Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss/Archive

DNA[edit]

DNA sequences, like those in

Porcine circovirus

Hmm, I will have to ask around on MoS or something. Thanks for finding that. -- Beland (talk) 01:38, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If not, we could make one, a template with at bare minimum <span class="dna-sequence">{{{1}}}</span> Do similarly for the poem structure patterns. We did this with trade designations for horticultural plants, and it has worked out well: {{tdes}}. Turn out the nomenclature authority requires them (in a scientific name) to be in a differenced font, so we used kerned monospace (it supports extra options, but that part was probably a bad idea). Anyway, here's all "Template:"-namespace pages with "dna" in their titles here's those with "gene", in case there's already a template for this (I have not pored over them). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:48, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oof, that has resulted in some pretty ugly plant name typography; I wish we hadn't followed the typographical conventions of that source. I do like the idea of a template, though - that would make it easy for anyone who is interested to find all of the DNA sequences on Wikipedia...which is a thing that could happen? I put your code in {{DNA sequence}} and applied that to this article; thanks for throwing that together! I'll ponder poem patterns a bit more. -- Beland (talk) 05:44, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed[edit]

549 – List of MicroWorlds Logo commands – ignore articles tagged {{Copy to \w+}} or {{Move to \w+}}
- Testing a fix for this on the next run (April 14 or later). -- Beland (talk) 21:29, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1635 – wikt:nowrap – 100th United States Congress, etc. – HTML comments inside a table
- The problem was that the leading {| for the table was in a template, not the main article text. I added |- as an alternate start sequence for tables, so this should be fixed in the next run (April 14 or later). -- Beland (talk) 00:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Three-letter ISO language codes. These should be excluded if article titles like ISO 639:zzj are split on ":".
- Good catch. Improved the article title-splitting algorithm to split on all punctuation as well as whitespace. -- Beland (talk) 00:23, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 – 10P/Tempel – wikt:astrosurf – ignore text in "References" and "External links" sections
- Yeah, there's going to be a lot of obscure proper nouns and URL words down there. Fixed; I'm also ignoring "Bibliography" and "Further reading" sections. -- Beland (talk) 00:30, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 – 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ – wikt:prespacetime – word in a url
- Fixed by excluding "External links" sections. -- Beland (talk) 00:32, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
4 zjem – foreign language word, ignore words in italics
- I wrapped this with {{lang}}. -- Beland (talk) 00:49, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 – 1620 Geographos – wikt:graphos – part of name of asteroid
- I wrapped this with {{lang}}; it's a Greek root in the etymology. -- Beland (talk) 00:49, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
148 – wikt:rowspan – 16th United States Congress, 2004 Veikkausliiga, A11 (Croatia), Andalusian parliamentary election, 2008, British Columbia general election, 1882 ... find all – HTML comments inside tables?
- Hmm, a diversity of issues with table start/end syntax mixing with templates. Given the fix I just made for missing {|, I'll take another pass at this in a subsequent run. -- Beland (talk) 00:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- I made some changes to handle stray HTML tags; I think this is fixed in the next run. -- Beland (talk) 02:15, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Direct quotes
- 1 – 0 (year) – wikt:fortysixth – in a direct quote – ignore passages inside ""
- 1 – 14 (number) – wikt:forteen – as above
- 1 – 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training) – wikt:trainfire – ignore wording in quotation marks
- Hmm, we should spell-check quotations too (it's certainly possible to make a typo when copying), but we have plenty of other typos to fix before we get to the ones that require source-checking. I'll put these on a different output channel and just not post that until I get implement some more complex handling (we should probably mark them with {{sic}} or {{typo}}). -- Beland (talk) 01:56, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 – 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade – wikt:artilleryand – the string in question is artillery{{spaced ndash}}and (i.e. two words separated by a dash)
- It was the wrong symbol, this should be unspaced mdash ie:—. I have fixed it, but we don't need a spelling alert from this. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 – 1-(4-(Trifluoromethyl)phenyl)piperazine – wikt:pTFMPP – chemical names where first letter is not capitalized
I've run across a few things where words in quotes are fixed with brackets, ex. improbabl[e], replac[es], etc. [Examples added. Tevildo (talk) 09:50, 29 April 2018 (UTC)][reply]
- ~~1 - 12 oz. Mouse - wikt:unrave : (unrave[l])~~
  - Fixed. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:04, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- 1 - 340B Drug Pricing Program - wikt:tretch : ([s]tretch)
- 1 - '47 (magazine) - wikt:eople : ([p]eople)
- 1 - Zaat (novel) - wikt:enowned : ([r]enowned)
- 1 - Zachery Kouwe - wikt:appropriat : (appropriat[ing])
- The next run will ignore direct quotes, so this sort of thing will hopefully not be a problem. -- Beland (talk) 02:15, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Reference names, ex. wikt:grayone in 10th Scripps National Spelling Bee
- Ah, that was due to unexpected capitalization inside the HTML tag. I made the logic case insensitive so that shouldn't happen in the next run. -- Beland (talk) 02:23, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Items separated by · are considered one word, causing the supposed typo 52 testingRegressionCorrelationTerminologyParticipatory on social science
- Fixed in the next run. I'm not doing template substitution so there may be other similar utility templates lurking. -- Beland (talk) 06:04, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
48 fffffffunnyfearlessfemmefataleorverynaughtygurls
- I'll add Publications sections to the list of things to ignore. -- Beland (talk) 02:04, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed in the next run. -- Beland (talk) 05:24, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Proper nouns that do not begin with a capital letter. These are generally Irish names, trademarks or stage names. Tevildo (talk) 18:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- 1 - ~~11th century in Ireland - wikt:hAinmere~~
- 1 - ~~309 Road - wikt:iSITE~~
- 1 - ~~30th century BC - wikt:nGiall~~
- 1 - ~~32nd Young Artist Awards - wikt:yFury~~
- 1 - ~~35th century BC - wikt:nGiall~~
- 1 - ~~36 Cube - wikt:iParenting~~
- 1 - ~~4/4 (EP series) - wikt:illdude~~
- 1 - ~~45th NAACP Image Awards - wikt:influANTces~~
- 1 - ~~53A (band) - wikt:neoDominatrix~~
- 1 - ~~59 (number) - wikt:djTAKA~~
- 1 - ~~7 Angels 7 Plagues - wikt:xFor~~
- 1 - ~~7th Grade Civil Servant - wikt:workpointTV~~
- 1 - ~~95bfm - wikt:bCasts~~
- 1 - ~~9th Irish Film & Television Awards - wikt:tSaoil~~
- 1 - ~~A10 Networks - wikt:vThunder~~
- 1 - ~~Zach Boisjoly - wikt:iAMZJB~~
- 1 - ~~Zach Veach - wikt:urTXT~~
- Hmm, if these don't have English Wikipedia articles, I think the only way to handle them is to wrap them in {{not a typo}} or maybe {{lang}} (for Irish names)? -- Beland (talk) 02:23, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - All tagged. Some of these would have been ignored by new code anyway, since they're in quote marks or ignored sections. -- Beland (talk) 20:23, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These are due to difficult-to-parse mixtures of tables and templates. ::sigh:: I think I can fix this in code. -- Beland (talk) 00:49, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

252 - wikt:colspan - 1901–02 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, 1917 Norwegian Football Cup, 1917 in Norwegian football, 1918–19 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, 1964–65 SV Werder Bremen season ... find all

These should be ignored in the next run (20 July 2018 dump or later). -- Beland (talk) 22:28, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

