There are bugs in WorkBot, the code is complex, I find it difficult to follow and I wrote it. Once I've cleared some other things from my todo list I'll go back and take a look at WorkBot, try and fix up some of the bugs.
On 16/10/10 22:26, Alan Millar wrote: > It appears in some cases that WorkBot is consolidating editions into > one work, but leaving orphan work records behind. > > If you look at big authors with a lot of recent merges (such as > Shakespeare or Sir Walter Scott), there are a number of works with > zero editions left behind after merges. The last part of their > listings are dozens of zero-edition works, and I'm pretty sure these > are leftovers from merges. > > For example, take this book by Walter Scott, an Italian translation of > his Waverly novel: > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22188715M/Waverley_o_sessant'anni_sono > > It got merged into the main work: > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22188715M/Waverley_o_sessant%27anni_sono?b=16&a=15&_compare=Compare&m=diff > > Which looks good. > > But the old work entry is still there with no editions: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15406148W/Waverley_o_sessant%27anni_sono > > and it seems like it should have been deleted when the edition was moved. > > Is it supposed to be this way, or am I just impatient (is there > another cleanup that happens *much* later?), or is it broken? > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
