Please use this page to request new features in AWB.
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, after a short period, they will be moved to the /Archive.
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An ability to make a list of "Images in page", which would populate with all images that are displayed on a given page. :: ZJH (T C E) 13:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Hmmm... As it stands, query.php doesnt support this function, however it does do links, so it may be possible to request it adding. This is therefore on hold for the moment!! I'll drop a request Reedy Boy 21:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Requested - Told that implementation is feasible, just need to wait for implementation! Reedy Boy 21:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sounds good. I ended up making the list manually, so I personally no longer need this, but it would be useful nonetheless. —Zachary talk 14:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Is it possible to get a full list of articles in a category and its subcategories all the way down to the bottom of a category tree? ie. expand fully with one click, rather than expanding level by level? Carcharoth 15:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Im sure this had been added before, but it may have been removed (I havent seen it recently myself). I'll poke Mets about it for you Reedy Boy 15:54, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't know if it's already there or not; if it is I haven't seen it. Either way, I would strongly caution against an "all the way down to the bottom" approach. The category system isn't really a tree, there are loops and all sorts of peculiarities. A feature which did "select all categories in the list, get their contents, and remove the categories" in one click would be useful though. --kingboyk 15:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- OK. A set distance downwards, then. That will at least improve matters. It is the need to expand the tree that is the killer. A recent example involved a definite tree structure (and many parts of the category system are trees), and involved 935 articles distributed over 661 categories, 9 of which were empty. It really shouldn't be necessary to click the "expand" toggle 661 time to get a list of 935 articles. Carcharoth 16:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You can just highlight them all, then right click, make list from category. Click the first item you want, then scroll down, press shift, and then click on the last category for multiple selections - There are workarounds!! Reedy Boy 17:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This feature was added a while back, but it's just too buggy with infinite loops and stuff. Use the workaround that Reedy Boy mentioned above instead. —METS501 (talk) 18:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, I'll use the workaround. But some limited functionality should be possible by cutting off loops and infinitely long expansions. Maybe something to come back to later? Carcharoth 22:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure, we can keep it on this page. —METS501 (talk) 23:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- So thats Reedy, don't archive me? =D Reedy Boy 08:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A semi-automated solution is what's needed here. The user must select which subcategories are trawled, but the software does the trawling, sorting, duplicates removal, etc. We definitely need to cut down on the number of mouse/key presses needed and make this process easier. (I had this planned but had pc problems, see User:Kingboyk/AWB) --kingboyk 22:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This feature is already implemented (including proper handling of circular references and duplicates), but after discussing possible strain on servers with Simetrical on WP:VPT it was restricted to debug builds only. I'm not ready to enable it unless we have constent from MW developers. MaxSem 03:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't see what difference it makes to the servers if it's done by the user manually, or by AWB programatically? --kingboyk 11:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is what I had on my AWB to-do list. Would this be OK? Is there, then, code I can call or recycle to do this?
- Make a semi-automated listbuilder feature, either in AWB or in my plugin. (Probably the former, as I think this could be widely useful; but if the latter, could inherit from the current listbuilder and then trick AWB into displaying ours).
- Build list as normal
- Display option to filter out non-main mainspaces
- Display subcategories in a checklist, and prompt user
- Trawl selected subcats, move others to a collection (so we can check we don't prompt about the same categories twice)
- For plugin, convert to talk
- Sort A-Z
- Basically what I'm having to do manually, with a lot less keypresses and hassle.
--kingboyk 16:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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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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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]
- Thought I'd requested this one already (for search and replace). Would save me a lot of work. Rich Farmbrough, 21:55 4 April 2007 (GMT).
- Oh yes it;s the next one... Silly me. Rich Farmbrough, 21:56 4 April 2007 (GMT).
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Pick up some additional text to change
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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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- Im unable to duplicate this - Possibly fixed??. Poking user. Reedy Boy 14:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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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 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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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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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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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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- I think this comes back to the extra server load from loading pages twice. I dont think its something that can really be added... Its been requested for typo's and such before Reedy Boy 16:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- YOu can do this. Set up Skip if contains and null changes. You will then get the ones you want in the skipped list, and no changes acutally made. Rich Farmbrough, 13:25 20 April 2007 (GMT).
