1ZephCraven
Announcing TriviaThing, a fun, new LibraryThing game!
Developed by Lucy (@knerd.knitter), TriviaThing is a trivia game based on LibraryThing works and Common Knowledge. You can play trivia in several different categories, including popular books, books in your favorite genres, or just the books in your library.
Check it out at https://www.librarything.com/trivia.
Some Details
At present, TriviaThing draws from Book haiku, Epigraphs, First words, Important events, Important places, Last words, People/Characters, and Quotations.
Don't want spoilers? You can turn "Last words" off on "TriviaThing Settings" on the main TriviaThing page.
The genres shown are the ones you've enabled. You can edit those settings here.
There's a Top Scores page, and another for Your Scores. Remember: this is all in fun. Because you can skip questions—not to mention Google things!—and because not all questions are good questions, the scores don't mean much. So don't kick yourself!
Let Lucy and the rest of us know what you think.
Developed by Lucy (@knerd.knitter), TriviaThing is a trivia game based on LibraryThing works and Common Knowledge. You can play trivia in several different categories, including popular books, books in your favorite genres, or just the books in your library.
Check it out at https://www.librarything.com/trivia.
Some Details
At present, TriviaThing draws from Book haiku, Epigraphs, First words, Important events, Important places, Last words, People/Characters, and Quotations.
Don't want spoilers? You can turn "Last words" off on "TriviaThing Settings" on the main TriviaThing page.
The genres shown are the ones you've enabled. You can edit those settings here.
There's a Top Scores page, and another for Your Scores. Remember: this is all in fun. Because you can skip questions—not to mention Google things!—and because not all questions are good questions, the scores don't mean much. So don't kick yourself!
Let Lucy and the rest of us know what you think.
2norabelle414
The logo is gorgeous!
3knerd.knitter
The logo was created by @conceptDawg, of course!
4SandraArdnas
Oh, this is very fun. Love the options what set of books to base it on, as well as the option to turn off last words. Those somehow seem not often all that memorable even for fiction.
5PawsforThought
This is a lot of fun, and dangerous because I can definitely seem myself getting sucked into playing for far too long.
One tiny quibble - it’s a little bit *too* challenging when the quote/epitaph/etc is in a language you don’t speak (I think Czech came up for me and I’m sorry to say it’s not a language I’ve mastered - yet). Of course you can just click “skip”, but that button is a little too discrete - wouldn’t hurt to make it a bit bigger/more obvious.
One tiny quibble - it’s a little bit *too* challenging when the quote/epitaph/etc is in a language you don’t speak (I think Czech came up for me and I’m sorry to say it’s not a language I’ve mastered - yet). Of course you can just click “skip”, but that button is a little too discrete - wouldn’t hurt to make it a bit bigger/more obvious.
7Petroglyph
Fun!
9Charon07
the scores don’t mean much.
But they’re public, and they show everyone how much time you’ve wasted! 😳
But they’re public, and they show everyone how much time you’ve wasted! 😳
10paradoxosalpha
Oh, no! It's fun.
12norabelle414
It's working quite well on mobile
13gilroy
On the Top Scores Page -
Streaks Today - Should this be user's last streak?
It obviously isn't their longest streak as (since it was released today, longest streak and Streaks today would match if they were longest streak today.)
My example is my own score:
I ended on a 3 correct answer streak.
My longest streak was 32 in a row.
Streaks Today - Should this be user's last streak?
It obviously isn't their longest streak as (since it was released today, longest streak and Streaks today would match if they were longest streak today.)
My example is my own score:
I ended on a 3 correct answer streak.
My longest streak was 32 in a row.
15Moloch
This is great! Thanks!
Why not generate questions using the Original pub. date from CK too?
You can maybe generate questions about authors too?
Why not generate questions using the Original pub. date from CK too?
You can maybe generate questions about authors too?
16paradoxosalpha
The relatively excessive population of Common Knowledge for The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version seems to make it come up more often as both an option and the correct answer when I am playing in "Your Books." The game also surfaced some outlier use of Common Knowledge quotations in Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
I quickly found that "Science Fiction" was a waste of my time, despite my extensive diachronic familiarity with the genre. All that is washed under the tsunami of recent books I haven't read or even heard of. The "Religion and Spirituality" genre, on the other hand, is not impossible and makes for an interesting challenge.
