[lojban-beginners] Re: Jbovlaste search

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

OK, in my universe (as a professional sysadmin) "broken" means
"completely fails to function".  This is patently not the case.

In fact, it functions exactly as designed.  If you have a problem
with the design, this isn't the forum to address it.  Perhaps the
main list, if you like.

The *reason* it doesn't is to avoid John Q. Public seeing things
like:
http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/selranxi

The goal is for users to be motivated to fix words up so they might
actually be *worth* voting for.

Thus far, no-one seems to be so motivated, but that's hardly a
problem unique to jbovlaste around here.

In the case of the word in question, pelnimre, I am *quite* certain
that I don't want John Q. Public seeing *this* crap:

http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/pelnimre

This is a *feature*, not a bug.

-Robin

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:06:05PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> There needs to be a vote in both directions for the words to show up
> in the search. The search page doesn't say this; John Q. Public
> Searcher doesn't know this; so he tries a search and it doesn't return
> a result.
> 
> Naturally he interprets this to mean that search is claiming it isn't
> in there. He hunts it up alphabetically in the listing, and says "hey,
> it was here all along, but search made the claim that it wasn't.
> Search must be broken."
> 
> And it is broken, by a meaningful definition of broken.
> 
> -epkat
> 
> 
> On 4/26/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > Erm.  It works just fine.  Can you be a bit more clear as to what
> > doesn't work?
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> > > Are you talking about jbovlaste? That search engine doesn't work.
> > > -Matt
> > >
> > > On 4/26/06, Alex Joseph Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> > > > What is the most inclusive way to search for a lojban equivalent of an
> > > > English word? My test case has been {pelnimre}, which is glossed as
> > > > lemon. If I search for {pelnimre} in 'virtual combination of en->jbo and
> > > > jbo->en' I get a match for the entry with the gloss word 'lemon'. But I
> > > > can't find any category in which I can search for {lemon} and find
> > > > {pelnimre}.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > mu'omi'e .aleks.
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
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