[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings
Poor, Edmund W
Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com
Fri Oct 18 19:40:51 UTC 2002
Yes, FvdP suggested that in Wikipedia talk:Spellchecking project
> spelling errors detection should be done automatically if possible.
> That is, a list of common misspellings should be periodically
> searched for in the articles, by an automatic "daemon",
> and the results be published for humans to correct
> (I'm wary of automatic correction).
-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Manske [mailto:magnus.manske at epost.de]
How aboutYet Another Special Page (maybe part of the Maintenance Page)?
It could scan through wikipedia searching for common typos defined in a
special "article" (wikipedia:typos?).
Magnus
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