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Ohhh, Shiny! Thank you Jools :).

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Barbie wrote:Ohhh, Shiny! Thank you Jools :).

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Not nearly done yet, but working on it! :-)

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Time passes...

The forum is upgraded to phpbb3.2, the look and feel is a little bit more up-to-date.

@Bullfishkeeping reports that the Cat-eLog search isn't working for searches in inches. I recently pulled several mm to inch calculations into one place and reckon that this has caused the issue, so, as I have 30 mins this morning, I go look.

I find that there is a layout issue with an extra bar above the "The database can be accessed" text and also I don't like the "Species search" text as it isn't styled correctly and is too large. I fix the layout, but run out of time to check the search...
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Well, that wasn't too hard. In the end, it was because I was using the wrong conversion function. So, searching the cat-elog using inches as one of the parameters now works.

Trying to ID this doradid, I stumble across the fact the two species of are not in the cat-elog, fortunately, I have a paper with pictures in it I have permission to use, so edit them out and add them into the site.

Reviewing what else is going on around the site, I note @Silurus has added a load of new images of "proper" catfishes from Asia - mostly from the catfish family . Great stuff!

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Re-reading this thread reminds me what a great job you do Jools, and what a fantastic resource PC is, that we often take for granted!

I know a few people who need to read this, when they wonder why their favourite fishies haven't been moved or renamed etc! :-\
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Thanks Mark, yes, when fishes get renamed it pleases some and irritates others. Keeping up-to-date is a challenge and we've been burned a few times in the past by adopting new names too quickly. There are quite a few loricariids that are in the queue...

This morning, I've added some nice pictures of a good Scottish name ( :)) ) and a welcome contribution by @Kamas88.

I then got bogged down in some database admin / optimisation stuff which burned nearly two hours, it will have no visible impact beyond things won't slow down (because of it).

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This morning I posted a long overdue video of sent in by long-time Planet contributor @shovelnose. He has also written a CotM, which is now online. I took the (perhaps odd) decision to post this for April 2017. This is odd as I have not posted a CotM since August 2015! I need to get writing...

The thought of writing 19 odd CotM articles does fill me with dread! If I do two a month, it will take me about 10 months to catch-up. However, I can at least do that by publishing them in the past.

Also looked at two re-validated that @LFinley58 brought to my attention / posted in Science News.

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Hi Jools, you're awesome you know that :d Doing a great job! And I do very much admire your determination to get things done, even when there is little or no feedback for your work.
If only I could split myself into at least two other me's than I could do more to help out.. I promise you now, I will write an article for the COTM too. So that will leave only 9,5 months to catch up then \:d/ It's the little things that count right :d

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That's kind Jac, thank you and it means a lot coming from you (official international speaker !). I see the stats, I can see how many unknown humans use the site every day, every hour. That is is free and good quality information that is served up (for nearly 20 years now) means a lot to me. I have sat down to write about Panaqolus tankei this morning, first time I've woken up to write at the weekend in a very long time. It feels good and the coffee is strong!

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Good morning all. This morning, following some time off for Easter, I decided first to tackle a bug @Dave Rinaldo reported. Got it fixed - quite an obscure one which is noted in that post. I spent a few moments still pondering the fact I am not any good at telling several Pims apart when they are young (, and ) but remain, therefore undefinsibly, unsure of some pics of . Realising I'm about to burn two hours reading up on them, I press on with something else...

I add pictures of the two species of Brazilian recently re-validated. It took a while to touch up the photos as published - they're a bit 1947 - but as I have always said, one mediocre picture is better than nothing. This means I am nearly caught up on email to three weeks ago!

Next in my email inbox is something from long time Planet friend Johnny Jensen (@jjphoto) has been visiting Ingo Seidel in Germany, lots of pics to work on. I quickly add one which was lying around from a prior visit to Pier Aquatics and then get sidetracked by some other images. Most were taken by Dave Snell at the fish US catcon over 10 years ago! Time to add them, however they are mostly cichlids and killifishes; so they will appear on AR.

Checking them out, I notice the layout of AR is off. Doh! 30 minutes fixing the CSS and it's all back to how it should be and the pics look good.

Meanwhile @Jac has sent over a CotM article. Great! I was thinking over the weekend that I might write a series of articles about fishes that I encountered in the Rio Xingu trip of a year and a half ago. That might bring in 3 or 4 new entries and aid with the catch-up. @Shovelnose too has promised more (brown fish are cool).
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@Jac 's CotM is online here!

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☺ for both of you.

