fixing and we have a special page for this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. Just had a look. If we're on the same page it's all RegX. Not something I've got round to learning yet so someone else will have to code this. -Arb. (talk) 03:37, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Since AWB prevents typo fixing within wikilinks, I'm not sure that the existing logic would allow us to write a rule that would do this. May want to ask at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos and provide an example article. GoingBatty (talk) 04:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I've fixed 6,700 of these this month using a database scan and custom find+replace rules. I agree that it would be nice if the standard typo-fixer could do this fix, but I can see that it would be hard to slot into the existing scheme. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Append/Prepend text before General Fixes

Status	New
Description	Allow Append/Prepend text before general fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:01, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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AllPages excluding redirects

Status	New
Description	AWB currently features generating a list of pages 'using' Special:AllPages, but is it possible to add a function that requests a list of pages without redirects? [20] returns a list of pages without redirects, compare with [21] for the unfiltered version. I don't edit Wikipedia, but use AWB on other projects where this would be a useful tool for checking for content that can't be detected through any other method, deprecated HTML for instance. 89.168.132.45 (talk) 21:51, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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We already provide "What links here (no redirects)". Is that that you want? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:12, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

It's similar, but not really. I'm using it to scan pages for common errors, lets say spelling mistakes for the sake of argument. There's no way I can check every page for spelling mistakes just by using what links here for random pages without missing a fair few. Also, my apologies for the late reply 89.168.137.160 (talk) 16:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

What if you generated the list of all articles (including redirects), and then added conditions to skip articles with no changes and/or articles that contain "#REDIRECT"? Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 18:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

xfd tags

Status	More information needed
Description	When an article has been proposed for deletion, AWB should put any new tags below the deletion notice. For example, that way I wouldn't have to correct things like this dif. Andrew327 08:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
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Where is this written in the manual? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:03, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Typo fixing of specific template parameters

Status	New
Description	One to think about: a configuration page could tell RegExpTypoFix to work on specific template parameters. For example, the "trans_title" parameter of various "cite" templates is supposed to be correctly-spelled English; and the "ShortSummary" parameter of {{Episode list}} often contains typos. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
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But, there is a chance that these fields contain in-universe words too of course. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:09, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

That's true of all article text. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Extend FixNonBreakingSpaces to also fix "pp"

Status	New
Description	FixNonBreakingSpaces already inserts a non-breaking space between amount and unit for page abbreviation "pp." (with a period). Would it be possible to please extend this functionality to also fix "pp" (without a period)? For example, see Negombo Tamil dialect. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:39, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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When removing empty gallery tags, also remove Gallery section header

Status	New
Description	When removing empty <gallery></gallery> tags, would it be possible to please also remove the ==Gallery== section header instead of adding {{empty section}} template? For an example, see Swetharanyeswarar Temple. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:32, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
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TOC tab (Edit box navigtion aid)..?

Status	New
Description	How about another tab (beside the "Start" tab?) displaying the current page's TOC as links, which, when one is clicked, acts like the TOC links in Wikipedia itself (i.e. moves the text in the Edit box to the start of that particular section)..? Apologies if this already on a list somewhere and thanks for a great tool. CsDix (talk) 15:24, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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Alerts for incomplete Persondata templates

Status	On Hold
Description	Could you please add alerts when {{Persondata}} does not contain values in either the |NAME= or |SHORT DESCRIPTION= parameter? Encouraging AWB users to populate these fields will hopefully reduce the number of articles in the maintenance categories Category:Persondata templates without name parameter and Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter. GoingBatty (talk) 20:51, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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I use "Skip if no alerts". If we add more alerts this would imply less pages to skip. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

For some tasks, users may want to "Skip if no alerts". For other tasks, users may want to be alerted to lots of things they can fix before clicking Save. GoingBatty (talk) 21:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

True but these pages are populated by tracking categories anyway. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

I would like this change. When I'm fixing typos I won't see the tracking categories, and won't normally bother to scroll to the end just to see if the persondata is complete. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

I think this is going to be moot. There is already talk of bots on Wikidata getting information from persondata. (Mangus and Sk!d were involved) I have a feeling persondata will become obsolete when that happens. Maybe hold off on this request until stage 2 (or whatever the next rollout is called) is pushed to English Wikipedia? Hopefully will get a better idea where Wikidata is headed at that point. I think this entry on Wikidata shows where are now and the end of persondata. Bgwhite (talk) 10:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks for that link. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:59, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Remove interwiki functionality

Status	On Hold
Description	Once all of the interwikis have been moved to Wikidata, would it be beneficial to remove some of the interwiki functionality from genfixes? GoingBatty (talk) 01:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
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It probably should be removed, but when is the question. Wikidata isn't being pushed to all the other different language Wikipedias until sometime in March. It's going to take at least several months before the bots clean everything up. After that, the bots need to start automatically adding new articles into Wikidata. As long as no harm is being done, probably keep the code around for awhile... better safe than sorry. Bgwhite (talk) 20:43, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Agreed there's no rush - just recorded the thought while I was here. GoingBatty (talk) 01:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Do wikias use interwikis? AWB is a general tool and not only for the English Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:19, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Another thought: would it be worth adding an alert when an article does have interwikis? An editor could choose whether to try to clean it up. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:41, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

