[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings

[Steve Callaway]

Brion

I'll add this to the Useful Database queries stuff I'm building on
MetaWikipedia, ta.

Steve Callaway

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brion VIBBER" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings


> tarquin wrote:
>
> > could we add "it's" to the 3-letter words we can search for?
> > That's a *very* common error.
>
> There are 1,178 pages in article space containing the word "it's". If
> you _really_ want to wade through them looking for the erroneous ones,
> go to the SQL query page and run:
>
>    SELECT cur_title from cur where cur_namespace=0 and
>    cur_text regexp "[[:<:]]it's[[:>:]]" order by cur_title
>
> (Which reminds me -- I thought we'd lowered the 3-byte search limit to 2?)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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