Here's an idea. Have a "maintenance mode" preference for editors that
highlights errors in Wikipedia articles so they're easy to spot and
fix. For example:
- Links that go to disambiguation pages
- Links that go to redirects (not necessarily errors, but worth checking)
- Broken syntax - make it big and red and ugly rather than gracefully degrading.
- Spelling errors, possibly?
- Stuff that goes against MoS (for example, level 1 headings, links in
headings...)
There are already tools to do this, but they rely on a user making the
(pretty significant effort) to get AWB and decide that they're going
to do maintenance. Integrating highlighting like this into normal
Wikipedians' daily routine would be a lot more effective. And certain
problems like links going to disambig pages are really hard to pick up
unless you're specifically looking for them.
Any takers?
Steve