88 - wikt:hillclimbs - 1955 Le Mans disaster, Adolf Brudes, Augusto Monaco, Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, Autobianchi A112 ... find all
- Singular added to Wiktionary --Harmonicaplayer (talk) 13:27, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hmm, it was deleted. I guess we need to see if it has been used by a diversity of editors here? -- Beland (talk) 19:57, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - I've re-added it, this time with enough quotations of literature to demonstrate that it meets Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion. I suspect it was deleted the first time around because it's uncommon and many instances on e.g. Google Books are scannos of "hill climb" or the like, and Harmonicaplayer, while often helpful, is also a longtime jokester. ;) It does appear to be a valid word in the specific context of competitively racing cars up hills. -sche (talk) 17:21, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      - Excellent; thanks for your efforts! -- Beland (talk) 19:09, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
81 - wikt:gholas - Bene Tleilax, Chani, Duncan Idaho, Dune (franchise), Emperor: Battle for Dune ... find all

ghola is either related to West Bengal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or related to the Dune universe; Wiktionary does not have either wikt:ghola or wikt:gholas;

24 - "gholas" : of 24 matches only one (Hasnabad (community development block)) is not from the Dune universe

427 - "ghola"

59 - "ghola" -"bengal"

of 59, only 7 are not about the Dune universe: Ghoul, Prem Pujari/List of songs recorded by Kishore Kumar (a song title) Mount Paiko/Kharkoo (places) Bogeyman List of rampage killers/List of rampage killers (familicides) (a town)

So this is the plural of a word that is most often a made-up term from the Dune universe, not exactly ready for Wiktionary! What to do? Shenme (talk) 19:12, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, we have a redirect from ghola; I can add redirects to the exclusion list. I'll have to be careful of those with {{R from misspelling}} and variations, and we'll have to go through all untagged redirects and tag those that are also misspellings. (In the end, I think all redirects will be tagged; categorizing them helps projects decide whether or not they are worthy for inclusion in a print version or CD, etc.) -- Beland (talk) 19:53, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, redirects are already included in the dictionary. I just created a redirect from gholas, so this should be ignored on the next run. -- Beland (talk) 04:43, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

76 - wikt:phyllon - Acleris phyllosocia, Antispila oinophylla, Arsenate minerals, Arsenite minerals, Arthrochilus stenophyllus ... find all
- I've added it because it is an English word, but most or all of the uses above are of Greek and should probably be language-tagged; compare tetartos. -sche (talk) 01:05, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
57 - wikt:decisioned - Abner Cotto, Ada Vélez, Al Hostak, Amanda Serrano, Beneil Dariush ... find all
- Infinitive added to Wiktionary --XY3999 (talk) 10:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Added to Wiktionary --XY3999 (talk) 07:59, 2 September 2018 (UTC) And expanded out of Wikipedia Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:37, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
40 - wikt:circrnas - Circular RNA, Circular RNA (circRNA) databases and resources, Competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) databases and resources, RMBase (RNA Modification Base), RNA ... find all
plural of circRNA, which is short for Circular RNA. Darylgolden^(talk) Ping when replying 13:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've added it to Wiktionary as wikt:circRNA, wikt:circRNAs. (For good measure I also redirected those titles here on WP to Circular RNA.) -sche (talk) 19:43, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
28 - wikt:hylaxes - List of mammals of Algeria, List of mammals of Angola, List of mammals of Botswana, List of mammals of Cameroon, List of mammals of Chad ... find all
Although "hylax" appears to be a real word in Taxonomic Latin in reference to butterflies, it appears to be a persistently copy-pasted typo of "hyrax" in these articles. (It does appear to have existed in the past as an uncommon and now archaic spelling of "hyrax", but it seems unsuitable for use in articles.) -sche (talk) 18:46, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed all instances of "hylaxes" to "hyraxes". Instances of "hylax" should also be looked at (some are valid, in re butterflies; some are not, in re hyraxes). -sche (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
28 - wikt:junebugs - Acoma (beetle), Coenonycha, Dichelonyx, Diplotaxini, Fossocarus ... find all
A less common but apparently valid spelling of June bug. Added to Wiktionary, but someone may wish to change entries here to the spelling June bug that is about 15x more common. -sche (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 - Aasu, American Samoa - wikt:oloaufou → false positive after apostrophe - Polynesian names often contain an apostrophe
- Well, I created A’oloaufou as a redirect. Based on what is documented at ʻokina I think this is supposed to be an ’eta because this is Tahitian, but it doesn't have a separate Unicode point from ’. I definitely don't want to parse quote marks as letters but maybe I can combine things on either side for spell-check dictionary lookup purposes. -- Beland (talk) 00:54, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - In order to fix a problem with Persian transliteration I had to allow U+2019 (right single quote mark) inside words, so this sort of thing will be ignored in the future as a proper noun even if there isn't a redirect or Wikipedia article with the exact name. -- Beland (talk) 04:51, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notes from Apr 2018[edit]

1 - 3,4-Ethylidenedioxyamphetamine - wikt:isopropylidinedioxy → chemical name fragment
- I checked with a chemist, and this was slightly misspelled. -- Beland (talk) 00:10, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 - 49th Quartermaster Group - wikt:counterpotente → Heraldry term
- Needs Wiktionary entry. -- Beland (talk) 00:10, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Added. Great find. It and potente are apparently less-common spellings of (counter)potenty, which Wiktionary also lacked until now. -sche (talk) 04:44, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 - 59th Ariel Awards - wikt:plainrowheaders → false alarm with table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
- Hmm, not sure why that happened. We'll see if it happens again on the next run. -- Beland (talk) 00:10, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- The 2018-07-20 run didn't list this as an error, yay! -- Beland (talk) 23:34, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
1 - 89th Academy Awards - wikt:orchestrals →false positive in quote
- Actually, I think this should have a Wiktionary entry. -- Beland (talk) 00:10, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Added. -sche (talk) 04:44, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Poems[edit]

These are patterns used to describe poetry. Not sure they are appropriate for Wiktionary; if not, I will whitelist them. -- Beland (talk) 00:49, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There may be a better and even conventionally marked-up way to represent these. Check poetry sources? Maybe they done as c-d-c-d or whatever. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:38, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

129 - wikt:cdcd - Anne Locke, Poetry, Rhyme, Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet ... find all
128 - wikt:efef - Anne Locke, Ilse Kokula, Mariana (poem), Ode to Psyche, Poetry ... find all

Oh, there are lots more where that came from. Maybe these should be tagged or maybe I can fix in code with a pattern recognizer or something. I'll have to ponder. -- Beland (talk) 01:42, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

1 - wikt:abaaba - List of ideophones in Basque
1 - wikt:ababababcd - Christis Kirk on the Green
1 - wikt:ababababcdcd - Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament
1 - wikt:ababababcdddc - The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
1 - wikt:ababbacc - Ottava rima
1 - wikt:ababbcac - Summum Bonum (poem)
1 - wikt:ababbccb - The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie
1 - wikt:ababbccdcd - Ballade (forme fixe)
1 - wikt:ababc - Ballad of Eric
1 - wikt:ababccab - Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry
1 - wikt:ababccbdd - Spenserian stanza
1 - wikt:ababccc - Nachtlied (Reger)
1 - wikt:ababcdcdefefgg - Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
1 - wikt:ababcdcdeffeef - Ode to Psyche
1 - wikt:abacabadabacaba - Abacaba pattern
1 - wikt:abacabadabacabaeabacabadabacaba - Abacaba pattern
1 - wikt:abacabadabacabaeabacabadabacabafabacabadabacabaeabacabadabacaba - Abacaba pattern
1 - wikt:abbaab - Sestain
1 - wikt:abbacdcdee - The Sun Rising (poem)
1 - wikt:abcabc - Sestain
1 - wikt:abcabdcefedf - Sestina
1 - wikt:abcbba - The Sunlight on the Garden
1 - wikt:ababbcc - A Lover's Complaint

