----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Ropers" ropers@ropersonline.com
BugZillify this as a Feature Request.
I also love playing with languages but I sometime feel like I'm not that welcomed to understand some of the writings in this list. I'm very sad to only be French (and to blindly use split infinitive :) but I wished I had enough boldness to ask writers to stay in certain limits of understandability (<-- I know this word is horrific, but it's easy to understand for most readers, isn't it ?)
Note that this comment isn't directly adressed to Jens but to all the contributors. Wikipedia isn't only written by native geeks swimming everyday in their slangy localized bath, my dear friends !
(gbog)
: "Of course we currently already create "misspellings" redirects (manually)"
Do we? I don't see why. Having such a redirect suggests that at some point it will be used. That means a link with the wrong spelling. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would much rather see a red link than a blue one on a misspelling! Anyone using preview is more likely to be alerted to the misspelling, not to mention the reader or another editor if the misspelling is saved! (Yes, I realise people should be using spellcheckers, but they probably aren't!)
Anyways, I think misspelt words should not be catered for!
Zoney
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:46:01 +0800, ruimu uestc ruimu@uestc.edu.cn wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Ropers" ropers@ropersonline.com
BugZillify this as a Feature Request.
I also love playing with languages but I sometime feel like I'm not that welcomed to understand some of the writings in this list. I'm very sad to only be French (and to blindly use split infinitive :) but I wished I had enough boldness to ask writers to stay in certain limits of understandability (<-- I know this word is horrific, but it's easy to understand for most readers, isn't it ?)
Note that this comment isn't directly adressed to Jens but to all the contributors. Wikipedia isn't only written by native geeks swimming everyday in their slangy localized bath, my dear friends !
(gbog)
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In practice, what happens is that people who know less than they think they do create new articles from the red link, and things get messy from there. There are a bunch of less-obvious misspellings too - in some cases it's taken a bit of research to determine the correct one of several spellings; in such cases the redirect is effectively WP's record of research on the subject.
Mispelling redirs also make it easy to use "what links here" to find all the misspellings.
Stan
Zoney wrote:
: "Of course we currently already create "misspellings" redirects (manually)"
Do we? I don't see why. Having such a redirect suggests that at some point it will be used. That means a link with the wrong spelling. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would much rather see a red link than a blue one on a misspelling! Anyone using preview is more likely to be alerted to the misspelling, not to mention the reader or another editor if the misspelling is saved! (Yes, I realise people should be using spellcheckers, but they probably aren't!)
Anyways, I think misspelt words should not be catered for!
Zoney
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:46:01 +0800, ruimu uestc ruimu@uestc.edu.cn wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Ropers" ropers@ropersonline.com
BugZillify this as a Feature Request.
I also love playing with languages but I sometime feel like I'm not that welcomed to understand some of the writings in this list. I'm very sad to only be French (and to blindly use split infinitive :) but I wished I had enough boldness to ask writers to stay in certain limits of understandability (<-- I know this word is horrific, but it's easy to understand for most readers, isn't it ?)
Note that this comment isn't directly adressed to Jens but to all the contributors. Wikipedia isn't only written by native geeks swimming everyday in their slangy localized bath, my dear friends !
(gbog)
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I thoroughly, completely, 100% agree with you, but I've already lost this battle at [[Redirects for deletion]].
RickK
Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote: : "Of course we currently already create "misspellings" redirects (manually)"
Do we? I don't see why. Having such a redirect suggests that at some point it will be used. That means a link with the wrong spelling. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would much rather see a red link than a blue one on a misspelling! Anyone using preview is more likely to be alerted to the misspelling, not to mention the reader or another editor if the misspelling is saved! (Yes, I realise people should be using spellcheckers, but they probably aren't!)
Anyways, I think misspelt words should not be catered for!
Zoney
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Common misspellings should be created as redirect links. Mrak
--- Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
: "Of course we currently already create "misspellings" redirects (manually)"
Do we? I don't see why. Having such a redirect suggests that at some point it will be used. That means a link with the wrong spelling. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would much rather see a red link than a blue one on a misspelling! Anyone using preview is more likely to be alerted to the misspelling, not to mention the reader or another editor if the misspelling is saved! (Yes, I realise people should be using spellcheckers, but they probably aren't!)
Anyways, I think misspelt words should not be catered for!
Zoney
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:46:01 +0800, ruimu uestc ruimu@uestc.edu.cn wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Ropers" ropers@ropersonline.com
BugZillify this as a Feature Request.
I also love playing with languages but I sometime
feel like I'm not that
welcomed to understand some of the writings in
this list. I'm very sad to
only be French (and to blindly use split
infinitive :) but I wished I had
enough boldness to ask writers to stay in certain
limits of
understandability (<-- I know this word is
horrific, but it's easy to
understand for most readers, isn't it ?)
Note that this comment isn't directly adressed to
Jens but to all the
contributors. Wikipedia isn't only written by
native geeks swimming everyday
in their slangy localized bath, my dear friends !
(gbog)
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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These "misspelt REDIRECTs" typically are NOT ever used in articles (if they are in any article, they'll get corrected sooner than later). The merit of having "misspelt REDIRECTs" in the first place is purely to cater for users who type in just that (common) misspelling into the search box or the address bar of their browser. Not that I'm really advocating "misspelt REDIRECTs". They're a "pain in the funky" ** stopgap measure. A proper fuzzy logic misspellings box ("Did you mean...") would be a gazillion times better. As the MacUser reviewer observed: If Google can do it, why can't encyclopedias do the same?
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com
** Since I was just admonished over my use of "exclusive" lingo: "Pain in the funky" is (creative) [[Rhyming slang]]. "Funky" rhymes with "donkey" and "donkey" equals "ass".
On 20 Oct 2004, at 18:03, Zoney wrote:
: "Of course we currently already create "misspellings" redirects (manually)"
Do we? I don't see why. Having such a redirect suggests that at some point it will be used. That means a link with the wrong spelling. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would much rather see a red link than a blue one on a misspelling! Anyone using preview is more likely to be alerted to the misspelling, not to mention the reader or another editor if the misspelling is saved! (Yes, I realise people should be using spellcheckers, but they probably aren't!)
Anyways, I think misspelt words should not be catered for!
Zoney
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:46:01 +0800, ruimu uestc ruimu@uestc.edu.cn wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Ropers" ropers@ropersonline.com
BugZillify this as a Feature Request.
I also love playing with languages but I sometime feel like I'm not that welcomed to understand some of the writings in this list. I'm very sad to only be French (and to blindly use split infinitive :) but I wished I had enough boldness to ask writers to stay in certain limits of understandability (<-- I know this word is horrific, but it's easy to understand for most readers, isn't it ?)
Note that this comment isn't directly adressed to Jens but to all the contributors. Wikipedia isn't only written by native geeks swimming everyday in their slangy localized bath, my dear friends !
(gbog)
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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