On 2011-12-03 16:42, Sarah Breau wrote: > 1. Today I came across a record that had been edited to include spam > (here > <http://openlibrary.org/works/OL12545048W/Kuze_Teruhiko_vs._Muk%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%85%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%83%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%83%C3%82%C2%82%C3%83%C2%82%C3%82%C2%8Dda_Kuniko>). > Slimy! Since the bot (bots?) that created the spam has been updating > this record with fresh spam hourly, I don't think that me changing the > record will help: my little handmade changes will be washed away in the > wave of spam pretty quickly. Has anyone else encountered this before? If > so, what did you do?
Report to this list, we have tools for blocking spammers. > 2. What size do you resize your cover images and author photos to? I > have been limiting cover images to 600px on the longest edge and author > photos to 500px on the longest edge. Sometimes I come across a book > where I appear to be the only one who has shared a scan of it (ie. no > images on other sites like Amazon, Goodreads, PaperbackSwap, etc.) and I > wonder if I should leave the image larger to capture all the detail. > There doesn't seem to be a guideline on OL, although I could be missing > it. Any thoughts? Do you have a standard size you use? Please gives us images in the largest size you have. We're storing them at full resolution. We should change the copy on the image upload form to make this clear. > 3. I'm still not sure what to do with duplicate records. This problem > seems to affect a vast number of editions. It would be great if we could > merge editions like we can merge authors. It would even be nice if we > could gather all the editions of a single work (including translations) > into one work. Since we don't have this ability, is there a workaround > that anyone is using? It's disappointing to clean up an author, but then > not be able to clean up his or her corpus. For example, I have been > slowly getting all of Charles Lamb's works into one author record, but > right now that author record has almost 400 works in it. In fact he > didn't write nearly that much: most of what is in there is duplicate > records, spread across dozens of different records which represent the > same work. I would like to go further so that there is just one page for > every work, and all the editions listed on that page are actually > different editions. I'm still working on the merge editions tool, I should have something for you soon. -- Edward. _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
