Re: [edict-jmdict] Database testing - call for testers

[Jean-Luc Léger <reiga@****************>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:32:57 -0600, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@frii.com>
wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 05:33 AM, Jean-Luc Léger wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:22:39 +1000, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> On 14 July 2010 21:12, Jean-Luc Léger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>>>> One of my tools shows a duplicate entry for コンゴ民主共和国.
>>>> So I went to the JMdictDB to search both entries and the result is
>> quite
>>>> surprising : entry 2137060 appears twice.
>>> 
>>> That was my mistake.
>>> 
>>> There was an entry for コンゴ民主共和国 dating back a year or so. Then
>>> Jim Rose suggested adding it to the コンゴ entry. I didn't agree, and
>>> made it a new entry, but didn't notice that was creating a duplicate.
>>> 
>>> I have deleted the surplus entry now.
>> 
>> Sorry I didn't made myself clear. I meant there is two lines for entry
>> 2137060, one is rejected and one is active.
>> Like this :
>> 
>> 	jmdict 2137060 	R 	  	コンゴ民主共和国 	コンゴみんしゅきょうわこく 	Democratic Republic of
>> 	the
>> Congo (formerly Zaire); République Démocratique du Congo
>> 	jmdict 2137060 	A 	  	コンゴ民主共和国 	コンゴみんしゅきょうわこく 	Democratic Republic of
>> 	the
>> Congo (formerly Zaire)
>> 
>> I don't understand why there is the rejected one on the search result
>> screen. 
> 
> It depends on how you did the search.
> 
> If you go to the Advanced Search form and enter コンゴ民主共和国 in one 
> of the text boxes and search with everything else left at the defaults,
> you will see one result, the active entry.  (Because there is only one 
> result, the system will go directly to the entry display page, skipping
> the results list page.)  You get the single Active entry because by 
> default, the Active box is ticked in Status section.  
> 
> If you tick the Rejected box in the Status section, or untick all of 
> them (which is the same as having all ticked), the results page will 
> show you all the active and rejected entries of which there are two.
> 
> When you click on a seq number link in most places, you will see all
> the entries with that seq number including rejected and deleted entries.
> Exceptions I can think off of the top of  my head are the sequence
number 
> link on the the Search Results page -- clicking that will display only 
> the specific entry the search results line is for, and the seq number 
> in xrefs -- which will show all the target entries if the source entry 
> is unapproved but only approved target entries if the source entry is
> approved.

ok I see.
So the default for Standard Search is to show all active and rejected
entries ?
Would it not be more user friendly to only show active ones in the
Standard Search ?

> 
>> I would expect to see it when viewing the entry 2137060, but it is
>> not there.
> 
> How did you view entry 2137060?

it was from Search Results page, by clicking on the Approved entry link,
just like you described.

 JL