From longest:

I think these should be capitalized or enclosed in quotes, either of which would prevent them as showing up here as spelling errors. I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § Rhyme scheme patterns. -- Beland (talk) 22:26, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Continued at Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss#Repeating patterns. -- Beland (talk) 02:04, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notes from Jan 2019[edit]

1 - Babak Hamidian - wikt:fakhrmousavi - this good enough? "fakhrmousavi" -> "Fakhrmousavi"
- @Shenme: Yes, that fixes it; capitalized words are assumed to be proper nouns and are ignored. -- Beland (talk) 05:28, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~~1 - Babakotia - wikt:antipronograde - wikt has wikt:pronograde, not the 'anti-' tho; see definitions antipronograde and pronograde~~
1 - Côn Sơn Island - wikt:oversped - When I corrected this one, a user on my talk page said it was a niche term used for "over-powering" a motor. References included at my talk page –eggofreason^talk 15:57, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics[edit]

2018-04 to 2018-09[edit]

Misspellings per article	2018-04-01 dump moss 4933ad4	2018-07-01 dump moss 4933ad4	2018-07-20 dump moss 5e6b2ce	2018-08-01 dump moss 0f7ddbf	2018-08-20 dump moss 032a6be	2018-09-01 dump moss 816c025	2018-09-20 dump moss 7e26fe6	Total change (to 2018-09-20)
0	4839889	4910541 (+70652)	4948698 (+38157)	4956727 (+8029)	4975895 (+19168)	4986531 (+10636)	5066713 (+80182)	(+226824)
1	319509	319315 (-194)	315926 (-3389)	312871 (-3055)	311641 (-1230)	309785 (-1856)	268592 (-41193)	(-50917)
2	104405	104591 (+186)	90630 (-13961)	89861 (-769)	89701 (-160)	89286 (-415)	71105 (-18181)	(-33300)
3	40270	40099 (-171)	38430 (-1669)	37891 (-539)	37832 (-59)	37669 (-163)	29796 (-7873)	(-10474)
4	22793	22739 (-54)	21069 (-1670)	20900 (-169)	20909 (+9)	20859 (-50)	16180 (-4679)	(-6613)
5	13355	13331 (-24)	12561 (-770)	12392 (-169)	12357 (-35)	12315 (-42)	9483 (-2832)	(-3872)
6	9398	9422 (+24)	8700 (-722)	8620 (-80)	8625 (+5)	8574 (-51)	6411 (-2163)	(-2987)
7	6599	6614 (+15)	6150 (-464)	6095 (-55)	6098 (+3)	6076 (-22)	4573 (-1503)	(-2026)
8	5314	5312 (-2)	4854 (-458)	4832 (-22)	4812 (-20)	4839 (+27)	3474 (-1365)	(-1840)
9	3992	3985 (-7)	3723 (-262)	3643 (-80)	3665 (+22)	3631 (-34)	2640 (-991)	(-1352)
10-19	16753	16879 (+126)	15508 (-1371)	15437 (-71)	15497 (+60)	15458 (-39)	10260 (-5198)	(-6493)
20-29	4997	4992 (-5)	4597 (-395)	4594 (-3)	4524 (-70)	4512 (-12)	2596 (-1916)	(-2401)
30-39	2169	2211 (+42)	1976 (-225)	1962 (-14)	1934 (-28)	1929 (-5)	1011 (-918)	(-1158)
40-49	1177	1205 (+28)	1061 (-144)	1061 (0)	1031 (-30)	1027 (-4)	525 (-502)	(-652)
50-59	674	695 (+21)	619 (-74)	618 (-1)	560 (-58)	553 (-7)	296 (-257)	(-378)
60-69	453	476 (+23)	420 (-56)	419 (-1)	378 (-41)	377 (-1)	179 (-198)	(-274)
70-79	299	326 (+27)	243 (- 83)	241 (-2)	214 (-27)	218 (+4)	119 (-99)	(-180)
80-89	213	218 (+5)	179 (-39)	181 (+2)	177 (-4)	179 (+2)	81 (-98)	(-132)
90-99	140	153 (+13)	131 (-21)	126 (-5)	126 (0)	128 (+2)	61 (-67)	(-79)
100-199	456	521 (+65)	434 (-87)	435 (+1)	416 (-19)	414 (-2)	196 (-218)	(-260)
200-299	90	113 (+23)	93 (-20)	95 (+2)	91 (-4)	96 (+5)	44 (-52)	(-46)
300-399	44	45 (+1)	41 (-4)	42 (+1)	41 (-1)	42 (+1)	27 (-15)	(-17)
400-499	19	26 (+7)	21 (-5)	22 (+1)	18 (-4)	18 (0)	9 (-9)	(-10)
500-599	12	13 (+1)	13 (0)	13 (0)	16 (+3)	16 (0)	7 (-9)	(-5)
600-699	8	9 (+1)	9 (0)	8 (-1)	6 (-2)	7 (+1)	2 (-5)	(-6)
700-799	2	3 (+1)	3 (0)	5 (+2)	5 (0)	5 (0)	1 (-4)	(-1)
800-899	2	3 (+1)	3 (0)	3 (0)	3 (0)	2 (-1)	0 (-2)	(-2)
900-999	6	7 (+1)	6 (-1)	6 (0)	5 (-1)	5 (0)	0 (-5)	(-6)
1000-1999	25	27 (+2)	27 (0)	26 (-1)	24 (-2)	23 (-1)	0 (-23)	(-25)
2000-2999	3	5 (+2)	5 (0)	5 (0)	5 (0)	3 (-2)	0 (-3)	(-3)
4000-4999	0	2 (+2)	2 (0)	2 (0)	3 (+1)	1 (-2)	0 (-1)	(0)
Parse failed	193671	194777 (+1106)	191813 (-2964)	195147 (+3334)	203588 (+8441)	203583 (-5)	201420 (-2163)	(+7749)

The spell checker has been getting smarter over time, so more recent versions report fewer false alarms. This explains most of the drop in the number of possible typos reported. Most of the gains for pages with more than 100 possible typos is due to changes that ignore pages with {{cleanup}} and similar tags, which indicate the page may not be ready for spell checking. I have been specifically tagging pages with a high number of possible typos to bring them to the attention of interested editors. Pages tagged for cleanup are reported in the statistics of cleanup-related work queues.

Some variation in the number of typos fixed between runs is also explained by the differences in the amount of time between runs. The biggest sources of variance are the unusually long time between the first two runs and the fact that dumps snapshotted on the first day of the month (which have a lot of additional data the spell checker doesn't need) take longer for Wikimedia servers to generate than the dumps snapshotted on the twentieth day of the month. There is also considerable activity from other editors writing new material and correcting typos as they find them while reading or editing articles.

moss project participants have been correcting hundreds or thousands of typos per month (yay!) mostly in articles with a single typo. We have also been adding somewhere from handfuls to dozens of entries to Wiktionary a month. Looking only at the generated reports, these numbers are difficult to separate from the other changes in data and code, but we do see progress as we strike through or remove items from the todo lists.

