Reporting Typos: Do you do it, and how often?
Just thought of a few off the wall questions as I submitted a "Report Typo" to Logos today.
1. Do you "Report Typos"?
2. How often?
3. Does anyone know how many typos are found in Logos resources on a daily, weekly, monthly basis?
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I report them every time I see them, cause I feel like this is a good way for me to contribute to making Logos even better. I've only found 2 in the past 3 months of usage, though.
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I report them when I see them - or even think I see them.
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I always report them when I see them. I often report missing links to other Logos resources the same way. I guess I probably report half-a-dozen each week. The search suggestion drop-down makes is quite easy to find typos if you're so inclined. For example, start typing resource into the search box, and I see suggestions for both resoures, and resourses - both typos.
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I always report them as I find them. They've made it so easy to do! The ethics book I'm reading now has the same typo throughout the book. I reported it a few times and then let them know it seems global to the resource. I've seen a few in other books, too.
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Mark Watson said:
1. Do you "Report Typos"?
2. How often?
YES - Every time I notice one.
Its so easy, and quick, I see little or no reason to NOT do so (but you need the Use Internet setting to be ON to use the built-in reporting.)
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1.Yes.
2. When I see them. (3 last week)
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Always have since L3. Some resources are just full of them. What I tend to find is that some resources error-free and others are riddled with them. Sometimes as many as half a dozen per page. I suppose it's the old teacher in me but I always spot them and report them. (Actually, I find everybody's typos but my own.[:S]) I reported two today from one paragraph of Holman New Testament Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. If you have the resource, see if you can find them?
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I report them when I see them...Depending on usage and which books I'm in that's multiple times per day or a few times a week.
I did about 8 yesterday
Jacob Hantla
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I report them whenever I see them, and sometimes when I find one I even go looking for other similar ones. For example, I found a place in the Encyclopedia of Christianity where a diacritical mark in German appeared as some strange character after the letter it was supposed to be on top of (Gemu¬t instead of Gemüt). So I searched through that entire resource for other similar cases and found a whole bunch more (e.g, theŒologie instead of théologie) and reported them all.
I've reported 70 typos since I started keeping track (2 months ago), and a few more before that. So I'm averaging more than 1 a day.
When I find and report a typo, I mark it with a special custom highlighting style that I've created for the purpose. That way I know when I've already reported one so I don't bother reporting it again. And I can search for all the typos I've reported to check if/when they've been fixed.
Here's the highlighting style:
And here's what it looks like in the text:
The older books that Logos has had to scan from print and run OCR on are much more likely to have typos in them than recent ones which they've gotten digitally from the publishers.
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I've noticed several in EBC vol. 1, but it has always been when I'm reading on my blackberry on library.logos.com and am nowhere near a computer. By the time I get back to the computer, I've usually forgotten [:(]
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Re 1: Yes: I report them if I'm on-line at the time.
Re 2: Averages about one per month.
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As a newbie to Logos - thanks for all the work you are doing to improve things.
But the question that springs to mind is...
How long do you have to wait before you notice that the typo has been corrected?
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Mike
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Mike
One of my first typo reports was to tell Logos that Logos 2.0 had a typo in the NIV - Anglicised citation. It had pulbished by instead of published by. After a wait of several years It was finally corrected in Libronix. In Libronix the standard response said something to the effect that Logos would let the publisher know and that it would be updated next time the publisher was revising the text. I would think that nowadays with constant resource updates the turn-around would be much quicker. I would certainly hope so.
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Mike Binks said:
As a newbie to Logos - thanks for all the work you are doing to improve things.
But the question that springs to mind is...
How long do you have to wait before you notice that the typo has been corrected?
Mike, so far I have not seen any of the typos I've reported get fixed. Perhaps they are planning to do a large batch of typo fixes at once so as not to force us to have to do resource updates multiple times just for a few fixes at a time.
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Alan Macgregor said:
It had pulbished by instead of published by.
I remember reporting that, too! It was very annoying to see it constantly coming up in your footnotes.
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Alan Macgregor said:
I reported two today from one paragraph of Holman New Testament Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. If you have the resource, see if you can find them?
Nope..
On a positive note...it provided a lot of good reading and studying. [:D]
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1. Yes
I also use it to report milestones in the text entry box when they differ from the section header - usually passages in commentaries.
2. Whenever - I don't go looking for them
3. Only Logos can give us typo stats!
Dave
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Rosie Perera said:
When I find and report a typo, I mark it with a special custom highlighting style that I've created for the purpose. That way I know when I've already reported one so I don't bother reporting it again. And I can search for all the typos I've reported to check if/when they've been fixed.
Good "idear", Rosie!
I report 'em all.
I like Apples. Especially Honeycrisp.
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I started to do that since Logos 4 came and I am surprised how easy it is to do that.
Bohuslav
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Bohuslav
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Rosie Perera said:
The older books that Logos has had to scan from print and run OCR on are much more likely to have typos in them than recent ones which they've gotten digitally from the publishers.
Newer published books tend to have typos in relation to linking: either missing links or misdirected links. For example, the John Owen collection is full of misdirected links. Owen will be writing a chapter on a verse range and whenever he refernces for example, "verse 6" he means the verse 6 within the context of the chapter, but whoever was tagging the resource figure he meant verse 6 of the last referenced Bible book. I'm reporting tons of those on Owen.
Jacob Hantla
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I report them, usually whenever I see them. If I'm in a "time crunch" for preparation for teaching, then I don't.
Charlene
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Bohuslav Wojnar said:
lol, I thought that might get Ms. Taken for a typo, but it is not really. It is trying to spell how some southern Illinois people say "idea."
I like Apples. Especially Honeycrisp.
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Dan DeVilder said:
lol, I thought that might get Ms. Taken for a typo, but it is not really. It is trying to spell how some southern Illinois people say "idea."
OK, sorry Dan, it was beyond my ability to recognize. But I am learning...
Bohuslav
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I always report typos when I see them, if I'm connected to the internet. Some days go by without one and other days I find several. One book I'm reading consistently misspells "by" as "be".
As for bad links, I do if I'm not in a hurry to finish reading or if there aren't too many. Right now I'm working with ICC's Matthew (Davies & Allison). Many links are wrong because they consistently abbreviate verse ranges as e.g. 24-7 instead of 24-27. The link will always interpret the range as 7-24. It would really slow me down to report them. Besides, the resource has been out for a long time so if they haven't fixed it by now they probably aren't going to.
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Mark Watson said:
3. Does anyone know how many typos are found in Logos resources on a daily, weekly, monthly basis?
Anyone from the Logos Team want to provide an answer on this?
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In L3, I always reported typos... If I wasn't connected to the internet, somehow they got queued up & went as soon as I was. L4 doesn't seem to be doing that. I tried to report a typo Friday & found that because I wasn't connected (no internet access when in the office) that the menu item to report it wasn't available to me.
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BillS said:
In L3, I always reported typos... If I wasn't connected to the internet, somehow they got queued up & went as soon as I was. L4 doesn't seem to be doing that. I tried to report a typo Friday & found that because I wasn't connected (no internet access when in the office) that the menu item to report it wasn't available to me.
If I'm not online at the time, I mark it with a special highlight and make a note to myself, e.g., "report typo in NTPG, p. 18" or whatever, and then report the typo when I get back to the Internet.
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I was having trouble getting "Report typo" to work.
Melissa
in tech support gave me this hint: "When you right-click on the
incorrect word or words, make sure you are clicking
on “Selection” on the top right side of the context menu, then “Report
Typo”
will appear on the lower left side."It works!
In return, I
suggested to her that the website page about "Report typo" should
include that rather essential information.0
