Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks

AutoWikiBrowser 6.5.0.0

• Home
  Introduction and rules
• User manual
  How to use AWB
• Discussion
  Discuss AWB, report errors, and request features
• User tasks
  Request or help with AWB-able tasks
• Technical
  Technical documentation

• Changelog
• Developer discussion
• Modules
• Regular expressions
• Sandbox
• Template redirects
• Typos
• Usage stats
• Userbox

This page is for requests that can be resolved by editors with AutoWikiBrowser permissions.

Note: If the request involves changing URLs, notify WP:URLREQ for specialized bots designed to handle dead link templates, archive URLs, link verification etc.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

Sorting postal code redirects

Could someone sort Category:Redirects from postal codes by country? Many of the contents are for ZIP Codes in the US, so they should be in the subcategory Category:Redirects from ZIP Codes rather than this category. (Some of them, e.g. 33140, are in both, so they should be removed from "Redirects from postal codes".) I also found some German postcodes here, such as 76139; if you think there are enough of them to warrant a category, please create one for them. Nyttend (talk) 19:00, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

It looks like they are almost all in the US. I hope that helps. And this looks like the cleanest fix. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:44, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done with all of the ZIP Code redirects. I think the rest can be sorted by hand. phuzion (talk) 18:48, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Replace a template at

Replace instances of {{Fiction set in year category}} and {{Fiction set in decade category}} with {{Category series navigation}} on subcategories of Category:Works by year of setting and Category:Works by decade of setting, respectively. Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_discussion#Incomplete_cleanup_by_JJMC89_bot_III and Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_18#Template:Fiction_set_in_year_category. This is urgent because the affected categories are placed into themselves by these templates. If a category is manually placed in itself, clean up that as well. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:33, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Revoked VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 21:43, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• @LaundryPizza03: I've stopped the run here because I wanted to check everything is working like it should. I'm concerned that we are losing categorization from e.g. category:Works set in 1894 to category:Works set in the 1890s, but {{Category series navigation}} on decade pages only includes links to adjacent decades and centuries, but not the individual years within the decade. I've saved my run log at User:Vanisaac/test/9 so we can undo if we need to work on another solution. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 22:08, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

  @Vanisaac: You will need to add the parent categories manually. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:42, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

  @Vanisaac: Can you undo? I think I found that the templates I asked you to replace just need to be updated with the new name. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:47, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Undone VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 01:55, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Infobox planet

We have implemented a new "type" parameter at {{infobox planet}}. I'm doing the round Solar System objects by hand, and as for the rest, remove the bgcolour= or background= and set type:

• Small moons: set type=small moon
• Minor planets: set the type associated with the Minor Planet Center's categorization

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:45, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Do you have a category to load? VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 04:02, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

No, you will have to scrape the color-coding of tables in List of minor planets, which is based on the externally located JPL Small-Body Database. Objects that are indexed as round moons or dwarf planets will already have type= set by now. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

For the moons, you can go to Category:Moons, and it should be easy to pick out which articles to target. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

@Vanisaac: No response in 8 days. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:27, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Update Infobox international volleyball competition using AWB

Can someone help to update pages using {{Infobox FIVB tournament}} to replace with {{Infobox international volleyball competition}}? Then, replace the country name in | host = parameter to plain text (e.g. {{CHN}} to China). Next, replace | last = parameters and | next = with | prevseason = and | nextseason = after that wikilink/hyperlink the text (e.g. In the page of 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship: {{Infobox international volleyball competition
.
.
.
| prevseason = 2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship → | prevseason = [[2022 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship|2022]]
| nextseason = 2027 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship → | nextseason = [[2027 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship|2027]]
}})

Pages can be found at Category:Pages using infobox FIVB tournament with unknown parameters. Can all those be done with AWB? ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 10:53, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

I can handle all of the template renaming with WP:AWB/RTP and WP:AWB/TR, but I'm curious why you would want the host name template removed?

Writing a regex to wikilink the prev/next season should only take a moment. Once I have an answer on why |host= should be converted to plaintext, I'll gladly take care of this. phuzion (talk) 11:20, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

@Phuzion Thanks for offering to help! The switch for | host = to plain text was intended to align with MOS:INFOBOXFLAG and standardize infobox usage by avoiding nested flag templates. Appreciate you taking care of the template renaming, parameter updates (prevseason and nextseason), and setting up the regex for the season links! ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 11:41, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Good point! I will see what I can do about removing the host name template, however that might be a little more complicated. There are a variety of countries and templates in use for |host=. phuzion (talk) 13:13, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

@Phuzion Oh if it is complicated then leave it as is. Better to rename and update the parameters of the template. Thanks for helping! ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 21:29, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done, I've cleared the maintenance category! phuzion (talk) 01:51, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

I am currently unable to log in to AWB

I am currently unable to log in to AWB. I last used it less than 30 minutes ago. As far as I know nothing has changed on my end. Any idea what could be happening? (Please ping me if replying, I don't maintain a watchlist on en-wiki.) - Jmabel | Talk 18:39, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

FWIW, the system reported to me that there had been five "failed attempts to log into your account." - Jmabel | Talk 20:16, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Mass AfD for years in the 7th century BC

I launched Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/678 BC for all year articles up to 600 BC, which will all need to be merge-tagged. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:05, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

 Done VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 23:13, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Reformat numbered lists

Could someone look for awkwardly formatted numbered lists, and replace them with standard numbering? I'm meaning something like this edit. It's not cosmetic; look at the before and after versions. Nyttend (talk) 22:34, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

In order for AWB to be used, you need to provide a list of target pages and an objective criteria for the changes that you'd like to see enacted: "awkward" does not pass muster on that. VanIsaac, GHTV ^contr_about 23:10, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

This is made quite clear from the diffs. Nyttend (talk) 20:10, 10 August 2026 (UTC)