Glossary

[GoodFriendMike]

Seems we have many that are willing to help make this happen. Good to see. As @"Inflorescence"#181 said. Is there a list of words y'all want definitions to? Or shall we just add as many as we can think of?

I think the glossary should cater to all growers regardless of experience. So, I would be in favor of more words than less. For example, auxin, apical, bud, cambium, node, etc., and getting into the parthenocarpic, caducus, and more “sciency” words.

I agree. It should cater to all.

 

[Figless]

A glossary is definitely something we can do. Do I have any volunteers in terms of populating it?

I’ll look into the best way to do this… It may be a matter of embedding a spreadsheet, so everything stays in order. Let me have a look at our options

I’ll take a shot at it if no one wants to step up.

@"Rigo007"#178 @"bushdoctor82"#14 
This is a wonderful project, and frequently searched questions would be the perfect place for it. I wonder if we could incorporate and Excel spreadsheet into a posted thread.

 

[Rigo007]

A glossary is definitely something we can do. Do I have any volunteers in terms of populating it?

I’ll look into the best way to do this… It may be a matter of embedding a spreadsheet, so everything stays in order. Let me have a look at our options

I’ll take a shot at it if no one wants to step up.

@"Rigo007"#178 @"bushdoctor82"#14 
This is a wonderful project, and frequently searched questions would be the perfect place for it. I wonder if we could incorporate and Excel spreadsheet into a posted thread.

It all sounds great and all and what I'm about to say may hurt some or ruffle some feathers but it's the truth ( @torontojoe should know how I "speak" just by how write) 

A "forum" is just that, a forum. You simply just can't create everything you wish to have. Look at the other forum. They have been trying to create a "database, glossary" and so on. It's not a simple task. They've been around (like many others) for many, many years and still, nothing. It's not you or the members, it's the program. 

This is a pre-made system, intended to do one thing only, a forum. Even on my site Fig Database , I added a forum, just for fun but the reason why I can add and do anything is because the main site is hard coded. Meaning, I can create anything however I want. Design wise, actions, backend, front-end, changes, access etc etc. The forum part is separate but I can "semi" make both sides work together. 

There are just too many sites trying to do what others already have. But forums, auctions sites and or sales sites can't do. You can "add" stuff like pages or things like that but if you're using a pre-made program, you're limited.

Fig Database for 2025 will start changing and I may start focusing on it starting then. We'll see what happens. 

By the way @torontojoe , Mike did try to buy me out a while ago and I declined. He may say it isn't so now so he doesn't look dumb but he did ask me to sell. Now I'm definitely not selling. Still waiting for your phone call to chat. Not business wise but collaboration instead.

 

[GoodFriendMike]

A glossary is definitely something we can do. Do I have any volunteers in terms of populating it?

I’ll look into the best way to do this… It may be a matter of embedding a spreadsheet, so everything stays in order. Let me have a look at our options

I’ll take a shot at it if no one wants to step up.

@"Rigo007"#178 @"bushdoctor82"#14 
This is a wonderful project, and frequently searched questions would be the perfect place for it. I wonder if we could incorporate and Excel spreadsheet into a posted thread.

It all sounds great and all and what I'm about to say may hurt some or ruffle some feathers but it's the truth ( @torontojoe should know how I "speak" just by how write) 

A "forum" is just that, a forum. You simply just can't create everything you wish to have. Look at the other forum. They have been trying to create a "database, glossary" and so on. It's not a simple task. They've been around (like many others) for many, many years and still, nothing. It's not you or the members, it's the program. 

This is a pre-made system, intended to do one thing only, a forum. Even on my site Fig Database , I added a forum, just for fun but the reason why I can add and do anything is because the main site is hard coded. Meaning, I can create anything however I want. Design wise, actions, backend, front-end, changes, access etc etc. The forum part is separate but I can "semi" make both sides work together. 

There are just too many sites trying to do what others already have. But forums, auctions sites and or sales sites can't do. You can "add" stuff like pages or things like that but if you're using a pre-made program, you're limited.

Fig Database for 2025 will start changing and I may start focusing on it starting then. We'll see what happens. 

By the way @torontojoe , Mike did try to buy me out a while ago and I declined. He may say it isn't so now so he doesn't look dumb but he did ask me to sell. Now I'm definitely not selling. Still waiting for your phone call to chat. Not business wise but collaboration instead.

I still think the best database was the old F4F. But I think we can do better here over time. That all depends on the members.We will see. I can create the best Capri database without any help. And it will be correct. But what fun is that?

 

[Inflorescence]

There is more that definitely can be done within a forum. The problem is always who has control, because they limit the forum for what it can be or do. If the owner has the vision and the will to do it, it will be done. If they don’t have the vision, and/or don’t let those who do have vision able to do anything, then it will never grow.

That was the problem with OF, lots of people saw things that could be improved, but no one who had the ability to implement those things did anything. It turned into an unorganized mess of data that was hard to find anything in. (This isn’t a criticism intended for anyone here before feathers get ruffled. )

The other problem is too many voices being listened to, like the phrase, too many cooks in a kitchen. That can turn a forum into a mess trying to please everyone.

Ultimately, what a forum is, what it accomplishes, is up to the owner. That is what OF was, that is what FF will be, and that is what figdatabase is.

But yes, a type of database can be done with forum software, and yes a type of glossary can be done. It could’ve been done at OF too, the features just weren’t ever used properly.

 

[TorontoJoe]

There is more that definitely can be done within a forum. The problem is always who has control, because they limit the forum for what it can be or do. If the owner has the vision and the will to do it, it will be done. If they don’t have the vision, and/or don’t let those who do have vision able to do anything, then it will never grow.

That was the problem with OF, lots of people saw things that could be improved, but no one who had the ability to implement those things did anything. It turned into an unorganized mess of data that was hard to find anything in. (This isn’t a criticism intended for anyone here before feathers get ruffled. )

The other problem is too many voices being listened to, like the phrase, too many cooks in a kitchen. That can turn a forum into a mess trying to please everyone.

Ultimately, what a forum is, what it accomplishes, is up to the owner. That is what OF was, that is what FF will be, and that is what figdatabase is.

But yes, a type of database can be done with forum software, and yes a type of glossary can be done. It could’ve been done at OF too, the features just weren’t ever used properly.

There's technical collaboration for sure... and what I'm hoping for. also.... intellectual collaboration

 

[Inflorescence]

There's technical collaboration for sure... and what I'm hoping for. also.... intellectual collaboration

Hope what I said didn’t come across in any personal way, it wasn’t intended like that, but as a generalization for any forum. Just wanted to clarify in case.

 

[TorontoJoe]

If anyone knows of sites that have what you consider to be a good glossary, please post links here.

 

[bushdoctor82]

If anyone knows of sites that have what you consider to be a good glossary, please post links here.

I don’t visit many sites, so I don’t have any online references, but I was envisioning something similar to my Plant Taxonomy and Plant Field Guide books, but more fig specific while also covering basic botanical terminology.