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Wikipedia:Linter – MediaWiki extension to identify broken and problematic markup which cannot be fixed automatically by the server; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility. Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility; List of errors
Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...
Researching Wikipedia: Tools for data analysis; Not English, tools that have not yet been translated completely into English. Some need their descriptions translated from German, others are not available in English. Help translate if you can! Note: Checkinks is buggy use with caution.
A good stand-alone spell checker for English Wikipedia pages is Inspyder InSite. (The free version is good enough for fixing Wikipedia articles.) The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser.
Like its highly versatile list maker, its list compare tool, and its (Wikipedia) database scanner. The latter lets you do massive regex searches of the main namespace. It's not that great for browsing – they probably should have named it something else, but, it is powered by an embedded browser, which inspired the name.
By and large, Wikipedia uses œ and æ to represent the Old Norse and Old English letters. For Latin- or Greek-derived words, use e or ae/oe, depending on modern usage and the national variety of English used in the article. German proper names should be treated with care and attention to English practice.
The moss project seeks to find and remove the furry green typos that have been growing on Wikipedia articles. It uses a python script named moss and written by User:Beland to automatically find misspellings, mistakes in English grammar, violations of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and confusing or broken wiki markup.
AWB has a "general fixes" feature. It corrects many formatting and style problems, but may cause problems on pages with tricky markup. To make AWB ignore such pages, use templates {{bots}} and {{nobots}}, like on enwiki.