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

["Ben Bullock" <benkasminbullock@*********>]

On 03/10/06, Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@infotech.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> [Paul Blay (Re: [edict-jmdict] Testing an entry edit option in WWWJDIC) writes:]
> >> > > Don't know what you mean.
> >> >
> >> > This may be a stupid suggestion, but what I mean is, if I type in a
> >> > Japanese word that I know and the dictionary doesn't have an entry for
> >> > it, how about an option to enter a new entry in the dictionary using
> >> > my word as the key?

> I'd like to sleep on Ben's sugestion a bit.

This seems to have become the "big sleep", but I'd just like to
reiterate on this one suggestion. When I have a possible new entry for
edict, I first of all check whether it is in the dictionary or not. I
only add it if I don't find it there of course. Now if I search for an
entry and it isn't there, or it's only in the reverse henkan file,
then if I want to "add a new entry" then I would need to cut and paste
the entry back in order to add it.

Call me lazy if you like but having to do this backward and forwarding
and cutting and pasting actually does put me off trying to put new
entries into Edict. It's fiddly and having to enter the word twice is
also annoying especially if the henkan system on my computer doesn't
know about the word so that I have to laboriously convert it kanji by
kanji.

One compromise to stop nincompoops from adding entries for words they
have looked up would be to only show the ability to add a word to
people who already had a cookie. That function should be a matter of a
simple "if" and "print" statement.