Wikipedia:IRCMonitor

IRCMonitor

Developer(s)	AutoWikiBrowser project
Stable release	1.0.1.1 / 2007-09-15
Operating system	Windows
Type	Wikipedia monitoring and anti-vandal tool
License	GPL
Website	sourceforge.net/.../autowikibrowser

The IRCMonitor is a tool that monitors recent changes and logs on Wikipedia and assists in handling it. It has features of quick reverting, issuing warnings to users and reporting vandals to WP:AIV. IRCM is a daughter project of AutoWikiBrowser.

Rules of use

• User of this software must have a thorough knowledge of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especially those that deal with vandalism.
• Don't use simple revert function to revert anything that is not simple vandalism or blatant spam.
• Assume good faith.

Repeated abuse of these rules will result, without warning, in the software being disabled.

Versions

AWB version history. Select show to expand.

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Version	Release date	Notes
5.x.x.x		AWB/WikiFunctions 5.x.x.x: General fixes Improved DEFAULTSORT addition to pages about persons When genfixes running on non-mainspace page, add birth/death/living categories only as wikilinks with colon at start (e.g. [[:Category:Living people]] which displays as Category:Living people) Only change Japanese/Chinese full width bracket characters if unbalanced count of these Fix uppercase bold <B> tag replacement Other Detect unclosed tags within gallery tags for unclosed tags alert If there are find matches, colour the Find button yellow Tweak ListMaker sizing to show additional row Tweak Main window display to remove spare space at bottom Removed logging to file tab and discontinued feature Removed .php5 code Handle fileexists-sharedrepo-perm error from api during page move Removed About button from Database scanner and added a help tab Support domain name when logging in Cancel button for F&R box KingbotK plugin 2.3.3.0 Dropped code for setting class for Template|Category|File|Portal. Now it's autoset by wikiproject banners NoLimits 1.3.4.0 Added CategoryRecursiveNoLimitUserDefinedLevelListProvider Added ImageFileLinksNoLimitsListProvider
5.5.0.1 rev 9049	4 April 2013	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.5.0.1: General fixes Handle ref punctuation to be moved being last character in page Feature request Change unreferenced/refimprove templates for living people Use {{-stub}} rather than {{stub}} New alert: gallery tag incorrectly closed More Wikiproject capitalisation variations supported by WikiProjectBannerShell Don't remove underscores from link where page in Category:Articles with underscores in the title (as specified on AWB checkpage setting) Better removal of break tags after headers FixHeadings to remove empty bold tags Dynamically use HashSets only when available Ensure magic word switches are capitalised correctly Typo fixing No typo fixing within <hiero> tags Tagger Fix positioning of dated stub tags Fix link counting for {{dead end}} tagging: handle links with colon in name correctly Other Fix handling of newline before populated parameter in UpdateTemplateParameterValue "Open text selection in browser" to detect URLs, open as URLs Make wikilinks from page preview open correctly Fix to tab fixing window: make editable portion only the wikilink, so that user cannot create conflicting changes and nearby dablinks can be updated correctly OpenURLInBrowser: For Wine use attempt to dynamically determine available browser, caching result Only attempt 'click & drag on diff window for Control+C copy support' if Microsoft.mshtml.dll is available. Ensures that single click on diff to focus edit box still works when Microsoft.mshtml.dll not available. Ensure ArticleText is updated correctly on ReparseEditBox
5.5.0.0 rev 8982	22 March 2013	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.5.0.0: Fix page save error when "Add all to watchlist" option enabled Adds non-breaking space in 12-hour time per MOS:TIME {{primary sources}} -> {{BLP primary sources}} if BLP. En-wiki only. Page skip check for salted pages, AWB will skip pages that you cannot create due to page protection. Cleanup of interwiki links: remove duplicate colons, convert to first letter uppercase for first letter upper wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) Improved display of hide/hidemore options in Find & replace screen: check and disable hide if hidemore ticked, since using hidemore implicitly uses hide Improved Percent regex to cover numbers in parentheses Improved SyntaxRegexListRowBrTag and SyntaxRegexListRowBrTagStart Improved FixSyntax performance Improved italics/bold html tags fixing Fix template substitution logic for templates using Template: namespace in call Fix check for "skip if only genfixes" in case where article text starts with whitespace Remove "Show edit page" as an option, if this option is chosen in the settings file convert to default (show changes), no longer supported as using API editing Unicode characters are valid in Image file names Wikimedia Voyage in the list of supported projects Add TimedText and EducationProgram to namespaces Switch list filtering to ListComparer type hash sets Add converttitles parameter to API queries, means AWB correctly finds name variation pages on wikis using this functionality Do not skip for "minor change" if advanced find & replace made changes If user "not registered" and on wikia it means there is a local checkpage, so don't direct user to central checkpage Run typo fixing after general fixes Removes <small> tags surrounding <small>, <sup>, <sub> tags Bold-italic combination won't disable typo fixing On attempted save, skip custom CSS or JS pages that user cannot edit Tagger Orphan, wikify, uncat templates & date parameter, Link GA string for arzwiki Orphan, wikify, deadend, uncat, stub tagger messages for arzwiki Tagger to handle categories being added by genfixes/user for deciding whether tag with {{uncategorized}} Tagger not to remove dead-end tags on en-wiki Minor changes Debug/snapshot builds to show revision number in title bar Include number of iterations in typo profiling output (typos.txt) More diacritics fixes More unbalanced brackets fixes Higher unit test coverage Reduce Multiple issues tag threshold to two Treat underscores and spaces as the same for user ID CheckPage lookup Check for page being normalized Checks for broken {{persondata}} templates Fixed keyboard shortcuts and clicking on alerts box problems Article Alerts "Starts with heading" alert for mainspace only Alert for "links with no target" Alert for "links with double pipes" AWB genefixes performance Fewer compiled regexes to improve speed of processing genfixes on first page in AWB session Performance improvement to TemplateRedirects genfix when there are no matching redirects in article e.g. on Barack Obama where no redirect match, reduces TemplateRedirects time by ~90% Rework TagUpdater: performance improvement to TagUpdater, reduces time by ~90% NoLimits 1.3.3.0 Addition of all pages in all namespace provider for highlimits, bots, sysops etc. Bing Search Plugin 2.0.0.0: Rewritten!
5.4.0.0 REL_5_4/rev 8348	4 September 2012	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.4.0.0: Clicking on the username label will now open the profile/login window Speed optimisations to ListComparer SelectionMode of list comparer lists now consistent at MultiExtended (same as main listmaker) List Filter: fixed symmetric difference operation to return correct result set, moved alpha sort on apply to be after filter operations so list maker finishes with correctly sorted list, switched method for intersection operation, removed BinarySearch More special characters fixed by RemoveDiacritics Editable edit summary RemoveCats to return empty string rather than throw exception when multiple defaultsorts New genfix to Rename template parameters Support new secure server for page opening, drop support for old one. FixSyntaxRedirects to remove carriage inside redirects "Reset saved/skipped counts" option in Tools Menu Improve DEFAULTSORT generation using {{X name}} templates from Category:Hatnote templates for names Move associated talk page now optional when moving a page Pages/min counter to show pages parsed/minute when in pre-parse mode Persondata birth/death add data logic expanded to cover BC years Fix custom project URL setting (protocol now saved separately) Paste properly: use DataFormats override for RichTextBox paste New Tools function HowMuchStartsWith Skip conditions Skip if only cosmetic changes are made If "skip if redirect" is on, don't bypass redirects even if "bypass redirects" is on too Pre-parse mode honours "skip if no alert" skip check Tagger {{improve categories}} --> {{uncategorized}} when zero categories Don't remove deadend tag when only wikilinks are in Prod {{No footnotes}} --> {{More footnotes}} if page has at least 1 inline citation Infoboxes don't count for article length assessment for wikify/stub tags Alerts Only check zeroth section of talk pages for Unbalanced brackets Alert for French parameters in Cite web in enwiki Non English Wikipedia changes Wikimedia incubator in the list of supported projects English-only genfixes for simple wiki Support "Template:" removal from start of template calls based on local-wiki name for Template: Restrict FixUnbalancedBrackets of Chinese brackets to en-wiki only Diff for RTL wikis to show RTL Reinstate RTL/LTR arrow derivation logic Interwiki sorting is LocalLanguageAlpha for Swedish-language Allow RETF in bot mode when on a custom wiki Stub handling for Greek Wikipedia Customised edit summaries for Chinese (normal, Cantonese, classical), Turkish, Czech, Esperanto, Swedish, Armenian Orphan, wikify, uncat templates & dateparameter, Link GA string for arwiki Orphan, wikify, deadend, uncat, stub tagger messages for arwiki RefsAfterPunctuation for elwiki Disambigs for ar, ca, de, el, es, pl, sv wikis Minor fixes More exceptions for persondata and people category functions Handle namespace derivation for pages with Spacing Modifier Letters at start of name Do not change article's DEFAULTSORT only to change casing. Improved FixLivingThingsRelatedDates logic Improved IsArticleAboutAPerson logic Fix to CiteTemplateTimeInDateParameter for wikilinked timezones Fix to CheckNoBots logic Disable watch button by default Multiple wikilinks alert/click feature to ignore unformatted text: wiki comments, nowiki etc. Pull in new CSS from mediawiki.action.history.diff.css Support inline citation cleanup templates when reordering refs Remove space between number and percent symbol per WP:PERCENT Catches more break tags with bad syntax Improved Dated template functionality to catch things like {{foo|date-August 2012}} MetaDataSorter to correctly sort stub tags with extra parameters (e.g. date) Updated NormalizeTitle to support new "&pe" format to WikiMedia URLs Yahoo plugin removed Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.3.2.5: Code tweaks
5.3.1.0 REL_5_3_1/rev 7793	23 July 2011	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.3.1.0: Extended FixUnbalancedBrackets to cover citation templates ending in triple closing brace before end of ref tag. Correctly places LinkFGAs in Aragonese, Esperando, Basque, Brezhoneg, Romanian and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Faster skip checks for find & replace when applied before genfixes. Amend PerformGeneralFixes to only call redirect tagger for redirects, don't call other genfixes. IsArticleAboutAPerson to call RemoveCats. Improved performance when pasting a list in ListMaker. ErrorHandler gives more information on XmlExceptions. Don't re-enable a disabled Find&Replace rule when moving up/down or to top/bottom. Don't remove self-wikilinks within {{taxobox colour}} Do not add DEFAULTSORT if case insensitively the same as article title, now that Mediawiki sort keys are case insensitive Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.3.2.2: Fix File checkedlistbox Code tweaks
