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Status	Feature added in next release
Description	AWB would show the diff you see during manual editing while the bot timer counts down. This way people can have automated editing, but still eyeball a diff once in a while. AWB obeys maxlag now, so the countdown function needs to make itself useful anyway =) –xenotalk 03:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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IMHO, this needs to be checkbox optional, and probably with a delay of >= 5 seconds. Sound alright? —Reedy 10:58, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Yep! –xeno^talk 16:49, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

rev 5167 —Reedy

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	I've noticed that there's a fix that eliminates space between two <ref> tags, so I propose an additional fix to eliminate space between the end of a sentence and the <ref> tag. --bender235 (talk) 14:51, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5194 Done. Rjwilmsi 09:34, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	If we changed the edit box to be a rich text edit box rather than a plain text one, we could introduce a number of new pieces of functionality, such as: option to use syntax highlighting in the edit box (similar to wikEd) option to highlight unbalanced brackets in red background option to highlight alert items in red background (where relevant) option to highlight changed typos in some background colour (maybe) This feature request is for the conversion of the text box to a rich text box, so that the items above could be added separately. We would need to preserve existing functionality: same fixed width font at same size same handling of foreign characters - rev 4394, not quite the same, but its not far off —Reedy 21:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC) single click to scroll to line in diff mode - rev 4392 —Reedy 20:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC) same handling of newlines etc. - rev 4391/rev 4392/rev 4393 - Rich text used \n, textbox uses \r\n. Change in wrapper to use \r\n when getting text. —Reedy 20:08, 28 May 2009 (UTC) some stuff I might have forgotten Thanks Rjwilmsi 14:39, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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Should almost be a 1:1 swap to go to the RichText editor.. I'll probably have a play with this for you tonight. —Reedy 14:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, so. AWB wasn't using a TextBox directly, it was using a wrapped textbox in the form of "ArticleTextBox". I updated that to be a RichTextBox, and updated the PluginInterface to use "TextBoxBase", which both TextBox and RichTextBox both derive from (hopefully reducing most breakages.. This might need/want changing for an ArticleTextBox in the future, though it probably wont matter too much, unless people are needing more specific things from it). Removed a couple of designer things that caused errors. Updated find to use TextBoxBase aswell. rev 4384 —Reedy 15:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I think this is causing the diff's to not play so nicely.. We get a font change when we go to non english characters.. I'll leave the rev commited for the moment (so Rjwilmsi can have a play), it might just require a few tweaks and properties setting —Reedy 15:08, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Rob, just a thought. If you want to revert this, can you let me know, and i'll do it? As the whole revision doesn't have to be reverted, and i'll make a patch to allow easy changing.. —Reedy 15:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I won't be doing much/any AWB work for a few days, so hopefully that will leave you time to resolve the problems. Rjwilmsi 11:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

rev 4391 - Rich Text Box uses \n.. Replacing \n with \r\n fixes up the diffs. —Reedy 19:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

rev 4575 Initial implementation of syntax highlighting in edit box (optional, off by default). Rjwilmsi 17:29, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

rev 4607 Performance improvement to syntax highlighting. Rjwilmsi 13:01, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Is this now finished, Rjwilmsi? —Reedy 21:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I am archiving it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:21, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
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)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Right now, you can select items, right click, and choose "add selected to list from", but only with a limited number of options - for instance, you can't do what links here (all namespaces). Rather than add options one-by-one as each is requested, how about making it so you select items, choose at the top how to make the list, and then it uses that to generate the list? --NE2 05:21, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hmm. Something like this would have to be done if the text box at the top is empty, i suppose... The other option is to keep it the same, and do it much more programmatically. —Reedy 22:10, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Programmatically implemented this for you. All the providers that require an input (ie use the selected as specified pages), are added. rev 5336. No list maker plugins though.. —Reedy 18:07, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Talkheader is moved on the top but talkpage is not. Fix this. Whatever you do with talkheader do it for talkpage as well. -- Magioladitis (talk)
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rev 5400 —Reedy 20:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Database scanner: ongoing count articles of scanned. I would like to have more awareness of how quickly the scanning is proceeding, or if it is stuck. Some scans take longer than others and if I want to go and do something else, it would be handy to have a prediction of when to come back and check progress. There is a horizontal scale but it is quite a crude indicator. I am not exactly sure what would be best but I might like to see something like '1678 scanned out of 1,500,000' and/or '12 minutes remaining'. Lightmouse (talk) 17:01, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
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Time remaining is probably impossible. IIRC when MaxSem made it multi threaded, the bar became a proper indication of % of the way through... Might be wrong though —Reedy 17:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I find the progress bar to be accurate in terms of linearity of progress. What we could do is show the actual percentage and elapsed time on top of the coloured bar so that the user could do a rough calculation (10% took 2 minutes, so ~18 minutes left...). Rjwilmsi 18:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Time elapsed and textual % would be alright... Possibly as a mouse over tooltip? Or something else? —Reedy 11:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

We can look at predecessor systems. For example, downloading items from the web gives an interface that has a progress bar with text underneath. The text says 'xx minutes remaining - yy of zz MB (qq kB/s)' or something like that. We all know that the time remaining is just an estimate and resolution only needs to be to the nearest minute. Instead of counting MB, I would like it to count articles. Could we have 'xx minutes remaining - yy of zz articles'? Lightmouse (talk) 12:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Pages cant really be done. The Dump doesn't give us a number of pages in the total thing, so would mean going through and counting them all before running. Which is a waste of time and resources. Currently, the progress bar value is setup using "return (double)stream.Position / stream.Length;".... Which we could use to display a textual % complete. A start time can be recorded, and the % in the time of execution, can give an expected time to completion... (execution time is already recorded) —Reedy 20:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually pages would be lees useful. The dump is front loaded - early articles tend to be larger. Rich Farmbrough, 14:51 28 February 2009 (UTC).

That sounds like it would be an improvement. Lightmouse (talk) 17:41, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Partially there - rev 4017, thats the textual display done, plus some tweaks and such —Reedy 23:17, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Should probably finish this... —Reedy 20:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

rev 5447 Added an ETC in minutes to db scanner. Rjwilmsi 19:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

parser.FixNonBreakingSpaces needs to add more non-breaking spaces, eg the following spaces should be non-breaking:

1. 10 kW
2. 10 mW
3. pp. 1-4 (this is discussed in #Pagination)

The list is much bigger than this, this is just a start - there will be other common units that need the same treatment.

rev 4603 Implements the first two. Rjwilmsi 19:03, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

I'd like

4. 10 mi (for miles)

--ospalh (talk) 11:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

and

5. 10 kN

6. 10 lbf (pound-force)

7. 10 hp

8. 10 lbs (should this be fixed to 10nbsp;lb?

