[Wikipedia-l] disambiguation, homophonous words, and helping illiterate people

Mon Nov 20 13:21:38 UTC 2006

On 20/11/06, Jacky PB <dpotop1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The answer is apriori pertinent, and I think it raises
> greater questions: Is phonetic search a goal of
> wikipedia? Should we think about possible wrong
> ortographs of words and put them on wikipedia?

I frequently make misspellings into redirects ... particularly if I
made the error myself.

Most entries could probably do with a forest of redirects, because
they will help the reader find the article just by typing a plausible
name into the search box.

- d.