[Clipart] Librarian jobs
J. Alves
alvesjmp at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 19:29:51 PDT 2010
> Unfortunatly, I don't yet have the skills to do make that happen. So in the
> mean-time, we can do it manually, or if you have php skills you can help
> guide me through actually making that automatic tool!
Dang, if it was Perl it would take all of 30 seconds to write that,
but I don't know php... Time to learn, maybe? :-) OK, maybe a little
more than 10 seconds, because I'd need to know how the database schema
stores the info -- I would suppose the tags are separate from each
other, but since this "bad comma" behavior is happening (and the
general behavior of the site, like the order of tags being maintained,
etc.) I guess the tags for a given clipart are all stored in one
database row, together.
In which case something like the following, on the script that
receives the upload info but before it's sent to the DB, would solve
the problem:
@tags = split(/,/, $tags); # assuming tags are in one string,
separate based on comma in put in list
foreach (@tags) {
$_ =~ s/^\s+//; # remove all space in the beginning of each tag
$_ =~ s/\s+$//; # remove all trailing space
}
$newtag = join(", ", @tags); # join the "cleaned up" tags using ",
" (comma space) and put it all in a variable
Now, that's Perl. If someone can translate... :-)
Cheers
J
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh no! dude, I wasn't saying you were complaining. I've been there and
> that's the reason I made that wiki entry guideline - to make teh OCAL
> website look better. But after thinking about it for a few months I have
> come to the conclusion that it's an absolute waste of Librarian time to be
> fixing comma spaces. I don't want to waste your time. Your time is too
> precious to waste on trivial things like commas. That particular job can be
> done automatically.
>
> Unfortunatly, I don't yet have the skills to do make that happen. So in the
> mean-time, we can do it manually, or if you have php skills you can help
> guide me through actually making that automatic tool!
>
> So, again I say, keep up the great work dude! Keep in contact, keep
> exploring ways you can help.
>
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
> On 6/08/2010 12:09 p.m., Leonardo Cunha wrote:
>>
>> I agree with that. Some kind of automatic fixer would be great!
>>
>> I was not complaining about the work. What I really meant was that the
>> problem with "tag,tag,tag" is not restricted to the old clipart, but to the
>> new ones too, as some people are used to not put space between tags, so even
>> if we fix the old cliparts, there will always be new and wrongly spaced
>> tags. Sorry if it sounded as a complain. :)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Leonardo Cunha
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/8/5 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com <mailto:chovynz at gmail.com>>
>>
>> Even better would be having it fix itself in the coding. :) I'd
>> prefer to "hardcode" certain "rules", so that it's failsafe,
>> rather than relying on user-ability to type correctly or ocal
>> telling them how to type. That's micromanagement and not good for
>> community. It's also a hassle from a Librarian and Admin POV.
>> Who's going to change that guideline if it gets out of date? Not
>> me. I'll be too busy making more gadgets :D
>>
>> Much better to have an in-the-background comma space fixer than me
>> waste your Librarian time good sir! In-fact you might even
>> consider striking that entry from the Librarian jobs? (or not yet,
>> but we'll do that when the comma fixer is done.)
>>
>> Thanks for your work. It's very appreciated Leonardo! Keep it up!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/08/2010 5:06 a.m., Leonardo Cunha wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "3. *Add a space after each comma to all tag lists that have
>> this format "tag,tag,tag,tag"*. We want this "tag, tag, tag, tag"
>> This will stop the tag lists of each clipart breaking the
>> page. This format is leftover from the old OCAL cchost system
>> and doesn't look very good on our new system."
>>
>> We could/should have a guideline on the upload page or even
>> some kind of validation, because I have been fixing lots of
>> "tag,tag,tag,tag" from recent submissions.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Leonardo Cunha
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/6/2 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com <mailto:chovynz at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:chovynz at gmail.com <mailto:chovynz at gmail.com>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Here's an update on the list of easy job's I've identified that
>> can be done as a Librarian, or as an editor of your own
>> clipart.
>> This list comes from various discussions on the mailling
>> list and
>> things I personally have noticed and want done to improve the
>> site. It may be possible to do this in the database itself,
>> but we
>> can help out by doing it manually too. You can copy and paste
>> these search queries into the address bar to get a good
>> indication
>> of the clipart that needs doing. It's not exact, but it's
>> good enough.
>>
>> Be smart, use a Find and Replace function in a word
>> processor for
>> many jobs. I.e. instead of editing the longer tag lists by
>> hand,
>> copy the tag list into a word processor, find and replace all
>> commas with a commaspace, remove unecessary tags, then
>> paste back
>> into the cliparts' tag list.
>>
>> 1. *Replace underscore character "_" with a space character
>> " " in
>> any clipart titles.*
>> Change the Upload Name entry.
>> This will enable long titles to be able to break when there
>> is too
>> much words for the CSS to be able to handle effectively.
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=_
>>
>> 2. *Remove tags such as media, public_domain, svg, image, png*
>> This will clean up the tag list for better categorisations,
>> clearer searches, less tag weight on things that aren't
>> relevant
>> to the clipart in question. These tags are leftovers from
>> the old
>> OCAL cchost system and are not necessary in this new OCAL
>> system.
>> You will be able to remove these often at the same time as
>> replacing the commas.
>>
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=media
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=public_domain
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=svg
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=image
>> http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=png
>>
>> 3. *Add a space after each comma to all tag lists that have
>> this
>> format "tag,tag,tag,tag"*. We want this "tag, tag, tag, tag"
>> This will stop the tag lists of each clipart breaking the page.
>> This format is leftover from the old OCAL cchost system and
>> doesn't look very good on our new system.
>> Compare : First Example
>> <http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67> and
>> Second Example <http://www.openclipart.org/detail/64153>
>>
>>
>> 4. *Add descriptions to cliparts that are missing it.*
>> The search searches descriptions as well as other fields.
>> To have
>> a description will help people find the clipart.
>>
>> 5. *Request that people upload clipart separately*.
>> Or do it yourself.
>>
>> 6. *Tag copyright infringeing clipart*. Then Notify the
>> mailing list.
>> More eyes = faster finding and dealing with infringement. All
>> cliparts should be public domain.
>>
>> 7. *Let the mailing list know what you've hidden.*
>> This is for better accountability and finding. We are doing the
>> best we can but sometimes we make mistakes and others can
>> pick up
>> on that, so that we can get accurate info.
>>
>> 8. *Notify Mailing list of any cliparts that have a remix
>> on them
>> that need sorting out, or unlinking. Same with any cliparts
>> that
>> need linking up.*
>>
>> Sweet! I know it looks like alot, but it's not really, when
>> you do
>> it a little a day.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
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