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== Welcome to the r/place Wiki! ==
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==Introduction==
[[File:Komi At the End of r-place 2022.png|alt=After undergoing a re-shading, Komi is immortalized in r/place 2022|thumb|Komi at the end of r/place 2022|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Komi_At_the_End_of_r-place_2022.png]]Komi Shouko is a character from “Komi Can't Communicate” She was first built in the UK flag on day one of r/place (April 1 2022), but was consumed shortly after. Her second placement was next to their first ally (Denmark) but then was later destroyed by [http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/The_Void the void]. Her third and final build started from around 10PM PST the same day on top of the [https://www.reddit.com/r/osuplace/ osu!] logo. Originally, after a post on [https://www.reddit.com/r/Komi_san/ r/komi_san], they organized the build under the gaming channel in the Komi-san fan discord server (later moving to a thread under said channel). Proceeding the creation of a [https://www.reddit.com/r/Komi_San_Place/ dedicated subreddit] and [https://discord.gg/komiplace discord server], their numbers grew. They lost the Tadano Hitohito (main character of "Komi Can't Communicate) they had built due to an attack by twitch streamer "xQc". However, they were able to reconstruct him on top of the Senko loaf next to Osana Najimi (another character) after the second expansion due to their alliances. On April 4, with the whiteout and end of r/place (2022), Komi and her friends (alongside allies) were cemented in internet history.
==Notable Events==
===2022===
====The Void====
The constant threat of destruction on r/place. In this particular case it materialized near Komi and her ally Denmark. Despite the small community's best efforts, Komi was consumed. Many noticed this occurence, resulting in the beginning of the rapid growth of the community. ''See Komi Shouko''
====Failed Collab Between osu! and Star Wars====
On day 2 of place, there was an attempted Collab between the Osu! Logo, and the Star wars poster in which the death star would slowly fire a the the logo in order to look good on the inevitable timelapse of r/place. However only closely related communities were informed, leading to misinterpretations of the situation. Some saw this as Star Wars' attack on Osu! and many anti-osu oppurtunists joined the fray, attempting the destruction of the log. Komi having been built directly on top of it with her hands on the logo, would naturally be caught in the crossfire. This brief attack was successfully defended against.
====The xQc Attacks====
====The Jakes====
====The Final Minutes====
==Builds==
===Komi Shouko===
====2022====
The spot of the very first Komi-san is somewhat unconfirmed, but she most likely had her first form near the flag of the United Kingdom.[[File:Komi-is-consumed.jpg|thumb|Komi-san is consumed as the Void prepares to invade Poland.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Komi-is-consumed.jpg]]Some time later, the first recorded Komi-san was coordinated and built by a small group of people on the r/Komi-san Discord Server. The location for this Komi-san was the corner of a rectangle that had used to be a hub for the Void, but by now was a colony of Denmark to the right. Denmark became Komi's first ally, and Komi-san was even built to the left of two Danish cartoon characters. Her other immediate neighbors were Turkey to the left and Poland to the south. Some time during the first night, the Void struck back again, invading Turkey. The Komi-san Discord dispatched a plea for help, but they were quickly overwhelmed, and as the Void prepared to invade Poland and Denmark, Komi-san was consumed.[[File:Northern-alliance(highlighted).jpg|thumb|The coaltion unofficially dubbed the Northern Alliance (highlighted)|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Northern-alliance(highlighted).jpg]]The next Komi-san was coordinated by a larger group of people on the Official Komi-san r/place Discord sever. Her chosen location was just above the Osu logo, where a deteriorating troll face had existed to the right of Australia. After forming alliances with the locals, Komi-san once again made her appearance on the canvas. Subsequent design changes included the addition of a crown (with unknown origin), and hands grabbing onto the Osu logo, which the people of the Osu community were more than happy to help with. Twitch streamer BTMC, who is regarded as the de facto faction leader of the Osu logo, even made remarks on the little Komi to the north. Along with Osu, Komi-san had forged alliances with Australia, Senko-san, Baby Metal, and Hong Kong. This northern alliance (because it was north of Osu) came to create a strong mutual defense bond against all the factions.[[File:Consumption-again(2).jpg|thumb|200x200px|Komi-san rising up out of XQC's purple tendril invasion|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Consumption-again(2).jpg]]But it was not enought to save everyone. On the second night, Komi-san and the rest of the alliance along with Osu, were prematurely attacked by a troll Twitch streamer named XQC. XQC's purple tendrils steamrolled through Senko, Australia, and Komi, before hitting its intended target of Hatsune Miku and Reimu Hakurei to the southeast. Later on, negotiations between BTMC and XQC broke down, and XQC launched two consecutive invasions of Osu (this became the part of a larger war between the two Twitch streamers.) In spite of all this, Komi was able to hold her ground steady, and not long after Senko-san and Australia were rebuilt, so was Komi-san. XQC's hub to the southeast eventually died out, allowing Miku and Reimu to make a return. Other factions joined in to fill the vacuum just above Miku and Reimu, and just below the Legend of Zelda Triforce. It was planned to add an "r/Komi" text to the right, but the plans never got implemented.[[File:Purge.jpg|thumb|The end of Komi|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Purge.jpg]]Komi-san would go through a few more design changes to her skin, hair, and crown, before the ultimate end came on day 4. When the whitening began, Osu was immediately enveloped. The beam of white then swiftly rose to the north like a beacon, obliterating Komi-san.[[File:Tadano-safe.jpg|thumb|Despite another rogue Void invasion in Bulgaria, the first Tadano was safe...until XQC.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-safe.jpg]]
===Tadano Hitohito===
====2022====
The first Tadano appeared to the left of Luffy (the "renowned creator of Osu"), to the south of Senko-bread, and to the right of Bulgaria. A rouge Void invasion subsequently invaded Bulgaria, which sparked fear for the builders of Tadano. However, the Void never damaged Tadano as they were simply going through Bulgaria in order to get to Megumin much farther north. Later, when XQC first launched his unprecented attack on his idea of the "weeb" community, he targeted Luffy, and in effect Tadano as well. When XQC's logo was plastered over Luffy, the first Tadano was erased.[[File:Tadano-proposal(2).jpg|thumb|A PROPOSED image of Tadano next to Komi-san. It was never built.|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-proposal(2).jpg]]After the first fall of XQC on night 2, several factions flocked to Komi-san east to fill the vacuum just above Miku and Reimu, and just below the Legend of Zelda Triforce. One of those factions were the April Knights. A plan was made for a Tadano Hitohito to be built to the right of Komi, also peering over the Osu logo. But by the time the blueprints had been finished, the April Knights had already taken that territory and even formed an alliance with Komi-san.

