Features for Editors
I've just started making my first course and I'm surprised at how many things have to be done manually at this point, and how many small obstacles there are when you're editing. I'm amazed at how people have made such large high quality courses when a lot of small extra work is left to be done largely manually (finding parents, pinyin, translations, and occasionally unable to find the word when adding it even though you know it's there). Truly amazing, a lot of hard work!
I imagine the creators of these featured Mandarin courses must have already requested a lot of features; are things like this already in the pipeline?
- add just the hanzi and the dependencies, pinyin, English alternatives are popped in there automatically
- when you are adding a dependency, sometimes you put a character into the hanzi box and actually the single character just won't come up, but if you know the English side of it, you can find it (try with 天 for example, or 路)
- fix dependencies being recursive
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I am very sorry that this isn't clearer - perhaps give the new course creation tool a try when you are editing you list. We are going to make that live in the next day or so, but you can use it already. Just go to the "edit" page where you add words, and then add "new" to the end of the url.
The way that Memrise works is that all wordlists use the same items in the same database. We have got a database of over 120,000 words and definitions in Mandarin, and all of those items have the pinyin already added, and almost all of the individual characters already have the parents added. So you shouldn't find that you have to add either of those often at all. When you add words one by one, a list of the matches should come up underneath the add words box. If you select the item from there, then it will add that item in the database, complete with all the parents, audio files, mems etc that already exist for that item.
In fact, to create a wordlist on the new tool, you can just paste a list of characters into the box, and it will pull all the matches out of the database at once. Then you just go through choosing any of the ambiguous matches, and you are done.
I hope that helps, please do let me know if you have any more questions,
Best wishes
Ben
Posted by benwhately 4/19/12 (1 year ago)