Looks great but how can I easily mark most of the words as already-learned?

wizofaus

Hi, just found out about this as a possible substitute for Memrise once the community courses do finally get shut down. The main course I've been doing there is available on here which is great, but it's huge (~5000 words) and is broken down into 15-word lessons in Memrise, which I've been working my way though gradually. Starting again here feels a bit unrealistic without some way to easily mark off all the words I've already learned (over 1500 of them). So what options are there to help with this? E.g. if I could just pick a word that I haven't learned yet and say "mark all those before this as <learned>" that'd be good. Marking them as "Ignore" one by one is not really feasible with that many of them. Don't mind if it can just be done with a bit of javascript, calling the relevant API (but haven't tried so far).

Another thing - it seems the the default "number of words to learn per session" is very small (only 5), I've changed to 15 which suits this one particular course, but other courses have a more logical lesson structure where the words/entries to learn are logically grouped together - how does MLWL support that concept?

Also is this is an open-source project, or at least one willing to take on volunteer contributors (both at the course maintenance level and code maintenance level)?

Thanks and sorry if this has been answered before,

Dylan

neoncube

wizofaus Hello, and welcome! :D

Probably the best thing to do is to import your Memrise progress. In order to do this, you'll need to reset any progress that you've already made in the course, by opening the course, clicking the red "Settings" link, and then clicking the green "Reset progress" button.

I haven't yet added levels to My Little Word Land, but it's on the list! 🙂

The source code for this project is closed, and I have some ideas for monetization in the future, but I'd be happy to have people help with courses by fixing errors, adding new words, etc.. Just let me know what courses you're interested in helping out with, and I can add you as a contributor 🙂

wizofaus

neoncube Ah ok, I guess I can have a look at what that browser extension actually does. I don't actually want my Memrise Progress as is, as it thinks I've learned far more of the words than I really have (I want it to forget about anything I did 10 years ago!).

neoncube

wizofaus Ah, got it. The progress is exported and imported one course at a time, so could import progress for just the courses where you want to preserve it. I don't yet have a good way for bulk ignoring words, though. I suppose that having everything be divided into levels would also make this easier, as you could bulk ignore or unignore entire levels, as you suggested.

If you're handy with code, then hitting the API multiple times, one for each word that you ignore, might be a good way to go, indeed 🙂