Award Organizations—a much better page

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Award Organizations—a much better page

1timspalding
Jan 2, 3:19 pm

I've updated the Award Organizations page (https://www.librarything.com/award/organizations). It's MUCH faster. (The old page fetched the award names one by one, which got slow once we had thousands of them.) It also has modes for pagination, by letter and by country.

Check it out: https://www.librarything.com/award/organizations

2davidgn
Jan 2, 3:48 pm

Whee! Thanks, Tim.

Uncovers a few hundred I missed, too.

3PawsforThought
Jan 2, 4:50 pm

Hooray! I was planning on doing some Awards work while I’m off work for the holidays so this is perfect timing.

4DebiCates
Jan 2, 6:58 pm

I just gave it a whorl, Tim. It was fast. And intuitive.

5kristilabrie
Jan 4, 10:36 am

Awesome, and just deleted 2 test organizations which didn't have a Country assigned, so easy to uncover. :)

6karenb
Jan 6, 3:02 pm

\o/

7HsuBattery
Edited: Jan 7, 7:44 am

I recommand some amendments:
1. It takes some effort to reach a high page number, for example, reaching "San Francisco Chronicle" on page 21 in the "United States of America" tab takes some effort. And manually adding "&page=21" to the URL does not work.
2. When click one of the organizations on/after page 2, then the Back button in the browser, the page would show "Not a valid type".
3. The list of organizations does not display their translated names on the corresponding language site.

8kristilabrie
Edited: Jan 8, 12:33 pm

>7 HsuBattery: Those are all bugs, I think. I'll draw them up.

ETA: I have the first 2 issues drawn up at https://www.librarything.com/topic/377567

9kristilabrie
Jan 8, 12:30 pm

>7 HsuBattery: Regarding #3: "The list of organizations does not display their translated names on the corresponding language site", can you give me a specific example?

I looked at https://www.librarything.com/award/organization/1260/China-Writers-Association, for example, and I'm getting the translated version when looking at the page in Chinese, traditional language on LT.

10timspalding
Jan 9, 1:00 am

I fixed 1-2. I'm not sure about 3.

11HsuBattery
Edited: Jan 9, 8:32 am

>8 kristilabrie: >10 timspalding:
Thank you for fixing the first 2 issues.
Regarding #3,
https://www.librarything.com/award/organizations?mode=countries&country=us&a...
the organizations marked with green lines in the screenshot have their translated names added. On this page, their translated names should be displayed (and the sorting system would places them at the end of the whole list, so they might not appear on this page), but currently, their original names are shown instead.

12kristilabrie
Jan 9, 9:03 am

>11 HsuBattery: Okay, got it. I'm not sure how @timspalding might be able to handle this one, but I'll draw it up.

13kristilabrie
Jan 9, 9:08 am

Bug report for that is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/377602