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:Hi {{ping|ZeroOne}} I was able to login just fine to Civilization wikia. Are you using the latest AWB version, 6.0.0.1? <span style="color: navy;">— [[User:Ganeshk|Ganeshk]] ([[User talk:Ganeshk|talk]])</span> 00:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC) |
:Hi {{ping|ZeroOne}} I was able to login just fine to Civilization wikia. Are you using the latest AWB version, 6.0.0.1? <span style="color: navy;">— [[User:Ganeshk|Ganeshk]] ([[User talk:Ganeshk|talk]])</span> 00:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC) |
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::You can find the new version here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/AutoWikiBrowser6001/ <span style="color: navy;">— [[User:Ganeshk|Ganeshk]] ([[User talk:Ganeshk|talk]])</span> 00:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC) |
::You can find the new version here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/AutoWikiBrowser6001/ <span style="color: navy;">— [[User:Ganeshk|Ganeshk]] ([[User talk:Ganeshk|talk]])</span> 00:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC) |
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:::Oh, no, I was running 5.10.1.0! The auto-updated couldn't find the newest version! :( I installed it manually and ran the auto-updater -- and it downgraded the application back to version 5. But after reinstalling the new version it works like a charm again, thank you! —[[User:ZeroOne|ZeroOne]] (<small>[[User talk:ZeroOne|talk]]</small> / <small>[[Special:Emailuser/ZeroOne|@]]</small>) 22:18, 9 January 2019 (UTC) |
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Old/multingual wikisource
How to use AWB on http://wikisource.org , the old/multilingual/incubator wikisource? There is no language prefix and apparently it's not possible not to select a language nor to use the custom mode (error 403). If there is no solution, here is an idea : use mul as language prefix (which is done in some other cases).
Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 14:33, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
- User:VIGNERON. Yah you can do it by just choise the Project "custom" and select "http://" then simply give url "wikisource.org/w/".-- Jay ❯❯❯ Talk 07:15, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Jayprakash12345: you could try and tell me if it really works? As I said before, I've got a HTTP 403 error for some reason :/ Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 17:27, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- User:VIGNERON. Yah you can do it by just choise the Project "custom" and select "http://" then simply give url "wikisource.org/w/".-- Jay ❯❯❯ Talk 07:15, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
- User:VIGNERON, Sorry Please use "https://" instead of "http://". And Login is working fine for me. [1] [2]-- Jay ❯❯❯ Talk 17:38, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, so obvious I missed it, thank you a lot! Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 19:40, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Can awb work from a list of urls
- Hello. Can awb work from a text file containing a list of urls, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maiden_Castle,_Dorset&oldid=300874924? Lingzhi2 (talk) 11:46, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
- Lingzhi2, I don't know if there is such an option, what stops you from removing the beginning and the end of the url to leave the article name alone? I would use notepad++ and regex replacement. If you have article names in txt file you have option to load this file.Uziel302 (talk) 13:18, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- Uziel302, let me explain the goal. I want to acquire the html files of previous versions of all FA articles. Specifically, I want the version that existed at the exact moment it was promoted to FA, so I can glean prose size stats from them via Python... Years ago (years and years ago, actually) I used to use AWB a lot and I found that it left html versions of pages in browser cache... I don't know whether it still works like that... So as the first step to my goal, I thought I could run AWB over all the FA talk pages, get those talk pages in my browser's cache, run Python over them while they are on my laptop, and get oldids from the "article milestones". Forex, the number "300874924" in the URL above gets you the FA-promoted version of Maiden Castle, Dorsett. [Somewhat surprisingly, the "title=Maiden_Castle,_Dorset" in the URL is unnecessary. So forex if you change the oldid in the URL above to "361087775" you get the FA-promoted version of Cottingley Fairies]. So once I had all those oldids, I could use Python again to make a list of URLs with different oldids. Then I could load that list into AWB (again) and get the OLD versions of the actual FA articles into my browser's cache (or so I hope). Then I could look atthose in various ways... BUT... I tired running AWB over talk pages today, first without making changes, then trying to make an immaterial changes (substituting "e" for "e", case sensitive), but nothing I did had any effect at all.... Do you have ideas? Thanks! Lingzhi2 (talk) 14:15, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- Lingzhi2, you can use source/text file to load a list of URL on that format, but I don't know how it should load it to your cache, isn't there other ways to scrape the links? I use HTTrack to scrape HTML from the web to my computer.Uziel302 (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- HTTracker looks like a version of web whacker. I suppose I could point it at the FA page and have it get all the links on that page, but then I would have to figure out a way to change those links to Talk page links... not sure it would do that. AWB OTOH could just run from Category:Wikipedia featured articles and convert to talk pages... Lingzhi2 (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- Lingzhi2, you can use source/text file to load a list of URL on that format, but I don't know how it should load it to your cache, isn't there other ways to scrape the links? I use HTTrack to scrape HTML from the web to my computer.Uziel302 (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
- Uziel302, let me explain the goal. I want to acquire the html files of previous versions of all FA articles. Specifically, I want the version that existed at the exact moment it was promoted to FA, so I can glean prose size stats from them via Python... Years ago (years and years ago, actually) I used to use AWB a lot and I found that it left html versions of pages in browser cache... I don't know whether it still works like that... So as the first step to my goal, I thought I could run AWB over all the FA talk pages, get those talk pages in my browser's cache, run Python over them while they are on my laptop, and get oldids from the "article milestones". Forex, the number "300874924" in the URL above gets you the FA-promoted version of Maiden Castle, Dorsett. [Somewhat surprisingly, the "title=Maiden_Castle,_Dorset" in the URL is unnecessary. So forex if you change the oldid in the URL above to "361087775" you get the FA-promoted version of Cottingley Fairies]. So once I had all those oldids, I could use Python again to make a list of URLs with different oldids. Then I could load that list into AWB (again) and get the OLD versions of the actual FA articles into my browser's cache (or so I hope). Then I could look atthose in various ways... BUT... I tired running AWB over talk pages today, first without making changes, then trying to make an immaterial changes (substituting "e" for "e", case sensitive), but nothing I did had any effect at all.... Do you have ideas? Thanks! Lingzhi2 (talk) 14:15, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
"Software disabled"
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I'm trying to use AWB with the Civilization Wiki, which I have done many times in the past. Today, AWB wouldn't start the process when I clicked "Start". Upon closer inspection it says "Software disabled" at the lower left corner. When I try to login, it displays an error message that asks to check that the Internet is working and the Wiki is online (both true). Indeed, after the login apparently fails, AWB still easily creates a list of articles in a category. I've tried updating, restarting and logging in and out, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas what might be the problem? I've also uploaded a screenshot of the error (included next to this message). —ZeroOne (talk / @) 21:52, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi @ZeroOne: I was able to login just fine to Civilization wikia. Are you using the latest AWB version, 6.0.0.1? — Ganeshk (talk) 00:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- You can find the new version here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/AutoWikiBrowser6001/ — Ganeshk (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, no, I was running 5.10.1.0! The auto-updated couldn't find the newest version! :( I installed it manually and ran the auto-updater -- and it downgraded the application back to version 5. But after reinstalling the new version it works like a charm again, thank you! —ZeroOne (talk / @) 22:18, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- You can find the new version here, https://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/files/autowikibrowser/AutoWikiBrowser6001/ — Ganeshk (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)