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Improving Mindat.orgNumber of Photos
19th Aug 2012 18:48 UTCAJMI
On Mindat's statistics page, under Number of Photographs per Mineral http://www.mindat.org/photoindex.php, it lists some minerals as having one photo when in fact they don't have any photos.
For instance, according to the statistics page, all of these minerals have one photo but in fact, they don't have any:
Anorthoclase (Var: Analbite (of Winchell))
Antiperthite
Barium-zinc-alumopharmacosiderite
Beta-Uranophane
Bracewellite
Manganbrucite
Cadwaladerite
Caesium-Kupletskite
Auriferous Chalcopyrite
Alumo-chalcosiderite
Corundum (Var: Oriental Topaz)
...etc.
And also, according to that same Number of Photographs per Mineral page, some minerals that supposedly have one image actually have more then one - such as Beryl Group and Cerite.
As well, the number of photos differs depending on the page you're on for the same mineral or mineral group - such as corundum. For instance:
- According to the Number of Photographs per Mineral page http://www.mindat.org/photoindex.php, corundum has 594 photos listed.
- On the main corundum page http://www.mindat.org/min-1136.html it says Show Corundum Photos (1306).
- Then on the Corundum Photo Gallery page http://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=1136 at the bottom it says (1 to 10 of 878 total).
How can there be three different totals for the number of corundum photos?
Which total is actually the correct one?
19th Aug 2012 19:49 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager
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