"Myria" myria@wolfandturtle.net wrote in message news:000001c58d30$301cd630$6500a8c0@Lappy...
.... I presume that server-side spell checking does not preclude one from using a client-side spell-checker, so I'm really at a loss as to why -- aside from the seemingly inevitable naysaying so common to this list -- a server-side spell checker is such a bad idea. But then I'm sure someone will be along shortly to explain why it is bad for the internet, violates the Wiki concept, or creates mopery and dopery on the spaceways.
The main objection on :en: would be the inevitable arguments as to whether to use US or UK English.
It **might** be possible to arrange for an option wherein a particular spelling dictionary could be selected for a given article, but the scope for spelling-reversion-wars would be immense.
OTOH for those wikis which use a single well-defined mode of spelling, this might well be very helpful for non-native contributors.
Assuming they pick the correct option obviously: we are awl familiarity with thee pecuniary problematic of spell-cheque systemic :-)