Updated: 21 October 2025 +
Updated: 22 October 2025
Mostly these are not just a problem just with troggle, but things where expo procedures have never been @@ -123,32 +123,8 @@ description pages. This prevents us using "EditThisPage" on those complex descri another level of pain on doing this task which is already much more difficult than it needs to be.
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- The folk update procedure which we have used for many decades -does not give instant feedback as to whether the editor has got it -right or not. It does not make the most recent changes visible, so a -mistake in putting someone in say 2023 instead of 2024 does not leap -out at you. -
-The historical record is probably in error in loads of places. (It -is much better than it was now that the logbook entries and the *team -people in survex files are now checked for consistency for that expo -year.) -
-There are too many steps for the whole procedure and the steps get out -of sync, so it looks as if an edit has not been done when actually it -has, but the server has just not had the final script update run on it -(that, at least, could be automated). -
-Hand editing the folk.csv file is getting increasingly unwieldy as the -file gets bigger and bigger. -
-There is no automated cross-check with bank of expo, which uses a -different person-naming-scheme, and which also includes people who -actually never make it to expo in that year. -
-Looking through historical photo archives, there are people we -can't match up with attendees, so that indicates some errors. +