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You take full responsibility for any actions taken using AutoWikiBrowser. You must read and abide by all relevant Wikipedia policies when using this tool; failure to do so may result in you losing access to the tool or being blocked from editing.

AutoWikiBrowser
Original author	Bluemoose (retired)
Developers	Magioladitis Reedy Rjwilmsi Kingboyk
Stable release	6.4.0.0 (February 19, 2025 (2025-02-19)) [±]
Preview release	SVN (SVN) [±]
Written in	C#
Operating system	Windows Vista and later
Platform	.NET framework
Available in	English
Type	Wikipedia tool
License	GPL v2
Website	sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/autowikibrowser/code/HEAD/tree/

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AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. It is a .NET desktop application which includes a browser capable of processing a user-generated list of pages to modify. For each page, AWB presents proposed changes for implementation, then moves to the next page in the list after the user confirms or skips the changes. When configured to do so, it can also suggest incidental changes, such as formatting adjustments, alongside the main edits.

AWB is developed for Windows operating system versions from Vista onward. While it also functions reasonably well under Wine on macOS and certain Linux distributions, these platforms are not officially supported.

AWB can generate a list of pages from a variety of sources, including single or multiple categories, "What links here", wikilinks on a page, a text file, a Google search, a user's watchlist, or a user's contributions. It also includes a Database Scanner for searching Wikipedia database dumps. Additionally, its edit box supports the Microsoft Text Services Framework, enabling functionality with speech recognition and handwriting applications.

The sources are available under the GPLv2 (see Documentation page). It is written in C# using Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition/Visual Studio (now called "Community Edition"), which is freely available at Microsoft downloads.

There is an AWB IRC channel at #AutoWikiBrowser ^connect.

1. You are responsible for every edit made. You are expected to review every edit, just as if you were making an edit using Wikipedia's edit form when editing by hand. Do not sacrifice quality for speed, and review all changes before saving.
2. Abide by all Wikipedia guidelines, policies and common practices.
3. Do not make controversial edits with it. Seek consensus for changes that could be controversial at the appropriate venue; village pump, WikiProject, etc. "Being bold" is not a justification for mass editing lacking demonstrable consensus. If challenged, the onus is on the AWB operator to demonstrate or achieve consensus for changes they wish to make on a large scale.
4. Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit. If in doubt, or if other editors object to edits on the basis of this rule, seek consensus at an appropriate venue before making further similar edits.

Repeated abuse of these rules could result, without warning, in your software being disabled. If you wish to run a bot, see Wikipedia:Bots; bots must be approved by the bot approvals group.

Request permission at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/AutoWikiBrowser if you would like to use the software. Once your username is added to the list on the check page JSON, you can then use AutoWikiBrowser on the English Wikipedia.

Anyone can be registered, but only if an admin approves your registration. As a general rule, only users with more than 250 non-automated mainspace edits or 500 total mainspace edits will be registered. You can check your non-automated contributions on XTools. You will probably not be contacted when your registration has been approved, so look at the check page periodically for your name or watchlist the page. Admin accounts are automatically approved for using the software, even without being registered. Admins and other users with pseudo-bot or flooder (not available on the English Wikipedia) will still need to be added into the bots section (enabledbots) of the CheckPageJSON to be able to use the Bots tab.

If you are planning to use only the "Make list" or "List comparer" options, then there is no need to register. These parts of the software do not prompt for a username or check the account permissions.

Download the release version here. Please ensure that you click on the correct download button on the SourceForge page, as there may be more than one. The correct button is green and inside the box containing the description, just above the screenshots.

A newer pre-release version (snapshot) may be available here. If you want to run the latest SVN version (by building it yourself), see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Sources.

AutoWikiBrowser requires Windows Vista or newer to edit on Wikimedia wikis; it no longer supports Windows XP and versions of the tool that support XP can no longer be used on Wikimedia. They may work on other wikis, though.

AWB comes in a zip file, and it is recommended that it be unzipped to a new directory, rather than running, for example, straight from the desktop. AWB is not installed on the PC and runs mostly as a standalone application: AutoWikiBrowser.exe (the provided WikiFunctions.dll file is also required).

On most versions of Windows, you should first "unblock" the zip file. Right-click on the file and select "Properties". If there is a checkbox at the bottom of the page labeled "Unblock" then click the checkbox and click "OK". AWB can then be unzipped to any directory; however, on some machines there can be permissions problems that stop AWB working correctly if the directory used is on a network drive. If you're unsure, unzip AWB to somewhere on the machine's C: drive, for example, within "Downloads".

On Linux, AWB mostly works with Wine with .NET 4.5 installed and is suitable for use for regular editing. The installation process is the same as Wikipedia:Huggle/Wine.

AWB can also be started on Mono, albeit with some strange errors, and the web browser component does not yet work under Mono. AWB under Mono is not yet suitable for use for regular editing.