Since figuring out which words are not typos is such a big part of the problem to be solved, the code may need to get smarter in the future, but we're probably going to have an upcoming period of relative stability as we work through some low-hanging fruit. Hopefully upcoming statistics will reflect progress in actually reducing typos more than changes in spell checker code. -- Beland (talk) 18:20, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018-09 to 2019-03[edit]

At least 10% of possible typos reported in the old statistics are definitely misspellings, but it's unclear how many of the remaining 90% are. Below is a new way of breaking down possible typos, by type instead of count per article. The "T1" items are almost all typos, and those are what we've been working on in the main "by article" section. Some of the other types have their own reports on this page, but most will require further analysis to either automatically distinguish typos vs. legitimate strings, or produce a more useful report for human editors.

Reporting symbol	Explanation	Instances/Unique strings, 2018-09-20 dump (7e26fe6)	Instances/Unique strings, 2018-10-20 dump (7649023)	Instances/Unique strings, 2018-11-01 dump (0aa8575)	Instances/Unique strings, 2018-12-20 dump (03be966)	Instances/Unique strings, 2019-01-20 dump (1bcf51c)	Instances/Unique strings, 2019-02-01 dump (c6ce3ab)	Instances/Unique strings, 2019-03-01 dump (ff8b9d2)	Instances/Unique strings, 2019-03-20 dump (692642d)
TS	Missing or whitespace or dash (or new compound)	152985/84720	194758/114535	194711/114518	195044/114675	192811/114167	193752/114734	191701/113928	183795/109989
T1	Edit distance 1 from common English word	111429/70527	104280/68352	103043/67652	96081/64513	89549/61018	89355/60879	83353/57483	75941/53339
T2	Edit distance 2 from common English word	82638/53517	81793/53146	81721/53191	81536/53093	81170/52980	82727/53945	81410/53326	72093/47849
T3	Edit distance 3 from common English word	91844/61332	90769/60713	90778/60760	90382/60574	89841/60397	91893/61566	90328/60825	79609/54610
T4	Edit distance 4 from common English word	76336/52684	75139/52090	75006/52101	74757/51828	74536/51752	76323/52938	75335/52296	-
T5	Edit distance 5 from common English word	52071/36450	50970/35807	50882/35812	50614/35649	50571/35624	51785/36446	50852/36022	-
T6	Edit distance 6 from common English word	30437/21927	29755/21481	29704/21478	29490/21302	29440/21280	30134/21759	29685/21506	-
T7	Edit distance 7 from common English word	15392/11095	14972/10854	14977/10858	14858/10736	14765/10698	15153/10939	14929/10790	-
T8	Edit distance 8 from common English word	7138/5060	6966/4936	6970/4947	6911/4902	6863/4881	6967/4959	6811/4886	-
T9	Edit distance 9 from common English word	2450/1868	2383/1823	2380/1822	2349/1822	2348/1819	2407/1867	2386/1848	-
T10	Edit distance 10 from common English word	1027/721	987/705	986/706	995/702	978/697	992/708	960/693	-
T11	Edit distance 11 from common English word	399/324	390/317	389/316	380/312	378/309	386/315	388/316	-
T12	Edit distance 12 from common English word	122/105	119/102	119/102	120/103	117/101	118/101	118/101	-
T13	Edit distance 13 from common English word	44/29	44/29	44/29	44/29	45/30	45/30	45/30	-
T14	Edit distance 14 from common English word	15/13	14/12	14/12	13/11	1/1	6/5	5/5	-
T15	Edit distance 15 from common English word	1/1	1/1	1/1	0/0	1/1	0/0	0/0	-
T16	Edit distance 16 from common English word	2/2	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0	1/1	1/1	-
R	A-Z only, not near a common English word	168446/121107	165841/119452	165960/119619	165403/119208	165091/119086	169103/121936	166235/120111	101178/77389
I	Letters with accents or mixed with punctuation (other than hyphen)	266937/143960	261310/144833	261653/145040	263654/145754	263679/146027	275444/153887	229579/149303	93902/70014
W	Not in English Wikitionary, in non-English Wiktionary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	82548/48389
L	Probable Romanization (transLiteration)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4294/2610
ME	Probable coMpound, English	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	51279/33301
MI	Probable coMpound, non-English (International) in English Wiktionary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	194949/133055
MW	Probable coMpound, found in non-English Wiktionary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	51656/36961
ML	Probable coMpound, transLiteration	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4010/2791
C	Chemistry words	6581/4604	6597/4619	6613/4629	6631/4638	6633/4624	6618/4618	6637/4625	1853/1399
D	DNA sequences (a, c, g, t)	51/18	15/3	16/4	16/4	15/3	15/3	2/2	0/0
N	A-Z plus numbers and hyphens	25061/20114	25728/20854	25702/20846	25748/20899	25582/20737	26201/21255	25969/21130	26620/21685
P	Patterns (e.g. rhyme schemes)	808/461	796/484	790/484	778/478	736/439	744/443	493/423	47/33
H	HTML/XML/SGML tag	-	-	-	-	-	-	3389/1592	3519/1593
HB	Known bad HTML tag, like <font>	-	-	-	-	-	-	14417/49	15366/49
HL	Bad HTML-like linking, like <http://...>	-	-	-	-	-	-	519/5	516/5
Parse failure	Mismatched punctuation	?	?	?	202583	203044	203611	214525	199130 articles
Total		1092214/690639	1113627/715148	1112459/714927	1105804/711232	1095150/706671	1120169/723334	1075547/711296	1043175/695061

2019-03 to 2020-02[edit]

From 2018-09-20 to 2019-03-01, the number of typos classified as T1 (edit distance 1 from an English word, the most likely to be actual misspellings) dropped by 35,488, or 32%, and this appears to be due to the hard work of editors participating in the moss project fixing typos on the T1 lists. Amazing progress! The numbers for categories we aren't fixing have remained relatively stable, though for all categories there is some bouncing around as new typos are created and fixed in the normal course of writing and editing articles.

While processing the 2019-03-01 dump, I made a major change to how typos are classified. (You can see the old method in the archived statistics.) I've dropped categories with an edit distance greater than 3 from an English word (T4 thru T16) since these are quite unlikely to be misspellings. Most of the reported typos that are not likely English misspellings are either compound words or non-English words. (Some of the non-English words are also misspelled.) Some English compounds end up as TS, if they are caught by a conventional spell checker; the rest are now classified as ME. (There are various other categories for compounds, all starting with M, and these will all need to be refined later because a fair number of words are up there that don't belong.) In an effort to exclude as many non-English words as possible, I've started looking at non-English Wiktionaries; any words found there but not in the English Wiktionary are classified as W. Romanizations are not eligible for Wiktionary; words native to non-Latin writing systems are entered under those other systems. I've written some code that attempts to perform transliteration from any given writing system. It's starting to catch a few thousand words (classified as L) but is obviously missing a lot and so will need to be further refined. I've also added some categories for bad HTML tags and similar problems.

