WikiProject Check Wikipedia (WCW) aims to help to clean up the syntax of Wikipedia and to find other errors. Dumps and new articles are run through a series of checks to produce lists for each check. The lists can be found on the toolserver here. The table is updated every 15 minutes.

This is the local page (enwiki) of the project "Check Wikipedia" (dewiki).

• Data, more features and statistics are in the New Interface

[edit] Project description

• What is the goal of this project?
  • This project should help to clean up the data of all articles in many different languages.
  • If we have a clear and clean syntax in all articles, more projects (for example: Wikipedia-DVD) can use our data more easily.
  • The project was inspired by WikiProject Wiki Syntax.
  • In order to use the data of a Wikipedia project without the MediaWiki software, you need to write a parser. If many articles include wrong syntax, it is difficult to program the parser since it needs to be complex enough to recognize the syntax errors.
  • This project helps to find errors in all kinds of language and will support many languages in the future.

• How does it work?
  • The script scans every new dump and creates a list of articles with errors.
  • The script scans articles on the list on a daily basis to create a new list for users, omitting already-corrected articles.
  • The script is written in Perl by: Stefan Kühn
  • You can download the script here. It is licensed under the GPL.
  • New features, last changes and discussion.

[edit] Participants

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• Lists created by Stefan Kühn (talk · contribs).

[edit] Tools

The following tools may be useful when checking Wikipedia:

• AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)
• Pywikipediabot (PY)
• WPCleaner (WPC)

The following user scripts may also be helpful when checking Wikipedia:

• AutoEd cleans up WikiSyntax and HTML elements. The "wikichecker" preset is recommended for use here, and is the assumed preset with the notices of where it can be used below.
• Advisor is more human-assisted and can help with things which can't be completely automated.

The following gadgets may be useful when checking Wikipedia:

• wikEd, a full-featured Wikipedia-integrated text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to edit pages, including:
  • conversion of HTML markup (including table and list markup) to wikicode
  • conversion of HTML named entities to Unicode
  • various fixes of headings and lists

Sandbox: /AWB; data from currently deactivated reports: /030, /035, /036, /079.

[edit] Bots

Bots fix some of the errors here automatically. Any error tagged with "BOT" is usually fixed by bot at some point, so manually fixing them is unnecessary. "partial BOT" indicates that bots fix some, but not all, of the errors automatically. Checks tagged with "PY" are generally suitable to be fixed by pywikipediabot.

If you are actively running a bot through one of these lists, please put the following template at the top of the section to alert other bot operators that they don't need to also run bots on that list:

{{/Botdoing|Botname}}

This creates:

[edit] Userboxes

Participants of this project can add any of these userboxes to their user page:

Code	Result	Users
{{User:Drilnoth/Userboxes/Check Wikipedia}}	This user checks Wikipedia.	Transclusions
{{Template:User WikiProject Check Wikipedia}}	WCW This user checks Wikipedia.	Transclusions