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AutoWikiBrowser (Scripts)

This is a repository of settings and scripts which perform specific tasks using the AutoWikiBrowser.

Scripts and settings

Script name	Functions	Notes	Authors
List as	Adds a `listas` parameter to `{{WikiProject Biography}}`. Also incorporates Magioladitis' talk page tidier and other clean-up.	Newly cut code. Will fail with certain types of malformed banner. May well have other bugs. Use at your own risk.	Rich Farmbrough
Bracket reference conversion	It converts bracket references (such as [1]) to Cite.php and {{cite web}}.	none	Bookofjude
WP:GUS Userbox fixing	Migrating UBs incompletely moved under WP:GUS	Check with me before using, it might need updating	Phil
de-linking be-bold	fixing links to be bold which should go to be bold	this is the first pass, catching only vanilla links; piped stuff will come later	Phil
migrate babel-x	migrating {{Babel-X}} to {{Babel}} and fixing old syntax		Phil
ISBN-hyph	Tidying up and hyphenating ISBN numbers	Pretty robust, I believe. Labels some invalid ISBNs. Be careful with 13 digit ISBNs and trailing hyphens. Now obsolete due to AWB version.	Rich Farmbrough
ISSN	Tidying up and checksumming ISSN numbers	Pretty robust, I believe. Labels some invalid ISSNs. Implements arithmetic in regular expressions. Now obsolete due to AWB version.	Rich Farmbrough
Birth and death	Converting to {{birth date}} etc. templates	Most entries should be already done by humans or by User:SmackBot. You can of course request a run against any specific list/category.	Rich Farmbrough
Lifetime	Replaces {{Lifetime}} with the components it generates.	Templates are of course moving targets. However this one should be subst only before any major changes occur .	Rich Farmbrough
Full date unlinking	Unlinks dates with day month year, including ISO, dmy, mdy, ordinals etc. most ranges, lists etc.	As usual, no guarantees. Attempts to replicate in a short time what User:Full-date unlinking bot learned in months. But it might help spread the load. Note also that it does not unlink lone years, centuries, days, months, day-month or month year combos - most of which it is generally valid to unlink.	Rich Farmbrough
/Removing caps in headers	Fixes up 623 different common capitalised headers	As usual, no guarantees. Some of the 623 are picked by me, and hence subject to human error, probably over half are picked by the AI and subject to bot error.	Rich Farmbrough
/Listas diacritics	removes all known to me diacritics and replaces them with the equivalent Latin	As usual, no guarantees, but seems pretty bomb-proof. Someone might pick at the dipthongs	Rich Farmbrough
/NASTRO	redirects planetoid stubs per WP:NASTRO	As usual, no guarantees, but seems pretty bomb-proof. One off job with some 3k instances left to do when the group culture decided that it was worth sacrificing.	Rich Farmbrough
/image requested people	Replaces image requested categories on the talk pages of US people categorized by state with a more specific category.	Not used in anger, since I am not allowed... But seems OK. Created for User:Dthomsen8. IMPORTANT - script is set up for Texas, two "advanced" rules and the list-maker category need to by changed depending on the state	Rich Farmbrough
/Meta2en	Quick hack to make a page moved form en: to Meta link to the right places. Certainly needs work and careful supervision.	Script does not know about all the things it should: namespaces, and interwiki links.	Rich Farmbrough
Dab cleanup	Various cleanups to standardize dab pages with WP:MOSDAB	Some complicated regex and a lot of rules, so watch carefully. Improvements welcome!	Swpb

Sample regular expressions

Replace multiple spacing after full stop with single spacing

Match:\. +([A-Za-z\[])
Replace:. $1

Note: This may replace double-spaces inside <pre> tags, so you need to be careful, or skip pages containing <pre> tags using Special Replace (under Find and Replace Advanced settings).

Remove trailing spaces

Match: +\n
Replace:\n

XHTML compliance

<br> and <hr> to <br /> and <hr />

Match:   <[/]?(br|hr)([^{/}<>]*?)>
Replace: <$1$2 />

HTML Attribute quoting

Match:   (<\w+)\s*(\w+) *= *(['"]([^"']*?)['"]|([#-9A-Za-z]+))([^{}<>]*>)
Replace: $1 $2="$4$5"$6

Conditions

Between X and Y bytes of wikitext: Single line conditional regex: ^.{0,900}$ where 0 is the minimum and 900 is the maximum

Crude word count: Single line conditional regex: ^\W*(\w+\W+){13,29}\w*$ where 13 is the minimum and 29 is the maximum

External link simplification

External Wikipedia link to internal

Match:   \[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/:*([^][<>"\s]+) ([^]]+)\]
Replace: [[:$1|$2]]

Notes: The colon is needed to prevent category or images from being embedded. Also, not recommended since it can mess with references.

Wikimedia Foundation external links to interwikis

Match:   \[http://([a-z0-9\-]{3})\.(?:(wikt)ionary|wiki(n)ews|wiki(b)ooks|wiki(q)uote|wiki(s)ource|wiki(v)ersity)\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][<>{|}\s"]*) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace: [[$2$3$4$5$6$7:$1:$8|$9]]
Match:   \[http://(?:(m)eta|(commons)|(incubator)|(quality))\.wikimedia\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][<>{|}\s"]*) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace: [[$1$2$3$4:$5|$6]]

Wikia wikis external links to interwikis

Match:   \[http://([a-z0-9\-]+)\.wikia\.(?:com|net|org)/wiki/([^][<>{|}\s"]+) +([^\n\]]+)\]
Replace: [[wikia:$1:$2|$3]]

External Toolserver to interwiki link

Match:   \[http://(?:www\.)?(toolserver\.org|tools\.wikimedia\.org|tools\.wikimedia\.de)/([^][<>\s";?]*)\?? ([^]\n]+)\]
Replace: [[tools:$2|$3]]

Use newer {{fullurl}} magic word

Match:   [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:
Replace: [{{fullurl: