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Improving Mindat.orgStrange Link on Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine Page

11th Nov 2018 18:01 UTCBrian Kosnar 🌟 Expert

Hello Admins,

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

And the "cand" link in "East European Platform, Ural Mountains, Fennoscandian Shield- Gulf of Bothnia-Oslo graben" leads to fluorite (which in fact has a synonym named cand) ...

Ah - the joys of automatic linking ... (I will ask Jolyon to improve the algorithm).

11th Nov 2018 20:33 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

Thanks Brian

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

yenit is the German word for Ilvaite.

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

David

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

I have written some functions for properly finding rock and mineral names in text blocks. Jolyon shouldn't have too much trouble using those to fix this problem.

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