RE: Good News

["Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>]

I tried using it looking up Japanese and Louisiana irises.
Most of the names listed had an error.  Or is it there just
are not photos?????

I agree with Cheryl it is much faster.

Janet

---- Original Message ----
From: region15kids@hotmail.com
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Good News
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:24:36 -0700

>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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