On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19:17, Alexander Dante wrote:
> --- In whoconcord@..., Stephen Gray <Bouncelot@f...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 18:26, Alexander Dante wrote:
> > > We have a fair number of members who have joined but as yet not
> > > introduced themselves or said how they might like to contribute - it
> > > would also be good to know how the whoniverse database is going - I
> > > registered but don't know if there have been any/many entries yet (my
> > > own contributions will probably be end up being dropped in en bloc).
> >
> > I was still working on coding when my phone line went kaput, I'm
>
> currently
>
> > trying to sort out getting broadband back up, so debugging the code is
> > possible in a vaguely realistic timeframe - but BT and my ISP are both
> > mucking me about at the moment.
>
> Well, let's face it, while the whoniverse site gives a project like
> this an opportunity for some early wins, it's surely got to be viewed
> as a long term project, and we've really only just started to get the
> ball rolling.
>
> AD

A couple of those early wins - I just got 2 volunteers (Naik Clarke and Lee
Gannon) who, AFAIK, haven't anything to do with this group. One wants to
primarily do characters, and the other to put something back into fandom. I'm
gonna let them pick a couple of stories to catalogue, and encourage them to
test my coding so far. I've got the entry, update, and query code finished
(though it's possible I've left a bug - particularly in the less well-tested
update code). I'm working on coding to reorder a character's timeline, and
then I'll write the code to automatically send a digest over here (though
I'll probably test it by sending it to me, rather than over here).

Oh, and I gave Alex admin privileges over there, not that I expect you to do
any admin stuff, but more because, as the guy behind whoconcord, you deserve
to have those privileges. Basically, it means that you can assign people
stories to catalogue (though I have to work on the interface there, and my
list is currently missing comic/annual stories, and probably a lot of other
stories that are slightly obscure), activate and ban members of the project
(or promote them to admin), and send the digest over here (when I've written
that bit of code, at the moment there's a button on the admin page that does
nothing).

Also now that the new series has finished, I can probably devote more of my
Who time to this project, especially if I can get my broadband back (my phone
line was disconnected without warning, BT didn't charge me to reconnect, but
my ISP say that BT are charging them to reconnect my broadband, and BT deny
all knowledge. It's very frustrating, and is delaying the return of my
broadband, which would make this so much easier).

Steve