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| Regular expression examples (Regex)
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Search for |priority= and |importance= in WikiProject Biography.
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\{\{.*?(WPBIO|WP Biography|WPbiography|WikiProject biography|WikiProject Biography|WPBiography|WP bio|WPBIOGRAPHY).*?\|\s*(priority|importance)(\s*=\s*)\|.*?\}\} Use Database scanner to find articles
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(nothing)
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WikiProject Biography|living=yes|class=stub|priority=|listas=Doe, John}}
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| Result:
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WikiProject Biography|living=yes|class=stub|listas=Doe, John}}
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Adds a space after the comma in DEFAULTSORT
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\{\{DEFAULTSORT:([A-Za-z0-9-.']+),([A-Za-z0-9-.']+)(\s*)([A-Za-z0-9-.']*)\}\} Use Database scanner to find articles
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{{DEFAULTSORT:$1, $2$3$4}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe,John Mike}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, John Mike}}
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False positives do happen, especially with numerical formulas and money (ie $1,000).
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This is for WP:CHECKWIKI #40.
Replace <font> tags with <span> tags
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<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)([A-Za-z]{3,})("*)>
<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{6})("*)>
(2)
<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)([A-Za-z]{3,})("*)>('*)\[\[([^(\]|\|)]*)\]\]('*)\s*</font\s*([a-zA-Z0-9#-]*)>
<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)([A-Za-z]{3,})("*)>('*)\[\[([^|]*)[\|]([^\]]*)\]\]\s*('*)</font\s*([a-zA-Z0-9#-]*)>
<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{6})("*)>('*)\[\[([^(\]|\|)]*)\]\]('*)</font\s*([a-zA-Z0-9#-]*)>
<(FONT COLOR|font color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{6})("*)>('*)\[\[([^|]*)[\|]([^\]]*)\]\]\s*('*)</font\s*([a-zA-Z0-9#-]*)>
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<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(1|-2)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(1|-1)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(3|\+0)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(4|\+1)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(5|\+2)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(6|\+3)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(7|\+4)("*)>
<(FONT SIZE|font size)\s*=\s*("*)(8|\+5)("*)>
(4)
<(font size|FONT SIZE)\s*=\s*("*)(1|-2)("*)\s*(COLOR|color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})("*)>
<(font size|FONT SIZE)\s*=\s*("*)(2|-1)("*)\s*(COLOR|color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})("*)>
<(font size|FONT SIZE)\s*=\s*("*)(3|\+0)("*)\s*(COLOR|color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})("*)>
<(font size|FONT SIZE)\s*=\s*("*)(4|\+1)("*)\s*(COLOR|color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})("*)>
<(font size|FONT SIZE)\s*=\s*("*)(5|\+2)("*)\s*(COLOR|color)\s*=\s*("*)(#*)([A-Za-z0-9]{3,})("*)>
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(1)
<span style="color:$3;">
<span style="color:#$4;">
(2)
$5[[$6|<span style="color:$3;">$6</span>]]$7
$5[[$6|<span style="color:$3;">$7</span>]]$8
$6[[$7|<span style="color:#$4;">$7</span>]]$8
$6[[$7|<span style="color:#$4;">$8</span>]]$9
(3)
<span style="font-size:87%;">
<span style="font-size:100%;">
<span style="font-size:125%;">
<span style="font-size:140%;">
<span style="font-size:190%;">
<span style="font-size:250%;">
<span style="font-size:375%;">
<span style="font-size:390%;">
(4)
<span style="color:$7$8; font-size:87%;">
<span style="color:$7$8; font-size:100%;">
<span style="color:$7$8; font-size:125%;">
<span style="color:$7$8; font-size:140%;">
<span style="color:$7$8; font-size:190%;">
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<font color="blue"> or <font color=#FF0022>
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<span style="color:blue;"> or <span style="color:#FF0022;">
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There are some funky ways people call</font>, therefore this doesn't catch every permutation.
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Finds where link is equal to linktext (CheckWiki #64) in a database scan.
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\s+\[\[([^|:]*)\|\1\]\]\s+
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[[Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] or [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]
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Make sure "Case sensitive" is checked in the database scanner window
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