Operator: WikipedianProlific
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic but supervised.
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Summary: Replacing common misspellings which cannot be the result of anything other than unintentional error.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily run lasting several hours.
Edit rate requested: 4/5 per minute.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N)NO
Spelian is an automatic
AWB based bot intended to trawl pages of Wikipedia semi-automatically making spelling corrections to specific recurring spelling errors. For example, words like prominent are almost always spelt prominant which is incorrect. It is also highly unlikely that the misspelling is intentional. So using AWB, the operator (
WikipedianProlific) selects a word and does a Google search for it. 5 pages are then selected at random as a sample to ensure that the misspelling is not intentional. As a rough example, some misspellings have around 100 occurrences while others have 2000. AWB is then set up and 'run' automatically allowing Spelian to trawl through the offending articles correcting them as it goes. This process is much faster than a user manually checking every single page prior to editing. AWB will not make any automatic changes other changing the spelling of the one word being run. This is because on occasion AWB can reformat or alter words, pages and links for the worse. For precaution, records of all lists run will be kept in the extremely unlikely event that a mass revert be required. To ensure that intentional misspellings aren't picked up the Bot will have 'list of common misspellings' removed from its list and word selection will be based on strict criteria. These criteria can be found on the bots userpage
here.
My position on automatic spelling correction bots is that they should always be run fully manually, to avoid breaking product name, template calls and links, or even subverting the meaning of the text. Sometimes, an incorrect spelling is appropriate (eg in articles about bad spelling, or in almost any solrt of article where scientific terms or quotes use a bad spelling), hence my feeling for the need for such a bot to be *fully manual*. Mart inp23 18:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Denied. OK, I've also just realised who the applicant is :) You have less than 500 edits and I only approved you for AWB usage (within the last couple of days) on the basis that you ease yourself in slowly.
Mets - a leading AWB developer - says the code isn't ready for automated use, and I - a new AWB developer - agree. All things consider this proposal has to be rejected for now. -- kingboyk 01:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Operator: WikipedianProlific
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic but supervised.
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Summary: Replacing common misspellings which cannot be the result of anything other than unintentional error.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily run lasting several hours.
Edit rate requested: 4/5 per minute.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N)NO
Spelian is an automatic
AWB based bot intended to trawl pages of Wikipedia semi-automatically making spelling corrections to specific recurring spelling errors. For example, words like prominent are almost always spelt prominant which is incorrect. It is also highly unlikely that the misspelling is intentional. So using AWB, the operator (
WikipedianProlific) selects a word and does a Google search for it. 5 pages are then selected at random as a sample to ensure that the misspelling is not intentional. As a rough example, some misspellings have around 100 occurrences while others have 2000. AWB is then set up and 'run' automatically allowing Spelian to trawl through the offending articles correcting them as it goes. This process is much faster than a user manually checking every single page prior to editing. AWB will not make any automatic changes other changing the spelling of the one word being run. This is because on occasion AWB can reformat or alter words, pages and links for the worse. For precaution, records of all lists run will be kept in the extremely unlikely event that a mass revert be required. To ensure that intentional misspellings aren't picked up the Bot will have 'list of common misspellings' removed from its list and word selection will be based on strict criteria. These criteria can be found on the bots userpage
here.
My position on automatic spelling correction bots is that they should always be run fully manually, to avoid breaking product name, template calls and links, or even subverting the meaning of the text. Sometimes, an incorrect spelling is appropriate (eg in articles about bad spelling, or in almost any solrt of article where scientific terms or quotes use a bad spelling), hence my feeling for the need for such a bot to be *fully manual*. Mart inp23 18:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Denied. OK, I've also just realised who the applicant is :) You have less than 500 edits and I only approved you for AWB usage (within the last couple of days) on the basis that you ease yourself in slowly.
Mets - a leading AWB developer - says the code isn't ready for automated use, and I - a new AWB developer - agree. All things consider this proposal has to be rejected for now. -- kingboyk 01:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC) reply