I was just reviewing my RTK words today, and discovered a lot more people I used mems from but didn’t back up yet. Jackfrutz was literally the first one in the list So yes, I plan to add his mems to the disk right away.
Thank you
I don’t plan to go anywhere, so as long as memrise allows people to access mems, I’ll be able to back those up. Just let me know (in this thread or via PM), when you would like me to store yours.
Done. I finished adding jackfrutz’s mems to the folder, and also included a lot of other authors.
I’m glad to hear that. My goal right now is to just preserve as completely as possible the raw data, and I haven’t come with any ideas yet about how it can be utilized later. So it is good, that even in this plain form it is not completely unusable.
One idea that comes to mind is trying to integrate the mems into kanji koohi. I use that site in parallel with memrise anyways. There’s no support for pictures but maybe one day there will be or the creator can be talked into it haha
That’s just for the kanji mems though… It would be handy if a program could be written in a reusable way so anki or other sites could easily use it to import the data too.
I’m not the only person who spent a huge amount of time creating courses on memrise back when they were actively nurturing the community and community-created courses. I literally spent thousands of hours on my courses, over several years. For the fish idenfitication course, I took thousands of photographs myself, identified them and cropped and edited and labelled them, sorted them, etc. For the Hebrew course, I actually paid someone else with my own money to record voice for many of the items, so I could have two different people’s voices for each word or phrase, to help people get a better sense of how to say or hear things.
This example should be able to show why mems are a vital part of his courses. This is also for your consideration, @MemriseSupport.
Destroying mems that people casually jot down is bad, but removing the notes that course-creators write for others’ benefits is terrible. The fish course, as an example, is only 50% usable without the mems. Consider for a minute the time and effort @cos invested to take the thousands of photographs, writing the mems, and putting them into a course. I hope you feel something, @MemriseSupport.
I’ve added your mems to the common folder.
It seems though, that in some cases there are issues caused by the changes in direction of writing (or maybe it’s just me not recognizing symbols in different fonts). It’s hard for me to detect these issues (I’m sorry, I don’t know any Arabic), but if you have any notes on which items appear to be improperly saved, please let me know and I’ll try to fix it.
Both cases have a lot of mems, attached to the items with pictures. Sadly, the current version of the script still cannot process those. I’ll be looking into this matter in the near future and post an update here when I have any progress.
I’ve added your mems to the folder.
They seem to have been downloaded in their entirety and without any errors (at this point I’m surprised that this is also possible ), but if you notice any problems, please let me know.
Also, while working on these I had to rewrite parts of the script processing items with images and sounds. Because it works much better now, I went ahead and updated your folder as well, so there are no more missing cards with Shavian characters or Khmer sounds. You can check it out.
BTW: do you only see the buttons “Created” and “Popular” for other people? Or maybe only if there are items that are popular (whatever that means)? The buttons don’t appear in my profile. I can bring up the “popular” page by simply typing “popular” instead of “created” it in the URL, but the list will be the same.
I do suppose that it’s just another oversight by Memrise which results in the fact that you only get the count if at least one mem is popular …
Years ago, there was a facility to vote mems up or down and each one then had a plus or minus score displayed. The tool was removed because it was being abused. Your mems were then listed as “Created” (in order of date created) and “Popular” (in order of total number of votes received). I’m guessing that you created all your mems after they removed the voting tool. If I go to another user’s profile, I can see both listings (if both exist).