I¹ve been unable to reach any of the efdss servers since Tuesday night (13th March). There¹s obviously a switching/routing problem somewhere in the internet....
... Things were very slow on Tuesday evening (nearly every page request resulted in one or more 500 error messages before eventually connecting); by midnight...
... Er..... Actually, I've already talked to Vic about it and although it may not be _compulsory_ we're going to be seeing some input from the Newcastle ...
There is an academic precedent - see Students assessed with Wikipedia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6422877.stm Andy Any chance Vic could be...
Hello Folks, We have some teething problems with Folkopedia which are causing it to work very slowly. Folkopedia is driven by PHP coding interrogating a...
Just a selection of what's gone in this week. http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Folk_Music_Collections http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Musical_Traditions_Records ...
Hell Folks, Anybody trying to use Folkopedia in the last week or so will probably have experienced failures to connect to the server. This is due to some...
Hi Folks, Andy Turner has been busy putting some song information on Folkopedia and has been thinking about how to structure it. He's produced four alternative...
English Folk Dance & Song Society Press Release 29th June 2007 MALCOLM TAYLOR APPOINTED LIBRARY DIRECTOR The English Folk Dance and Song Society is pleased to...
Hi Folks, After a period of relative inactivity over the summer when people were away on holidays and visiting folk festivals etc., Folkopedia has started to...
Folkopedia has been making slow but steady progress. There's still a very long way to go but some sections are filling out and the structure is emerging...
Hello Everybody, Despite the lack of activity on this list, Folkopedia continues to receive a steady trickle of entries. The pages now contributed can be seen...
... Hi Jon, If you add a song, just use the suggested template as defined at.. http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Song_Template That page can then be linked to from...
Very much in a spirit of constructive criticism (the project and all the work that's gone into it so far is fantastic)... Finding the songs on Folkopedia isn't...
Ian You're certainly right about the confusion between songs and CDs. I'm not sure if there is a policy. What I've done is to use e.g. Garners Gay as the page...
Dear Andy, "What a difference a[n evening makes]"... Earlier on I was poking around folkopedia thinking further about navigation and following links to songs...
PS How about having a Category:Roud No. page and adding to the the song page sentence 'All songs currently in Folkopedia are listed on the Song Category Page'...
Ian, it was your interest that diverted me off other things on to song navigation and thus the little developments happened. The key to all this is Categories....
... I see you¹ve already started categorising the Roud Nos. That should work ok. Three down  several hundred to go! ... J Re: [folkopedia] Signposting On...
PPS I count 12 Roud numbers on song pages which have yet to have their corresponding Roud number page entered. I've done a few. Still to do are (for my ref...
Thi will be the first message this year!! However I thionk that the idea of a Folkopedia is a good one. It seems not to have caught the imagination of folkies....
Hi Chris, you're right, it's been eerily quiet here on Folkopedia for some time. I was beginning to think it had died. (Not that I've been doing anything on...
Thanks for the feedback. It was my first attempt at a Wiki page. I have just rewritten most of it. I referenced my own web site 'cos the Limberjack page...
Hi Chris I'd just add this to what John has written - there's not currently a Folkopedia article on Jig Dolls, so if you have the capacity to write one please...