Since the classification changes make the new numbers incomparable with the old numbers, I've started a new table below. I've started posting some TS typos as well as T1s, so expect to see both those numbers to improve significantly in the coming months. -- Beland (talk) 07:30, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting symbol	Explanation	Change from 2019-03-01 to 2020-02-20	Instances, 2019-03-01 dump (692642d)	Instances, 2019-03-20 dump (802b6c0)	Instances, 2019-04-01 dump (ab3fabd)	Instances, 2019-04-20 dump (7bb97ba)	Instances, 2019-05-01 dump (dcb388a)	Instances, 2019-05-20 dump (dcb388a)	Instances, 2019-06-01 dump (30a59f6)	Instances, 2019-07-01 dump (2fc381f)	Instances, 2019-07-20 dump (41f99ab)	Instances, 2019-08-01 dump (bc954d6)	Instances, 2019-08-20 dump (c600526)	Instances, 2019-09-01 dump (4660042)	Instances, 2019-09-20 dump (18f7307)	Instances, 2019-10-01 dump (08a1438)	Instances, 2019-10-20 dump (e07a89f)	Instances, 2019-11-01 dump (e07a89f)	Instances, 2019-11-20 dump (e07a89f)	Instances, 2019-12-01 dump (95d1a53)	Instances, 2019-12-20 dump (0434c67)	Instances, 2020-01-20 dump (99af116)	Instances, 2020-02-20 dump (99af116)
TS	Missing or extra whitespace or dash (or new compound)	-39368 (-21%)	183795	182018 (-1777/.97%)	178591 (-3427/1.9%)	177391	176266	175163	173312	170828	168401	166966	164205	161344	160707	157832	155980	155218	152621	147666	146591	144424	144427
T1	Edit distance 1 from common English word	-36192 (-48%)	75941	73600 (-2341/3.1%)	70756 (-2844/3.9%)	69261	68790	66099	64732	61255	57141	55160	51987	48904	45926	44275	40436	39285	39106	39721	39301	38737	39749
T2	Edit distance 2 from common English word	-7560 (-10%)	72093	71615 (-478/.66%)	70949 (-666/.93%)	70909	70684	70247	69741	69629	69365	69266	69146	68748	68657	67161	66173	65589	64952	64890	64886	64691	64533
T3	Edit distance 3 from common English word	-5276 (-7%)	79609	78925 (-684/.86%)	78209 (-716/.91%)	78139	78046	77541	76954	76887	76672	76691	76663	75998	76061	75096	74636	74327	73995	74030	74551	74419	74333
R	Regular word (A-Z only) not near a common English word	-3525 (-3%)	101178	100067 (-1111/1.1%)	99491 (-576/.58%)	99722	99694	99236	98856	98788	98646	98498	98411	97438	97588	96865	96775	96746	96490	96593	96948	97342	97653
I	Definitely not English (International) due to accents or mixed with punctuation (other than hyphen)	-22196 (-24%)	93902	90875 (-3027/3.2%)	88564 (-2311/2.5%)	87748	87925	84690	81042	81284	82263	82412	82431	71982	71240	70248	70349	70385	70510	70468	70714	70856	71706
W	Not in English Wiktionary, in non-English Wiktionary	-6764 (-8%)	82548	82519 (-29/.04%)	80041 (-2478/3.0%)	79664	79486	77888	76310	76309	76224	76177	76142	75508	76248	75263	74906	74816	74851	74991	75294	75663	75784
L	Probable Romanization (transLiteration)	+81 (+2%)	4294	4306 (+12/.28%)	4206 (-100/2.3%)	4219	4237	4197	4168	4181	4189	4188	4191	4191	4234	4115	4126	4132	4182	4195	4228	4282	4375
ME	Probable coMpound, English (with and without dash)	+976 (+2%)	51279	51052 (-227/.44%)	50845 (-207/4.1%)	50932	50902	50659	50263	50352	50439	50419	50700	50606	50708	50392	51830	51791	51782	51830	52026	52173	52255
MI	Probable coMpound, non-English (International) in English Wiktionary (both A-Z and non-ASCII characters, with and without dash)	-18475 (-9%)	194949	192743 (-2206/1.1%)	189661 (-3082/1.6%)	189758	190172	187870	184497	185101	185733	185960	186074	175904	176069	174746	173592	173700	173611	173710	174881	175528	176474
MW	Probable coMpound, found in non-English Wiktionary	-5544 (-11%)	51656	51240 (-416/.81%)	50288 (-952/1.9%)	50026	49785	48728	47641	47642	47544	47831	47555	46854	46850	46342	46232	46026	45944	45968	46031	45947	46112
ML	Probable coMpound, transLiteration	-124 (-3%)	4010	3964 (-46/1.1%)	3925 (-39/.98%)	3881	3892	3835	3829	3827	3826	3857	3853	3849	3852	3779	3750	3759	3786	3798	3834	3863	3886
C	Chemistry words	-176 (-9%)	1853	1855 (+2/.11%)	1863 (+8/.43%)	1862	1858	1864	1569	1559	1554	1560	1561	1552	1551	1665	1662	1651	1635	1639	1657	1662	1677
D	DNA sequences (a, c, g, t)	0	0	0 (-)	0 (-)	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
N	A-Z plus numbers and hyphens	-1391 (-5%)	26620	25854 (-766/2.8%)	25711 (-143/.56%)	25739	26263	26134	25945	25841	25703	25650	25664	26664	25776	25557	25245	25072	24942	24993	25119	25107	25229
P	Patterns (e.g. rhyme schemes)	-20 (-43%)	47	50 (+3/6.4%)	49 (-1/2.0%)	50	48	47	50	49	45	42	38	37	39	17	18	16	17	19	21	19	27
H	HTML/XML/SGML tag	-539 (-15%)	3519	3459 (-60/1.7%)	3423 (-36/1.0%)	3420	3404	3237	3197	3160	3173	3180	3190	3059	3078	3003	3016	3673	3012	3019	3019	2978	2980
HB	Known bad HTML tag, like <font>	-1080 (-7%)	15366	14837 (-529/3.4%)	14541 (-296/2.0%)	14776	14622	16313	16286	16818	16816	?	15558	14620	15525	15262	14494	14891	14872	15003	15116	14164	14286
HL	Bad HTML-like linking, like <http://...>	-98 (-19%)	516	510 (-6/1.2%)	501 (-9/1.8%)	500	497	492	491	496	492	493	492	474	482	459	448	449	441	441	446	433	418
U	URL	-94 (-7%, from 2019-03-20)	-	1284	1242 (-42/3.3%)	1235	1222	1225	1218	1225	1227	1213	1200	1219	1213	1192	1197	1196	1194	1199	1205	1192	1190
BC	Bad characters	-12678 (-6%, from 2019-09-01)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	205046*	196231	194847	194674	194281	192895	192845	192679	192523	192368
BW	Bad words	-6542 (-5%, from 2019-09-20)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	306181*	120289*	115983	116073	115612	115522	117419	115418	114602	113747
Total		-39115 (-3%, from 2019-09-20)	1043175 instances	1030773 instances (-12402/1.2%)	1012856 instances (-17917/1.7%)	1009232	1007793	995465	980102	975232	969454	964828	959061	1440178* instances	1242324* instances	1224099 instances	1215612 instances	1212615 instances	1206360 instances	1204437 instances	1203965 instances	1200605 instances	1203209 instances
Parse failure	Mismatched punctuation	-5145 (-3%)	199130 articles	200032 articles (+902/.45%)	195598 articles (-4434/2.2%)	195995 articles	196330 articles	196566 articles	196882 articles	197380 articles	197810 articles	198086 articles	198442 articles	158283 articles + 40465 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	158564 articles + 40523 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	151604 articles + 39214 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	151827 articles + 39333 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	152017 articles + 39428 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	152167 articles + 39590 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	152254 articles + 39727 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	152557 articles + 39971 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	152835 articles + 40112 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	153494 articles + 40491 MOS:STRAIGHT violations

