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 typos. It takes only a few minutes to process the entire database. The lists it produces are useful with the WP:AWB, a pywikibot or pasted into Wikipedia.
A typical run takes between 1 and 6 minutes using an Athlon XP 2500 CPU.
This software is now built into AWB. (requires MS Windows and the .NET framework 2)
If you use this software, please let me know what you think!
Suggested tasks
edit- 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
edit- 1.7.0.0, released 4 May 2006