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How to add a simple form to wiki?
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We added around 4,00,000 pages to tamil wikisource site. http://ta.wikisource.org using the text from google OCR for the Tamil public domain books.

Those text content have many repeated spell errors.

We are collecting the errors and correct spellings here as comma separated lines.
https://ta.wikisource.org/s/2ojl

Wrote a program to read this page, search and replace those words in tamil wikisource pages.
Code is here : https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tools-for-wiki/tree/master/fix_spellerrors_tawikisource

used pywikibot for this.

We are thinking on collecting the wrong words and fixes from public.

Now, need a solution to collect the error words and fixes.
As there are many words(more than 5000), putting everything on a single wiki page is not good.

Is there any way to create a simple form on wiki to users to enter data ? The data should update a wiki page. Duplicate entries should be avoided.

Thanks.

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I would suggest InputBox extension, especially comment type in combination with preload parameter. It is not ideal, but better than nothing.

If you can get admins to agree to it, you can also make a simple gadget
that accepts input of the type you want with a UI you design.

@Dvorapa How to check if that extension is installed in http://ta.wikisource.org?

@yuvipanda I can get admins to agree for gadget. share any link on how to create a form using gadget?

Thanks.

Through Special:Version page. If I am not wrong, it should be installed (it is in the default set)

You can visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen to learn more
about building gadgets, including tutorials!