elian wrote:
I see the problem, but imagine this like a search and replace function in a texteditor: I usually don't hit "replace all", but look at every particular instance and decide, if it should be replaced.
And something like this, if used in a responsible way (maybe only by admins) would be a very valuable tool for the wikipedia.
So imagine a list of search results, all showing a few lines a content around to decide if it's a mispelling (and a link to the article if this is not enough information for you), and a checkbox beside each result to include it in the replace or not. All still depends on human judgement, but facilitates the editing a lot.
You mean a spellchecker :)
One solution is to take an article that you think has a LOT of typoes in it and run it through the built-in spellchecker in Word or another word processer. But then you still have to edit the page...