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
hypothesis successful
task: replace a whole wkn external url (long, ugly) with just a number (short, less ugly) according to vanilla wiki formatting
advanced find & replace, regex on
find: ([^[])https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/(.+?)(''|)</ref>
replace: $1[https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/$2]$3</ref>
task: remove reftags from numbered external links
advanced find & replace, regex on
find: <ref>\[http(.+)\]</ref>
replace: [http$1]
task: remove #comment from wkn external links
advanced find & replace, regex on
find: https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/(.+)#comments
replace: https://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/$1
testing in progress
task: create an item guide page skeleton from its picture guide page
User:Gifted9/autowikibrowser testing/pic to item
difference between pic and item: http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User%3AGifted9%2Fautowikibrowser_testing&type=revision&diff=57855&oldid=57854
task: create a picture guide page from its item guide page
difference between item and pic: http://webkinzpictureguide.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User%3AGifted9%2Fautowikibrowser_testing&type=revision&diff=57857&oldid=57856
User:Gifted9/autowikibrowser testing/item to pic
task: replace all duplicate single references with a multireference
User:Gifted9/autowikibrowser testing/singleref to multiref
duplicate unnamed references and duplicate named references are vanilla features in general fixes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General_fixes#Duplicate_Named_References_(DuplicateNamedReferences)
"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: 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