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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"

Lesson Books
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Information on SimoneBot

Wiki Game Theory

Using Game Theory to model behavior in a wiki.

  1. Can these be discussed with a little humor?

User Profiling & Response

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

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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 AFC

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

AFC accreditation

  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 reputation

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

AFD notification

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 reputation

template to quickly access Stats on AfD participants

Gloassary & Notes


References

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