Michael Noda wrote:
As someone who has done large numbers of minor edits in the past, completely unaided by scripting*, I'm disappointed that you feel this way. These edits are often the formatting and style edits that make Wikipedia look and feel like an encyclopedia. And yet you implied that anyone who does mass-editing is either using a script or is "mindlessly hitting a button". Was that necessary?
Same here. I've racked up something like 50,000 article edits over the years and I've never touched AWB. The most automation I've ever used is Cyde's reference converter from time to time, and that requires copying and pasting from an external text field so it's not very automated.