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Instead, users could submit such descriptions through COAzilla, which means that manual approval is required before they're put in the database.

I won't bring any changes right now, so I'll be happy to hear about other people's opinion on this.
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In practice, this means the browser will warn you about a possibly insecure self-signed certificate. You have to accept that certificate to log in. We can not avoid this annoyance for now, except by purchasing a certificate from an official CA authority.

In the meantime, please tell us if you have any problem to log in, or if you happen to get any other error.]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:33 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1282248283 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1282248283 ]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:04:43 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280822224 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280822224
We actually hope there will be no problems at all, but in case you stumble into one, remember it's probabily only because we're working on it. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience!

We are working for you!]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:57:04 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280349605 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280349605
Check this page (linked from your collection's statistics page)

Just don't do that too often as it risks slowing down the server, if many users do it at the same time.]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:40:05 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280242598 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280242598
Scans management (you need to be logged in)

There is a brief explanation on that page which I'll copy here, but please ask if this is unclear!

This page allows you to check if all the scans you uploaded are correctly linked with Inducks, and hence appear on the webpages. Scans are never removed, but they may disappear from the webpages when the code of an item is changed by an administrator without the scan being renamed. Since renaming is a complicate process, administrators sometimes reupload the scan, leaving a copy of the original on the server. We call orphaned scans any image that is not linked with an Inducks entry. You may want to check if a copy is shown on the webpage or if they really need to be reuploaded. You may contact an administrator on COAzilla, or to ease this process, reupload them yourself and mark orphaned scans as checked. Thanks!]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:56:38 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280221653 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1280221653 This may last the whole day, making the server slightly slower.

Additionally, who voted what is not public anymore. The list of a users' own story ratings is available here.
]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:07:33 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1279385147 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1279385147 COAzilla, our error reporting tool:

• Write your text in English. Use a different language only if you can predict who will read and solve your message.
• Only write a message if you are certain about the information. If it is about writers or artists, or anything not obvious, also write the source of your information.
• If you want to write a lot of messages, please send an e-mail to us first. There are more efficient ways of entering lots of data into Inducks than using this webpage.
• For the same reason, don't report incomplete information when this information is obvious to add (typically list of appearances for covers for which a scan is shown).
• Don't report non-mandatory information like most appearance comments (e.g. "silhouette" or "cameo") or one-shot appearances. They're currently too much work to handle.
• Check the actual comics whenever possible. If you only rely on scans or present Inducks data to report an error, say so.
• Send less error reports, but write them more carefully. Plain English sentences help avoid misunderstandings.
• Be patient. Your message might be solved within 5 minutes, but it also might take 5 months. It all depends on the time we have (and we're all volunteers!)
• Don't ask questions here like "who knows the artist of this story?" Most likely we cannot answer them anyway. Questions are for a discussion board, but not for COAzilla.
• The only response you may get is a simple message saying "solved". Don't be offended by that: we get hundreds of messages per week so we want to spend most of our time actually fixing the errors.
• Below are some examples of good vs. bad error reports
  

  Bad	Good
  Pete doesn't appear	Pete does not appear; the dog-faced crook on page 16 is not Pete.
  The French name of Pete is Jean Bambois	In issue #1234 of French Journal de Mickey, story YM 050, Pete is named Jean Bambois. Please add this name among other French names for Pete.
  The artist of this cover is Massimo De Vita	In an interview published in Italy in Maestri Disney 12, Massimo De Vita said he drew this cover.
  The description is wrong	The English description does not match with the scan so one of these has to be wrong.

• Avoid writing duplicate reports. Reporting the same problem more than
  once benefits no one and only leads to more work for Inducks
  maintainers
  

Thank you in advance for your contributions!
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I can not give you any technical detail yet as I do not own the domain name outducks.org, but in the meantime, the images are available again on COA thanks to a temporary domain name.

For those using the DCF forum, it is also reachable temporarily at the address: http://dcf.inducks.org.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:21:26 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1266688347 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1266688347 dk.inducks.org there is now a small website, where we try to answer a few of the most frequently asked questions about Inducks.

