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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.
By using messages on Project:AutoWikiBrowser/Config, you can make AWB display message box to every AWB user when they log in to your wiki. This may be useful for broadcasting urgent messages related to AWB.
$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
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.
6.3.1.1 rev 12634: 09 August 2024: AWB/WikiFunctions 6.3.1.1: Remove some cruft related to JSON checkpage migration causing edge case bugs where checkpages don't exist on the wiki. If config json doesn't exist, default to using to enabled true. 6.3.1.0 rev 12623: 08 August 2024: AWB/WikiFunctions 6.3.1.0: AWB will now only load JSON checkpages ...
The free ("Community") edition is no longer available for download; if you do not already have it installed, and are unable to use the Professional or Enterprise versions, go to the Visual Studio 2022 instructions below.