* Affected by significant algorithm changes. 1 Sep 2019: Added BC and BW. (Parse failures dropped due to JWB-powered MOS:STRAIGHT cleanup.) 20 Sep 2019: BC and BW restricted to lowercase; added TS+COMMA, TS+BRACKET, TS+EXTRA.

red = Probably need to fix
yellow = Unsorted
blue = Probably OK (but may need to verify)
bold = actively working on fixing

2020 statistics[edit]

In the year from March 2019 to March 2020, moss volunteers fixed over 94,000 typos! The most impressive progress is in the T1 category (single-letter misspellings), where we eliminated about half from the English Wikipedia. During this period we also started fixing missing spaces (focusing on those around punctuation) and those have dropped by about one-fifth. As we make progress, clear misspellings are increasingly mixed in with unclear cases; I'll be doing some more work on separation algorithms to keep the typo reports useful, so you'll probably see some more changes to typo classifications. Thanks to everyone who has been helping out! -- Beland (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting symbol	Explanation	Change from 2019-03-01 to 2020-02-20	Instances, 2020-04-01 dump (9f6d726)	Instances, 2020-04-20 dump (5ff589d)	Instances, 2020-05-01 dump (1a96ded)	Instances, 2020-05-20 dump (e511f74)	Instances, 2020-06-01 dump (509f79a)	Instances, 2020-06-20 dump (825ceb4)	Instances, 2020-07-01 dump (db9db23)	Instances, 2020-07-20 dump (caa619f)	Instances, 2020-08-01 dump (cf76e8c)	Instances, 2020-08-20 dump (f104e58)	Instances, 2020-09-01 dump (4654d88)	Instances, 2020-09-20 dump (a26ccca)	Instances, 2020-10-01 dump (686f5db)	Instances, 2020-10-20 dump (4f90810)	Instances, 2020-11-01 dump (ac54580)	Instances, 2020-11-20 dump (6dbd61d)	Instances, 2020-12-01 dump (917bcc8)	Instances, 2020-12-20 dump (0b3409d)
TS	Missing or extra whitespace or dash (or new compound)	-39368 (-21%)	145297	144673	331658**	330624	328249	325399	324179	322282	321801	318621	317183	315825	314747	312110	310537	309386	308280	308977
T1	Edit distance 1 from common English word	-36192 (-48%)	41090	41081	39967	39452	38783	38379	38436	38271	37803	36783	35976	34036	33539	33764	32347	33097	33559	33427
T2	Edit distance 2 from common English word	-7560 (-10%)	64526	63263	60690	60321	59589	58603	58649	58521	58200	58085	57845	57329	57152	57487	57387	57511	57386	57348
T3	Edit distance 3 from common English word	-5276 (-7%)	74396	73255	70516	70039	68887	68192	68149	68020	67769	67788	67482	67226	67025	67101	67002	67213	67298	67399
R	Regular word (A-Z only) not near a common English word	-3525 (-3%)	97726	96916	94793	93855	93252	91537	91489	91746	91521	91729	91513	91613	91339	91813	92329	93246	93377	93493
I	Definitely not English (International) due to accents or mixed with punctuation (other than hyphen)	-22196 (-24%)	72151	69118	65842	64827	63630	61844	61888	61782	61899	62113	61916	62003	62049	62274	62287	62390	62234	62471
W	Not in English Wiktionary, in non-English Wiktionary	-6764 (-8%)	75913	74351	86935	85604	83173	81894	81946	82173	81943	82170	81912	81968	81792	81256	81052	81224	81131	81192
L	Probable Romanization (transLiteration)	+81 (+2%)	4435	4486	4266	4199	4120	4122	4104	4113	4137	4140	4151	4164	4165	4207	4203	4234	4240	4260
ME	Probable coMpound, English (with and without dash)	+976 (+2%)	52269	48761	47187	47153	46830	46856	46967	47163	47052	47170	47009	47070	47066	47045	47023	47193	47142	47302
MI	Probable coMpound, non-English (International) in English Wiktionary (both A-Z and non-ASCII characters, with and without dash)	-18475 (-9%)	177646	176929	171484	169592	166216	164828	165140	165351	165605	166016	166208	166499	166572	167349	167961	169044	168953	169409
MW	Probable coMpound, found in non-English Wiktionary	-5544 (-11%)	46113	45103	43501	42931	40436	41383	41325	41440	41173	41234	40990	40956	40795	40353	40272	40454	40411	40338
ML	Probable coMpound, transLiteration	-124 (-3%)	3909	3874	3707	3663	3672	3575	3589	3593	3628	3639	3658	3717	3724	3779	3769	3825	3830	3822
C	Chemistry words	-176 (-9%)	1782	7564	7530	7644	7640	7655	7658	7659	7660	7662	7654	7644	7659	7661	7665	7659	7674	7700
N	A-Z plus numbers and hyphens	-1391 (-5%)	25209	23813	22650	22511	22290	22020	22052	22053	21971	22009	21960	21923	21879	21856	21885	21898	21893	21943
Z	Decimal fraction missing leading Zero	-	47*	0*	11405**	11418	11414	11398	11402	11421	11455	11530	11546	11578	11598	11669	11683	11703	11728	11762
P	Patterns (e.g. rhyme schemes)	-20 (-43%)	27	28	7	9	7	7	3	2	2	4	5	4	5	5	4	5	5	5
H	HTML/XML/SGML tag	-539 (-15%)	3010	2886	2938	2903	2904	2848	2693	2697	2680	2747	2757	2729	2565	2569	2542	2538	2540	2572
HB	Known bad HTML tag, like <font>	-1080 (-7%)	14465	14121	12903	13928	12919	14733	14022	11428	11670	11198	10191	8860	8756	8842	9725	11088	10164	10556
HL	Bad HTML-like linking, like <http://...>	-98 (-19%)	414	418	377	394	394	421	408	425	420	413	373	359	356	329	324	315	318	328
U	URL	-94 (-7%, from 2019-03-20)	1179	1152	1118	1134	1117	1122	1129	1124	1120	1124	1124	1103	1101	1099	1091	1096	1050	1055
BC	Bad characters	-12678 (-6%, from 2019-09-01)	192230	190482	186651	186517	185572	178698	175325	166116	159095	124158	112959	112755	112695	112633	112479	110608	110025	109808
BW	Bad words	-6542 (-5%, from 2019-09-20)	113682	106327	381288**	380259	378710	374982	375107	375206	375431	375306	374622	374740	374560	375010	375008	375557	374989	375663
Total		-39115 (-3%, from 2019-09-20)	1207516 instances	1188601 instances	1647413** instances	1638977 instances	1619804 instances	1600496 instances	1595660 instances	1582586 instances	1574035 instances	1535639 instances	1519034 instances	1514101 instances	1511139 instances	1510211 instances	1508575 instances	1511284 instances	1508227 instances	1510830 instances
Parse failure	Mismatched punctuation	-5145 (-3%)	154084 articles + 40705 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	153033 articles + 40838 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	214365 articles + 37697 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	214463 articles + 37667 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	214101 articles + 37607 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	214465 articles + 37767 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	214732 articles + 37849 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	215081 articles + 37993 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	215447 articles + 38067 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	215915 articles + 38169 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	216227 articles + 38210 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	216472 articles + 38205 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	216738 articles + 38213 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	216991 articles + 38246 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	217192 articles + 38338 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	217660 articles + 38498 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	217861 articles + 38625 MOS:STRAIGHT violations	218207 articles + 38789 MOS:STRAIGHT violations

red = Probably need to fix
yellow = Unsorted
blue = Probably OK (but may need to verify)
bold = actively working on fixing

