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Let users request new words for dictionary
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By khym , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Jun 21, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Now that K5 has a spell checker, there needs to be some method for user to suggest new words to be added to the dictionary.
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| One way to do this would be to allow for personal dictionaries. One of the user preference pages would have a TEXTAREA, with user defined words separated by whitespace. There'd be some sort of admin tool to grab, merge and sort all of the personal dictionaries, and useful words could be transfered to a sitewide dictionary.
However, I doubt that personal dictionaries would be feasible. Another idea is to have a text field under the comment/story text area for "suggested words for dictionary". Users could copy-and-paste spell-checker red-flagged words into it, and editors could periodically go through the suggestions and add them to the sitewide dictionary.
A cooler idea (IMHO) would be this: if a user does a spell-check, then submits the comment/story without any modifications from the spell-checked one, all words flagged by the spell checker will be automatically added to the list of suggested words; if the writer/author intentionally left in the red-flagged words, then they're likely not actually mispelled. This should be too hard; just add a hidden field containing a message-digest of the text area to see if it gets changed.
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