Information on how to use mindat.org http://www.mindat.org/msgboard-10.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:54:33 +0000 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295797#msg-295797 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295797#msg-295797
"To enter minerals you need to click on the white area in the form (Minerals to add:)."

First you have to:
1. Go to the page of the locality page you want to add minerals to
2. Click on the Edit button and choose "Add Minerals"]]> Uwe Kolitsch Manual Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:59:01 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295781#msg-295781 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295781#msg-295781 Edward Penrose Manual Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:52:27 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295508#msg-295508 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295508#msg-295508
You access level needed approval, now done. Looking forward to seeing your additions. If you have not already done so it may help you if you read the manual.

[manual.mindat.org]]]> Debbie Woolf Manual Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:08:29 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295493#msg-295493 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,295493,295493#msg-295493 Edward Penrose Manual Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:02:31 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,294589,294597#msg-294597 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,294589,294597#msg-294597
"I'd like to know whether it is possible to automatically add the specimens/images/information that are already in 'My Photos' to 'My Catalogue'. " - it works the other way. Info on "My catalog" can automatically be added to the photo upload process.]]> David Von Bargen Manual Fri, 24 May 2013 15:12:38 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,294589,294589#msg-294589 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,294589,294589#msg-294589
I was wondering if there is a quicker way to access my 'control center' and 'private messages'.
Right now, access to these are (only?) located in the Messageboard.
I would like to know if there is a way to access these through 'My Home Page'?
It would seem more logical to me anyway.

Another thing I'd like to know:
I've been using 'My Photos' for quite some time now.
I've been thinking about starting with 'My Catalogue'. Just so I have a backup of my data in case something happens to my computer. (I've had a external HD crash in the recent past).
I'd like to know whether it is possible to automatically add the specimens/images/information that are already in 'My Photos' to 'My Catalogue'.
And whether changes I make to either my photos or my catalogue (added or deleted specimens/images/information) can be automatically 'carried over' to either of them. If not, I'll have to build up 'my catalogue' from scratch...

Kind regards,

Vik]]> Vik Vanrusselt Manual Fri, 24 May 2013 11:51:33 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292521#msg-292521 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292521#msg-292521
Two difficulties: find the specimens and have them photographed in time!

Yes Mario, many peoples make great pictures of minerals, of professional quality, but the pictures must be of your style and not of my style of picture or usual e-bay style to get into a magazine, hence my precision! The precision can also be justified because some photographers (BUT sometimes some way of printing, or the computer screen too!) do not give back the exact colors of specimens, and to my opinion, it is essential

According to the data I got, major specimens mostly went to the Gobin (father), a few to the sons, the formers entering in competition with two Belgians collectors working there at the time, one is not alive anymore, the other has a very buzzy international live and has the best collection of carrollites that could be imagined, making the vault speciment second choice Bob (of course I saw it)!, although I am not excluding the option. A couple of top specimens are in Luxemburg NHMuseum also, since the museum has a strong emphasis on Congolese mineralogy. Belgian museums have great specimens, but from former times, the best carrollites arrived later, when Belgian museums lost all ambition and started their decay (lack of budget and progressive splitting of the country).

I will make my choices in June, and will contact a few important dealers if I am not satisfied with my results!

Some more modest specimens are also of significant interest when displaying original habitus, like one I saw being so cubic it looks like bixbiite!

Yes Rock, there are not a lot of major specimens, If you have contacts with The American collector you mentioned, that could be intersting, all the options must be explored, whatever the results! Of course, I guess in the US, like in Belgium, some major collections are hidden, never shown, never published, out of access.

Cheers]]> Valere Berlage Manual Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:43:20 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292111#msg-292111 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292111#msg-292111
I still wonder why magazines only looking for exclusieve photos who are only taken by professional or well known photographers, and looking only for specimens or pictures who are never have been published before. Magazines sometimes reject or refuse to publish photos because the pictures were already online like on a site like Mindat.
I mean if the photo is realy great and representative for specimen, it is not that important who took the picture. And so what for a article if a certain great picture was already published before in the MR or in Lapis. Because for certain species there is simply not that much choice to write an article with only the very best specimens when they not have may been published somewhere else before.
Anyway good luck with the article Valere!

Best regards,
Mario Pauwels]]> Mario Pauwels Manual Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:48 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292000#msg-292000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,292000#msg-292000 BOB HARMAN Manual Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:57:40 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291994#msg-291994 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291994#msg-291994 Johan Kjellman Manual Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:03:55 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291989#msg-291989 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291989#msg-291989 I think the best specimens were purchased by an american collector, but the chances of him providing photos of them is vanishingly small. It would probably take him a week to even find them. Other than those published in the MR and those belonging to the american collector I don't think there are ten or twelve really good ones in private or public hands. Check with the Goban brothers. They were the ones who got them all and may be able to tell you who may have the few good ones that escaped to other places.]]> Rock Currier Manual Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:50:38 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291980#msg-291980 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,291980,291980#msg-291980
For a publication to come in a top German magazine, looking for (from professionnal/or known photographers) high resolution pics of OUTSTANDING specimens of Congolese carrollites of top aestetics, with exact labelling, sizes...