* Identification of Z was broken
** Affected by major bug fix for counting inter-word typos (e.g. involving punctuation)

2021 statistics[edit]

Dump (moss version)	Parse failures (articles + articles with MOS:STRAIGHT violations)	TOTAL (instances)	BC	BW	C	H	HB	HL	I	L	ME	MI	ML	MW	N	P	R	T1	T2	T3	TS	U	W	Z	D
2021-01-01 (b4af24a)	218317 + 38841	1505808	108661	375875	7705	2550	10726	311	62583	4262	47274	169504	3841	40131	21954	4	93373	32968	56903	66819	306445	1054	81112	11753
2021-01-20 (a249b2d)	218455 + 38930	1506940	108030	376079	7679	2616	11036	298	62746	4298	47044	170234	3885	39960	21959	4	93467	33598	56688	66688	306776	1042	81049	11764
2021-02-01 (8279235)	218833 + 38960	1506004	107000	375979	7677	2595	11729	298	62829	4305	47053	171005	3888	39771	21971	2	93726	33237	56822	66707	305573	1035	81079	11723
2021-02-20 (2f00c51)	218991 + 39035	1504064	106534	375909	7682	2602	11697	275	62942	4342	47036	171313	3897	39732	22009	3	93959	32705	56529	66617	304463	1020	81041	11757
2021-03-01 (248159a)	219198 + 39155	1494162	106421	376305	7669	2624	9291	281	62978	4328	46830	169666	3876	39189	21936	4	92221	32762	56197	66069	302377	1020	80338	11780
2021-03-20 (57aaae7)	219556 + 39371	1492923	106284	375853	7695	2610	9965	278	63055	4331	47064	170453	3880	39172	21998	2	92721	32523	56052	66087	299751	1002	80305	11842
2021-04-01 (d47c725)	219692 + 39478	1484879	105670	375757	7697	2620	8857	205	62842	4309	46966	170369	3884	38886	21964	0	92575	32160	55810	65706	296009	995	79736	11862
2021-04-20 (d169566)	220014 + 39634	1476477	104505	374548	7686	2648	8863	199	62668	4327	47036	170547	3878	38644	21973	4	92336	30560	55284	65191	293170	985	79487	11938
2021-05-01 (7719363)	219292 + 39601	1445819	103253	367236	7661	2387	7682	178	59749	3966	44397	165787	3774	38591	21697	4	91448	30666	56556	65257	283967	980	78634	11949
2021-05-20 (c6359fc)	219284 + 39761	1444570	102794	368258	7678	2271	7878	176	59913	3978	44514	166538	3804	38629	21725	4	91887	29205	56341	65171	282093	983	78651	12079
2021-06-01 (076f14c)	219111 + 39759	1441769	102409	368046	7689	2275	7827	166	59876	3943	44658	166622	3818	38567	21755	5	92077	28507	56157	64919	280645	975	78682	12151
2021-06-20 (ffbc72f)	219625 + 39935	1435330	101926	367522	7694	2276	7108	162	59650	3964	44692	167038	3819	38298	21687	8	92365	28020	55983	64688	276538	955	78621	12316
2021-07-01 (cb3d5e8)	219791 + 39990	1433415	101916	367581	7704	2263	6921	169	59663	3960	44770	167508	3837	38299	21674	8	92600	27369	55755	64301	275024	946	78720	12427
2021-07-20 (5c3b9e9)	220086 + 40132	1429627	101518	367954	7688	2136	6702	137	59995	3955	44805	167818	3824	38179	21646	7	92660	26469	55565	64171	272147	950	78624	12677
2021-08-01 (86e7022)	220338 + 40213	1424448	101229	367552	7708	2123	6252	121	61727	3767	44851	168279	3812	36769	21643	0	93146	26555	55547	64124	271406	953	74189	12695
2021-08-20 (33a14e3)	220370 + 40254	1414854	100973	367172	7719	2047	5736	119	59520	3746	44729	167010	3811	37772	21537	2	92763	24146	54950	63571	266761	960	77075	12735
2021-09-01 (90e0a3b)	220449 + 40268	1411194	100113	367110	7714	2046	5801	120	59567	3733	44623	167222	3824	37710	21525	2	92833	23310	54796	63455	265044	953	76926	12767
2021-09-20 (c71a444)	220781 + 40328	1412140	99635	367286	7713	2040	5650	121	59595	3766	44828	167997	3843	37719	21561	0	93701	22924	54661	63575	264775	948	76966	12836
2021-10-01 (cdd699c)	221094 + 40362	1405448	99065	367498	7683	2060	5774	111	59546	3710	44579	167357	3831	37696	21381	2	93027	22576	54268	63134	261463	952	76883	12851	1

A major upgrade to word categorization was made in October 2021. The same dump is shown on the old and new systems for comparison. R, I, W, MI, MW, and ML were eliminated and sorted by language as TE or TF instead. New categories:

A = mAth
T/ = Suspected MOS:SLASH violation
TE = AI thinks it's trying to be English
TF = AI thinks it's trying to be a non-English language (Foreign to English Wikipedia), sorted by language (e.g. TF+el)

Dump (moss version)	Parse failures (articles + articles with MOS:STRAIGHT violations)	TOTAL (instances)	A	BC	BW	C	H	HB	HL	L	ME	N	P	T/	T1	TE	TF	TS	U	Z
2021-10-01 (2ec07e4)	221094 + 40362	1457644	17030	175488	367537	4049	2060	5774	111	5428	237959	2329	37	3237	54108	10076	439099	118822	1649	12851
2021-10-20 (b44e087)	221396 + 40415	1452333	22433	173701	381776	7762	2032	5341	95	5399	219482	2351	6	3252	53679	10151	438103	112265	1613	12892
2021-11-01 (0786728)	221592 + 40396	1476996	22385	97423	481799	7793	1573	5122	97	5399	219638	2297	9	3246	53546	10145	440061	111957	1607	12899
2021-11-20 (34069e9)	153165 + 42992	1491000	23808	99945	497995	7816	1609	5587	111	5688	222435	2340	9	3373	53516	9847	426498	116119	1642	12662
2021-12-01 (0fc2fb3)	153177 + 42994	1489025	23727	99782	496905	7828	1558	5602	104	5702	222571	2346	8	3359	53405	9816	425937	116070	1627	12678
2021-12-20 (d20f520)	153289 + 42902	1488550	23761	99074	496904	7845	1561	5601	108	5715	223063	2351	4	3337	53580	9806	425623	115890	1618	12709

2022 statistics[edit]