- My plugin now has this feature (but don't tell anyone!) although, of course, it's for talk page templating only. --kingboyk 13:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Is it possible to add an option of searching (including RegExp) in summary text? That would be helpful, e.g. for lists created from Recentchages page --213.170.94.120 15:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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When a page is in the Image namespace it should check to see what other pages are using that file and also include the uploader history for ease in contact (boxes similar to Alerts->Multiple wikilinks). Would help for determining if Fair-use images are being used outside the main namespace, if an image is orphaned, if image is being used in articles it is not intended for. Tags to be added under an Image menu would be {{redundant}}, {{no license}}, {{no source}}, {{notorphan}}, and {{or-fu}} (with date auto-inserted) -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 05:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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An option to ignore template calls inside the find and replace menu would be useful to me when fixing capitalization errors. Right now I spend some time manually undoing replacements when a filename inside a template call is incorrectly capitalized. Jogers (talk) 13:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Or perhaps there is some way to distinguish whether a template parameter value is a filename or not? Jogers (talk) 12:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- An option to ignore category names would be nice, too. Jogers (talk) 11:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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force first letter of category, image and interwiki link name to be big, and also the names "image" and "category" itself, in every language --gregul
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- [[category - In that the c is capitalised - see [1]. image isnt corrected to Image. Rest is feasible Reedy Boy 21:45, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What would be the point? It's more trivial edits again, isn't it? --kingboyk 21:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, i see it as its something that would be fine in the general fixes...? Reedy Boy 21:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I've added the image (i to I) like we have for category. The other ones... i suppose are open to discussion. Reedy Boy 22:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- [[category: and [[image are easy to do by regex, I do that myself, if it's also present in other language versions (like .pl) I will delete that regexes ;), harder to change [[Category:baseball players to [[Category:Baseball players etc. (or rather [[Kategoria: as in my language, as i think that would require a regex for every small first letter) it sometimes looks not uniform in comparision to other category names --gregul
- It works from a variable list from whichever wiki is loaded. You shouldnt need to do it manually!! Reedy Boy 09:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The other should be doable, it just needs someone a little more regex savvy. May see if User:kingboyk can help out. Reedy Boy 16:04, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Certainly already does "Image". Rich Farmbrough, 13:47 20 April 2007 (GMT).
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Okay, I'm not sure if this is a good request or not, or if it would be tedious to make or is against any sort of Wikipedia rule, but I think it would be nifty to have an option to remove every repeated wiki-link except for the first in each section. For example, if an article is linked to more than once in a section (or maybe in a paragraph?), all occurrences are removed excluding the first in that specific section/paragraph. If this is a stupid idea, then ignore it. I just think it'd be good. --RazorICE 02:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Well, if we started removing all multiple wiki links, we'd get into trouble. However, i think we could be ok to do something like that, it would just be a case of getting the regex's right. As although if its a long article, multiple links scattered about would be good, if its a short one, it doesnt need it 5 times in one paragraph. See what anyone elses input is. Reedy Boy 11:04, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm, yeah, but if it only removed duplicate wiki-links in each paragraph it shouldn't be that much of a problem. You have some valid points, though. --RazorICE 08:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- i'm slightly concerned about wikilnks that are identified as duplicates but actually link to different sections in the same large article. as it stands, the software tends to treat links to different sections as duplicates, doesn't it? -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 19:31, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- This proposal has been shot down at WP:BOTS many times. I still think it's possible, though, just not easy. For example, don't delink dates which are supporting formatting. I currently use this javascript to delink some repeated links, I often have to put back a few year links.
function replink(){
var txt = document.editform.wpTextbox1;
txt.value = txt.value.replace(/\[\[([^\]\|]+)\|([^\]]*)\]\](.*[.\n]*)\[\[\1\|\2\]\]/gm, "[[$1|$2]]$3$2");
txt.value = txt.value.replace(/\[\[([^\]]+)\]\](.*[.\n]*)\[\[\1\]\]/gm, "[[$1]]$2$1");
document.forms.editform.wpSummary.value=document.forms.editform.wpSummary.value + "Remove duplicate wikilink. ";
document.editform.wpDiff.click();
}
These regexes can be used in a "normal" AWB find/replace
- Rich Farmbrough, 07:51 6 April 2007 (GMT).
