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deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 20:51, 10 July 2020 (UTC) Template:AWB standard installation (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

Shortcut WP:AWB/TWP:AWB/T These are the typo regular expressions for RegExTypoFix and wikEd, development is now open to the public. Please add to/modify/improve...

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area of stub replacement. He thinks that he can be a lot of service with AWB access and a bot flag. My other sister GoblinBot3 is also getting ready to...

reason you mention. I think the renaming could best be done by someone with AWB access. It will take quite little effort that way. --rimshottalk 09:24, 2...

2008 (UTC) Can someone approve Picochip08, Microchip08's doppelganger, for AWB? Thanks. http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AutoWik...

(enwiki) Programming language: Petscan (including a SPARQL Wikidata query) + AWB Function: Adds {{Attached KML}} to articles which have KML files available...

Lofty abyss' most recent contributions, a majority of them were made using AWB, and also made on Christmas Day or the days after. They got to 108 changes...

use AWB on here do we still sign up on Regular En? If we sign up there do we say for Simple and do we need 500 edits in Simple or Regular to get AWB on...

<br /> <br /> ;AWB: can set it in most cases. Additional characters can be defined (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AWB/FR">WP:AWB/FR</a>).(Partial...

discussion. The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. I will use AWB to take care of the template.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 00:24, 30 May 2025...

'); //replace ideographic period with a regular period (from TheFarix's AWB cleanup module) //str = str.replace(/・・・/g, '...'); //three interpuncts normally...

13:07, 13 December 2012 (UTC) I would like to ask the AWB developers to add some logic to AWB that will perform the following changes here on Simple...

of approved AWB users here. Am I missing something? --Auntof6 (talk) 07:22, 26 February 2015 (UTC) Rethinking, I'll just let a user with AWB permissions...

talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON. Once you download and install (see the AWB user manual for details), you must go to Options -> Preferences -> Site and...

note, do I have to request AWB to use it here? If so, where? SS✞(Kay) 05:02, 20 March 2010 (UTC) I think you need to be AWB confirmed (just like Huggle)...

see the talk page. Contributions Operator: Yotcmdr Programming language: AWB Function: Stub sorting bot Description: Sorts pages into different types...

Microchip08 MifterBot MiszaBot Mjbmrbot Mlpearc MondalorBot Morgankevinj AWB Morgankevinj huggle Movses-bot Mukkakukaku MystBot Mythdon Nallimbot Nameless...

you're telling AWB to skip if no changes are made? I took care of the issue by doing a save from AWB even if there were no changes -- AWB allows null edits...

such action again. The bot was only for many minor edits. I was using the AWB, and didn't know how to use it with the flood flag to prevent the edits from...

October 2011 (UTC) Contributions Operator: Auntof6 Programming language: AWB Function: Change the date used in cleanup tags where the date is not specified...

didn't show, but all the AWB edits did. After you gave me the bot flag, the AWB edits continued to show up. Until I logged out of AWB and then back in; now...

the articles. This kind of page allows for automated tools (for example, AWB) to disambiguate, even if the result adds a red link. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:07...

is due to AWB not seeing you have the flag because it only grabs your flags when you login. So you have to log out on AWB and back in so AWB will see the...

30 July 2010 (UTC) Can an admin please add me to the AWB check page? I would like to use the AWB. By the way, which do I download from here? There are...

community agreed to stop creating articles by AWB so anyone using AWB to do it will have their access to AWB revoked. As for users doing it manually there...

manually, by chance?)? If this is about a mass replacement task, then using the AWB database scanner would have probably been the best way to populate the list...

requests for AWB permissions that we have been receiving lately, I would like to suggest that we create a centralized page for requests for AWB permissions...

approve my bot for sometimes making AWB changes that need making when the time comes. My bot has been used for AWB changes in the past, so therefore, I...

too much. --wL <talk · hope> 00:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC) Due to an update in AWB, Interwiki issues have arisen again. In this case it's thinking that be-x-old...

explain this process. There is also a high amount of maintenance (as in AWB-level). I was considering keeping per WP:CHEAP, but changed my mind, it should...

you! GoingBatty (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2022 (UTC) @Auntof6 - Created WP:AWB/GF and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes. GoingBatty (talk) 19:04,...

