 | 🚨🚨 The Dab solver tool is broken and its maintainer is inactive. For an all-purpose alternative, consider using AutoWikiBrowser, JavaScript Wiki Browser, or WPCleaner. |
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| Original author(s) | Dispenser |
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| Initial release | 27 January 2010 |
| Written in | Python, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Web |
| 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 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.