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This is the first prototype of a monthly (or quarterly) report that provides an overview of the use of [[self-published]] sources across Wikipedia projects, as part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia reliability]].

The report is automatically generated by a program that calls the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search Mediawiki Search API], then performs subsequent searches and look-ups to determine projects, resolve ambiguities, etc.
 
The report is generated to encourage various Wikiprojects to remedy the situation by either finding [[WP:RS]] sources to replace the self-published items, or tag (or delete) them if the statements they support can not be verified.
 
==Overview==
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The current report does not include all the self-publishers in the [[list of self-publishers]], and is intended as a prototype, but others will be added soon.
 
This lists in the report may include some proper uses of self-published items, e.g. the discussion of market-share by self publishers, etc. Those need to be remedied in future versions.
 
==Self-publisher analysis==
Appearance counts are now based on direct uses of publisher names in the [[list of self-publishers]] and cases where just an ISBN leading to the publisher, or variants in spellings are not handled yet.
 
This is a first release report and needs much more work. It will eventually provide information that is harder to get just by search, e.g. a search on publisher Lulu (company) vs Lulu (singer), etc.
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[[AuthorHouse]]: Approx. direct appearances: 887, in 261 Wikiprojects.
===Aventine Press===
[[Aventine Press]]: Items in this report related to this self-publisher need to be double checked, due to the ambiguity of the name.
[[Aventine Press]]: Approx. direct appearances: 130, in 36 Wikiprojects.
 
===Books LLC===
[[Books LLC]]: Approx. direct appearances: n/a yet.
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[[Xulon Press]]: Approx. direct appearances: 160, in 3 Wikiprojects.
===Yudu Media===
[[Yudu Media]]: Approx. direct appearances: 86, in 1 Wikiprojects.
 
==Wikiproject analysis==