[Wikipedia-l] Common typos (was: Tucci528)

Fri Sep 13 23:24:29 UTC 2002

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>
> BTW By using the search function I found three articles with "recieve" 
> in them, just in case you were looking for something to do.
>
I've been pondering.
There are some typos and common spelling mistakes which are no-brainers 
to catch and fix, but require a lot of grunt work.
Would it be possible, or desirable, to have a system which does a search 
for one particular error at a time, eg "recieve", and corrects all the 
pages it finds in batches, of say 20, to avoid loading the server?
Obviously, this will deal with only a fraction of the overall typo 
checking, since many things depend on context (eg "its" / "it's").

Would this be best implemented as a system tool, or as a seperate script 
(like the Eason's Bible Dictionary import)?

-- tarquin