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Katja Schulz added "Benthonic invertebrates" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Terrestrial invertebrates" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Pituophis catenifer sayi (Schlegel, 1837)" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Coluber" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Elaphe alleghaniensis (Holbrook, 1836)" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Parachela" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Parachela" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Carteria Guex et al. 2005" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Carteria Diesing, 1866" to the collection "Taxon Concept Management Tasks Completed".
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Katja Schulz added "Eggs of Loligo vulgaris" to the collection "Katja's Favorite Things".
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Patrick Leary commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Barb Banbury: Hi Barb. The highest published page ID (today) is http://eol.org/pages/36680799/overview . I'm curious though how you intend to use this. As Nathan point out IDs are not meant to be used directly, and there are a tremendous number of redirect pages (most of which are never actually published before they are turned into redirects). Nathan suggested an API to return random pages which seems like a reasonable API method. But I'm not sure how reasonable an API to return the highest ID would be since it seems completely arbitrary. Perhaps you have some end goal which might be better approached with a different set of API methods that aren't so dependent on arbitrary page IDs?
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Nathan Wilson commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
To be clear, there are expected to be a lot of redirects and there are some missing pages (mostly in the lower numbers). Currently the highest number I could find is 36680949. This means that only 1 in 27 ID numbers are not redirects or missing pages. My understanding is that this is because the data harvesting process creates a page whenever it sees a name that is in anyway different from anything it has seen in the past. There is then a process that figures out whether new names are most likely the same as some existing page. If it is then, it is turned into a redirect. However, the original number is maintained since there may have been an error in that process. In general it is not a great idea to deal directly with the ID numbers. However, there are circumstances where you pretty much have to. It would be helpful to know why you need the largest page number. For example, I needed it at one point since I wanted to create a list of truly random pages so I could test somethings about EOL. It would have served my purpose better if there was an API call to ask for a random set of pages.
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Barb Banbury commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: Thanks Cyndi, I will add it to the API suggestion page. I could use the largest page that doesn't redirect, but I could also just use the largest EOL taxon ID (which might save me searching by being able to ignore the page numbers and all the redirections). Either way, I just want to make sure that I have full taxonomic coverage for all the EOL pages.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Barb Banbury: I guess the question is what is the largest page number that doesn't redirect to a valid taxon concept page? Might be a good suggestion to add to the API Improvement thread here: http://eol.org/forums/2 .
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Jennifer Hammock set "File:Macropinna microstoma MBARI.jpg" as an exemplar on "Actinopterygii".
