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I might reply here or on your page, I'm a bit crazy like that.

Possible bug with AWB Regex problem

Hello; the regex the AutoWikiBrowser uses seems to be a little glitchy with the pipe character. When not escaped in the replace field, it behaves oddly; when escape, it outputs \|. See the examples below.

Search: \[\[([\w: !/%.]*)\]\]

Replace: [[w:$1|$1]]

Result: [[Wikipedia]] → [[w:w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

Search: \[\[([\w: !/%.]*)\]\]

Replace: [[w:$1\|$1]]

Result: [[Wikipedia]] → [[w:Wikipedia\|Wikipedia]]

If this is something I'm doing wrong, all the better; my regex knowledge is about a day old. :) Thanks. // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 12:26, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do but I think replacing \[\[(.*?)\]\] with [[w:$1|$1]] will have the desired effect. thanks Martin 12:38, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oddly, that doesn't return any results in the AutoWikiBrowser, although it works fine in my editor. I'm using an additional regex pattern to fix the problem I explained above, so it's easy to work around. :) // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 12:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I think I have probably misunderstood what you are trying to do, but that pattern worked for me, the regex engine is definatly not buggy though, it is part of the .NET framework (although it may work differently from other regex programs). thanks Martin 12:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm moving my discussion archives to centralised archives on the Meta-Wiki, and converting wikilinks to interwiki links on the pages that will be moved. Discussion header updated. ;) // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 13:08, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Reform

Wikipedia began as an open effort to create an encyclopedia of the people, by the people, for the people. Sadly, its bureaucracy has put an end to those goals. To this end, we must promote a peaceful revolution to reform it. We must eliminate the undue influence of certain people and remake Wikipedia as a people's encyclopedia. We, the reformers, are led by TJWhite who endured only briefly before suffering an indefinite block. Visit his user page to see our ideology, roughly outlined. I for one do not condone his call to vandalism. Instead, by using the power of the people, we can reform wikipedia. Join us to recreate an encyclopedia where all are equal; an encyclopedia that does not strive to become Brittannica, but rather seeks to be a one of kind encyclopedia for all of the people of the world. Please pass this message in some form to as many people as you can. Secondly, petition for the unblock of TJWhite, the one who began our glorious movement. Finally, link to his page from your user page and express your sentiments for reform on your page. Thank You, fellow wikipedians. LaRevolution 15:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Date links

Since you have taken an interest in date links. Please be kind enough to vote for my new bot application. bobblewik 20:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Loss of session data

MediaWiki:Session_fail_preview --M @th wiz 20 20 01:35, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

excellent, thanks Martin 12:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB Version

Just wanted to let you know that AWB 1.99 is not enabled yet. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 04:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, it is enabled. Martin 09:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - New User's 1st Article

Hello, Bluemoose,

I stumbled across one of your edits on the Magnolia Hotel, I believe. I am new to Wikipedia, and wrote my first article recently. Would you have interest in looking at it? I've had one other user take a look (Sputnikcccp) and he gave some great comments which I incorporated.

The article is here: Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew, Dallas, Texas

Sarum blue 22:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB functionality!

Hi Bluemoose, I was using AWB a couple days ago and was alarmed to see that it wasn't alphabetizing interwikis or categories! This was a very useful feature of AWB, and I wonder if you know why it no longer does this? Thanks! Babajobu 06:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabetizing interwiki's is a good idea, but I'm not so sure about categories. For example on a football/baseball/basketball/etc players page it's probably better to have their year of birth coupled with the Living people/year of death category, and keep together all of the categories for each of the teams the player has played for. For example look at Doug Flutie, the teams he has played for are intermixed with the places he is from categories, and it makes for a random chaotic presentation. Tnikkel 06:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, on certain pages I suppose a non-alphabetical listing may make some intuitive sense. But in the vast majority of cases I think an alphabetical list of cats is better. Babajobu 07:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabetical sorting can be turned on in the general menu. thanks Martin 09:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name stealing?

