User:John of Reading

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This page is about a Wikipedia editor, a harmless drudge. It is not part of the encyclopedia. For the 14th century theologian, see John of Reading.

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Typo fixing with AutoWikiBrowser

I correct Wikipedia typos on an industrial scale with AutoWikiBrowser (details here).

Current projects:

• The Lists of common misspellings - I am currently working on the letter "L"
• "The the" and "the the" - Using a database dump every few months
• Articles where a syntax error makes "[[File:" show up in the infobox
• Articles using default captions and/or alt text copied from help pages
• Anything else that catches my eye

Recent changes patrol

I aim to review all changes in the Portal namespace, excluding the active Current events sub-pages; and all changes in the Help namespace.

Twinkle rollback is quite good enough for this.

Assisting at the Help desks

I have a go at answering some of the technical questions.

Content creation

Writing content that meets Wikipedia's policies is hard. I've created three articles:

• Plas Uchaf
• Castle of Park - on the Main Page for six hours, but I was singing at Coventry Cathedral that afternoon and missed it.
• Ascog House

Re-arranging existing content is much easier. I've worked on several portals, either helping other editors to set them up, or reworking abandoned portals with {{Random portal component}}:

• Portal:Astrobiology
• Portal:France - "Selected article", "Selected biography" and "Did you know"
• Portal:Geography - "Featured article"
• Portal:Music - "Featured article" and "Did you know"
• Portal:Politics - "Featured picture"
• Portal:Private revelation
• Portal:Serer people
• Portal:Vatican City
• Portal:Wicca - Rescued from deletion

I've created one help page, Help:Infobox picture.