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  • I am an Information Scientist and I specialize in Search & education.
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Tutorials - "By Soft Degrees Subdue Them to the Useful and the Good"Edit

Lesson Books
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Adoptees should complete all required lessons to receive the link to the exam.
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Coder Lesson Books
Feel free to read ahead, you can take these lessons at any rate you like. Optional lessons are included if I feel you need them.
Adoptees should complete all required lessons to receive the link to the exam.
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Information on SimoneBotEdit

Wiki Game TheoryEdit

Using Game Theory to model behavior in a wiki.

  1. Can these be discussed with a little humor?

User Profiling & ResponseEdit

  • WGT/WikiMach test addiction and psychotic .
  • Social Roles.
  • Watson based personality lookups.
  • fluid intelligence (what's that).
  • tagging cascades.
  • tagging

happy happy joy joyEdit

Look for meaningful interactions between users. These are interactions spanning multiple sessions. Primarily I'd like to generate lift charts for flow. Flow should be based on edit rate, conflict free edits, edits on cooperative spaces, non repetitive Talk with positive sentiment Maps users session and

  • Handling users with issues
    • limiting daily interaction


    • forcing different roles
    • requesting - offline work.

Moodle loves AFCEdit

  1. Create a Moodle 4.0 course with 4 barn-stars (one per accreditation)

AFC accreditationEdit

  1. Create a user script with 4 buttons like the current afc tool.
  2. Show the button only if a user has earned the appropriate accreditation in the Moodle course.

AFC reputationEdit

  1. Award barnstars automatically on getting accreditation and on achievements.
  2. Three way incentive alignments
    1. editors.
    2. reviewers.
    3. review oversight.

AFD notificationEdit

notify users that their article is under deletion

  • CSD who, why and how to request a user-page version
  • Prod and how to contest it
  • AfD - Improve AfD notification to include
    • creator
    • top contributors
    • minor contributor
    • technical contributor
    • project members
    • participants in its previous AfD.

Develop a utilitarian notification algorithm that is both dynamic and time sensitive. The goals are

  • Foster a balanced discussion
  • Notification urgency based on stakes.
  • Mobilise a minimal number of users needed v.s. diversity.
  • Consider AfC history.

AFD reputationEdit

template to quickly access Stats on AfD participants

Gloassary & NotesEdit


ReferencesEdit

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