No attempt was made to build another Tadano until the second doubling of the canvas. The Komi-san community hastily upheld their alliance with Senko-san, and were permitted to build a Tadano, and also Najimi just above a newly formed Senko-bread (the first one had also been destroyed by XQC). Tadano was built first, just south of the slow construction of Twitch streamer JakeS. He had no trouble growing out his hair, but at the time, the blueprints gave him an Jousuke-esque haircut, contrary to Tadano's real haircut in the anime/manga. But even that was fixed as construction on JakeS gradually grew.[[File:Tadano-finished.jpg|thumb|Tadano and Najimi finished|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:Tadano-finished.jpg]]A war nearly broke out between Tadano and JakeS, as the conflict over the border became increasingly difficult to ignore. It's reported that JakeS refused to concede in negotiations, which lead to a quasi-war between the two factions, during which Tadano's hair popped up more, and JakeS was almost enveloped by a sea of blue. The war took a turning point though, and JakeS began to push back against Tadano's forehead with stunning progress. A second round of negotiations saw Tadano move down one pixel (which Senko-san was fine with), and JakeS moving up one pixel. The two sides remained at relative peace until the whiteneing, when JakeS ordered the irreversible nuking of Tadano. Komi-san responded by throwing their full weight at JakeS, nuking his icon with white as well, and ensuring that Tadano did not die in vain.
===Najimi Osana===
====2022====
Najimi had a bit of a more troubled adolescence, as she was built south of an joint-territory between Australia and New Zealand. Recall that Komi-san was allied with Australia, and so by transivity they were also allied with New Zealand. A treaty gave the joint territory to New Zealand so they could build their kiwi and bluebird, while everything south of the rectangle all the way to Senko-bread was allowed to be kept by Najimi. Najimi's ultimate uncompleted face actually fits in quite well with her character. Tadano at one point even looked at Najimi with a concerned expression. Other Najimis included plans for one on the transgender flag (which never was implemented), and a Najimi head on the flag of Argentina (which was never finished). Another plan ws proposed between Komi-san and New Zealand to have New Zealand's blue bird pirch on Najimi's hair. But mere minutes after the agreement had been made, the great whitening began.[[File:You-good.png|thumb|You good?|link=http://redditplace.fandom.com/wiki/File:You-good.png]]Amongus (very cool)
==Verified Alliances==
===2022===
*Pringle
*OSU! - [https://www.reddit.com/r/osuplace/ r/osuplace]
*Kenshi - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/ r/Kenshi]
*Place Australia- [https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/ r/australia] [https://www.reddit.com/r/straya/ r/straya]
*"Senko-san" - [https://www.reddit.com/r/place/]https://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune & https://discord.gg/yZCKF99Z
*United Factions of r/place - Discord coordinated
*Hong Kong - discord coordinated
*April Knights - [https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilknights/ r/aprilknights] & [https://discord.gg/aprilknights discord.gg/aprilknights]
*Korea Place - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Korea_Place/ r/Korea_Place/] & https://discord.gg/zEkUHPYs
*MaiPlace - [https://www.reddit.com/r/SeishunButaYarou r/SeishunButaYarou https://discord.gg/uyR5b3bE] - [https://discord.gg/uyR5b3bE https://discord.gg/bunnygirlsenpai]
*New Zealand - https://discord.gg/nz (Reddit sub unconfirmed)
*Touhou - [https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/ r/touhou] & https://discord.gg/ZSAtbhEzJ2
===2023===
*"Senko-san" - [https://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune ttps://www.reddit.com/r/SewayakiKitsune] & https://discord.gg/yZCKF99Z
*The Quintessential Quintuplets - https://discord.gg/gpE2cGWY
*Vivy Fluorite's Eye - https://disboard.org/server/799635577854492702

