Add spell-checking option to LanguageTool WikiCheck [AOI]
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	Aug 25 2015, 6:18 AM

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Per T108628, it would be nice to have spell-checking as an optional feature in the LanguageTool WikiCheck (http://community.languagetool.org/wikiCheck/pageCheck/index). Right now it is disabled due to too many false positives.

Acceptance criteria:

Add two checkboxes to the UI: 'Check spelling' and 'Check grammar'. Check grammar should be checked by default and check spelling should be unchecked by default.
Significantly reduce the number of false positives flagged by the check spelling option. This may involve things like ignoring wikilinks, ignoring references, adding dictionaries for jargon or regional dialects of English, ignoring quotations, ignoring words that appear multiple times in an article, etc.

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		Declined		kaldari	T110157 [blocked] Promote the LanguageTool WikiCheck on relevant wikis [AOI]
		Declined		None	T110156 Add spell-checking option to LanguageTool WikiCheck [AOI]

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kaldari created this task.Aug 25 2015, 6:18 AM

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kaldari moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Blocked on the Community-Tech board.Aug 25 2015, 6:19 AM

kaldari added a parent task: T110157: [blocked] Promote the LanguageTool WikiCheck on relevant wikis [AOI].Aug 25 2015, 6:35 AM

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Support: Medium (spell-checking was identified as high priority in Spanish survey, but this tool was not specifically mentioned)
Feasibility: Good
Impact: Medium
Risk: Low

Priority: Normal

kaldari updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 25 2015, 9:07 PM

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kaldari added a project: Community-Tech-Sprint.Sep 11 2015, 7:20 PM

kaldari moved this task from Ready to Needs Discussion on the Community-Tech board.Sep 11 2015, 7:23 PM

kaldari mentioned this in T108628: [AOI] Investigation: Can we improve spell checking capabilities on Wikipedia?.Sep 11 2015, 8:33 PM

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kaldari lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Sep 14 2015, 6:18 PM

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Note that this tool is written in Java, which none of the CommTech developers are very strong on (@Fhocutt is probably the only one who could try to tackle it). Since this makes the task less feasible for our team, I've lowered the priority.

kaldari removed a project: Community-Tech-Sprint.Oct 13 2015, 5:46 PM

kaldari moved this task from Needs Discussion to New & TBD Tickets on the Community-Tech board.

• DannyH renamed this task from [AOI] Add spell-checking option to LanguageTool WikiCheck to Add spell-checking option to LanguageTool WikiCheck [AOI].Oct 28 2015, 7:07 PM

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• DannyH moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Needs Discussion on the Community-Tech board.Oct 28 2015, 7:47 PM

kaldari edited a custom field.Nov 10 2015, 4:10 PM

• DannyH moved this task from Needs Discussion to Product backlog on the Community-Tech board.Nov 17 2015, 6:48 PM

kaldari mentioned this in T110157: [blocked] Promote the LanguageTool WikiCheck on relevant wikis [AOI].Feb 4 2016, 1:19 AM

Note that this tool is shut down: http://forum.languagetool.org/t/shutting-down-wikicheck/1098
First action, if any, should be to host it in toollabs.