We've been working on installing some new features in the BugwoodWiki.  These are meant to be helpful additions to make editing easier and provide added functionality.  Here is a list of the new features (Click on the link for more details):
 

• In-line references in articles with semi-automated colation of references as footnotes
• RSS feeds for Recent Changes made to the Wiki
• New buttons added to the Edit window for Page Redirects, Subscripts, Superscripts, Bugwood Image Insert, Taxobox Insertion, Bugwood Image Gallery Insertions, Basic Tables and In-line references
• Exporting BugwoodWiki articles to PDF and Word Document

As many of you are aware, we have launched the BugwoodWiki; A wiki that has direct access to the Bugwood Image Archives.  Authorship for the wiki is restricted to "BugwoodWiki Scholars"; individuals who have asked to be authors and have some credentials or experience to back up their articles.  We also require the authors to put their name on their articles so that they can be properly credited if the article is used elsewhere.  All of the articles may be used in non-profit, educational publications as long as all of the citations are maintained.

One of the barriers to using any "wiki" is learning the "wiki language".  Although it is a very easy format to write in, the concept of learning a new language and flashbacks of past experiences with HTML is often a deterrent.  To help ease this dread, the Bugwood Network is offering online training sessions.  The first of these training sessions is a basic lesson to get people started.  It will provide people with a basic set of skills to use while editing any MediaWiki system (BugwoodWiki, eXtension, Wikipedia, etc.).

If you are interested in attending a session or just becoming a BugwoodWiki Scholar, contact our webmaster.

We have just released a new addition the the Bugwood Network Family of sites: BugwoodWiki.  The hope is that this will be a usefull tool for specialists to give information about various topics. 

We also plan to make the content "portable"...If you want to take a page for use in a factsheet, you can grab the body of page (comlete with images and citations) and display it on your one site with your own header and footer. 

Take a trip to the BugwoodWiki and give it a try.  Please "pardon our dust" as this is still a work in progress.  If you wish to submit content to the site, please contact Joe LaForest

While investigating the features of Internet Explorer 7, I found the tools that let you search any website from the tool bar on your browser.  This is a pretty niffty feature since it can save a few steps in going to the page and finding the right place to enter a search.

 For instance, to add a search of IPMImages.org, open IE7, click on the down arrow next to the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner, and select "Find More Providers...". 

The box on the right gives you the option and instructions to create your own search link.  Continuing the example of IPMImages, you would enter "http://www.ipmimages.org/search/action.cfm?q=TEST" into the blank for step 3 and "IPMImages.org" into the blank for step 4.  After you press "Install", you are done!  To choose a provider to search, select the same down arrow next to the magnifying glass and search box and choose "IPMImages".  Any search you enter will go directly to our site

We try very hard to make sure that the photographer and the organization they work for receive credit whenever an image is used.  Although all of our image detail pages have the citation including the photographers name and organization, there has been some confusion as to the origin of the images based on the tag we apply to the lower right-hand corner of each image...it starts with the prefix 'UGA'

The 'UGA' was meant to denote that the image came from an image archive run by UGA…not that UGA was the source of the image.   There were a few reasons that we started tagging images.

• We spend quite a bit of time putting together the image archive and would like people to know where to find the image and the information pertaining to it. 
• Tagging each image provides a link to our image database and a way for people to easily find a particular image. 

As of today, we have stopped using 'UGA' on our image tags.  This will mainly apply to new images in the system.  We are still tagging the images with a 7-digit number and searching by this number in our system or even on web searches like Google or Yahoo will return that particular image.  Hopefully, the "black and white tag in the lower right" will act as a signal to most people that the image and it's information can be found in the Bugwood Image Database.