I have created a Spellchecker that is working great on my local Intranet. There are still some things that I need to do.
* Check for any security vulnerabilities, I think there are some major XSS stuff. * Clean up the documentation.
Other than that it is functional.
Take a look at my wiki for more information on it and send me some feedback with your thoughts and suggestions.
http://mcintosh.cjb.net/wiki/index.php/Spell_Checker#How_it_works
Thanks Chris McIntosh
I would allow dictionary-additions for each user, and perhaps by specialty topic, not globally. There could later be a package that lets admins look at the union of all private dictionary-additions, and add some of those to the global dict... the set of all words, acronyms, names, and abbreviations which are usable in some context is large.
As it is, you could offer a user the option to only use a simple dictionary of 30k words or so when offering suggestions; the suggestions list can be very long.
SJ
On 7/19/05, Chris McIntosh cmcintosh@gmail.com wrote:
I have created a Spellchecker that is working great on my local Intranet. There are still some things that I need to do.
- Check for any security vulnerabilities, I think there are some major
XSS stuff.
- Clean up the documentation.
Other than that it is functional.
Take a look at my wiki for more information on it and send me some feedback with your thoughts and suggestions.
http://mcintosh.cjb.net/wiki/index.php/Spell_Checker#How_it_works
Thanks Chris McIntosh _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
It's very nice, please open a bug in http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ and attach a unified diff to it, it would also be very nice if you could make it an actually extension (it's probably possible using/adding $wgHooks to the core files you modified.
The only problem I've seen with it so far is that the selection menu tends to flow off the bottom of the screen.
Is this really a bug? Seems like this is more of an extension/enhancement. Is it appopriate to post a bug report for this?
Chris
On 7/20/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
It's very nice, please open a bug in http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ and attach a unified diff to it, it would also be very nice if you could make it an actually extension (it's probably possible using/adding $wgHooks to the core files you modified.
The only problem I've seen with it so far is that the selection menu tends to flow off the bottom of the screen.
Bugzilla can also be used for enhancement requests. A previous request for a wiki-configurable spelling-checker can be found at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677 .
-- Zigger
On 7/22/05, Chris McIntosh wrote:
Is this really a bug? Seems like this is more of an extension/enhancement. Is it appopriate to post a bug report for this?
Chris
On 7/20/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
It's very nice, please open a bug in http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ and attach a unified diff to it, it would also be very nice if you could make it an actually extension (it's probably possible using/adding $wgHooks to the core files you modified.
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On 7/20/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
It's very nice, please open a bug in http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ and attach a unified diff to it, it would also be very nice if you could make it an actually extension (it's probably possible using/adding $wgHooks to the core files you modified.
The only problem I've seen with it so far is that the selection menu tends to flow off the bottom of the screen.
I posted a comment to bug http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677.
As for making it work with hooks etc, I don't think that is such a good idea.
The whole idea behind this was to create a spell check service that can be used by any number of apps, as opposed to being MediaWiki specific.
Also I am not sure how one would use wgHooks to add a link to the EditPage. It didn't seem like there is any better way to do it except to hack up the page. If there is a cleaner way to do it, then I would be happy to create that.
Chris McIntosh
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