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.
Ec