Mr. Bluemoose sir, today I was editing happily along until I looked at my contribtions and found something potentially troubling. It had atributed an edit which I did not make as I was making a succession box. COuld you please look into this for me? Thanks. American Patriot 1776 20:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aurora class battleship I was working on a succession box for William A. Trimble when the edit occured. American Patriot 1776 20:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I will contact the Village Pump! American Patriot 1776 20:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

Hi Bluemoose, I am Sysop of wiki:pt, he liked to know if the AWB is only for wiki:en or gives for all the wikipedia. I in wiki:en have few editions, but in wiki:pt I have 20000 more than, I liked to use this better tool for the wikipedia in portuguese.

Thank you.--Rei-artur 13:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And for when the version for pt:wiki? :)--Rei-artur 18:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uncategorised good articles is finished!

I did the last 80 or so. It is now complete. I put it on the inactive list and removed it from the active list. :) --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 13:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Whatever your next project is, I'll help. :) --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 13:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some botty/databasey thoughts

Hi Martin - I haven't talked to you in a while (i've been very busy), I hope everything is going well. I have recently thought of a couple of projects that exceed my technical abilities that I thought you might be interested in implementing. Obviously, if these are hard or take away from other things, feel free to ignore them. They may even be terrible ideas.

There are a lot of category templates and wikiproject templates (e.g. {{Game theory}} and {{GameTheoryProject}}) which correspond to categories (e.g. Category:Game theory). It would be nice to have a bot that ensured that if an article had one of these then it has all three. Since Cat:Gt is pretty small, it is easily done by hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are other categories that would benefit from this.
It would also be nice to have a list of unreferenced articles that don't have the {{unreferenced}} template. This could be acheived by checking for either a "References" section or an external link in the article. Perhaps a bot could add this template in those cases (although this might ruffle some feathers).
Along the same lines it might be good to have a bot that removed the aforementioned template from articles that did have external links. (I've seen a few mistagged articles.)
Lastly, it might be good to have a scan that checked people categories looking for articles that didn't have sort tags (e.g. [[Category:Game theorists]] instead of [[Category:Game theorists|Zollman, Kevin]]). These are likely to be mis-sorted in the category since most people should be sorted by something other than the first letter in the article title.

Phew. Sorry, these ideas have occured to me over time, and none of them seemed worth mentioning but now they added up it looks presumptous. Anyway, thanks for your time! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Martin - Thanks a lot for the speedy service :) I agree that the possibility for false positives for references is high, having a bot do the addition would be a bad idea. I don't have a sense for how many articles would have references but no external links or references section. Certainly some will. I thought of the sort key problem because I ALWAYS forget to add the sort key, I usually remember right after I save the article ;) --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 17:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Registration for AWB

Hi Bluemoose, I've asked for registration for AWB on it's talk page few days ago but haven't got it yet. Could you please register me? Mahanchian 11:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot Policy??

Can I run my unflagged, making edits slower than 40 seconds?? Do I need to get approval for that??? What it will do is stated on User:Gnome (Bot)

PS I don't want a bot flag....30 seconds is fast enough for me.

Respond on my pageEagle (talk) (desk) 21:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do I need approvall??

Barnstar

Your bot is very clever to point out to award its owner a barnstar ;). Here's your barnstar:

I, Mirlen, award Bluemoose for the many, tireless efforts concerning heading miscapitalizations contributed by his bot, Bluebot.

Thank you for your edits :). (BTW, if you anything else to say, please respond on my talk page.) —Mirlen 23:30, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB downloading

Hello Bluemoose. I was reading the page on the AWB and looked at the type of program I must have to run it. It says I need Windows 2000 or XP to run it. I only have Windows Millenium Edition, do you think I should try to run AWB on it? Moe ε 02:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, it won't work. Martin 09:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Darn, your right. Well, I tried. Thanks anyways. Moe ε 21:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB for Wikimedia Commons

So, I'd like to use AWB on Wikimedia Commons. I've got a large-ish number of photos that I want to re-license (GFDL -> GFDL,CC), and I do not relish the thought of going through them by hand. How simple would it be to use AWB on the Commons? -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 04:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know, it's possible it might work with just a very small change, on the other hand there are always unexpected problems. Martin 09:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB get from contribs problem

