Le Sunday 18 July 2004 15:08, Mark Ryan a écrit :
I know automatic spell checking is just a tool. But we still have spelling errors being found now, years after they were first inserted into articles.
I am not convince that spell checking tools will improve that. A spelling error squashing party would be more efficient I think.
Humans are prone to errors. I know I can proofread an essay of my own over ten times and not notice the most obvious spelling errors.
That's why WP is a collaborative project.
An automatic spell checker would just draw our attention to possibly overlooked errors.
May be it also depends on the language. Every time I use a spell checking tool in French, I find it just useless, partly because it reports many spelling mistakes where there are none, and can't find others.
How many spelling errors would you find on Britannica?
I don't read Britannica. ;o) Yann