User:Gifted9/autowikibrowser

i hate doing anything manually that i could potentially automate and you probably do too, so here are some instructions to use autowikibrowser on webkinz picture guide.

toot oriole

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download the program per their instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser#(2)_Download
options > preferences > site > set project as custom and website page as http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/ according to: http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help:AutoWikiBrowser#Linking_to_your_wiki
file > log in/profiles > log in with your normal credentials
left side: make list source: select anything, then search in textbox to load your desired pages up
middle: toggle settings in any of the four tabs, per the below instructions or your own settings
start tab > start button will run awb and present the suggested changes. review in the top pane, and if satisfactory, click save

other places to rtfm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser - autowikibrowser's documentation

http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help:AutoWikiBrowser - shoutwiki's documentation

https://regex101.com/ - formats and explains regex to human eyes

hypothesis successful

the following are tasks i've successfully configured with awb. duplicate these instructions to do the same.

task: replace a whole wkn external url with a number according to vanilla wiki formatting

example: http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=(Item_Guide)_Wheels_%26_Games&curid=31338&diff=58161&oldid=58160

options tab > find and replace checked > advanced settings
new rule > regular expression checked
in find textbox, write ([^[])https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/(.+?)(''|)</ref>
in replace textbox, write $1[https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/$2]$3</ref>

task: remove reftags from numbered external links

example: http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=(Item_Guide)_Wheels_%26_Games&curid=31338&diff=58169&oldid=58161

options tab > find and replace checked > advanced settings
new rule > regular expression checked
in find textbox, write <ref>\[http(.+)\]</ref>
in replace textbox, write [http$1]

task: remove #comment from wkn external links

example: http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=(Item_Guide)_Webkinz_Newz&curid=29752&diff=58181&oldid=58157

options tab > find and replace checked > advanced settings
new rule > regular expression checked
in find textbox, write https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/(.+)#comments
in replace textbox, write https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/$1

task: add rotated views in gallery to file page

this is a two-step process to add rotated views to every file in category: rotatable

make list source: category, category: rotatable > make list
more tab > append/prepend text enabled checked, append selected
write the following in the textbox ==Rotated Views== <gallery> %%title%%nw.png %%title%%sw.png %%title%%se.png %%title%%ne.png </gallery>

repeat step 1, then do the following

options tab > find and replace checked > advanced settings
new rule > regular expression checked
in find textbox, write File:(.+).png(nw|sw|se|ne).png
in replace textbox, write$1$2.png

testing in progress

the below items are in progress, use at your own risk

"The article must already have at least one named reference (to avoid a 'change in citation style' in the article per WP:CITEVAR). This means at least one named ref in short format (<ref name=a/>) as a full named ref by itself does not cause any references to display as combined."

find: \<ref\>This item was available on the \[\[$Picture_Guide$_(Mobile_Wheel_of_Wow|Community_Codes|Balloon_Darts)_Archive\#(.+?)\]\]\<\/ref\>{1} \<ref\>This item was available on the \[\[$Picture_Guide$_(Mobile_Wheel_of_Wow|Community_Codes|Balloon_Darts)_Archive\#(.+?)\]\]\<\/ref\>{2,}

replace: <ref name="(.+?)"\/>This item was available on the [[(Picture_Guide)_($1$2$3)_(.+?)]]</ref>{1} <ref name="$2"/>{2}

task: automatically protect new pages in mainspace

Special:NewPages