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
• "The the" and "the the" - Using a database dump every few months
• Grammar and style fixes involving decades and centuries.
• Anything else that catches my eye

I scan a downloaded copy of the Wikipedia text. Please feel free to ask me to run scans for you. My latest download is enwiki-20151102-pages-articles.xml.bz2 watch for a new download.

Other cleanup

• Articles where a syntax error makes "[[File:" show up in the infobox
• Articles using default captions and/or alt text copied from help pages
• Articles listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
• Articles listed in Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

Recent changes patrol

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

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 four 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
• The White House, Aston Munslow

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}}.

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

External links

• Listen to Wikipedia - a very different recent changes feed