Introducing the PF Library

  • Thread starter Greg Bernhardt
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In summary: Editing is all done while viewing an item. Each box has an "edit" link to the right of it. The three boxes in the middle right are self explanatory. The left side bar has the "add content" link to the right of the "edit" links. When you click that, you are taken to a page where you can add a new library item.
  • #141
autolinking

Greg Bernhardt said:
Library guidelines changed.

Item Titles:
"Also please use all lowercase letters in the word/phrase."

Hi Greg! :smile:

May I suggest that there be an exception when a word is a person's name?

For example, the autolinking is changing "Newton's second law" in posts to "Newton's second law" (eg, in https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=135559") …

which presumably is doing exactly what the guideline change was intended to avoid?
 
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  • #142
editing Comments

I've just amended a Comment on a Library entry over 60 hours after I first made it.

Shouldn't there be a much shorter time limit on editing Comments? :smile:
 
  • #145
Just popped into the library for the first time, and it seems like a great idea. Will try to contribute soon. Thumbs up! :cool:
 
  • #146
mmm … coffee!

Kurdt said:
Have you got your autolinks disabled?

Test: electric units

Hi Kurdt! :smile:

That's weird …

I see "electric units" underlined in your post, but not in mine. :confused:

How can that happen? :smile:
radou said:
Just popped into the library for the first time, and it seems like a great idea. Will try to contribute soon. Thumbs up! :cool:

I love the idea of people "popping in" to the Library! :smile:

Perhaps we could have a coffee lounge by the entrance, to entice people in, and maybe a gym and a shopping mall and a surf beach round the corner? Graphics, anyone? :wink:
 
  • #147


tiny-tim said:
Hi Kurdt! :smile:

That's weird …

I see "electric units" underlined in your post, but not in mine. :confused:

How can that happen? :smile:
Goto My PF > Edit Options and ensure that the "Disable Auto-Linking" check-box is cleared.
 
  • #148


Hootenanny said:
Goto My PF > Edit Options and ensure that the "Disable Auto-Linking" check-box is cleared.

Done that … it's always been cleared.

But I'm seeing autolinking in one post (#144), but not the other (#143). :confused:

Do you see autolinking in my post #143? :smile:
 
  • #149


tiny-tim said:
Done that … it's always been cleared.

But I'm seeing autolinking in one post (#144), but not the other (#143). :confused:

Do you see autolinking in my post #143? :smile:
No, perhaps it has something to do with the quotation marks:

"electric units" vs. electric units

:wink:
 
  • #150


Hootenanny said:
No, perhaps it has something to do with the quotation marks:

"electric units" vs. electric units

:wink:

hmm … possible …

but I don't see underlining in either case in your post …

if the quotation marks stop it the first time, surely the second time becomes the first time, and … ? :smile:

(and it's still not showing in the thread I referred to)
 
  • #151
hoot may have them turned off: "electric units" v. electric units
 
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  • #152
cristo said:
hoot may have them turned off: "electric units" v. electric units

I don't have them turned off, the auto link feature worked for me initially, but now the links are not showing:

electric units
 
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  • #153
I'm going to multi-post, but there's a valid reason.

This post, where the word is at the end and not on a new line invokes an autolink: electric units
 
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  • #154
This one, where the word is on a new line, doesn't

electric units
 
  • #155
And this post, which was Hoot's above

No, perhaps it has something to do with the quotation marks:

"electric units" vs. electric units

Doesn't work if there is text in a new paragraph after the word.This is weird!
 
  • #156
If I type electric units in the middle of a sentence will it work?
 
  • #157
Yes it does.
 
  • #158
I was having trouble with two auto-links in one post in a separate thread. Seemed I could only have one per post or something. I wonder if they'll work here:

I enjoy the SI electric units .
I also think that electric field s are cool.

EDIT: See, now I can't get any auto-links on my posts. What am I doing wrong?:confused:Edit by cristo: Can't have punctuation or letters after the autolinked word.
 
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  • #159
… I like this game … !

This new game is great! :-p

Perhaps it should be moved to "Brain Teasers"? :smile:

I guess it's a physical application of the "watched-pot" syndrome …

:biggrin: the autolinking will only work if the poster isn't expecting it to! :biggrin:​

I think technically this is known as "Watts' uncertainty principle" … the auto-entanglement of two space-like separated words can be disturbed if someone thinks about reading one of them before he could have read the other. :wink:​
 
  • #160


Autolinking is only working occasionally.

What is the point of contributing entries if nobody knows they are there?

Testing (this is the physics content list) :wink::

Apoapsis
black hole radii
capacitor
centrifugal force
centripetal acceleration
Coriolis force
edge of the universe
elastic collision
electric displacement field
electric field
electric units
expansion postulate
field (physics)
First Law of Thermodynamics
free charge
free-body diagram
friction
Friedmann Equation
inelastic collision
inelastic collision (relativistic) (M)
inertial observer
Isodiasphere
Isotone
Kepler's Laws
Kirchhoff's rules
kirchoff
Lagrange point
Library FAQs
List of Quantum Mechanical Operators
Lorentz gauge
Lorentz Transformation
Maxwell's equations
moment of inertia
moments
momentum (non-relativistic)
Newton's second law
orbital eccentricity
Periapsis
Photoelectric Effect
Physics Forums Gurus
Physics Forums History
Physics Forums Medals
pressure
Radioactive Decay
reaction force
rotating frame
Second Law of Thermodynamics
SelfAdjoint
Sidereal
susceptibility
Synodic
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Trojan Object
twin paradox
uncertainty principle
vector triangle
wave function
Waves on a String
work done
zeroth law of thermodynamics

EDIT: 60 autolinks should have appeared, but none did. :rolleyes:
 
  • #161
Test of auto-linking - pressure

The above works as a single line, but if I add text like this line, auto-linking is disabled.
 
