SciForums Knowledge Base

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  1. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    Hi all!

    We at the SciForums staff are currently working on a project named Knowledge Base.

    The basic idea of Knowledge Base is to find specific threads from the various scientific fields and to gather and compile posts from those threads.
    That means extracting the ‘core’ of specific subjects and excluding the off topic content from the threads.

    Extracted and compiled material will be used in Knowledge Base category on SciForums and also in future PDF magazine, as a way of promotion of SciForums community on the web.

    This Knowledge Base would be also useful for guests who are interested in one specific field of science. They would have an opportunity to subscribe for articles from knowledge base and for SF magazine as well.

    Knowledge Base will include only compilation of posts from current scientific categories on SciForums, or new and unique reviews and articles, if members want to contribute with their own material.
    Knowledge base will exclude Free Thoughts, World Events, Politics, Religion and Subcultures category.

    For this project, I will need help from editors who will be responsible for post gathering and compiling and making the Knowledge Base.

    Thereby, we’ll get collection of existing posts and members will have a chance to contribute as authors of Knowledge Base, directly as editors, or indirectly if their previous posts get in the Knowledge base collection through the compiling.

    What I need to know for the start is which members are interested to contribute in this project as editors. It would be nice to have as much hands as possible in this.

    You are devoted to this forum as much as I am and I think we have same goals.

    Also, we need a fundament for sustainable functioning of SciForums and this Knowledge Base could be move in that direction.

    So, you’re free to ask any question about this, to give suggestions and, of course, if you are willing, to contribute in making of Knowledge Base as editors.

    You could post in this thread or contact me by PM if you are interested to be editors and creators of SciForums Knowledge Base.

    Cheers!
     
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  3. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    feel free to send me thread items to edit, and ill edit them.

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    im disappointed by the low turnout of interested parties here.

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  5. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    When I read the post I see ... a LOT OF WORK.
     
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  7. pseud0 El Comandante Administrator

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    Well, I think that mutual contribution on particular sections could reduce the potential work load, but I don't see a lot of interested souls here?
     
  8. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    its not that much work, really. mostly its just editing out conjecture and investigating links used.
    a thread a day, on certain topics, by one person...say 10 people doing it...a huge dent could be made in 1 week, with an hour of work a day.
     
  9. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    I nominate TDI to do all the work.
     
  10. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    *shrug*
    i have alot of free time.
     
  11. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i've read the OP 3 times and have given it serious thought.
    so i go to the science forums and immediately see at least 300 pages of threads.
    plowing through that mess is going to be a nightmare.

    how are we going to do this anyway?
    assign a forum to each person to go through?
    or assign one forum at a time for all to go through?

    i believe we should start on one forum and everyone goes through it gleening what they feel are the best threads.

    after all the science forums have been gone through we start on the amassed threads gleening the best.

    comments?

    maybe the admins can put a button on each post to click on to add to the project?
    for example if i see a post i think is good i click on the button to add it to the project.

    i also feel we need some catagories such as people, ideas, places, and general.
     
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  12. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Just find all posts by Fraggle.
     
  13. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    That's good idea! One forum would be much easier for the beginning. For example, we could start with Human Science or Biology forum, or any other, and find our threads there.

    This is also good! I'll see what could be done.

    I already have something similar on my mind and I'll reveal it soon.


    Most important thing is that none will work alone on this. Someone could be engaged only in thread finding, others will do editorial job, etc.
    It's not that much work actually, as The Devil Inside said.

    For the start we need little brainstorming about this. We already have a couple of good ideas for the start.

    I hope that others will join the discussion also.
     
  14. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    ill volunteer to threadhunt the politics section, if this is going to happen reasonably soon.
     
  15. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    Well, I'm not sure if we want politics in this. Because Knowledge Base is tend to be based and build on scientific subjects.

    But, I didn't check all threads in Politics section. Maybe we could find some that could be suitable for KB?
     
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  17. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    im sure there are. there were alot of economics threads that were misplaced and never moved to the appropriate subforum.
     
  18. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    So we find the threads and we we choose the posts...who will vouch for the accuracy of the content?
     
  19. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    valich.
     
  20. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Now why didn't I think of that?

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  21. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    That's good. We could use those threads then.
     
  22. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    I'm sure I can find some pretty neat stuff in the cesspool.
     
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