9. 10 mph

10. 10 lb

11. 10 bhp

--ospalh (talk) 11:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)--ospalh (talk) 10:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

rev 4881 Those added too (non fixing of 'lbs'). Rjwilmsi 20:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Add an option to the options menu for List comparer: Add to list comparer when opens: Always / Never / Ask. Default should be Ask as till now but we can speed things for experienced editors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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Is that add to listmaker? —Reedy 20:17, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

rev 5426 —Reedy 22:43, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Can you do the same for List splitter? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:19, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

rev 5478 -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Do to Database Scanner the same we do for List splitter and List comparer: Add to list maker when opens: Always / Never / Ask. Default should be Ask as till now but we can speed things for experienced editors. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5581 —Reedy 14:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Add a button in the list comparer under each results column to add the contents to the 'working' list. This would remove the need to save the list you want to use and then loading into the working list. mattbr 11:05, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hmm, i suspect, a button to move the lists back to the first listmaker would do it... —Reedy 22:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Matt, would that suffice? —Reedy 23:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

rev 4034... Leaves them in the original box, just adds them to the first listmaker too. —Reedy

I've just used this in 4.5.2.0 and the button adds the list to the first list in the list comparer rather than the 'Make list' list that's used to work through articles (the 'list box' as shown on File:025 AWB illustrations for AWB manual.png) which is what I meant. Sorry for any confusion, please can this be updated? mattbr 09:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I did try to get it to do that, but it was being a pain. It should be doable (in the same way that you can "copy" the list maker to the DBScanner.. —Reedy 13:31, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

rev 5662/rev 5663 makes the use list buttons add all the results to the main form list maker. —Reedy 21:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Add "Clear list" in List menu to remove all entries from list. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
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There is Remove --> All ? —Reedy 14:21, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Why can't I see it? :S I see "Remove duplicates" and "Remove non main space" and I have v4.5.1.1 (svn 3911) -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Right click, remove, 2nd option down is All. Should also have Selected in that menu. Ctrl + A then Del would do the same also —Reedy 15:24, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

This option is not in the pull-down menu, where I was searching for it. Ctrl+A and tehn Del is not a good idea when working with 25,000 articles. It's slow. Can you add the Remove all on the pull-down menu? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

File:AWBRemoveAll.png

There for me? —Reedy 16:03, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I mean here, in the upmenu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Seems a little pointless/redundant to me.. As those are used to affect stuff being added to the list (ie remove dupes on adding, etc etc) Although, no reason why it cant go on —Reedy 14:49, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it's just me but I am used in working with this menu instead of right-clicking. I ve been using Ctrl+A and Del and this was really slow. I am ok if you implement it or not. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

It isn't just you. Items in a contextual menu (i.e. right-click) should not be the only method of accessing a feature. Some expert users like contextual menus. Developers (in all applications, not just AWB) are experts and that is why they focus on contextual menus and sometimes overlook the need to ensure access via basic menus. As your report suggests, it is not just a problem for novices, some experts have problems too. That is partly why I suggested a review of contextual menus throughout AWB. This issue is known and mentioned explicitly or implicitly in usability guidelines. In fact, Microsoft guidelines actually use the term 'redundant' as a good thing. I hope that helps. Lightmouse (talk) 10:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

rev 5666 per Reedy. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:51, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	KingbotK already does that. Counting pages newly created is sometimes important to me. A counter could be added or on the right side bottom or in the toolbar. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5672. Now, does it need/want removing from KingbotK... Or at least, commonising.. —Reedy 22:37, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	AWB should take advantage of the entire available length of edit summaries, like the Gadget available in preferences. –xeno talk 14:09, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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AWB uses the 255 chars (or worked out in bytes)... Are we allowed more or something? I know there is the "Allow up to 50 more characters in each of your edit summaries. Works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera."... —Reedy 17:03, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, with Python I was able to use the following edit summary [1]: [[User:Xenobot/6|Bot]] Removing statement "Based on...French Wikipedia" (somewhat inaccurate) & IGN ref, refining INSEE ref, all per [[WP:FRCOM]] request ([[User talk:Xeno|report errors?]], however with AWB, it was truncated at "request (", leaving off the next 34 characters. –xeno ^talk 17:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

AWB was limiting itself to 200.. I've upped this to 250 as of rev 5679 —Reedy 14:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	To more efficiently use the limited edit summary space, replace the "using AWB" link, currently Project:AutoWikiBrowser, with WP:AWB. This would save 17 valuable characters, allowing, for example, more typo fixes to be included in the summary, which would sometimes be helpful. This is quite possibly the easiest-to-implement feature request ever. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 08:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
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The problem we have is all projects might not have this redirect.... —Reedy 08:34, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

What about creating these redirectrs to each project? Or (mus simplier) implement this for en.wiki only. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:32, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Seconding this request. AWB being able to utilized the gadget "Allow up to 50 more characters in each of your edit summaries. Works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera." would be cool too. (Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests#Take advantage of the maximum edit summary length). –xeno^talk 20:55, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-LongEditSummaries.js (for my future reference) —Reedy 19:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

At the very least, why not Project:AWB, if that hasn't been done yet? --Izno (talk) 23:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm happy to change this, if someone decides what we should use. —Reedy 14:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

rev 5681 —Reedy 14:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Here it goes: Load the 2 lists in List1 and List2. Sort List1 alphabetically Sort List2 alphabetically Create three empty lists as List1new, List2new List3new If List is larger than List 2 exchange them If you exchange in last step then exchange List1new with List2new For every item in List1 compare with List2 If article not found then remove it from List1 and add it to List1new If article found then remove all elements in List 2 above article and add them to List2new remove article from List1 and List2 and add to List3new end -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5643/rev 5645 —Reedy 15:51, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Add "removed selected" in the right-click mouse menu in the righthand boxes in ListComparer. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5648 —Reedy 23:48, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	When the page parameter of a cite template contains pp. or p., it is removed, because cite templates add them too. I think this fix should apply even when the dot is not present, i.e. remove p or pp. I think that with pp there is no doubt it should be removed, with p, I'm not completely sure. (Can a page be named e.g. “p1”?) Svick (talk) 13:52, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5700 catch both "p" and "pp". Rjwilmsi 19:21, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Auto tag adds a date parameter to {{fact}}, but not to {{cn}} or {{citation needed}}. I think this should be made consistent by adding it to all redirects of {{ciation needed}}. This behaviour is as of version 5673. Svick (talk) 18:37, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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rev 5699 Done. Bug really. Rjwilmsi 19:08, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	The templates {{idwc}} and {{idw-commons}} have been merged and redirected into {{fdw-iw}} (also accessible through the redirect at {{fdw-commons}}). The new template is backwards compatible with the old ones, but there are some additional parameters that might be useful. Hopefully this change won't cause any issues with AWB. I noticed that Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates includes the old templates but not the replacement one (though it's been around for a while). I'm not sure what needs to be done with AWB to make the switch to supporting the updated templates. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 11:58, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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Added stuff to right page.. Shouldn't require any internal changes as they're subst'd. —Reedy 12:32, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Add an option to preferences to automatically empty article list when the project changes. At most of the cases the list is useless in other projects. Not all editors are benefit of the use of the same list to multiple projects. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 5751