5.3.0.0 REL_5_3/rev 7729	25 May 2011	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.3.0.0: Optimised loading: Only do one set of site update upon load Allowed AWB to login to sites where reading is restricted, and don't provide anonymous API Read access Option to logout Find and replace can be done before or after other fixes by case New Tools function: MergeTemplateParametersValues More exceptions to Unicodify character list to prevent text lost New list providers CheckWikiWithNumberListProvider TextFileListProviderWindows1252() AllUsers SpecialPageListProvider Bug that could cause (partial) page blanking fixed MultipleIssues: Don't add duplicate tags to {{multiple issues}}, delete tags instead (zeroth section of article). Remove {{multiple issues}} when only one tag, don't count |section= as a tag. Don't tag soft redirects to Wiktionary More tag redirects support. FixUnbalancedBrackets Catches unclosed category/interwiki links Catches {{File: PersonData: when adding data convert to upper case parameters to avoid parameter duplication. Tagger When no cats from existing page by API call but genfixes adds people categories, don't tag uncat Discounts persondata and categories from character count for stub evaluation If not dead end page do not remove {{dead end|section|...}} tags Merges multiple {{see also}}, {{see also2}} templates into one. En-wiki only. RemoveTemplateNamespace to canonicalize template name (remove underscores etc.) Conversions Do {{wikify|section|...}} to {{wikify section|...}} conversion Remove deprecated parameter |auto=yes from {{Unreferenced}} Replace {{BLP unsourced|section}} with {{BLP unsourced section}} Replace {{BLP sources|section}} with {{BLP sources section}} Minor fixes Removes unneeded category sortkey of {{PAGENAME}} in one go More excess br tag removal Correctly places LinkFGAs in Swedish Wikipedia (sv.wiki) Fixed a bug in LinkGFA logic that could affect its position in various wikis FixReferenceTags removes empty |name= from tag WikiProjectBannerShell: Treat {{activepol}} the same as {{blp}} WPBiography: Convert {{activepol}} and {{blp}} to template parameters WPSongs: New function. Convert {{sir}} to template parameters, remove |importance= Fixed a bug in WikiRegexes.Orphan to match on tag within {{Multiple issues}} Clean up curly quotes to straight quotes in citation template title field per MOS:PUNCT Automatically skip pages containing characters from Unicode Private Use Area to avoid the .NET RichTextBox from changing them. FixSyntax to trim whitespace around sortkey value within DEFAULTSORT Avoid reordering of duplicate {{persondata}} IFD plugin 1.0.1.0: Make Edit Summary addition optional CFD plugin 1.0.1.0: Make Edit Summary addition optional Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.3.2.0: Disactivated blp/activepol conversions (now done by general fixes) Disactivated sir conversions to WPSongs (now done by general fixes) Removed context menu entries Added File-Class support
5.2.0.0 REL_5_2/rev 7471	17 December 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.2.0.0: FixHeadings: remove <big> tags from headings TagUpdater Load templates to date from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates, keep existing first letter case of templates, correct Date= to date, and add 'date=' even if there are other arguments First word to first character uppercase in date field Removes day in International date in |date= Converts ISO dates Removes comma between month and year Corrects upper case month name Corrects mixed case month name Tagger Adds tags more often (now that category count is via API in Tagger any categories from templates on the page are included (when not hidden categories) so explicit template check is not needed). Ensures {{uncat}} not renamed to {{uncategorized stub}} if we've removed the stub tag. bugfix {{dead end}} removal on re-parse (WikiRegexes.Deadend to match parameter in Multiple issues template when subst date present). Disambigs and SIAs aren't stubs, don't tag as stubs. Don't mark as {{uncat}} if has {{cat improve}}. cat count to exclude Category:Stubs as well as all the other stub sub-categories Discounts persondata from wikify evaluation Don't automatically add DEFAULTSORT on pages with noinclude/includeonly tags. FixCitationTemplates to do page range fixes in p and pp field of Harvard templates, fix use of p parameter to pp for page ranges. FixCitationTemplates: remove redundant |month= field. FixCitationTemplates: stricter logic for Google books {{cite web}} renaming. FixSyntax: remove empty gallery tags. FixSyntax: implement workaround for bugzilla mediawiki bug 2700 RemoveImage: remove/comment out description of image from <gallery> tags when removing/commenting out image. Tools.RenameTemplate to have overloads to allow keeping of current template first letter case. MakeHumanCatKey to handle articles named "Person of Place" to generate sort key of "Person Of Place"; also handle "Person II of Place" --> "Person 02 Of Place" Refactored HideUnformatted to use Replace and AddBack methods for big performance improvement on long articles Faster ListSplitter CanDoGeneralFixes: Expanded to allow genfixes on namespace 102 in pt-wiki Text is pasted into edit box in font format of text and end is trimmed Talk page genfixes Move WPBiography above any WikiProject templates per WP:TPL when |living=yes (en-wiki only) Move any other WikiProjects into WikiProjectBannerShell Genfixes now done in category talk and book talk too WPBiography: remove diacritics from |listas= parameter in {{WPBiography}} If ListProvider.StripUrl, strip url's from input before passing to the ListProvider Minor updates More accurate IsArticleAboutPerson Multipleissues works correctly with new tags and tag removal Removes unneeded colon before dablink FixSyntax: More unbalanced bracket fixes (ListExternalLinkEndsCurlyBrace, handles FTP like HTTP, and more) FixDateOrdinalsAndOf: ensure comma in international date with ordinal removed IFD plugin 1.0.0.7: Added clear backlog button CFD plugin 1.0.0.7: Added clear backlog button Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.3.1.1: Disactivated set placement fixes (now done by general fixes) Delinker Plugin 1.0.0.2: Fixed a NRE
5.1.0.0 REL_5_1_0/rev 7266	13 October 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.1.0.0: All wikis that use non capitalised first letter for titles now supported (like Wiktionary). Rearranged logic in genfixes to increase efficiency in the first parse. New alert if See also section after any of Notes, references, external links sections. Added {{R to other namespace}} to RedirectTagger. Speed optimisations to ListComparer. General fixes for WikiProjectBannerShell. Moving references after punctuation promoted to general fixes (en-wiki only). Fix ExpandTemplate to avoid matching on previously commented out calls, fixes issue over Multiple template substitution in talk pages Avoid fixing unbalanced brackets on math set notation Restrict WikiRegexes.DefaultSort to not match over multiple lines, to avoid incorrect matches on incorrectly terminated DEFAULTSORTs Support pasting of articles from multiple columns in Firefox. General fixes enabled on namespace 104 in es-wiki Adds people categories in pages transcluding people infobox templates Converts "John Doe (1978-)" to "John Doe (born 1978)" Feature: Insert blank line above section headings on mainspace articles. No diacritic removal in sortkeys on ru-wiki. Adds {{Persondata}} to human pages (en-wiki only) Validate entered category and show message box warning user if category does not exist Improved FixSyntax to handle more cases of unbalanced brackets Minor updates Nuked webcontrol for help. Avoid conversion of {{Multiple issues}} casing when removing unneeded 'date' parameter. Unclosed tags alert to include <small>. Unclosed tags alert to include <ref> tags. Don't apply FixSmallTags when article has unclosed tags. Correctly sorts FA and GA links on pt wiki. Stubs before categories on Italian wikiquote. Separated regexes for DABs and SIAs. AWB won't alert for SIAs with refs. Quick Login enter to login Move {{Wikipedia-Books}} to See also section. Re-parse with RETF enabled shouldn't prevent running genfixes. More fixes for incorrect <references/> Alerts: add count to end multiple-item alerts Alerts: fix red highlighting of text over multiple lines Alerts: on click on alerts box scroll to next alert after current position in edit box, else to first alert if no later one. FixCitationTemplates: URL starting www. needs http:// HighlightSyntax: reset background colour to avoid issues on re-parse FixCitationTemplates: {{dead link}} should be placed outside citation, not in format field per Template:Dead link. Fixes on Auto-tagger's behaviour on empty sections Simpler 'new messages' pop-up window FixMainArticle to additionally replace text with {{see also}} RemoveInterWikis to drop interwikis to own wiki FixLinks to Reformat self interwikis to be standard links Removes Template: from talk pages if it's located before the first section Cleans up underscores in infobox template names Changes {{Expand|section}} with {{Expand section}} Fix skipping for invalid page title In bot mode prevent stopping when nudge timer hit Implement the multiple article selection functionality in main listmaker in database scanner one: selection of multiple articles, opening of multiple articles in browser Custom modules: in Article.SendPageToCustomModule take updated article text even if skip true, so that in re-parse mode updates are taken In FixSyntax() treat <em> like <i> for HTML cleanup WikiRegexes.AmericanDates and InternationalDates to allow for non-breaking space between day and month {{Category:foo}} will change to [[Category:foo]] Prevent unnecessary interwiki order changes when there are two interwiki links to the same language (different links) Support loading database dump file from read only network share (by opening file read only) Soft redirects to Wictionary won't be tagged as orphan Support use of "lifetime" on sl-wiki: place it as though it's a defaultsort No diacritic removal in category sort keys on sl-wiki Dates any undated {{Dead link}}, {{Expand section}} and {{Advert}} templates Wikias can now use local checkpage Increased queries of NewPagesListProvider to 500 Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.3.1.0: Rewrote code Disactivated WikiProjectBannerShell fixes (now done by general fixes) Disactivated Assessment comments (deprecated in wiki) Always add |living= in WPBiography "Force migration of importance to priority" and "Always add listas" checkboxes removed Importance is always removed Listas is always added in manual mode NoLimitsPlugin 1.3.2.0: Allow use of NoLimitsPlugins if the user has the "apihighlimits" right
