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The English Wikipedia, by the numbers

• 847 admins
• 116,430 active users
• 48,524,001 users
• 931,639 files
• 6,937,642 articles
• 62,227,725 pages
• 1,263,591,187 edits

Non-typo maintenance

• Tracking categories (all)

• "Articles with" categories
• "Templates" categories
• CS1 errors

Typos

Basic stuff

These should be pretty self-explanatory.

Active adoptions

Doubled words

• been been: 8 false positives

Should be "February"

• Febraruy*: 1 false positive
• Febrary*: 1 false positive
• Febraury*: 1 false positive
• Februay*: 2 false positive
• Februry*: 0 false positives
• Febuary*: 39 false positives
• Feburary*: 19 false positives

Should be "Illinois"

• IIlinois*: 0 false positives
• Ilinois*: 7 false positives
• Illinios*: 5 false positives
• Illlinois*: 0 false positives

Pending adoptions

• None.

Subtle stuff

Sans-serif fonts can make it difficult to visually distinguish between certain pairs of characters.

Active adoptions

Should begin with a majuscule I as in India

These begin with a minuscule l as in Lima

• lceland*: 0 false positives
• ldaho*: 0 false positives
• lllinois*: 0 false positives
• lndia*: 4 false positives
• lndonesia*: 0 false positives
• lntra*: 0 false positives
• lowa: 84 false positives (note: no wildcard; too many valid permutations)
• lran*: 9 false positives
• lraq*: 0 false positives
• lreland*: 0 false positives
• lslam*: 1 false positive
• lsland*: 1 false positive
• lsrael*: 0 false positives
• ltali*: 1 false positive
• ltaly*: 0 false positives

Should begin with a majuscule O as in Oscar

These begin with a numerical digit 0 as in Zero

• 0hio*: 0 false positives
• 0klahoma*: 0 false positives
• 0man*: 3 false positive
• 0regon*: 0 false positives

Pending adoptions

• lnde*: 0 false positives, 6 to check
• lndo*: 0 false positives, 16 to check
• lnst*: 0 false positives, 16 to check
• lnter*: 1 false positive, 7 to check
• lsle*: 6 false positives, 1 to check

Notes

All searches include Article (0), Template (10), Category (14), and Portal (100) namespaces. Coming back soon to reformat this as a table. ► Bgpaulus (WORDS & DEEDS) ◄ 00:14, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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