Dump (moss version)	Parse failures (articles + articles with MOS:STRAIGHT violations)	TOTAL (instances)	A	BC	BW	C	D	H	HB	HL	L	ME	N	P	T/	T1	TE	TF	TS	U	Z
2022-01-01 (92506e2)	153265 + 42919	1488043	23730	98949	496872	7872	0	1561	5712	108	5744	222842	2355	8	3337	53020	9801	425923	115845	1608	12756
2022-01-20 (f63dc78)	153371 + 42894	1490532	23729	98433	497315	7875	1	1603	6158	108	5794	223402	2345	5	3325	53057	9667	426560	116722	1594	12839
2022-02-01 (8fbf720)	153444 + 43002	1621627	23804	98366	497551	7934	1	1579	6051	108	6007	240216	2381	13	3334	58724	11652	531477	117630	1599	13200
2022-02-20 (8245233)	153724 + 43135	1622459	23835	98083	497766	7956	1	1604	5177	102	5999	240497	2370	14	3281	59384	11661	531576	118343	1616	13194
2022-03-01 (8245233)	153733 + 43208	1624427	23837	98107	497855	7989	1	1571	5815	102	6027	240789	2371	16	3278	59744	11669	531890	118567	1608	13191
2022-03-20 (fb66b79)	153882 + 43327	1624509	23823	97961	498466	7996	1	1552	4746	106	6059	241192	2363	15	3311	60058	11638	531382	119054	1601	13185
2022-04-01 (fb66b79)	153932 + 43430	1626452	23823	97828	498085	8000	1	1594	4793	105	6063	241718	2375	16	3327	60572	11642	532088	119684	1591	13147
2022-04-20 (fb66b79)	154017 + 43596	1630486	23789	97841	498611	8012	1	1607	4990	105	6065	242940	2374	17	3337	60977	11649	532927	120483	1587	13174
2022-05-01 (fb66b79)	153825 + 43698	1631287	23793	97801	498632	8020	1	1609	5048	104	6073	243306	2384	20	3337	61453	11694	533878	119359	1579	13196
2022-05-20 (cc63e5f)	153870 + 43814	1635174	23851	97718	498090	8043	1	1636	4925	107	6103	243986	2385	19	3337	59550	11866	538310	120406	1574	13267
2022-05-20 (ae346b0)*	164831 + 29862	1620797	23846	92522	487792	8099	1	1631	4930	110	6076	244851	2308	18	3335	60170	11838	538751	119670	1580	13269
2022-06-01 (6090418)	164899 + 29887	1620209	23786	92402	487512	8099	1	1620	4620	113	6090	245017	2309	16	3331	60318	11803	538115	120085	1587	13385
2022-06-20 (97d23b9)	164770 + 29816	1617952	23775	91799	486712	8102	0	1611	4705	116	6087	245190	2319	13	3300	59666	11763	538585	119215	1568	13426
2022-06-20 (1432a2f)†	164877 + 29821	1677855	23781	91816	547534	8102	0	1611	4706	116	6071	245153	2318	13	3297	59659	11764	537643	119292	1554	13425
2022-07-01 (9ab6dad)	164769 + 29855	1674273	23732	91585	547881	8113	0	1644	4657	116	6110	244376	2295	143	3261	59286	11657	535628	118761	1559	13469
2022-07-20 (06d752b)	164636 + 29850	1674512	23605	91172	547558	8111	0	1663	4856	126	6127	244725	2294	144	3272	58857	11659	536841	118429	1550	13523
2022-08-01 (622271d)	164730 + 29865	1675287	23593	90912	547590	8080	0	1660	4926	127	6144	244829	2284	145	3273	58908	11604	537355	118773	1553	13531
2022-08-20 (597dbd2)	163908 + 29808	1667614	23508	90561	544710	8081	0	1653	5137	121	6136	243853	2287	122	3234	58163	11473	536597	117099	1535	13344
2022-08-20 (5ee7ffd)‡	162500 + 29580	1210578	10681	86656	540463	7981	0	1611	5136	122	2073	182672	1964	114	2307	43457	6582	206072	97829	1522	13336
2022-08-20 (6965e1f)⹋	162432 + 29567	1205869	10669	86557	538964	7979	0	1610	5131	122	2041	181481	1963	114	2298	43278	6540	204575	97689	1520	13338
2022-09-01 (cda0784)	161909 + 29468	1198769	10663	86161	536440	7990	0	1603	5399	120	1977	180548	1945	99	2270	42927	6445	202651	96760	1485	13286
2022-09-20 (4689b50)	162154 + 29594	1199166	10676	85924	536599	7981	0	1621	6730	125	1985	180428	1950	99	2267	42279	6383	202327	96972	1487	13333
2022-10-01 (e725bbd)	161370 + 29450	1193722	10646	84999	534429	7981	0	1623	6988	123	1964	179378	1934	99	2259	42089	6356	201547	96530	1466	13311
2022-10-20 (e725bbd)	161347 + 29546	1192591	10632	84851	534850	7998	0	1623	6987	121	1981	178500	1921	101	2271	41414	6264	201358	96915	1454	13350
2022-11-01 (ebbea0e)	161388 + 29603	1192455	10634	84376	535156	8036	0	1633	6505	116	1976	178546	1917	102	2270	41341	6217	201463	97334	1450	13383
2022-11-20 (84f0fc4)	161548 + 29683	1193478	10659	84327	535811	8112	0	1614	6622	115	1970	178817	1918	102	2259	41326	6187	201180	97563	1444	13452
2022-12-01 (d57116b)	161334 + 29741	1193626	10650	84229	536307	8124	0	1604	6503	110	1981	178844	1913	102	2262	41018	6181	201090	97779	1446	13483
2022-12-20 (003741b)	161351 + 29828	1189035	10658	83972	535095	8218	0	1592	4957	110	1971	178831	1917	1	2236	41413	6177	198807	98124	1431	13525

* ae346b0 started ignoring content inside curly quotes
† 1432a2f excluded more end sections
‡ 5ee7ffd started ignoring italicised content
⹋ 6965e1f started ignoring content inside single quotes

Likely new words by frequency (non-English)[edit]

From 2019-02-01 dump:

50 - ~~wikt:µtorrent - BitComet, BitTorrent, BitTorrent (company), BitTorrent (software), BitTorrent protocol encryption ... find all~~
- Should not be listed here, as μTorrent is an article with μtorrent as redirect. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:09, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hmm, maybe it's because the title of the redirect is actually Μtorrent, or my code isn't case insensitive with respect to Greek letters. -- Beland (talk) 06:19, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    - Ah, there are a ton of pages that use the micro character instead of the mu character, and they look exactly the same. I'm cleaning them all up so they use mu, so this should go away. -- Beland (talk) 16:06, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

From 2019-02-01 dump, but clearly not foreign words (need to figure out what to do with them):

81 - ~~wikt:₤100 - 19th-century London, Agio, Arthur Machen, Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, Australian native police ... find all~~
- I should probably put in a code change to exclude money patterns like this. -- Beland (talk) 01:25, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah, the problem is that ₤ (two horizontal bars) is not allowed by MOS:CURRENCY. It needs to be changed to £ (one horizontal bar) if it represents the British pound and it's unclear to me what to do for Italian lira. find all ₤-- Beland (talk) 06:17, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK, clarified with MOS folks the Lira should use ₤, so I'll clean up all the GBP instances that use ₤ and then add ₤ to moss's list of allowed currency symbols. -- Beland (talk) 16:08, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      - I have changed all those that mean Pounds. Some that mean Lira still remain. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:03, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Case notes from 2019-06-01 dump[edit]

1 - QueA RNA motif - wikt:preQ --this appears as preQ₁ which does have a Wiktionary entry, wikt:preQ1 so why is it included here?
- Weird, I'll have to debug that. -- Beland (talk) 08:47, 16 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oh, of course, because sup and sub tags cause text on either side to be in different tokens. I'll try changing that and see if it is an overall improvement. That should also fix things like chemical formulas, so I think it will be good. -- Beland (talk) 02:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    - This is confirmed fixed. -- Beland (talk) 18:42, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]