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| name = Simon Fraser University
| description = Final form of the Cyan Quadrangle Alliance, of which SFU was a part. The Raccoon in the top left
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Simon Fraser University (Often shortened to SFU) is a public university located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, with it's primary campus being located on top of Burnaby Mountain, in the Greater Vancouver area, and secondary campuses in Surrey and downtown Vancouver itself. Students of Simon Fraser University created a subreddit for the university in March of 2010, with the subreddit as of June 2022 having nearly 17,000 subscribers.

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==Creation==
Members of the subreddit had, in 2017, cooperated with students from /r/UBC (The University of British Columbia) and /r/UVic (University of Victoria), both fellow British Columbian universities, to build a small banner with SFU on it between the banners of UVic and UBC. In 2022, initial proposals from UBC students to work together to build a banner below that of UBC's banner, itself below the soon to be turbulent flag of /r/Canada were met with some enthusiasm, however following an abortive attempt to take out a primary competitor in the area which ended up itself being taken over by /r/Colombia, the search was on for a new area.

This was found at about the location (889,503), which was the former territory of a trollface emoji of gg/troll, but had since collapsed into chaos with about half the territory being taken by /r/Greenlattice following their war with the Trans Flag, and the other half being a site of chaotic mishmash and abortive attempts at creating artwork. SFU seized the opportunity and, having organized in a discord (r/PlaceSFU), began to build their banner at around 21:00 GMT.

They were not the only ones competing for one of the last areas of free real estate left on the canvas however, and were soon thereafter joined by the /r/TorontoBlueJays, building a cyan square in preparation to add their logo (A blue jay). An agreement between ambassadors was very quickly reached, and the Blue Jays build around the SFU banner, joining forces with SFU and another two communities, /r/Spelunky and Staropa building to the left of the banner, in what would come to be called the Cyan Quadrangle Alliance. Despite growing pains and sporadic confusion as Blue Jays fans sought to place their logo, the largest of the three present, occasionally overtop of SFU and Spelunky, all communities were able to relocate and come to a rough form of completion by 06:00 GMT, 6 hours after place 2022 was launched.

==Conflict==
==Final Result==

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Alternatively, [[User:Joeytje50/JWB|JavaScript Wiki Browser]] may be used on any major operating system.

===(3) Get started===
[[File:Sample AWB screenshot.png|thumb|250px|A default screen arrangement for standard AWB editing]]
[[File:AWB-setup.png|thumb|A dual-monitor screen arrangement for more complex AWB diffs]]
{{see also|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual}}

#Select "Make from Category", then enter a category name.
#Click "Make list", then let the list load up.
#Set any options, such as find and replace, edit summary, etc.
#Click "Start!", it will load up the page, automatically make any changes, and then go to the diff.
#Change anything in the page you want in the Edit box on the lower right, not the normal website textbox in the browser, then click "Save" or "Skip / Ignore", the next page will load up automatically.

