Good morning, Chris…one of the Gaelic common names?
Yes, here Species Dictionary | Natural History Museum
In both cases the first a should be a-grave. It looks like an issue with treating ISO-8859/1 text as UTF-8 text, or vice versa.
Can’t get the à to go into the database from the command line so I’ve changed the dictionary entries and this particular observation to be Bairneach and Bairnich.
So are we on to a winner if the Curator gives the go ahead for a team effort to list some of the bad ones?
And do you not think it reasonable to stick to the English version of Common names?
Wait for the dictionary update or at least the attempt at dictionary update, Chris was hoping to do it last week but now need to wait for some issues to do with NBN/GBIF but hopefully once those are resolved and NBN sends us the key files we will attempt update on the test server for some people to look at. To see if it has fixed some of the issues you have been finding.
yep, that’s good. Thanks
The first ID of Sphaeridium has fungi icons yet the links are for the beetle.
Icon Awards are working - thanks https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/858521/redwing
The ID trail is OK, John’s icons are right in the fungi ID
But it’s worse than you think. Look here Sphaeridium | Species Dictionary | UK and Ireland | iSpot Nature
The Dictionary update is due but will it correct the Browser and HOW are we going to remember to check?
Someone should respond to my offer to form an Alphabetical Project but I am not going to do it before the Update nor unless a small team of ‘dictionary detectives’ is formed. I am happy not to do it at all.
@miked @Chris_Valentine
I think it is to do with the dead ends in the overall taxonomy we hope the update has sorted quite a few of these, still waiting on NBN/GBIF issues before we can get the update.
I will add them here: we should ALL add them here, as we find them https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/858597/
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/858579/
The first ID of Sub-family NOT supported in the Browser, yet is in the dictionary
Some existing Observations are in the subfamily but are not seen as ‘children’
There is a problem with Araneae - this one links to three Other Observations, see: https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/858645/small-spider-in-hedge
whereas this Araneae links to lots of Other Observations, see: https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/856962/spider-a
TRI-NOMINAL NAMES
An old problem that will not go away with a Dictionary Update
If we type Common Ivy into the Common name we will surely get the Tri-nominal Sc. one. No problem unless you want to join ALL 520 Ivy Observations not just the 49.
Oh, and by the way, there is a sub-genus that will not go away either - though there are no Observations.
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/673543/
This applies to perhaps a few hundred organisms in iSpot and the problem (if it IS a problem) won’t be solved with a Dictionary Update
Here’s another https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/853892/
Of the 596 Fly agarics 467 are tri-nominal - for an obvious reason
A solution (if it needs a solution) is to search iSpot before adding ANY ID. I do, always (and still get it wrong)
There is a problem with Polydesmus - 2 options in the dictionary - the first is a fungus, second is what I wanted for flat backed millipede - no way of telling until you’ve
made the error like I did. The fungi option linked to several other millipede obs where the poster had made the same error. Thanks to chrisbrooks for pointing it out.
thanks - I came to add it.
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Neoascia (hoverfly)
two entries in the drop-down one is to Sub-genus
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/858848/
Yes, remember this one from a couple of years ago. Have had a quick scoot through obs of Polydesmus the fungus and added invert IDs. Hope I got that right.
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Will ask Curator to consider deleting a couple of obs which include these and which are multiple species obs by contributor who joined in 2013 and has not been active since that year.
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https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/9802/flat-backed-millipede#new Is this one of the items you were looking at?