Templates for editing the dictionary
July 20, 2007
[Posted by: zombie]
Remember, everyone: when you make a change to the dictionary, or complete a “task,” you must actually go to the dictionary editing page and make the change in the code yourself.
I’m only saying this because not everyone has done so: they have posted their changes as comments in threads, but not actually updated the dictionary itself. As editors, your role is to actually do the editing: no one else will do it for you!
I’ve created this post to make that process easier.
First of all, to get to the dictionary editing page, go here:
Once there:
EDITING DEFINITIONS:
If you want to just change the text of a definition, simply type or paste in the text where appropriate. No special codes need to be used.
However, if you want to start a new word-entry, or give a link to a first known usage, or have a link to another Web page, use these templates:
NEW ENTRY TEMPLATE:
<a name=”WORD”> </a><br>
<a href=”#WORD” title=”Direct link to this word”>WORD</a> - DEFINITION.
(Note that this template is slightly updated and improved from the template version I gave earlier; it removes the unnecessary “period” above each word.)
[Update vbush: may need to use <br /> rather than <br> if you have problems with the code.]
“FIRST KNOWN USE” LINK TEMPLATE
[First documented use of [WORD]: <a href=”INSERTLGFCOMMENTADDRESSHERE” target=”_blank”>lgf-user 8/2X/200X 0X:XXAM PST</a>]
[Update vbush: I moved the closing bracket to after the </a>, as it makes more sense.]
WEB LINK TEMPLATE:
<a href=”INSERTADDRESSHERE” target=”_blank”>INSERTLINKTEXTHERE</a>
Further details about editing, with a clear explanation about how to use the new word-entry template, can be found in the Let the Editing Begin! post below.
Finally, for those rare instances where you want to create a whole new “section” of words within the dictionary, use this template for the “section header”:
SECTION HEADER TEMPLATE:
<strong><big><u>Section Title</u></big></strong>
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song_and_dance_man | July 20, 2007 at 9:26 pm
zombie and all
I mentioned in the Task 1 comments that I was using the comments area as a desktop, if you will, as a repository for the findings of my research. Task 1 is not complete and once it is I will edit it to the dictionary. If I must I will work elsewhere and then just edit the dictionary, but I thought it a good idea to let everyone see what I have found and then will write what I will submit for everyones perusal in the comments of each giving task I assume.
Let me know if I should approach each task differently and I will.
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zombie | July 21, 2007 at 8:27 am
#1 s&d:
Hey, that’s a perfectly fine system. Feel free to “think out loud” on the thread as you did. I posted these templates sort of for posterity — not intended as a criticism of any particular person. i felt that some people might have been scared off from doing the actual editing because the computer-y code stuff was too intimidating, so I wanted a handy one-stop shopping place for all the templates, to make it easy for everyone, expert and non-expert alike.
As long as the entry gets edited eventually, any system that you choose to use — posting research on the thread being a good one — is fine with me.
Carry on!
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Killgore Trout | July 21, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I would like to suggest we set up a blank page so we can preview our work before posting it. I’m working on the glossary of Islamic terms and I’d like to know I’m doing it correctly before it get too far into it.
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zombie | July 21, 2007 at 3:07 pm
3. Killgore:
Great idea! I took it and ran with it — check out the new thread above! I created the very thing you asked for, called the “Sandbox” page.
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Killgore Trout | August 6, 2007 at 9:48 am
Ok, I’ve figured out a valuable lesson. If an entry contains a space (’allahu ackbar” , Dar ul Harb) you have to use %20 instead of the space bar, otherwise the wordpress code editor will send your link somewhere else.
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zombie | August 13, 2007 at 11:36 am
5. Killgore –
Agghhh! No! Don’t use the %20 code to make a space. That was already discussed extensively on one of the first threads: connect phrases that have spaces with underscores, not with html-space. It looks a LOT better in the URL that way. I’ll have to see how you’ve done it and fix them all if necessary, but in the future, always use underscores.