I quickly found that "Science Fiction" was a waste of my time, despite my extensive diachronic familiarity with the genre. All that is washed under the tsunami of recent books I haven't read or even heard of. The "Religion and Spirituality" genre, on the other hand, is not impossible and makes for an interesting challenge.
17knerd.knitter
>13 gilroy: "Today" show current streaks
18norabelle414
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/8195
It seems like maybe parentheses are breaking the questions? or possibly just haiku questions.
This question just says "University's—ed.pendragon"
But the full haiku on the work page is:
"University's
(whichever universe you
live in) challenging.
(ed.pendragon)"
It seems like maybe parentheses are breaking the questions? or possibly just haiku questions.
This question just says "University's—ed.pendragon"
But the full haiku on the work page is:
"University's
(whichever universe you
live in) challenging.
(ed.pendragon)"
19knerd.knitter
>18 norabelle414: thanks! I'll look into that!
20rarm
Random observations:
1) Haiku are often more spoiler-y than last lines
2) It's amazing what some people will put for "events" (example: "ice skating" for Spinning)
1) Haiku are often more spoiler-y than last lines
2) It's amazing what some people will put for "events" (example: "ice skating" for Spinning)
22paradoxosalpha
I encountered "A Novel" as an epigram, so I went and fixed the CK.
23amanda4242
>21 timspalding: Is this really just a sneaky way to get people to work on CK?
24timspalding
>23 amanda4242:
I'm shocked you would suggest that! :)
I encountered "A Novel" as an epigram, so I went and fixed the CK.
Someone may not understand "epigram"…
I'm shocked you would suggest that! :)
I encountered "A Novel" as an epigram, so I went and fixed the CK.
Someone may not understand "epigram"…
26thorold
I’m getting haikus coming up with nothing except the name of the contributor, e.g. for https://www.librarything.com/work/168882/descriptions what comes up in the question is just “—thorold”
27norabelle414
>26 thorold:
Same here: https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/18578
https://www.librarything.com/work/26976/descriptions
all the haiku questions seem to be broken
Same here: https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/18578
https://www.librarything.com/work/26976/descriptions
all the haiku questions seem to be broken
28knerd.knitter
I just recently made a fix on haikus. I'm seeing that trivia question with the haiku displayed. https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/18468 also shows correctly for me. Can you verify that this is still happening for you?
29thorold
Yes, still happening to me. Contributor’s name only. I’m on Safari, iPadOS 18.0.1
E.g. https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/18902
E.g. https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/18902
31bnielsen
>29 thorold: displays fine for me. Firefox, Ubuntu.
32knerd.knitter
Ah, I see what might have been the problem. Let me get that up and we'll see if it fixes it.
33knerd.knitter
I think haikus should be fixed. There was also an issue with the contributor name showing twice. Let me know if that happens again.
34thorold
Yes, works now for the example in >29 thorold:
35norabelle414
Working for me too, thank you!
36lorax
timspalding (#24):
Someone may not understand "epigram"
Undoubtedly. But the amount of confidence necessary to think "I don't understand this, so I'm going to go ahead and fill it in anyway" is boggling.
Someone may not understand "epigram"
Undoubtedly. But the amount of confidence necessary to think "I don't understand this, so I'm going to go ahead and fill it in anyway" is boggling.
37Edward528
This is fun! (And much too addictive...)
Also harder than I thought it would be, but it turns out I recognise Brideshead Revisited even from a French Haiku.
Also harder than I thought it would be, but it turns out I recognise Brideshead Revisited even from a French Haiku.
38lilithcat
>33 knerd.knitter:
The plural of “haiku” is “haiku”, not “haikus”.
You just lost a trivia point.
Of course, in fairness, most of the so-called haiku here are not.
The plural of “haiku” is “haiku”, not “haikus”.
You just lost a trivia point.
Of course, in fairness, most of the so-called haiku here are not.
40thorold
If I leave the page open at a question and come back to it some hours later, I get the response “Too bad, the correct answer is Error” — maybe the time-out message needs a bit of tweaking.
41paradoxosalpha
I've been getting intermittent but pretty frequent Cloudflare timeouts in TriviaThing.
42knerd.knitter
>40 thorold: If I leave the page open at a question and come back to it some hours later, I get the response “Too bad, the correct answer is Error” — maybe the time-out message needs a bit of tweaking.
Have you noticed if this happens even if you get the question right? And does it show you the correct answer in the previous questions section or is it just blank?
Have you noticed if this happens even if you get the question right? And does it show you the correct answer in the previous questions section or is it just blank?
