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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 is a semi-automatic wiki-editor created to edit Wikipedia and other wikis hosted with the MediaWiki software. Among other things, AWB is designed to perform search & replace instructions provided by the user, upon a list of pages it assists the user in making.
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.
$1, $2 etc. if the "find" expression is a regular expression and regex is ticked will use the values from "Find" Each pair of brackets in a regular expression corresponds to a string, so if you searched for (123)4(56)78, $1 would correspond to 123 and $2 would correspond to 56
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.
This is the User manual project 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 It is community-maintained outside of the development team; It may contain information that is out of date with the latest AutoWikiBrowser releases.
Before using this software, please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia policies/guidelines, particularly the bot policy and the very simple rules of use: Check every edit before you save it. Don't edit too fast; consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute.
One or more redirects can be renamed per rule, listing redirects (comma-space separated) each in a {{}} template, followed by "→" and the actual template, again wrapped in {{}} and bolded for readability.