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I've written a number of scripts that generate reports on unusual articles when run against my local copy of the wikipedia database (get your own local copy from [1]). While I'll try to keep the lists below up to date, I'm not making any promises. The reports below will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace once I'm happy they are in a state where anyone could run them. Until then, consider these to be beta-version software.

I'm more than happy for people to make use of these lists, edit them, rework them and generally play with them as much as they want. There's a suggested improvements section on each page which I'll be checking periodically and using to improve the reports.

Reports that I've 'completed' - that is I've stopped developing them - and which may be of use to wikipedians have been moved to Wikipedia:Offline reports.

Apologies, many of the reports below are rather out of date. I no longer have enough storage capacity on my local PC to manipulate the several copies of the Wikipedia database needed to regenerate many of them. Hopefully I'll solve the problem soon, until then I'll update what I can. - TB 13:09, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

Reports

Database inconsistencies

• Articles with duplicate titles - Nothing for normal mortals to do.
  • See also:
• Articles in the deletion log which still exist
• Articles that do not exist but appear in Allpages - Nothing for normal mortals to do.

Article text analysis

• Article naming

Spelling & punctuation

• Articles with missing spaces surrounding commas
• Articles containing repeated words - Done as of 04:38, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Articles containing common spelling mistakes
• Articles containing malformed HTML entities - Done as of 14:32, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Special features

• Articles containing badly formed ISBN references - (Done as of 03:14, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC))

Outgoing wikilinks

Redirects

• Redirect pages that point to other redirect pages - (Done as of 03:19, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC))
• Redirect pages that point to non-existant articles - (Done as of 11:27, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC))

Broken wikilinks

empty wikilinks -- spaces -- misspellings

mis-punctuations

0-B -- C-F -- G-K -- L -- M-P -- Q-T -- U-Z

Possible plural discrepancies

0-B -- C-D -- E-H -- I-M -- Lists -- N-R -- S-U -- V-Z -- Complex

Suggested links

• Suggestions for disambiguation links
• Suggestions for redirect pages
• Suggestions for acronym links
• Suggestions for abbreviation expansions

Missing articles and links

• Pages that contain the only link to a topic that doesn't exist yet - (Empty as of 04:24, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC))

Images

• Images that might be GFDL but aren't properly marked as such

Interwiki

• Popular pages with few interwiki links
• Popular pages with no interwiki links
• Interwiki inconsistencies
• Survey of interwiki links on popular articles
• Suggestions for new interwiki links
• Articles containing multiple links to another language wikipedia
• Articles linking more than once to another wikipedia

Upcoming

• Interwiki links to articles that do not exist (A:X links to B:X which does not exist)
• Interwiki links to redirect pages (A:X links to B:X which redirects to B:Y)
• Inconsistent interwiki links (A:X links to B:X, but B:X links to A:Y)
• Suggested reciprocal links (A:X links to B:X, should B:X link back to A:X?)
• Pages with multiple interwiki links to one language (A:X links to B:X and B:Y)
• Pages that are linked to from different articles in the same language (both A:X and A:Y link to B:X)
• Potential commutations (A:X links to B:X and C:X. Should B:X should link to C:X also?)
• Potential inductions (A:X links to B:X and B:X links to C:X. Should A:X link to C:X?)

Extra-wikipedia reports

• Articles in wikipedia that are also in wiktionary
• Articles in wikipedia that are also in wikiquote