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Please review the AWB guide before making a request. Users with under 250 non-automated mainspace edits or 500 total mainspace edits are rarely approved. You can check your non-automated contributions on XTools. Administrators are automatically approved and do not need to request access. For bots, please consult the Bot Approvals Group or bureaucrats' noticeboard about adding AWB access.
This page is for requesting AWB Access for English Wikipedia only. Other projects have their own check pages and you should ask administrators there to add you.
If approved, your name will be added to the CheckPage. If you will make many or fast automated edits using AWB, you may wish to use a separate (or bot) account for that purpose; first create the account, give it a userpage declaring it to be your alternate account, then make the request using your main account.


User:Capsulecap

I'd like to do specific tasks in a way that is both automated and supervised (i.e. I review the edits before they are performed), and I think that AWB would be faster to configure than writing a bot task with the same purpose. I am planning on using AutoWikiBrowser to categorize pages gathered from related categories using keywords and data from infoboxes and to tag sourceless/one-source pages with the respectful maintenance tags. Capsulecap (talk • contribs) 00:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Automated comment This user has approximately 109 non-automated edits in the mainspace. — MusikBot talk 11:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wouldn't WP:HOTCAT be a better tool? Primefac (talk) 12:13, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not exactly sure if that's what HotCat does. I'll check it out sometime soon and withdraw my request if it fits my specifications. Capsulecap (talk • contribs) 22:29, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kazamzam

Hi! I do a lot of work with adding citations as part of WikiProject Unreferenced Articles, as well as clean-up of existing reference issues. I try to leave pages better than I found them by copyediting, removing promotional material/weasel words, adding pertinent links, etc. Additionally, I try to tag unreferenced articles appropriately, and remove the unreferenced tags from articles with sufficient citations, turn external links and notes into actually references when possible, and so on. I think AWB could be helpful with all of these things and hopefully help get through the unreferenced backlog more quickly. December 2009 has 19,000+ articles and I'm dreading it already. Thanks! Kazamzam (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2022 (UTC) Kazamzam (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]