Talk:MWiki-Browser

Motivation

I've been asked to provide documentation for MWB. I have thus started this page here, in the hope that it is useful for MWB users. I hope it is ok to enter this on Meta. After all, MWB is a tool that helps editing MediaWiki type wiki pages. If you would like me to stop doing this page here, please drop me a note here. Thank you. --Ligulem 17:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I'm trying to use the advanced replace feature in AWB, but the instructions here are about as clear as mud to me :) Any chance you could add some more examples with screenshots? What I'm trying to achieve: en:Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Prepending_to_talk_pages. --Kingboyk 18:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You're probably better served using AWB's plugin feature anyway. Cheers! --Ligulem 18:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Really good tool!!!

Hi! i use MWiki-Browser on my wiki to fix some pages (which have been broken on a template updating), i have gained much time. It's a really good alternative to "python" bots (sorry for my english, i'm french ^^). ;) --83.200.138.37 23:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Please keep in mind that it is just a derivative work of the original cool w:WP:AWB, so 99% of the kudos should go to w:User:Bluemoose, which is the original inventor (Ton Englais vas bien -- my French is much worser ;-). --Ligulem 18:47, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Error Message

When I try to create a list uwing MWB on my own wiki, I get the following error message:

>StartIndex cannot be less than zero. >Parameter name: startIndex

Anyone know what this means or how it can be fixed?

I'm not sure if it's recognizing me as logged in - I've tried on other more mainstream wikis than my own. The program works fine on meta.wikimedia.org, but if I try memory-alpha.org, for example, I can't get it to read me as logged in or list anything (not 100% sure if I'm using the right URL but I've tried most variations on it. TheHYPO 03:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Could you give the specifics what you entered, such that I can repeat it myself? MWB shoud show your login-name in the status bar if you are logged in (displays the string "Not logged in" initially). What did you enter as the wiki? (example: en.wikipedia.org). Can you add a single page with the add field in the list tab and load that page in MWB? However, it could well be that MWB doesn't work on installs like memory-alpha.org. The focus is on wikis operated by the Wikimedia foundation plus I have adapted it for www.wikia.com. But I could have a look if I could adapt for more wikis if there is a chance to make the implementation of MWB even more generic as it already is. But no promises. --Ligulem 20:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I actually managed to get it to work on memory alpha (I had to include the URL all the way up to Main_Page - memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page) but even while I'm able to add to the list and view pages, It still says not-logged in (but I don't get the not logged in popup message). Unfortunately I was really just using Memory Alpha as a test to see if I could get MWB working on a non wikimedia site, as I figured that would help me figure out how to get it working on my own wiki, but the same URL-method doesn't seem to be working on my site either. I've tried about every variation on the URL I can think of.

On my site, I also found a URL form that doesn't give me the not-logged-in popup, but I can't get it to bring up a list or articles. When I add an article and click Start, it briefly gives a page for "editing W/index.php" or similar depending which form of the URL I find. The wiki I hae setup is weird in that the index.php appears in the URL (as in www.urlofthewiki.com/folder/index.php/Main_Page). It's 1.6.8 - I don't know if that matters either. other than putting it in a folder, I don't think I did anything special in installation path - so I don't know why index.php shows up. TheHYPO 01:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

The main problem I see with MWB is that it has problems to build the URL's for the wiki. The domain is already generic, but it seems there is a whole myriad of ways how to form the URL for a page (this seems not to be standardised). All the foundation wikis seem to use the same URL composing procedure and I have mainly looked at that. I did a special tweak for http://www.wikia.com because user:sannse asked me to adapt MWB for Wikia. So MWB seems to have now the two URL building strategies: the foundation wikis and and wikia. I think I will need to update the description page.

I think we can at the moment say that MWB simply doesn't work on memory-alpha.org, I might have a look what could be done about that. But again, no promises.

Question: is your wiki where you intend to use MWB publicly available so that I could have a look at it? This would be a big help to see if I could find some more generic way to build the URL of wikipages. --Ligulem 08:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm trying to use this on strategywiki: but it keeps telling me to log in. Is it the wrong URL I'm using, or do they need to be running a specific API? -- Prod 15:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Configuration

Does anyone have any example configuration files that can be used to do general wiki cleanup? I was hoping to use AWB on my own wiki, however it seems like that isn't possible. -71.202.96.25

Wont log in

I cant log into my wiki with this. I can make a list of pages but when I press start it has "the page cannot be displayed" error. Also it says not logged in in status bar at bottom.

Got it sorted! --86.138.107.183 01:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

am having

same problem Tmamatha (talk) 18:51, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Edit Summary

Is there any way to remove the (T) from the edit summary.--81.154.102.157 10:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

"or" in advance replace with

Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but how do I make a "replace X with Y" rule for pages that contain neither of two different lines of text? I can only see the one "if not contains" box.

Requirements - NET

"Version 2 of the .NET Framework must be installed"... Shouldn't it be "Version 2 or newer"?? -jkb- 09:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Obsolete?

This appears to be obsolete, yes? Badon 05:47, 14 September 2011 (UTC)