RE: Good News

[cheryl deaton <region15kids@hotmail.com>]

Bob,
I have just used the IrisWIKI for the first time in months and I was VERY
surprised at the speed and ease I encountered.  I used to avoid our own wiki
when looking up an iris due to the slowness, but now I will use it more and
more.  Great job!  I will definitely spread the word.
Cheryl

> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:56:35 -0400
> From: robertpries@embarqmail.com
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: [AISdiscuss] Good News
>
> I have lots of good news!! After months of anguishing and agonizing over
the
> impending move of the Iris Encyclopedia to a new server, it is done. Thanks
to
> Tim Valenzuela and Chris Lindsey the move was accomplished without ever
taking
> the wiki down but it was in read only mode for a couple of weeks. Now
> everything should be operational.
>
> Tim has proven to be very helpful and has made some suggestions that will
make
> the wiki even faster, even though its speed is already greatly improved. I
> asked Tim for a count of images on the Encyclopedia and discovered there
are
> over 200,000 now. Wow! Our wiki workers have been busy. But, he also noted
> that there were settings in place that were preventing Google web crawlers
and
> other search engines from recording our site and fixed that. Now more and
more
> searches for a particular Iris will find the Iris Encyclopedia. Look for
more
> and more people discovering AIS!
>
> With success, also comes, problems. Robots continue to place pages on the
> site. Because of the site structure users never see them. But it is
annoying
> to find them in administrative areas and we have been deleting them.
Presently
> there are, only a couple, to a handful, each day, but as usage grows so
will
> threats. To alleviate these we may have to delete all user names that do
not
> follow the new format of FirstnameLastname. These people which is probably
> less then 10%, will have to reregister.
> B  Now we can get back to work. Expect the wiki to continue to improve. I
am
> eager to hear your ideas. I went to Wikipedia and noted they have a
donation
> link on the left sidebar of their home page. I followed it to the donation
> landing page and really thought the way it is laid out is great. I would
like
> to do the same for the Encyclopedia. I would like your opinions.
>
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