Thanks Patrick for the thorough explanation! Keep the good work!
Mikhail On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Patrick Kenny <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%[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]> > <mnemosyne-proj-users%[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]<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]<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. 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