User:Dispenser/Dab solver

Dab solver
Original author(s)Dispenser
Initial release27 January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-27)
Written inPython, JavaScript
Operating systemWeb
SuccessorAutoWikiBrowser, JavaScript Wiki Browser, or WPCleaner.
Available in17 languages
List of languages
English, Bosnian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Simple English, Slovene, Swedish
TypeWikipedia:Tool
LicenseGPL/Proprietary
Websitehttp://69.142.160.183/
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Dab solver is a tool developed and formerly maintained by User: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 as mercury, 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 to dab fix list (at tools.wmflabs.org).

To report problems or otherwise discuss "Dab solver" with Dispenser, go to User talk:Dispenser/Dab solver.

The tool is used by 70+ Wikipedians to make 15,000 edits a month in across multiple languages of Wikipedia.