diff --git a/handbook/troggle/namesredesign.html b/handbook/troggle/namesredesign.html index cbe371982..8d6358410 100644 --- a/handbook/troggle/namesredesign.html +++ b/handbook/troggle/namesredesign.html @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
  • What we have now -This was basically fixed in 2023. A root-and-branch replacement of peoples names with a 'slug' derived from peoples' names. However we still have things we could do to implrove 'folk' +This was basically fixed in 2023. A root-and-branch replacement of peoples names with a 'slug' derived from peoples' names. However we still have things we could do to improve 'folk'

    Names: Why it is a problem

    @@ -85,57 +85,8 @@ Naturally this failed horribly even for relatively straightforward names such as which is a lot easier to maintain. -

    Troggle folk data importing

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    - This still needs fixing [Feb.2024] -

    -Troggle reads the mugshot and blurb about each person. -It reads it direct from folk.csv which has fields of URL links to those files. -It does this when troggle is run with -python databaseReset.py people -

    -Troggle generates its own blurb about each person, including past expeditions and trips -taken from the logbooks (and from parsing svx files) -A link to this troggle page has been added to folk/index.htm -by making it happen in make-folklist.py -

    -Troggle scans the blurb and looks for everything between <body> and <hr> -to find the text of the blurb -(see parsers/people.py) -

    - [This now seems to have have been fixed (July 2023):

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    Folk: pending possible improvements

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    Read about the folklist script before reading the rest of this. -

    This does some basic validation: it checks that the mugshot -images and blurb HTML files exist. - -

    The folk.csv file could be split: -
    -folk-1.csv will be for old cavers who will not come again, so this file need never be touched. -
    -folk-2.csv will be for recent cavers and the current expo, this needs editing every year - -

    -The year headings of folk-1 and folk-2 need to be accurate , but they do not need to be -the same columns. So folk-2 can start in a much later year. - -

    -folk-0 will be for awkward buggers whose attendance spans decades. This needs updating whenever -one of these lags attends: -AERW, Becka, Mark Dougherty, Philip Sargent, Chris Densham, Mike Richardson - -

    -Currently (July 2023) the software ignores folk-0, -1, -2 and we have used the old folk.csv for -the 2023 expo. But we hope to have this fixed next year... -


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