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Please use this page to request new features in AWB.

Click here to create a new feature request.

Any discussion can follow as normal. Please place new feature request at the bottom of this page. This format allows the developers to keep track of feature requests. Once the feature requests have been added, they will be moved to the top of the page, before they will be moved to the /Archive.

Change watchlist

Status	New
Description	Allow users to toggle on/off with button or possibly a setting items they have set under preferences to automatically watch (Gnevin 10:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]
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Status	New
Description	Page's edited by AWB are added to watchlist when Add pages I edit to my watchlist is selected under preference but the Add all to watchlist is not selected in AWB (Gnevin 16:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]
To duplicate:	Change watchlist perferences to Add pages I edit to my watchlist edit with AWB Add all to watchlist off
Operating system	XP
.NET FW Version	Unknown
AWB version	Unknown
Workaround	None
Fixed in version	Unknown

I've discussed this before and don't know if it's a bug or a feature request . If its a bug its ok here if not i'd like to suggest a button to be able to press to toggle my watchlist preference when i use AWB

Definitely a feature request. —METS501 (talk) 03:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Combo Box for Custom Wiki's

Status	New
Description	Rather than changing the combo for a text box when selecting custom wiki, have a different combo, and save and load lists of multiple custom wiki links Reedy Boy 22:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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stubs on .pl

Status	New
Description	on .pl we want to keep this sequence as can be seen here [1] (one of the major admin's bot auto-generated article), that shows we want to keep it in that order (stub above categories, examples here [2]) I postulated this here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_13#bugs.2C_suggestions ] in point 2, ie. we would prefer to keep the behavior of AWB 3.0.6.0 (didn't even know why it's changed) --gregul
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So you want "PersonData + Disambig + Stub + Categories + Interwikis"? —METS501 (talk) 01:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

disambigs are on top on .pl ([3], there is no other contruction), but about the stub sequence yes: stub->categories->interwikis, as 3.0.6.0 version did (with only one empty line between data and stub), that's the most common construction on .pl, other aren't welcome (if they exist they must probably have been done by AWB), for example here [4] admin draw another admin's attention to not doing so again --gregul

HTML substitution

Status	New
Description	In the Advanced "Find and replace" rule list, allow the easier replacement or removal of HTML attributes on tables. Currently, I'm running all code through a rule to quote all the unquoted attributes and then doing the processing that I want, but every so often a flaw comes up as it quote non-html text. —Dispenser 03:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Typo fix should look in image descriptions

Status	New
Description	For the find/replace and the RETF feature, AWB should also look inside image tags for everything past the URL (i.e. the image description) ... if possible. There are often typos in this description that are not found by AWB. --Thiseye 02:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Pick up some additional text to change

Status	New
Description	Descriptions of images should be changed, and things immediately after a </ref> tag. Rich Farmbrough, 15:40 3 March 2007 (GMT).
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Allow access to list while adding rules

Status	New
Description	Allow users to copy and paste from the list of articles while adding new find and replace rules (Gnevin 18:07, 3 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]
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Brackets in replacement text

Status	New
Description	When I try to replace text with the advanced replace feature, it doesn't recognize brackets as it uses the %28 and %29 equivalents instead. The program needs to recognize "(" and ")". - Mgm
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Allow easy way to add missing parameters to a template, and also a way to reorder parameters

Status	New
Description	I'm in the process of doing some massive infobox and other template conversion for standardization purposes. The feature to rename template parameters is extremely useful in this process, but it would another big advantage to have a way to add in missing parameters (and set a default value to them if they are missing). It would also be convenient to have a way to reorder all of the parameters so that similar ones can be grouped together, or so that every template instance can have the same ordering as every other one. I guess I'm envisioning a dialog with a grid with three columns: in the first column goes the parameter name, the second column gets the default value, and the third column a checkbox signalling whether to add the parameter (along with its default value) if it is missing. The parameters would then be automatically ordered according to their order in the grid, and added in if missing. Buttons would include "Move up", "Move down", "Delete", and possibly "Don't reorder" for cases when adding missing parameters but no need to reorder. The dialog would be perfect as a new type of rule in the Advanced Find and Replace dialog. Note: this would be used to add infoboxes to every city/town in the US, and add missing data to existing ones. Thanks, --CapitalR 12:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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A new rule that only executes on a specified parameter(s)

Status	New
Description	A good feature would be to add an "In parameter" SubRule. There is currently an "In template" SubRule which is convenient, but an "In parameter" would make life easier for trying to format specific parameters without effecting any others by mistake. Options could allow running a find and replace on the parameter, the equal sign, and the parameter value, or just the parameter value. Note: this would be used to add infoboxes to every city/town in the US, and add missing data to existing ones. Thanks, --CapitalR 02:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Cross-wiki editing

Is there a way to add the ability to edit articles on other Wikimedia projects, with a proper interwiki link? Right now to distribute the Signpost, I'm forced to do all edits manually, which is a royal pain- being able to do it logged out, semi-automatically or automatically would be an immense help to me. Ral315 » 06:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Addition for "Replace Special"

Status	New
Description	For some find and replace tasks it's useful to ignore certain parts of an article, like <math>...</math> or [[Image:...\| (so the name of the image can't get changed). A new tab in Replace Special, in addition to "Replace" and "If", would be nice, so that it's possible to define parts of the articles in which these rule doesn't work. – 84.179.33.65 23:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Ignore duplicate wikilinks in infoboxes, etc.

Status	New
Description	AWB should probably ignore wikilinks in infoboxes and other templates and not consider them as duplicate. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Easier way to remove duplicate wikilinks

Status	New
Description	Can't think of an easy way to describe this... Right now, to remove dupes you keep clicking the dupe, and then you manually remove the [[ and ]] around them. If AWB ignored templates for this feature, it can either (a) automatically remove all wikilinks beyond the first or (b) do some kind of popup/preview and ask which one(s) to keep. (The above ignore infoboxes is probably needed.) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 22:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Batch Filter by "Skipability"

Status	New
Description	It would be great to pre-filter lists by "skipability". Suppose I have a long list of articles and I only want to make changes to pages containing the word "foo". I'd configure AWB to Skip if doesn't contain: foo. I would then command AWB to check all of the pages in the list and remove non-matching pages from the list without making any changes to the matching ones. It would run, and I could come back to a prepped list that only contains articles I'm interested in. — jmorgan (talk) 05:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Two stage filtering of list

Status	New
Description	Similar to the above skip filter, I would like a two phase filtering of the list. AWB would first run thru the entire list like normal, but if it required human input, it would put it back at the bottom of the list. Then when it was done with this first pass, it would beep or something, and the user would run it by hand. This way the user's time is used even more efficiently because they don't have to wait while it goes thru many pages before finding one that actually needed attention. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 14:37, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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