[Wikipedia-l] Waiting for 1.0

Sun Jul 18 11:01:50 UTC 2004

Le Sunday 18 July 2004 10:17, Mark Ryan a écrit :
> We would need the spell checker to be reactivated and modified so that
> articles can be checked on their own (rather than giving a huge list
> of all pages with particular errors in them). I don't fancy copying
> entire articles into MS Word to check for errors (and people checking
> articles for correct spelling would be likely to miss many errors). I
> know the spell checker was a huge resource drain on Wikipedia, but if
> it is restricted to those permitted to validate articles, it shouldn't
> be so bad.

No, real paper publications are always ultimately checked by human eyes even 
for spelling. Automatic spelling is just a tool, but it can't detect every 
spelling mistakes.

> ~Mark Ryan

Yann

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