GoYpedia
By ajay
46 comments
Hello all,
For some time David and Jacque have been doing a fantastic job placing all your great photos and experiences onto subject pages. As they’ve been working they have helped create an impressive ‘GoYpedia’ with pages on everything from Autumn Colour to Building raised beds and Garden slugs.
As the number of photos grow we would like everyone to pitch in and help place the photos that inspire you onto the GoYpedia pages. Next to each photo you will now see a “Nominate for GoYpedia” link which will let you bring a photo to the attention of David or Jacque. Maybe some of you will even go on to suggest pages we don’t currently have and volunteer to edit them too.
We’d also really like you to help us organise GoY by categorising your blogs. When you write a new blog, simply choose from gardening, wildlife, pets, or other.
You will also notice the bottom of each page now has a new A-Z. You can use this to find all sorts on GoY, including pages in the GoYpedia, plants, and links to the garden centre. We hope that bringing everything into one place on the A-Z helps you find the things that you enjoy on GoY.
Cheers and happy gardening,
Ajay
- 16 Sep, 2009
- 16 likes
More blog posts by ajay
Previous post: Half a million!
Next post: GoY Update : New filtering options
Comments
Hi Ajay,Peter & David :) im sure many members will enjoy the Nominate Icon & have ago @ becoming GOY Helpers just like me & David :)So glad i was on when it was all being put together i saw the Little Icons appear 2 David :) lol
16 Sep, 2009
Jacque! :-).
I'd also like to see more pics with titles and/or tags; these help me a LOT. Also, I have to remember, with regard to fruit and veg, that many are known by different names in different countries, and that different countries are "enjoying" different seasons at the same time! Sometimes, I don't know what country, hemisphere, season, time of day I'm in, lol! Blogs and questions also yield a great deal of info, too, and look forward to more of these being "pointed out" to us.
16 Sep, 2009
I agree David when the Pics,Blogs,ect have Titles they come up in Our Search Bars which means we dont miss a thing when were not around :)
16 Sep, 2009
These are great improvements and will make the site even better :))
16 Sep, 2009
Thanks to all of you for all the work you put in on our behalf,it is very much appreciated............
16 Sep, 2009
Hi Ajay....
Currently I cannot update a blog because it keeps asking me for a category but doesn't have a place where I can submit the information. Please advise... Thanks.
16 Sep, 2009
TT, I have replied to your email. I have fixed the bug you have found. Thanks
16 Sep, 2009
Great improvements thank you all for your work, I moderate a completely different set of boards and know the challenges it can create so again THANK YOU all!
16 Sep, 2009
Thanks, Ajay ...
I've been able to update my Wagging blog. :o)
16 Sep, 2009
Okay I can see that if I go to post a new blog I have to state which category it goes in... how do the other GoYers then know which category it is in?
I'm asking because I only want to read the garden and nature/wildlife blogs
16 Sep, 2009
Hi TT, how did you update a blog already posted?
I've gone back to mine I posted this morning and I cant see how to categorise it, thank you. Dawn
16 Sep, 2009
Hi Dawn....
At the moment, as far as I can see, you can update old blogs, but not categorise them....
This evening, each time I tried to update my Wagging blog, I was prevented from doing so, and warned by red print to complete a non-existent category box... Lol.
but Ajay has removed that red warning....
...He sorted out the problem very promptly :o)
16 Sep, 2009
Hi Ajay, I know everyone here is used to my slowness but I don't understand how this is going to work? What I mean is will we still be able to see what our favourite members are blogging and the photos they are posting on our homepage or are we going to have to search through all the blogs of a particular 'type' just to find out what one member is doing? Does this mean that when I turn my pc on I will no longer know what Lily2 or Spritzhenry have posted, am I going to have to scour through thousands of members just to find that Bob g or Indy haven't blogged today? Will Fluff disappear into the void along with Madperth (Hatter) and Maccrimmon?