5.0.3.0 REL_5_0_3/rev 6661	07 June 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.0.3.0: Fix bug over not skipping when no changes and general fixes enabled. Fix bug in advanced find & replace 'in template' rules (regression since 5.0.1). Partial improvement to keyboard shortcut loss of focus issue. Support variation of tag template date tagging by project language code. Fix bug in duplicate wikilink searching. New Tools function: SetTemplateParameterValue MetatDataSorter to support moving of {{Link FL}}. Better DEFAULTSORT setting: article is not about a person if contains "Infobox musical group" template (or redirect) with "Background" field value of "group_or_band". Better handling of DEFAULTSORT generation for names with Jr/Sr suffix 'skip if only general fixes' to apply to Talk page general fixes too. Reinstate call to Parsers.SimplifyLinks (regression since 5.0.1). New feature for bots: option to specify number of edits to complete and for AWB to stop editing when that number reached. Default off. Bypass redirects overhauled (should be much quicker) "References to reorder" added to Database scanner Alerts if references found in dab pages Alerts for unclosed Math, Source, Code, Nowiki, Pre tags New right click menu option "sort reverse alphabetically" on list box Ignore maintenance templates when guessing birth & death categories Added procedure to merge/clean DABlinks New list provider: RedirectsAllNSListProvider Exposed Preparse mode status to Plugin interface Fix issue with minor f&r: 'no change' and 'minor change' skip options can be set independently Added {{Empty section}} to auto-tagger Portal --> portal box merging per MergePortals Removes <small> tags inside <small>, <sup>, <sub> tags and Image descriptions Minor updates Improved whitespace handling of UpdateTemplateParameterValue Fixed interwiki comment handling Better datestamp handling in CiteTemplateDates Fix for MoveOrphanTags: Does not move tags when only non-infobox templates are above the last tag Tools.NestedTemplateRegex to allow for AWB HideText comments at end of template name Short same-named ref merging to ignore short refs to pages in FixCitationTemplates when changing |year= to |date= check for International and American dates in addition to ISO dates Localizations of {{orphan}} and {{wikify}} for ru-wiki. Don't tag with {{dead end}} on sv-wiki. Localised uncat, wikify, orphan templates for sv-wiki. When inserting alphabetised headings in database scanner results, group by article title with diacritics converted to Latin equivalent Avoid mdash conversion on "xn--". new conversions fix for errors like {{citation needed|May 2010|date=May 2010}}. update BadCiteParameters to report citation templates with extra | or missing =. RemoveImage to handle image descriptions over multiple lines Missing {{reflist}} logic to first try to correct <references> missing trailing slash Adds wikilink to 'floruit' in parenthetical birth/death info AWBUpdater 2.0.0.8: Fixed a bug that caused AWBUpdater not to update Minor tweaks NoLimits 1.3.1.0: Added UserContribsUserDefinedNumberForAdminAndBotsPlugin
5.0.2.0 REL_5_0_2/rev 6377	07 April 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.0.2.0: Breaking Api Change - Update API login for CSRF as per mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/64677 Set DEFAULSTORT for McSurname correctly. Genfixes to catch and correct "ref name-" format error Correctly sorts FA link on ar/it/es/ca wikis Improved Tools.RemoveTemplateParameter and Tools.GetTemplateParameterValue to handle advanced cases New Tools function NestedTemplateRegex to build regex to match an input template New Tools functions GetMetaContentValue, GetTemplateName, UpdateTemplateParameterValue New tools function TitleCaseEN – Returns the trimmed input string in Title Case Do not subst templates on Template documentation pages. Localizations of {{orphan}} and {{wikify}} for sv-wiki. The "don't add named references if there are currently no named references" restriction is now for en-wiki only. Add error highlighting for dead links, ambiguous cite template dates. HTML listmaker scraper fixed to handle apostrophes in article titles. Renamed {{article issues}} to {{multiple issues}} following rename of the template. Bugfix ReorderReferences: grouped references cannot be reordered with non-grouped ones. Reordering of grouped references prevented. In HTMLListToWiki add bullet to start of each line, but not lines with just whitespace. FixCitationTemplates genfix to remove ordinals from date/accessdate fields in citations. RedirectTagger to handle {{R from other capitalisation}} Updated disambig templates list to improve orphan tagging Improved {{bots}} handling over denial lists AWBUpdater 2.0.0.5: Fixed a bug that caused AWBUpdater not to update Changed form title to include AWBUpdater version
5.0.1.0 REL_5_0_1/rev 6296	10 March 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.0.1.0: Improved autotagger Tags/untags orphan pages more accurately Added {{Ibid}} to auto-tagger. Auto-tagger updated to work with linkless isolated articles (ru-wiki only) {{unreferenced}} and its redirects will change to {{BLP unsourced}} for articles about Living people (en-wiki only) Option to restrict orphan tag additions to linkless pages Performance improvement to edit summary generation Removed strange watch in external browser behaviour from dab window Fixed a bug in dab replacements (en-wiki only) Initial version of parser function RedirectTagger, to become a new genfix for redirects (en-wiki only) Fixed bug over database scan for bold title function. More syntax fixes for external links (spacing before and after external links, additional double dots, double slash missing) Adds missing comments section header per WP:TPL Option to enable/disable logging MetaDataSorter now moves various Interwiki link templates such as {{Sisterlinks}} to the 'External links' section. (en-only) Minor improvements Minor tweaks for FixCitationTemplates Won't alert "No category found" for Talk pages Minor improvements to TalkHeader handling Switch Default and IE buttons around when opening user talk message Regex tester allows maximum amount of text to be entered to search on (rather than RichTextBox default) Enabled interwiki conversion for all projects "Add all to list" button for successfully saved logs Check/Uncheck all to Skip Options window Discontinued making fixes for lifetime due to low number of tranclusions New/Updated List Providers: UserContribsListProvider implement ISpecialPageProvider Split protocol and url in LinkSearchSpecialPageProvider Advanced Regex Html Scraper added AWBUpdater 2.0.0.4: Update the updater if there is an update, or the file exists in the AWB dir Removed confusing Yes/No buttons Tweaks in User Agent Standardisation and providing servers more info Minor tweaks NoLimitsPlugin 1.3.0.0: Added NoLimits UserContribs Minor tweaks TypoScan Plugin 2.0.1.0: Minor tweaks Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.2.4.0: Buttons and stats already in Start tab removed Removed bot button already in bots tab Assessment: Fixed conversion to talk space for non-en projects Delinker Plugin: Removed subdomains checkbox (It wasn't working anyway) Minor tweaks
5.0.0.0 REL_5_0_0/rev 5996	11 January 2010	AWB/WikiFunctions 5.0.0.0: re-parse to include refresh of syntax highlighting when this option is set On en-wiki redirects of {{citation needed}} are replaced Unbalanced brackets will now find tags too (< and >) Full Migration of AWB to use the MediaWiki Api for Editing Uses ToolServer stats New Plugin Interface - IAWBBasePlugin, to be used where Article processing isn't needed, but access to the Main Form is WPEditor Removed Normal code improvements and optimisations Article processing performance increased Improved Paste More feature for greater ease of use (now has keyboard shortcuts) Tweaks to help with Mono Compatibility Better error handling and error messages WebBrowser killed with Fire (no customised methods on it, etc.) Properly handle all namespaces (including custom) in Database Scanner and in the List Filter Fixed diff engine not seeing changes like ß --> ss DEFAULTSORT changes will be disabled by default, since various WP policies over DEFAULTSORTs are in contradiction don't apply a typo fix if there is a wikilink target using that spelling add an ETC. in minutes to the database scanner new option to highlight in yellow all matches for find criteria (when specified) in edit box highlight any dead links ListComparer speed increased greatly right click menus enhanced in ListComparer Add current list to ListComparer, List Splitter and Database scanner is now optional option to automatically empty list when project changes Improved saving lists code Search items in FindandReplace divided in major and minor Added count of new pages created to page statistics Added count of ISO / International / American dates in text to page statistics Submit Usage stats on demand Improved summary generation Minor improvements Remove spaces between punctuation and <ref> references Remove leading and trailing spaces in <ref> references improve handling if {{harvnb}} when generating reference names specific error handling for loading of empty preferences files catch inches, feet and variations for non breaking spaces insertion only correct double spaces within images (rather than newlines) fix deficiency in reference merging logic causing some references not to be merged look for {{WPBiography}} to help determine if article is about a person (en wiki only) exclude {{cite podcast}} from CiteTemplateDates() fixes due to nonstandard use of 'accessdate' parameter ensure CiteTemplateDates() fixes all dates in citations with multiple dates replace Line Separator, U+2028 with a space performance fix to database scanner use of FixPeopleCategories() support usernames with brackets etc. logic to sometimes fix checkwiki error 32: double pipe in a wikilink don't move commented out {{DEFAULTSORT}} don't move commented out categories age limit for Category:Living people is current year -121 don't allow user to undo changes via diff double click when saving page (it will have no effect) more typos of 'accessdate', 'publisher', 'date' fields in citation templates caught new general fix to fix American dates without correct spacing new article property HasAmbiguousCiteTemplateDates and new warning message if true only change xx/xx/xxxx format dates when there are no ambiguous ones don't remove 'pp' from cite templates when 'nopp' is used do not apply non-breaking spaces fixes when MOS fixes disabled new general fix for extra comma in American format dates session timer in About window removed more tooltips improved autotagger won't tag disamb pages as orphan New List Provider: Added LinksOnPage (only red links) Renames LinksOnPage (no redlinks) to LinksOnPage (only blue links) TypoScan Plugin 2.0.0.0: Made Multi-Project Bing Search Plugin 1.0.0.0: Added! Yahoo Search Plugin 1.0.1.0: Code refactorings Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.2.3.0: Changes as per AWB changes (and migration to Api for specific editing) Newpages counter removed Talk header / skip to talk stuff moved to genfixes AWBUpdater 2.0.0.3: Now closes AWB only if there is something to update Minor tweaks
4.6.0.0 REL_4_6/rev 4663	29 June 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.6.0.0: handle error causing AWB to timeout following successful save option to not use section edit summaries BASEPAGENAME substituted appropriately inserted {{DEFAULTSORT}} sort keys use Proper Case, per WP:CAT when removing sortkeys from categories that match the DEFAULTSORT key, also remove the cat's key if the DEFAULTSORT key starts with it clean diacritics from any {{lifetime}} template in the same way as {{DEFAULTSORT}} display alert "unformatted references found" if references section of article contains bare URLs. automatically add 'XXXX births/deaths', 'living people' category etc. to articles about a person where the date is available in the article (either following name in bold at top, or within {{birth date}} template or similar. delink bolded self links option "Do not apply WP:MOS fixes" when replacing categories provide option to remove sortkey option to skip pages if no alerts Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates correct addition of {{update}} into {{article issues}} keep any persondata comment with the {{persondata}} if present (en-wiki only) allow comments on new line between categories, and keep them in the same place self links in fields 'this single' and 'this album' in 'infobox single' and 'infobox album' respectively are converted to bold rather than delinked Don't remove selflinks on pages containing one or more of "noinclude", "onlyinclude" or "includeonly" tags. If an article has multiple DEFAULTSORTs and they are all the same, remove all but one. remove unneeded 'format=HTML' from citations. general fixes for common misspellings of the 'accessdate' parameter of citation templates. general fix for unbalanced brackets of the type {some template}} Text Box switched for Rich Text Box New List Providers: WhatLinksHereExcludingPageRedirectsListProvider WhatLinksHereAndPageRedirectsExcludingTheRedirectsListProvider HTMLPageScraperListProvider CheckWikiListProvider What Links Here web control like history CategoryNoLimits plugin replaced with NoLimits plugin (Added What transcludes page) Improved performance in ListComparer Default settings are now saved to user data directory. Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.1.3.0: Bug fixes Dry Run removed (Api Pre-Parse does the same job, quicker)