If possible from private/museum/university collections with no commercial links on specimens, not published before in the MR, Lapis and other major magazines... To be able to select 10-12 pictures would be great! So the more possibilities I have, the better!
If you have a top one and accept it to be published (anonymously or with your collection/institution name), here is an opportunity!

The first draft should be submitted by the end of June. I have no specimen good enough for this kind of publication myself! If interested, please PM me!

Many Thanks

Valère Berlage

(you can send or illustrate lower resolution pics/details and exchange higher MB pics later]]> Valere Berlage Manual Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:06:17 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291963#msg-291963 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291963#msg-291963
Please note, you should always provide a link about the questioned photo in your initial enquiry.

Thanks
Debbie]]> Debbie Woolf Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:34:07 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291958#msg-291958 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291958#msg-291958 Alfredo Petrov Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:38:49 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291954#msg-291954 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291954#msg-291954 As said, its fixed now so I am happy!]]> Jason Evans Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:19:46 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291941#msg-291941 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291941#msg-291941 Cheers,
Alfredo]]> Alfredo Petrov Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:12:18 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291938#msg-291938 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291938#msg-291938 Jason Evans Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:04:47 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291933#msg-291933 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291933#msg-291933 Rock Currier Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:37:02 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291930#msg-291930 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291930#msg-291930 Debbie Woolf Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:23:03 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291925#msg-291925 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291925#msg-291925 Jason Evans Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:49:25 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291924#msg-291924 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291924#msg-291924 Jason Evans Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:39:39 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291923#msg-291923 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291923#msg-291923 Here is the photo-
[www.mindat.org]
As you can see it has been uploaded and is visible in my gallery but not when I look on the public gallery.]]> Jason Evans Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:25:53 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291908#msg-291908 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291908#msg-291908 Can you tell me where your quartz was from and what it looked like? There are a lot of quartz specimens pictured here on mindat.]]> Rock Currier Manual Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:25:26 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291895#msg-291895 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,291895#msg-291895 Jason Evans Manual Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:01:51 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289935#msg-289935 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289935#msg-289935 David Von Bargen Manual Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:05:37 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289886#msg-289886 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289886#msg-289886 From the personal information you list on you home page you could very well soon become a level two person here on mindat or possibly a manager. I thought the pictures you post of stuff from various Illinois and Iowa quarries were quite interesting and your work on the 25 year index of the Mineralogical Record indicates that you must know your stuff. I have used that index a fair amount, especially in regard to creating stubs of A minerals for the Best Minerals project here on Mindat. Do you know if there is any movement to creating an online index for the Min Record for all years?

One of the things that the management here on mindat has increasingly come to value if people can get along with others and can with good humor over look and work with the minor idiosyncrasies of others. I as a manager have often felt that I am, or at least have been right on the border, of what the other managers can tolerate. If nothing else I hope I have learned to be a little more tolerant of others. I suspect that this is the kind of thing that comes naturally to politicians. The key to being accepted here as a level two person or a manager is that a person besides the above, is in inclination to do work here on mindat beyond uploading a few images and participating on the message board. Participating in the message board is important because it allows the managers to see how you interact with other's especially newbes who don't know much. You get points for being nice to them and trying your best to help them and not make them feel foolish. The other thing that managers worry about is that you know your way around the site and when you enter or correct localities and or images you do it correctly and don't make many errors, in other words you don't screw things up. If for instance you thought you could work on cleaning up localities in Illinois and or Iowa (they may or may not require a lot of work) this is something that would be appreciated. If you decided to to this kind of work you should first give us some idea of what needs to be done and then coordinate your work with Chet Lemanski who is our locality guru. Also you might like to do a few Best Minerals articles. This is the subsection of Mindat that is given over to my care and the other moderators of this part of the message board. You complete a couple of those and Ill make you a moderator and you can create your own articles there from scratch.

Is there any particular part of mindat that you think you would like to work on? How would you like to see mindat change? What shortcomings do you find here on mindat?]]> Rock Currier Manual Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:01:33 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289883#msg-289883 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289883#msg-289883 Rock Currier Manual Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:20:04 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289863#msg-289863 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,284628,289863#msg-289863 Erik Vercammen Manual Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:30:48 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289861#msg-289861 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289861#msg-289861
"but have been wondering ever since how one becomes a "full member" of Mindat with cache-clearing privileges." It is when the managers feel that you have a good working knowledge of how data entry for mindat works and your entries no longer require double checking.]]> David Von Bargen Manual Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:25:26 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289847#msg-289847 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,10,251670,289847#msg-289847 Jason Evans Manual Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:55:27 +0000