Editing Brighter Shores:AutoWikiBrowser (section)

==Usage==
Make sure to use AWB version 6 or higher! 

===Site settings===
To have AWB edit the Brighter Shores Wiki, you must first set the Brighter Shores Wiki to be the project to edit in the Preferences. To do this, open AWB:

# Select '''Options''' on the menu bar at the top of the window and choose '''Preferences...'''.
# Open the '''Site''' tab. Click the '''Project''' selection field (which has a default of "wikipedia") and change it to "custom".
# Under the '''Project''' selection field is a dropdown field and a input field. Select '''https''' in the dropdown field and type '''brightershoreswiki.org''' in the input field.
# Click '''Okay''' to apply the settings.

You may now save the setting by going to the menu bar at the top of the window and clicking '''File''', then choosing '''Save settings''', '''Save settings as...''', or '''Save settings as default''', depending on how you want to have the settings saved.

===Logging in===
Logging in to AWB can be done with a normal account and password, but it is highly encouraged to login using a BotPassword instead. This helps attribute edits to their sources and limit the ability of bots (particularly sysop bots).

# Login to the bot account in your browser
# Go to [[Special:BotPasswords]]
# Choose a name for the bot - this isn't the account name, but rather a name for the actions this specific login will be doing; it will be appended to your bot's username when logging in. <code>awb</code> is probably a good choice.
# Click create.
# Give the bot some relevant grants for what is is going to be doing. You can hover over the ? to see what the grant is. Some grants you may want:
#* High volume editing
#* Edit existing pages
#* Create, edit, and move pages
#* If you know that you will need them, edit protected pages, edit mediawiki namespace, delete, protect (all required sysop)
# If you are editing from one IP then you can apply an IP range filter to it here, but this is generally better for bots hosted on servers rather than AWB on your local machine.
# You will then be given a password - it will be long and alphanumeric, as well as your username (which will be <code>[bot username]@[name you chose in step 3]</code>, e.g. <code>Gaz Bot@awb</code>) (you don't need the alternative method for AWB). You should save this password somewhere securely, like a password manager. You can't change this password or see it again, but you can change the grants if you need to by selecting the name from [[Special:BotPasswords]].
# In AWB, click the red User: in the bottom-right (or click File > Log in/Profiles...). You can use the quick-login form (checking the save this account checkbox), or add a new profile then clicking login with that profile selected. The username and password will be the ones from the previous step.
# Done! You're ready to start editing.

===Suggested settings===
While most settings are up to you depending on what you're using AWB for, here are some suggestions for settings changes from the default:
* Toolbar: Options
** Preferences
*** General
**** Enable ''Preview the diff in bot mode'' - when using bot mode, this allows you to see a diff to make sure things are still OK
*** Site
**** Enable ''Suppress "Using AWB"'' - generally unnecessary text added to the end of the edit summary, this removes it
***Editing and saving
**** Enable ''Automatically save edit box every X seconds'' - if you are doing more involved edits via AWB, this will make sure the edit box from AWB is saved locally to your machine so that if AWB crashes you don't lose any work (i.e. it isn't an automatic mode, that's in a different place)
** Disable ''Follow redirects'' - if you are performing edits to redirects you will need this disabled, and list generation via AWB's list maker, or via DPL, won't include redirects anyway. You'd only need this if you're manually typing the list of pages to edit
* Bottom area: Options
** Apply general fixes and unicodifiy whole page - you may want to turn these off to prevent AWB from changing anything other than what you're intending to change.
* Bottom area: Skip
** Page: Exists/Doesn't exist/Don't care - select whichever is appropriate for your project. By default it is doesn't exist, so if you're trying to create pages with AWB, it will automatically skip them unless you change this setting.

Check around other preferences and make changes that you think are good. Make sure to save your settings at File > Save settings (as...)!

A full guide to settings can be found in [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual|the user manual]].