Course migration progress

neoncube

Still cloning 🙂

The French for German speaker courses that were easy to clone have already been cloned 🙂

neoncube

Note that these new courses are using semicolons between synonyms, so that I don't need to update the courses once I change the separator to semicolons.

NewLandRise

How did you overcome the 666 page limit per category on MemRise?

neoncube

NewLandRise I forgot about that! :/

I just checked, and indeed, some categories were limited to 666 pages. For example, English for English learners.

The good news is that courses in the categories are sorted by how many people are using them, so if any courses are cut off, they'd be the least popular ones. That's still not great, though.

I just checked, and the highest course number that I downloaded (for any category) is 6515834. I suppose I could try probing all courses between 1 and something a bit past 6,515,834.

johnastsang

Maybe it's not the priority for now, but do you have a schedule for uploading non-language courses?

Also, have you downloaded the "multimedia" levels? In some courses they contains important grammatical/cultural information for learners.

And now that Ben Whately has granted permission for you to migrate the official courses here, does it include the short clips of native speakers saying the words/phrases? I personally find the clips very cute.

Olaf.Rabbachin

johnastsang And now that Ben Whately has granted permission for you to migrate the official courses here,

Oh, really? When/where did he state that?

neoncube

johnastsang I've been holding off on non-language courses until My Little Word Land supports images (which I think I now pretty much having working! 🙂 )

Are the short clips of native speakers includes in the official Memrise community courses or just in the new official Memrise courses?

DW7

Olaf.Rabbachin

On the old MemRise Forum !

johnastsang

neoncube I've been holding off on non-language courses until My Little Word Land supports images

Good to know. Looking forward, but don't drive yourself too hard!

neoncube Are the short clips of native speakers includes in the official Memrise community courses or just in the new official Memrise courses?

Just in the new ones, that is the ones with colourful icons (not the old monochromatic ones).

neoncube

Thanks! ^_^

Indeed, I'm trying to work hard but also have fun with it 🙂

Just in the new ones, that is the ones with colourful icons (not the old monochromatic ones).

Interesting… I'll make a note to take a look 🙂

neoncube

I think it's interesting that not a single person has said that they miss how Memrise autosubmitted correct answers as soon as they were typed XD

I was just looking through old screenshots from the Memrise forum and noticed that my userscript for disabling that behaviour was one of my top links, haha 🙂

johnastsang

neoncube I can imagine why some people don't want it and why some people find it helpful.

tobicitas

Hi there, my course was private. I just made it public.

Is there a chance it will still be transferred to mylittlewordland.com? thanks in advance 🙂

https://app.memrise.com/community/course/31350/my-random-korean-words/

neoncube

tobicitas I finally migrated your course! XD Sorry for the very extended delay…

It can be found here: https://mylittlewordland.com/course/141776

It should also show up on your dashboard, and you should be marked as the course's author, so you can edit it.

The version of the course that I copied may be a few months old, so if your course on My Little Word Land looks significantly different from the one on Memrise, just let me know, and I can download and copy a new version of it. Now that I have everything up and running, I should be able to do that within a day, rather than within three months! XD

ArmyMFL

neoncube we're all grateful for you taking the time with this project! However, I'd suggest that it is more important to start providing features to the site (like audio, multiple choice, classes/groups) as it's not so functional in its current state. A timeline of your intentions would be most welcome 🙂

neoncube

Thanks, ArmyMFL 🙂

I don't have a timeline for features, sorry.

At the moment, I'm splitting my time between cloning courses and adding new features, which I think is a good approach 🙂

neoncube

I've finished uploading the audio files to the cloud and am getting ready to start uploading audio for courses! 🙂

neoncube

It's amazing how much variety there is in the community courses! :D

While migrating courses, I randomly noticed that there are two courses for German speakers to learn Urdu, and both of them even have full audio! 😮

johnastsang

neoncube Amazing things happen when you harness people's willingness to creation. This is how Wikipedia got so big! That's why it's shameful that Memrise doesn't make good use of it…

neoncube

johnastsang Indeed! It's very cool to see 🙂

neoncube

I've uploaded most courses in the following categories:

American Sign Language
Korean Language Language
Galician
Haitian
Indo European Languages
Architecture
English for English speakers

I've also made some improvements to the cloning script and am rerunning it for all categories, to have it upload more courses that previously would have required manual intervention 🙂