On 12/22/10 1:53 AM, Peter Coombe wrote:
I do think there are fewer opportunities for such "easy" edits on Wikipedia now. Typos seem to be far less common thanks to semi-automated tools such as AWB, and most articles are generally more mature. Plus the wikicode of articles grows ever more intimidating.
You can still find them by reading. The tools may very well catch non-words or common misuses, but will it catch a plurals when there should be a singular, or wrong verb tenses? Excessive wikicode for templates or in-line references is a problem for simple edits. If one sees an error in the normal text, it can be a chore to find it again in edit mode when it is buried in the code.
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