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Post Some strange facts on IMPDB
1) why when I click on the Movie List then on a letter (to quickly access a title in the bottom alphabetics), I'm lougout ?
Same thing when I'm clicking on P or T (or every other letter) on the [[Category:Aircraft List]].

2) I'm surprised to be unable to find Curtiss among the Manufacturer List as four sub-categories are ready (Curtis JN, P-36, P-40 and C-46) ?

3) Recent changes are usefull for redactors but displays too much information for a visitor ; why not list new pages like on IMCDB home page ?

4) I've found several pages with no pictures.
I myself encountered problem to upload some of them but I've eventually fix it in a few days.
My query is :
how to detect pages made months (or years!) ago and without updates ?
(a page with just the movie poster has few interest, isn't it ?)

5) Category:Unidentified Aircraft
I don't understand why there are 68 unidentified aircrafts but only 39 contents are listed.
For example, [[Wysokie loty]] is on the bottom list but not in the contents (so the Unidentified Aircraft can't be seen on this dedicated page but only on the movie page !

Regards.

BTW, if you have enough time and are still in favour a specific category about fictionnal aircrafts.
See http://www.impdb.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=366&p=982#p982


Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:51 am
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Post Re: Some strange facts on IMPDB
Thanks for your feedback, it's good to be able to know this information so we can improve the site.

In response:

1) Not sure why it does that for you, it doesn't for me. One of the HTML editors may be able to give more insight.

2) Nice spot. A category does exist as "Curtiss-Wright", which was the merged company that manufactured the majority of Curtiss aircraft, even under just the Curtiss name. It hadn't however been categorised to the Manufacturer List, but I have now fixed that.

3) I think having it there is useful for contributors, rather than having to go through "Special Pages". But having the New Pages is a good idea and hopefully some other Admins will see this and agree, then we can implement it.

4) Only way I can think of is to go here: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages. A lot of these are pages that were created incorrectly, so I'll go through and delete them shortly. If you find one without pictures, obviously add them if you can but otherwise leave it as it could encourage visitors to add to it. I'll come up with a banner to put on such pages, encouraging new contributors.

5) This is because Movie Pages are automatically added to the category through the [[Category:"Movie Name"]] tag, but it is up to the editor to manually add the image and subtitle to the page, which isn't always done. Feel free to go through the list and add to the page as you see fit.

Thanks!

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Post Re: Some strange facts on IMPDB
Thanks for your quick response !


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Post Re: Some strange facts on IMPDB
I have been interested in creating a couple easy to read lists for the home page for a little while. Now that I know that it's not just me, I will get on it. I feel it would be a great addition to the site.

Thanks for the information and feedback. Myself and the other administrators will look deeper into all these things.

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Post Re: Some strange facts on IMPDB
About 1st point :
I've changed my PC and browse now with W7 and still Firefox. All is fine.
My first note is outdated; it was probably a configuration bug...

About 5th point :
still the limited number of pictures regarding the page concerned.
As the list is growing and growing, why not....

* put an aleatory displaying along all the pictures ?
and/or
* list the movie with such "unidentified aircraft" the most recent first ?
(as by alphabetical order, it's not easy to detect a new one among those with perpetual insolved riddle).


Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:32 am
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