43kristilabrie
>41 paradoxosalpha: I saw that this morning, too, and let @Ganawa know. He's looking into it!
44paradoxosalpha
I also sometimes get this message: "Could not generate question. Please try again. You might want to adjust your filter." The try again is a hyperlink, but I haven't figured out how to "adjust my filter" or what that might mean.
45knerd.knitter
>44 paradoxosalpha: It should probably say "select a different category"; it means it might be running out of questions to generate from the pool/category you're in.
46thorold
Thoughts after 300 questions:
— I seem to be stuck on an average of just better than 2/3 right answers, whatever category I go for. I have to assume that the people with the really high scores either have photographic memory of all the books they haven’t read yet or have been making liberal use of the “Skip” button.
— Haiku is usually very easy to guess, even if you haven’t read the book.
— “important events” and “important places” more often than not correspond to things in the title of the book, especially if it’s non-fiction, so they can be very easy to guess. Obviously less so if it’s a Tolkien question and “Kingdom of Wotnot” or “Castle of Someplace”
— Character names are difficult to guess, you either remember them or you don’t. Occasionally the character names might be in the title or there might be something about the name that doesn’t fit in with the geography or period of the other three books.
— Epigraphs are often difficult, unless they happen to contain the title. And I find that the epigraph is rarely something that sticks in my mind when I read a book. But they make good questions, because the author obviously had a logical reason for choosing them.
— First lines make good questions as well, whether you remember them or not. Occasionally you might get a silly one where someone has thought it worth putting in the opening of the editor’s preface of a specific edition of a classic novel as “first words” (“Before anything else, I must thank my proofreaders…”)
— Quotations can be good questions or they can be so random that you wonder why anyone put them into CK
— Last lines are usually hopeless: only a few books have really memorable ones, and people seem to put them into CK whether they are memorable or not. I did enjoy the one where I managed to guess that a set of last lines someone had entered in Norwegian must be Proust, though.
- - -
This is my most entertaining question so far — and I even managed to scrape the right answer out of the recesses of my mind: https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/27763
Most impossible sensible question so far (spot the difference between four Anne Tyler books): https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/27908
— I seem to be stuck on an average of just better than 2/3 right answers, whatever category I go for. I have to assume that the people with the really high scores either have photographic memory of all the books they haven’t read yet or have been making liberal use of the “Skip” button.
— Haiku is usually very easy to guess, even if you haven’t read the book.
— “important events” and “important places” more often than not correspond to things in the title of the book, especially if it’s non-fiction, so they can be very easy to guess. Obviously less so if it’s a Tolkien question and “Kingdom of Wotnot” or “Castle of Someplace”
— Character names are difficult to guess, you either remember them or you don’t. Occasionally the character names might be in the title or there might be something about the name that doesn’t fit in with the geography or period of the other three books.
— Epigraphs are often difficult, unless they happen to contain the title. And I find that the epigraph is rarely something that sticks in my mind when I read a book. But they make good questions, because the author obviously had a logical reason for choosing them.
— First lines make good questions as well, whether you remember them or not. Occasionally you might get a silly one where someone has thought it worth putting in the opening of the editor’s preface of a specific edition of a classic novel as “first words” (“Before anything else, I must thank my proofreaders…”)
— Quotations can be good questions or they can be so random that you wonder why anyone put them into CK
— Last lines are usually hopeless: only a few books have really memorable ones, and people seem to put them into CK whether they are memorable or not. I did enjoy the one where I managed to guess that a set of last lines someone had entered in Norwegian must be Proust, though.
- - -
This is my most entertaining question so far — and I even managed to scrape the right answer out of the recesses of my mind: https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/27763
Most impossible sensible question so far (spot the difference between four Anne Tyler books): https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/27908
47PawsforThought
>46 thorold: Similar to your Anne Tyler question: I got a question about the first line of a book (paraphrasing) “Georgina was waiting for her cousins”. And then I had to choose from four Famous Five novels.
48gilroy
>46 thorold: Why have a good memory? Tim said point blank not to mention Google things!
49AndreasJ
Doing my own books, it’s obvious how the same few books keep recurring - for me, most notably The Great Game and The Lord of the Rings -, presumably because they’ve got a lot of relevant data entered. Might there be some mileage in tweaking the algorithm to boost more obscure books that have some relevant data?