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	No reason to be asked if you want to close AWB before a new version is found. Today;s bevahiour: User asks updater to check for updates -> Updater asks editor to close AWB and checks wheter are updates or not. Expected behaviour would be: User checks for updates -> If program is up to date, a message informs that there is nothing to update. If program is old, updater asks user to close AWB before proceeding. Moreover, no reason to have 3 options in the Ask window: Yes, No, Cancel. The first 2 can do the job. Done in 5779 -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
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AWB does check that there is a newer version... Oh, i getya. —Reedy 12:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

The SVN code is set up to do that (it's undergone various refactorings..) I dont know what version thats on vs whats current out.. —Reedy 12:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Which ask window? (What message?) —Reedy 12:25, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Help->Check for updates->"AWB needs to be closed. To do this now, click 'yes'. If you need to save your settings, do this now, the updater will not complete until AWB is closed." -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:30, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

rev 5778 and rev 5779 simplified things a lot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:59, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

rev 5781 offloads it to the Updater to check for newer versions, and inform the user to close AWB —Reedy 14:30, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	AWB uses the terms ignore and skip implying the same meaning. I suggest that AWB should use only one out of the two, for the sake of uniformity. --Siddhant (talk) 16:48, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 5772

Preference? —Reedy 12:27, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Skip is used when the article is skipped and ignore if something is not considered. Fr example: "Skip if page is a redirect", "Ignore templates" Where is the mix?

Would seem to me to be "Skip if no changes" etc, vs user "Ignore" —Reedy 12:37, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

The big "Ignore" key has as text "Skip this page without saving...". Anyway, if people think Ignore is confusing we can change it to Skip. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I think "Skip" makes more sense because you didn't really "Ignore" the page, you looked at it, and decided to explicitly skip it. ("Skipped by user") –xeno^talk 14:08, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

We have to change the similar button of KingbotK plugin as well and the statistics at the bottom (Ignored->Skipped). -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

In Stats.cs:

Remove: lblIgnoredArticles.Text = "Ignored: " + value;

Add: lblIgnoredArticles.Text = "Skipped: " + value;

In Main.Designer.cs:

Remove: this.lblIgnoredArticles.Text = "Ignored: 0";

Add: this.lblIgnoredArticles.Text = "Skipped: 0";

Added in rev 5772 -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:55, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Also, to save even more space, there's no need to link to categories in these edit summaries, especially since no categories are being explicitly added. For example, where it says "added wikify tag", instead of "[[:Category:Articles that need to be wikified|wikify]]", just use "wikify". Note that the category linked to isn't even the specific one which is added by the tag (it's actually, for example, Category:Articles that need to be wikified from November 2009). MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 14:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC) At least, we could replace "Category:Articles that need to be wikified" with "WP:WFY" to save 40 characters! -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:29, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
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I'll do something about it. I am waiting for Reedy to review it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:10, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

rev 5701 simplified the links. The rest later. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Provide that a double click on the red error message "Unbalanced brakcets" take you to the position of the unbalanced bracket. Likewise for "dead links" too. WilliamKF (talk) 23:39, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
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There's already an item on the options menu to highlight the unbalanced bracket errors, and focus will scroll there in the edit box. Rjwilmsi 13:50, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

rev 5787 For dead links. Rjwilmsi 11:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	"More... -> Skip if no cat changed" and "More... -> Remove sortkey" lack tooltip texts. Add something like "Automatically skips articles if no category changed" and "Remove sortkey from category" -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:49, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision	5799

rev 5799 Added. Rjwilmsi 10:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Ensure that Kingbotk plugin recognizes all redirects to WikiProjectBannerShell. (impetus) –xenotalk 19:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision	5810

• Template:WPBS
• Template:Wikiprojectbannershell
• Template:WikiProject Banner Shell
• Template:WPBannerShell
• Template:Wpbs
• Template:WBS

• Template:Multiple WikiProjects

• Template:WikiProject BannerShell
• Template:WikiProject Bannershell
• Template:WikiProject Banner shell
• Template:Banner

Any luck in reducing the number of redirects? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:42, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Well I did notice that the plugin will bypass the redirect when it adds tags, so this will deprecate the redirects over time. –xeno^talk 19:44, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I got rid of three. –xeno^talk 19:49, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

:) Good job. I sent one more for RfD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:50, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Why's it necessary to delete these? I don't see how they're hurting anything, and some people might be in the habit of using some of the redirected names. (Some of those people fight figure out what's going on when they make a new page and just get a redlink, but other people might be confused by it.) rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 20:09, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

The ones I deleted had very few uses (I think 1, 2, and 8), so it's doubtful anyone is using them. –xeno^talk 20:12, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

To second that, especially the third one was not even in the same style with the main one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:17, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm re-creating them, since they're valid possibilities that someone who doesn't know the exact template name might type. --NE2 10:00, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

RfDs resulted to the deletion fo some of them. NE2 re-created one redirect after deleted by RfD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:13, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	In all tooltips: Use plural or singular Use "page(s)" instead of "article(s)". (the use or not of "s" depends on choice above) -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:56, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 5831, rev 5832

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	In addition to the general "Skip if no replacement is made", add to the Find&Replace box an "Minor" option and the option to skip if no major replacement is made". AWB skips if only minor replacements are made. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:19, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
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Replace existing option with:

Skip if ☑ no replacement ☐ no major replacement is made.

