At the moment I’m trying to learn French on the following course, but the definition ‘to drive someone up the wall’ on level 31 is stopping me from continuing to learn new vocab properly. Can anyone sort this out or remove the word entirely?
It’s literally ‘driving me up the wall’ at the moment!
Hi @LanguageBox! If you ignore the word does it go grayish on your level-list? or were you accidentally hitting the lightning bolt instead and sent that phrase to difficult words list.
I think so, I just keep having to go to the level each time and clicking ‘contiune learning’ at the end of a learning session rather than clicking learn again afterwards or using my dashboard.
Thanks for all your help. Hopefully they won’t take too long to fix it now they’ve been alerted.
Will I receive a message about it or something? Or will I just wake up one morning to find it sorted out?
Depends who fixes it. My screen shot above says that Memrise staff has been notified about the bug, so if that led to a bug fix in the code, then nobody will announce it. However, If it gets fixed from this thread, they’ll probably post here. Let’s tag a couple more Memrise staff.
@Lien@Joshua@MemriseMatty - fixing the underlying bug in the code that can’t handle the missing entry may be a long-term fix, something that’s sitting on some techie’s to-do list as a low priority repair. But just deleting the entry from this course is a quick and easy temporary fix for this user.
@Arete_Hime - the Memrise code does not know how to handle the fault. That makes this a Memrise bug.
ALSO - the location of the bug makes me suspect that it just might have been intentionally placed, by someone who knows Memrise’s code well enough to set this up as a prank. Parting shot by a disgruntled coder? A cute little I-told-you-so from someone who advocated for more rigorous fault-checks and error recovery routines? Is it really that easy for course creators to create empty items that cause the learning systems to fail?
Another option is that @Lien can grant Contributor status to LanguageBox, and LanguageBox then deletes the entry, or adds appropriate French. (Or the attempt reveals further bugginess in the entry)
All this about a ‘disgruntled coder’ and ‘parting shot’ buisness sounds very police drama like and detective-mystery style. I love it!
@Lien I would be more than happy to be granted contributor status for this course. I have noticed a few more obscure creases that I could iron out, if you know what I mean? There might also be a couple of gaps in the vocabulary up there, which I would be happy to help fill.
Hey there, on the French Edexcel Course there are multiple definitions that aren’t complpeted, are wrong or simply say “see above”. This is not useful when learning vocab, as I have to learn the French for herbal tea, as “see above”. Please check through all levels for these errors and correct them? This makes learning extremely difficult for me.
This is just some unfinished course some user made. It is not memrise official course.
If there is no user to take care of this course you’ll just have to pick another course @charlotte.long
I am now maintaining this course and am well aware of the huge attention some of it needs. I will work on improving some of it tonight and have already added over 200 words more to it.
I will particularly work on the words you’re are concerned about ('see above’s, duplicates etc.). If something is really agitating you, don’t forget you can always ignore it.
I’m not even sure herbal tea is relevant to GCSE!
Is there anything else you would particularly like to draw to my attention?
Hopefully they won’t take too long to fix it now they’ve been alerted.
There might also be a couple of gaps in the vocabulary up there, which I would be happy to help fill. 
Sorry. 
Bet that ‘drove you up the wall’! 
