«…freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science…» — Charles Darwin
«… but everything it created was mechanical, artificial. The real insight was in programming violations to the predictable variations. I gave it permission to shatter the rules.» — Mr. Xie
<rant>One thing I really don't like with pretty much all editors and developers at the Wikimedia projects are this weird idea that I got this idea, it is my idea, it is the right idea, and I got all the facts right! More often than not other people had the same idea, they found it had flaws, and the idea came with a bunch of errors. Check whether someone has written a paper about it, check for known flaws, and expect errors. A lot of errors.
In short; investigate before you invest development time.
Often I can stare at the screen for days while I prod on some idea, trying to figure out how it would work, why it should work, and when it will fail. Occasionally I will search for a paper to try to figure out the best way around a problem. It gives me a pretty low line per minute, but usually it works in the end.</rant>
Gadgets
spellchecker (experiment to find known erroneous terms)
