[Osmf-talk] Joining OSMF - welcome pack suggestion

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 03.11.16 23:20, Harry Wood wrote:
> ... content on the osmfoundation.org site, where ...  (... this is an area we should work on too ...)
>

Dear Harry,

I started to proofread the content of the osmfoundation.org website. 
Here are the first suggestions for correction:

page:
http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/About_The_Licence_Change
the misspelled word:
*Contribtutor
*should be Contributor

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ
*advertisment
*should be advertisement**(2 times on this page)*

*I do proofreading with a PHP script which crawls website pages and 
finds misspelled words automatically. The problem with spelling errors 
is that they may confuse search engines (and their users), besides 
correction of such errors is a part of the so-called pre-translation, - 
if in future one decides to translate website in other languages, it 
would simplify computer-assisted translation significantly. Let alone 
that it improves the general quality of a text.

However, I encountered the following problem. In meetings minutes there 
are a lot of just mistyped words, dozens and dozens of them. For example:

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_Minutes_2014-04-29*Buisness
*http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CWG_meeting_2011-10-31*transparencey
*http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CWG_meeting_2011-10-10 *de**-comission
*http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/SWG_2011-03-11*Conusmers
*http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters_Working_Group/Meeting_2013-03-21*basicly
*etc.*
*
I tried to login osmfoundation.org website and correct these obviously 
misspelled words, but my login from the OSM.org website did not 
work.**At the same time it is hard to select significant errors in the 
noise created my mistyped words in minutes.**It would be better to 
correct all obviously misspelled words, so that remaining ones stand out 
more visibly.*

*I can either correct typing errors myself if I could login, or prepare 
an exhaustive list of these spelling errors if I knew that this long 
(and time-consuming to prepare) list will be actually used.*

*With best regards,
Oleksiy*
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