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The following projects/tasks have been completed using the AutoWikiBrowser, "complete" meaning that the correction has been made across the entire encyclopedia:

Please add more projects to this list.

Largely completed

1. Bulleting all external links - ~20,000 fixed
2. Standardising section (such as "External links") headers - in progress
3. Adding bold format to the first occurrence of the title in every page - ~15,000 fixed
4. Correcting typos - in progress
5. Removing duplicate word mistakes
6. Adding/removing and changing categories per WP:CFD.
7. Repairing Bad links (at least 9,000).
8. Migration of all aircraft pages to specs template per WP:Air - in progress
9. Correcting 15 most common capitalisation mistakes in headings - Complete
10. Correcting the next 228 most common capitalisation mistakes in headings - Complete
11. Correcting 634 most common capitalisation heading errors in 88,000 articles - Dec 2009
12. Removing all article links from headers - c 1,400 fixed
13. Find + fixing untagged/broken disambig pages - ~600 fixed
14. Putting U.S. 2000 census data into past tense - 33,000 fixed
15. Miscellaneous fixes for U.S. 2000 census data pages - 33,000 fixed
16. Removing unnecessary links to days of week or to months (Thousands fixed) - in progress
17. Replacing "passed away" with "died" - Complete
18. Updating cleanup to cleanup-date on recently flagged pages for cleanup - >2500 completed - Complete
19. Substitution of User Talk Templates - ongoing.
20. Replacement of Image:Vatican coa.png with Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg - 208 instances fixed
21. Reformatting ISBN numbers which didn't allow wikimagic to work.
22. Tagging all invalid ISBNs.
23. Building the ISO 639 infrastructure for language taggind - several hundred templates and a similar number of categories
24. Tagging living person biographies' talk pages with {{WPBiography}} (including {{Blp}}) - ~115,000 done
25. Move all cleanup template messages from talk pages to pages
26. Add the DEFAULTSORT template to pages as needed
27. Icelandic project of is:Wikipedia:Mannanöfn built a plugin on top of AWB to update statistics from national census register. - Complete
28. Russian project of isolated pages recognition ~ 15 000 already marked.
29. Tagging automobile page talk pages with {{WikiProject Automobiles}} - more than 3000 done
30. Migrated {{Chembox}} to {{Chembox new}} using Chem-awb (talk · contribs) - almost 4000 pages.

Some of these projects have used the DataBaseSearchTool to identify the corrections needed.

1. Tagging all page talk pages under Category:Ohio with {{OH-Project}} in order to help the WikiProject Ohio assessment team. +15,000 completed
   1. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot 4 - I'll help out as well though. —Reedy Boy 23:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Ongoing

• Dating maintenance templates - Over 1000 per day.
• WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Projects needing help

• WikiProject Check Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Article Incubator maintenance.