[bksvol-discuss] Re: Admin. Q
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:30:04 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the info, Jake. That explains a lot.
Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
> I wrote to Gustavo a few weeks back and one of
> the questions I asked him
> was, in what order are the books approved?
>
> He said that he starts at the top of the queue and
> works his way down.
>
> This of course begs the question, what order does
> the queue display in?
>
> From my own observations as to how the system works,
> I'm guessing the order
> is by the submit_title_id number. This is the unique
> number that identifies
> a book in the BookShare database. These numbers are
> given in succession, the
> latest books I believe are in the 35,000 id number
> range.
>
> The implications of such a sort are this. If a book
> stays in the system for
> a long period of time, either on the step one page,
> out for validation or a
> combination of the two, when validated the book is
> near the bottom of the
> list for admin approvals.
>
> Again, this is all supposition, but it stands to
> reason that a lot of books
> that are submitted and then quickly validated make
> their way onto the site
> very quickly, while others that sit in the system,
> generally sit longer in
> the admin queue as well.
>
> There are undoubtedly books that don't fit this
> pattern. If a book requires
> some research as to making sure copyright
> information or something similar
> is correct, Gustavo might wait until he has a
> handful of these books before
> he starts work on them. Again, I don't know if this
> is the case, but it
> would be logical.
>
> Gustavo also said not to worry, books haven't
> disappeared, he's just finding
> time constraints don't allow him to empty out his
> queue as often as we'd all
> like.
>
> Jake
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 4:56 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Admin. Q
>
>
> > Tom, what are the titles in the Dreamland series?
> I
> > did see Satan's Tail on the list of books being
> > validated, but of course that list is almost a
> month
> > old.
> >
> > I don't know what order they use to get the books
> of
> > the Admin.Q--taking the more recently published
> books
> > first, or books validated by people they know do
> an
> > excellent job--but I don't think it's the latter,
> > because apparently the copy of Return to the City
> of
> > White Donkeys that was just added to the
> collection is
> > missing at least two pages and has no poem titles,
> > among other things. Books I validated back in
> > November were requested by people who wanted to
> read
> > them, and It's Valentine's Day, which I I think
> Lissi
> > uploaded very recently, so it would get into the
> > collection in time for the holiday, isn't in yet.
> >
> > I do hope that when a new person is hired,
> clearing
> > the Admin Q is one of his/her first jobs--that and
> > checking the wish list daily so that people who
> take
> > books from there to scan don't repeat what someone
> > else has already done because the book wasn't
> removed
> > from the list.
> >
> > Cindy
> > --- tom hawkins <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Everyone, been laying low for a while. But I
> >> have a question, do you think Gustavo will ever
> get
> >> to the bottom of the administrative Q? Still
> have
> >> books sitting there from September, and my
> Dreamland
> >> series by Dale Brown has-never been found
> >> apparently, lost, "lost beneath the streets of
> >> Boston," their fate never to be learned, as the
> song
> >> goes. The answers I get are vague, that the
> books
> >> are out being edited, since May or June? Tom
> >
> >
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