On 24 July 2010 09:38, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:20 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:

>>  http://server/demonstations/number_theory
>>  http://server/demonstations/linear_algebra
>>  http://server/demonstations/plotting
>>
>> in a similar way to what you suggested above with
>>
>> http://server/pub/stein
>
> Demonstrations would be a good idea. Also, we could do a "worksheet of
> the month" or something like that the same way wikipedia does a
> photo/article/etc. of the month that's deemed to be of high quality.

That sounds a good idea

>> 2) Rename Published -> "Globally Shared"
>> 3) Rename Shared -> "Privately Shared"
>
> I like "Published" and "Shared" better.

I think the issue I have with "published", which someone else in this
thread first mentioned months ago, is that in academic circles one
associates "published" with high quality.

I can't think of any normal use of the word "published" to mean making
available a set of documents like this.

But I don't have strong views on this. I do however have a strong view
that there should be some good examples, and that a casual observer
can not get the wrong impression by their first encounter with Sage
being a lot of junk.

>> If someone comes along to a Sage server and sees a bunch of tracebacks
>> and other error messages, it does not exactly inspire interest.
>
> And they should ideally be tested too. I think *any* kind of rating
> system would also help the random, poor quality stuff sink to the
> bottom.
>
> - Robert

Looking at http://www.sagenb.org/pub/

less than 10% of the worksheets have a rating. At that level, I don't
think its achieving much myself.

Perhaps changing "Rate this" to "Please rate this" might increase the
percentage of people that rate worksheets. Clearly there is not much
interest in rating them now.

Dave

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