Abbreviations in community posts

jesus2099 · May 21, 2018, 1:54pm

Hi @ClA_psHydra, can you still turn your first post into a wiki post, or had the time limit part already?

We could use that post to collaboratively add all acronyms in alphabetical order.

Oh thanks @Freso for the post/topic clean-up!

Freso · May 21, 2018, 1:59pm

I’d prefer to use the actual wiki for this, rather than using community posts, or maybe using the plugin @yvanzo found (will look into it soon!).

“TTFN” (Ta ta for now) and “AIUI” are ‘standard’ internet abbreviations/acronyms and not really MB specific. For MusicBrainz specific things:
https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Slang
https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Terminology

As said earlier in the topic, I’d be happy to discuss how to clean these up/organise them better/otherwise improve them.

paulakreuzer · May 23, 2018, 5:12am

What’s CAA?

psychoadept · May 23, 2018, 5:31am

CAA = Cover Art Archive

jesus2099 · May 23, 2018, 5:34am

In edit notes, where I do use lots of abbreviations, I put them between square brackets, so that they link to the wiki: [AC] → AC.

Freso · May 24, 2018, 3:18pm

I wasn’t very happy with the plugin @yvanzo found earlier, so I asked in the thread for the plugin that apparently doesn’t work anymore, and Sam Saffron replied there pointed to a “theme component” that might be easily portable to do essentially the same thing. So I ported it to do essentially the same thing, and this thread is a perfect example of how it works.

You can see the code in action here:

Feel free to continue posting in here if you come across other abbreviations that you don’t understand!

CatQuest · May 29, 2018, 6:11pm

Some more acronyms!
WP -> Wikipedia
(similarly WD for WikiData)
Op can also be “opus number” which is relevant to classical music.
AFAIK -> As Far As I Know
AR -> Advanced Relationship
rel -> relationships/Advanced Relationship
AFK -> Away from Keyboard
SAR -> Stand-alone recording
cat# -> Catalogue number
GSoC -> Google Summer of Code
GCI -> Google Code-In

jesus2099 · May 29, 2018, 10:13pm

And SAR (stand alone recording) is NGS (next generation schema) term for NAT (non album track)

Freso · May 30, 2018, 6:56am

Suggestions by @CatQuest and @jesus2099 have been added.

jesus2099 · May 30, 2018, 1:48pm

FTR: for the record

With punctuation it does not see the acronyms: CAA? is NG while CAA is OK.

jesus2099 · May 31, 2018, 7:13am

Progressively I recall some other abbreviations I may usually use (with [WikiLink] for documented MB terms) in my edit notes.

COC: Code of conduct
ETI: Extra title information
JAN ≈ EAN ≈ bar code
MBID: MusicBrainz identifier
OHP: Official homepage (of an artist, label, etc.)
TOC: (CD) table of content — cf. DiscID?

jesus2099 · May 31, 2018, 8:02am

@Freso, I can’t say I really understand the plugin code but maybe in the below row, we should use more something like to catch full words, whatever the surrounding is, spacing or any kind of punctuation:

new RegExp("(\\b)+" + escapedWords + "(\\b)", "ig");

Instead of:

new RegExp("(\\s|^)+" + escapedWords + "(([:.;,]+(\\s|$))|\\s|$)", "ig");

github.com

metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words/blob/master/common/head_tag.html#L30


      
            'pre': 1
          };
          
          let escapeRegExp = function(str) {
             return str.replace(/[\-\[\]\/\{\}\(\)\*\+\?\.\\\^\$\|]/g, "\\$&");
          }
          
          let keys = Object.keys(words).sort((x,y) => y.length - x.length);
          
          let escapedWords = "((" + keys.map(w => escapeRegExp(w)).join(")|(") + "))";
          let regex = new RegExp("(\\W|^)" + escapedWords + "(\\W|$)", "ig");
          
          let createAbbr = function(text) {
              let lower = text.toLowerCase();
              let title = words[lower];
              var abbr = document.createElement('abbr');
              abbr.innerHTML = text;
              abbr.title = title;
              abbr.className = 'abbrify-word';
              return abbr;
          };

jesus2099 · May 31, 2018, 9:48am

IMO: In my opinion.

Freso · May 31, 2018, 10:54am

The code is available on GitHub – PRs are welcome.

Freso · May 31, 2018, 11:00am

I’ve added all the ones mentioned, apart from this one. I couldn’t remember ever having seen it before, and, indeed, it seems like you’re the only one using it. If it becomes more widespread, maybe I’ll include it then.

rdswift · May 31, 2018, 5:14pm

I assume you want to avoid ones like wtf and ffs, right?

Hawke · May 31, 2018, 7:35pm

Why the fuck would you want to avoid those?

IvanDobsky · June 2, 2018, 12:01pm

Be careful when you make up new TLAs like this. Here in the UK an “OHP” is an “overhead projector” as any school kid from the 1970s\80s would tell you.

Personally I have never heard of “official homepage” used in that way.

jesus2099 · June 2, 2018, 2:59pm

TLA: Funnyt that there is a speciality about three letters acronym rather than two or four

I have seen OHP several times before using it myself because it was so convenient for MB edit notes.
It is not something I made up myself.

There I found it OHP!

official homepage, for 公式サイト

IvanDobsky · June 2, 2018, 5:11pm

I do have to say that TLA is my favourite acronym. It is exactly what it is - a TLA is a TLA.

But, of course, as you point out this is only for three letter acronyms. Obviously the others you bring up would be a TLA or a FLA. Clearly TLA(2) and TLA(3) could get confusing… Especially as both four and five letter versions would also be an FLA.

I like how your OHP link still points to the ancient projector… Have you looked at the English Whakipedia pages? They don’t list Official Home Page.

I think it is time for some sneaky edits to add it to that English page. Well, you can clearly reference your usage of it in this forum… hahaha… we’ll bring a new TLA into the West