51SandraArdnas
>50 tardis: Yep, I suspect it is entered in English CK in those cases. I find such things from time to time and move them to aproprirate language
52prosfilaes
On https://www.librarything.com/trivia/scores
Science & Nature
...
2. prosfilaes 4/6 — 67%
3. fvenez 4/7 — 57%
4. Rusty37 4/5 — 80%
...
I don't have any idea what ordering that is, unless it's the most recent to get 4 answers correct.
Science & Nature
...
2. prosfilaes 4/6 — 67%
3. fvenez 4/7 — 57%
4. Rusty37 4/5 — 80%
...
I don't have any idea what ordering that is, unless it's the most recent to get 4 answers correct.
53waltzmn
>52 prosfilaes:
It looks to me like it's sorted by most correct answers, with perhaps the order within that sorted on... something else. Time, maybe?
It looks to me like it's sorted by most correct answers, with perhaps the order within that sorted on... something else. Time, maybe?
54GraceCollection
>23 amanda4242: Certainly not! Surely the CK page for the answer of the most recent question is readily available for some other reason!! (;
55knerd.knitter
>52 prosfilaes: It might not be sub-sorting by anything. I will look.
56humouress
>1 ZephCraven: Ooh - nice!
Can you only turn off 'last words' and nothing else? For example haiku (>38 lilithcat: no S 😉) can be a bit random.
>13 gilroy: Yes, it's a bit confusing.
How often do the scores update? I've only discovered this game today and played it. The 'Your scores' page tells me my top streak is 11 which should put me on the board for today at 3rd or 4th but I don't see my name at all (10th place has a streak of 4, I think).
Can you only turn off 'last words' and nothing else? For example haiku (>38 lilithcat: no S 😉) can be a bit random.
>13 gilroy: Yes, it's a bit confusing.
How often do the scores update? I've only discovered this game today and played it. The 'Your scores' page tells me my top streak is 11 which should put me on the board for today at 3rd or 4th but I don't see my name at all (10th place has a streak of 4, I think).
57knerd.knitter
>52 prosfilaes: I've updated the sorting to go by percent after the number of questions correct.
>56 humouress: Scores update about every 5 minutes. As far as "Streaks Today," this actually refers to current streaks, not your longest streak of the day.
>56 humouress: Scores update about every 5 minutes. As far as "Streaks Today," this actually refers to current streaks, not your longest streak of the day.
58rarm
Okay, this one made me laugh. https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/36779
59al.vick
>58 rarm: So amusing that Socks by Beverly Clearly was not one of the choices! Socks being the name of the cat.
60thorold
The fun of this game is really in seeing what people put into CK:
“Which work has the following important events? — masturbation”
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/48876
“Which work has the following important events? — masturbation”
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/48876
61paradoxosalpha
>60 thorold:
See, I knew the answer to that one, and I haven't even read the book! So I think the CK is justified in that case.
See, I knew the answer to that one, and I haven't even read the book! So I think the CK is justified in that case.
62Stevil2001
>61 paradoxosalpha: Haha, yes, I knew what the answer was going to be before even clicking on the link and seeing the options, and I haven't read it either!
63vancouverdeb
Fun!Thanks!
64Edward528
>60 thorold: Yes, it's actually more fun when things are not quite right...
I'm stil trying to get my head around how The Iliad contains the 'event' Classical Antiquity.
I'm stil trying to get my head around how The Iliad contains the 'event' Classical Antiquity.
65Nevov
A small bug!
It says TrivaThing instead of TriviaThing in the message between the logo and 'Start Easy':
Tell us what you think about TrivaThing on Talk.
It says TrivaThing instead of TriviaThing in the message between the logo and 'Start Easy':
Tell us what you think about TrivaThing on Talk.
66reading_fox
Another easy one:
"Which work has the following last words?
Here ends The Silmarillion:
"
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/p/4
"Which work has the following last words?
Here ends The Silmarillion:
"
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/p/4
67knerd.knitter
>65 Nevov: Augh! I will fix that!
68FiLoMa
Definitely lots of fun. I think I just wasted an hour or more playing. Very addictive and shows just how many of my books I have not yet read.
I would like to know how to get the trivia page if I'm on my home page. I've book marked the link, but have a menu option up the top would make it really quick to get to. I couldn't work out which menu it would sit under and I clicked on all but "your books" and "add books" as I know it wouldn't be there.
Is it possible to have in trivathing settings an option of only read books? That might give me a bit more of a sporting chance LOL.