Boxes should be mutually exclusive. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Y I like this one! –xeno^talk 13:27, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

I also like this one. --Kumioko (talk) 02:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

rev 5807, partial —Reedy 13:37, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

TO-DO:

• Skip Boxes should be mutually exclusive like the Skip page if exists/doesn't exist.  Done
• Add tooltip texts  Done

-- Magioladitis (talk) 23:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	I think that it would be useful to have a function where you can save your "Find and replace" options as general fixes. That could be useful if you want to have a side task to whatever you are doing (e.g. if you want to replace Image --> File, without putting strain on the servers) and have the option to skip those general fixes (just like the ordinary automatic changes). This feature could be hard to fulfill, but I don't think it's impossible. /Poxnar (talk) 12:40, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
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I suppose it wouldnt be hard to convert to a Custom Module, and you could easily add skip otions... —Reedy 12:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Great, it could really be useful. /Poxnar ^(talk) 12:51, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

We can now mark find & replace entries as minor fixes and skip for only minor f&r changes. I think that covers this request. Rjwilmsi 01:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	[2]. Instead of "added uncategorised tag, added stub tag, added deadend tag, added wikify tag, added orphan tag" write "added, uncategorised, deadend, wikify, orphan tags" to save edit summary space. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:17, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision

rev 5889 is a prequisite to this. Should've done the rest, but not commited as untested. Will check in the morning! —Reedy 01:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

rev 5899 does it —Reedy 16:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	I would like an option to force to send stats to the server. Sometimes when I switch account I would like to start from zero again to have better control of my actions. -- Magioladitis (talk)
Added in revision	5931

rev 5931 —Reedy 16:11, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Take this one and do it like this one. Same reference with different keyname is a mistake. Please correct it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:50, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Added in revision

But what name is AWB to keep? Rjwilmsi 14:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

The first found. It's not really important I think. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:36, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

rev 5532 Initial version. Longer of the two reference names is kept. Rjwilmsi 13:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	[3] <br./> → <br /> -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision	7670

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Currently the only way to logoff an account in AWB is to close the entire application. It would be nice if there was a feature in AWB to logoff rather than either close the app or leave the account logged in. --Kumioko (talk) 18:15, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision	7710

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Expand MoveDablinks to include {{other uses of}}. GoingBatty (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 7683

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	Alphabetical sort can be done by choice in more than one place. However, in the list comparer, alphabetical sort is not a choice, it is compulsory. Please can it be made into an option? Lightmouse (talk) 22:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 8213

Here is a perl script to randomise a text file

# randomises a uniqued list, but not randomly
while(<>){
  $hash{$_}++;
}
print keys %hash;

Gotta love perl. Rich Farmbrough, 21:37, 6 September 2010 (UTC).

Thanks. I've met perl lovers before, there seems to be a lot of them. I could be one of them if I knew how to get started. Where would I put that script to run it? Lightmouse (talk) 22:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorting makes comparing fast. Any reason not to sort? -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

It's inconsistent. Lists are unsorted by default with a simple checkbox option to sort. I like the way you've done that but can't put a strong case for it. The feature either adds value and should exist throughout, or has no value and should be removed throughout. If it's difficult to implement consistently, then it's a judgement call for you guys. Not a big deal, feel free to decline. Lightmouse (talk) 10:15, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

I've been thinking of that today. If we implement the non-alphabetised version it would mean that we would have to check every element of the one list with every element the other and that's slooooooow. I guess if someone really needs this can do it alone by saving both lists and using external sort programs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

You can copy and sort the lists, do the comparison, then link the result back to the original lists. Algorithmically, that's easy (and ${\displaystyle nlogn}$ for each list). I don't know exactly what the result of the comparison should be, though (a list of elements in list a, but not list b, and vice versa?). --Stephan Schulz (talk) 10:45, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Intersection and symmetric difference found in Filters should give unosorted lists but are buggy. My idea is the following at the moment:

• Compare lists: Gives A-B, B-A and ${\displaystyle A\cap B}$ (intersection) all alphabetised. Method works with duplicates.
• We can get ${\displaystyle (A-B)\cup (B-A)}$ (symmetric difference) with the same method.

I prefer this because it's much faster and needs less memory space to store all items. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:47, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

rev 8213 Remove forced sort during list compare without affecting performance. Rjwilmsi 21:15, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	At El Culpable Soy Yo the general fixer wants to remove the blank lines from within the {{tracklist}} template, but in this case the author(s) have carefully grouped the lines to make them easier to understand. Is it worth coding an exception to the usual rule? "If the line after the blank sets a template parameter ending in a number, and the line before the blank sets a template parameter that ends in a number one less than this, then allow the blank line to remain" -- John of Reading (talk) 16:05, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Added in revision

 Done Was fixed some months ago. Rjwilmsi 20:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	When replacing message boxes at the top of a page (e.g. {{Unreferenced}} → {{Refimprove}}), the date parameter should be updated. McLerristarr | Mclay1 03:54, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 8180

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	For some reason, the Fix all excess whitespace feature adds whitespace rather than removing it. It adds a space after a bullet or list number. There is no consensus that there should be a space there but even so, it definitely should not be added by a tool that is meant to reduce whitespace. McLerristarr | Mclay1 04:08, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision

This was resolved by a recent bug fix. Rjwilmsi 20:40, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Status	Feature added in next release
Description	The delay timer has a field that allows values in excess of three years. However, any value larger than 119 seconds is no longer treated as a delay, it simply stops AWB from working. I understand that this is a problem with the API but I'm sure we can improve the interface. My preferred solutions would be: Increase the value beyond two minutes. Change the interface so invalid values cannot be set by the user. Change the interface so it warns the user if the value is invalid. Lightmouse (talk) 14:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Added in revision	rev 7849

rev 7849 Bot save delay maximum allowed value now 99 seconds. Rjwilmsi 20:27, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

– Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 02:40, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. theres 2 things to take care of, the project differences, and the language differences. I think having it linked wherever, would be the best... Just what if there is the local page... Hmm Reedy Boy 16:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Juts create a local page. It can soft redirect to WP:en. Rich Farmbrough, 15:22 11 October 2007 (GMT).