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mod_perl actually has the underscore in its name. Can AWB please ignore that one when stripping out underscores from links? -- JLaTondre 19:53, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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There was a request for AWB to load Category:Articles with an underscore in their title, and then if the title was that, not to change it... I cant seem to find it... - Found it. Merged Entries Reedy Boy 07:24, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think a better way to handle the second request is:
- If the requested link text has an underscore, and is identical (from the Wikipedia software prospective) to the title of the article, then just have a link using the underscore with no pipe.
- If the requested link has to be a piped link, then replace the underscore from the article name.
- Od Mishehu 07:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Run "sort A-Z" and "remove duplicates" on seperate threads to prevent the user interface locking up
- Check that the listmaker buttons and menu items (which remain enabled when a background thread is running) don't cause an error if they fire when a thread is active; if they do, disable them, or implement a queuing system.
--kingboyk 15:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Auto tag date paramter use new syntax
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The auto tag adds uncatogrized and wikify, would be good if the date parameter was preferred "date=" syntax rather than default parameter. Rich Farmbrough, 09:29 16 April 2007 (GMT).
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Martinp23:
and quite unfeasible if we wish to preserve cross-resolution compatibility
- I was thinking, that it will just make them look squished - No real point to this. Reedy Boy 21:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Interesting. This is similar to the tagging bot logs by Kingboyk - Log List, A Log, which has been present a while - very good for tagging WikiProjects. Is this using the new logging method in AWB? As it did change at the 3.9.0.0 release, and some minor changes have happened again to it.
- V4 of AWB is not far off, implementing a different diff. engine to reduce some of the load on the servers. It should also include a 'profile' element. Cheers, Reedy Boy 09:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think we'd like to see the code for that please. It looks nice. As Sam says, my plugin already writes logs. AWB now has a log listener/tracing interface, which is written to by AWB and plugins for display on the logging tab; the same interface (but with different underlying objects) is written to by the logging feature in my plugin. It would then be quite easy to drop an extra logging feature into AWB, either using my code or yours or a bit of both; the basic concept is that the log objects implement the interface and we're ready to rock and roll. --kingboyk 11:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Its listed as 3.9.0.0 - So i reckon its probably using our logging control... Reedy Boy 11:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I didn't know it was possible to get a diff after AWB has saved. That's certainly something I'd like to add, and I like the layout of that log page too. --kingboyk 11:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think its something that Query.php or API.php can get... I think... Reedy Boy 11:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote to the developer guy at the French wiki. Let's hope he speaks English :) I won't bother writing any more now about how the logging currently works or how my plugin does it, as it's all academic if we don't get a reply or an offer of help/code. --kingboyk 13:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hello Kingboyk,
- Sorry, but I speak english with very difficult. I worked during these last two days to make a clean version of my FullLog plugin. I think to publish my work this friday. I must contact before Chico.