4.5.3.2 REL_4_5_3_2/rev 4313	10 May 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.5.3.2: fixed date word and parameter removal from {{article issues}} on en wiki, remove {{expand}} from articles with a stub tab (you don't need both) Button to alpha sort edit summaries on the summaries window
4.5.3.0 REL_4_5_3/rev 4295	9 May 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.5.3.0: Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates wikify tags from within {{article issues}} removed by tagger as appropriate. Enhance general fixes to treat <p style=...>...</p> HTML as valid General fixes expanded to correctly remove more {{uncat}} templates when categories exist. Correct newline count after {{lifetime}} Correct multiple spaces after bullet/list item to be one space Categories don't count as links when considering whether to remove {{dead end}} Expanded list of diacritics known to AWB New minor general fix to tidy up duplicate named references New minor general fix to correct date format errors in citation templates General fixes convert upper/mixed case field names in {{cite web}} citation templates that require lowercase field names to lower case on en-wiki General fixes expanded to correct some typos in field names in citation templates Improved logic in general fixes to correct brackets around external links (CHECKWIKI #10, #43, #46, #47) convert {{article issues}} with one issue to the underlying template remove duplicate fields in cite / {{article issues}} templates, or second fields with no value given. move the supported cleanup template(s) in the zeroth section of the article into an existing {{article issues}} template. add an {{article issues}} template if three or more supported cleanup templates are found in the zeroth section of the article. add dates to undated fields in {{article issues}} templates. remove the invalid 'date' field from {{article issues}}. convert any title case parameters in {{Article issues}} to lower case IW Sorting orders now cached Add a {{DEFAULTSORT}} if the article title has diacritics and there's not already a DEFAULTSORT. (CHECKWIKI #6) General fixes expanded to remove <font>...</font> tags with no properties General fixes expanded to remove colons at the end of heading names (CHECKWIKI #57) General fixes expanded to reduce all heading levels by one level if no level two headings found (CHECKWIKI #7) For articles with dashes in title, make all exact references to the title in the text use the same dashes rename {{2otheruses}} to {{Two other uses}} and move these dablinks to the top of the article only move dablinks in the zeroth section of the article provide warning if <ref> or {{GR}} with single decimal as argument found after {{Reflist}} or similar provide warning if {{GR}} with single decimal as argument found and no {{Reflist}} or similar if only one level 2 section is changed, use the section edit syntax /*...*/ Move the {{portal}} template to within the 'see also' section, if present. Multiple wikilinks alert shows count of how many duplicate links. Some correction of whitespace around references. Move the external links section below the references section (limited to when the references section is not the last section) [en wiki only] after user has made 10 edits, stop showing the help text at the top of the diff (applies to diff mode only) replace two dashes mid-sentence with an emdash per WP:EMDASH regex tester reports execution time of find or replace query {{nofootnotes}} and {{more footnotes}} moved from the zeroth section to the top of the first of the 'References', 'Notes' or 'Footnotes' sections if found (en only). when adding non-breaking spaces to measurements, mm without a space is not corrected due to the convention for firearms articles to use '9mm' gun etc. General fixes expanded to include correction of extra square brackets around categories Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.1.2.0: Various requested changes
4.5.2.0 REL_4_5_2/rev 4100	20 March 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.5.2.0: Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates Don't apply non-breaking spaces general fix within the URL of an external link Fixed category addition Piped self links, when delinked, now correctly leave the link target as unlinked text Fix do not add all to watchlist regression General fixes expanded to remove leading zeros from American and International dates (not in quotes) General fixes expanded to replace {{Articleissues}} with one issue with the template for the issue <poem> treated the same as <blockquote> when hiding text in quotes New List Providers: LinksOnPageExcludingRedLinksListProvider WikiTitleSearchListProvider Special Pages List Providers RandomRedirectsSpecialPageProvider AllCategoriesSpecialPageProvider AllFilesSpecialPageProvider AllRedirectsSpecialPageProvider ProtectedPagesSpecialPageProvider PagesWithoutLanguageLinksSpecialPageProvider GalleryNewFilesSpecialPageProvider DisambiguationPagesSpecialPageProvider Protected pages list provider updated to allow protection type and level filtering provide a page information warning if an article is tagged with a {{nofootnotes}} or {{morefootnotes}} template but has 5 or more inline references change {{nofootnotes}} to {{morefootnotes}} if page has some inline references new general fix to reorder consecutive references into numerical order general fixes move {{lifetime}} after categories (en wiki only) Page previews now generated using API SiteMatrix now cached Kingbotk AWBPlugin 2.1.1.0: More Milhist Workgroups Dab class
4.5.1.0 REL_4_5_1/rev 3906	31 January 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.5.1.0: Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates New general fix to insert non-breaking spaces when using common SI units New general fix to fix common formatting errors in <ref> reference tags General fixes split into 'minor' and 'significant': options to skip are for 'only general fixes' and 'only minor general fixes' so that significant fixes (errors in external URLs, {{reflist}} missing etc.) can be identified as a valid edit in themselves New ('significant') general fixes to remove ordinals from American/International dates, and to remove 'of' between a month and a year per WP:MOS standards New minor fix to move Disambiguation links to the top of articles (en wiki only) New List Providers: Categories on page (no hidden cats) Categories on page (only hidden cats) More unit tests Tagger code improved
4.5.0.0 REL_4_5/rev 3835	26 January 2009	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.5.0.0: Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates Code cleanup, hopefully prevent a few strange exceptions and some more info in some cases Interface updated to Reflect Image --> File change AWB will now only list the languages available for that project AWB will now stop if no edit summary entered Remove explicitly defined (case insensitive) Category keys when the page has {{DEFAULTSORT}} New List Providers: What Links Here (All Namespaces) What Links Here (All Namespaces) (Including Redirects) Link Search More unit tests to help identify code regressions and semi-automate testing Keyboard shortcuts for 'open page in browser' and 'open page history in browser' and 'refresh status/typos' Improved correction of formatting errors in external links Bot tab is hidden for non-bot users Don't fix a typo if the word is in the article title (prevents some false positives) Option to automatically save the settings file every 10 edits (designed to be used when 'save page list with settings' is enabled) Optional 'Pre-parse' / 'skipability' / 'dry run mode': AWB will automatically run through a list of articles and skip them based on the skip conditions, leaving those remaining in the list for the user to work through later, and periodically saving the settings file (designed to be used when 'save page list with settings' is enabled) Uses API for retrieving article text for increased speed Image descriptions and the target of wikilinks can now be typo fixed Ensure the whole of links using the link trick (e.g. [[link]]age) are hidden when performing typo fixes Background thread option to PostData Hide text between quotation marks when performing typo fixes When performing typo fixing warn user if {{sic}} or {{typo}} or similar is found (editing then continues as normal) Remove diacritics from category sortkeys (within general fixes) even when not changing the {{DEFAULTSORT}} Rewrite general fix for emboldening of first use of article title in text PHP5 extensions can now be used on custom wiki's which require it HasInfobox article property available (for plugins) Tagger - Tags removed as a general fix. Tags added if auto tag enabled Project URL included in Error Handler Reports Database Scanner: Typo scanning fixed More user-friendly namespace scanning TypoScan Plugin 1.0.1.0: Stats now reported to server on background thread ListMaker option to return 500 articles (useful as per Pre-parse addition)
4.4.2.0 REL_4_4_2/rev 3553	13 December 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.4.2.0: Cater for "File"/"Image" Normal minor bugfixes, tweaks and updates Cleanup Projects and References Fixed/prevented a few long outstanding bugs All WMF languages now supported (including those with a hyphen in the name) Added Skip if Redirect Kingbotk AWBPlugin : Fix Regression (All tags being marked as bad) WPNovels More Task forces Automatically add -importance
4.4.1.0 REL_4_4_1/rev 3430	5 October 2008	This is a bugfix release, intended to address different problems which arose after 4.4 was released. AWB/WikiFunctions 4.4.1.0: Interface tweaks & improvements Usual bug fixes Now all network requests that don't go through IE-based controls use gzip compression to improve load times. Database Scanner Faster, multithreaded Database Scanner - will benefit from multicore CPUs Keywords are now usable in text searches List Maker Addition of "Categories on page" and "New pages" list providers Keywords are now usable in append/prepend text New keywords (Supports some of the MW Keywords) - %%pagename%%, %%pagenamee%%, %%basepagename%%, %%basepagenamee%%, %%namespace%%, %%namespacee%%, %%subpagename%%, %%subpagenamee%%, %%fullpagename%%, %%fullpagenamee%%, %%server%%, %%scriptpath%%, %%servername%% Typos now loaded on a new thread (to save tying up the gui on load) New general fixes http://http:// replaced with singular in external links IRCM and any old/related code now removed from solution and WikiFunctions API List Limits increased to 25,000 TypoScan Plugin 1.0.0.1: Minor tweaks/improvements Error/Debug Handling
