Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser

AutoWikiBrowser
Original author(s)	Bluemoose (retired)
Developer(s)	Magioladitis; Reedy; Rjwilmsi; Kingboyk;
Stable release	6.3.1.1 (August 9, 2024) [±]
Preview release	SVN (SVN) [±]
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/HEAD/tree/ ;
Written in	C#
Operating system	Windows Vista and later
Platform	.NET Framework
Available in	English
Type	Wikipedia tool
License	GPL v2
Website	sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/

Home
Introduction and rules
User manual
How to use AWB
Discussion
Discuss AWB, report errors, and request features
User tasks
Request or help with AWB-able tasks
Technical
Technical documentation

AutoWikiBrowser is not an automatic bot—edits made using this software are the responsibility of the editor using it. Although AWB does have an automatic mode enabled for some bot accounts, it normally just assists a human.

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AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. It is a .NET desktop application which includes a browser that follows a user-generated list of pages to modify, presenting changes to implement within each of those pages, then progressing to the next page in the list once the changes are confirmed or skipped by the user. When set to do so, it suggests some changes (typically formatting) that are generally meant to be incidental to the main change.

AWB is written for Windows operating system versions Vista and newer. It also functions reasonably well under Wine on Mac and some versions of Linux but is not officially supported.

At present, AWB can create a list of pages from single or multiple categories, "what links here", the wiki links on a page, a text file, a Google search, a user's watchlist, or a user's contributions. AWB also comes with an integrated program to search Wikipedia database dumps. The edit box of AWB supports the Microsoft Text Services Framework for use with speech recognition/handwriting applications.

The sources are available under the GPLv2 (see Documentation page). It is written in C# using Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition/Visual Studio, which is freely available at Microsoft downloads.

There is an AWB IRC channel at #AutoWikiBrowser ^connect.

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