Re: [edict-jmdict] Testing an entry edit option in WWWJDIC

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@**********************>]

[Paul Blay (Re: [edict-jmdict] Testing an entry edit option in WWWJDIC) writes:]
>> > It may be a while before we get a full online dictionary
>> > database running for edits, so as an interim I have cobbled
>> > together a system that allows users to go straight to an edit
>> > form from WWWJDIC with the entry details more-or-less
>> > preloaded.
>> 
>> Took me a while to actually _find_ it.  

I have put a red "New!" on it.

>> I think a ...
>> 
>>  See "○ Suggest an edit for the selected entry" radio button
>>  at bottom of WWWJDIC entry display screens.
>> 
>> might have helped somewhere.

But isn't that what it is?

>> > So, please try it out and give some feedback.
>> 
>> I tried it out on the 掘っ立て小屋 entry, seemed straight forward so far
>> enough except that I found that I'd entered my
>> email address with a typo (, instead of .).

Note you can put your email address and name in the cookie and not have to 
tyoe it again.

>> Is "email confirmation" on the wish list somewhere?

Well, you get a confirmation screen. What would an emailed version add?
I have been treating the presence of an email address as a request for
an email once the update is in. I use a script to send out a standard
ACK message, to which I can add. Further down the track there 
should/could be a checkbox where people could ask for an ack once an
amendment goes live.

>> A 'cheap fix' is requiring the email address to be entered
>> _twice_ and only accepting it if it is the same for both.
>> (Hand's up who always uses copy'n'paste for those?)

Me. 

Jim

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