Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser
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[edit] Before you post
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| Report a bug in AWB? | Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs |
| Report an incorrectly fixed typo? | Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos |
| Request a feature for the next version of AWB? | Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests |
| Request approval to use AWB? | Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage |
| Ask a question about AWB or ask for help? | This page |
[edit] Frequently asked questions
- When I start it up I get one of the following errors:
- "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.", or
- "To run this application, you must first install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework..."
- This error means your computer does not have the .NET framework version 2 installed properly. You can choose from various versions for download here, or you can run Microsoft Update and select version 2 of the .Net framework from the "Optional Updates" section, if you want the choice made for you.
- When I try to update to the new version 4.0, the updater freezes halfway through.
- There is a bug in the version 3.9 updater. If you encounter this problem, uninstall AWB, and then re-install the latest version from Sourceforge.
- Does AWB run on Linux or Mac?
- AWB installs and starts in Wine with native Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed (Wine 1.1.12 or later). It doesn't work very well yet, probably due to missing functions used by .NET - please file specific application bugs in Wine!
- See here for a status report of AWB vs Mono v2
- Please note that problems with AWB on Wine/Mono or Wine/.NET are not reportable AWB bugs.
- A native version, PyAutoWikiBrowser (screenshots here), based on Python, is being developed for Unix-like systems.
- Does AWB work on other projects/languages?
- Many WikiMedia projects and languages are supported, see the "User and project preferences" option in the general menu. Other languages will be added on request, though at the moment the interface is always in English. You are also able to use AWB with third-party wikis, if you go to the General menu and select "User and project preferences", you can change the wiki there. The wiki must support the Bot API required by AWB. This means that it should have latest HEAD version of MediaWiki or something close to that.
- What interwiki link order does AWB use?
- The software reads the interwiki sort order from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/IW, which is generally mirrored to reflect the order at m:Interwiki sorting order.
- AWB puts stubs after categories, though categories are always rendered the last by MediaWiki?
- According to WP:STUB#Categorizing stubs, By convention this is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. If your wiki uses other order, please let us know here.
- I don't like or use Internet Explorer; please use Firefox instead.
- AWB does not use Internet Explorer per se. It does, however, use the same web browser control (MSHTML) as Internet Explorer; the equivalent Firefox component does not provide the needed functionality.
- How do I open the page in another browser if I can't use the one in AWB?
- Right click on the edit box in the bottom right side of your screen. Select "Open page in browser".
- How do I edit a page that doesn't exist?
- Uncheck "Ignore non existing pages" in the "Skip articles" box.
- How do I skip certain articles?
- Use the "Skip if contains" and "Skip if doesn't contain" on the "Skip" tab
- Can't you leave up a "stable" version, so I don't have to download new versions?
- It is important to keep people up to date with the latest versions, because their use of the software doesn't just affect them, but the whole of Wikipedia. As any bugs that remain will be trivial; hopefully releases won't be too frequent.
- How can I stop AWB clicking when it changes pages?
- This is a Windows sound theme setting. This page explains how to turn off the clicking sound.
- Alternatively, delete the following key from the Windows registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current
- AWB randomly crashes upon page load on my system, and I always use a browser other than Internet Explorer when using Wikipedia.'
- You may have installed custom scripts incompatible with IE. Wrap the contents of your monobook.js into conditional:
//Detect IE5.5+
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")==-1)
{
// Previous contents go here
....
}
- I get Just In Time Debugger Messages when loading AWB/loading pages
- In Internet Explorer, go to Tools --> Options --> Advanced. Make sure 'Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)' and 'Disable Script Debugging (Other)' Are both checked. Press apply and close.
[edit] Problems with other software
- Modified versions of monobook.js (e.g. to utilise popups, godmode-light etc.): AWB works, but page loading can be slow. Workaround is to disable Active Scripting in Internet Explorer - see AWB Tips and tricks for more information and workaround.
