Mark Ryan wrote:
We would need the spell checker to be reactivated and
modified so that
articles can be checked on their own (rather than giving a huge list
of all pages with particular errors in them). I don't fancy copying
entire articles into MS Word to check for errors (and people checking
articles for correct spelling would be likely to miss many errors). I
know the spell checker was a huge resource drain on Wikipedia, but if
it is restricted to those permitted to validate articles, it shouldn't
be so bad.
We would need to feel confident that the spell checker respected
national variations such as labor/labour while maintaing consistent
usage within an individual article.
Spell checkers also create false security. They would never catch the
wrong use of there/their for example. Human checking will still be
essential.
Ec