GrottoCenter Blog

With the UIS Bbibliography and Informatic commissions and the Belgian associations Speleo J, UBS and the Namur speleology house, we have requested a grant from the UIS Bureau in order to set up tools to automate the exchange of data and files between speleology documentation centers. We have just received a favorable response, the UIS asking for its logo to be on the Grottocenter home page given its repeated support for Grottocenter. Vincent has just set up this logo which allows us to communicate on the solid and long-standing relations between the UIS and the Wikicaves association

The BBS contains many duplicates concerning authors. In order to offer a better service Vincent has developed a service that allows to delete authors or to merge them with another account corresponding to the same author. We now have a set of tools that will simplify the work of moderators

Vincent has just transferred the database from the AWS infrastructure to the Azure infrastructure. This allows us to benefit from a more efficient service with more processors and to better distribute our services on these two infrastructures

Vincent has just released a very important update, but you probably won't see the difference. It is now possible for moderators to delete elements that are attached to entries as well as entries, caves, documents, massifs and organizations. Moderators can also put them back in place, delete them permanently and merge them with a duplicate. Vincent took the opportunity to clean up all the code attached to these entities Thank you very much for this work

You may have noticed some malfunctions in the routing of messages on the mailing lists hosted by the Wikicaves association. Benjamin took charge of the problem quickly, by updating the software, increasing the available memory and refining the parameters. Everything seems to be back to normal

The UIS Informatics Commission has a new presidency and the Wikiaves association is more committed to its action, so that sharing at the international level progresses. If you are interested, do not hesitate to join UISIC https://uisic.uis-speleo.org/