Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Projects

The following projects/tasks have been completed using the AutoWikiBrowser, "complete" meaning that the correction has been made across the entire encyclopedia:


 * Please add more projects to this list.

Largely completed

 * Bulleting all external links - ~20,000 fixed
 * Standardising section (such as "External links") headers - in progress
 * Adding bold format to the first occurrence of the title in every article - ~15,000 fixed
 * Correcting typos - in progress
 * Removing duplicate word mistakes
 * Adding/removing and changing categories per WP:CFD.
 * Repairing Bad links (at least 9,000).
 * Migration of all aircraft articles to specs template per WP:Air - in progress
 * Correcting 15 most common capitalisation mistakes in headings - Complete
 * Correcting the next 228 most common capitalisation mistakes in headings - Complete
 * Find + fixing untagged/broken disambig pages - ~600 fixed
 * Putting U.S. 2000 census data into past tense - 33,000 fixed
 * Miscellaneous fixes for U.S. 2000 census data articles - 33,000 fixed
 * Removing unnecessary links to days of week or to months (Thousands fixed) - in progress
 * Replacing "passed away" with "died" (Thousands fixed and now down to about 3000).
 * Updating cleanup to cleanup-date on recently flagged articles for cleanup - >2500 completed - ongoing/daily''
 * Substitution of User Talk Templates - ongoing.
 * Replacement of Image:Vatican coa.png with Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg - 208 instances fixed
 * Reformatting ISBN numbers which didn't allow wikimagic to work.
 * Tagging living person biographies' talk pages with WPBiography (including Blp) - ~115,000 done
 * Move all cleanup template messages from talk pages to articles
 * Add the DEFAULTSORT template to articles as needed
 * Icelandic project of is:Wikipedia:Mannanöfn built a plugin on top of AWB to update statistics from national census register. - Complete
 * Russian project of isolated articles recognition ~ 15 000 already marked.
 * Tagging automobile article talk pages with WikiProject Automobiles - more than 3000 done

Some of these projects have used the DataBaseSearchTool to identify the corrections needed.

Projects needing help

 * See also: