User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool

I made this program for searching the database dump (The "Articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages." dump, normally about 1100 MB).

It can find simple or regex (regular expression) text matches in articles. It can also find articles with more or less than a certain number of characters or links.

It is good for finding common mistakes, such as

, a pywikibot or pasted into Wikipedia.

A typical run takes between 1 and 6 minutes using an

2500 CPU.

This software is now built into

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If you use this software, please let me know what you think!

Suggested tasks

• Search for common spelling/grammar errors.
• Search for people categories that do not have a sort key e.g. search for [[Category:Economists]].
• ...

Latest version

• 1.7.0.0, released 4 May 2006