Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Database Scanner

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[edit] Menus

Show sub menus and example screen shot File Open XML dump — Opens a dialog box for you to browse to the database dump which you want to search Save results list — Saves the list of pages found from the database dump Reset settings — Sets all settings back to their defaults default Exit — Closes DB Scanner Dialog Options Ignore Redirects — Excludes redirect pages from the results Ignore image namespace — Excludes Image: pages from the results Ignore Category namespace — Excludes Category: pages from the results Ignore Wikipedia namespace — Excludes Wikipedia: pages from the results Ignore Template namespace — Excludes Template: pages from the results Ignore main namespace — Excludes normal pagepages from the results Ignore <!-- commented out text --> — Prevents searching inside comments Other Thread Priority — Let's you choose the thread priority. This is a measure of the amount of time your computer will work (per minute) on this task. Help About — Shows about box containing version number, etc

[edit] Text matches

• Are regexes
• Case sensitive

• Singleline
• Multiline

• page does contain
• Does not contain
• Characters
• No. of links
• No. of words

[edit] Title

• Are regexes
• Case sensitive
• Title does contain
• Title does not contain

[edit] AWB specific

• None — will just list all the pages in the database dump
• Has title AWB will embolden
• Has links AWB will simplify — allows you to search a DB dump for links that can be simplified e.g:

• Simplifies links like [[Dog|Dog]] to [[Dog]].
• Simplifies links like [[Dog|Dogs]] to [[Dog]]s.

• Has bad links AWB will fix
• Has HTML entries
• Section error
• Unbulleted links — Will search a database dump for any pages that have external links which are not bullet pointed
• Typo — Allows you to search a database dump for spelling mistakes, in the same way that AWB can when RegexTypoFix is enabled

[edit] Get results

• Start — Searches the selected database dump based on the settings set in other option boxes
• Limit no. of Results — Limits the number of results that will be found displayed from the database dump
• Start from page — Starts from an entered page name. Very useful feature if you do not have time to finish a DB dump scan, you can carry on from where you had reached before without having to start again
• Sort — Puts the list of pages from the DB Dump into alphabetical order
• Filter — Allows you to filter the results found from the DB Dump. The options are the same for the normal AWB list filter
• Clear — Clears the list of pages from the DB Dump

[edit] Make wikified list from results

• Add headings every - Adds a heading ever x lines
• # - Makes a list with # before each page name, if placed on a wiki page, this will number the lines
• * - Makes a list with ** before each page name, if placed on a wiki page, this will bullet point the lines
• A B C... headings - Adds headings == heading == for page names beginning with that letter
• Make - Makes the list
• Copy to clipboard - Copies the list to the users clipboard for copying and pasting into another document
• Save - Saves the list as a text document
• Clear - Removes all pages from the page list in the DB Scanner