We have a winner. An extremely excellent idea. FYI... I think the bots are done removing interwiki links from articles and have moved on to other spaces. I see one doing categories right now. For anything left in article space, the bot either had problems moving the links (two links going to same language for example) or the wikidata entry hasn't been made in Wikidata. Phase 2 of Wikidata went live yesterday to 11 wikipedias. This should cause the demise of Persondata and make life a living hell for infoboxes. Bgwhite (talk) 06:54, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Remember size and position of "Find & Replace" window

Status	New
Description	Remember size and position of "Find & Replace" window between sessions. (Apologies if I've missed a previous request.) CsDix (talk) 01:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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See #Remember "Find & Replace" (and other) window details above. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:29, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Add "edit filter logs" to the sources

Status	New
Description	As an edit filter editor, I think AWB can be very useful in testing filter logs (especially the details links) against various regexes. Sole Soul (talk) 10:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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Provide a count of items in the output logs ("Successfully saved:" and Skipped:")

Status	New
Description	Display a counter for each output log, as is done for pages remaining in the input list. This would allow for an easy progress check (if 50 pages left in the input list, 20 pages in the Successfully saved log, 30 pages in the Skipped log, then we are halfway done that task), provided the logs were cleared at the start of the task. At the end of a task, we could quickly see whether there enough corrections to warrant a new Typo rule. Chris the speller yack 16:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Chris! Here's the workaround I would use:

• Make the list and process each article in the list
• If an article doesn't have a typo (e.g. it's valid text in a quote), click the Skip button to remove the article from the list
• If the article has a typo, leave it unprocessed in my list and start the next article.
• After looking at each article in the list, you should be left with those with a typo.
• If there are enough articles, create the typo rule, refresh the typo list, and process the list to test the new rule.
• If there aren't enough articles to create the typo rule, reprocess the list and fix the articles manually.

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 01:40, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Move dead link template inside reference tags

Status	New
Description	Would it be possible to have AWB general fixes change </ref>{{dead link=March 2013}} → {{dead link=March 2013}}</ref>, per the instructions at Template:Dead link? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 19:35, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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Process protected files

Status	New
Description	I would like the ability to process protected files. Currently, when AWB comes across a protected file, it's automatically skipped. I would like AWB to indicate that it's protected, but go ahead and show what changes should be made; then the user can submit an {{Edit protected}} request or ask a friendly admin to take care of it. There's no reason that typos and other issues should go unfixed when a tool as useful as AWB can help to find them. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:29, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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Making a list from "Links on page" should not alphabetize the links

The links should be shown in the sequence they (first) show up on the page. They should only be sorted if "keep list alphabetized" is set. Now there's nothing but save the wiki page source text in a text file and import this as UTF8 file to circumvent this irritating behaviour. --FA2010 (talk) 14:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't think we can do this for you. We use the API to get links on pages since links may come from templates on a page and not just plain wikilinks. The API sorts the returned links, for example, links on page A are these from the API. So we could only provide links in the order on the page if we stopped showing links from within templates etc. Rjwilmsi 16:30, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Skip dead link alert

Hello, I would like to be able to skip alerts for dead links. Would it be possible to add a 'skip' option for this? Thanks! DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Status	New
Description	skip dead link alert DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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I'm not sure exactly what you are requesting. If you really want AWB to skip straight past any article containing the {{dead link}} template, you can do that with the "Skip" tab. But I'd welcome an option to turn off the alert and red highlighting for dead links. It's common for an article to have, say, 31 dead links and an unmatched bracket, in which case the dead link highlighting gets in the way of finding the bracket. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Currently, I have been using AWB with the 'skip if no Alerts' option checked. I do want to see other kinds of Alerts, as I find that useful, but I do not want to see articles that have only deadlink Alerts. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:45, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

P.S. Even better would be to have an option to 'ignore deadlinks'. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Summary: For two different reasons, we'd both like an option to stop dead links being treated as alerts. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

When pagetitle matches category then use empty sortkey

Status	New
Description	In page named "Foo" category "Foo" should have empty sortkey i.e. [[Category:Foo| ]]. This will enable us fix duplicated categories like here and here. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:58, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
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Be able to save and load Find and Replace lists

Status	New
Description	A button or other feature should be included that allows it to save and load Find & Replace lists. 68.100.248.42 (talk) 00:14, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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This is already available. Use File -> Save settings. You can save as many settings (different Find & Replace lists) as you want. Bgwhite (talk) 02:37, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Place commas outside quotation per WP:COMMA

Status	New
Description	"foo," → "foo", -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:20, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
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Expand FixCitationTemplates

Status	New
Description	FixCitationTemplates adds http:// to start of www URL when missing. Could this be expanded so it fixes more pages in Category:Pages with URL errors, such as: also fix parameters |archiveurl= and |contribution-url= (e.g. One Hen) also fix www0, www1, www2, etc. (e.g. Messiah Foundation International, French language in Canada) also fix Www (e.g. Kouilou-Niari River) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:09, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
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