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Leo Shapiro added "Ocimum tenuiflorum L." to the collection "RedHotList Pending".
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Corvi Zeman commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Katja Schulz: Thank you, I will add шилийн савгадай to Dipus sagitta. There's no way to add "Dipus halli" or send people to Dipus sagitta if they search for Dipus halli, correct?
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Corvi Zeman: Thanks for adding all those Mongolian names. This is really valuable. Wilson & Reeder, the standard reference for mammals, have only one species, Dipus sagitta, for this genus. They list D. halli as a synonym.
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Corvi Zeman commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Please excuse me if this is the wrong place for this question. I have been adding Mongolian-language common names to EOL species. A Mongolian-language source gives the scientific name of шилийн савгадай ("rock-crest jerboa") as Dipus halli (source: Sowerby 1920). Dipus halli does not seem to be in EOL. I found a "Dipus sagitta halli" in some other online sources, but it is also not listed in EOL. Am I overlooking something?
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: The Wikimedia import sometimes fails in mysterious ways. It could be that {{PD-self}} is not on our license whitelist. I'll file a ticket to check for this.
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Yan Wong commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
I can't quite see why this image: from the commons gallery http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trichechus_inunguis isn't being harvested (the other two pictures in the gallery have been). It seems to be tagged with {{PD-self}}, which should be enough, I would have thought
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Dana Campbell added "Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780])" to the collection "RedHotList 2013".
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Dana Campbell added "Hypericum perforatum L." to the collection "RedHotList 2013".
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Marie Studer commented on "EOL Learning and Education Community":
@Diana Mathieson: Hi Diana! Welcome to EOL and the Learning + Education Community. We're delighted to see you here. Please check out the EOL Discover pages (http://eol.org/discover) for some tools and resources that might be helpful for you.
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Diana Mathieson joined the community "EOL Learning and Education Community".
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: Patrick has been away but now he's back and might want to talk about this -- perhaps move discussion to http://eol.org/forums?
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Yan Wong commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: Thanks. I've had a look at the codebase on github - I guess I could probably figure out a patch, but best left to people who really know how the system works (seems like Patrick Leary from looking at the code :). Shout if you want me to have a go.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: Thanks for explaining that the rotation is saved in the EXIF metadata. As Katja says, we'll put in the request. I'm a bit more hopeful -- this doesn't seem like it would be too hard to address.
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Vicente Zumel García added the Spanish common name "Pardal" to "Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)".
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Yan Wong commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Katja Schulz: Yes, of course. I can see this is quite low priority. Lots of other important stuff to do. Good luck!
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add it to our list of feature request, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for this to get addressed anytime soon. There are too many more urgent requests in the pipeline.
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Yan Wong commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Katja Schulz: Thanks. I've just checked and the original images were rotated correctly, but the rotation was done by setting the EXIF rotation metadata (see e.g. http://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orientation-handling-is-a-ghetto/). This metadata seems to be stripped out by EoL, not by Flickr. You can check because the original image on Flickr contains the correct rotation information (download if from http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/8812291168_ce56ecf228_o.jpg and have a look). I can re-upload my images on Flickr so that they are rotated without using the EXIF rotation hints, but I guess other people might get bitten by this too, as many cameras seem to use this way of rotating pictures. Maybe it should be on the (long) to-do list to get the image import routines in EoL to save a fully rotated image (as specified in the metadata) as the local EoL copy?
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Katja Schulz commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Yan Wong: The original images you uploaded were probably incorrectly rotated, and they got auto-rotated by Flickr. However, we download the originals from Flickr, so we get the incorrectly rotated ones. Unfortunately we don't have a solution for this problem right now, so we have to ask our contributors to upload correctly rotated images to Flickr.
