Thanks all for your comments.
Chris - Thanks for your comments. I think you have raised some excellent
points, especially regarding the hard work done by those who currently
volunteer their time. As for me, I am not only voicing an opinion here, but
I am also putting up my hand to assist, and I welcome any moderator or owner
to contact me to see where I can help.
Just for clarification, if I could just quote myself from an earlier post:
*"I am not sure that a forum design is the way to go, but there are plenty
of models out there now that could be considered."*
At this point, I think I am guilty of taking this topic of on a tangent, and
so I will be removing myself from this topic. I will be posting a new topic
sometime in the next two weeks.
--
Luke
On 29 January 2010 07:13, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> Hi Luke
>
> As the author of the BOCA Birding Maps I thought I would add a comment
> here.
>
> It was always intended that registered users (not necessarily BOCA members)
> would be able to add to the maps and comment on the locations - as we all
> know birding sites change rapidy and I have been to many places that were
> recommended in a book or an old web site only to find them covered in houses
> now!
>
> The code to do this was written but a key issue for us was going to be
> moderation - as anyone who runs a website will tell you, as soon as you open
> it up to user comments you get a high %age of spam that needs to be filtered
> out.
>
> Before we could tackle that issue we decided that for various reasons -
> both technical and aesthetic - we needed to rewrite the basic website.
> Unfortunately the person chosen to do this did not achieve what we wanted,
> and so late last year I took over the development again and the new site (
> boca.org.au) was launched a few days ago (and to those who have had
> trouble reaching it - it does work but it takes time for all ISPs on the
> Internet to know about new sites). There are still some things running on
> our old shop - basically the difficult database stuff - but they will be
> moved to the new site as soon as I can (allowing for the odd birding trip!).
> Once we have the transition complete we have a number of plans to make the
> new site much more useful and dynamic, and improving the Birding Maps is
> high on the list. We do intend to open it up for user comments, but we will
> need regional moderators to do this and we will be looking both at our own
> branches and other respected birders to play a part in this role.
>
> The original system had links in to both Eremaea and BirdPedia so that you
> could look at what was being seen in those areas and we had an agreement to
> use Atlas data as well, although that part was never implemented.
>
> Suggestions always welcomed!
>
> Dave
>
> 2010/1/28 Luke Shelley <>
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>>
>> <>
>> I couldn't agree more, which is why a wiki system that can be updated
>> constantly by users would be a great way to go. The BOCA website has gone
>> some way to providing information on sites that can be accessed by a map.
>> It's a good start, but would benefit by being able to be updated regularly
>> and by users.
>>
>>
--
Luke
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