Re: Linking from WWWJDIC

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

2010/7/19 Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com>:
> Scott, in a comment when submitting the new マニ車 entry, said:
>
>> By the way, I think that the following message is not necessary and
>> could be replaced by a direct link. Most other operations
>> (new entry/amending an entry already part of edict) directly link to the
>>  new submission page anyway.
[...]

> I quite agree that that (interim) page should be phased out, but I'm
> not sure of the best way to do it, and any advice would be welcome.

Well, I think I have a satisfactory work-around, and a "direct link"
for adding entries based on other files is now in the testbed version:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic2.cgi?1C

I didn't want to embed every entry in a way that it could be picked up
by some Javascript. What I have done is embed non-EDICT entries only,
which most users never look at, and which are usually pretty short.
(Look at the source HTML if you want to see what's going on.)

I'll leave it in the testbed for a day or so. Please test it out.

Also, ENAMDICT entries can't yet be edited via the database. I trap
them in WWWJDIC because they are in an odd format which won't be
accepted by the parser. Once JMNEdict is in the database too, I need to
work out how this will work.

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Clayton School of IT, Monash University
Treasurer: Hawthorn Rowing Club, Japanese Studies Centre
Graduate student: Language Technology Group, University of Melbourne