On 20/06/07, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
It was not done by "people using automation software" unless you broaden "automation software" into meaninglessness -- I used a tabbed browser.
Indeed. AutoWikiBrowser is a *browser*. It's basically a MediaWiki client HTTP browser for doing tedious and repetitive editing, like zapping gratuitous spoiler warnings in sections already headed "Plot summary" or "Synopsis" or similar. There's a rendered version at the top of the window (an embedded MSHTML control from Internet Explorer), below that is a list of articles you can read in, a bunch of controls and a window of wikitext to glance over.
There's restrictions on who can use the precompiled binary version (the AWB checklist) - basically users of reasonable experience - though it's GPL code and anyone can compile a copy themselves which doesn't use the checklist if they have MS Visual Studio to hand.
It takes far less than one minute to determine that "Three Little Pigs," "Thousand Nights and a Night," and "Hamlet" do not need spoiler warnings. Using a more reasonable estimate of six seconds to scan an article to determine if the spoiler tag is there to protect some revelation on the order of someone dying in one of Shakespeare's tragedies, we find that 45000 articles can be corrected by 100 editors in (gasp) 45 minutes.
To be fair, I did zap 10-20,000 {{spoiler}} tags personally.
- d.