I ran the articles through AWB on enwiki and added interwikis for Simple, except for articles that were skipped. I set AWB to skip redirects and any page...

good point, as does DJSasso. I have seen Razor make mistakes with bot and AWB. I'm not sure, think I'll fence sit on this one. Neutral fr33kman 20:23,...

account security Personal security practices Two-factor authentication 2FA for AWB Committed identity On privacy, confidentiality and discretion Compromised...

finding out what AWB is. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC) @Darkfrog24: I don't know how to make an automated bot. To learn about AWB, see...

thing. You also vary what you edit and you've obviously got the hang of AWB, which is still double dutch to me. However, you only have around 160 mainspace...

fr33kman t - c 00:44, 14 February 2009 (UTC) AWB, my friend :). Razorflame 00:45, 14 February 2009 (UTC) Yup AWB could do a simple search and replace. -Djsasso...

20:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC) I make a group of recategorisations, then run AWB and can order the cats, template and get rid of white space all at the same...

accounts marked as bots are work this way. The couple marked AWB are users who use AWB to do many short simple edits very quickly (for example - changing...

21 December 2011 (UTC) AWB can not rename categories; nothing can, as far as I am aware. Also, all the times I've used AWB, the "Move" button has been...

with bots and AWB is in my opinion good, as, even though we assume good faith with peoples spelling, there are still a few stuff ups. The AWB typo tool can...

after the categories. But AWB mistakenly puts them before the categories. I have been meaning to put in a bug report with the AWB people for awhile but other...

building a bot for this WP, so I'm requesting AWB access for this Wikipedia. Since we don't really have an AWB page, I thought here would be the place to...

with AWB has been flooding the new changes page. Could I have a flood flag, please? Is that something that will be in place every time I use AWB, or would...

2021 (UTC) I would be willing to approve this as a one time function using AWB but not sure I am comfortable giving a bot flag to someone with no editing...

--Gordonrox24 | Talk 05:37, 1 January 2021 (UTC) Those were created automatically with AWB, which we don't do anymore to avoid useless articles like that. That argument...

each bot edit was done manually using AWB. That's a bit different to an automatic script. If a bot is given AWB access for this specific reason only,...

But there is a bug in AWB for our wiki which causes them to get moved above the categories sometimes. I keep meaning to bug the AWB guys to fix that. -DJSasso...

--Eptalon (talk) 08:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC) I would like to allow my bot to use AWB. Do I just add the name to the checkpage or does my bot have to go through...

July 2008 (UTC) Has this been implemented, or is someone going wild with AWB? It seems that many comments (including Creol's at the top of this section)...

(talk) 06:17, 8 May 2008 (UTC) Does anyone know how to log in to Simple via AWB? When I press log in it brings me to EN. SwirlBoy39 00:46, 7 May 2008 (UTC)...

following: You must log on in AWB after being given the flood flag or it won't take effect. If you are already logged on in AWB, you must re-log on after...

For technical topics, including Mediawiki, Lua, templates, edit filters, AWB, etc. #offtopic – A channel for off-topic discussions. You can mute this...

do not have permission for AWB. PotsdamLamb (talk) 20:48, 27 May 2021 (UTC) That's not a task that would be approved for AWB anyway, because it isn't a...

someone change every instance of "External links" to "Other websites" using AWB? Thanks. --SEPTActaMTA8235 (talk) 20:33, 11 April 2011 (UTC) Most of them...

i'll get GBot2 to do it - it's a simple AWB job (I think...). Cheers, BG7even 23:05, 23 December 2008 (UTC) AWB works on Simple English Wikipedia? I never...

