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Spell checking

Hi. I would like to run a supervised spell checking script (I will manually confirm each edit.) to correct typos on this wiki such as this edit. Is it OK? Do I need to create a new bot account or can I run the script under my current account? Edit rate is expected to be low. (4 to 5 edits per minute.) --Meno25 (talk) 12:31, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Meno25, thanks for your work so far! I'm not sure that running the spell checking script on letters or personal pieces of work is the best idea, but it would be a good idea for the generic information pages, such as the FAQ (although that's currently being worked on, so I wouldn't do it on that one yet), Our projects etc. Any of the Resolutions probably shouldn't be touched, and the same would apply for donation pages - do you have a list of pages in mind that you would run the script on, or was this intended to be for the whole wiki? With regards to using a new bot account, I don't believe we use bot accounts here, but I'll leave that to someone else to comment on. Thehelpfulone 19:19, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This seems fine to me to run under your main account with the caveats that Thehelpfulone mentioned. In short, you cannot touch a certain subset of pages on this wiki, even if they contain typos or other obvious errors. As long as you're very careful, it's no problem to fix up spelling and grammar mistakes. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I will say that when I see edits such as this one from earlier today, it makes me very hesitant to trust you to make bulk changes to this wiki. These templates were mis-placed on user pages instead of user talk pages. The reason for humans to exist is to make judgments such as "this is the wrong place, let me move the template before substituting it." You apparently removed the human judgment and acted more like a bot, which is very worrying. You must be careful or you risk making the site worse rather than better. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:55, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
@Thehelpfulone: Thank you for your comment. Actually creating a dedicated bot account is better so as not to flood recent changes but I am fine with running the script under my account. The list of pages is found here. Feel free to add or remove pages to it.
@MZMcBride: Some users like to have the welcome template on their userpages because it contains a lot of useful links. I thought this was the case here and that the template wasn't misplaced. Anyway, I would like you to give me another chance to prove that I have good judgement. I will make only five edits and I invite you again to asses the edits. --Meno25 (talk) 21:18, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the list of pages that were detected as having typos but that I am rather hesitant whether to fix them or not. Please weigh in. --Meno25 (talk) 21:41, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Another 50 test edits. I estimate the remaining edits at 150. Any comments? --Meno25 (talk) 17:51, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I looked at every diff. Most are fine. Thanks for your work. :-)
Please do try to avoid the URL changes (such as at FAQ/ar), though they're not a big deal to revert. Just a bit messier. And I'm not quite sure we should be changing quotes from legal documents (as you did with DMCA Texas Instruments). But both of these are very minor issues.
If you can do maybe 50 or so edits per day, that would keep Special:RecentChanges more reasonable and would allow for a more thorough review of your edits. But if you really want to do all the remaining edits in a big sprint, I won't object. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:42, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]