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Improving Mindat.orgStrange Link on Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine Page
11th Nov 2018 18:01 UTCBrian Kosnar 🌟 Expert
I found an odd glitch on this page on mindat:
https://www.mindat.org/loc-2722.html
If you specifically locate the word “syenitic” on the page, it has a strange link attached to it (only partially contained in the word), that sends you to the page for Ilvaite
https://www.mindat.org/min-2016.html
Thanks in advance,
Brian
11th Nov 2018 20:32 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
Ah - the joys of automatic linking ... (I will ask Jolyon to improve the algorithm).
11th Nov 2018 20:33 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Took a while to find it.
The "odd link" appears in the geological info section: Late Devonian to Middle Devonian.
syenitic probably should link to syenite !
All the other geologic links work ok. (except the one that Uwe picked up that I didn't find!!)
I think David or Jolyon needs to fix that one
11th Nov 2018 23:46 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
Links should only be done on whole words (and probably just on english names).
"syenitic probably should link to syenite !" That would probably require that we go in and stem the text for all the words we want to link to.
12th Nov 2018 00:50 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager
Does that imply that there are hundreds of such inappropriate links throughout the geologic datum? If so, that could be a bit annoying/frustrating/unprofessional etc!
Not being a programmer etc but surely such links should only work when there is a space before and after the word - presuming a space is recognisable? I could imagine recognising parts of words in foreign languages would create havoc.
I can see how it may not be an easy fix.
Good luck David !!
Cheers
12th Nov 2018 10:37 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
The page in question
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