Thats probably a better idea. Thanks Rich! Reedy Boy 15:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

I did notice that we can in the variables set a link to the AWB page... But that is by language.. Reedy Boy 13:29, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The use of "suppress using AWB in edit summary" minimises the problem. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I am marking this as partial since there was some progress after 2 years on this one. Plus, many local pages for AWB now exist. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:08, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Unless i've completely lost it, this can be done very easily, as the code is in place, it just requires users notifying us that they want it changing. —Reedy 20:50, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

An alternative is to provide a UI so the user can specify the string (checking for the cases where 'using AWB' is going to be used, that is). This might be simpler than tyring to collect all the appropriate strings for every language. ClickRick (talk) 22:31, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

User-specified strings would be great. In my quest to conserve edit summary space, I would probably make it simply (AWB) for myself. (AWB) would also be a solution in lieu of translating "using" into various languages. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

rev 5039, added (as you use SVN revisions), pending a better long term solution. —Reedy 19:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

1) "also sometimes" should be changed to "sometimes"
2) "surplus left over"should be changed to "surplus"
3) "tried and true" to "reliable"
4) "unresolved problem" to "problem"
5) "resulting effect" to "effect"
6) "repeat the same" to repeat
7) "month period" to "months"
8) "in a nutshell" to "in short"
9) "during the year" to "during" There are lots more but I will leave it there for now.

Number 5 should go to the RegexTypoFix page. As that is what that sorta thing is for (not just actual typos). I thought AWB did remove the Template: from Templates.... —Reedy 19:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

On number 5 do you want me to put the whole list of the ones I have? in regards to the template: thing maybe I have an old version and the new version will fix that when it comes out. --Kumioko (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

For number 5 make some requests on WP:AWB/T. Rjwilmsi 20:53, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

rev 4590 Add "accessedate" fix (request 2). Rjwilmsi 20:53, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

rev 4592 Add "accessed" fix (request 3). Rjwilmsi 21:11, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, just to verify did you use "accessed" or "date accessed". I should have been more clear but you should be looking for "date accessed" and changing that not just "accessed"--Kumioko (talk) 17:02, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll fix that by the end of the weekend. Rjwilmsi 10:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

rev 4602 Amended. Rjwilmsi 18:45, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Number 5 could be more easily deployed to an (albeit at the moment small) collection of users through fronds. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 16:52, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks I added them as well as several others.--Kumioko (talk) 16:56, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

For number 1 it appears that AWB has been doing this within FixSyntax for at least two years (SyntaxRegexTemplate regex). Do you have examples of where it didn't? Rjwilmsi 19:16, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

No because when I noticed it wasn't doing it I made a manual edit in my AWB. I will deactivate that and see if it comes up again and let you know.--Kumioko (talk) 19:38, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Can we also include change so that {{Lifetime}} is included after the categories? As per the Usage guidelines for Lifetime template, it needs to come last, but I believe AWB moves the Lifetime template before the categories. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 15:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

rev 4023 Lifetime moved after categories on en wiki. Rjwilmsi 20:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. That was quick... VasuVR (talk, contribs) 05:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Hm... I am not sure that the "usage guidelines" are correct! Since Lifetime includes defaulsort it should be in the same place defaultsort exists. The only reason to put it at the bottom is to override any usage of defaultsort! -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:58, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I do not agree. Default sort does not affect the content or display of the page, I guess. It only affects the listing within a category - hence DEFAULTSORT can be anywhere. So, Lifetime's position need not be affected by the fact that it includes DEFAULTSORT. Also, the Categories for Living people, year of birth, year of death, are not more important than other categories. Hence they should come at the end among list of categories. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 05:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

rev 4460 AWB will now automatically add 'XXXX births/deaths', 'living people' category etc. where the date is available in the article (either following name in bold at top, or within {{birth date}} template or similar). There's a skip option and database scanner option for this logic. Rjwilmsi 16:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I think we can close that. "Date of birth missing" and "Date of birth missing (living people)" should not be in article namespace. There are intended for talk pages only. The rest are already implemented. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:23, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

If this is done, it should be optional, since there are other cases where redirects will be categorized. --NE2 01:28, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

No problem with that. I just want to be able to figure out which articles we have and which ones we need. bd2412 T 07:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Try this - it's a bit complicated but it should work. Turn off all general fixes, and set it to skip if it has the text Category:Foo, and to skip if no changes are made. Load the list and set it to follow redirects. Then run through, and after it's done (there won't be anything to save) look at the "skipped" box in the logs tab. Filter to exclude the skip reason "no change" and you have your list. --NE2 08:15, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

The new pre-parsing mode could be used here to achieve this more prettily. Rjwilmsi 12:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I followed NE2's advice and it worked like a charm. Cheers! bd2412 T

I am marking it as partial, since it's already done somehow. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I would suggest that you request this job done by a bot. See Wikipedia:Bot requests. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:19, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

This couldn't be done by a bot. The page has to be checked before it is deleted to make sure the blue link isn't remove if the page is going to be deleted in 15 minutes. This is why semi-automatic would be great. Acebulf (talk) 19:39, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I do it the following way: Load page in AWB with links on page (no red links). Save new list. Reload initial list and exclude articles found in new list. Save result and replace initial page with it.

We could create a "Links on page (no blue links)". -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

In the case we implement this the name should be: "Links on page (only red links)" and rename the "... (no red links)" to "Links on page (only blue links)". -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Renamed, and now we have only blue and only redlinks, aswell as the one that will pull all. rev 5804 —Reedy 12:43, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

"Preview the diff in bot mode" could probably slide in there too, but contra Mag, I would like "Auto save settings" to remain quickly accessible. –xeno^talk 18:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I think the first 5 are obvious. I am ok if Auto save remains outside. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:02, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

The 3 highlight options can just go to a sub-emnu on the "Options" menu. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:22, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Same thing for "underlying connection keepalive" error. –xeno^talk 15:54, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

rev 5757 Should start restart timer if 'Gateway Timeout' happens. Rjwilmsi 21:48, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

We already have some stuff for this in the general fixes, but more couldn't hurt. —METS501 (talk) 16:52, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Would you clarify that? Snowman 18:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, we don't. MaxSem disabled them in rev 994. Jogers (talk) 15:38, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

It would be great if someone who uses regular expressions to fix placement of <ref> tags shared their experience. Jogers (talk) 17:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I have not worked on it, but is sounds easy I have been told by a programmer - try using the octal forms of brackets and backslashes in the reg ex. Probably need to first recognise if the format is correct or not, and then only put the wrong ones through a subroutine to save doing too many loops. Snowman 13:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

It should be fairly easy (just needs someone with the time to sit down and play with it) - Set of regex's to match the bad ones, then something to find the nearest/next full stop, and then just move the reference to there.. Reedy Boy 17:37, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

As I have suggested the refs in the middle of text and not adjacent to punctuation would be difficult to reposition because the punctuation might need sorting out, and it might not be satisfactory to move them to the next punctuation, where the refs might look like they are referring to the wrong facts. At the present time I was thinking that these would be left where they were in the middle of the sentence. It is where the spacing is wrong adjacent to punctuation that could be quite easily fixed with reg ex. Spaces could be swapped out/in and/or punctuation moved. The case of more than one ref at a punctuation also needs to be considered. It can be tested in the above block of text although all variations are not included. Snowman 18:15, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

