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Welcome to the Wikipedia Typo Department. November 22, 2003, was our first typo correction day. The Typo Team aims to make Wikipedia look more professional by correcting typos and misspellings.

Correcting spelling

If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them. This helps make Wikipedia 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 flavour, colour, metre, or defence (or, on the other hand, flavor, color, meter, or defense) 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:

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.

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 However, the results may be out of date; the results are reindexed in a week or two.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.

Browser spell-checkers

  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has a built-in spell-checker. Users of other versions of Firefox can download the SpellBound extension to check spelling, which supports American English, and additional language-country variations such as British English. Users of Firefox 1.5x should use the development version.
  • 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 Mac OS X can spell-check an input box in Safari 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.

Checking spelling

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

Free internet dictionaries

Free online spell checkers

Lists of common misspellings

Utilities/scripts

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. But often when you get this message, it gives the correct spelling or it gives the word of which what you're trying to look up is derived of.

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.

Work completed


Dooly00000 (4)
  • realease / realeased / realeased --> release / released / rereleased
Dooly00000 (150+) (complete as of now.) (WikiPedia searchbox. Will try other search engines later)
yourslef → yourself (1)
apon → upon (19) BrokenSphere 21:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
varios --> various (10)
salycilate --> salicylate (2)
salycilates --> salicylates (1)
amytriptiline --> amitriptyline (1)
symptomes --> symptoms (6)
extasy --> ecstasy (3)
extacy --> ecstasy (2)
exstacy --> ecstasy (2)
ecstacy --> ecstasy (78) (tried to verify titles of songs and such; if I couldn't or didn't feel like looking it up I left it as is)
opiods --> opioids (2)
perscription --> prescription (23)
perscriptions --> prescriptions (4)
perscribed --> prescribed (9)
perscriptive --> prescriptive (1)
installtion --> installation (3)
ellusive --> elusive (3)
All done in the past few weeks, heh. --Galaxiaad 21:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
prescib(es/er/ed/ing) → prescrib(es/er/ed/ing) (14)
perscibed → prescribed (2)
varient(s) → variant(s) (4)
psuedonym(s) → pseudonym(s) (22)
aleviate(d) → alleviate(d) (11)
codiene → codeine (2)
psylocybin/psilocibin → psilocybin (3)
empahsize/sis → emphasize/sis (6)
"Hugh Heffner" → "Hugh Hefner" (8)
"Jimmy Hendrix" → "Jimi Hendrix" (1)
Dillion → Dillon (48) (only if I could verify)
Guiliani/Giulani/Guliani → Giuliani (37) (only if I could verify)
"it's use" → "its use" (45)
"slight of hand" → "sleight of hand" (8)
"tongue and cheek"/"tongue-and-cheek" → "tongue-in-cheek" (10)
Last few days. --Galaxiaad 04:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
diazapam → diazepam (1)
anaphalaxis → anaphylaxis (2)
idenity → identity (11) --Galaxiaad 05:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rusian → Russian (6)
corect → correct (2)
inncorect → incorrect (1)
privatly → privately (11) --BrokenSphere 01:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
abutt → abut (2)
exisiting → existing (9)
barbituate(s) → barbiturate(s) (31) --Galaxiaad 02:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
achievment → achievement (~38)
amoung → among (~45)
appeareance → appearance (~45)
carrer → career (~80)
choosen → chosen (~60)
comming → coming (~20)
diffrent → different (~45)
embarass → embarrass (~35)
generaly → generally (~20)
governement → government (~85)
occured → occurred (~35)
recieve → receive (~180)
refrenced → referenced (~45)
relevent → relevant (~25)
[un]successfull → [un]successful (~210)
untill → until (~25)
varient → variant (13) Dar-Ape 20:04, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
marshmellow(s) --> marshmallow(s) (9)
ingenius --> ingenious (4)
"Jimmy Buffet" --> "Jimmy Buffett" (16)
pharmacuetic(s/al/als) --> pharmaceutic(s/al/als) (12)
pharmacutical(s) --> pharmaceutical(s) (16)
"it's importance" --> "its importance" (4)
dermititis --> dermatitis (5)
"side affect(s)" --> "side effect(s)" (20)
revelan(t/ce) --> relevan(t/ce) (6)
Last few weeks. --Galaxiaad 06:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • univesity → university (~35)
acually → actually (15) Planetneutral 03:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • dipicted → depicted (4)
homeade → homemade (2)
clasical → classical (15) BrokenSphere 19:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Adderal → Adderall (1)
Addisons('s) → Addison's (2)
adolesent → adolescent (1)
abdomial → abdominal (2)
Malasian → Malaysian (7)
Phillippine(s)/Philipine(s)/Phillipine(s)/Phillipene(s)/Philippene(s) → Philippine(s) (121) (all of them!)
"it's name" → "its name" (135) (not nearly all of them) --Galaxiaad 05:21, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • "John Hopkins"/"John's Hopkins" --> "Johns Hopkins" (when appropriate) (95) (all of them)
"Vincente Fox" --> "Vicente Fox" (3) --Galaxiaad 07:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pledges

JoeBot is now doing this with AutoWikiBrowser so I'll bow out, and move my efforts over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation.
  • I used to get confused as to the correct spelling of "forty", so it's on my regular hit list. So is "valuable", and I'll be adding a new word to the list every week or two. --Estarriol 17:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Every time I get bored, I'll continue from where I left off in the list of common misspellings. Right now, I'm only on the letter 'a', so by the time I get back around to 'a' in about 100 years, it'll be good to go again. tv316 15:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I will be looking for duplicates like "the the" and "that that".
  • Umm.. "that that" is not necessarily wrong. The reason I dislike this car, is that that other car was better. Not the best example of a sentence, yes, but it is still grammatically correct :) EuroSong talk 00:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Finished the ones from the March Data Dump.
—-- That Guy, From That Show! (talk) 2006-04-13 10:49
That surely is a disasterous typo Rbarreira 12:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will any of you be terribly upset if I merely correct what I find without using any tools?

JimCubb 03:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • I will correct any typo I come across on Wikipedia, using the spell-check in Firefox and by searching on Google for mistakes. I will pay special attention to British vs American consistency in articles. Laerwen 05:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I will use my skills and intuition in correcting every typo I come across when looking for such things. If I am unsure, I will use the spellcheck on my computer, and the web to compare with relevant websites. Coryma (Talk)

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.

(When the userbox is on a user page, the bold "Wikipedia Typo Team" is a link to this project page.)

To include the userbox on your user page, you can use {{User:Galaxiaad/typo}}, or subst it with {{subst:User:Galaxiaad/typo}}.

Members of the Typo Team

See also
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