I am thrilled to announce that a tool I am part of the developers’ team for the past 10 years, AutoWikiBrowser, is the winner of this year’s #Wikimedia ’20 Coolest Tool Awards in the category “Editor”.
AutoWikiBrowser is a great tool for making semi-automated edits in Wikipedia and its sister projects. The tool has helped improve Wikipedia articles in style and fix literally millions of syntax errors.
AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. It is, essentially, a browser that follows a user-generated list of pages to modify, presenting changes to implement within each of those pages, then progressing to the next page in the list once the changes are confirmed or skipped by the user. When set to do so, it suggests some changes (typically formatting) that are generally meant to be incidental to the main change.
AWB is written for Windows operating system versions Vista and newer. It also functions reasonably well under Wine on Linux and Mac, but is not officially supported.
The sources are available under the GPLv2 (see Documentation page). It is written in C# using Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition/Visual Studio, which is freely available at Microsoft downloads.
With the help of AutoWikiBrowser, I reached 1,000,000 edits in Wikipedia in Wikipedia projects.
Thank to the Wikipedia Community for their trust and feedback I am getting all these years.
