[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings

[tarquin]

Brion VIBBER wrote:

> 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
>
If we change all "it's" to either "its" or the more formal "it is", then 
that list will gradually diminish.