Jon Robson wrote: > To solve validness I'd suggest creating styles for this in > MediaWiki:Common.css and on a regular basis running reports to surface > which articles use the text-align property. It would be great to have > a dedicated wiki page linking to these articles and asking editors to > fix them. It would give people who care about Wikipedia an easy way to > contribute. > > I have a similar problem in mobile - at some point I'd like us to > deprecate use of the style attribute in wikitext in favour of using > stylesheets and the class attribute which is much more manageable and > would be interested in whatever solution you come to here.
Finding specific text strings like these requires scanning XML dumps. There are a few projects dedicated to this on various wikis. English examples: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dump_reports Scanning dumps (or really dealing with them in any form) is pretty awful. There's been some brainstorming in the past for how to set up a system where users (or operators) could run arbitrary regular expressions on all of the current wikitext regularly, but such a setup requires _a lot_ of anything involved (disk space, RAM, bandwidth, processing power, etc.). Maybe one day Labs will have something like this. It's a well-known fact that if you give Wikimedians lists of things to do, they will eventually get done. I've done this for years with <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports>. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
