User:John of Reading

Userboxes (more...) This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. This user has made an absurd number of edits (c. 745,000) tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user volunteers at the Wikipedia Help Desk. bot account, John of Reading Bot, (contribs )

Spelling and grammar

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

Typical projects:

• The Lists of common misspellings
• "The the" and "the the" - Using a database dump every month or two
• Grammar and style fixes involving
  centuries

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-20240320-pages-articles.xml.bz2 watch for a new download.

Other cleanup

• 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

Content creation

Writing content that meets Wikipedia's policies is hard. Back in 2011–2013 I 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

I've created one help page,

External links

• Listen to Wikipedia - a very different recent changes feed