User:Gifted9/autowikibrowser

i hate doing anything manually that i could potentially automate, so i have some hypotheses about autowikibrowser that i'm testing on these subpages. this page is written for my own reference

resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser

https://regex101.com/

hypothesis successful

task: replace a whole wkn external url (long, ugly) with just a number (short, less ugly) 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

advanced find & replace, regex on

find: ([^[])https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/(.+?)(''|)</ref>

replace: $1[https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/$2]$3</ref>

testing in progress

task: remove #comment from wkn external links

example:

find: .

replace: .

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

find: .

replace: .

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: add rotated views in gallery to file page

append text ==Rotated Views== <gallery> %%title%%nw.png %%title%%sw.png %%title%%se.png %%title%%ne.png </gallery>

then advanced find & replace, regex on

find: File:(.+).png(nw|sw|se|ne).png

replace:($1)($2).png