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  • #162
Test - vector triangle - uncertainty principle .

Hmmm. If punctuation follows a library entry, the auto-linker does not recognize it.
 
  • #163


tiny-tim said:
Autolinking is only working occasionally.

What is the point of contributing entries if nobody knows they are there?

Testing (this is the physics content list) :wink::

Apoapsis
black hole radii
capacitor
centrifugal force
centripetal acceleration
Coriolis force
edge of the universe
elastic collision
electric displacement field
electric field
electric units
expansion postulate
field (physics)
First Law of Thermodynamics
free charge
free-body diagram
friction
Friedmann Equation
inelastic collision
inelastic collision (relativistic) (M)
inertial observer
Isodiasphere
Isotone
Kepler's Laws
Kirchhoff's rules
kirchoff
Lagrange point
Library FAQs
List of Quantum Mechanical Operators
Lorentz gauge
Lorentz Transformation
Maxwell's equations
moment of inertia
moments
momentum (non-relativistic)
Newton's second law
orbital eccentricity
Periapsis
Photoelectric Effect
Physics Forums Gurus
Physics Forums History
Physics Forums Medals
pressure
Radioactive Decay
reaction force
rotating frame
Second Law of Thermodynamics
SelfAdjoint
Sidereal
susceptibility
Synodic
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Trojan Object
twin paradox
uncertainty principle
vector triangle
wave function
Waves on a String
work done
zeroth law of thermodynamics

EDIT: 60 autolinks should have appeared, but none did. :rolleyes:
Wow, this is bizarre! And 0 of 60 is hardly "occasionally"! I can't imagine you've possibly disabled autolinks in your posts.

As a test, can you copy (or quote and remove the quote tags from) Astronuc's last post? Let's see if the autolinks show up.
 
  • #164


Gokul43201 said:
Wow, this is bizarre! And 0 of 60 is hardly "occasionally"! I can't imagine you've possibly disabled autolinks in your posts.

As a test, can you copy (or quote and remove the quote tags from) Astronuc's last post? Let's see if the autolinks show up.

Hi Gokul! :smile:

And it's not only in my posts … I keep seeing other people's posts without autolinking. :confused:

Anyway, here goes:

Test - vector triangle - uncertainty principle .

Hmmm. If punctuation follows a library entry, the auto-linker does not recognize it.

EDIT: well, the autolinking did work.

Let's try:

pressure
Radioactive Decay
reaction force
rotating frame
Second Law of Thermodynamics
SelfAdjoint

And now:

Test - pressure - reaction force

And:

Test
pressure
reaction force

(hmm … reaction force 5 lines up got autolinked before I put the next 4 lines in)

(ooh … it got autolinked in the last line … I wonder if I get can get rid of that by adding:)

Test
pressure
reaction force
 
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  • #165
Looks like it's the end of line marker <br />, that is behaving as "punctuation" following the word, and preventing autolinks when you hit the return key after a library term. That makes it a bug, not a feature.

PS: Take a look at the page source, if I wasn't terribly clear.
 
  • #166
Gokul43201 said:
Looks like it's the end of line marker <br />, that is behaving as "punctuation" following the word, and preventing autolinks when you hit the return key after a library term. That makes it a bug, not a feature.

PS: Take a look at the page source, if I wasn't terribly clear.

That makes the most sense: good spot Gokul! Hopefully Greg can sort this...
 
  • #167
Gokul43201 said:
Looks like it's the end of line marker <br />, that is behaving as "punctuation" following the word, and preventing autolinks when you hit the return key after a library term. That makes it a bug, not a feature.

PS: Take a look at the page source, if I wasn't terribly clear.
Yes, if I put a space before carriage return, autolinking works.

pressure
pressure

The second pressure has a space before and after the <br > < br />, so the html code affects the auto-linking.
 
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  • #168


tiny-tim said:
Autolinking is only working occasionally.

What is the point of contributing entries if nobody knows they are there?

Testing (this is the physics content list) :wink::

Apoapsis
black hole radii
capacitor
centrifugal force
centripetal acceleration
Coriolis force
edge of the universe
elastic collision
electric displacement field
electric field
electric units
expansion postulate
field (physics)
First Law of Thermodynamics


zeroth law of thermodynamics

The autolinks have spaces before and after the phrase/entry.
 
  • #169


Astronuc said:
zeroth law of thermodynamics

The autolinks have spaces before and after the phrase/entry.

ah … I think that's the answer … :smile:

all the instances of failures that I can find are where the word or phrase is followed immediately by . or ) or , or a line return or ; or a tag

Testing:

pressure. pressure) pressure, pressure

pressure; pressure pressure .
 
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  • #170
Not to forget, pressure:smile:
 
  • #171
autolinking completely off now

Autolinking is completely off now …

at the time of posting, the autolinks previously visible in posts above have vanished. :confused:
 
  • #172
The last few days we are being hammered with traffic spiking our server load. I've turned off the autolinker temporarily until things settle down.
 
  • #174
Redbelly98 said:
When I browse subtopics, it would be nice if my Search choices would remain intact. For example, I select "Physics", then select "Classical Optics", then select "Diffraction". Perhaps I would next like to look at other subtopics under Classical Optics, but I must reselect "Physics" and "Classical Optics" all over again before selecting my next subtopic. If "Physics" and "Classical Optics" stayed as the active selection, I could do this more quickly.

Just thought I'd bring this up again ... it would be nice to have some kind of clickable topic list or way to quickly browse among closely-related subtopics.

Of course if there is some reason why this is difficult/impossible to implement, I'll stop bringing it up.
 
  • #175
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