4.4.0.0 REL_4_4/rev 3326	13 September 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.4.0.0: Lots of bug fixes and tweaks Interface tweaks & improvements Registry keys moved (migration code included) List Maker backend code overhauled and modulised, limit for number of returned pages increased to 5000 for most queries Now "IListMakerPlugin"'s can be created to provide extra search functionality YahooSearchPlugin included as a working example New List Maker "Get List" functions: Get lists from "What Links Here (inc. Redirects)" Get lists from "Category (recursive user defined level)" Get lists from "Category (recursive 1 level)" Get list of 100 random article namespace pages Wiki search changed from HTML scrape to API Kingbotk plugin now included in AWB svn; is now released under GPL V2 SVN Version now shown in Help → About of AutoWikiBrowser New skip options: Skip if only general fix changes Skip if only casing changed (can work in conjunction with skip if only whitespace changed) Page contains no links Added a "Typos" tab, visible when "Enable RegexTypoFix" is checked. It accumulates statistics of typos fixed on the current page and during whole editing session. Save states of list filter namespace checkboxes Comment field added to Find and Replace General fix skip options changed to check boxes (so multiple skips can be selected) Special filter namespace checkboxes now saved Mentions of "page"/"article" in interface changed to common "page" Cascading protection now supported Move to top/Move to bottom now added in normal Find and Replace WMF Error page is now not counted as a successful save (AWB will try to save page again) More meaningful automatic heading for error reports Nested exceptions are now properly reported Forced en-US locale for array sorting to fix interwiki sorting error "General fixes skip options" are now multi-select (check box rather than radio button) Database Scanner GUI Overhaul (thanks to User:Dispenser) New Scanner (if {{defaultsort}} is missing from the article) AWB specifics are now multi-select as per "General fixes skip options" changes in AWB Preferences form overhauled, some options moved to it Copy and Paste Advanced Find & Replace Rules between instances of AWB Added "nah" and "si" to supported languages Tools → Regex tester now uses a background thread for processing, making it possible for user to interrupt. <code></code> are now ignored by Regextypofix IFD 1.0.0.4, CFD 1.0.0.4 & IRCM 1.0.1.6: Updated as per List Maker and GetLists Changes Some broken stuff fixed Kingbotk AWBPlugin 2.1.0.1: More workgroups Code updates Now included in AWB SVN Class=FL, C, List Updated India Plugin Fixed plugin hanging AWBUpdater 2.0.0.0: Major code overhaul to increase robustness (no hard coded file copies) Will copy all files from zip to awb directory, and updater plugins if they are in the folder with AWB and exist in the plugin folder/subfolders TypoScan Plugin: Consists of an AWB and ListMaker Plugin (One dll) Currently only for en.WP Allows user to work from generated list of pages to be scanned for typo fixes, and result (save or ignored) is stored to a central database Stats available
4.3.2.0 REL_4_3_2/rev 2462	19 May 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.2.0: Normal bug fixes and tweaks Speed improvements Edit summaries now truncated if too long to have "using AWB" appended Faster and a little more consistent with MediaWiki diffs Improved stub template removal rules Google search fixed per google changes RegexTypoFix fixed per MW changes Context menu to Custom Module
4.3.1.0 rev 2343	6 April 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.1.0: Normal bug fixes and tweaks Code improvements Speed improvements RETF Improved RegexTester accessible and usable from FaR and Advanced FaR removePersonData customised for DE Wiki search fixed ==Life and Career== replaced with ==Life and career== IW Sorting fixed Autofilter List Duplicates Better Skip by Spam Filter Improve MW handling with older/custom projects Category getter fixed CFD (1.0.0.3)/IFD (1.0.0.2) Plugins: Save/Load Settings Kingbotk AWB Plugin 2.0.0.3 Changes per AWB and WF
Updater	13 March 2008	AWBUpdater 1.4.0.1 Path bug fixed
4.3.0.2 rev 2244	07 March 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.0.2: Usual bug fixes and inteface tweaks Fixed bug with recategorisation Updated code that retrieves category content, previous versions may stop doing that correctly at any moment due to changes in MediaWiki Now you can open regex tester with one click from search and replace dialog Interwiki sorter will always try to sort properly even it doesn't know a prticular language code. AWBUpdater 1.4.0.0: File Copying Improved
4.3.0.0 rev 2198	03 March 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.3.0.0: Normal bug fixes Code improvements Interface tweaks Redundant code removed Usage statistics are now logged AWB can now automatically skip a page if the only change was the addition/removal of whitespace "Flip" option in Disambiguation form to swap wikilink piping i.e. - [[Test|Link]] to [[Link|Test]] Leading and trailing spaces in wikilinks are now removed CFD (1.0.0.2)/IFD (1.0.0.1): Code tweaks/improvements per AWB and Wikifunctions Other: Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.2
4.2.1.0 rev 2089	11 February 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.1.0: Usual bug fixes and tweaks (Not all fixed. Release to clear up some of existing bugs - non compulsory) Custom Module Text Limit removed Insert category option to AWB Edit box Other: Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.1
4.2.0.1 rev 2049	26 January 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.0.1: Fix bug with loading/saving settings
4.2.0.0 rev 2045	25 January 2008	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.2.0.0: Designer tweaks Completely new diff engine, supports highlighting whitespace changes Much faster startup Usual (minor) bug fixes and tweaks Automatic removal of ru-sib: interwikis as a part of general fixes. Decoding anchors in wikilinks (like Russian Premier League#Champions_.28Players.29 ? Russian Premier League#Champions (Players). Search in Find & Replace rules Regex tester now displays matches, groups and captures it found Faster template substitution using api.php Simplify reference tags - Replace <ref name="blah"></ref> with <ref name="blah" /> Change order of Find & Replace Rules Improved ErrorHandler AWB now follows Internet Explorer Proxy Settings Flickering Disambiguation text box fixed Custom Module handling improved URL's removed from pasting into listmaker (if link is of local wiki) More settings saved Plugin Manager to easily view all plugins currently loaded into AWB Load plugins on the fly. Plugins can now be loaded into AWB whilst running More intelligent <br/> removal <p> now removed in html cleanup/general fixes Most lists are now made from api.php (quicker!!) Other cosmetic improvements Support for sr and dsb GUI for sending page text to external scripts/programs AWBUpdater 1.3.5.2: Delete Wikidiff2.dll & old license files Updated SharpZipLibs Changed AWBUpdater to use simpler FastZip AWB Updater follows Internet Explorer Proxy Settings Other: Program to run DBScanner standalone included in SVN AWB Packager program included in SVN Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v2.0.0.0
Updater rev 1919	21 December 2007	AWBUpdater 1.3.5.1: Intermediate release to prevent bugs/bad updates in next AWB release Handle change in license files Tweaks and Speedup
Updater rev 1887	8 December 2007	AWBUpdater 1.3.5.0: Intermediate release to prevent bugs/bad updates in next AWB release Handle the new Diff.dll AND Wikidiff2.dll if it exists Tweaks and Speedup
4.1.4.2 rev 1829	8 November 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.4.2: Normal bug fixes and tweaks Edit Toolbar setting saving fixed - Fixed truncated edit box too Intermediate release to fix major errors IRCM 1.0.1.3: Addition of extra profile related code to try and fix an exception AWBUpdater 1.3.4.2: Minor tweak to handle WebException differently
4.1.4.0 rev 1818	3 November 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions: Bug fixes Code simplification/improvements Support for localized redirects Auto tag adds orphan tag when appropriate References changed to {{reflist}} from the old formats AWBUpdater 1.3.4.1: Code simplification/improvements Other: IFD 1.0.0.0 (Image for Deletion) Duplication of the CFD plugin to handle multiple image replacement/deletions Includes option to comment out images, rather than actually deleting them
4.1.3.0 rev 1755	12 October 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.3.0: Bug fixes Minor tweaks AWB now accepts 2 startup parameters - /s and /u 2 More settings now saved Regex's improved AWBUpdater 1.3.4.0: Fixed minor incorrect logic, which would mean it would take the wrong path through the code, displaying some incorrect messages! Added check if zip files exist when trying to unzip
4.1.2.0 rev 1722	23 September 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.2.0: Code refactoring and standardisation Added spinner that allow to change the number of newlines between the prepended/appended text and the rest of the page Made progress bar in the database scanner show actual progress Bug fixes Minor tweaks Another fix for "Bottom Frame doesn't show" Bug. Supplied by user experiencing the problem (rev 1694) AWBUpdater 1.3.3.0: Increased code robustness Prevent file download attempt if string is null or empty
4.1.1.0 rev 1685	15 September 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.1.0: Handled DBScanner exception on loading files Added "Skip if "inuse"" - Ie Skip if page contains {{inuse}} Fixed Category (recursive) Bug Fixes Save Edit Box Exception Fixed Web Browser Edit Context menu Fixed Refresh status/typo's re-attached to code block Fix Links will now fix "[[|" by replacing with "[[" Auto tag uses "date" parameter instead of the default one when adding maintenance tags Added invert selection to list maker IRCM 1.0.1.2: Fixed incorrect channel for Commons and Meta AWBUpdater 1.3.2.0: Make AWBUpdater handle and copy/updater Wikidiff2.dll
4.1.0.0 rev 1663	9 September 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.1.0.0: AWB is now Query.php free "Attempted to read or write protected memory." bug where page becomes blank fixed. Set to match code of if the page is blank before. AWB now loads IW Sorting Orders from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/IW IW updates Re-enabled WhatLinksHere and ImageLinks features that allow loading from non-existent pages Numerous optimisations, now general fixes are significantly faster RegExTypoFix Overhauled GUI Tweaks Auto Shutdown on completion of Bot Jobs Shutdown, Restart, Standby and Hibernate Bug Fixes Remove categories works better with <includeonly></includeonly> tags Ugly background on about-box removed FixTemperatures no longer captures words after the degree's Logging Bugs Fixed bug where user would be spammed by Password request boxes if they didn't respond to them Fixed bug where user entered password would not be remembered List maker can now separate pages in CSV format. Can also save to CSV Auto Tag AWB will now add {{Deadend}} if appropriate {{Trivia}} and {{Deadend}} and their redirects will automatically be tagged with date= CFD Plugin bumped to 1.0.0.1 Minor tweaks, such as removing noinclude tags with nothing between them. Replaces "_" with " " if entered for category names New edit toolbar above edit box Custom Error Handler to make reporting bugs easier Also gives page title and revision id as part of bug report AWB can now automatically skip if blocked by spam filter Automatic support for Right-To-Left interface when appropriate. If style.css exists in the AWB directory, it will load the diff style sheet from that General fixes can now be preformed on template /doc subpages Fixed broken VB .NET Module Maker in AWB IRCM 1.0.1.1: Fixed log-in Exceptions Change of Variable.Project when changing Language and project combo boxes AWBUpdater 1.3.1.0: Fixed update Errors Improved some of the code Added error handler Other: Kingbotk plugin upgraded to v1.4.0.3
4.0.0.0 rev 1496	27 July 2007	AWB/WikiFunctions 4.0.0.0: Implementation of Wikidiff2 - All diffs are now made internally, thus reducing load times, server load and saving bandwidth. Major internal changes to the process page routines, to improve encapsulation and code readability, and to remove redundant/sloppy coding. Full Merge of User:Kingbotk's WikiFunctions 2 into WikiFunctions (logging is now built into AWB). Changes to match MediaWiki Changes. Make list from user contributions now works correctly Make list from user watchlist now also works correctly Editor class now returns a valid token to the Mediawiki site Implementation of a ListSplitter. "Open in browser" was broken for pages with some special characters in the title. Fixed; and added various new members to WikiFunctions for creating wiki URLs and opening pages. New "Make List" option - Transclusions on Page - Gets a list of all templates and pages transcluded onto History of an page can now be viewed internally. All admins are automatically approved to use the software Underscores are not removed from links to pages that have {{Underscore}} & {{Lowercase and underscore}} The user manual can now be viewed internally Greatly improved logging capabilities A new splash screen while the program loads 3 new general fixes Change Main page: xxx to use {{main|xxx}} Remove empty [[]] and {{}}, and for the wikilinks, caters for categories and images too Correct numerous incorrect degrees symbols Support for Wikia projects Support for te.wiki & bg.wiki & Updated Namespace for da.wiki Fully integrated help browser AWB can now use a blacklist AWB now features a 'Profile' System, to allow easy switching between multiple accounts AWB and WikiFunction Code is now much more commented & documented, helping to describe what functions do IRCM 1.0.0.0: Code updates and changes Able to connect to more IRC channels Other: Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.4.0.0; the plugin has major internal structural changes too.