Programming language: AWB/Pywikibot Function: Substituting templates that should be substituted Description: At first, I plan to use AWB with this bot to go...

it." If the community agrees, I could go through our movie articles with AWB and make the change. Comments? --Auntof6 (talk) 02:23, 25 September 2014...

to the MediaWiki Action API which is built into all projects. It's what AWB and similar scripts use to edit, query, and parse information on our wiki...

understand. Thanks, - Huji reply 17:26, 7 October 2007 (UTC) Well based on my AWB tool there seems to be no typos, great work Huji :))) --§ Snake311 (T + C)...

the bottom, that's one reason Tygrrr decided not to use it, and why I run AWB on what I have been editing every so often--Bärliner 19:21, 9 March 2008...

longer need them there, either, but for now we still have them. I set up my AWB parameters to automatically unlink dates (both days and years) when processing...

flag for AWB stub-sorting, please? {{Sonia|talk|en}} 05:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC) And could someone also replace Singlish speaker with Sonia on the AWB checkpage...

that a lot of those articles are bot generated (well, AWB if you want to get technical but AWB is just a bot in a box). --Chris 11:50, 25 April 2009 (UTC)...

article outside of citations. If it's a problem on a very large scale here, AWB could be used to replace "website=" with "work=". I hope this helps, Rubbish...

ONUnicorn (talk) 17:39, 19 May 2015 (UTC) I just updated AWB to version 5.5.7.0, and now AWB won't connect to Simple English Wikipedia. I have created...

Film Institute). The other ones I am seeing while working through the list (AWB- google "film" got 990 pages) are terms which specifically deal with the...

make that category so they can be worked on or would you prefer to do an AWB to find that parameter and remove it or do you have any other ideas on this...

29 November 2011 (UTC) There is no request access on AWB on simple wiki. I need access for AWB because, for using automated edits to do. Thanks --Katarighe...

where 20,897 (mainspace pages transcluding the stub template - thank you AWB for counting) pages need to be reclassified as and edit them to match.. lots...

have tags. Perhaps one of the admins might be able to pull a list using AWB. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? (Pronouns: He, him, his) 20:11, 30...

replacement required and would like to seek approval to make this correction via AWB. According to a scan of the latest database dump, a total of 130 pages will...

650 mainspace edits, a majority of those were made on single days using AWB and with the edit summary of "clean up". Some were like this [1] where the...

it involves some 11K articles, it is lengthy. I am trying to do it with AWB, but it is slow going and there are a lot of false positives slowing it even...

(UTC) Otherwise, users could use AWB to vandalize and no one would notice unless they were watching bot edits. AWB approval only allows you to have access...

discovered that about one-fifth to one-fourth of his total edits come from the AWB tool. While I can't oppose because of his great work as a counter-vandal...

WP:RfR, (Request for Rights) which could also be used if things such as AWB, IP-block-exempt and Account Creator ever appear. But I suppose RfA could...

task. I am assuming this bot would be semi automated correct? I've used AWB in the past to perform semi-automated stub sorting. But it is very tedious...

perhaps a list of people who are allowed to upload such as we have for AWB? fr33kman t - c 04:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC) I suggested a user right for...

really familiar with them, and this task is one that'd be better suited for AWB, which really doesn't like me, so some help's needed. :) Maxim(talk) 15:53...

companies please. Or else, give me AWB access and I'll do it. Thanks. —Giggy 07:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)  Done AWB access - I did the last one , this...

notability is shown. Until then, they are simply directory pages (created using AWB) that don't actually contain any encyclopedia information. Majorly talk 10:26...

come and discuss. Jon@talk:~$ 08:43, 14 September 2010 (UTC) I was running AWB on the wrong wiki. I have en masse reverted all the changes. —I-20the highway...

September 2019 (UTC) Contributions Operator: DannyS712 Programming language: AWB Function: Remove broken links to portals Description: A lot of templates...

be done for every page in the Help: namespace we don't have (I wonder if AWB could do it?), though some discretion would be needed for pages in the Wikipedia:...

considerably if the ones who are going to "sort stubs" or "fix typo using AWB" would get in contact with a bureaucrat before hand so they don't flood recent...

Hiàn (talk) 19:41, 30 May 2020 (UTC) @Hiàn: Thank you for the link. I have AWB browser rights on the English Wikipedia. I will make a request there. Interstellarity...

enough to keep them. --Barras (talk) 14:28, 19 November 2009 (UTC) Note: Per AWB, there are 2422 unique article titles within this category and subcategories...

point people the english version because its the most useful thing to do. AWB should always be a soft redirected as it is considered the central location...

edits at the very end of the year every year that are typically made with AWB is just clearly gaming, whether we mention it in the policy or not. It's...

