ATTN: ALL VIPS, FRIENDS and STAFF

[Pipp]

- RO needs people (a lot of people) to comb through old threads and correct a spacing error that is causing our search engine to fail.

- I will be activating the 'allow editing' permission feature for all VIPs and RO Friends so that they will be able to edit all threads. We trust you to help with a forum 'issue'.

- Because of line space error when the forum moved in the summer of 2007, most of the files prior to that time have a problem with words that run together. This happens roughly with the same frequency as line breaks, so every 10 or 15 words or so, two words will run together without a space. The search engine works by recognizing and indexing individual words. It’s going nuts because it sees all these new 'words'

- We need as many volunteers as we can muster to edit as many files as possible and correct as many of these errors as possible.

- Anybody wanting to help will be transferred into the Task Force and allowed editing privileges. This is probably a two to four week assignment.



NOTES:

- We will be initially concerned with the Infirmary, Nutrition, Behavior and Housing, and other files in the Bunny Business areas like then Rabbitry and Rescue Me. We will also need Ins And Outs with Introductions, the Rainbow Bridge and Chat About The Forum.

- People can be assigned to search for certain key posters (PamNock, Buck Jones, Carolyn, AngieLuv, Naturestee, etc), and/or specific threads or topics, those most likely to be included in the Library.

- Only the linebreak spacing error creating words that run together should be corrected, and not any other typos or errors.

EXAMPLE:

angieluv wrote:

Hi...I'm the "rabbit lady" who volunteers withLissa in La Crosse. I'm glad that she showed everyone a couple of thedarling rabbits that we have at the humane society in La Crosse. Unfortunately, they almost never get adopted!. We are desperatelyasking everyone who has room for another rabbit to consider ourbunnies. The humane society is really strict so only really good petowners can adopt; all bunny lovers cansee two on petfinder and alsoposted by Lissa yesterday. We are getting a 5 month old Holland loptoday. I haven't seen him yet but he is from a breeder, supposedlygorgeous yet another throw-away bunny. Please help these helplesslittle guys Prince, Buck, Spunky and our new little bunnies.

I've marked all the run-together words in red. (If you use Firefox as a browser, it underlines them in red so they're easier to see).

All we need if for volunteers to put the space back between the words.

There are hundreds of thousands of them unfortunately, so we can't do them all, but we can try for as many as possible.

There will be some semblance of an organized effort, but really, if everybody just corrects what they see in the priority threads (RO, Infirmary, Nutrition, etc), as well as correcting their own Blogs, etc, it will really help!

:thanks:

 

[Pet_Bunny]

:coolness: When do we start? Too bad we couldn't replace the pictures that are missing.

 

[Pipp]

Allriiiight!! If this works, you guys SHOULD be able to edit all threads.

(Does it?) :biggrin2:

And Stan, great suggestion re: photos. We should try a campaign to get them replaced!

Everybody can make notes when they see dead photos and links and/or even PM the poster and ask.



:bunnydance:

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Pipp wrote:

Allriiiight!! If this works, you guys SHOULD be able to edit all threads.
(Does it?) :biggrin2:

OK, been editing some of my old threads. Does it matter if I use the EDIT button or the EDIT SOURCE button? What is the difference?

 

[paul2641]

I've started editing pamnocks threads, I've already gone through 3 threads starting from the oldest ones. I will finish all her threads over the next few days.

 

[tonyshuman]

I can do a bit if I'm given an assignment.

 

[Hazel-Mom]

Me too. How do we find the older threads? Or do we just search by subject etc?

 

[bransworld]

This is going to take for ever. I just went to the infirmary category and started on one of the back pages and will work forward. Just watch to make sure someone else hasn't already edited the message you choose.

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Actually Brandon, I was working backwards from the end of The infirmary. I skipped the two long posts at the end...
Perhaps if you would start on page 50, and move backward from there, we wouldn't be overlapping eachother's work.

 

[Mrs. PBJ]

I am working on the to real long post at the end of the infermary.

After those two cause I have already started where would be a good place for me to go.
Cause I was going to go back ward in the infermary.

I am doing 65 to 50 at this point maty take the rest of the day to finish just because my add kicks in after a while and my chi is not happy about not getting attition.
And storm is thumping to LOL.

anyway just so where on the same page

 

[NorthernAutumn]

If you would start on page 65 of the infirmary and work towards page 50, Mrs. PBJ, I'm sure that would help

 

[Elf Mommy]

I'm doing bunny blogs

ETA: not very important to edit, but I'm busy with other stuff, so I thought I would do a less-important thread.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

I'm doing all the topics that I started.

*Hint- If there isa post with many errors, I use Spell-Check to correct them.

Spell-Check shows all the errors so I don't have to read the post.:biggrin2:

Then I Include the 'edited by' line so I know I've been through that post.

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Thanks for the spell-check tip, Stan

I haven't been putting the "edited by" line on the posts, as I think it may to lead to confusion or suspicion of posts being somehow "manipulated" in the future... might make some folks uncomfy to think that I may have edited them.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Hmm, I think the 'edited by' automatically posts on the threads that I have been on.

I noticed my 'edited by' writes over the person's edit too.

 

[bransworld]

I think the edited by line should be there. It is confusing to open threads thinking they need edited to find they have no errors.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

bransworld wrote:

I think the edited by line should be there.

Yes, because this is an unique situation, and people will understand what was done.

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

Actually Brandon, I was working backwards from the end of The infirmary. I skipped the two long posts at the end...
Perhaps if you would start on page 50, and move backward from there, we wouldn't be overlapping eachother's work.

Thats to funny. I was also working on that last night then when and a bit in the morning. Then When I came home from work the rest of the tread was done. LOL

 

[paul2641]

Will I continue to edit all of pamnocks threads or will I start editing the infirmary threads?

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

ok i tried going in a bunch of topics and posts and i am not seeing any running together? I checked certain peoples posts and different sections and i am not finding a nything, is it just me? lol