Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200311154142/@comment-37336800-20200315150510

Himmalerin wrote: I'm unable to login into AutoWikiBrowser on UCP wikis but I can successfully do so on non-UCP wikis. When I attempt to log into  I get the following rather unhelpful error:

It turns out I simply didn't understand how to use AWB, I have everything running now!  I hate it when people just say "Everything is working now!" without explaining how they got it working. So that's what this is.

I only attempted this on a UCP wiki, wreckit-woodhouse.fandom.com. Steps might/might not be different for non-UCP wikis or more vanilla mediawiki instances.

After downloading AWB head to Special:BotPasswords and create a bot by typing in your bot username, I used Username-UCPBot, so Himmalerin-UCPBot. Press "Create".

On the next page you can choose what your bot account can do, at the very least you probably want to check "Create, edit, and move pages". After choosing all the permissions you'd like to apply to your bot, scroll down to the bottom of the page and press "Create".

A message will show up, saying something along the lines of

The bot password for bot name "$YourBotName" of user "$YourUsername" was created.

The new password to log in with $YourUsername@$YourBotName is $PasswordString. Please record this for future reference. (For old bots which require the login name to be the same as the eventual username, you can also use $YourUsername as username and $YourBotName@$PasswordString as password.)

Run AWB and follow Help:Using AutoWikiBrowser. When it comes to put the wiki name in, use  as the the name. When it comes to log into AWB, use $YourUsername@$YourBotName as the username and $PasswordString as the password. NOT $YourUsername as the username and $YourBotName@$PasswordString as the password. You should now be successfully logged in. You can now use AWB, either follow the rest of the help page or mess around.