One very confused and none to happy Digger. :~((
16 Sep, 2009
Hi Moongrower ~
I guess at the top of each blog it will say which category it is in.... the same as with photos which might for instance be under Yellow Roses... Not sure if that answers your question..Lol.
Good evening Digger. :o)
16 Sep, 2009
Thanks TT for the explanation. I guess as its so new we will 'live and learn'.
16 Sep, 2009
I just tried to nominate one of Gee19's photos for the pansy category, but was not able to do it. I guess Ajay is currently working to eliminate some bugs in the system. He'll have it sorted out soon.
Good luck, Ajay......:o)
16 Sep, 2009
I suppose there are bound to be teething problems - good luck Ajay.
16 Sep, 2009
That's interesting, Tt! I tried earlier to nominate a pic of pansies (to Jacque, who covers this one) and it wouldn't let me do so either. It did, however, allow me to do so with a garden pond pic straight after. I think that the guys at GoY are concentrating firstly on the huge number of pics, and the blogs and questions will be clearer soon.
I can add older blogs/questions, but only if they belong in one of my "pages", and am hoping that they all will be able to be nominated by everyone by clicking on a tab. Dawnsaunt, I'd like to see your lovely kingfisher blog featured on "British Native Birds" or whatever the exact page title is (Jacque covers this one) but, as has been said, we can't do right now. I think we'll just have to be a bit patient. This all materialised before my eyes just this morning whilst I was scrolling through pages of pics. I'll soon have learned enough to enter Mastermind, lol!
16 Sep, 2009
Yes, David... I think we must be patient while Ajay sorts out any teething troubles....
... you on Mastermind ? specialist subject ? Chocolate ?
16 Sep, 2009
Hi Tt, can we try a wee experiment? I had your pic of the miniature yellow Iris (bottom row, page 1 of your pics gallery feautred on the "Irises" page of the ency (sorry, old name) - GoYpedia. Have just removed it. Can you click on that pic for me and click on the nominate for goypedia tab, to see if it works? I should then receive this nomination, and put it (back) on the page. If it works, your pic will once more have "Featured on Irises" to right of it. Ta muchly! - X
PS Specialist subject "chocolate" Can you be SERIOUS? I'd go into "meltdown", lol!
16 Sep, 2009
Hi David...
Going over to my pic now to follow your instructions... so don't go into meltdown yet....:o)
16 Sep, 2009
Hi again David...
At the moment 9.40 pm... there is no nominate option on my iris photo, and I checked the map photos nearby and they don't have nominate options either, so maybe Ajay has disabled the system temporarily ?
..or maybe we can't nominate our own photos ?
I just looked at one of my fav. pics and that has a nominate option....:o)
16 Sep, 2009
Hi David, TT, I've just tried to nominate that min. iris for 'irises' but I got told there was a problem with it! (time 21:47)
16 Sep, 2009
Just tried to nominate a photo but came up with a page saying 'We've made a mistake ',so I will wait a couple of days till things get sorted.Good idea tho thanks Ajay :)
16 Sep, 2009
Yes, it seems we need to give Ajay time to sort this out... don't burn too much midnight oil, Ajay :o)
Thanks Ian for nominating my Iris.... after David deleted the nomination...LOL..... 9.56 pm. good night. xxx
16 Sep, 2009
Many Thanks, Tt, Ian and Aster. The whole point is that everyone will be able to niminate their own pics, etc., which, am sure, will soon happen. I got the "nominate" tab next to your iris pic, Tt, but, like Ian and Aster, got a message saying that something not quite right at the mo. Work in progress, methinks. 21.56.
Many Thanks for all your help. Meantime,Tt, your Iris is now again "featured" under "Irises". :-))
16 Sep, 2009
Nite nite. 9:57 pm
16 Sep, 2009
Sleep Tite!!! :-)
I NEVER got his nomination, Tt, LOL!
Aster has a suitable pic, never b4 "categorised". Are you still with us, Aster?
