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General Please merge duplicate Spanish words

Ah, this is driving me nuts. The following all have duplicate entries in the database. I haven't added a comment to each.

todo especie conseguir ocurrir sacar sacar una foto la orden el orden partir la serie

Any update on this? I've been working my way through "First 5,000 words of Spanish" and it just seems to be mostly duplicates of words in "First 1,000 words of Spanish" which I have already learnt. Is it possible to merge the duplicate dictionary entries?

Thanks NickB

Hi Nick,

Apologies for this, I think that I missed your earlier comments during the forum switch over - the way that duplicate merging works is that you merge on a set-by-set basis: the merging tool looks at each word in the set and sees if there is a duplicate for that in the database.

We are working through the words, but it takes time: you need to look at each entry to check which item needs to be merged into which. It is a bit fiddly. Would you be interested in helping with it? It would be massively appreciated if you could! Let me know and I can send you the info about how to get started. Thanks!

Ben

Hi Ben

Yes, happy to help. Let me know the details.

Nick

great, you can watch an intro video here - http://vzaar.com/videos/895052 - that tells you more about how the process works. Remember though that it is not reversible, and that the item that you merge into should be the one that you want to keep. I have given you the moderator permissions.

For Spanish the most important areas to look at are the "duplicate both" and the "duplicate word". You can basically ignore the "duplicate definition".

Please ask me if you have any questions at all.

OK, I've watched the video a couple of times and think I've got the hang of it.

I've just merged one for now: http://www.memrise.com/item/1141076/barato-cheap-3/ into http://www.memrise.com/item/25790/baratoa-cheap/ and it looks correct.

I'll take it slowly to ensure I don't make any mistakes.

Nick

awesome, great to hear that you are getting started, and be sure to let me know if you have any questions,

best wishes

Ben

awesome, great to hear that you are getting started, and be sure to let me know if you have any questions,

best wishes

Ben

One question. There are plenty of duplicates where there are two identical entries (same Spanish and same English) where one word is moderated and one is not. For example:

http://www.memrise.com/item/4444/dificil/ http://www.memrise.com/item/1141366/dificil-difficult-4/

I can merge the second into the first easily enough, but what is to stop someone just adding another instance of dificil in the future. It feels like a lot of manual work if people can keep adding the same duplicates and we have to keep merging them.

Or was this an old bug and you are now prevented from adding further duplicates?

Thanks Nick

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I didn't want to create a new one on the same topic.

Ben, would it be possible for me to have moderator privileges for the Dutch courses?

There are a a large number of duplicates throughout the courses the need merging, and I'm happy to do it. Specifically, most of the 'Same roots as English' words are duplicated in the '1000 Dutch Words' course.

I'll review the above video again, too.

Thanks…

@fakelvis, certainly, I have added you as a moderator. Thanks!

Ben