User:Carlb

Hi!

I'm CarlB and am active primarily on the following wikis:
 * http://uncyclopedia.org
 * http://fr.wikipedia.org
 * http://en.wikipedia.org

I have been making some attempts to translate existing Canadian-language Wikipedia articles (typically en->fr, as there's lots of good stuff on en: that could use to be imported).

I've also been mostly trying to clean up uncategorised, unwikified, broken-link, «mispelled», substub, dictdef and other assorted fragments on the Uncyclopedia wikia.

There are some useful tools out there, but the spellcheckers and the machine translations can only do so much before their limitations become apparent.

Nonetheless, I'm currently looking into offloading some of the tasks to a modified pywikibot/editarticle.py-style process where the following should happen before a badly-wikified article appears onscreen for manual editing:
 * retrieve both the article to be edited (as the normal editarticle.py does) plus the formatted HTML (non-standard, but useful for finding broken wiki links)
 * check the HTML for red links and remove links to non-existent articles
 * check for terms which are unambiguous (such as proper names) on a canned list of articles to which a link should nearly always be added if the term is in the text
 * finally, open the article in a standard editor with some sort of spellchecker, permitting manual repair and submission if the text is indeed salvageable.

Still a manual, one-at-a-time procedure and plenty of obstacles, but better than nothing. --Carlb 03:06, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)