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AutoWikiBrowser
AutoWikiBrowser (often abbreviated AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor, written in C#, for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. It is designed to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. (AWB also functions reasonably well under Wine on GNU/Linux but this is not officially supported.) It is essentially a browser that automatically opens up a new page when the last is saved and suggests changes based on the instructions it is provided. Because it can be set to make the edits automatically, AWB is also a bot program, though this is not its primary function.
AWB primarily relies on search and replace functions and regular expression instructions (AWB uses the .NET flavor of regex). It can be customized much further with plugins; however, writing these generally requires a working knowledge of C# programming. Additionally, it has good support for adding templates and generating lists of pages to edit from categories, links, etc. Because there is thorough documentation for use of the AWB on WMF projects, it requires little to no programming skill, merely an understanding of regex to obtain its full functionality, and it is not primarily a bot program, it will not be dealt with in detail on this project.
For more information on AWB see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. For more information on .NET regex see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e347654k.aspx.
The AWB source code is available under the GPL and is maintained on the svn repository on SourceForge. The code versions can be browsed here via viewvc. AWB is written using Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition/Visual Studio, available at Microsoft downloads. There is an AWB IRC channel at #AutoWikiBrowser.
