[datacatalogs] Problem with search on datacatalogs.org

[James McKinney]

Hmm, just noticed potential source of the problem on one of my own catalogs. There seems to be a spambot that changes the Url, Homepage, Description, Publisher, Spatial Coverage Text, and Tags fields. I can restore it by going back one revision, replacing with that revision's values, and approving. It seems like, even without approval, a spammer can change the URL (but not the other fields). This seems to be a bug in the revision control system.

On 2012-10-03, at 10:40 AM, James McKinney wrote:

> If you go to this page: http://datacatalogs.org/group/france there are 5 that 404. I found 3. Not sure where Le Mans and data.gouv.fr are.
> 
> On 2012-10-03, at 10:39 AM, James McKinney wrote:
> 
>> I think I found two of them from this page: http://datacatalogs.org/user/Roux
>> 
>> Paris http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/bpsmyxycx
>> Bordeaux http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/ndvorzw
>> 
>> Another that now has an odd "URI" is Data-Publica http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/uufurt
>> 
>> On 2012-10-03, at 9:24 AM, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Rufus,
>>> 
>>> These work indeed but they're empty of any of all the information that
>>> were present in the original ones that are now 404 :
>>> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/paris_fr
>>> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/data-gouv-fr
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Benjamin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> None of those pages 404 for me:
>>>> 
>>>> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/le_mans_fr
>>>> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/paris
>>>> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/bordeaux
>>>> 
>>>> Can you confirm they are still 404'ing?
>>>> 
>>>> Rufus
>>>> 
>>>> On 3 October 2012 13:45, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou <b.ooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> It's a little bit sad to fall back on these very empty pages when I
>>>>> spent a lot of times making all of these page properly filled with all
>>>>> the proper metadata for all of these platforms
>>>>> Does anybody know what happened that made them become 404 ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Benjamin
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I reported the same problem earlier (June 21st)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---CLIP---
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I found these four catalogs with broken links, I can't remove them but all
>>>>>> of them have already working substitute page... Rufus or someone, could you
>>>>>> get rid of the "404 Not Found" -catalogs so that they don't show in the
>>>>>> search results (like for example: http://datacatalogs.org/catalog?q=paris )
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bordeaux http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/bordeaux
>>>>>> 404 Not Found http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/bordeaux_fr
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> France http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/france
>>>>>> 404 Not Found http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/data-gouv-fr
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paris http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/paris
>>>>>> 404 Not Found http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/paris_fr
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Le Mans http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/le_mans_fr
>>>>>> 404 Not Found http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/le-mans-datapage
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 3.10.2012 12:25, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This query finds two results:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://datacatalogs.org/dataset?q=paris
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The second result is for a catalog "paris_fr", but clicking on the result
>>>>>> takes us to a 404 error page, as if the catalog "paris_fr" doesn't exist.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why does it show up in the search then? Maybe the catalog was deleted or
>>>>>> renamed, and the CKAN software doesn't update its search index correctly?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Could someone with CKAN expertise comment on this?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks a million,
>>>>>> Richard
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