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Wolfgang Lorenz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Thanks! Yes, now I see Valter Jacinto's "Dulicated EOL pages" is pretty much what I had in mind, - and maybe Creba also had the same in mind: point to taxon pages that are duplicated because EOL was unaware of the synonymy. As for the phrase "invalid synonym", I agree it needs to be used with caution. Unless a name is invalid because of nomenclatural reasons - it often depends on a taxonomists subjective judgement what is seen as "invalid". In some cases, it might make sense to accept duplicated EOL pages because of alternative names in current usage (e.g., in tiger beetles), but then such pages should be cross-linked so that the user gets all informations. Wolfgang
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Hi Wolfgang, I think it would be great to have a community collection for EOL taxa (pages) that are likely to refer to the same group of organisms and should therefore be merged. In addition to Creba's Pages on eol of probable non preferred Synonyms, there's also Valter Jacinto's Duplicated EOL pages. We could ask either of them to create a community for their collection, or you could create a new community and then copy the taxa they have found into the focus collection. Creba is a member of this group, so s/he should be aware of this discussion. I just invited Valter to become a member of the discussion group, and I will also post a comment on his collection.
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Brian Maltzan commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Wolfgang, some EOL members are creating collections of these and it is really helpful until we have a better way to do this. See http://eol.org/collections/6395
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C. Michael Hogan commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Wolfgang, your point is an important one. Please clarify your use of the phrase "invalid synonym". If you mean a synonym not universally accepted, i suggest an even better solution to the issue is what many data base managers call the "redirect function", i e a proxy page that redirects one to the preferred name when a user enters any synonym. i thought we already have such a function on the platform, in fact. If that is the case we merely need to add all the (synonym) examples one finds that are not yet in our redirect data base. And in that case, your idea of a collection to assemble these orphan synonyms is not a bad idea. cheers.
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Wolfgang Lorenz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Good morning EOL-team, what do you think about the following: I'd like to create a community & collection that will collect double EOL-pages because of unretrieved synonyms. Ideally, EOL should be able to retrieve a species page even when you enter an invalid synonym in the search form. This does not yet work perfectly because, in some cases, different classifications used by EOL have the same species listed under different names without providing complete lists of synonyms (including secondary genus&epithet combinations!). In such situations, EOL is likely to have created more than one page for the same species and users are left alone with that disorder. Example: There are two EOL pages without cross-links for the beetle Anchomenus dorsalis: http://eol.org/pages/2869121 and http://eol.org/pages/3466129 Best regards, Wolfgang
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C. Michael Hogan commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
When the live feed displays that someone comments on a species, the tease line should state what article was commented on. e.g. distribution, habitat....otherwise the comment makes no contextual sense.
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C. Michael Hogan commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Thanks, Jen, for the update on the "Curator display bug". Just to amplify, it is important to display that curator information on each of the species pages (e.g. article pages, image pages), not just the main landing page. cheers.
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Jennifer Hammock commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Hi, Michael! Regarding the "page not curated" issue, Jeremy from Informatics reports that the information is definitely safe in our database; the bug just prevents it from showing on the page. They're working on it and send their apologies.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
We do keep track of hits for monthly reports for partners, so you could go to any partner page that has the pages you are interested in to see if they are in the top results. The number of hits will be the same no matter which partner you look at. For example you can find monthly AntWeb stats here: http://eol.org/content_partners/6/statistics
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Eli Sarnat asked: "Is there any way users/curators can determine which EOL taxa get the most hits or queries? If so, is it possible to filter those results? For example, if I wanted to know which ant taxon pages (Formicidae) have received the most hits?"
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Katja Schulz removed "NHM staff" from the collection "The discussion collection".
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Katja Schulz removed "NMNH people on EOL" from the collection "The discussion collection".
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Cyndy Parr added "Floyd Shockley" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
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Cyndy Parr added "Carlos Garcia-Robledo" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
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Cyndy Parr added "Richard Wilkerson" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
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Cyndy Parr added "Charles Staines" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
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Cyndy Parr added "Ingrid Romero" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
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Cyndy Parr added "Mary Rice" to the collection "NMNH people on EOL".
