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

Sat Sep 14 17:22:09 UTC 2002

On Saturday 14 September 2002 05:58 am,  Jim McKeeth wrote:
> When the finish the page they submit the form and it only makes the changes
> they specifically approved.  This would be as effective (in reducing "auto
> pilot" errors) as just doing a search on the word and manually replacing
> it.  In fact it might be better because much of the repetitive tasks are
> removed so the editor is less likely to just go auto pilot and change
> everything.
>
> Don't know how practical this is with WikiPedia's software, but that is my
> suggestion.

How about something similar to http://ee.www.ee/filosoft/html_speller_en/ ?

There you either enter in the raw text or URL of where the text is that you 
want to check and then another page opens with possible misspells crossed out 
with asterisks next to them. You click on the asterisk and a HTML popup box 
displays some possible correct spellings.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)