Hi Anand. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I am blaming you. I'm absolutely not. I *am* however blaming your managers at the Internet Archive for being a poor steward of OpenLibrary.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21-Nov-2013, at 6:14 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > > > The search index not being updated is a known problem, but the Internet > Archive staff doesn't appear motivated to work on it. > > I think better to say OL is under staffed. I'm the only developer working > on OL right now and heavily over loaded. > Internet Archive, which owns OpenLibrary, employs dozens though, so it's merely a matter of priorities that OpenLibrary is being starved of resources. > > 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. > > Blaming is not going to help. > > Lets try to identify the big issues that needs to be fixed and see if you > can help in someway to solve it. > >From my point of view, there's nothing more important than honoring the contributions of volunteers by making sure that they're not wasted. By accepting people's edits and not making them visible in the system, we're effectively allowing them to waste their time. > I've tried to fix some of the issues of search engine, but some of the old > edits which didn't get into search engine are still missing. > I haven't seen any indication that the situation has improved at all in the last 6+ months. Perhaps it's an issue of caching rendered pages or something else in addition to or instead of the search index, but a) merged author records still show up in search and b) merged works do not show up under the merge target author record. Rather than half-baked "lending" schemes targeted at a handful of U.S. brick & mortar libraries, why don't we focus on data quality and community building as our top priorities? Tom p.s. I have a fix for the accented search that I'm ready to test, but it's much, MUCH lower priority than the basic search index updating because that affects everything on the site.
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