[tos-list] Relaunch of the Texas Century Club Website
- From: David Sarkozi <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tos-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:25:25 -0600
At the October Board meeting of the Texas Ornithological Society it
was decided to relaunch the Texas Century Club Website as a self
service website.
The relaunch took some time to complete, but it is now ready for the
general public to use it. It is now built on the Mediawiki platform,
the same platform that is used by Wikipedia.
If you have been frustrated by not being able to get your totals
updated that should no longer be a problem. Once you register your
account and verify your email address you can edit almost every page
on the site.
The Texas Century Club website address is http://www.texascenturyclub.org
On the site there are some basic instructions on how to edit pages.
If you have been an editor for a county or counties, we still need
your help. We still need administrators to monitor pages and role back
vandalism and just help fix problems with bad edits. If you would like
to continue as an administer for your counties please sign up for an
account and drop me a note and I'll upgrade your account. I've
contacted several county editors already, if I haven't contacted you
its because I don't have an email address for you.
Once you sign up, you may create extra pages on the site. You can
create a personal page with your totals, and I would encourage you
create help maintain pages for birding sites. This will help other
playing the game.
It will also help create a crowd sourced guide to local birding in
Texas. Think of it as a Texas Birding Wikipedia. You are free to add
to any county page, new sites, big years and big days, and sample
century day routes are encouraged.
What is the Texas Century Club? It was launched in 2003 as an award
program to encourage Texas birders to explore all of Texas, not just
just the famous hotspots. The goal is to record 100 species in 100
counties in Texas. To date, 7 people have achieved that and none have
stopped birding! Using eBird to track your sighting is to encouraged,
but not necessary. Your 100 species in 100 counties would be 10,000
datapoints in eBird and builds the value of eBird and helps document
the birdlife of Texas.
Mediawiki supports lots of extension and one of the first that will
get added is a mapping one for documenting where birding site are and
routes. If you know of or discover an extension that would add value
the site let me know and we can look at adding it in.
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David Sarkozi
Houston, TX
(713) 412-4409 twitter ID dsarkozi
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