[lojban-beginners] Re: Jbovlaste search

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

I'll bring it up on the main list. -Matt

On 4/26/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> 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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