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AutoWikiBrowser is a semi-automated Wikipedia editor designed to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. It is essentially a browser that automatically opens up a new page when the last is saved.
AWB includes a database scanner that scans versions of Wikipedia downloaded to your local computer. It can be used to search wikitext, without causing extra unnecessary load on Wikimedia servers. This is useful for building lists of titles to perform AutoWikiBrowser tasks on, and for performing searches that would time out on-wiki searches.
Language — Allows you to select which language of Wikipedia you would like to work on. For simple.wikipedia.org use project=wikipedia and language=simple. Suppress using AWB — available for wikia and custom wikis This part of the AWB manual needs help in explaining its function. If you know how this function works, please feel free to edit.
This is the Find and replace subsection of the user manual for AutoWikiBrowser.. It is community-maintained outside of the development team; It may contain information that is out of date with the latest AutoWikiBrowser releases.
AWB has a "general fixes" feature. It corrects many formatting and style problems, but may cause problems on pages with tricky markup. To make AWB ignore such pages, use templates {{bots}} and {{nobots}}, like on enwiki.
Their energy is better spent with dealing with the software then to writing the documentation. Therefore, it relies on Wikipedia AWB software users to help maintain the manual. AWB software users are encouraged to make changes to the manual. If you have a better description of how a feature works, then feel free to edit the manual.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses ...
Free video is used extensively on Wikipedia, and is also the exclusive type of video content stored on the Wikimedia Commons. While Wikipedia allows for the uploading of fair use video (only in Ogg Theora format), the Wikimedia Commons strictly forbids the uploading of fair use video or any video containing depiction of symbols or other content that is prior licensed under a proprietary license.