Thanks for making the maintenance page for misspellings. It took me about 15 minutes to change "althought" to "although" in 22 articles. I took a detour for "Tia and Tamara Mowry" and the "Olsen Twins", which slowed me down. But once I hit my stride, I could fix 2 or 3 articles per minute.
I note that its URL contains a misspelling of its own (mispeelings), but I assume it's homage to the subject line on this e-mail:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Maintenance&subfunct...
Ed Pore (oops, another mispeeling!)
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I note that its URL contains a misspelling of its own (mispeelings), but I assume it's homage to the subject line on this e-mail:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Maintenance&subfunct...
Yes, I'm glad someone appreciates that little pun :-)
Magnus (can't think of a way to misspell my own name right now)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:27 PM Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings
Thanks for making the maintenance page for misspellings. It took me about
15 minutes to change "althought" to "although" in 22 articles. I took a detour for "Tia and Tamara Mowry" and the "Olsen Twins", which slowed me down. But once I hit my stride, I could fix 2 or 3 articles per minute.
I'm not quite that quick. I've noticed that when you get one misspelling in an article, it's a good indicator that there are other problems with spelling or grammar and it takes a while for me to check through a big article. But I too think that the spelling page is a great tool. Much faster than picking a random page and reading it.
Cheers
Derek
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