251:: Check Knowledge (XXG) finds common syntactical errors. Errors range from missing closing tags, missing/extra brackets, accessibility issues and MOS issues. Errors are found by scanning the twice monthly dumps of 47 different Wikipedias and the monthly dump of English Knowledge (XXG). Daily scans are also performed on recently changed articles for five different Wikipedias, include English Knowledge (XXG). A whitelist is used so false positives do not show up as errors. Each different Knowledge (XXG) has their own configuration file. With the configuration file, errors can be turned off or on, errors can be assigned different priority values and each Knowledge (XXG) can have their own whitelist.
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