True - I suppose some fixes would be better than none - Like moving ones before full stops to after them. Reedy Boy 18:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that would be helpful; but not just for full stops but for all punctuation, brackets, and quotation possibilities as well, and refs where the punctuation is included before the end of italics and bold text. Perhaps, start with punctuation marks and obvious ref positions points to get it launched with a success. I think that the diff screen needs to show changes in blank spaces more clearly to show what has been done - that is another suggestion. Have you seen the diff display in Winmerge software, also on sourceforge? Snowman 18:45, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I have a set of regular expressions that do this job. I am happy to share my work with anybody who is interested. Gaius Cornelius 17:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

That would save us having to come up with ourselves for the AWB project. And would mean they could be added fairly easily to AWB for the next release. If you wouldnt mind, we'll certainly use them. And give you credit in the code ;) —Reedy Boy 20:27, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Here are my rules, they must be applied in the order given:

Rule:    Move reference to after punctuation (1)
Replace: (<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)([\.,;:"])
With:    $4$1$2$3

Rule:    Delete white-space before reference (1)
Replace: \s(<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3
Apply:   Twice

Rule:    Delete white-space between references (1)
Replace: (<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)\s(<ref>|</ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3$4$5$6

Rule:    Delete white-space before punctuation followed by reference (1)
Replace: \s([\.,;:"])(<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3$4

Rule:    Delete white-space before punctuation followed by reference (1)
Replace: \s([\.,;:"])(<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3$4

Rule:    Move reference to after punctuation (1)
Replace: (<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)([\.,;:"])
With:    $4<!--delspacex-->$1$2$3

Rule:    Delete white-space before reference (1)
Replace: \s(<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3
Apply:   Twice

Rule:    Delete white-space between references (1)
Replace: (<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)\s(<ref>|</ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3$4$5$6

Rule:    Delete white-space before punctuation followed by reference (1)
Replace: \s([\.,;:"])(<ref>|<ref )([^<]*)(</ref>|/>)
With:    $1$2$3$4

Rule:    Add space after reference followed by text.
Replace: (</ref>|[^b][^r]\s/>)([A-Za-z0-9])
With:    $1<!--insspace1--> $2

I find this set to be reasonably reliable and effective, would like to hear how others get on.

Gaius Cornelius 21:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The white space diff is reported to be ready in the next version, which will help to show what the above (or similar) has done in the AWB diff sceen. Snowman (talk) 00:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Only the first rule seems to work for me. Also, it seems when only using the first rule, it would be useful to let it work repeatedly (when more references are present to move the punctuation just in front of the very first one in the whole row) - however when I set to repeat it, it did not seem to take effect. I also do not understand why you duplicate some rules and why you say "apply twice" on some - isnt it the same?--Kozuch (talk) 20:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Common issues of this set are:

• double punctuation not removed (example: .<ref>abc</ref>. like here)
• works within comments too - unwanted actually (there are also often hints how to use the ref tags in the References sections)--Kozuch (talk) 09:16, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I implemented the above routines, but as Kozuch pointed out there problems with them and the mess around with the white space too much. So I've created them with focus on only moving things around when needing too and setting a fixed amount of whitespace after a reference.

for i in range(0,10):
    # Move punctuation left and if any space move right
    new_text = re.sub(r'(?<=[\w")>])( *)(<ref [^<>]*/> *|<ref[^</>]+>.*?</ref> *)([\.,;:"])', r'\3\2\1', new_text)
    # Move space to the right, 
    new_text = re.sub(r'(?<=[\.,;:>])( +| *\n)(<ref [^<>]*/>|<ref[^</>]+>.*?</ref>)(?= *\S)', r'\2\1', new_text)
# Add two space if none, reduce to two if more
new_text = re.sub(r'(</ref>|<ref [^<]*/>)( {3,}|)(\w)', r'\1  \3', new_text)

— Dispenser 23:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks interesting. Max and myself are planning on getting the next version out this weekend, so will look at this afterwards! =) —Reedy 23:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Just out of interest... Whats the loop for? Or is that just extra thats not needed? —Reedy 13:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Basically the loop are used to move the space and punctuation one by one to each side of multiple refs. I've updated the example to what's being used on the server. Now there's a bug, since it only moves spaces when there's text on the line to the right it will leave spaces before the last ref e.g. "end of text.^{[3][4] [5]}". So it probably a good idea run "Delete white-space between references " after doing this. There might be another bug if there's a ref starting on each line... — Dispenser 14:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

So, in CSharp

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
# Move punctuation left and if any space move right
ArticleText = Regex.Replace(ArticleText, @"(?<=[\w")>])( *)(<ref [^<>]*/> *|<ref[^</>]+>.*?</ref> *)([\.,;:"])", "$3$2$1");
# Move space to the right, 
ArticleText = Regex.Replace(ArticleText, @"(?<=[\.,;:>])( +| *\n)(<ref [^<>]*/>|<ref[^</>]+>.*?</ref>)(?= *\S)', "$2$1");
# Add two space if none, reduce to two if more
ArticleText = Regex.Replace(ArticleText, @"(</ref>|<ref [^<]*/>)( {3,}|)(\w)", "$$1  $3");
}

Yes? —Reedy 19:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. However I've been running it for some time and got the following corner cases. I'll try and remove the loop hack. Bellow are some issues I found while using the code. — Dispenser 03:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Done the following code should work well enough and test case for AWB's general fixes. I think the matching named groups is not implemented in C#. — Dispenser 18:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