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Thank you Jools :-BD

I will get back to you this week about the email ;-)
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Thanks!

Today I edited and added a bunch of photos and videos, most of which taken at the mighty Pier Aquatics in Wigan. Thanks, as always, to @sojapat for making an amazing number of fishes available to us all.

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Last week was a washout. The culmination of months of work (actually, two years, on and off) to deliver the Scottish local government elections resulted in a great success, but lots of time involved. Saturday I spent in a warehouse unloading returning trucks with the team, Sunday I spent out in the garden in glorious sunshine.

So, I just didn't get past last week - I learned about it's re-validation and split it out into its own new species entry. Thanks to @Bekateen for adding some data and pics last week too. This morning I'm working through some emails to catch-up.

One thing I did do last week was re-factor one of the background scripts that @MatsP wrote to check our database against CoF. Originally, this was designed to monitor sub-families but it does a few other things too.

First thing it found were several genera with no species. So, I've removed them.

-01- Genus Ailiichthys(genus id=472) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Archpolites(genus id=1096) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Coreobagrus(genus id=1073) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Etsaputu(genus id=748) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Euchiloglanis(genus id=322) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Eutropiichthys(genus id=41) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Hara(genus id=51) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Hito(genus id=354) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Hypoptopomatinae(genus id=158) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Liauchenoglanis(genus id=765) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Lipopterichthys(genus id=641) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Loraxichthys(genus id=804) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Nannoptopoma(genus id=315) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Neotropius(genus id=96) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Oligancistrus(genus id=83) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Pelteobagrus(genus id=476) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Platyglanis(genus id=372) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Pseudobagrus(genus id=402) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Pteropangasius(genus id=337) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Sandelia(genus id=635) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Somileptes(genus id=686) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Trichopodus(genus id=712) appears to have no members
-01- Genus Tylochromis(genus id=600) appears to have no members

, and were duplicates, only removed the extra one.

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I'm still not past ! Worked late last night, so being a bit tired I decided to add a new catfish picture to the top left "cartoons" that rotate every 15 mins. You may not have noticed but the so-called favicon changes too. These were old, old pictures that I made into small icons for the browser tab. With the advent of different ways of "favouriting" a website, I've always meant to modernise these.

The existing favicons were also just nice pics of catfish I had used, so I replaced them with favicons of all the "cartoons" so branding is consistent. On safari you get nice silhouettes, one windows metro similar and lots of different sizes of icon are available for other things that people can do.

Many thanks to top artist @craft for the graphic used.

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Jools wrote: 10 May 2017, 07:23I'm still not past !
Ask and ye shall receive: New photos from a new member (thanks, Enzo :-) )



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Thanks Eric, this morning I fixed a bug on the front page and added a new pic for . Not a lot of time or progress, but a little! Tomorrow I plan to tackle - long overdue!

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Following on from the discussion here, I have began to move around.

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:-BD And another thank you for all your hard work. It is much appreciated.
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Thank you!

The last couple of weeks have been full on at work. I work at a group level and oversee five companies, one of them is not doing very well so I will step in to lead a recovery team for the next 10 months. I typically work on Planet in the early morning, but this new role means I've been travelling at that time. However, this week I only have a day trip to Manchester, so some progress has been made.

In the few hours I got to work on the site since last I posted in this thread and now, I've been working on the data submission and vetting pages. What used to happen is a authorised user would submit new data for a species, then, at the point I vetted it, the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of the type locality would be calculated.

This was done without any oversight, it just happened in the background and has led to a number of odd occurrences of species usually due to an incorrectly written set of co-ordinates in the source material. To address this, I've moved the calculation "up" a level so that it is done at the submission stage, furthermore, a map if available to me on the vetting page so I can readily "see" errors.

The mapping code is complex, needing a decent grasp of PHP, SQL and JavaScript, it's now working but I think will need a few things to be changed. Perhaps having a map on the data submission page would be a good idea.

I also think that, soon, I will replace the "click on the map icon" layout of the species pages and just show the map, or at least a small one, by default.

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While the co-ords fix is quite high on the "TODO" list that is my inbox, when a bug comes along that removes data, it goes right to the top of the list. How many of you are familiar with the "variants" function on the species page? The classic example is in the and in catfish terms the "species" with the most is . If variants exist, you get a dropdown box to the right of the species name.

What had happened was whenever an adm,in re-ordered or edited the images on a particular species, then all variant info for all those images was lost. Offski. Nuked. Gone. Forever.

