Abbreviations in community posts

ClÃ_psHydra · May 13, 2018, 4:06pm

that works fine

yvanzo · May 14, 2018, 4:17pm

There is a third-party plug-in for Discourse to automate this for everyone:

@Freso: Would it be possible to have it installed?

(Official Discourse plug-in seems to be currently broken.)

jesus2099 · May 21, 2018, 1:47pm

What does AIUI mean?

mmirG · May 21, 2018, 1:50pm

What has happened to mon Capitaine’s pursuit of mystery and romance?
Any answer I give, if truthful and at all transparent, will reduce the mystery and romance of my post.

Je refuse!

Your request can only be some sort of test of my commitment to our cause.

Freso · May 21, 2018, 1:52pm

AIUI - Wiktionary, the free dictionary - as I understand it

Freso · May 21, 2018, 7:04pm

9 posts were split to a new topic: Meaning of TTFN / Ta Ta For Now

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!

ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython · 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 @ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython 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.