[wp-docs] Codex Misspellings Maintenance Page

[Chris Lott]

On 1/9/06, Michael E. Hancock <mhancock at us.net> wrote:
> From: "Chris Lott" <chris.lott at gmail.com>
> > Is the Codex misspelling maintenance page
> >
> (http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Special:Maintenance&subfunction=
> mispeelings)
> > something developed just for the Codex? Could it be set to exclude the
> > IRC_Meetups and the es: (and other non-english pages when they appear)
> > automatically?
>
> You'd  have to modify the SELECT statement in SpecialMaintenance.php to
> exclude specific articles from the spell check.  As a note, there have been
> suggestions in Mediwiki to create a tag such as <nospell></nospell>.

I don't have any such access of course, but ignoring articles which
start with IRC_ and es: would be a start...

> > Barring that, would it damage the historical record if all the Meetup
> > pages had their spelling fixed to get those pages out of there and
> > make the misspellings maintenance page more useful?
>
> Good question.  The Meetup pages just inform those not able to attend, so,
> unless someone objects, why not just fix the spellings on those pages.

Barring no objection during the week, I am likely to do just that this weekend.

> And did you notice the ironic "mispeelings"?

:)

c