Category: About eFI website

Old eFI site: This is mainly addressed to Garg ji, but of course concerns all the eFI group members. I believe the old eFI site is absolutely uneditable at this stage – no page can be changed or even deleted. Since all the stuff has already been moved to efloraofindia.com, this site is no longer needed. The problem […]

In August, you had 17.1K users visit your website (Google Analytics) In July, you had 16.0K users visit your website (Google Analytics) In June, you had 15.1K users visit your website (Google Analytics) In May, you had 11.4K users visit your website (Google Analytics) In April, you had 9.5K users visit your website (Google Analytics) […]

Efloraofindia site completed 11 years on 2.11.21: The Efloraofindia site had completed 11 years on 2.11.21, since Dinesh Valke ji created it (showing his great vision) and gifted it to us (although the Efloraofindia google group will be more than 14 years old). Through its long journey, we have seen many great contributions from its members, taking […]

Comparative images as captive Experts: Comparative images have become our captive Experts, which anyone can use for identifications. These images carry imprints of almost 15 years of experience in them and are a gist of all the human expertise and litrary resources. And I am the one who uses it most, not only for identification […]

Old efi site may go away by 30.9.21: It is to inform you that our old efloraofindia google site may go away by 30.9.21. The decision was informed to us by Google in the starting of August, 2020. We were quick to react to the situation and got our new efloraofindia.com site immediately, after discussing the modalities among us. […]

ID I guess we are wasting our time in trying to ID old posts with single image which are blurred, out of focus and leaves only and without proper guidelines like date/elevation/location. Old posts with multiple images sounds good for trying to ID. This is my personal opinion. I agree with you. Our focus should be on identifying posts which […]

What message should we write ? Due to non-updating of our existing site, what message should we write as a Site notice, in place of the existing one. Currently we have the following disposable message, which is displayed when anyone opens the site: ‘Pl. post your images to indian…@googlegroups.com or jmg…@gmail.com for incorporation in efloraofindia’ Which of the […]

eFloraofIndia Google site will no longer be edited In view of switching to our new site eFloraofIndia.com, eFloraofIndia Google site will no longer be edited for updation (though it will remain as it is, untill Google winds it up in Sept.21). All further editing for updation will only be done in our new site eFloraofIndia.com. I […]

efloraofindia site completes 10 years : 6 posts by 5 authors. It is a matter of joy that efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is completing 10 years on 1.11.20 (although our journey began much earlier on 17.6.2007 in the form of of efloraofindia google e-group, which still remains our backbone). Today, efloraofindia is an extremely popular website with more than 3200 […]

Events on completion of 10 years of efloraofindia site : 2 posts by 1 author. Efloraofindia site will be completing 10 years on 2.11.20, since Dinesh Valke ji created it and gifted it to us (although the Efloraofindia group will be more than 13 years old). A lot of things can be done as we did […]

There is no dearth of work at efloraofindia : 12 posts by 1 author. During my deep involvement in efloraofindia, I find that there is no dearth of work. For the past so many years, our activities have stabilized in the sense of no. of topics and messages. However, I find there is no dearth […]

Why are new species more likely to be published based on efloraofindia observations? : 8 posts by 3 authors. Why are new species more likely to be published based on efloraofindia observations?This is because all posts are documented in efloraofindia. Also when we find that something is different from already identified species and we are […]

Re: Regarding use of Information which is available in Efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. I am … from Nagpur.  i am trying to  develop an android app for creating awareness reading trees. this app will work in different languages. so for that i need permission from you, for using a information which is […]

Outstanding Contributors to efloraofindia : 4 posts by 4 authors. Pl. see the newly created page of Outstanding Contributors  

Fwd: Any use?- Posting on efloraofindia page in Facebook : 21 posts by 1 author. For quite some time, I have been posting updates regarding updating our families and genera with comparative images. Is there any use of such postings (except for getting some likes/ engagements), as I am not much familiar with Facebook working ? […]

Which database to follow? : 15 posts by 1 author. While following different databases for last few years, I have seen totally different taxonomic treatments in these: Kew Database (Plants of The World Online), World Flora Online (replacement for TPL) and Catalogue of Life (April 2020 Beta version).      I have mostly been following […]

Fwd: Ideas for our future efloraofindia : 43 posts by 2 authors. Ideas are all powerful. As one idea from … of creating efloraofindia site around 10 years back, resulted in all these efforts being combined and displayed all over the world.There may be many ideas looming in all of yours mind all the while, […]

efloraofIndia in wiienvis.nic.in : 12 posts by 4 authors. I just accidentally found this site of ENVIS Centre on Wildlife & Protected Areas, hosted by WII, giving link of Indian & Global Species Databases mentioning efloraofindia at no. 2. Good! Our forum is having that much value … Yes. … I am aware of this. I regularly receive […]

Fwd: Inclusion of new species in efloraofindia : 9 posts by 1 author. As you are aware we Efloraofindia site already have around 13,000 species displayed with images from all over the India subcontinent, which is seen all over the world.But a lot of species/ subsp./ varieties/ new records etc. which you have published, may not have […]