Re: Good News

["Robert Pries " <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

Whenever a page has no photos there is always a message saying there is an error. The program thinks the picture is missing and that is the error. It may never be possible to get an image for everything, but it is amazing how many are emerging. It seems every month or so I get messages from relatives of hybridizers that offer some help. It seems sort of like a snowball rolling downhill. As we gather more images more seem to come out of nowhere. I believe we are still only seeing the top of the iceburg. It must be summer with all these cold allusions!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:10:03 PM
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Good News

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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