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The Wikipedia Typo Team is dedicated to making Wikipedia look more professional by correcting typos and misspellings. Our first typo correction day was on November 22, 2003. This kind of editing is a never-ending job, so we could use your help! Please consider joining us.

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[edit] Correcting spelling

If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them. This helps make Wikipedia look more professional.

Note that the English form of Wikipedia has no preference for American, British, or other forms of English as long as usage is consistent throughout the page. Check the rest of the page before assuming that flavor, color, meter, or defense (or, likewise, flavour, colour, metre, or defence) is a mistake. Note that the endings "-ize" and "-ization" are acceptable in both British and American English. The suffix -ise is more common in Commonwealth usage than -ize, but both spellings are correct. The use of -ize / -ise should remain consistent throughout a page.

More information can be found in the following links:

[edit] Edit summary

To help promote the project, please consider using an edit summary like the following:

Typo correction - [[Wikipedia:Typo|You can help!]]

Or, for a more specific description of your edit, say what specific error you are correcting:

Spelling: lense ==> lens. [[Wikipedia:Typo|You can help!]]

[edit] Typos that need to be corrected

Common typos can be found and should be listed at Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings. More complicated cases in need of correction can be listed here. If only one or two articles exist with an incorrect spelling, please feel free to correct them yourself instead of listing the word here.

[edit] Methods for searching and correcting typos

Many users have found that using Google to search for misspelled words yields better results than Wikipedia, such as this Google search (replace "occured" with desired typo to search). However, the results may be out of date; the results are reindexed in a week or two.

Also, you may want to consider using AutoWikiBrowser to expedite the process by using its 'Make list from Google search' and find and replace features. However, all changes must be thoroughly checked. Make sure you read the AWB page thoroughly before using the software and please report any problems that you may come across. If many quick successive edits are made, please consider getting a bot account.

You can also use Lupin's Anti-vandal tool, which includes a live spell checker that checks for common typos in all newly updated articles.

[edit] Browser spell-checkers

  • Mozilla Firefox has a built-in spell-checker (version 2.0 and later).
    • Additional dictionaries, such as British, American, Canadian, and Australian English, are easily installed via "Add Ons" or via a right-click "Languages" in an HTML form. Switching back and forth between language variants is especially useful for editing Wikipedia. Remember, however, that the Firefox dictionaries are not gospel when it comes to defining a language so use common sense.
    • By default, Firefox's spellchecker stops after 500 flagged words. This is insufficient for some articles. You can increase the maximum number of misspellings by changing the extensions.spellcheck.inline.max-misspellings preference. Enter about:config in the URL bar then in the filter bar enter spell. This will show options related the the spell checker and you should see the one we want. Change its value to something like 1000, 1500, or more.
    • Users of older versions of Firefox can download the SpellBound extension to check spelling, which supports American English, and additional language-country variations such as British English.
    • Other plugins may be of use in aiding your editing too.
  • Users of Opera can visit Spell-checking With Opera for information on how to check spelling on Opera.
  • The latest version of Konqueror highlights misspelled words in text boxes.
  • The newest Google Toolbar includes a multilanguage spell-check feature for forms. However, some articles are longer than it is willing to check.
  • ieSpell is a spell-checker for Internet Explorer. Right-click in the edit box to check spelling.
  • Users of Safari on Mac OS X or a Windows Beta can spell-check an input box from the "Spelling" submenu in the context menu of the box (activated via Control-click or right-click). Spell-check-as-you-type can also be enabled there or alternatively in the application "Edit" menu.
  • Camino 1.1a1 and later has automatic spell-checking in edit fields enabled by default.
  • Searching in the edit form can be done in Firefox using the Findtextarea extension or the Searchtextarea bookmarklet, or by using Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (see Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Search within Textarea Extension with regex). Most other browsers support searching in the text area of a page.
  • OmniWeb has automatic spell-checking in all text input fields.

[edit] Checking spelling

The following online tools can be used if you are unsure of how a word is spelled.

[edit] Free Internet dictionaries

[edit] Free online spell checkers

[edit] Lists of common misspellings

[edit] Utilities/scripts

[edit] Using online dictionaries

If a word does not exist, you often get this kind of result:

Did you mean exec rise?

Make sure to click the underlined word, then check if that word does exist, because the underlined word or words in the message do not always exist. Often, when you get this message, it gives the correct spelling or it gives the word from which what you're trying to look up is derived.

When you look up an entry, punctuation and capitalization do not make any difference. For example, looking up "etc", "etc.", "ETC", "et.c.", or "e-t-c" all yield the same results. Unfortunately, some entries that come up when using improper punctuation or capitalization suggest that the punctuation is right. When looking up "et.c.", for example, the top entry may punctuate it correctly with one full stop, but another entry may punctuate it incorrectly as "et.c." (i.e., the same punctuation you typed in the search box). With the American Heritage Dictionary, an entry is always properly punctuated and capitalized, but often some other entries are punctuated and capitalized just as you typed them.

[edit] Members of the Typo Team

See Wikipedia:Typo/Members

[edit] Userbox

There is now a userbox to show that you are a member of the Typo Team:

tyop
typo		 This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team.

To include the userbox on your user page, you can use {{User:Galaxiaad/typo}} or {{subst:User:Galaxiaad/typo}}. Note the bold "Wikipedia Typo Team" is a link to this project page.

[edit] Pledges

If you want, you can make a typo correction pledge on the pledges page.

[edit] Work completed

You can show your support by discussing your work completed at the works completed page.

[edit] See also

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