Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-28045436-20170210172554/@comment-1845428-20170210182042

It really isn't too difficult. The thing is, it takes a long time to remove all of the links because you have to open each page where there is a link and manually edit it. With AWB you list all of the pages at once and click "go."

Example, " Redlink 1 " to "Redlink 1" " Redlink 2 " to "Redlink 2" " Redlink 3 " to "Redlink 3" Then click go, and the "bot" will find every instance of " Redlink 1 " and change it to "Redlink 1," etc.

Yeah, I was a bit intimidated at first, but once I realized that all you have to do is download AWB, login to Wikia through it (it's an official Wikipedia program, so there is no worries of having your password stolen or anything like that), then list the changes you want into the table... I now use it all the time. Especially considering that you don't even have to use it for links. It is basically a big "Find and Replace" program.

An example of what it could be used for in the future is this: let's say that when Soulstorm is released, it is revealed that the title is actually SoulStorm (capitalized "Storm"); now you have a hundred instances of "Soulstorm" where you want "SoulStorm." Enter those two words into the table, click go and it will replace all of the uses of "Soulstorm" with "SoulStorm" automatically.