Unlisted official Arabic courses

johnastsang

https://memrise.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411239136401-Where-can-I-find-official-Arabic-courses-

Here, you can find links to the official Arabic courses that have been unlisted because "they were not on a par with [their] other official content".

While these courses may have their shortages, I would like to see them uploaded here, just like the unlisted official courses of other languages. If I'm not mistaken, they're not here yet (https://mylittlewordland.com/courses/14/4).

@neoncube, could you kindly do the uploading? Thank you very much!

7shi

johnastsang Thank you! I didn't know the annouce.

I am just scanning and looking for Arabic courses for Japanese. Unfortunately, I haven't found them all yet, and that announcement didn't list any links for Japanese, but it did give me a hint to broaden my search.

PS I found them all!

neoncube

Thanks for the list! 🙂

I think these should be taken care of when I run a script to scan all of the Memrise courses ID's, from 1 - 2,500,000'ish.

neoncube

I've kicked off a script that's scanning all course ID's from 1 to around 2,500,000, which should also catch these courses 🙂
https://forum.mylittlewordland.com/d/31-course-migration-progress/27

Thanks again for letting me know about these! I very much doubt that they would have been saved, otherwise 🙂

7shi

neoncube I collected the top 15 courses in all categories in all languages and their creators' Teaching and Learning. The distribution is extremely sparse between 2,300,000 and 5,300,000, and then increases again after 5,300,000.

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However, sparse areas are not missing. It is probably due to the way I collect them.

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I did not scan by number, and the distribution would indicate that there are few popular courses in the sparse areas. Perhaps the early courses have always been at the top of the popularity, and It seems that the recently created courses are included in Teaching.

I'm afraid of getting banned for overloading, so I won't do this kind of survey any more. 😎

neoncube

7shi Ooh, that's really interesting! :D

My findings so far are that most of the courses that are now being downloaded are courses that were beyond the 666 per category page limit, so the courses seem to almost exclusively have a low amount of users and be for popular languages learned by English speakers: French for English speakers, Korean for English speakers, etc.

Some examples that I grabbed at random:

Some of the lower course numbers yielded some interesting results! :D Who knew that there was a "Beta Memrise Courses" category: https://app.memrise.com/community/course/4229/art-museum/ ? XD

So far, I've scanned the first 600,000 courses, and almost 74% of them were courses that were both public and were unlisted via the category pages! o_o

7shi

neoncube I kept clicking [Load more...] on "All Classics" page until the end. I saw that there were 7,405 in total.

Since even the classical languages have this number, I can't imagine how much more it would be in French or Spanish. Maybe if the number exceeds 10,000, it will be too heavy and the browser will freeze.

Even if I assume that there are up to about 6.5 million course IDs and that the missing rate is about 10-20%, that's a lot of course IDs. I don't think it would be possible to display all of them in popular language categories.

"Beta Memrise Courses" is interesting. Some courses taken from Teaching and Learning belong to categories that do not currently exist. For example

https://app.memrise.com/community/course/443499/advanced-toki-pona/

(I think this course is included in 600,000 you scanned)

neoncube

7shi It looks like these are the only categories that maxed out the 666 page limit:

English for English speakers
French for English speakers
German for English speakers
Spanish (Spain) for English speakers

By "English speakers", I mean when the native language is set to either English (US) or English (UK), since courses seem to be automatically cross listed between those categories 🙂

I'm hoping that I can figure out which courses were unlisted/incomplete and which were public but past the 666 page limit by scanning all user accounts and compiling a list of all courses that are listed under a user's "Teaching" category, lol. This still wouldn't work for courses where the author had deactivated their account, but I'm hoping that the number of courses that were past the 666 page limit and were authored by someone who deleted their account should be pretty minimal 🙂