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a) Many citations are in outdated or non-standard ortography.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/Rechtschreibprüfung (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
