The search index not being updated is a known problem, but the Internet Archive staff doesn't appear motivated to work on it.
Ditto not being able to search for names which differ in only accents or other minor differences. One trick you can use to get around the latter problem is to search for a book title (e.g. Far Rainbow) and then click the merge authors button on the right hand side. That will give you authors with all kinds of different spellings (but only for that single title search). Sorry you're wasting so much time on this. It's sad that the Internet Archive doesn't respect volunteers' time enough to provide a minimally functional system. Tom On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Sarah Breau <smbr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Well this is really bad. Today I tried to work on the Strugatsky brothers, > who are entered in the database with dozens of different spellings. Even if > I go into each author record and make all the spellings the same, I can't > do an author search that will catch all the author records. Therefore, I > can't merge all the variations into one. I give up. Good luck to anyone who > wants more information on these writers. :-( > > Sarah > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >
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