16 Sep, 2009
This all sounds like a good idea to me, but just experiencing teething problems. I do get a nominate box on other members photo's but not on my own. 10:20pm
16 Sep, 2009
That's good, Pg. I think we should "await developments", as they say, Thank You! :-))
16 Sep, 2009
Sorry everyone! My fault. Hopefully fixed now.
17 Sep, 2009
Ian, nothing has changed yet. And, nothing will change in the way you use the site. So rest assured.
Once we have collected some classifications on the new blog posts we will look to let members choose to not see certain types of entries if they don't want. E.g. If you don't like the non-gardening blogs you would be able to stop those showing if you wanted.
17 Sep, 2009
Thanks, Ajay...
I just tested the new system by suggesting Gee19's recent photo to be under Pansy in the GoYpedia, and it worked okay :o)
17 Sep, 2009
I still have no nominate box on my own photos, but do on other members...?
17 Sep, 2009
Pottygardener - just like the "like" system where you can't give yourself a "like" we thought it made sense to stick to the same for the "nominate".
17 Sep, 2009
glad ive seen this as i wondered what the new nominate icon was for, so now i know, good idea, but i like everyones pics lol so that GOYpedia is going to get pretty full heheh
17 Sep, 2009
Thanks Ajay, that does indeed make sense!
17 Sep, 2009
Hi David sorry went to bed lol.Which photo did you think needed a category. I must look at the categories and do some nominating.
I suppose most of our favourites would be suitable for nomination,but very time consuming looking back through all those.
17 Sep, 2009
Can we have a conifer section on the GOYpedia please ?
26 Sep, 2009
Certainly Bluespruce.
26 Sep, 2009
Many thanks Ajay.
26 Sep, 2009
We are so lucky to have this great site, and a very big THANKYOU from me. Your changes in the pipeline seem to be a really good idea and well thought out. Hard to believe it can get even better!
26 Sep, 2009
I'll second that Mad. I have never seen another site so friendly and welcoming (not to mention helpful ) as this one. A BIG thank you from all on planet Digs. ;~))
26 Sep, 2009
Not sure about your blog categories, Ajay - wrote one today that was about nature and wildlife and the weather and also plants/gardening - I'd have been hard put to choose a category, as it covered both plants/gardening and wildlife/nature - might need a "both" for those as well.
5 Oct, 2009
I'm now the editor for three new GoYpedia categories... and I am enjoying allocating the lovely GoY photos in these sections......
Wellies and Garden Footwear.
Pets ...e.g. budgies, bunnies, guinea pigs, tortoises.
and Flower Pot People... :o)
8 Oct, 2009
Recent posts by ajay
- GoY Update : New Private Messages
23 Nov, 2010
- GoY News: A new design is coming...
12 Oct, 2010
- GoY Update : Performance, hopefully final
15 Apr, 2010
- GoY Update : Performance, continued again
13 Apr, 2010
- GoY Update : Performance, continued
12 Apr, 2010
- GoY Update : Performance
24 Mar, 2010
Members who like this blog
-
Gardening with friends since
29 Jul, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
24 Jun, 2007 -
Gardening with friends since
4 Feb, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
14 Aug, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
22 Oct, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
10 Feb, 2009 -
Gardening with friends since
9 Aug, 2009 -
Gardening with friends since
10 Oct, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
29 Mar, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
1 Jul, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
12 Feb, 2008 -
Gardening with friends since
1 Apr, 2009 -
Gardening with friends since
7 Jun, 2009 -
Gardening with friends since
13 Aug, 2009 -
Gardening with friends since
7 Jul, 2009
Lol! Well Done, guys! Here am I, "leafing" through the pics, and I see the new tab appear before my very eyes!
Many Thanks for this additional "tool". Thus far, I have got only 10,000 of the (now) well over 100,000 pics added into the GoYpedia (like the new name :-) ). Jacque must be even busier with her very long list of subjects. I know that she will agree with me, however, that it is great fun, a great way to see a lot of what is on GoY, and a very informative learning resource for ourselves, too. I would very much like to see other members join us in this "pursuit". Thank You very Much! :-))
16 Sep, 2009