[Course Forum] "A World Geography (with AUDIO)" by alanh

The course includes a number of disputed territories/regions. It’s good to know where they are. :smile:

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Hi @alanh, can you check the second map for the Bahamas please, as it is showing a blank and just tested me on a blank.

I have fast broad-band but I know the MemRise site can be slow.

PS
Just been asked to identify the Bahamas from four maps and three of which are blank!
I think something else must be going on today.

PPS

First Mauritania is also blank - there must be an issue. I’ll reboot!


FOR SOLUTION SEE POST 30.

Hi @DW7,

I have checked and can confirm that all of the images are still in place. I seem to remember something similar happening with other courses from time to time. A forum search may help track down what was said last time.

I’ve run a few level reviews on both the web and app versions and there were no problems - although I wasn’t presented with any ‘multiple choice image’ questions.

I’ll keep under review but it seems to be a ‘Memrise’ bug, not a ‘course bug’.

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Thanks Alan, I’ve just rebooted and doing a “preview” (and used the right arrow to look at the other images) and I still have the same problem. Very odd! Think I’ll check some tried and tested courses later today.

PS
Easier than that, I have just gone back a level and done a preview and maps are now missing that weren’t before!

So I think it may be (???) the latest version of Ghostery I use to block adverts and tracking may be stopping a certain format that it doesn’t like - perhaps?

More work for me to unravel!


FOR SOLUTION SEE POST 30.

Ha! It sounds like you may have isolated your issue. It should be possible to do something in the ‘options’ in your ad blocker.

I’m not seeing any blanks. Using “Preview” and the right arrow on a variety of levels just scrolls through the different images as it should do.

Have fun! :grinning:

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Yes! (fun - no!).
I’ll let you know when it’s solved (hopefully) and then delete all these misleading posts for you.

Many thanks for your replies and help.


FOR SOLUTION SEE POST 30.

You can leave them up. You never know, someone else may have a similar issue one day and could find your solution via the search function.

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I have tried accepting various trackers on GHOSTERY but to no avail BUT when I trusted the site, it worked (eg showing the green map of Cyprus). (It always showed the other two!)

This was the same on similar courses of mine - so still a mystery but solved!

Hi,
@alanh I was just wondering how did you get your course to display the pronunciation when I have answered the question.
Sorry to bother you, just trying to create a course of my own.
thanks

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Hi @16isaacbull ,

It’s really no bother.

In the “Display” area of the settings for my ‘Pronunciation’ column, I have the “Always show” box checked (none of the other boxes in that area).

I have just tested that on one of my other courses and it behaved the same way, so should be ok.

Good luck with your course! Come back if you hit a snag.

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Hi @alanh.

For 'Czech Republic" would 'Czechoslovakia" not be an acceptable alternative??

Sorry @alanh as I may have asked this before, but are the levels random countries or some system (eg geographical areas or alphabetical) ?

Hello,

I don’t think so. Czechoslovakia dissolved on I January 1993, when the Czech Republic (short form name: “Czechia”, which is an acceptable alternative in the course) and Slovakia went their separate ways. The entry for Slovakia is in Level 13.

The levels and the entries within them are in no particular order.There are lots of other courses which group them.

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Many thanks Alanh.

Re Czech Republic

That’s why doing this course is useful :wink:

The random entries is like a surprise mixture.

And I like the audio and pronunciation information.

Hi @alanh. I’m having trouble when reviewing some of the images, as they won’t load. I made sure to have a good internet connection and still some of them won’t work. Is this my problem or is there something happening with the course? I saw that there was a similar bug but it seems that it was fixed. Thanks in advance.

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Hi @A21654,

It would help if you could say which images they are or in which level they are.

I’ll have a look too and give some feedback to @alanh


Sweden
Iran
Indonesia
Russia
China.

I wonder if it won’t display a certain format now?

@memrisesupport, has anything changed?

@alanh @DW7
I have the same problem with this course. Many pictures are missing in many levels.

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You are right @PanBerbelek, looking at the whole level on the web, there are many maps missing!

They were obviously there before, so I suspect MemRise no longer accepts a certain format.

This could also affect many image-based courses.

@MemriseSupport please can you comment.

Cc @ale_c & @James_g_memrise

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Apologies for the slow response. It’s not anything that I have done to the course. I have noticed similar issues with other image-based courses (that are not mine), so it may be something that Memrise has changed.

Thank you for identifying some of the images you have been having issues with. I’ll check to see if there is common link.

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OK It’s fixed again. Although most items had multiple images linked, a whole lot of them in the database were showing an empty image file in the first position. I have deleted those image files and uploaded replacements where necessary. I’ve no idea what caused that to happen. I don’t think any of the original images were in the wrong format. There are three or four previously unseen images now. The rest I have uploaded from my library folder.

Thanks again for flagging this up.

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