- Best regards, — TiChou talk le 27 avril 2007 à 05:25 (CEST)
- And I speak French worse than your English, so you win :) Thank you for the reply, speak to you soon. Merci beaucoup monsiuer. --kingboyk 12:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Finally the great work of User:TiChou is available as a plugin in english here (only exe and dll), you can see an exemple of log on this page. The advanced regex logging is not implemented yet due to difficult problems, but everything else should work properly. The patch and sources are beeing uploaded, so you will be able to add it to ne next release. Chico75 20:09, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The patch
- the sources
- Chico75 20:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Cool - What license is this released under? I presume some form of free license with you putting the sources out.... Reedy Boy 20:46, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Released under GPL licence, like AWB. Chico75 20:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Of course. :-) — TiChou talk 21:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC) Thank you Chico to be my intermediary and interprets.[reply]
- =) I suppose you wouldnt mind if we integrated this into AWB then?/Included it with AWB. Of course, credit would be given to yourself for it. Reedy Boy 21:11, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- No problem for him although it would require some clean up before. The integration of advanced regex is in progress. Chico75 22:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You can get the current AWB version using Application.ProductVersion.ToString. IAutoWikiBrowser.Version is redundant because plugins are always running within an instance of AWB. --kingboyk 23:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Good ! Thx. :) — TiChou talk 23:47, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I applied the interface-changes patch in rev 1117. Although .Version is a bit redundant, it doesn't do any harm, so I retained and modified it. It's now called IAutoWikiBrowser.AWBVersion. I also added an IAutoWikiBrowser.WikiFunctionsVersion. Hope that helps. --kingboyk 14:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- One more little tweak. I changed the Version properties to output a Version type; just use .ToString() to get your string :) --kingboyk 12:56, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The advanced regex logging is now fully functional with a nice-looking display : fr:Utilisateur:ZX81-bot/Journaux/2007043001. Chico75 15:05, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That looks nice. /me likes. --kingboyk 12:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose that it could be accomplished using the nudge timer? Does it work ok currently? MaxSem 18:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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A feature which allows a user to create a list in Wikipedia of one language,and translate the list into an other language using the Interwiki (removing any page without an interwiki link into the requested langauge). Od Mishehu 07:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I think that option should ignore all these configurations: Grafika:.*?\.... (sample regex maybe there are better, that's example for .pl) because images are included in tables and galleries as well (maybe this regex won't match for galleries but sth should be applied for them anyway) --84.234.42.68 15:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This feature is not going to be implemented
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When using AWB, it generally takes about 5 seconds for a page to load and be processed (due to the delay in accessing it from the internet) before I can look at the diff to decide whether to save it or not, and another 5 seconds to save it. When editing hundreds of articles in a row, these few seconds really add up. A nice feature would be to preload a list of articles and process them all ahead of time. Then I could come back, look at the diffs quickly and decide which to save and which to ignore. AWB would then start uploading the results, but log an error and skip the article if a change had been made by another user in the mean time. Thanks, --CapitalR 17:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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When creating a long list of articles with AWB and setting some ignore conditions ("General article skip options"), I'd like a "Prune list" button that would prune out the articles that would get ignored. Currently you basically have to stare at the program all the time even if four out of five articles need no action from you, because the process gets stopped the second the program encounters an article that does need editing. If you could first prune the list, then you knew you could do something else when the program prunes and then focus on the actual editing afterwards. This could actually be implemented under the Filter dialog. --ZeroOne (talk / @) 19:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- This would be a bit of a server hog - ie dual processing, it has been dismissed before. AWB has a lot of automatic skip options, and the V4 release willl include a new diff engine, that reduces the load on the wikimedia servers, and will do the diffs quicker. Reedy Boy 14:48, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, thanks for letting me know. And thanks for all the other good features and fixes, the program is a big help. --CapitalR 18:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- That said, pywikipedia loads 50 pages at a time, then edits each one, applying the throttle between them. Could we not possibly go this way for some bot operations (rather than loading hundreds of extra KB of Wikitext?). Martinp23 14:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- AWB could really use speeding up for bot ops, I agree. With our recent changes, and the plugin, it's starting to look like a serious bot app now, but it could do with being faster. Supporting the maxlag param would be cool too (and afaik pywiki doesn't support it yet, we could be first ;)) --kingboyk 12:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikinews is quite different from the reference wikis such as Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, etc. Part of our mission is to provide a historical record. As a consequence of this we have a policy of protecting articles when they are about 2 weeks old. Much of the final cleanup to articles is done with the aid of AWB, but there are two key parts of the process that the tool does not help with. Firstly, prior to typo and link correction the history of an article must be reviewed. Edits days after the published tag are added need undone if they impact the content. Second, when all the links, typos, cats and other changes to make a archiveable article are done the article needs protected. Full details of the archiving process we try to apply on Wikinews can be found at WN:ARCHIVE. --Brianmc 11:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The history is implemented in the next version. —METS501 (talk) 20:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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