Monday, May 25, 2009

Better statistics, other improvements

I spent the weekend cooking up code, not sausages:

1. Series statistics. By popular demand, the member Series Statistics page can now show your series books you have in context of the complete series. (See talk post.)

2. Awards, characters and places. I've added similar statistics pages for three other "Common Knowledge" categories—Awards, Characters, Places. (See talk post.)

I also added series, awards, characters and places stats in your profile* and the "Your Zeitgeist" box on your home page (see talk post.)

3. More Green Checkmarks. Green check-marks, the mark that shows when you have a work, have spread further. They are now appearing on work-page recommendations, recommendation pages and in other members' catalogs. (See talk post.)

4. Power Edit gets better Previously, you could only Power Edit a page at a time (ie., no more than 100 books at a time). I added a feature to allow you to power-edit all the books in a given result set. So, you can do all your books, all the books that match a particular search, etc.



See the talk post.

5. Message Flagging. I've improved message-flagging in Talk, so that members can reverse their flagging, as well as counter-flag a message, if they think it was wrongly flagged. (See talk post.)

I also proposed making the Wikipedia policy "Assume good faith?" an official LibraryThing policy, triggering a lively debate about community norms, just what spam is and so forth. See the talk post.


*Originally high, but I moved it down when members hollered.

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11 Comments:

Blogger Nora said...

something's wrong with the link in number three (more green checkmarks)

it says authorization required?

5/25/2009 11:46 PM  
Blogger r.orrison said...

For power Talk users, Tim also added a permalink to each individual message. You can find it on the "Message" text in the header. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just ignore me.

5/26/2009 2:27 AM  
Anonymous thegreattim said...

Nice work with the power editing! I love that you now can select an entire lot.

Great job, Tim!

5/26/2009 6:24 AM  
Blogger Tim said...

Sorry about the link. Fixed.

5/26/2009 9:08 AM  
Anonymous krazy4katz said...

I like the "assume good faith" message. It makes a lot of sense, especially with new people's posts. The rest of the stuff is great too.

Thanks, k4k

5/26/2009 2:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tim, you are so cool!

5/26/2009 7:00 PM  
Blogger Johann S said...

Just when you think it can't get any better. Thank you, LT is awesome.

5/27/2009 12:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just checked series. Looks good, but how does it do it? Most are fine but some over-enthusiastic combining of scores with related books. Any way to uncombine manually.

Also at least one wrong attribution 'The amazing Maurice ... ' (Terry Pratchett) is not a Discworld novel -- was the combination done there by author name?

Thanks for all the good work!

5/27/2009 5:05 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

re/ #8, it picks them up from the "series" field in Common Knowledge - the editable fields on pages about works. In this case, Amazing Maurice is indeed a Discworld book - it works fine as a stand-alone juvenile novel, but it's set in the same background...

5/28/2009 12:50 PM  
Blogger LLOEW Book Club said...

Love the stats work in LT. Am I missing an area with Member stats (like ages, countries/locations...)? or is that in the works? I don't remember what I had to fill-out to become a member.

ddelmoni

6/04/2009 11:33 AM  
Blogger Tim said...

Actually, nothing. It'd be cool if we had that sort of info. But people are—understandably—sensitive about requiring personal data in this situation.

6/04/2009 11:38 AM  

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