3.9.1.0 rev 1024	16 April 2007	Fix bug with program on 19" screens and high resolutions. Other minor bugs fixed. Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.2.1.0.
3.9.0.0 rev 1021	14 April 2007	The nearly-version4 release. Many bugs fixes (list mostly cleared), and some features implemented: Ref breaking bugs fixed. Changes to match change in HTML. Bug fixed where AWB would be kept alive if closed very early. Removal of '''foo''' from headings. Option to automatically save text in edit box added. Context menu item to save also added. Setting saving bug fixed. Internal tweaks and improvements to DEFAULTSORT/HumanCatKey code. User substitution warning (and Expandtemplate) bug fixed (see below). FAR Improvements. Implementation of 'key words' into FAR. Work towards improving nested templates. New logging tab, displays reason for skipping page edit. Edit box able to resize to take up whole of lower part of screen. Kingbotk plugin upgraded to version 1.2.0.0. AWBUpdater 1.2.0.0: Unhandled Exception Handled, minor code tweaks
3.3.1.0 rev 860	31 March 2007	Emergency release to fix talk page user substitution warning major bug
3.3.0.0 rev 856	30 March 2007	Bug Fixes + New Features. Change of copy and paste of pages to allow multiple page cut, copy and paste. Special:ExpandTemplates support added for template substitution. Notification of Empty/Non existent categories changed to one single messagebox after all categories loaded. User changeable browser timeout (min/default 30seconds, max 120 seconds). Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.1. Added WPAssessmentsCatCreator plugin. Changed list filtering and sorting system to make it stick across subsequent list updates. New bot tab, nudge timer, and plugin interface support for nudge timer. AWBUpdater 1.1.0.0: Code Simplification (some duplication removed) and improvements, added support for WPAssessmentsCatCreator.dll. Changed from single mirror, to central download page. Saves having to wait to propagate to that mirror. Fixed AWBUpdater self version checking so it only updates if 'online' version is newer. Added checking for version of AutoWikiBrowser.exe, so that it will only be updated if needed. Minor interface change to display all status text. Added try catch around all code.
3.2.0.0 rev 786	24 March 2007	Bug Fixes, new features implemented. Support for {{bots}}/{{nobots}}. Auto Update Feature Implemented, with ability to update itself. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.1.0. WikiFunctions2 updated to v1.0.1.0. ListComparer redesigned. Other interface changes.
3.1.4.0 rev 729	17 March 2007	Bug Fixes, new features implemented. Implemented option for user to choose whether page list is saved. Changed File menu orderings, sorted save options to remember files loaded, and allow a 'save' and a 'save as'. Change of GUI on ListMaker. Code consolidation and simplification. Fixed logout Function. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc5.
3.1.3.3 rev 700	10 March 2007	Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc4. Implementation of colour coding on Advanced Find And Replace. Bug Fixes, corrected list of invalid characters for page titles. Temp removal of faulty regex's from Parsers.FixFooter. IRCM Page Blanking Bug fix.
3.1.3.2 rev 688	8 March 2007	Many Bug Fixes and similar requests. DEFAULTSORT added to textbox context menu. Implementation of is.wiki. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc3.
3.1.3.1 rev 676	4 March 2007	IAWBMainForm interface added. Kingbotk plugin updated to v1.0.0 rc2. Bug Fixes, DAB links now simplified, cancel handling fixed, link simplifier improved. Form show/hide code simplified.
3.1.3.0 rev 664	3 March 2007	Interwiki language codes will be changed to lowercase. New version checkpage format, and versions are enabled or disabled centrally on en.wiki at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version. Notification for users using an out of date version. Many bug fixes. Some interface changes. Plugin settings handling improved and new PrefsKeyPair object added. Kingbotk plugin now shipping with AWB for ease of updates. New notification icon in taskbar, with option to hide AWB when minimized. page list is filtered for duplicates when new settings are loaded.
3.1.2.0 rev 631	24 February 2007	New option to add pages to list from redirects. Changed handling of edit conflict to notify user. Regex FAR Form allows replacing with an empty string. Many bug fixes.
3.1.1.1 rev 616	18 February 2007	Implementation of ar.wiki. Added context menu to web control to allow copying from it. Fixed VB .NET Module maker. Many bug fixes, several of them major. If no categories are found on a page, AWB will load the HTML of the page, and look for categories.
3.1.1.0 rev 595	15 February 2007	Tons of minor bug fixes and improvements. Google search fixed. Completely redone custom project handling. Footnote formatter added to general fixes.
3.1.0.0 rev 576	13 January 2007	Once more, many bug fixes and minor improvements. Introduced CFD Plugin for easy elimination of backlog at WP:CFD/W and WP:CFD/WU. New major feature - disambiguation.
3.0.6.1 rev 552	15 December 2006	Lots of fixes, improved getting lists from special pages, support for localized stub names on pl: and sl:. RegexTypoFix now shouldn't fix typos in interwikis, cites and nowiki tags. Added new features of substituting templates and testing regexes before using them. Now AWB can load and save plaintext lists. Due to blocking problems, IRCMonitor is not included into this release.
3.0.6.0 rev 528	30 November 2006	GUI tweaks per talk, and some bug fixes, lots of tweaking and updating. Added options to move/delete pages.
3.0.5.2 rev 501	09 November 2006	More small bugfixes and tweaks.
3.0.5.1 rev 475	06 November 2006	Bug fixes and tweaks to previous release, option to find an intersection of two lists, basic anti-vandal features in IRCMonitor.
3.0.5.0 rev 456	01 November 2006	Usual tweaks and minor fixes (especially for foreign language projects). All projects now work with all supported languages. Added experimental support for non-Wikimedia wikis (use it at your own risk!) Namespaces for projects that are not Wikipedia are downloaded on demand. New option to make lists from a wiki-search. New "Advanced" menu option to enable a "module", whereby a user can enter their own c# or VB.NET code to process page text which is then compiled, loaded and executed on-the-fly. New settings file format (can read old files as well).
3.0.4.1	04 October 2006	Lots of general tweaks and improvements, including allowing checkpage to work on all projects, using the page PROJECTNAMESPACE:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage and must be the same format as this one (if the page doesn't exist then all users are enabled). Fixed a couple of rare bugs.
3.0.4.0	23 September 2006	Lots of general tweaks and improvements to all areas. A few small bug fixes. Added some statistics to the status bar and save as default option to the file menu.
3.0.3.0	09 September 2006	Some small fixes and tweaks. Added "more" skip options. Added support for more projects and languages.
3.0.2.9	03 September 2006	A few fixes per talk page. Separate typo page for each language. Auto tag now sorts out the by-date categorising of some tags as well, such as {{Wikify}}.
3.0.2.6	29 August 2006	Fixes per talk page, moved ignore non-existing pages option to "Skip pages" section.
3.0.2.5	28 August 2006	Fixed some unusual issues. Improved the plugin feature.
3.0.2.3	25 August 2006	Fixed and tweaked a few small things. Added plugin support (instructions below). Added support for wikinews.
3.0.2.2	20 August 2006	A few bug fixes and general tweaks. Added option to remove/comment out images (be careful with this until it has been tested thoroughly!).
3.0.2.1a	11 August 2006	Fixed a few issues. Added shortcut keys for show changes and preview. Added start button to toolbar. More major internal changes. Added support for da: wiki projects. Added preferences dialog to menu, with some more options, including enhanced diff, which makes the diff page easier to check.
3.0.2.0	08 August 2006	Typos are now downloaded from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos when the typo fixing option is enabled, so they are always fully up-to-date. A couple of minor tweaks and fixes.
3.0.1.9	06 August 2006	Can select multiple list items to add to "Add selected to list". Can now enter multiple entries when making a list from any source by separating the items with the pipe | character e.g. from a category, entering "Cats|Dogs|Fish" will get all the entries in Category:Cats Category:Dogs and Category:Fish. Fixed couple of bugs.
3.0.1.8	05 August 2006	Moved typos into separate file, fixed a few bugs highlighted on talk page.
3.0.1.7	01 August 2006	Upgraded find+replace dialog, more customisable now. Integrated RegExTypoFix, option to enable it "More options" tab - use this very carefully. Fixed a couple of bugs. Added login button to "File" menu. Now works on more projects in other languages.
3.0.1.5	26 July 2006	Improved database scanner, added wordcount option. "Tagger" removes stub tags from long pages. Fixed a couple of small bugs. A few variables can now be changed in the .config file (more can/will be added).
3.0.1.4	24 July 2006	Fixed a few issues. Overhauled and renamed Database Scanner. Find-and-replace summary now says number of each change made as well. Add false positive button to toolbar.
3.0.1.3	19 July 2006	Fixed a couple of small issues, added context menu to list filter dialog, added "Insert human name disambig" option to "insert tag" contect menu, all keywords work on all options now. Works on more Wikimedia projects. Find-and-replacements can be detailed in the edit summary, find-and-replace can now skip interwiki links as well. Added more options to special filter. Many other minor tweaks.
3.0.1.2	15 July 2006	Added option so find-and-replace can skip external links, image links, <nowiki>'ed text, <math>'ed text and html comments. Multiple improvements to usage on other wikis. Find-and-replace boxes stay on top now. Fixed bug with making long lists from "what transcludes here".
3.0.1.0	13 July 2006	Added "Filter" button, with lots of new filtering options. Added keyword "%%key%%" to "Add new category" option, now if you enter "Living people|%%key%%" it will automatically replace %%key%% with the reversed human name (e.g. "Bush, George W."). Some other tweaks and improvements, including working on more other language projects. Can now make list from Watchlist (using the account you are logged into internet explorer with), "What links here" separated from "what transcludes here".
3.0.0.9	11 July 2006	Added couple more options to list menu (per talk page), and a few other minor tweaks and improvements.
3.0.0.8	08 July 2006	Fixed a couple of small issues from last release.
3.0.0.7	06 July 2006	Added context menu option to add selected sub-category contents to the list. If present, automatically loads "Default.xml" setting on startup. Other small changes, including moving a couple of items on the interface, improvements to the advanced find and replace dialog, and big internal improvements.
