[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings

Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com
Fri Oct 18 19:40:51 UTC 2002


Yes, FvdP suggested that in Wikipedia talk:Spellchecking project

> spelling errors detection should be done automatically if possible. 
> That is, a list of common misspellings should be periodically 
> searched for in the articles, by an automatic "daemon", 
> and the results be published for humans to correct 
> (I'm wary of automatic correction).

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Manske [mailto:magnus.manske at epost.de]

How aboutYet Another Special Page (maybe part of the Maintenance Page)? 
It could scan through wikipedia searching for common typos defined in a 
special "article" (wikipedia:typos?).

Magnus



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