I see the justification. Hopefully we could get a generated list through AWB and someone who has the knowledge to be able to remove that parameter and...

from accessdate parameters, and from most other places in articles. I have AWB set up to unlink them automatically, for example, and I routinely unlink...

worth having for category purposes. I think that change happened because AWB used to add the tag to all orphaned articles it would come across and people...

(talk) 01:56, 8 July 2017 (UTC) It already shows you as a authorized user AWB Checkpage -- Enfcer (talk) 01:59, 8 July 2017 (UTC) Okay. It was my understanding...

seems to be to not do so, and the change could easily be implemented with AWB and a "date" template, with something like [[{{{1|{{{month}}}}}} {{{2|{{{day}}}}}}]]...

have updated our article, but if this issue is elsewhere, it might need a AWB task to fix them all. Griff (talk) 15:23, 12 June 2022 (UTC) Can someone...

actually, I have a bot at enwp, but not interwiki bot. It is an approved AWB bot.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  23:03, 19 December 2011 (UTC) Ok, so I don't have to...

reference sections for a majority of these edits. Im using a tool similar to AWB (simi automatic editing tool) and want to avoid causing any more disruptions...

request succeeds, I am willing to do the deleting (it can be done easily with AWB). Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:07, 27 December 2014 (UTC) Please discuss this...

Afghan-Pakistan Relations should be Afghan-Pakistan relations etc. Can someone with AWB fix these please? The Rambling Man (talk) 07:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)  Done...

open.--Eptalon (talk) 14:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC) I am working on some AWB typo and formatting cleanup and I don't want to flood the New changes so...

affected pages (yet). Would it be possible to have KolbertBot added to the AWB whitelist as to be able to implement the necessary changes? Thank you. Jon...

excessively to delink them (aka not more than a couple of edits related to this) - AWB or a particular pywikibot script should work fine, I guess? Chenzw  Talk ...

the bot? Surely it would have been written down? Also, why is it in the AWB approved list as a Bot? And, if Creol wanted to block my bots, why did he...

I've already started migrating pages on Meta: and MW: which do not have AWB CheckPages as well as en:w: and Commons: which do (and I'm listed on both...

-Barras (talk) 21:12, 22 August 2011 (UTC) If not, I'd be happy to do it with AWB. That would at least be less painful than doing it manually. --Auntof6 (talk)...

deleted the {{Iowa-stub}} and that had something like 600 transclusions. AWB will help fix this issue. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:36, 2 November 2011...

through and fix them? Desertborn (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2020 (UTC) I think AWB will be able to assist with the replacement, while taking the template parameters...

detailed the "plan" that you elude to. Unlike en we don't just give out AWB to anyone who wants it. -DJSasso (talk) 13:46, 27 May 2013 (UTC) Hello community...

[[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] assisted-summaries: using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]], using [[User:Dispenser/Checklinks|checklinks tool]], using [[WP:FRIENDLY|Friendly]]...

–Juliancolton (talk) 22:20, 16 February 2009 (UTC) Hi. Can I have permission to use AWB please? I want to do some semi-auto edits. I have permission on enWP, Thanks...

Contributions Operator: Chenzw (talk|contributions) Programming language: AWB (automatic mode) Function: Correct multi colon issues in links As a result...

to be moved to Wikidata -- I still find a lot of them when I do work with AWB. In any case, deflagging bots shouldn't break anything -- it would just stop...

page. It would be best if these were updated (perhaps someone can set up an AWB on this?). Thanks, Either way (talk) 22:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC) I was about...

stubsorting. :p Classical Esther♣ 02:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC) Doesn't work with AWB, Griffinofwales (talk) 02:45, 24 March 2010 (UTC) I've opted to do the stub...

the bot, moved the article to it's proper (local) name and (Thank god for AWB) converted all 182 of the "film"(s) to "movie"(s) as well. And since it was...

17 August 2013 (UTC) Contributions Operator: Ty221 Programming language: AWB, Python (from tools.wikimedia.pl) Function: Deleting anymouse users disscusions...

account security Personal security practices Two-factor authentication 2FA for AWB Committed identity On privacy, confidentiality and discretion Compromised...

of and date. That is why it gets put in this category. We can always run AWB and strip the code out of these articles, so it is just the dates. So instead...

