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Please review the AWB guide before making a request. Users are rarely approved unless they have either 250 non-automated mainspace edits or 500 total mainspace edits. You can check your non-automated contributions on XTools. Administrators are automatically approved and do not need to request access. For bots, you must first have a bot approval request approved, or in trial; link to your BRFA in the request.
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.
Please note that administrators may not ping you in replies, so please check on your request if you have not heard anything.
Especially for new users, it is helpful (although not strictly required) to explain what specific task you intend to use AWB to do in your request.
You do not usually need AWB access to:

User:Beta Beta Beta

Would like to use when I get my computer back, will use to do edits that if done manually would be tedious. Beta Beta Beta - talk 22:06, 6 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Beta Beta Beta, can you give us any more specific examples? In solidarity, asilvering (talk) 22:19, 16 July 2026 (UTC)reply
To provide one example, simple copy editing would be far easier with AWB than having to look through the page for the possibility of a slip-up. Beta Beta Beta - talk 22:39, 16 July 2026 (UTC)reply
@Asilvering: pinging since no response in a month Beta Beta Beta - talk 19:11, 15 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Mascius

I would like to create navigation templates for groups of related articles that currently lack them and use AWB to add those templates where appropriate. I have not created navigation templates before, but I am familiar with Wikipedia’s policies and would take care to review my work and ensure edits are appropriate. I understand if more experience with this type of maintenance work is needed before being granted the permission. If granted, I would use AWB carefully and review each edit before saving. Mascius (talk) 19:49, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

 Not done Sorry, but I'd like to see you actually create a template before you start adding them to articles. Otherwise this request doesn't make it obvious what kind of navigation templates you're creating - and navboxes and sidebars are far from uncontroversial. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 14:42, 26 August 2026 (UTC)reply
@Reconrabbit: The only template creation I've considered is breaking up navboxes that are becoming too long as we turn wikilinks blue. I think that's considered a beneficial act by the linked guideline. I can attempt to do a few manually and see how it goes. Mascius (talk) 13:09, 27 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Maybe I've missed it? I'd like to see at least one of these manual actions before granting AWB access. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 13:38, 27 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:HaphazardBinBag

Hi there, I would like to use AWB to help speed up edits replacing the deprecated |alma_mater= parameter from some infoboxes. Here are some examples of the type of edit I have made manualy, , and here is an example of another user who has used AWB to make these types of edits HaphazardBinBag (talk) 21:26, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

User:FlammablePizza

I already have some experience with making changes using semi-automatic tools (and even my automatic bot) I build myself with PyWikiBot, but it would be a lot easier if I didn't have to write an entire program each time I want to make new edits.

I would use AWB to help me add add navboxes I create to various pages in a category, fix duplicated and deprecated parameters in templates, and test AWB scripts that I may submit BRFAs for as FlammableBot tasks in the future. FlammablePizza (talk) 23:32, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:DoNothingEveryday

Hello! I recently saw this tool pop while looking at my watchlist and I decided I kind of need this. I make articles and heavily expand articles during my pasttime, and sometimes wrong grammar slips by whenever I make/edit these articles. One of the hardest ones to spot are the typos and double letters. I would mostly use the AWB just so I could check the grammar on the articles I've edited and some others as well. This is just so that not another editor has to fix a typo I made for some time ago. If you would like some more information, I would happily oblige. (Here are my edits statistics btw) DoNothingEveryday (talk) 09:08, 5 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Miria~01

I request the use of AWB to perform the following tasks:

  • Add archive-url, archive-date, and url-status to references with dead or substantially changed/deviated URLs, using an appropriate web archive where available.
  • Find duplicate references and consolidate them by replacing repeated full citations with named references (<ref name="..."/>. Miria~01 (talk) 23:02, 9 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:LittlerPuppers

Have had this on and off in the past. It was removed for inactivity but I'm looking at getting back into more of this type of work. LittlerPuppers (talk) 18:32, 15 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Confirming that I still control this account. LittlePuppers (talk) 18:33, 15 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Automated comment This user has had their access to AutoWikiBrowser automatically revoked (). — MusikBot talk 18:40, 15 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:The person who loves reading

I would like to request for AWB perm to do mass copyediting, such as uncontroversial typo-fixing. I have carefully read Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual, and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Guide, so I will check each diff to avoid cosmetic edits and respect the varieties of English. The person who loves reading (talk) 05:57, 18 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Fabius History

I would like to use AutoWikiBrowser to quickly add and remove categories; I see many articles that are not categorized specifically. I also have been using AWB to add categories on idwiki. ⚔Fabius History⚔ (Salve!) 08:26, 19 August 2026 (UTC)reply

@Fabius History: I'm going to mark this as  not done because of your edit count, which falls below the either 250 non-automated mainspace edits or 500 total mainspace edits requirement on enwiki, as outlined above. You may want to consider HotCat or Cat-a-lot which are helpful for category management here. Staraction (talk · contribs) 04:42, 27 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Sddarealone

At the moment, I would like to use AutoWikiBrowser to make repetitive edits for copyedit purposes such as typos and bad grammar. I also plan to use this tool to find and edit broken or badly formatted references that are repetitively used in articles having a higher prose length. Thanks. Sddarealone (talk) 21:37, 20 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Jamaso

I would like to request AWB permissions to help streamline my typo correction/copyediting work. Currently, I manually patrol common typos like duplicated words and incorrect ordinals (e.g. 3th vs 3rd), many of which are often unambiguous errors, and AWB would make that workflow significantly easier. I reviewed the relevant guidelines on the responsible use of AWB and related tools before making this request. Thank you! Jamaso (talk) 22:06, 20 August 2026 (UTC)reply

 Done -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:05, 26 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Eman7blue42

I would like to fix a bunch of articles that list adjacent places (e.g. Caledonia, New York) by replacing with Template:Adjacent communities. Can be done with regex. Also would like AWB for all the other neat things it can do, such as adding new categories and navboxes I made to loads of articles (I did this manually with Category:Lists of commemorative coins of the United States and Template:Nepalese currency recently). Eman7blue42 (talk page | recent edits) 03:12, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

 Done -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:05, 26 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Enbi

Hi! :D

I'd like to have AWB/JWB access to do large scale noncontroversial edits such as mass typo fixing and template maintainance. I already have experience with semi-automated editing tools and regex, and have read WP:AWB and related subpages. enbi [they/them] • [talk] 23:10, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

User:Elirockenbeck1

Hi I know I have under 250 edits on this account, but I have used various accounts throughout the years I'm confident exceed 250. I want to use AWB to create lists of pages with the Empty section template to update sections that have been empty for a long time by either removing the sections (>5 years say), or providing some additional information if it is in my realm of expertise. I don't think that would be particularly controversial. Thank you! Elirockenbeck1 (talk) 19:57, 25 August 2026 (UTC)reply

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