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Wikipedia:WPCleaner

Tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks

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WPCleaner

WPCleaner is a maintenance tool for Wikipedia.
Developer(s)	NicoV
Stable release	2.05 (August 26, 2022 (2022-08-26)) [±]
Repository	github.com/WPCleaner/wpcleaner
Written in	Java
Platform	Java SE 8.0 or later
Available in	31 languages
List of languages Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu
Type	Wikipedia tool
License	Apache License V2.0
Website	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPCleaner

WPCleaner is a tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks, especially repairing links to disambiguation pages, checking Wikipedia, fixing spelling and typography, and helping with translation of articles coming from other wikis.

It works on 56 wikis and can be configured to work on any other wiki. It has been translated, at least partially, into 31 languages. More translations can be added.

This tool has been developed in Java, and should be able to run on any computer equipped with Java SE 8.0 or later. WPCleaner installation is usually simple. Source code is available on GitHub.

Please note that running automated edits to clean up anything marked "Cosmetic" on the list requires bot approval unless the cosmetic edit is coupled with a more substantial edit. In addition, the edits which are made in response to certain rules (such as in Bot Tools), or the CheckWiki portion of the program are not always infallible, so you should be prepared to respond to queries about such edits promptly.

WPCleaner is a tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks, especially repairing links to disambiguation pages, checking Wikipedia, fixing spelling and typography, and helping with translation of articles coming from other wikis.

A few links for some help pages on various subjects for using WPCleaner:

• Installing WPCleaner.
• Starting WPCleaner once it has been installed.
• Accessing various functions.
• Completely analyzing a page to fix links to disambiguation pages, errors detected by Check Wiki project, spelling and typography.
• Analyzing a disambiguation page to fix all pages linking to it.
• Displaying a list of disambiguation pages.
• Focusing on errors detected by the Check Wiki project.
• Focusing on errors detected by the Linter extension.
• Watchlist.
• Adding a comment on a talk page.
• Previewing your modifications.
• Changing WPCleaner options.
• Using the bot tools.

And a few more links to configure WPCleaner globally on a wiki:

• Adding a new wiki to the wikis currently managed by WPCleaner.
• Adding a new language to the languages currently managed by WPCleaner, or fixing current translations.
• Configure WPCleaner for a wiki.

Though the tool allows a user to bypass redirects in a single action, please be mindful of WP:NOTBROKEN as well. Not all redirecting links need to be bypassed, especially since some redirects are placeholders for articles to be created in the future.