Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos/to do

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Keep lists sorted alphabetically by root word; e.g., put "(Un)Equal" just before "(In)Equality" among the "E" words. Don't sort by, say, ASCII character value. Deletion sorting : Remove duplicates. Maintain : Identify and improve rules to avoid false positives.

• Improve efficiency
  • (s)? is faster than (s?); (s|); (|s)
  • (a|b) is fewer steps than ([ab])
  • this|that -> th(?:is|at)
  • Order matters, so order by most to least likely to occur
    • [aA] \(\[([A-Z])([a-z])\]\) -> ([$2$1]); lower case letter more likely than upper case
• Expand rules to accept more suffixes (e.g., "-ing", "-ed", "-able") and prefixes.
  • Note that some regular expressions purposely correct only certain versions of a word to avoid false positives. These should be marked with an underscore character "_" at the beginning or end of the word= field.
• Remove rare words. Note that no matches today does not mean a rule is rare, since another user may have used the rule to fix many articles yesterday.

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