Faulty Level & Definition is 'driving me up the wall!' - Edexcel GCSE French Vocabulary List

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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.

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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?

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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)

The course creator is apparently not active: see To Kchiponda Edexel GSCE French Errors

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Thank you so much. Where’s your screen shot?

All this about a ‘disgruntled coder’ and ‘parting shot’ buisness sounds very police drama like and detective-mystery style. I love it! :grinning::spy:

@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? :wink: There might also be a couple of gaps in the vocabulary up there, which I would be happy to help fill. :tools: :head_bandage:

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In my first reply (second post in this thread): “We’re sorry, there was an error. The Memrise team have been notified and are getting on it.”

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Oh yeah. Duh! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::laughing:

Can we assume that that actually works??

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Hey, the link you posted redirects to the wrong level. The definition “to drive somebody up the wall” is in level 30 not level 31.

The sentence has now been removed from the course.

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Oops! :fearful: Sorry. :confounded: Bet that ‘drove you up the wall’! :blue_car: :laughing:

Thanks for solving it in the end though. I’m sure I’m not the only one who will be grateful! :+1:

Massive thank you @Joshua,@lurajane, @Atikker. You were all such a tremendous help. :slight_smile::grinning::grin::smiley::smile:

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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.

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@LanguageBox Are you maintaining this course now?

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

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Hi @Atikker @charlotte.long - there is no need to go to another course! :grinning:

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! :tea:

Is there anything else you would particularly like to draw to my attention?

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@Atikker Thank you for your concern, but I only asked because @LanguageBox put an editor’s note onto the course, and I wanted to make him aware of the much-needed corrections :slight_smile:

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Perfect! Thank you! I saw new words had been added, thank you. Just duplicates and “see above’s” etc. that I need correcting. For duplicates, it is good to learn both phrases, but I was wondering if there was any way to differentiate between the two, since I often get confused and the words are then made “difficult” when really, I do know them.

Thank you so much for taking over this course, my entire French class and I use this course to learn vocabulary for our French Edexcel GCSE next year, and it is an excellent resource. :smiley:

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I think all the ‘see aboves’ have been removed. I’m running gradually through the levels and working on duplicate words now (though this may take a few days). You’re right, they are agitating! Glad the course is so useful. I’ll be sure to keep adding more vocab!

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A new glitch. At https://www.memrise.com/course/89149/edexcel-gcse-french-vocabulary-list/2/ the same lesson contains the verbs ‘partir’ and ‘quitter’ both translated as ‘to leave’ It is therefore not possible except by luck to get the answers right. I’m passing this on because LanguageBox asks to be told of errors. There seem to be a lot of them reading the thread above :frowning_face:

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@peter2108 See my reply on your original thread. :slight_smile:

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Level 7 - there’s 3 "then"s and I never know which one to type. Please specify and differentiate the three, otherwise when I type the French, its always wrong because there’s 3 possibilities

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Thank you for raising the issue. I have altered the definitions of the three "then"s. I hope that they’re clear now. :+1:

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I absolutely agree. I have lost many thousands of points guessing when there are two right possible answers in the box!

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Dear @LanguageBox and @KChiponda are you both still active in maintaining this course?