that works fine
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.)
What does AIUI mean?
What has happened to mon Capitaineâs 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.
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!
Iâd 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!).
âTTFNâ (Ta ta for now) and âAIUIâ are âstandardâ 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, Iâd be happy to discuss how to clean these up/organise them better/otherwise improve them.
CAA = Cover Art Archive
In edit notes, where I do use lots of abbreviations, I put them between square brackets, so that they link to the wiki: [AC]
â AC.
I wasnât very happy with the plugin @yvanzo found earlier, so I asked in the thread for the plugin that apparently doesnât work anymore, and Sam Saffron replied there pointed to a âtheme componentâ 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 donât understand!
Some more acronyms!
WP -> Wikipedia
(similarly WD for WikiData)
Op can also be âopus numberâ 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
FTR: for the record
With punctuation it does not see the acronyms: CAA? is NG while CAA is OK.
Progressively I recall some other abbreviations I may usually use (with [WikiLink]
for documented MB terms) in my edit notes.
@Freso, I canât 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");
IMO: In my opinion.
The code is available on GitHub â PRs are welcome.