orthographic-pedant / eol

Encyclopedia of Life

Orthographic Pedant

A repository that tries to feel superior by correcting your mistakes. I've been culturally insensitive and rude.

The heart of this project is a user of the same name on github, orthographic-pedant. This user scans popular repositories for common typos and will attempt to correct them with proper pull requests. This bot is in its infancy. You can guide the development by sending it scathing diatribes as an issue.

Submitted logs

List of submitted corrections

User reviews and mentions:

Your bot is a d-bag. @peanav

As much as I enjoy the view from linguistic squalor, I feel obliged to visit pedantry avenue occasionally. @reggieb

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. @RichardLitt

@orthographic-pedant thx little bot :) @theengineear

Loving this bot, @orthographic-pedant! @pudo

The Honeypot and related work

To catch any other spell-checker bots on Github, the following repository is a honeypot:

https://github.com/orthographic-pedant/honeypot

It is known that there is at least one such bot in action:

• @TheTypoMaster.

Notes:

Search query for abudance, no forks and filename README:

fork:false in:file abudance filename:readme

Wikipedia's list of common misspellings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines

Image Credit:

Hipster image credit: Christopher Michel