Forum:Spell Check

Spell Check
Im a modest wiki editor, mostly categorizing files and articles, but no matter what every page i come across has some sort of spelling eeror :) I've been trying to embed a spell check on a wiki page but being a novice its beyond me.


 * this is the code:

http://www.jspell.com/public-spell-checker.html
 * this is where i found it.

For now i just edit & copy everything on the page and run it through the spell checker.

Although i prefer the old style editor (being someone who wiki edits in Microsoft notepad, I'm old school), it might be a better idea to add it to the new editor it might get me to use it. Or add a new button, just like the other ones that have been showing up: Make a map, add a video.

Let me know what the community thinks

--My Name Is Tom 20:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Forum name
This is unrelated; but just so you know your topic Forum:Spell check didn't have to be recreated to be placed in the appropriate forum section: you could just edit the top line of it. -- Sixorish 21:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I know it looks that way, but I wanted it to be a capital "C" in Check, not just fix the forum. So intead of moving it i made a new page, because it would have made a redirect page also... but thanks for the heads up.--My Name Is Tom 22:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed, not I don't see why capitalization matters. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 18:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

yoU AlSo probably Don,T mide miNd Punctuation oR SpeLlin.--My Name Is Tom 18:30, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Do not disrupt this wiki in order to make a point. If this forum becomes the source of disruption, I'll be forced to lock it down. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 18:36, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

OK I Wont, cause i did. And you do what you have to. Im just tryin to have a discussion on the subject, but saying use another browser is negating the issue. Wikia is constantly trying to improve itself, and why not try and come up with some ways to do it.--My Name Is Tom 18:52, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Off topic: Moving was the best option as pages listed here appear because of the category in the template not because of their name.
 * Now topic: The biggest issue i see with any spell check is that of the language barriers, what if the error is done on purpose?, what if like other people i navigate a french wiki with preference set in spanish and i want to write in english to communicate or be it german if i knew some one knew german..., language is to personal even between wikis and wording could be wrong but accepted. for example in the dofus there is this word "perceptor" while the right word is "preceptor" but the game developers dont want to change it... imagine the load times for this to work properly and more in a multi language level... --

Spell checker
A built-in spell checker would be nice! Especially when one logs on elsewhere
 * That's agreeable, even though the Firefox built in spellchecker is nice, I don't see anyone else on wiki I administrate finding any way to spellcheck things. The two I noticed were Spellchecking extensions and ms:Extension:Spellcheck thought it's possible they're the same. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 23, 2007 @ 03:14 (UTC)
 * Interesting. One thing that comes up in discussing how newbies get started is that they start with spelling mistakes. So in an an odd way... a few spelling mistakes might be a good thing. Not a concrete product yet... but I was thinking about something that would scan for spelling mistakes in existing articles, then prompt new users to the site to take a look ... potentially even prompting them with the suggested correct spelling... I see this as potentially an easy way to get people to realize they can very easily jump in and help... even if just a little bit. Johnq 22:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Why not a miniature system a little on the advanced side which allows the system to search for repetitive things other than just spelling mistakes. It's almost like treating newbies like bots (o_0 kinda oddly laughable), normally I'd consider that a bit rude and I'd prefer making a bot do that so that normal editors don't. But if simple things can be edited in a easy way to get new users it might be worth it. Maybe kinda like a guided edit system; Other than spellchecking new wiki could even set it up for copying the existing content from Wikipedia onto the encyclopedia, normal editors throw in a large list of pages which need that done, then the newbies go through a page following the instructions, and tag it saying it's been done, then a normal editor who is very knowledgeable about what's being done can go over and verify that it was done correctly, fix anything which was done wrong and then check it off telling the system that that page was done correctly.


 * Two of my wiki have something similar to that actually. Each of them have a Forum: Collaboration forum. In which each topic is supposed to be a project that the community is working on.


 * On the Narutopedia we have w:c:Naruto:Forum:Village in Distress: A new E-Ranked Mission! (Came up with the name by modifying one of the episode titles; That community seams to be enthusiastic to making things in the software fit the series (We use Kage instead of Bureaucrat there, and Jonin instead of Sysop, etc...)) in which an editor picks one of the character articles from the list (Which can be expanded by editors with the other names that are on Wikipedia but are missing), they tag the list saying that they are going to do it. Then they go to the proper article name, copy the Wikipedia article following the guide How to copy from Wikipedia? and then they create the requested redirect pages listed there, and mark it off as done. After it's finished, I go through the page to make sure It was done correctly (I wrote up the guide on how to correctly copy a page, and some people are still misunderstanding a bit of it (This also helps me figure out other things to add to the guide)) I tag it off as verified.
 * On the Animepedia we have a huge number of articles which were created from before the wiki changed from the old Anime Wiki, to the new Animepedia inside of the Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project. The issue with these pages is not that they were copied directly from Wikipedia, but the fact that that was done without adding the proper attribution. So basically there are a bunch of pages which are; Illegal (GFDL Violation of not being attributed to Wikipedia), Out of date (Because Wikipedians have made the Wikipedia articles better), at the wrong name (Because the Animepedia uses a Subpage structure to create a Mini Wiki like system, this means that all those pages are in the wrong location), and Not formated to work on the wiki (they were never properly fixed, Nihongo is used instead of the Translation template which takes more into account, they use Wikipedia's infobox system which doesn't render correctly (Old templates were poorly copied) instead of using the better infobox system being built, extra templates and templates with incorrect names are used, and nonexistant categories are used). Basically this makes these pages useless, so Project Clean Slate is aimed at tagging those bad pages for deletion so that we can later start adding correct content to the wiki. (Examples of correct content would be Anime:Nanoha/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Anime:Okusama wa Joshikousei/Okusama wa Joshikousei, Anime:Saikano/Saikano, and Anime:Saikano/Chise (Though these last two aren't as good of examples) ) ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 24, 2007 @ 00:23 (UTC)
 * I posed the spelling question. My solution is a google bar, and it turns out that there is a spell checker called ieSpell that can be installed for free in Internet ExplorerDeclan 02:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Firefox has it built-in and Opera uses ASpell if it's installed, so that makes 3 browsers which can do that. But Opera's is a spell-checker which doesn't highlight the mistakes like firefox, and I don't know about the IE one. But you also half to think about those who are using public or shared computers where people don't want them installing extra things onto the computer. ~Dantman(talk) tricks Apr 30, 2007 @ 03:32 (UTC)
 * Exactly right!!Declan 18:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)