[datacatalogs] Problem with search on datacatalogs.org

[Rufus Pollock]

On 3 October 2012 16:06, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:
> Going through the revision history, there are dozens of these. Here is one
> that is pure spam (never had a good revision):
> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/zjukvoxppwv
>
> I found Le Mans and data.gouv.fr and restored all those I found to their
> original content. I went up to page 26 (Nov 8, 2011) in the revision history
> to fix Paris. The above spam was created Jul 2011. This took about 30 mins
> so if someone wants to go through the rest it should be quick.

Note you can delete "spam" revisions - go to history page, click on
revision link and hit delete. You can then purge those spam revisions
via http://datacatalogs.org/ckan-admin/trash

Rufus

> I recommend blocking all anonymous edits until the revision bug I described
> below is fixed (in which the URL changes without the revision being
> approved).

In theory they are blocked - none of the changes should happen without
approval. However, if this is not happening we'll definitely check and
shut down anonymous editing.

Rufus

> On 2012-10-03, at 10:45 AM, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:
>
> Great James, thanks, these are some the ones I was wondering about.
> Now why they have such weird ids and uris now is a mystery to me !
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> 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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