I would like to know how to get the trivia page if I'm on my home page. I've book marked the link, but have a menu option up the top would make it really quick to get to. I couldn't work out which menu it would sit under and I clicked on all but "your books" and "add books" as I know it wouldn't be there.
Is it possible to have in trivathing settings an option of only read books? That might give me a bit more of a sporting chance LOL.
69PawsforThought
>68 FiLoMa: It’s under the More menu. Just scroll down until you get to the Games section.
70Edward528
Is it International Discworld Week and has nobody told me? I swear 90% of my questions have at least one Pratchett novel among the choices, and often four...
71starquilt43
Love, love, love it! I had two problems: don't know what "book haiku" means, tho I can guess. But I might have gotten a better score if I'd know. Also, where the answers are listed, why is there a thumbs down icon below even my correct answers?
72WordMaven
>1 ZephCraven: Well THAT was a lot of fun. Too much fun! What a great way to kill time. Not that I have time to kill, but I knew I was sliding into the abyss with no way back so I bailed while I still could. But I'll be back. This could be my Solitaire.
73WordMaven
>2 norabelle414: It is a fun logo.
74Aquila
>70 Edward528: My guess is that Discworld books have a lot of quotations entered into LibraryThing. Pratchett quotes well, and his fans are legion.
75Aquila
>71 starquilt43: The thumbs down is a button you can use, not a mark of someone's opinon. You can click the thumbs down icon if you want to mark the question as not very good, not just when you answer it, but also when you go back and look at your answers.
You've pretty much figured out the book haiku from context, but like all the categories feeding into trivia it's a field on any book's main page and you can click the question mark above it for help.
https://blog.librarything.com/2011/11/book-haiku-field-added/
https://www.librarything.com/more/haiku
You've pretty much figured out the book haiku from context, but like all the categories feeding into trivia it's a field on any book's main page and you can click the question mark above it for help.
https://blog.librarything.com/2011/11/book-haiku-field-added/
https://www.librarything.com/more/haiku
76ArlieS
So far, with works from my library, I can usually pick the author, and often the series - but there will be at least 2 choices, sometimes 4, from the same series. The result is very frustrating.
77MrsLee
What fun!
>24 timspalding: This definitely makes me want to delve into the CK on books in my catalog, if only to bring more choices into play. I usually get either LotR, Terry Pratchett, or one of my murder mystery series. Still get lots wrong because I have a memory like a steel sieve.
I adore when the answer is on the cover, and the foreign language quotes are fun because then I can play detective.
I don't see any nonfiction show up when I'm playing with my books, is there some toggle I need to joggle?
>24 timspalding: This definitely makes me want to delve into the CK on books in my catalog, if only to bring more choices into play. I usually get either LotR, Terry Pratchett, or one of my murder mystery series. Still get lots wrong because I have a memory like a steel sieve.
I adore when the answer is on the cover, and the foreign language quotes are fun because then I can play detective.
I don't see any nonfiction show up when I'm playing with my books, is there some toggle I need to joggle?
78jollyavis
I absolutely adore this. It is what I've been dreaming of. I can see how all my long, depressing winter evenings are going to be spent!
I also didn't know what CK was before reading this thread but that is opening up a lot of ideas too.
I also didn't know what CK was before reading this thread but that is opening up a lot of ideas too.
79tardis
TriviaThing highlights how long it's been since I read most of my books. I can frequently get the correct author but if there are multiple choices by the same author I often get the wrong book. Rex Stout is a great example. I almost always know which quote is by him, but not which book it's from.
80MrsLee
>79 tardis: Same here.
81haydninvienna
>79 tardis: >80 MrsLee: Me too.
82knerd.knitter
Added a stats page for TriviaThing: https://www.librarything.com/stats/MEMBERNAME/trivia
83humouress
>76 ArlieS: Quite; especially when (as is usually the case) I've only read one of them in the series.
>77 MrsLee: At least it's steel ;0)
I love it when the quote has the book title at the end.
>82 knerd.knitter: Ooh, cool. I couldn't see myself beating my (not very) high score (even though I've only stuck to my own books) but looking at the stats, I've got a higher percentage right than I expected. I'll keep going then.
>77 MrsLee: At least it's steel ;0)
I love it when the quote has the book title at the end.
>82 knerd.knitter: Ooh, cool. I couldn't see myself beating my (not very) high score (even though I've only stuck to my own books) but looking at the stats, I've got a higher percentage right than I expected. I'll keep going then.
