Introducing the PF Library!

Ed Aboud

How come it says that I don't have sufficient privelliges to make an article?

Greg Bernhardt

Looks like you do have permission. Were you logged in? Went to "add content"?

jal

I have a few questions.
Will the library link work when quoted?
I don't like to paraphrase an explanation that I found. Can I cut and paste and not get into "trouble" with the original authors?
Can I just say, "see wiki entry" and add a link?
jal

CRGreathouse

What about objects with multiple definitions? I've already seen "square" used in the sense of a second power auto-linked to the geometrical definition.

What happens if someone writes an alternate definition talking about algebra? Will only one ever be auto-linked, will this cause a problem, will we not be able to add it?

robphy

Maybe something like...
square (geometry)
square (algebra)
..with links to alternate uses.
EDIT: (Oh, I understand the issue under discussion now.... maybe it should point to a disambiguation(?) page.)

Interesting... my original word was lowercase... but it appears Capitalized in the post.

Greg Bernhardt

working on this

Air

One Question:

Do you get to edit other peoples articles for mistakes that they might have done (like wikipedia) or will you need to leave comments asking them to correct mistakes?

Greg Bernhardt

For the time being only staff, HH, and SAs can edit. So either report it or comment.

cristo

Where do library reports go? Is it the same system as for post reports, or do they go to HH/SA?

Edit: scratch that question.. I can see you're working on it now.

Crazy Tosser

So can we just send you a PM with a change if we want to change anything?

Hootenanny

Yeah, send Greg a PM if you need something changed

Edit: Just encase you've started writing the PM's already, I was only joking. I think it would be best to use the 'report' button and explain what changes you would like to make. However, please note that the reporting system is not operational as yet.

Edit: Looks like the report feature is now operational

cristo

I think it would be best to use the "report" feature.. just like one would use the report feature to ask a mentor to edit a post on the forum. This way, there are several people that can do it if one person is too busy.

Greg Bernhardt

Just report the item and enter in what you want changed.

Greg Bernhardt

Improved browsing function is now complete. If is no longer required to select all three drop downs. You can now browse by topic, topic/sub topic or topic/sub topic/ sub topic.

Greg Bernhardt

Now search will return a group of results if a match isn't directly found.

tiny-tim

Some words are simply not suitable for auto linking.

The word "square", for example, comes up far more often in its non-rectangular sense, as in …
where the auto linking even gives it a capital S although it was not typed like that!

And does any user of this forum really need a library entry whose entire wording is "A square is a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles"? Or an entry for "triangle"?

Greg Bernhardt

True, those were kinda test entries, I will likely delete them.