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Hi,
About spelling and all that - this is probably going to be a bigger problem here on WATW anyway as the whole site is more internationally focused and will attract people with limited "English skills" (such as yours truly).
It gets out of hand quite quickly, especially with terms like "Shield bug" or "Hover fly" where some people seem to feel these should be spelled with a space and others spell them spaceless (I actually wouldn't even know what's supposed to be right, just like the single word versions better). This affects searchability. Or what to do with plurals? Woodlouse and Woodlice? Two quite different search terms.
No way you will get all the titles right or "complete" so the keywords are the only way to go and it would mean including both single and multiple word versions of names, singular an plural versions, as many taxon-levels as possible, locality (at least the country, maybe finer grained) and preferably some "time of year data" such as the month or 'summer' or such.
It would be good to have at least a very clear guideline in the FAQ of what would be considered good practice (after discussing it here), but I feel it would be a much better idea to have such things as separate input boxes on the upload form, possibly required to fill in select, but clearly also with options "unknown" or "not applicable".
One other thing that I have been wondering about is the possibility of selecting multiple "Categories" per image. A bird eating a butterfly. A shieldbug from Africa. That sort of thing. You would not need to select one "place" to upload, but use the categories (and/or search results!) to assemble Galleries/Views of things. One thing I would really like personally for example is to have the same viewing options that the galleries offer also on the search results as opposed the one view offered now.
Well enough of my ramblings on that ... you people any thoughts?
Arp
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