[Other] The Voynich Garden

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How would this work?

Thanks, Koen, I appreciate this feedback.

The best way at the moment is to submit this information directly on the proposal as a comment (with reference to sources if possible). We will attempt to respond to such comments and make requested corrections requests as soon as time permits. We could use some help in adding more information from sources as well (including yours. I apologize that we did not have it in our initial set of sources.) I will PM you later about how we might collaborate to process more of the previously published information and will make a modification on the particular case you mentioned later today too.


By the way, as described on the About page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., we took an expedited procedure to collect and process the historical researcher data.

To add a bit more detail to how it was done:
We manually went through several online sources that mentioned or summarized specific plant identifications, copied/pasted very rough information for each into a spreadsheet, and then wrote several processing programs to clean up, standardize each row of information,  invoke AI Models (e.g. ChatGPT)  to augment each one with scientific names, other common names, ranges, etc. and then finally generated SQL scripts to create a "proxy" user for each researcher and to load all the proposals into the application database (turning multiple mentions by different researchers into comments on the more-or-less earliest one) to simulate the historical researchers entering data in The Voynich Garden as far back as 1945.

This was done simply to get the bulk of available historical data loaded in a reasonable time, but of course, it means there are a lot of improvements that can now be made. 
As I mentioned, I will PM you later today regarding this topic.


Thanks,
Andrew



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Thank you for reporting this and thanks for your patience! We have fixed that problem. (Caused by my own fat fingers last night.). Please try again.

Thanks, now it works. Only the downvote button does not appear.

The downvote button should not appear on one's own proposal The fact that you made the proposal is taken as an implicit vote for the proposal.
Hope that makes sense.