 | The Dab solver tool is broken and no longer functions. |  |
 | Alternatives to Dab solver includeAutoWikiBrowser,JavaScript Wiki Browser, orWPCleaner. |
| Dab solver | |
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| Original author | Dispenser |
| Initial release | 27 January 2010; 15 years ago (2010-01-27) |
| Written in | Python,JavaScript |
| Operating system | Web |
| Successor | AutoWikiBrowser,JavaScript Wiki Browser, orWPCleaner. |
| Available in | 17 languages |
List of languages English, Bosnian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Simple English, Slovene, Swedish | |
| Type | Wikipedia:Tool |
| License | GPL/Proprietary |
| Website | http://69.142.160.183/ ~dispenser/view/Dab_solver |
Dab solver is a tool developed and formerly maintained byUser:Dispenser. It is no longer functioning or maintained.
Dab solver is a multilingual, menu-driven tool for disambiguating links in Wikipedia. The tool assists people in correcting ambiguous hyper-links such asmercury, which could refer to the god, the planet, or the chemical element. This tool is akin to a spell checker for links, giving the user a choice of links when the user clicks on the ambiguous link.
The tool features an interface designed to be fast and intuitive, using pre-caching to load pages and relevancy scores before you start. To further enhance users' productivity, the tool provides intelligent edit summaries, keyboard support, redirect matching, and relevancy scoring indicating what similar pages are linking to. It also offers advanced features unmatched by other disambiguation programs, such as customizable template support, red link suggestion, an article mini-browser, a manual-of-style checker, and smart context that displays only relevant text.
To use the "Disambig fix list" tool which applies the Dab solver tool repeatedly, go todab fix list (at tools.wmflabs.org).
To report problems or otherwise discuss "Dab solver" with Dispenser, go toUser talk:Dispenser/Dab solver.
The tool is used by 70+Wikipedians to make 15,000edits a month in across multiple languages of Wikipedia.
I don't know / Tag{{dn}}.
Unlink links that are notimportant to the context.
Link to disambiguation page.
Wiktionary (if available) are at bottom forlinks to definitions.| No shared links | Visual indicator of the number of articles linking to your and the target | |
| 1 shared link | ||
| 2-4 shared links | ||
| 5-18 shared links | ||
| 19+ shared links | ||
 | Circular link | The article links to the current page |
 | Already linked elsewhere on the page | |
| Disambiguation link | Open the disambiguation page |
 | Set-index Article link | Open the set-index article |
 | Wikidata link | Unused |
| Wiktionary link | Wiktionary links will automatically appear if you need to link to a definition (e.g.Tour de force) |
 | Wikipedia link | Unused |
| Unlink | Remove the link from the text Use this if the term is over-linked and Wiktionary isn't appropriate. |
| Tag | SelectI don't know / Tag {{dn}} request for help. Use this to signal subject-matter editors as needing more in-depth knowledge to solve. |
 | Undo | Revert link back to the original target |
The Tool looks (up to 30 seconds) for blue links, red links, and Wiktionary links missing on the disambiguation page. It uses simplified searches from Dabfix and attempts to display the most relevant results. UseDabfix to add these links to the disambiguation page.
Default sort: The original wikitext order.
Alpha sort: A case-insensitiveASCIIbetical sort, excludes numbers.
Year sort: Only sorts by the first 4 digit numbers under 2100.Automated Manual of Style checker for disambiguation pages has been built and displays it results in{{ambox}} at the end of the article. This information is also submitted back to the server. See also:User:Dispenser/MOS:DAB stats.
style=. Used by{{Disambiguation needed}}.Translations are stored in JSON format atUser:Dispenser/Dab solver/i18n.json. OnlyNoLinksInText is needed to remove the translate request message. The string selection priority isYour language code,* (Universal),en (English). The@doc should help explain what each string is used for.
If this is too daunting, you can copy and translatethe basics block and post it to thetalk page.
Note: TheDAB Challenge andDPL bot are separate and currently not capable of operating on other wikis.
You will need to setRequestPolicy,NoScript,Privacy Badger,Disconnect, etc. from blocking the following domains:
tools.wmflabs.org - Relatedness and link suggesterwikipedia.org - Articles and disambiguation contentupload.wikimedia.org - Icons and article imageschart.apis.google.com (optional) - summary graph for recent changesCan you enable the save button? Can "This is a minor edit" and "Watch this page" checkboxes be set to my user preference or watch status?
In the past, this tool has been found at the following addresses:
