Synonyms separator

neoncube

@Ang No, I'd want to do this in a way that didn't break everyone's courses! 🙂

However, my understanding is that 5-6 years ago, Memrise switched to using semicolons as separators, which already broke all courses that used commas as separators.

How does your course currently function in Memrise? If my understanding is correct, in Memrise, the user would need to type either wagen, riskieren, Wagnis, or Unternehmen, Project in order to have the answer marked correct.

(Do you have a link to the course, so I can try it out?)

Ang

neoncube

I'm very relieved, thank you!

wagen, riskieren …. is the definition and venture is the answer - that functions very well. But I can't reverse the course. It would be a huge advantage if I could reverse learning.

https://app.memrise.com/community/course/6156830/sat-nyt/

My older italien courses I used to add the adjective in femine and masculin form: carino; carina - hübsch …

and I have to type only one of it. Now i have to type 'enter' to be accepted.

https://app.memrise.com/community/course/3675/italienisch-1-fur-fortgeschrittene/

neoncube

Thanks, Ang 🙂

I just tried those two courses, but they were both multiple choice for me. Is there a way to make them use typing tests?

Anyway, I think this is what I'll do, God willing:

Change the separator character to be a semicolon instead of a comma. This should bring us in line with Memrise, so that we're not breaking courses that were imported from Memrise.
Add a function that course authors can activate that will swap all commas and semicolons in a course. This should let us easily fix courses that were broken back when Memrise changed from commas to semicolons 🙂

Ang

neoncube

Very strange, for me it's typing only, never multiple choice.

Your solution sounds great to me! 🙂

neoncube

Ang Wow, that is interesting! Do you have cooljingle's "all typing" userscript installed, by any chance?

Ang

neoncube

Probably yes, a long time ago, I forgot.

DW7

This is the same issue I have reported in "Wrong answer" when courses have alternatives. - My Little Word Land

How about a / or even \ (the latter may never be used).

Otherwise just look around the keyboard for unused characters ;-)

Presumably in time we would go over the ex-MemRise courses we support and amend all the entries to the agreed separator. And this would fix the alternatives being accepted as a right answer.

Finally we could add to the Course description that it has been updated to work on MLWL.

(My request for tapping or selecting words instead of typing still stands. See Tapping tests or block answers - My Little Word Land)

BTW - thank you for coming to the rescue of 'our' MemRise courses and the amazing job you are doing on getting them mirroring the MemRise feel.

neoncube

I've changed the separator from commas to semicolons 🙂

See https://forum.mylittlewordland.com/d/36-synonyms-now-separated-by-semicolons-instead-of-commas

neoncube

I'm running a script that updates all of the courses that have been cloned from Memrise, so that they use semicolons for separators. I expect this will take at least a few hours to finish 🙂

neoncube

@DW7 I might have mentioned this somewhere else, but I think it'd be great to eventually add a button where a course's author/maintainer could automatically swap all commas and semicolons in a course, to fix all of the courses that were broken back when Memrise changed from using commas to using semicolons 🙂

DW7

neoncube

I think (as I mentioned before) a lot of 'my' courses used a comma then the two words (or phrases) were acceptable alternatives.

So commas to semi colons may work but I'd have to inspect them.

neoncube

Ang Ah, that might explain it, then 🙂

Ang

neoncube

My courses now are here at MLWL, thanks that's great!

If you please could also swap the commas to semicolons in the definition column then I could start learning in reverse mode and test it. Thank you very much.