On macOS, AWB is not natively available, but one option is to use virtualization with software such as Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox and then run Microsoft Windows virtually with AWB as per the Windows instructions above. A paid license is required for both Parallels Desktop and Microsoft Windows, though VirtualBox is free and open-source software and VMware Fusion provides a freeware version. Another option is to use Boot Camp to install Windows on an Intel-based Mac, although this is not available on Macs with Apple Silicon (to check if your computer is Apple Silicon based, please see this Apple Support article). AWB can also be used under Wine on a Mac. A package manager such as Homebrew can be used to install Wine; see Wine on a Mac using homebrew. However, AWB has not been compiled for ARM (Wine has been) so AWB won't run natively on Apple Silicon.

Alternatively, JavaScript Wiki Browser may be used on any major operating system in web browsers.

1. Select "Make from Category", then enter a category name.
2. Click "Make list", then let the list load up.
3. Set any options, such as find and replace, edit summary, etc.
4. Click "Start", it will load up the page, automatically make any changes, and then go to the diff.
5. Change anything in the page you want in the Edit box on the lower right, not the normal website textbox in the browser, then click "Save" or "Skip / Ignore", the next page will load up automatically.

Refer to the FAQ for more information, including problems with other software and Wikipedia skins.

AutoWikiBrowser's main feature is to easily make the same type of edit to a large number of pages. For example, fixing a typo, adding a navbox, or adding a category to dozens or hundreds of pages.

• Create a list of pages, files, categories to run edits on. Criteria for list building include:
  • CheckWiki errors
  • items in category
  • Google search results
  • links or categories on target page
  • links or a simple list of titles in a text file
  • watchlist contents
  • special page results
  • pages that link, transclude or redirect to target
  • Wikipedia search results
• Search and replace wikitext – plain text or regular expressions
• Add material to the beginning or end of each page
• Add, remove, or replace categories and files
• Rules-based page skipping
• Custom user scripts

AutoWikiBrowser also has some other features.

• Make list articles
• Offline database scanner
• Automatic fixes of common issues

AWB includes a database scanner that scans versions of Wikipedia downloaded to your local computer. It can be used to search wikitext, without causing extra unnecessary load on Wikimedia servers. This is useful for building lists of titles to perform AutoWikiBrowser tasks on, and for performing searches that would time out on-wiki searches. The scanner supports regular expression searches and users can run multiple instances at once.

Database dumps are created from time to time (more info here) and are available for free download. As the page states, the best/most useful dump is the enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 (dir). Visiting the database dump progress site allows you to view the status of the current dump and easily browse to the downloads in it.

After downloading, the archive needs to be uncompressed; this will turn it from a ~22 GB bz2 archive into an XML database dump around 100 GB.

A scannable .xml file of selected files can also be generated by visiting Special:Export.

AWB allows you to write your own C# or VB.NET code and execute it inside the program, via Custom Modules. This can be accessed via Tools -> Make module.

AWB can also load and use fully customized plugins. These plugins can process page text and extend the user interface, and are in the form of libraries (.dll files) which can be made in any .NET language such as C# or Visual Basic .NET. When AWB loads, it automatically checks to see if there are any plugins in the folder from which it was executed. Any plugins found are loaded and initialized without further intervention by the user.

AWB ships with WikiFunctions.dll, which can be referenced by other standalone projects. The DLL includes a wiki-ready web browser control, a simple page editor, a listmaker, and other tools and components.

• JavaScript Wiki Browser – A user script with similar functionality to the downloadable AutoWikiBrowser, but loaded within the web browser
  • JavaScript Wiki Browser in toolbar – Installs the above script, then puts the link to the script in the toolbar for easy access
• wAwB – A script inspired by JWB and AWB, featuring regex and JavaScript find-and-replace rules, granular protections and targeting of various wikitext elements, and a full-fledged CodeMirror editor.
• AutoEd – A user script that helps to automatically make certain changes in articles
• autoFormatter – A user script that semi-automatically fixes more than 200 common errors in wiki markup
• WPCleaner – A tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks, especially repairing links to disambiguation pages, checking Wikipedia, fixing spelling and typography
• Wikiget – A Unix command-line tool to generate a list of articles from categories, templates, backlinks, etc.
• WP:HIDEAWB – Instructions on how to hide AWB edits from your watchlist.
• {{AWB topicon}} – a top icon template to indicate you have the AutoWikiBrowser user right – adds a category to page automatically
• Category:AutoWikiBrowser user templates – Userboxes to show AutoWikiBrowser userright (e.g. {{Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Userbox 2}} generates the userbox below
• Wikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA
• Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Userbox 2

This page is referenced in the Wikipedia Glossary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to AutoWikiBrowser.

• Project home on SourceForge
• Browsing the source code on SourceForge
• Regular Expression Language Elements from the .NET Framework Developer's Guide in the online documentation of Microsoft