Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2007 19:49:10 schrieb John Erling Blad:
Wetter you do or don't do trust metrics according to misspellings is a choice, but to not correct for misspellings will give a suboptimal solution. It is important to note that you do this, and how it changes the system. I have no doubt that trust metrics will incorporate this as an option in the future, no matter wetter it is part of an official system or not. Likewise I believe it will incorporate systems for weighting cooperation between users and articles overall quality. There is no easy single solution to this, the solution is a complex connected multivariate system.
An automated system (regardless which one) should never care about spelling: a) Many citations are in outdated or non-standard ortography. This is especially true for German, which has changed its ortography just some years ago again. A system that gives an incentive to tamper citations is bad. b) There are assistive systems integrated into the browser (at least Konqueror has this for many years and Firefox now also as spell checking). Furthermore there exists a Toolserver + Javascript based solution that highlights probably missspelled words on reading an article (curently only German but this could be adapted for other languages): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/Rechtschreibpr%C3%BCfung (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Rp_js_beispiel.png and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Rechtschreibpruefung.js). A more advanced external tool is http://rupp.de/cgi-bin/WP-autoreview.pl. These tools are optionally integrated into the Wikipedia interface via the gadgets extension.
So if you make it obvious to editors that there is something they should check they very likely change it and if someone wrote a text with bad ortography someone else gets reputation because of his spell checking and as he did a review it is absolutely right that this text gets more trust afterwards (I know you will come with examples of rubbish text that got corrected to right spelling, but there are nonsense texts with and without bad spelling).
Arnomane