You can also find a few attempts to explain how to index without using COA's online indexing facility.]]> Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:52:27 +0100 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1243096749 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1243096749 th Mostra Mercato del Fumetto, the comic-book fair in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and yesterday in Rapallo, Giorgio Pezzin & Giulio Chierchini received the Papersera Prize. Congratulations to both of them for a very much deserved prize!

Photos and all the details will soon be available at the Papersera website. Check it out!
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1) To avoid selecting by hands hundreds of checkboxes, add an alternative text field interface for selecting issues you own, such as "1-123,501-999" (ranges delimited by commas or annother character). This should be a big improvement, and it will eventually be done.

2) Let people selecting issues they're looking for, and double copies (or issues they may give away/exchange). That way you would be able to who's offering issues you're interested in. Although this could be useful, maybe, I'm not sure we want to be involved in anything that might be commercial. And maybe auction websites are already sufficient ? I'd be interested to have feedbacks on this !

One final thing: an alternative collection managment tool (no connection with Inducks) for French speaking users was recently created. It allows importing one's collection from Inducks, giving the username/password. I've asked the person in charge to ask users to copy/paste from this page instead (it is made for that!) and I suggest not using it for now, as there's no reason to give your COA password to another website. But on the principle, you're of course free to use anny external tool you wish with your data.
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Update
The new server has arrived. I plan to make COA-read only tomorrow March 18 March 22 at 20:00 (8 PM) western European time [fr/dk/it]. You shouldn't be able to upload anything after this date (scan, description etc.).

If things work correctly, everything should be up and running one day
after (or a a few more days at worse). But you should at least be able to browse through the website.

Update (2009/03/31)
The new server is up and running.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:41:57 +0100 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1231609871 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1231609871

I have restarted the tools that periodically compute statistics on comic-book collections (by creators, productions, years). I'm now using a different approach: instead of computing the statistics for every user every month (10 million entries to compute, which was infeasible), the tool regenerates statistics for a few of them (10) each night, choosen among those who updated their collection since the last statistics were generated. The idea is that statistics don't need to be regenerated for people who haven't updated their collection anyway.*
First, I'll try to recompute the statistics for all users - which will take a few days - and then let the tool update them when needed. For now, 400 people have seen their stats updated.

At this page you can check if your stats were updated:
List of story in your collection and statistics last generated on Saturday, Jan 10, 2009, 06:18:37 PM
If you see a "?" however, that means you're not among the ones that the tool picked:
List of story in your collection and statistics last generated on ?

But anyone should have its stats updated, eventually.

Finally, you'll see links to all users' virtual collections, and stats (for those who made this information public) at:
http://coa.inducks.org/podium.php

(*) With a minor exception: sometimes data changes in Inducks, which means your statistics may become less exact. Maybe one day, this will also be fixed...
]]> Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:51:11 +0100 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1218145102 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1218145102 July 2005 December 2003 (thanks to Einar Myre for data regarding early dates).





If you wonder what the number of "publications" given on the main page (around 100,000) means, this is the total number of issues, which includes non-indexed or not completely indexed comics.
]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:38:22 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1215627961 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1215627961
Both features were eating all the CPU during the last generation (May 5), so I had to manually stop it, which is why the statistics are incomplete. I then temporarily disabled it, as we can not run this thing at the expense of the whole website.

I'll have to think of a completely new way of doing this (by spreading the load over several days, not using MySQL or any other technical solution). I probably won't have much time to look at this very soon though.]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:26:01 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1208894059 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1208894059
It took me a lot of time to restore the data and restart all services. Now hopefully our troubles are over

PS: as a small drawback of the restore procedure, no "book" tag () is shown near stories that are in your collection. The book tag however is shown near comic issues. The former should reappear at the next generation (May 5).]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:54:19 +0200 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1205707143 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1205707143 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:39:03 +0100 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1195902909 http://coa.inducks.org/news.php?showc=1195902909 like this.

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