3.0.0.6	28 June 2006	Added option to skip page when no find-and-replacement is done, now skips pages that were not re-categorised. Now beeps as well as flashing the taskbar. Added advanced find and replace option. Added IRC recent changes monitor program, accessible from File menu - still under development. And fixed couple of small bugs.
3.0.0.5	17 June 2006	Fixed bug with google search, added another language, integrated dump searcher.
3.0.0.4	14 June 2006	Lots of general improvements (listing is now faster and better), added function for replacing images, made much stuff work better in other language wikis.
3.0.0.3	05 June 2006	Improved log in process on other language wikis.
3.0.0.2	04 June 2006	Can make a list from image file links, other general tweaks, can now transform the list into talk pages, e.g. "Cat" => "Talk:Cat", added exit message. Added basic support for sl wiki.
3.0.0.1	28 May 2006	Some minor tweaks, does not apply fixes to text in <math> tags. The "remove excess whitespace" function is now in the textbox context menu. New way of generating lists from special pages, e.g. enter "Lonelypages" to get a list from Special:Lonelypages, you can also enter "Lonelypages&limit=500&offset=500" to get more or from an offset. Added option to menu to enable the toolbar, and the main panel can be minimised to view diffs more easily.
3.0.0.0	22 May 2006	Many minor improvements, does not apply fixes to nowiki'd text, re-categorising should work in other languages. Functions separated into separate dll file that can be re-used.
2.9.0.0	15 May 2006	Many minor tweaks, flashes in taskbar when ready to save, automatically replaces a few common deprecated templates.
2.8.0.0	09 May 2006	Now sorts interwikis in exactly same order as pywiki bots, removed alpha sorting of cats - it annoys some people. Improved making lists, particularly making list from category. When the diff loads, it now automatically scrolls down a bit to see more of it. Note: SourceForge is having problems again, so the source code is not up-to-date.
2.7.0.0	06 May 2006	Added menu option to record "ignored" pages in log file, to help avoid false positives in future. Some other general tweaks.
2.6.0.1	28 April 2006	Fixed case sensitivity bug in last release.
2.6.0.0	27 April 2006	Fixed small "find" bug, tweaked link simplifier, added support for multi and single line to regexes. Added keyboard shortcuts, added basic Russian support.
2.5.0.1	20 April 2006	Fixed another issue regarding previous change which stopped manual editing of large pages.
2.5.0.0	20 April 2006	Fixed a couple of problems from last release, including "go to line", added basic support for ca wiki.
2.4.0.0	17 April 2006	Upgraded textbox to richtextbox, can now "redo" and drag text about. Option to "skip pages with no changes" now skips some changes where only change was adding/removing whitespace.
2.3.0.0	09 April 2006	Added option to not skip blank pages. Other minor usability tweaks.
2.2.0.1	07 April 2006	Added back "using AWB" to summary by popular demand, and fixed minor bug.
2.1.9.0	04 April 2006	Many general tweaks to the parsing engine, added "paste more" option to context menu.
2.1.8.0	29 March 2006	added go to line function
2.1.7.0	28 March 2006	Improved unicodifyer, added "go to line" to context menu, some other minor improvements.
2.1.6.0	27 March 2006	Fixed bug with adding watchlist items.
2.1.5.0	26 March 2006	Many general improvements and changes.
2.1.4.0	19 March 2006	Minor improvements.
2.1.2.0	16 March 2006	Fixed re-categorisation problem, some general improvements.
2.1.1.0	14 March 2006	General tweaking, removes excess space around pipes, added checkbox to automatically unicodify entire page, makes exception for &ndash; &mdash; and &nbsp;
2.1.0.0	12 March 2006	General fixes and tweaks
2.0.8.0	08 March 2006	Fixed some small issues, added %%title%% keyword to find and replace to represent the page title.
2.0.7.0	07 March 2006	Fixed issue with listing from categories, some other small improvements.
2.0.3.0	06 March 2006	More features, faster, more reliable.
2.0.2.0	04 March 2006	Buttons now enabled/disabled as appropriate. Fixed some issues on other wikis. General tweaks and improvements.
2.0.1.0	02 March 2006	Fixed "find" button, added (some) support for other language wikis. And some other small tweaks.
2.0.0.0	27 February 2006	Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements.
1.98	20 February 2006	Some bugs fixed.
1.97	17 February 2006	Some small bug fixes, handles downed server a bit better.
1.96	16 February 2006	Can filter "inclusion" when making list, now has stop button.
1.95	15 February 2006	Many improvements to interface, logging in and other. Now has case sensitive option for skipping pages.
1.94	14 February 2006	Hopefully fixed logging in issue, also improved automatic mode, but most can't use this at the moment.
1.93	14 February 2006	Many minor improvements and tweaks, now checks user registered when "makelist" clicked, can load and save settings from/to specified path, if you appear unregistered it will offer to send an error report, this emails me some settings and variables, otherwise it is extremely difficult to work out what the problem is. Plus issue with usernames with some punctuation fixed.
1.92	14 February 2006	Minor regex improvements.
1.91	13 February 2006	Numerous general improvements, notably to the interface.
1.9	12 February 2006	More minor tweaks and fixes, plus addresses some issues involving clicking inside the browser.
1.89	12 February 2006	Tweaked bad-link fixing code
1.881	11 February 2006	Fixed bug involving bolding page title.
1.88	11 February 2006	Mathwiz2020 fixed the annoying issue with losing user focus, it now works seemlessy in the background. Plus some minor improvements (performance + stability).
1.87	10 February 2006	Fixed IE bug with fancy fonts in URLs (thanks to Ligulem's research). Now converts interwiki links to unicode and option in edit textbox context menu to convert any selected text to unicode. Some other minor improvements.
1.86	09 February 2006	Two minor bugs fixed, plus handles failure of Wikimedia servers better.
1.85	08 February 2006	Option in menu to skip pages that it hasn't made any changes to, fixed minor bug.
1.84	07 February 2006	Saves settings.xml file now as well.
1.83	06 February 2006	Fixed bug with moving category in deletion templates.
1.82	06 February 2006	Case insensitive find and replace. Can now load settings, not save yet though, the values can be changed in the XML file.
1.81	05 February 2006	Now does multiple find and replaces.
1.8	02 February 2006	Bug fix and minor improvements per talk page.
1.7.9	01 February 2006	Option to enable timer in menu. Make list from user contribs (last 5000, although it removes duplicates, so will be less). Core program is more efficient. Automatically does not perform "general fixes" on talk, user, template and Wikipedia namespaces. Plus some other minor improvements.
1.7.8	29 January 2006	Changed how AWB works in the background.
1.7.7	29 January 2006	Fixed bug in removing categories.
1.7.6	28 January 2006	Re-arranged options, hopefully more intuitive now. Can now add/remove categories. Some other minor improvements, and possibly fixed issue some have with logging in.
1.7.5	26 January 2006	Minor tweaks and fixes, including now bulleting all links in "external links" section.
1.7.4	24 January 2006	Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.3	24 January 2006	Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.2	24 January 2006	Fixed enabled-user-checker.
1.7.1	18 January 2006	Minor tweaks.
1.7	17 January 2006	Minor tweaks, plus now has "ignore if doesn’t contain".
1.6.9	15 January 2006	Minor improvements.
1.6.8	13 January 2006	Yet more tweaks and minor improvements, what links here not limited to 5000 anymore.
1.6.7	12 January 2006	Even more tweaks and minor fixes, what links here limited to 5000 due to apparent change in mediawiki software.
1.6.5	11 January 2006	More tweaks and minor fixes, Mathwiz2020 fixed occasional problem with bypassing redirects.
1.6.4	9 January 2006	Multiple improvements to re-categorisation and general fixes. Now alerts user if page has multiple links to the same page.
1.6.3	9 January 2006	Improved regexes, fixed a couple of minor bugs. New messages cause the AWB to check that you are still an enabled user. Mathwiz2020 fixed security issues on enabled user-checking, and added internal and external bad link repair (under general fixes).
1.6.2	7 January 2006	A few small bug fixes.
1.6	2 January 2006	Fixed a couple of minor bugs, disabled date removal until it becomes uncontroversial.
1.5	1 January 2006	Put the Link FA template and Wikipedia:Persondata in correct place. Removes any duplicate categories.
1.4	30 December 2005	Checks you are logged in on every edit and a few other improvements.
1.3	29 December 2005	Can now make a list from a google search, a couple of other tweaks.
1.2	28 December 2005	Fixed a couple bugs, some other improvements.
1.1	27 December 2005	Fixed a few bugs, improved the layout.
1.0	27 December 2005	Sorts interwikis, categories and stubs so they are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page, added context menu item that inserts birth and death categories (it works out the dates from the first dates in the page). Some other tweaks and fixes. New date regex.
0.995	23 December 2005	Added progress bar, tweaked the re-cat feature, added Bobblewik's new regexes, "ignore if contains" looks in title and text now.
0.99	22 December 2005	"What links here" now gets all pages rather than 5000 limit, new regex for removing dates, option to replace some html entities with unicode, worked around bug that IE has with some URLs containing fancy fonts in certain situations.
0.98	19 December 2005	Can get links from a text file now, improved ability to get links on a page. Can mark all edits as minor or add to watchlist via menu option. Improved menu system.
0.95	19 December 2005	Added "Preview instead of diff" option to menu, will make image tagging easy as it loads the preview instead of diff, (need to add more image tags to context menu). Made list a bit wider. Added "Preview" and "Diff" buttons that show or refresh (if already showing) the diff and preview. Added "beta" menu tab, which has option to remove excess links using Bobblewik's regex, be careful using this.
0.9	18 December 2005	Added context menu for page list, which now includes ability to filter out duplicates (which sorts alphetically for sake of efficiency). Bypasses redirects (disable in options menu).
0.85	17 December 2005	Fixed couple of bugs, added context menu to list of pages box, improved filter, can save list to txt file now.
0.8	15 December 2005	Couple of minor bugs fixed, added "filter" to get only main namespace pages, added regex to "ignore if contains". Disabled auto mode, as it can only be used when you have permission from Wikipedia:Bots.
0.72	14 December 2005	"Auto tag" feature will add wikify and stub tags when appropriate, couple of other features, "append message" only works on talk pages now.
0.71	14 December 2005	Bug fix release. Hey, I said it was a development version didn't I!
0.7	13 December 2005	Added ability to get links from a page (still need to be able to get links from a txt file), added Multiextended mode and remove for the list box, fixed a couple of bugs.
0.6	12 December 2005	A few bug fixes, made it so you have to be registered here to eliminate risk of vandalism. Added some features, still can't make a list by getting all the links on a page, that's next.
0.5	10 December 2005	Added a few things, fixed a few things. Bot mode is disabled for security reasons, but if you want it, please ask.
0.4	09 December 2005	Recategorisation enabled, "pages in category" finds sub-categories now, better context menu for the textbox, some other stuff.
0.3	09 December 2005	Added "what links here" support and some other tweaks.
0.2	08 December 2005	Surprisingly stable, many features to come.

