arborint wrote:If I understand correctly, you are proposing a software system that would extract the useful/good part of online discussions
The system allows users to decide what is valuable or not. The extraction is not done algorithmically.
arborint wrote:and turn that extract into some kind of article that would be available to read.
Nope just accumulate the data in a place where mods can put it together.
arborint wrote:I think it is doable. It is similar in concept to the relevance that search engines apply to web pages when doing searches,
Yep, that's where I got the idea.
arborint wrote:Definitely an interesting idea and probably not that difficult to implement if you constrain it to well behaved participants who would enter reasonable posts and ratings, and did not try to subvert the system.
The social aspects of it would need to be considered certainly. Things like, would people bother to rate? Would people bother to edit the wiki-side? Would it still function as a forum? Although, being my idea, I am quietly confident.
arborint wrote:However, a real-world system might only be able to roughly organize the information, and still require an editor to make the final judgements. That would be a worthwhile system though.
see:
I wrote:Users with total rep above a certain threshold have permission to edit and create content in the Wiki.
jayshields wrote:It sounds like a good idea, but the kind of idea that would need ALOT of thinking through and planning before anything could be finalized.
Yes it really would but we can certainly talk it out here.
jayshields wrote:Would the "wiki" contain:
- Solutions to common problems
- Hints
- Tips
- All of the above
Which subject?
- Just PHP
- Every (programming) language with a current (sub)forum @ PHPDN
- Every subject
Anything that anybody asks and someone answers can enter the wiki. So potentially everything. Somebody could tell a good joke and it would go in. What I reckon would happen is that very common problems would be fleshed out over time to be incredibly detailed. Anything else interesting would appear but wouldn't be as complete as say a normal wiki unless somebody took it upon themselves to actually dedicate time to the wiki specifically. The idea is that with a minimal amount of effort (maybe a bit extra for those who are respected in the community) a documentation resource is produced on anything that people rate highly.
The forum remains pretty much as it is and would continue to save the purpose it already does. The only thing that changes is you have a "rate this post" thingy and a rep'ometer instead of a post count.