The bug was introduced when we added some refactored a lot of the admin code. So, after about a weeks work (mostly testing and investigation), the issue is fixed and also I've tidied up that admin page and the admin function that moves or renames a species too.

You, dear end user, will not notice much difference unless some kind admin like @Bekateen or @MatsP actually goes back in and adds back the data. But, at least, we've stopped the rot.

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Thanks Jools. I had no idea the "variants" were even working with images yet. I've tried multiple times in past to associate existing photos of albino BN with the variant page, but nothing happened with I pressed the "Do It" button. Likewise for the black . Does your fix mean that now we can assign existing photos from a species CLOG page to a variant and the photos will move too? (Why am I asking... I'll just go give it a try with the C. schultzei. LOL)

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Okay, I tested it with melanized . I have a few observations and a question:
  1. The function now works - I moved a few photos of melanized C. schultzei into the "black" variant category and they now load with the variant page. YAY! \:d/ :-BD ^:)^
    AND
  2. If you (as a member or guest) visit the species CLOG page and select the variant, all the variant photos appear on the variant's sub-page (I'm not sure what else to call it... the variant-specific CLOG page?).
    BUT
  3. If you click on any one of the photos of the variant from the variant page, and then click the "Next Image" link, you are not transferred to the next photo of the specific variant; but rather, you are transferred to the next photo of the species as displayed on its home CLOG page (not the variant page), regardless of whether that next photo is of the same variant or of the wild-type or a different variant.
    AND
  4. When using the EDIT OR RE-ORDER PHOTOS link as an admin, the editing page has no institutional memory of which photos have previously been assigned to a particular variant. So for example, what if I move 4 schultzei photos to the black variant page and then realize that I missed another photo that should also get moved? If I go back to edit the photos and assign the missed picture to the variant, then I also have to re-assign all the other variant photos too, or else they will be "forgotten" and moved back to the main CLOG page for the species.
    FINALLY, a question:
  5. I didn't want to mess things up, so I did not attempt to assign any pictures labeled "DON'T REPLACE OR MOVE PLEASE!;" but I wondered if they can be safely assigned to a variant without screwing up or losing their association with articles in Shane's World or in COTM.
Sorry, Jools. X_X :YMHUG:

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It should be safe to assign variants to all pictures. The "do not move this image" relates to articles that link to the image - the image link is not changed by the variant information, it is just used to select which images to show when selecting a specific variant (and if you "don't set it") the image will just show up in "no variant selected" view [which is the default when you go to a species page].

Article links use the image number within the species, so something like /Ancistrus/cf_cirrhosus/3.jpg [this is not EXACTLY how it works, but sufficient for this discussion]. So say that this picture is showing the mouth of a regular brown Ancistrus, and I move it around, because I think picture three would be better showing a picture of the dorsal fin of an albino instead. Then the picture in the article will also now show the dorsal on an albino, which perhaps doesn't match the text about "in the picture we can see the scraping plates in the mouth that Ancistrus use to collect aufwuchs from rocks and stones".

The actual problem is that there isn't a good association between article images and the species pages they occur on - there's just a field saying "used in some article" in the database.

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Thanks for that explanation, Mats.

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It might not seem like it would take this much but after about 16 hours of work, I've got all the "free to view" Catfish Study Group back issues of the Journal online at the CSG site and also linked here in a Shane's World article. Link below:

https://www.planetcatfish.com/shaneswor ... p+Journals

That's a LOT of catfish info now online (https!), searchable (by google and internally) and preserved for as long as Planet or the CSG lasts. The time was taken extracting all articles and authors, getting them into chronologycal order and getting the front cover pics online. Been meaning to do this for three year. :-)

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Hi Jools,
Thanks for the large amount of work on this project! There is plenty of outstanding reading for all concerned and is a great plus for PC (and the CSG, no doubt, as some will want to get access to the issues that are not free for view. This is definitely a top of the line world class publication).
One observation (not a complaint): the first four issues displayed on PC (and the same ones on the CSG site) have a pop-up asking for a password. Just for interest I tried my PC password and it didn't work on any of the four.

Thanks again for the heavy shouldering of this project.
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Hi Lee,

Great spot! The last few journals (they are big files) had not uploaded cleanly (so the old password ones were still in effect) and indeed the last few indexed issues did not have the authors added. All done now so they should be fully up-to-date! I quite enjoy this sort of thing - just wish I had more time to do more.

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I've been pushing on with the wishlist and catfish spotter features of late but I thought I should quickly mention that the occurrence maps have now been updated to use the latest google maps API and they render in "terrain" mode now which I think is a little more useful for the fishkeeper.

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