I am developing a growing deck of vocabulary items which I wish to make available to other people who are studying the same text. I have uploaded the deck to AnkiWeb. Over the next several weeks, I will correct errors and add new items. How should I upload the revised deck? Delete the original deck from AnkiWeb first, or just share? If I don’t delete first, what about the original cards which have since been corrected? Or does the new upload exactly duplicate the deck I’ve created (completely replacing the previous upload)?
I think most of your questions are answered here – Contributing - Anki Manual. Another option to consider is not sharing it until you’re done creating and editing it. Your rough-draft might not be that valuable to users, and they won’t come back to a bad deck looking for updates later on.
But if you discover that corrections are necessary, don’t delete the previous version of the deck, and be sure to update the description so users will know that you’ve released a new version.
I thank you for responding, but my question isn’t answered in the link. I suspect I posed it in a confusing way. Let me make it more concrete: suppose last month the deck I shared had a card that said くる on the front; ‘to go’ on the back. Realizing this is incorrect, I fix the card so it now reads くる on the front; ‘to come’ on the back. Then I share the corrected deck (without first deleting the previously shared deck). Is the incorrect card still in the AnkiWeb deck?
Thanks,
bob
Another way to ask the same question: Suppose I’ve previously shared a deck. Now, in the version on my computer, I make some corrections and additions. If I now share the revised deck, is the new public (AnkiWeb) version identical to the deck in my computer?
No, it is not. The new apkg that you share isn’t merging with the prior shared one – it is completely replacing it.
Got it! After re-sharing, the public deck on AnkiWeb is identical to the deck on my computer. Thank you!
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