September 2020 (UTC) Contributions Operator: Gomdoli4696 Programming language: AWB Function: category replace. Description: Replace the categories of articles...

think it should be able to edit freely (manually). I'd also like access to AWB for the bot. No bot flag for now, and flood flag only when requested, so...

rights. Macdonald-ross (talk) 21:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Also requested for AWB on enwiki. All the editor does on enwiki is typo correcting, which means...

after each bot to avoid confusion. Note: This will need to be updated at the AWB checklist if done. BG7even 03:01, 17 November 2008 (UTC)  Done -- Creol(talk)...

request is for 1. Rollbacker and 2. Patroller. I have Rollbacker, Reviewer and AWB user rights on English Wikipedia.[7][8] I use Twinkle and Huggle. I am an...

the project with AWB using a regex to locate specific IPv4 spam. The few hits I got, I manually reverted. However, I determined AWB didn't correctly process...

couple of days. Both Chenzw and myself once verified it again and I used AWB to switch out the variables and then ran tests today and they were successful...

an issue that's preventing people from logging into AWB. See en:Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#AWB Permission error for details. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:01...

tool that could ? maybe AWB ?, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 13:53, 5 May 2024 (UTC) If you have a regex, then you could do it with AWB. The links themselves are...

couple of days. Both Chenzw and myself once verified it again and I used AWB to switch out the variables and then ran tests today and they were successful...

Goodvac (talk) 23:25, 28 April 2011 (UTC) Delink dates throughout (I believe AWB does this) I will be doing some copyediting in the next couple days. Overall...

those listed by TRM in his review last year) can easily be sorted using AWB or something. Regards, Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 19:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC) Actually...

(assign permissions) Approved @ enwiki. Would like to use here. Approved for AWB here and enwiki.  Done @Lauryn (parlez) 17:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC) Supertouch (talk ·...

creations in Europe or similar? I'm happy to sort out the moves (and likely an AWB run) if there's some consensus. Let me know if you're happy with categories...

clutter up the RC. Thank you for your reply. And in such a case, access to AWB would be useful (I wrote about it on the appropriate page, so I can connect...

rights. Macdonald-ross (talk) 21:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Also requested for AWB on enwiki. All the editor does on enwiki is typo correcting, which means...

page lets us find those pages. It also lets us use automated tools such as AWB to change the links to one of the items listed. In short, the page should...

account security Personal security practices Two-factor authentication 2FA for AWB Committed identity On privacy, confidentiality and discretion Compromised...

of these is the name used for image captions. To fix this, a bot (full or AWB) would be extremely useful to go through Category:Pages using infobox professional...

possibilities, and sometimes choose an incorrect option. Disambiguation tools (AWB, Navigation popups with popupFixDabs enabled, Dab solver, and possibly others)...

talk 22:41, 22 December 2024 (UTC) Hi, can somebody who knows how to use AWB replace " - " (hyphen) with " – " (en dash) in every page inside Category:Days...

Please don't eat da 🐑! 05:18, 26 February 2024 (UTC) @PotsdamLamb: I think AWB could be used to address the enwiki links. Let me see what I can do. -- Auntof6...

{{Non-English-language text category}}. If so, can an admin do this using AWB? 71.202.215.54 (talk) 21:12, 1 March 2025 (UTC) That way the categories will...

(UTC) @QuicoleJR: Thanks. I'll take care of them now. I can delete them with AWB, which is much easier than deleting them individually. -- Auntof6 (talk)...

the page, and every few months, the templates get removed from pages with AWB, usually by Djsasso, and I sometimes do it if he hasn't in a while. --Ferien...

If you don't have an automated tool for that, I could do it for you with AWB. Hope that helps. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:57, 24 May 2025 (UTC) Thanks, Auntof6...

decision Eptalon (talk) 07:04, 4 February 2026 (UTC) The how isn't too bad, AWB exists for these sorts of changes. I don't really have any thoughts on what...

20:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC) You could probably do it with a query, or maybe AWB. Might be worth stressing that things like {{ill}} is fine. Lee Vilenski...