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Jul 18 2026
In the general case, we can't apply the right settings until the user logs in because a private wiki may not give us the information until after user log in. However, we can set the correct default for wiktionary.
rev 13037 Further update to sectstub for uk-wiki
Jul 15 2026
@-sche Were you logged in to Wiktionary at the time (not just setting that in preferences)? The code you link to (rev 7310) is still there.
Jul 6 2026
rev 13035 {{Use list-defined references}} isn't a maintenance template (for inclusion in {{multiple issues}})
@GoingBatty Would you mind commenting here please: should AWB not have "Use list-defined references" as a known maintenance template?
Jul 4 2026
rev 13034 ReorderRefs: handle {{rp}} template with nested template contents.
Jul 3 2026
rev 13033 Handle BC births and deaths categories for Category:Year of death missing / Category:Year of birth missing removal
Further info on rev 13026 / lbArticles_DrawItem change: my benchmarks (20k items):
rev 13032 {{Deprecated archival service}} is a maintenance template
Jul 2 2026
@StefenTower That template isn't categorized as a maintenance template. Please post back here when that has been done (e.g. Category:Cleanup_templates)
rev 13031 disable ReorderReferences for ru-wiki
It's not about the quote character, it's about the ref name= containing pipes. It's common for the ref to contain a nested template with pipes in, we handle that. It's less common, but is valid for the ref name to contain pipes (has to be in quotes), need to handle that.
rev 13029 allow forward slash as valid in template parameter names
rev 13028 added. Will be in next release of AWB.
@Gonnym Please tell us more about why you think that suggested edit is wrong? Plus provide an example page if possible please.
Jun 18 2026
Apr 20 2026
@DavidBrooks From my perspective, happy for there to be an official AWB release whenever you like / after every fix/change of significant use to a user, if you have the access to do the release and the time to do the admin/effort. We can make those releases optional so we don't force users to upgrade too often (if the new releases are frequent and contain changes that most users may not need straight away).
Jan 10 2026
Dec 12 2025
Issue has been fixed, please use AWB snapshot release if this affects you. Later full releases of AWB will include this fix.
Nov 9 2025
@scarecroe See https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/Snapshots/ - AutoWikiBrowser6401-12997.zip includes fix on this ticket.
Sep 21 2025
Sep 18 2025
If I understand this correctly, then on https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%27%D1%8F_%D0%84%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0&action=edit&oldid=44633542 there are two instances of "<ref>name="ббс арештована"</ref>" but both are like that, so if both were condensed to <ref name="ббс арештована"/> as you say should happen, there would be no ref of that name with some content. So this doesn't appear to be a scenario that AWB can fix.
rev 13008, will be included in next release of AWB.
Sep 17 2025
OK, so we have:
As you identified in your next edit, there was a stray bracket in the "Festival de Cannes : la petite histoire de la montée des marches et son célèbre tapis rouge" citation further down the page. AWB can't always get bracket fixes right. Following your correction to the page AWB now doesn't propose any bracket-related fix to the page so I propose to resovle this as a source data issue.
AWB currently sets a maximum edit summary length of 255 characters (or "bytes" when dealing with UTF-8).
rev 13007
Aug 25 2025
rev 13005
Aug 16 2025
Aug 14 2025
rev 13003 Enable page range dash formatting etc. for sfn templates as is done for harv templates
Aug 3 2025
rev 13000 add missing DEBUG condition to unit test
Aug 1 2025
Was added under T337532
rev 12998 Add Control+N as shortcut for Preview
Jun 30 2025
rev 12997
rev 12997
Jun 27 2025
rev 12996
Jun 26 2025
I think when AWB is left idle for some time (not sure, many hours etc.) the edit token we got on first AWB login from the API will have expired, and either we don't get told by the API that we need a new token, or we don't handle that 'new token' message correctly. I will aim to look into it further but it may be an API-side issue that we can't resolve within AWB.
rev 12995
@GoingBatty Please expand on Nothing, per [[WP:ORDER]]
rev 12994
rev 12993
Apr 27 2025
rev 12991: {{Cleanup infobox}} isn't an infobox template
Apr 13 2025
rev 12990
rev 12990
Apr 11 2025
rev 12989: support CamelCase template redirects. Will be in next release of AWB.
Apr 1 2025
rev 12988
Mar 25 2025
rev 12987
Mar 20 2025
OK, rev 12985 adds the redirects too for orphan and wikify.
Mar 18 2025
rev 12984 FixSyntax handling of template calls whose contents are wikitables
@SyntaxTerror No AWB doesn't automatically know about redirects. You can either add them to Template Redirects config (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template_redirects) if you have a fr-wiki localised version, or tell me them here so I add them directly to AWB code.
Mar 16 2025
@GoingBatty When {{multiple issues}} template is added, it's added at the top of the article and the templates that go into it are removed/or moved up into it, depending on how you want to think about it.
rev 12983
Mar 15 2025
Under T386303 we added the rule that MetaDataSorter could not safely apply to zeroth section if there were unbalanced brackets. This article had an unbalanced bracket which I've now fixed - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=College_of_Engineering,_Trivandrum&diff=prev&oldid=1280653096
Mar 14 2025
rev 12982 localisation of orphan and wikify for fr-wiki.
Mar 12 2025
rev 12981: "Old news" is another maintenance template
Mar 9 2025
rev 12980 {{Inc-up}} and {{list scope}} as additional hatnote, maintenance templates
rev 12979 MetaDataSorter restriction on category sorting for magic word switches only needs to apply when then switches are after the cats
rev 12978
rev 12977 handle website=web.archive.org
@GoingBatty Under T387084 we established that magic word switches such as _ _FORCETOC__ are allowed on mainspace anywhere in page. As there is no rule as to their placement we disabled defaultsort/cat sorting on pages containing such a switch. List of Pennsylvania fire departments has _ _FORCETOC__ so what are you now expecting to happen?
rev 12976 Handle another valid variation of <references> use
rev 12975 minutes is valid cite web param
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:DISPLAYTITLE#Instructions it says merely "Type {{DISPLAYTITLE: anywhere in the wikitext." MOS:ORDER also documents scenarios where DISPLAYTITLE must be before or after infoboxes. I am concerned that infoboxes are not banned from later sections of articles, so if we pull DISPLAYTITLE from the end/a near-end section of an article we could introduce a problem.
@GoingBatty MetaDataSorter sorting of zeroth section was disabled where the zeroth section had a wikitable, this was for T386285 which you also raised. This page has a wikitable in zeroth section, so is your request then that zeroth section sorting can take place but only on the content before any wikitable?
@GoingBatty We'd previously established that MOS:ORDER has Level 9 for language maintenance templates. On MOS:ORDER that Level 9 links directly to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_maintenance_templates which {{Korean script needed}} is in.
Mar 7 2025
rev 12963
Mar 4 2025
rev 12969: disable ReorderReferences for uk-wiki
Mar 3 2025
rev 12968: FixSyntaxTemplateWhitespace: handling of unnamed template call (article text error)
Article had unnamed template call, fixed by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California_City,_California&diff=prev&oldid=1278666970
Mar 2 2025
@GoingBatty Before making the change we'd need to check for any false positives (any other users where a number followed MW doesn't mean megawatt). Would you be able to run a database scan and check? For simplicity a regex search for \d\s*MW\b should do the job.
rev 12964 collaboration= is a valid citation parameter for cite arxiv
rev 12963 MetaDataSorter: zeroth section sorting to handle both {{hatnote group}} and standalone dablinks in same article