Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
Question: I want to edit Beam of Malice by Alex Hamilton. When I search authors for Alex Hamilton, the results tell me he has 13 books about Short stories, Horror tales, Description and travel, Buildings, structures, Bibliography, including Beam of malice. When I click on the author, there are only 7 works there, and Beam of Malice is not one of them. When I search titles for Beam of Malice, no results are shown. Does anyone know how I can get into the work I want to edit? Sarah ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
Sarah, I wish I could help, but I think this is a known bug that we haven't figured out how to fix. kc On 12/5/13 7:38 AM, Sarah Breau wrote: Question: I want to edit Beam of Malice by Alex Hamilton. When I search authors for Alex Hamilton, the results tell me he has *13 books* about Short stories, Horror tales, Description and travel, Buildings, structures, Bibliography, including /Beam of malice./ When I click on the author, there are only 7 works there, and Beam of Malice is not one of them. When I search titles for Beam of Malice, no results are shown. Does anyone know how I can get into the work I want to edit? Sarah ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
In terms of simply getting to the work page, a Google site search will often work where the internal search fails: https://www.google.com/search?q=beam+of+malice+site%3Aopenlibrary.org Cheers, Sam Samuel Henderson Translations http://www.samhenderson.net On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Sarah Breau smbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Question: I want to edit Beam of Malice by Alex Hamilton. When I search authors for Alex Hamilton, the results tell me he has *13 books* about Short stories, Horror tales, Description and travel, Buildings, structures, Bibliography, including *Beam of malice.* When I click on the author, there are only 7 works there, and Beam of Malice is not one of them. When I search titles for Beam of Malice, no results are shown. Does anyone know how I can get into the work I want to edit? Sarah ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
great hint! Jessamyn, do you think this would be appropriate for the FAQ? kc On 12/5/13 8:29 AM, Samuel Henderson wrote: In terms of simply getting to the work page, a Google site search will often work where the internal search fails: https://www.google.com/search?q=beam+of+malice+site%3Aopenlibrary.org Cheers, Sam Samuel Henderson Translations http://www.samhenderson.net On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Sarah Breau smbr...@hotmail.com mailto:smbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Question: I want to edit Beam of Malice by Alex Hamilton. When I search authors for Alex Hamilton, the results tell me he has *13 books* about Short stories, Horror tales, Description and travel, Buildings, structures, Bibliography, including /Beam of malice./ When I click on the author, there are only 7 works there, and Beam of Malice is not one of them. When I search titles for Beam of Malice, no results are shown. Does anyone know how I can get into the work I want to edit? Sarah ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org mailto:Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org mailto:ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
Allowing work merging without needing to ping an admin is the other basic one that comes to mind (unless it's been fixed recently) On 21 Nov 2013 13:20, Anand Chitipothu an...@archive.org wrote: On 21-Nov-2013, at 6:14 AM, Tom Morris wrote: The search index not being updated is a known problem, but the Internet Archive staff doesn't appear motivated to work on it. I think better to say OL is under staffed. I'm the only developer working on OL right now and heavily over loaded. Ditto not being able to search for names which differ in only accents or other minor differences. One trick you can use to get around the latter problem is to search for a book title (e.g. Far Rainbow) and then click the merge authors button on the right hand side. That will give you authors with all kinds of different spellings (but only for that single title search). Sorry you're wasting so much time on this. It's sad that the Internet Archive doesn't respect volunteers' time enough to provide a minimally functional system. Blaming is not going to help. Lets try to identify the big issues that needs to be fixed and see if you can help in someway to solve it. I think important issues are: * fixing search engine * importing modern books I've tried to fix some of the issues of search engine, but some of the old edits which didn't get into search engine are still missing. Please let me know if there are any issues that you think are important. Anand ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
Re: [ol-discuss] Author merges incomplete?
The search index not being updated is a known problem, but the Internet Archive staff doesn't appear motivated to work on it. Ditto not being able to search for names which differ in only accents or other minor differences. One trick you can use to get around the latter problem is to search for a book title (e.g. Far Rainbow) and then click the merge authors button on the right hand side. That will give you authors with all kinds of different spellings (but only for that single title search). Sorry you're wasting so much time on this. It's sad that the Internet Archive doesn't respect volunteers' time enough to provide a minimally functional system. Tom On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Sarah Breau smbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Well this is really bad. Today I tried to work on the Strugatsky brothers, who are entered in the database with dozens of different spellings. Even if I go into each author record and make all the spellings the same, I can't do an author search that will catch all the author records. Therefore, I can't merge all the variations into one. I give up. Good luck to anyone who wants more information on these writers. :-( Sarah ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org ___ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