85court.ordered.books
Absolutely love this!
Have you considered a feature to only include books in a certain collection? (ie. I'd lose so much time if I could have it only include books I've read.)
Have you considered a feature to only include books in a certain collection? (ie. I'd lose so much time if I could have it only include books I've read.)
86anglemark
>85 court.ordered.books: Create a collection for the books you have read. (I have one anyway.)
87AnnieMod
>86 anglemark: But you cannot do TriviaThing only based on 1 collection - which is what the request is for.
88anglemark
>87 AnnieMod: I think you are being unreasonable now. Am I supposed to BOTH read AND understand the posts I'm replying to? On a Friday night?
89bnielsen
>88 anglemark: If you just understand them, you're not required to read them :-)
90paradoxosalpha
The TriviaThing feature is also an incentive to populate relevant CK fields.
92laurelin88
I love this game, just discovered it!!
Just wondering - does anyone know how could I play with my books? The option seems to be greyed out?
Just wondering - does anyone know how could I play with my books? The option seems to be greyed out?
93anglemark
>92 laurelin88: It shouldn't be, unless it's because you have catalogued too few books. I can see why they might have disabled it in that case. Have you tried another browser?
94AndreasJ
TriviaThing seems to be acting up right now. If I try to play with my books, it seemingly randomly works or generates an error message along the lines of "cannot generate a question".
95anglemark
>94 AndreasJ: Hmm, it worked when I played around with it for some time earlier today, but that might be an explanation for what @laurelin88 experiences.
(Of course, I still think there might be a downward limit to how small a library can be before TriviaThing is meaningful for Your Books.)
(Of course, I still think there might be a downward limit to how small a library can be before TriviaThing is meaningful for Your Books.)
96themulhern
I don't like it that a year can be an "event". There should be some better way.
97Keeline
I don't know how they work it but it seems as if some books have questions prepared and many others would not. If a collection is based on well-known books (classics and best-sellers) then it makes sense that there would be trivia questions submitted for them. But the more obscure the book, the less likely that a crowd-source set of questions will hit it.
Maybe it is not the size of the collection but the nature of the collection?
James
Maybe it is not the size of the collection but the nature of the collection?
James
98knerd.knitter
>97 Keeline: The questions are not crowd-sourced but auto-generated based on the Common Knowledge data for the books. If a book has no Common Knowledge data, then no questions can be generated for which it is the correct answer, at least. It might be a choice, but it couldn't be a correct answer.
99SandraArdnas
>96 themulhern: It can't normally, but anyone can edit CK and you'll stumble across odditites from time to time. I'd delete it. Just a time frame is NOT an event.
100Keeline
>98 knerd.knitter:, I don't know enough about the nature of this trivia. Most trivia has deeper sense of the content of a work.
I am thinking about the sort of items in CK like the original publishing date, first lines, haiku, locales, characters. Some of these will be better populated than others for different works.
James
I am thinking about the sort of items in CK like the original publishing date, first lines, haiku, locales, characters. Some of these will be better populated than others for different works.
James
101knerd.knitter
>100 Keeline: Some of these will be better populated than others for different works
That is correct.
That is correct.
102Keeline
>101 knerd.knitter:, so this is another undisguised method to encourage members to add more to CK. We've seen that before and it is a good goal. Different people need different motivations.
James
James
103norabelle414
These two questions have the same haiku for the same work attributed to two different users:
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/98289
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/125762
I checked the work page, and the haiku is only there once, with the second user's name: https://www.librarything.com/work/4979986/social#section_haiku
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/98289
https://www.librarything.com/trivia/q/125762
I checked the work page, and the haiku is only there once, with the second user's name: https://www.librarything.com/work/4979986/social#section_haiku
104knerd.knitter
I made a fix: that first one should have been expired for out-of-date data, but because it was using the old haiku data instead of the new haiku data. Sorry about that!
105norabelle414
>104 knerd.knitter: That.....doesn't seem right. Did the first haiku get deleted and then re-added word-for-word by the second person? I notice all of the haikus on the work page are attributed to the same person. While it's very plausible that one person would write four haikus for one book, could it be that a bug caused some of the haikus to be attributed to the wrong person?
106knerd.knitter
The first one may have actually been wrong, because I believe if changes were made to the old haiku data it was changing the attribution, which it shouldn't do. So I think when I converted them I went back and got the original attribution instead of the attributions of the edits.
