On 1/21/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/01/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
- Links that go to disambiguation pages
Depends upon finding a decent solution for http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6754#c8.
So I see. Looks like a useful thing for a variety of other reasons, too.
- Spelling errors, possibly?
British, Australian or American English? We get enough editing disputes as it is. What about all the other languages we support? We'd have to maintain dictionaries, and we don't even have full maintenance of our *translations* at the moment.
That problem is easy at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AWB/T The rule is easy: if a spelling is correct in *any* variation, don't propose it as a mistake.
- Stuff that goes against MoS (for example, level 1 headings, links in
headings...)
"MoS" is extremely variant from wiki to wiki and could change on a whim, which would mean software changes.
Yes. Perhaps any such "style violations" should be configurable through a config page of some sort. Or simply that rules be codified and set as preferences: "Highlight formatting in section headings [yes/no]"
Incidentally, I think Platonides is right about CSS. I was thinking about this afterwards and realised it could pose a problem for caching if an error-highlighted page had to be stored separately from a non-highlighted page. But you could actually just mark all the highlighting with a CSS class and make it display as plain text for users not in "maintenance mode".
Would this be a lot of work, do you think?
Steve