User:Eagle 101/WikiDiscussion Manager/Guide

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Discussion To discuss WDM and ask for assistance in using it.	Report a Bug Report bugs with the software here.	Request a Feature Make suggestions to improve WDM!	Manual A brief manual to get started with the program.

[edit] Prerequisites

Cannot be used by Anon editors.
User must have 250 mainspace (article) edits. This is checked every time that you use this application.
User must have {{User WikiDiscussion Manager}} userbox on their user page or if you don't like userboxes for whatever reason just put [[Category:Wikipedians who use WikiDiscussion Manager|{{PAGENAME}}]] on your userpage. The program will not let you use it unless you have one of the two above. (similar to a userlist for AWB or VP, but no moderators. :) )
You must not be banned from using this tool. (found to be using sockpuppets is the primary reason for banning)

Double click on the .exe file to start the program and wait until it puts your username up in the title bar.
Find and press the 'Refresh' button. This will load in the days AfD discussions.
Find an interesting discussion, (in the upper grid). Do one of the following to go to that item:
- single-click on it and press ENTER
- Double-click the item on the list.
- Press the "View Selected Item button.

Click on the Submit tab (upper panel)
Type in your argument/opinion/comment in the rectangular box
Pick your stance (Keep, delete, etc) from the list or type in your own.
- Don't add a bullet point to your submission, the program does that.
- Also, don't worry about signing your name as the program takes care of that as well.
- The program will automatically put the first 100 characters of your submission into the edit summary, so adding to the discussion is a one step process.
Click the Submit button and wait until the program refreshes the discussion page.
(find another discussion to contribute to)

Click on the 'search engine statistics' tab. (after you have selected an article, shown above)
The search terms that automatically selected are shown in the text field. If you want to change them, do so.
Click on a search engine in the list.
Hit the search button
It will display the count and show the search page in the 'non-wikipedia Browser' (in the bottom panel)

Click on the 'search engine statistics' tab. (after you have selected an article, shown above)
The search terms that automatically selected are shown in the text field. If you want to change them, do so.
Press the search all button.

This will copy the link and the count to your clipboard (allowing you to paste in the submission field).

Select the search engine from the list (that you already searched) and click 'Copy Url'. This copies the url and the count to your clipboard
Paste to with the rest of your submission.
- The format of this is [<URL><SPACE><COUNT> The last bracket is not added, so add it yourself. (minor bug that I can't figure out and am not going to waste my time on right now)