Greetings, I do in fact read everything on the mailing list; I just need some time to catch up sometimes.
It may not be explained very well, but the concept behind the source field is to cite the actual data used to prepare the cards, not simply provide a link back to the creator's website- unless that website is the source of the material. This field was added because most of the creators of card collections get their data from some other source, and it is important to cite sources. I agree that being able to add links would be helpful. In fact, originally we had this feature. Unfortunately, as you suggested, during the time the feature was available there were a large number of somewhat sophisticated attacks trying to flood the website with bad links. As part of locking down the website, I disabled the ability of non-administrator users to add links. At the moment I am bit pressed for time, but around the release of 2.0 I think it is reasonable to consider major upgrades to the site, and restoring this feature could be part of that. For the time being, though, I'm not sure of a good way to open up the site again while still keeping it safe from spam. Cheers, Patrick On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:17 -0800, "Mikhail Gavryuchkov" <[email protected]> wrote: > Or, if Patrick doesn't read this forum, can anyone please forward this > request to him? > > As a side note. I think if you implement this feature you'll have a > higher > adoption from card creators - especially those who are associated with > some > more or less serious learning sites. > > You'll have to be careful though - in this case you'll get also more > spammers that will create (or even automatically generate) low quality > card > collections just for the sake of having a backlink. What can help is have > moderators to approve newly created collections. > > Food for thought... > > Mikhail > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Mikhail Gavryuchkov > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Perfect! > > > > Patrick, how can we work it out? > > > > Mikhail > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Peter Bienstman < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> This is something for our webmaster, Patrick Kenny. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Peter > >> > >> > That's the thing - this "Source" field is not a hyperlink, it's just a > >> > plain text. I need it to be a hyperlink so that your users who like my > >> > card collection could click on it and end up on my lessons (without > >> having > >> > to copy the url and paste it to the browser's address bar). Besides, > >> this > >> > hyperlink will increase the page rank for my lesson page - this is all > >> for > >> > the Search Engine Optimization purposes. > >> > > >> > Mikhail > >> > > >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Mikhail Gavryuchkov < > >> [email protected]> > >> > > > >> > > wrote: > >> > > > Thank you Gwern. > >> > > > > >> > > > Have you thought of making the credit to the authors on the site > >> more > >> > > > prominent? Like a backlink to the site/page of the card collection > >> > > > author? That is actually the decision factor for me. > >> > > > > >> > > > Mikhail > >> > > > >> > > I don't really know what you mean. If you look at existing uploads > >> > > (like I suggested) such as http://mnemosyne-proj.org/taxonomy/term/30 > >> > > you'll see that there's a field just for 'Source' and you also fill > >> > > out the Description area as well. > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > gwern > >> > > http://www.gwern.net > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups > >> > > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > >> > > To post to this group, send email to > >> > > [email protected] . > >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > > [email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> > >> <mnemosyne-proj-users%2B > >> > > [email protected]> . > >> > > For more options, visit this group at > >> > > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > >> -- > >> Peter Bienstman > >> Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology > >> Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium > >> tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 > >> WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be > >> email: [email protected] > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<mnemosyne-proj-users%[email protected]> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. 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