# Only apply if punctuation in front is the dominate format
if len(re.findall(r'[.,;:][ ]*\s?<ref', text)) > len(re.findall(r'(?:</ref>|<ref [^>]+/>)[ ]*\s?[.,;:]', text)):
    # Move punctuation left and space right but before \n
    text = re.sub(r'(?s)(?<=[\w")\]])([ ]*)(\s?(?:<ref [^>]+?/>[ ]*\s??|<ref[^>]*?>[^>]*?</ref>[ ]*\s??)+)(\n?)([.,;:])(?![.,;:])(\s??)( *)', r'\4\2\1\6\5\3', text)
    # Move space to the right, if there's text to the right
    text = re.sub(r'(?s)(?<=[.,;:"])([ ]+)((?:<ref [^>]+?/>[ ]*\s??|<ref[^>]*?>[^>]*?</ref> *\s??)+)(?=[\w\(\[])', r'\2\1', text)
    # Remove duplicate punctuation
    text = re.sub(r'(?s)(?P<punc>[.,;:])(["]?(?:<ref [^>]+?/>[ ]*\s?|<ref[^>]*?>[^>]*?</ref>[ ]*\s?)+)(?P=punc)(?![.,;:])', r'\1\2', text)
    # Remove spaces between references
    text = re.sub(r'(</ref>|<ref [^>]+?/>)[ ]+(<ref)', r'\1\2', text)
    # Add two space if none, reduce to two if more
    # trim or add white space after <ref />
    text = re.sub(r'(</ref>|<ref [^>]+?/>)()((\'{2,5}|)[\w"(\[])', r'\1 \3', text)
    text = re.sub(r'(</ref>|<ref [^>]+?/>)([ ]{3,})([\w(\[])', r'\1  \3', text)

rev 4209 Partial implementation:

• remove any spaces between consecutive references
• ensure a space between a reference and word character following (for references within a paragraph). Rjwilmsi 18:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Is this implemented? And if so how do I activate it? I've been trying to add them as Find/Replace rules, but have had little success thusfar (though tis my first day). - RoyBoy 21:07, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I resorted to adding the individual regexp's in Find/Replace (normal), but there has to be a easier way to have the multiple expressions together in one Rule, instead of individual lines. I also added the regexp: ([\.,;:"])([\.,;:"])(<ref>|<ref ), replace with: $2$3, which removes repeated punctuation. - RoyBoy 21:45, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Enable general fixes and it's implemented. Rjwilmsi 20:44, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I've reinstalled recently, and it keeps ignoring Spaceship_Earth_(Epcot). I have general fixes selected, but it does not pick up the ref spacing issues. What do I have to change? - RoyBoy 05:21, 25 December 2009 (UTC) Using built 5739.

It worked for me. What was the skip reason? Rjwilmsi 08:22, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Says "Only general fix changes". I notice it doesn't do punctuation changes, so I would still have to use the regex anyway for that? - RoyBoy 16:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

rev 5451 removes spaces at the end in references. One step closer. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:22, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

AWB "removes spaces between punctuation and references" as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:07, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

rev 5760 AWB now removes leading spaces as well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:04, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Rereading the initial request, I think we did all that could be possibly done. The rest could not be part of genfixes since WP:REFPUNCT allows different puncation styles. I ll archive this soon if there are no disagreements. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Skip if no header fixes? Rjwilmsi 06:43, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I think this change is already in minor fixes, or not? So, it's not AWB#s fault but bot's fault that does minor fixes. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

There's a genfix skip option to skip if no "header errors fixes". That covers what you need here. Rjwilmsi 11:30, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

D'oh! My apologies. I keep forgetting about that set of options. Thanks! –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 19:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I kinda agree, on the other hand the change in clean-up template name in this instance was done to clarify meaning, not for the ususal readability or combining reasons. Rich Farmbrough, 15:19, 12 September 2009 (UTC).

Beta and future?? Its working fine on current svn.. And newer releases are going to use the api, which is less susceptible to stupid breaking changes. What version are you having problems with?? —Reedy 15:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

SVN 4974. I will go and download a more recent one if there is one. --Kumioko (talk) 16:28, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

It's working fine for me on 4662. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:02, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

It is my understanding (though only recently reached) that AWB will only do this with existing named references (i.e. it never makes up the names for refs, only propagates them. But yeah, it would be nice to see. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 17:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately the reason for some of the AWB general fixes may not be self-evident, but the edit summary is very short, so I don't think it's appropriate to start adding such things to the edit summary. If we added this there would be many others, and we'd soon run out of space, and also, what about the summary on non-English wikis.

Jarry1250's understanding is correct. I will update the information on the general fixes in the user guide when the named reference tidying is in the official release. Rjwilmsi 17:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I understand. BTW I thought I had references seen being named, but I might be mistaken. -- User:Docu

I have a custom module that gives references names (sometimes). Part of it might get into a future release of AWB, but not yet. Rjwilmsi 18:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Is there consensus on this? I don't think that there have been any major discussions recently, just one a few months ago, and unless there is overwhelming support it probably shouldn't be a genfix. (also, how it is done could vary from article to article depending on if it uses Harvard refs, full citations, or something else altogether). –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 23:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Separating refs from body text is a long-requested feature - wikitext is presently almost unreadable and uneditable. I'm sure someone will consider editable wikitext a flaw, but I'd hope they were vastly outnumbered. As for referencing style, shirley leaving what's inside the <ref></ref>tags unaltered would be sensible - David Gerard (talk) 00:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

We can do this but there needs to be a reasonable period of discussion on WP:REFNAME or similar to establish that it's the agreed new best practise. Rjwilmsi 07:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

God no. It's a lot easier to do The line opened in 1859.<ref>Blow, p. 45</ref> than The line opened in 1859.<ref="Blow, p. 45"/> and then put the reference separately at the end. It's impossible for an automated process to determine whether moving it to the end is the right thing to do. (I could see consensus for moving already-named refs to the end, though.) --NE2 11:15, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I disagree as well. We ll be be going pageup-pagedown all the time. Why this improves editability? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I also disagree with the proposal to have AWB force this recent cite.php feature change indiscriminately/automatically. That feature change may have been designed to address an editability issue that occurs in only one of wikipedia's referencing systems (namely, "[long] footnotes") but it does not really make any sense to apply it to the other systems. In bibliography-based referencing systems, like WP:CITESHORT and WP:PAREN/WP:HARV, the articles already have a separate list that contains the full references/sources, ie the bibliography. For citeshort all that's in-between the <ref></ref> tags is something like "Smith 2001: 123", or sometimes a discursive note. Replacing these with named tags and then listing them all out at <references/> doesn't simplify or help with anything. Almost the reverse, since this new cite.php change more or less tries to emulate what citeshort and other biblio-style systems do, only in a more complicated and randomly ordered way.--cjllw ʘ TALK 03:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Summaries like this one, don't make me feel very well. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I am marking this as "no". There is no rule saying that we have to choose no method against the other. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:27, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

There's no logic in AWB to remove lifetime. The bots are using their own logic, so better to contact them over these errors that they have not allowed for. Rjwilmsi 06:24, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Rich made the code. Yobot was approved in Yobot 8 and SmackBot in SmackBot XVII. Bad written Lifetimes is one of the reason of the replacement. Please discuss in Template talk:Lifetime. For improvement on the code please contact User:Rich Farmbrough. The code is available in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Settings/lifetime. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:19, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

It is a slight problem, the code can be tweaked easily enough to deal with problem X but there will always be problem Y. I am satisfied that Category:Births or Category:Living deaths (the latter can no longer happen but it made me laugh) etc. are better explicit than implicit, as any editor, even a newbie can immediately see where they are and that they are wrong. Rich Farmbrough, 22:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC).