Refer to the [[Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Frequently asked questions|FAQ]] for more information, including problems with other software and Wikipedia skins.

==Features==

AutoWikiBrowser's main feature is to easily make the same type of edit to a large number of pages. For example, fixing a typo, adding a navbox, or adding a category to dozens or hundreds of pages.

*Create a list of pages, files, categories to run edits on. Criteria for list building include:
**[[Wikipedia:CheckWiki|CheckWiki]] errors
**items in category
**Google search results
**links or categories on target page
**links or a simple list of titles in a text file
**watchlist contents
**[[Special:SpecialPages|special page]] results
**pages that link, transclude or redirect to target
**Wikipedia search results
*Search and replace wikitext – plain text or [[regular expression]]s
*Add material to the beginning or end of each page
*Add, remove, or replace categories and files
*Rules-based page skipping
*Custom user scripts

AutoWikiBrowser also has some other features.

*Make list articles
*Offline database scanner
*[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes|Automatic fixes of common issues]]

===Database scanner===
{{see also|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Database Scanner}}
AWB includes a database scanner that can be used to create lists of pages to be checked, without causing extra unnecessary load on Wikimedia servers. This is useful for building lists of titles to perform AutoWikiBrowser tasks on, and for performing searches that would time out on-wiki searches.

Database dumps are created from time to time (more info [[Wikipedia:Database download|here]]) and are available for free download. As the page states, the best/most useful dump is the '''[//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2]''' ([//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ dir]). Visiting the [//dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html database dump progress site] allows you to view the status of the current dump and easily browse to the downloads in it.

After downloading, the archive needs to be uncompressed; this will turn it from a ~18 GB [[bzip2|bz2]] archive into an [[XML]] database dump around 79 GB.

A scannable .xml file of selected files can also be generated by visiting [[Special:Export]].

===Plugins===
{{main|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Plugins}}
AWB can load and use fully customized [[plug-in (computing)|plugins]]. These plugins can process page text and extend the user interface, and are in the form of libraries (.dll files) which can be made in any .NET language such as [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] or [[Visual Basic .NET]]. When AWB loads, it automatically checks to see if there are any plugins in the folder from which it was executed. Any plugins found are loaded and initialized without further intervention by the user.

AWB ships with WikiFunctions.dll, which can be referenced by other standalone projects. The DLL includes a wiki-ready web browser control, a simple page editor, a listmaker, and other tools and components.

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[[User:Joeytje50/JWB|JavaScript Wiki Browser]] – A user script with similar functionality to the downloadable AutoWikiBrowser, but loaded within the web browser
**[[User:Joeytje50/JWB.js/load.js|JavaScript Wiki Browser in toolbar]] – Installs the above script, then puts the link to the script in the toolbar for easy access
*[[Wikipedia:AutoEd|AutoEd]] – A user script that helps to automatically make certain changes in articles
*[[meta:User:TMg/autoFormatter|autoFormatter]] – A user script that semi-automatically fixes more than 200 common errors in wiki markup
*[[WP:WPCleaner|WPCleaner]] – A tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks, especially repairing links to disambiguation pages, checking Wikipedia, fixing spelling and typography
*[https://github.com/greencardamom/Wikiget Wikiget] – A Unix command-line tool to generate a list of articles from categories, templates, backlinks, etc.
*[[WP:HIDEAWB]] – Instructions on how to hide AWB edits from your watchlist.
*{{tl|AWB topicon}} – a [[Template:Top icon|top icon]] template to indicate you have the AutoWikiBrowser user right – adds a category to page automatically
*[[:Category:AutoWikiBrowser user templates]] – Userboxes to show AutoWikiBrowser userright (e.g. {{tlx|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Userbox 2}} generates the userbox below
:{{Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Userbox 2}}
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==External links==
{{Wikipedia glossary}}
{{Commonscat}}

*[[sourceforge:projects/autowikibrowser|Project home on Sourceforge]]
*[[sourceforge:p/autowikibrowser/code/HEAD/tree|Browsing the source code on Sourceforge]]
*[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-language-quick-reference Regular Expression Language Elements] from the .NET Framework Developer's Guide in the online documentation of Microsoft

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