Dear Fellow Skritters, Are there any plans to upload the word lists from DrFrancis's 'Intermediate Chinese Reader'? It seems to be very systematic and comprehensive so I would seem to be very useful.
Thanks.

We have a standing offer for anyone who enters a list we don't have and lets us add it to our official lists, gets two months of Skritter free. So if someone does enter this list, let us know!

Scott, if a person enters a list, do the definitions in the book get replaced by whatever Skritter already has on record? I ask because I was looking at Reading and Writing Chinese and I saw that jiong, just a radical I think, was called not 'borders' but 'open country', and there were some other differences. Of course I can edit that definition, so no problem, but a person using a book really needs the definitions in that book.

Zeppa, that's right. Of course, you can always use your own custom definitions, but those are unique to you personally.

Thanks, Byzanti. I realize now that it's actually a copyright problem - the definitions in the book are copyright.
There's no way around making my own lists, I'm afraid!

I think that definitions aren't tied to lists is probably as much a technical decision. It's a tricky situation if each list has it's own particular definition - after all, when a word appears in study, it doesn't really matter which list it was initially added from.

So, you don't need to make your own lists as such, you can just use a list somebody else has written. Just go through the list and change the particular definitions you don't like to ones you do. Everytime that word comes up in study it will have the definition you wrote, regardless of where it came from.

Those are the two main reasons: copyright, and also you gain much in efficiency by having definitions shared across lists, so that when you add the same word from another list, you don't have to learn something new again.

If, however, you think the definition can be improved, feel free to check the box 'share as correction' when you edit the definition. Our ballers go over submissions and work them into our central dictionary.