Incidentally year is not obliged to contain digits, there are any number of special cases. Rich Farmbrough, 22:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC).

The subject has been discussed in many places and there is a consensus against it. Check for example Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Null edit bot. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

The thing is that I am not trying to get around queued jobs. These pages will sit at enWS like this until they are resaved, and at WS our featured/completed works may never be resaved, they are not dynamic articles. For works in progress to have to go back and manually null edit pages and so many pages is all make work and has zero benefit, and makes no difference on the load that the servers will have to undertake beyond having 4000+ edits over the space of a week or two, rather than over 4000 minutes. I can provide further detail and examples and why. The only option that I now have is to perform faux edits on these pages to undertake some minor situational change to make it force an edit and therefore a save. Gee, it would be tons easier to get it to run through twice (once to add, once to remove) to avoid having save manually. That seems like more work on the servers than less for what is a try bot job. billinghurst (talk) 22:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

As per IRC, this isn't an AWB issue. Will sort this out for you. —Reedy 12:48, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

IMHO, if someone can't afford 20GB in todays market... The pc they are using, is most likely going to struggle on memory and/or cpu time to do this... —Reedy 01:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Unless you have an SSD. But anyway, performance of this would be terrible. Nice idea, but I don't think it's feasible. Better would be a "submit your query to server for execution" service. Rjwilmsi 08:53, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

I am marking it as no. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Just click it multiple times? The API limits the results we can get in a pull... —Reedy 01:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

I am marking it as "Exists". -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:15, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure that this is not something very rare? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

No. I am not sure at all. There may be hundreds or very few such case. But whats the harm in it? (AWB removes repeated words, so repeated sections can also be removed.) --Siddhant (talk) 08:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

You only refer to the case the first section is empty right? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:34, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but we can merge the two if both have entries. --Siddhant (talk) 16:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Maybe there is a reason for having two sections with the same name. I am afraid this FR is too narrow. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I did an incomplete scan of the database dump and found 121 such pages in the main namespace, 160 in File and 13 in Wikipedia namespaces. All instances in the File namespace I looked at are really duplicates. In articlespace, many of them seem to be a level 2 heading directly followed by a level 3 heading with the same text. While these are not plain wrong, I think they should be fixed too. At least in one case (Glossary of chess#B) this is correct and should stay that way. (I didn't finish the scan because of a bug in my code, I'll fix it and scan the whole dump over the weekend.) Svick (talk) 01:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

After I finished the whole scan, I found 281 such pages in the main namespace, 4654 in the File namespace and 70 in others, so I guess it would make sense to implement this feature. Svick (talk) 15:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

These double sections are the one after the other? I think WP:CHECKWIKI has to start cleaning them for a while to see if there any problems and after that ask a bot to do it. Without supervision we can't be sure that there is no reason for these duplications. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, directly one after the other with no text between them, but I counted them even when they weren't the same level. Svick (talk) 22:41, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Very good job. I just posted a request in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#Suggested_check:_Double_sections_in_articles. We need more feedback of possible mistakes. AWB can't start having features not tested first. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:54, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I published the list (excluding pages in the File namespace – there's too much of them and they are not that visible) here. Svick (talk) 23:19, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

The following examples show that this is bette rto be done by CHECKWIKI manually and not by AWB nor bots:

• A keep: Henrik_H_Bull#Publications
• A remove: [10].
• Unknown: In Scratchy & Co. I am unable to see the repeated sections.
• A rename: [11].

And I only looked these articles plus 1-2 more. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:36, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Scratchy & Co. reveals a bug in my code – I didn't disallow newline character in section name, so that the four equal signs, each on a new line, in {{Infobox Television}} on that page made it thing that there are two level 1 headings, both named newline. Svick (talk) 11:51, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I am marking this as "no". Editors are requested to help us fix this one manually. This is an interesting subject for WP:CHECKWIKI. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:09, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

{{sic}} requires the incorrect text to be in the template, but not a whole sentence. Do you have some examples of how the logic should work? Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

This is to broad to work correctly. I don't think we have to implement this. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:02, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I would see this as a misfeature. Rich Farmbrough, 15:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC).

There is a false positive button that can be enabled. Though, i can't tell you what/how it does or even if it works... —Reedy 11:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I mark this one as "exists". Enable "False positive button", while reviewing an article add it to the list if it's a false positive. I have false positives lists which I use to exclude articles from automatically created lists by using the Filter. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought it did/was supposed to use UserFolder/Logs? —Reedy 11:53, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, it doesn't appear to be doing that. At least not for Vista. --Kumioko (talk) 21:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I would give it a 2nd look but I don't have Vista :P -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I will do this one. Rjwilmsi 18:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

How many articles with duplicate stubs exist? Is it really wirth to do it? Any approximation or list? --Magioladitis (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Great thanks and I don't know how many there are honestly but I have run across quite a few myself. --Kumioko (talk) 20:59, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I found 206 such articles in the main namespace in the last database dump. Some of them are false positives (such as William Graham Sumner that contains twice redlink with comment <!-- add tag to new article when it is created {{US-sociologist-stub}} -->) and some of them have been fixed since the dump was created. I considered the stub templates to be the same only when they were spelled exactly the same. The list is at [12]. Svick (talk) 10:51, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Svick, you are great. :) Maybe you fill in a request to CHECKWIKI as well? After that, I agree we have to implement this for AWB. --Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

This already exists in AWB. Why did nobody actually check? Unit tests to come... Rjwilmsi

If its there it doesn't seem to be working in all cases as shown by the example article.--Kumioko (talk) 19:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

On "James Lewis (United States Army)" it works for me with genfixes enabled. Rjwilmsi 19:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

What is puzzling is that the duplicate was added by Kumioko's last edit; instead of moving it to the proper place, it copied it. I've never seen it do that before. Or was that change manually done? MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I didnt do it intentially, I dont have any logic that deals with stubs except for what awb does.--Kumioko (talk) 20:17, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

I don´t have access to AWB right now but I think that Kumioko undid one part of the changes by accudent by double-clicking to the diff window. So, the what AWB originally tried was to "move stub at the bottom". --Magioladitis (talk) 20:38, 3 January 2010 (UTC)