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Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary. To enable spellchecking in Microsoft Word, go to the Tools menu and enable "Grammar and ...
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The Wikipedia Typo Team is dedicated to improving the quality of Wikipedia by correcting typos and misspellings. If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them. If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them.
The earliest writing style programs checked for wordy, trite, clichéd, or misused phrases in a text.This process was based on simple pattern matching.The heart of the program was a list of many hundreds or thousands of phrases that are considered poor writing by many experts.
A number of apps for Wikipedia's sister projects exist. These include the Wiki Loves Monuments app, written for a 2012 photo contest, as an aid for Wikiphotographers. It shows a map of nearby national heritage register items, indicating whether Wikipedia had a photo for the site, and enabling quick and easy photo uploads for camera phones. It ...
(The free version is good enough for fixing Wikipedia articles.) The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser. RegExTypoFix is a large set of regular expressions meant to be loaded into AutoWikiBrowser to do automatic spellchecking.
Most web browsers have built-in spellchecking. You can use external websites or software to check for errors. If you want to focus only on misspellings, these tools are handy: User:Lupin/Live spellcheck – for monitoring misspellings as they are added; Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss – for finding misspellings in existing text
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.