[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings

Sat Oct 19 18:39:35 UTC 2002

Lightning wrote:

>>>hey.. how about we create a db script that fixes this stuff? i can do it
>>>if
>>>you guys approve it and i'll send it to whoever has permission to do this
>>>
>>>seriously, just a big select statement that selects any article that
>>>contains ie "mispeeling" and automatically replaces the correct
>>>spelling...
>>>
>>This is fine until some of the 'mispeelings' are intended....
>>
>
>I figure if we mess up 20 articles, but fix 250, its worth it... or not?
>
>If people like the idea i'll program it, and even tie it into the diff
>thing, so it logs the edit onto the article history...
>
Please no!  Having 20 of 250 articles murdered by friendly fire is not 
acceptable.  Simply showing 250 recent changes is no help in finding the 
friendly corpses.  Your cure is worse than the disease.
Eclecticology