- Bugs in monobook.js can cause AWB to crash or be unable to load pages. Use the same workaround, or refer to the answer in the FAQ above. If you've updated monobook.js and are experiencing problems, please verify the bug still occurs with a blank monobook.js before reporting it as an AWB bug.
- Wikipedia Skins other than monobook: AWB might not work with other skins due to the skins having bugs.
- Known problem in Cologne Blue skin: see Bug 9806 and AWB bug report.
- NoScript (Firefox extension) or other XSS-related extensions: some features such as "Open text in browser" may not work correctly. Workaround for NoScript: Disable the "Sanitize cross-site suspicious requests" option.
[edit] Discussion
[edit] IS this an error?
An imagemap in 90482 Orcus contains a self-link. AWB removed it. Arguably the entire part of the imagemap that self links isn't needed - an editor says the self-link is needed for the mouse-over. I might question th evalue of the mouse-over anyway. But... Rich Farmbrough, 21:28 21 May 2009 (UTC).
- There was a bug report/fix for imagemaps recently. Besides that, personally, I think the self-link is highly confusing. -- User:Docu
- According to mw:Extension:ImageMap, it doesn't look like it's possible to specify names w/o links. -- User:Docu
- It appears not. I wonde rehterht to go back to this user. Rich Farmbrough, 19:42 23 May 2009 (UTC).
[edit] Newest snapshot not enabled
The newest snapshot, SVN 4658, Version 4.5.3.3 (shouldn't that be 4.6.x.x?) is not enabled. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Nope, the release came after the snapshot. I'll get a snapshot up in a bit. —Reedy 19:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Protect, delete, move
Before posting this as a bug, I wanted to see if I'm just missing something. I've been exploring the use of the protect, delete, and move buttons. When I click any of them, I get the same dialog box that looks like it is just for deleting (the box title is delete and all of the summaries are CSD summaries). Am I missing something? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
- Meh. It should be the same box, just slightly different.. I'll have a look. I wouldnt be suprised if most of it doesn't work also.. Which if is the case, i dont really care about (unless its trivial fixes), as it will be fixed nicely when the ApiEdit work is finished (ie v5) —Reedy 22:16, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Auto-expanding text selection
This only seems to have started happening since I installed 4.6. Whenever I attempt to select text in the edit window the selection auto-expands to what it thinks I want to select. Is there anyway to turn off the auto expanding aspect, so that I can have standard non automatic text selection back?- X201 (talk) 13:15, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
We need to turn off AutoWordSelection but there's an MS bug explained here. There's a workaround given at the bottom, but I don't understand it. Rjwilmsi 15:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
- rev 4700. Somewhere else did suggest setting it to true then false, but i didnt try that, just tried setting to true. —Reedy 17:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for fixing it! This annoying and irritating "feature" is so ubiquitous in Windows programs that I figured there must not be a way to turn it off when using Rich Text, so I didn't bother mentioning it. I'm glad someone else did. I should've remembered that you guys can fix just about anything! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:32, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it. It was irritating the hell out of me. - X201 (talk) 14:52, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Possible problem with reference logic
I wanted to let you know that someone has complained to me about the reference cleanup logic. Apparently when references are placed within tables they leave a space between the pipe and the reference. I looked at the MOS but I didn't see anything about placeing refs within tables so I wanted to bring it up. Not really a bug or a new feature and likely isn't a problem at all but I wanted to let you know all the same. --Kumioko (talk) 14:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Error message list
I would like to see a list of error messages and solutions in a seperate section of the manual. Any takers? Not my forte so I will leave it to others. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:39, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
- I think this is probably a good idea, though, would be best waiting till the v5 beta's/RC's, as a lot of the error messages will be changing and be handled in a different way! —Reedy 15:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Updates
It seems that AWB checkes for updates automatically. Can that be turned off? Debresser (talk) 14:01, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
- No, it's important that people use the most recent version to prevent damage to Wikipedia. 62.140.253.9 (talk) 14:06, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
