User talk:Greg

Revision as of 08:42, 26 May 2009

Test Space

Searching without pinyin

Greg,

Is there any way that we can set up the search engine to ignore tone markings? I ask because once we have non-Chinese speakers (of those without pinyin input capability on the computers they are using, a problem I have today), it makes it difficult to find things.

-Erik

I have two questions for you: 1) How do you set up an automatic redirect? 2) How do you get the computer to automatically put in your name+time (as you did on my Talk page)?

--Erik

I was also thinking 100 myself. I am rapidly approaching the end of what I have ready in files, but I feel there are about a dozen people we should include before we go public, such as Yuanying, Jiang Weiqiao, Cihang perhaps, and, of course, Jichan the Eight-fingered Ascetic. Perhaps I can work on brief sketches of them this weekend.

A constitution of sorts would not be out of the question. I like what you have done with the Creative License. I will look at statements on other sites (such as Wikipedia) and see what looks good. Feel free to do the same.

--Erik hammerstrom 23:19, 21 May 2009 (CST)

I found another issue with the pinyin Romanizer = Initial En takes no tone mark. This may be a problem with many of the initial vowels.

--Erik hammerstrom 20:39, 22 May 2009 (CST)

The pinyin window looks great and works like a charm. Do you think we should add Sanskrit diacritics?

I think the index page is OK, but is not really necessary. I say this because once we pass a certain number of pages, it will become much more expedient to do a simple search.

I have Yú's 現代佛教人物辭典 here and there is a good entry on 會覺, 2:1308a-1309a (followed immediately by 楊仁山!) I will input that page this weekend. I am also going to put up a list on my page of 'Must have' entries to work on before we go live.

--Erik hammerstrom 22:24, 23 May 2009 (CST)

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Greg, the statement looks good. I cannot think of anything to add right now, though if I think of anything later, I will let you know.

--Erik hammerstrom 10:33, 25 May 2009 (CST)

I'll give the new search engine a shot. It seems a shame if we can only get pinyin OR 漢字.

The only two entries I think we really need right now are 王一亭 and 內學. Anything else can wait. I am pretty burned out on this thing right now, but I think we have enough for a launch. I'll wait to hear what you think about these entries and then we can each do a complete editing sweep through the site.

Oh, and one more thing. Putting the title of a page in bold has no effect as ( == string == ) already does this:

--Erik hammerstrom 08:42, 26 May 2009 (CST)