Bluemoose - Please see this message on my talk page. I think there is a glitch in the get from contribs option but I can't seem to find it. Do you know the problem? (I first thought that there might be a problem with all usernames beginning with a number, but I don't think so anymore.) --M @th wiz 20 20 23:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When I enter that username (09i70o7nj0h) it doesn't work, even though all others (including others beginning with a number) do work. Normally, the green progress bar scrolls until a list appear. With username 09i70o7nj0h, the progress bar disappears after about three seconds for me and the list never appears, not even in about five minutes. I have 2.0.0.7. --M @th wiz 20 20 00:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the source code and built it using VCS. Now, it says "list complete" in the status bar but the box with the list of articles is empty. Once again, this is only for user 09i70o7nj0h. --M @th wiz 20 20 00:21, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry that I'm being persistent about this, but it's really late (for you). You don't have to worry about this - it's just for one username. Go to sleep now and, if you insist, work on it tomorrow (okay, well, technically later today). --M @th wiz 20 20 00:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2 Bot Visits

Hi, A page I created has had it's last two edits made by AWB assisted robots Bluebot & Smackbot ([1], [2]). It's good that you guys are cleaning up but couldn't you colloborate? What Smackbot did in visit 2, could have been done by Bluebot in visit 1. --kingboyk 02:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I have no control over what other people want to do. Martin 10:03, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1911 imports

Please don't edit so absent-mindedly. You imported 1911 text about François Gerard without checking if there is such an article in Wikipedia. Actually, there is - François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard. It's not good to maintain forks for such a prolonged period of time. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that is extremely rude, to accuse someone who has invested such an enourmous amount of time into this project as editing absent-mindedly, I dont think a single mistake means someone is absent minded - it means they are human. I think it is pretty obvious how the mistake was made, the original article has such an obscure title that it would have been very difficult to find. Martin 17:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bobblewik

Since you've been active in Bobblewik's bot request at WP:BOTS, I just thought I would let you know that Bobblewik has landed himself in yet another huge controversy. You can read all about it at the AN. --M @th wiz 20 20 01:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ingoolemo/Threads/06/03/11a

AWB acting weird

Hey Bluemoose. Every time I try to log in in AutoWikiBrowser, it just acts as a CPU hog. It happened on all three of my OSes (XP with IE7 Beta 2 preview, Windows Vista 5308, and Longhorn Server). Any ideas on how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 04:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here is where AWB gets stuck during debug in VS2005 (infinite loop), if this helps:

while (webBrowser4.ReadyState.ToString() != "Complete") Application.DoEvents();

— Alex ^(T|C|E) 04:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what the problem is, sorry. Martin 23:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well. This behavior appeared in the 2.X builds. Seems like my system is having trouble with the web browser control for some reason. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 00:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The problem exists in 3 separate OS configurations which I assume are working properly. But there is a common (for you) web-browsing factor that's different than most other editors, your custom javascript.

I would suggest that you try blanking your custom monobook.js, clear your browser cache, and see if the problem goes away.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-15 10:01Z

Thanks

Thanks for approving my AWB request. - Ganeshk (talk) 16:40, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Red Link Finder V1.2

Lar suggested I use your program to find redlinks in Beatles articles for the Beatles wikiproject. It throws me up an error message though:

StartIndex cannot be less than zero.

Parameter name: startIndex

Search parameters I tried are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios
and
Abbey Road Studios

Is there anything I can do, or should be doing, to make the utility work?

Cheers. --Mal 06:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it now, thanks Martin 11:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AWB

I'm sorry I thought because it was a bot it was supposed to do that? Planktonbot 15:38, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ok but how would I generate a list of articles that contain a particular typo? Are there lists like that? Planktonbot 15:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok with that is it possible to look for more than one misspelling? Planktonbot 15:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

and with that can you import the list to the AWB? Planktonbot 15:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

so do i put a comma between the misspellings im looking for (so i can search for more than one word)? Planktonbot 16:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Planktonbot 16:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

what is the "articles" XML data-dump file? Planktonbot 16:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks again Planktonbot 16:39, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]