Wicipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia

What is the goal of this project?

• This project helps in cleaning up the syntax of articles and improve web accessibility.
• If we have a clear and clean syntax in all articles more projects (for example: Wikipedia-DVD) can use our data more easily.
• In order to use the data of a Wikipedia project without the MediaWiki software you need to write a parser. If many articles have a wrong syntax it'll be difficult to program the parser since it needs to be complex enough to recognize the syntax errors.
• Wikipedia is now transitioning to HTML5 and we should make an effort to follow the W3C Recommendation.

How does it work?

• The script scans every new dump and creates a list of articles with errors.
• Errors found are displayed in the web interface.
• The description of errors and their priorities are set using the translation page for cy.wiki.
• The main discussion page for the development of the script is en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

What can I do?

• Use the web interface to find articles with errors.
• Take a look at the page history before editing the article.
• Fix the problems explaining your edit in the edit summary.
• Remove the fixed articles from the interface using the "done" links.

Please don't...

• ...don't use unauthorized bots.
• ...don't use this tool to only perform one minor edit at a time: check and improve the whole article instead.