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editI’m not sure what happened with the article. I only intended to add tags and fix typos, but somehow it ended up creating an article. Can someone help me understand what went wrong? Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 15:37, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- You edited the article seconds after the page was deleted, so you saved an edit on a page with no history. Primefac (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, that makes much sense. Thanks for clarifying. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 15:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Delete feature
editHi! Although I am the admin on Ukrainian Wikipedia, AWB does not let me delete or protect pages. Can someone help with this? Renvoy (talk) 13:30, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
"Following" #Rs from moves without an #R left behind
editI frequently come across pages that have been moved without leaving a redirect, like Category talk:Piano pedagogues. The destination, Category talk:Piano educators, is right there on the (browser) page, and I'd like to capture it, but can't figure out how. The api doesn't return the destination, and using the normal URLs [1][2] both return null Tools.GetHTML()
. Does anyone know how this can be done? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:28, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- If you use the API to query for move events in the logs for the page the info you need is shown: move log. Rjwilmsi 09:39, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Excellent, thank you! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 09:44, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Restarting in >> seconds (again)
editI downloaded it three days ago on Windows 11, AWB Version 6.3.1.1 (SVN 12633). I want to work on the Slovenian Wikipedia, so I am logged in there. Other Slovenian users don’t have any issues. It works fine until I press the "Save" button, after which I get the message "Restarting in ...". Pinky sl (talk) 14:37, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Removal of blp parameter by genfixes
editIn this diff, the |blp=no
parameter was removed from {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which is incorrect. This parameter is needed to identify that the subject is not living. Otherwise the page ends up in Category:Biography articles without living parameter which is a maintenance category — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:09, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- This came up earlier in the year (see /Archive 34#Request to change banner shell general fixes) and is tracked by T358963. If I recall correctly the OP had already fixed the cases they were concerned about. I just noticed it was also reported at /General fixes#BLP tagging. David Brooks (talk) 16:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- OK, rev 12643 / T358963 don't remove "blp=no" from WikiProject banner shell. Will be in next release of AWB. Rjwilmsi 17:33, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
No longer handling WP:ORDER issues (specifically WP:STUBSPACING)
editI'm having to manually drop the stub templates two spaces down where previously AWB did a pretty good job at handling those. It seemed to work nicely, whether the stub templates were butted up right beneath the categories, or whether they were mixed in with some of the nav templates. Seems like that functionality is gone now. Dawnseeker2000 22:19, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- OK, I may be an idiot. Gen Fixes was off so continuing to edit and see if that does the trick. Dawnseeker2000 22:28, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Username change
editHello. This is Sam S, previously known as The Sharpest Lives. I had a username change and am requesting this is changed in the AWB user list. Thanks. Sam S (talk) 05:24, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Done, noting that these sorts of request are best handled at WP:PERM/AWB. Primefac (talk) 12:50, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Re-up ARM64 build
editI recently offered an unofficial build of AWB optimized for ARM64 PCs, like the new Microsoft Surface. I have a new build that will also run on a "normal" x86-64 PC (but see below). It is built using the latest source tree.
I think it runs faster than the official build not only due to the CPU's emulation overhead, which is less on Windows 11 than 10, but also because it does not have the emulation memory overhead, which is pretty extensive. For example, in my tests on Windows 11 the native ARM64 build uses 29.5 MB on startup, and 56.5 after loading the first article in a moderate size list. The official build, x86 running emulated, uses 49 MB and 74.5 respectively.
Running on an x86-64 PC, this build runs in x64 mode, so it uses more memory than the official x86 build, but not by a huge amount (27.7 versus 22.3 on startup). Anyway, if you have an ARM64 box and want to check it out, it's on github here. David Brooks (talk) 03:57, 12 November 2024 (UTC)