Help:AutoWikiaBrowser/sensor pages

AWB can be used to update sensor pages periodically. This is necessary so that detected information such as ancestor trees are up to date. It is desireable to save the sensor pages in rough chronological order. This is because ancestor trees are built up based on the information stored on the sensor pages of prior generations. If a descendant page is evaluated prior to a ancestor sensor page, then it will not get the updated information.

One way to generate a rough chronological list is:
 * 1) use AWB to make a list of all articles transcluding Template:showfacts person.
 * 2) Copy and paste the list into Word.
 * 3) Next add a ~ at the beginning of each line (find:^p replace:^p~).
 * 4) Next click wildcard search and search/replace with (find: (~[!\?~]@)([0-9]{3,4})([\-\)]) replace: \2\1\2\3)
 * 5) Use menu item Table.Sort to order the list by year. The start of the list will have those articles with patterns non conforming to the search expression.  Optionally, pick up death date to recover some of these in this list.
 * 6) use Search replace to eliminate the start of line data up to and including the tilde.
 * 7) copy paste back into AWB
 * 8) Make your AWB run.