Using this software

(1) Register

IRCMonitor shares its user list with AWB. To request approval, add your name to the requests for registration if you would like to use the software. For security reasons, only registered users (see the list on the check page) are able to use IRCMonitor.

Anyone can be registered, but only if an admin approves your registration by placing your name on the check page. As a general rule only users with more than 500 mainspace edits, no history of edit warring and recent blocks will be registered. You will probably not be contacted when your registration has been approved, so check the page periodically for your name. Note that admins need no approval to use this tool as they are already trusted enough by community.

(2) Download

After you are registered, or if you just want to examine the software, you may download AutoWikiBrowser package that contains IRCMonitor from SourceForge. Note: This is a development version!

IRCMonitor requires Microsoft Windows 2000/XP or newer (Unicode doesn't work properly on Windows 98/Me). It also requires Version 2 of the .NET framework (download .NET framework).

If the software doesn't work, it probably means that you're not registered or that you don't have the correct .NET framework installed.

(3) Get started

1. Start IRCMonitor. Go to the options tab, and under "channel", select the channel you want to monitor from the drop-down menu (for the English Wikipedia, #en.wikipedia). Then click the "Connect" button at the top and return to the Edits tab. After a couple of seconds, you should see a live feed of recent changes.
2. Click on edit you'd like to check (because list items are moving downwards pretty fast, you can improve your aiming by clicking "Pause" button on toolbar). IRCMonitor will pop up the context menu for this edit. Select "Load diff" and IRCMonitor will switch to browser view that will load diff.
3. If you see vandalism in this edit, click "Revert" button. It will bring up some options:

   Revert and warn

   after reverting this edit (and probably other edits of this particular user to this page) IRCM will display talk page of user you've reverted so you could see what's going on and issue him a warning for his edits.

   Revert and report

   after reverting this edit IRCM will open appropriate section of Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism page for editing and add the entry for user you've reverted. You can optionally leave a brief comment on this user and click "Save page" to submit your request. Please read instructions on AIV page before reporting there!

   Revert

   simple revert, without further actions.

Having problems?

• It uses the Internet Explorer core, so if you have problems, make sure your IE is working. Make sure you have logged into Wikipedia using IE. If you have altered any settings regarding scripts, first use Tools > Internet Options > 'Advanced' tab > Click on 'Restore Defaults' and then try AWB again.
  • If you have made changes to monobook.css (or whatever your theme is) that require CSS 2 or 3, they may not appear properly in IE and thus in AWB.
• A buggy monobook.js can often cause IE to display blank pages or crash IRCM. This javascript problem can be avoided by disabling Active Scripting in IE INTERNET OPTIONS - SECURITY - CUSTOM LEVEL.

User manual

This section will explain what all the bits and pieces do, please help!

The basic process is this:

Make IRCM log in as a user.

Watch live RC feed of edits, new pages or log entries.

Login

• IRCM uses the Internet Explorer engine, and uses the IE login. If you have different accounts, you'll have to log out of Wikipedia in IE and log back in as your other account. If you want to run IRCM and do manual edits at the same time using 2 different accounts, use IE for vandalfighting and do your manual edits in another browser like Firefox or Opera.

Edits tab

This tab is displayed when IRCM starts. It displays live feed of recent changes in a table that has 5 columns:

• Page - title of the page
• User - username of the user who modified it
• Minor - contains "M" if this edit is marked as minor
• +/- - difference in characters between page content after this edit, and prior to it. Please note that sometimes a buggy IRC bot may give a positive value, when in fact the page has undergone massive content removal.
• Comment - edit summary

All edits are color-coded:

Edit by anonymous user

Edit by registered user

Edit by whitelisted user

Edit by blacklisted user

Edit to watchlisted page

Checked edit

All colors can be redefined on Options tab

Getting the sources

AutoWikiBrowser is licensed under the GPL (see the license file).

Download source

To get the sources, you need read access to the SourceForge SVN server with an SVN client program.

TortoiseSVN

If you would like to use the latest source release, TortoiseSVN is recommended software, and a quick guide for which is included below.

After installing TortoiseSVN, create a folder AWB (or whatever name you prefer) and right click in the folder, and select "SVN Checkout...". In the dialog window that appears (titled "Checkout") enter https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser/AWB for the field URL of Repository. Check that the directory beneath is correct. You should then get the sources from the SourceForge SVN server. This is a ~7 MB download. When new sources become available execute "SVN Update" from the context menu of your AWB folder. You are not automatically notified of new versions; if you use AWB on a regular basis, and want to use the source version, check this daily, and build a new release version if there are changes. That way you are up to date with all bug fixes and new features.

Please note that you cannot commit sources back to the SourceForge server by using this method (this is called "anonymous access" or "anon access" for short). You would need to be registered as a project developer for this.

When you execute a "SVN Update", the software will download a change list then check the files that are present in the AWB folder, before downloading any new or updated files that may be needed.

Command line

If you have command line SVN installed on your PC, it is as simple as typing svn co https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser/AWB

That would put it in a folder called autowikibrowser in the default location. If you wanted to specify a location to copy it to, you would append the command with the location, e.g. svn co https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser/AWB d:\pathtofile

Full repository

https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser/AWB just gives you the AutoWikiBrowser project itself. The root https://autowikibrowser.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autowikibrowser is where tags, branches, and the Usage Stats and TypoScan project files are. Most people will neither want nor need those.

Compile source

If you would like to use the sources to run the latest source version, you will need to compile these yourself. You will need a copy of Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition, or a more complete version of the Visual Studio 2008 suite, such as Professional, or a third-party C# IDE such as SharpDevelop (free).

Visual Studio

Browse to the second AWB folder, and run the Visual Studio Solution. When the IDE has loaded, select release rather than debug (next to the green forward arrow). On the solution explorer on the right hand side, right click on the solution, and select build solution. Visual Studio will now turn the source files into the required files to run AWB. Back in the AWB folder, browse to bin\release, and copy AutoWikiBrowser.exe and WikiFunctions.dll from the folder to where you run AWB from.

SharpDevelop

Open the "AutoWikiBrowser no plugins" solution file. Right click on the AutoWikiBrowser project on the left hand side and set it as the startup project. Press F8 to build AWB. The AWB executable will be placed in ...\AWB\AWB\bin\ then a subfolder depending on whether you build a release or debug build (release recommended if you just want to use the latest version of AWB).

Changes to AWB code

You can view all SVN changes in the SVN Revision Log.

Snapshots

If you would like to use more up to date SVN versions, but are unable to build your own versions, User:Reedy (an AWB Developer) uploads periodic SVN release snapshots here.

See also

• Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser

External links

• Project home on Sourceforge
• Browsing the sources on Sourceforge
• Regular Expression Language Elements from the .NET Framework Developer's Guide in the online MSDN documentation of Microsoft.