Recently I added 齐王 to my lists (it is in one of my books) and now the dictionary seems to have been deleted. I don't mind so much that it was deleted, as it's not such a useful word (though this is one reason to allow personal vocabulary entries separate from the larger dictionary), but now when it comes to that entry in my queue skritter bugs out and the page has to be reloaded.

Is there a way to scrub these orphaned vocab terms from the queue so I don't have to continually reload skritter, or make them skippable (when I try to skip there is a very tiny message saying "new word" -- I assume that you're not allowed to skip words that haven't been added).

Seems like the best way for me to find workarounds is to make an angry forum post and then try again. After spamming the space bar I managed to skip the word. Unfortunately I also skipped some other practice (is there no way to go back?) -- and have no idea how many times you have to "skip" before you skip.

um on most words you have to hit space once to skip it, once again for the tone if it also is asking you to practice it.

You can definitely delete vocab from your custom lists, or at least edit/then republish if it is already public. I believe you can also delete words off of textbook lists and it will stop you from studying them until you add them again from that or another list.

Never heard of an orphaned vocab word though. I'm guessing one of the developers will at least be able to help you with that specific word within the next couple hours.

I had a similar problem once, just write a comment to the skritter team and they will probably fix it very soon.

To get around it for now, you can delete the word from your actively studied vocabulary by going to the list it came from, selecting the word and then click "remove from study" at the bottom of the page.

In case you added the word via the queue or you don't remember where it came from, it's a bit more complicated to get rid of it. But you can make a new custom list with just that one word, and then remove it from there.
If the word is still in the queue, you can go to vocab -> queue -> browse, click the word and hit the delete button.

Hope that helps,
Friederike

I see the problem with this one. It seems that our system for detecting unfinished words isn't firing for some new words that we're adding as parts of some new textbooks. The definition is in, but the pinyin isn't. We were using blank definitions as a flag for automatically skipping over these words, but these new words didn't trigger that.

When I get back in town tomorrow, I'll change it so that it automatically skips over those until we've added the pinyin for them. I've fixed the word you were on, too. Sorry about that!