Forum:Spell checker - custom addenda to dictionary

I very much appreciate the red underlines that my source code editor displays as I type an article or forum message.
 * In the short time I spent kicking the tyres on the newer rich text editor I noticed that spell checking is either very slow or perhaps it waits for some event to trigger the display of those same red underlines. I hope this is a known bug and will be addressed in good time.

The purpose of this thread, however, is to ask if there is (or could be) some MediaWiki:Dictionary or similar message that each wiki community might freely add the countless jargon words (and possibly acronyms or abbreviations) from their specific subject area so that these enumerated words are not highlighted by red underlines.

najevi 10:02, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Very interesting idea! Unfortunately, I'm not sure what browser compatibility there would be for that (generally spell checking is entirely browser specific). 10:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah, so those red underlines are a feature of my Firefox browser and not a feature of the editor?
 * Yes indeed! I just confirmed that those red underlines are enabled or disabled depending on my setting or clearing of the check box at Tools-Options-Advanced-General-Browsing-Check my spelling as I type

That is very interesting then because when using the new (rich text) editor those red underlines do not appear immediately which might suggest that the status of the new editor's text input window is only intermittently recognized as a text-area field.


 * Summary of Firefox user solutions
 * 1) To build your custom dictionary: Right-click red underlined word and select Add to Dictionary
 * 2) To enable the spell check for single-line text input boxes (such as the edit Summary box): Firefox 3: Enable Spell Check in Text Boxes (not just textarea fields)
 * 3) To share a custom dictionary for your wiki just make a plain text file listing of the various jargon words and instruct your FF users to add that list to their persdict.dat file in their FF profile folder. Using the spell checker

enjoy! najevi 18:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)